PTI Color Challenge

Papertrey asked each design team member to post a favorite color combo and then posted a challenge to create with the featured combos. I chose to work with ripe avocado, spring rain, dark chocolate, and kraft from the combo that Heather Nichols posted.

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Test post from my phone.

Just a test to see if I am now able to blog from my phone.



Here are some of my Valentine decorations this year. I love decorating the piano each holiday.

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Hambo Hoedown

So I missed the deadline to post my challenge card for the first week of the Hambo Hoedown but not this week. This week I'm all ready. Let's start with the card for last week's challenge though since I did make one. The challenge was to make a football themed card using the Football Girl digi. Since my hubbie is a die-hard Packer fan it was easy to pick the colors for my card. :)

Now for this week's challenge you are to make a card using any Hambo image and a heart. If you participated last week you get the free EyeMonster image to use but otherwise just use any Hambo image. I went with the Frog Prince image for my card and a computer generated sentiment. The heart is cut out from chipboard and inked with Fired Brick Distress Ink. The heart and frog are mounted with pop dots for some dimension. I also added some glitter to the frog's crown and fur trimmed cape.

 Remember that you can click on the images to make them bigger. Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope you're having a wonderful Wednesday. Happy Stamping!

New Challenge from Papertrey Ink

Have you seen the new challenge from Papertrey Ink? It's call Make It Mondays. Here's a link with all the details. This weeks challenge is to create a card using similar messages with a variety of fonts from several PTI sets. I went with a congratulations/graduation theme using sentiments from Everyday Classics, Scattered Showers, Delightful Dalia and For the Graduate.

 The wishing you sentiment was stamped with Kiwi Kiss SU ink and the rest of the sentiments were stamped with Versamark. The hat was also stamped with Kiwi and popped up with dimensionals. Thanks so much for stopping. I hope you have a great day. Happy Stamping!

How about Hambo

Today's card uses a digital image from Hambo stamps. It's the Wee Henry Hockey image plus one of the  two sentiments that are included. The image is colored with Copics and mounted with pop dots. Since I'm planning to give this to my nephew I went with twine and a button instead of ribbon and a bow.

I hope you're having a great day. Thanks so much for stopping by. Happy Stamping!

Happy February 1st!

Wow, can you believe it's already February? Before you know it Valentine's day will be here. Speaking of which, did you see the beautiful Count Down to Cupid Day project that Shanna Vineyard posted on her blog? It's amazing! I think I'm going to have to try making something similar.

I don't have a valentine project to share today but I do have a couple more Whipper Snapper cards. Let's start with a baby card using the Anna Wight cling set Bundle of Joy. I paired it with some papers from the DCWV Nana's Nursery line.

Here is a side view showing that the cow was stamped twice and paper pieced for some added dimension.

 

For the second card I pulled out some Cosmo Cricket papers and the Little Critters Anna Wight cling set. I kept the details simple so the focus would be on the cute little owl in the center of the paper rosette.

 Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope you're having a wonderful week. Happy Stamping!

Happy Friday!

We've made it to Friday! Thank goodness because this not being able to sleep past 4:30 a.m. is going to catch up with me soon. I fear that I'll need to spend Sunday catching up on sleep. Ok, on to the crafty stuff. One of my girlfriends is having a birthday tomorrow so I put together this card for her.

Her favorite color is purple so color selection was easy.  I stamped the big Whipper Snapper cupcake and colored it with reinkers and an aqua brush. Once it was dry I added some glue and glitter to the frosting. I love how much it looks like sugar crystals. The sentiment and frame are from MFT. Two weeks ago I had to go to Chicago so while I was there I stopped at Hobby Lobby where I found a great background stamp set from Glitz Designs. The numbers on the background are stamped with versamark using one of the stamps from my new set.

For the second card I made a simple bug card with this adorable Chubby Love Bug from Whipper Snapper. I colored him with Copics and paired him up with some My Mind's Eye and K&Company papers. I also used a white gel pen to add some freckles to his checks.

If you want to see the images larger, just click on them. Thanks for stopping. I hope you have a great week. Happy Stamping!

Batty for You

I made a couple of valentine's this morning when I woke up at 2:30 a.m. and couldn't get back to sleep. Instead of using traditional valentine images like hearts I pulled out a halloween set and a baby set. I printed some sentiments on my computer and then got to work putting these together.

 For this first card I used the Spooky Expressions set by Anna Wight for Whipper Snapper. I used a .05 copic multiliner to add the lines to the sentiment just to help give it some definition. The hearts on the bottom of the card were stamped and cut out then covered in mono multi glue and glitter. The heart stamp is from the Winter Schminter set.  The papers are from an older K&Company pad.

 

Next is the little boat from the set Bundle of Joy (another Anna Wight set for Whipper Snapper). Same idea as the last card but a much simpler version. I colored the boat with copics and then paper pieced the sails using some Cosmo Cricket paper.

Thank you so much for stopping. I hope you're having a great day. Happy Stamping!