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Hello! Here I am with a birthday card for my son. He turned 30 in May. Does that mean I am getting old? Ha! It kind of hit me. Lately he has been doing a lot of mountain biking. So that explains the card. The bike looks kind of ghost like but his bike is gray so there it is.

The background is a combination of stamping, ink blending and coloring with Copics.

The dirt is ink blended and then stamped with an old Stampin Up stamp I found in my stash that is perfect for dirt. The grass I think is ink blended. The trees and mountains are colored with Copics. The sky is ink blended. The birds are stamped using a Hero Arts set.

The bike stamp was a lucky find. I got it the same day I made the card which was either the day before his birthday or on his birthday. I got it at either Michaels or Joanns and neither one has that great of a selection so I was very lucky to find it. It may not look like a mountain bike but at least it doesn’t have a cute basket on it with flowers.

I put the sentiment on the inside because I didn’t want it on the scene.

Supplies:

• Heartfelt Creations Create a ‘Scape Backcountry stamp set
• Hero Arts My Monthly Hero June 2017 stamp set
• American Crafts Bike stamp
• Distress Oxide ink

Hero Arts S’mores Bonfire Birthday Card

I have a birthday card today that I made with stamps from one of my very favorite stamp companies. That would be Hero Arts. I made this for a good friend of mine.

I just love this cute set. I am not often into the little cutsey stuff but these guys are so much fun.

To create the scene and specifically the background I did some ink blending and masking. I die cut some grass but I had to cover the grass when doing the sky and cover the sky when ink blending the grass. For the dirt I found an old Stampin Up woodblock stamp to add little dots all over. I was excited to have this come out nice so that stamp is right on my desk for future cards. The stars in the sky were stamped.

Then I stamped the critters, fire, trees and moon. I colored them with Copics and then die cut them.

The sentiment is stamped.

Supplies:

• Hero Arts S’mores Bonfire stamp set
• Avery Elle Loads of Wishes stamp set
• Hero Arts S’mores Bonfire matching die set
• Distress Oxide inks

Tim Holtz Feathered Friends Wedding Card

Here is a wedding card that I made for my son to give to his good friends. I know them also so it was fun to make this for them. My son married them at their ceremony. Very cool in my book.

I love how the card came out!

The background is ink smooshed using Distress Oxide inks. I stamped over it in places and also inked over a stencil some places.

The branch was die cut using a die that came from the Arthur die set and was inked with Distress ink.

For the two birds I flipped a bird so that they could face each other. They are die cut from panels that were ink smooshed.

The sentiment is stamped.

Supplies:

• Feathered Friends die
• Arthur die
• Burlap stencil
• Music & Advert stamp
• Avery Elle Loads of Wishes stamp set
• Distress Oxide ink – Background – Ripe Persimmon, Dried Marigold, Frayed Burlap, Brushed Corduroy, Antique Linen. Birds – Vintage Photo, Salvaged Patina, Faded Jeans, Brushed Corduroy.
• Distress ink – Branch – Ground Espresso, Walnut Stain. Background – Tea Dye

Heat Embossing with a Hero Arts Jelly Fish Party

My Dad is the popular one this month. Fathers Day and his birthday with in two weeks. So here is the card I made for him for his birthday.

This was a fairly straight forward card to make. On the background I did ink smooshing first with Distress Oxide ink and then Distress ink. When it was dry I went over it with my powder tool, stamped the jelly fish and heat embossed using silver embossing powder. The sentiment is die cut 3 times. The top layer is colored using Distress ink.

Entered in the Die Cut Divas June Challenge.

Also entered over at Hero Arts for their Stay Crafty Challenge For the Guys.

Supplies:

• Distress Oxide ink – Tumbled Glass, Mermaid Lagoon, Salty Ocean
• Distress ink – Peacock Feathers and Blueprint Sketch
• Silver Embossing Powder
• Hero Arts Jellyfish Party Bold Print stamp
• Karen Burniston Happy Birthday die

Die Cutting with Hero Arts Looking Glass Canyon Lands

I have a couple of cards to show you that I made using one of the Looking Glass dies by Hero Arts. I made Fathers Day cards for my Dad and hubby. They are similar but I am one that cannot make the exact same card twice or more for the most part.

This one I made for my Dad and it was the first time using the die. The tree cuts out with the square opening. It is colored with a Copic marker. The mountains are cut from a panel that I had around with Distress ink smooshing on it. The grass I colored with some Distress ink. The grass is part of a die that cuts out a square but I cut the grass strip off of the square. The sky I ink blended using Distress ink.

On the kraft surrounding the scene I stamped with Versamark. It is very hard to see that.

The sentiment is heat embossed.

This one I made for my hubby. I did the same coloring the tree, grass, mountains. The sky is different as you can see and I added the birds to this. When I stamped on the kraft cardstock surrounding the scene I used some Distress Oxide ink this time so it would show up better and also a different background stamp.

The sentiment is heat embossed on this one also.

I entered this one over at Love Handmade Cards in Flickr for the June Challenge.

Also entered over at the Hero Arts Stay Crafty Challenge For The Guys.

Supplies:

• Hero Arts Looking Glass Canyon Lands die set
• Distress Ink
• Copic Markers
• Hero Arts Mud Cloth Bold Prints stamp
• Rubbernecker Cobblestone background stamp
• Hero Arts My Monthly Hero June 2017 stamp set
• My Favorite Things Pierced Rectangles Stax die set

Simon Says Stamp Birthday Treat

Today I have a fun card I made for my sister. It is not her birthday but I just wanted to make this card for her since she loves pigs and so do I.

Such a cute pig image. I colored the pig with Copics and a sparkle pen.

The image is cut out with a deckle rectangle die.

The sentiment is die cut and layered with a few die cuts. I colored it with purple sparkle pen.

Supplies:

• Simon Says Stamp Birthday Treat stamp set
• Spellbinders Deckled Rectangles die set
• Copic Markers
• Papertrey Ink Wet Paint Cuts die set
• Wink of Stella – purple

Hero Arts Circle Design Christmas Card

Hello. I am still out here making some cards. Just not as many for some reason. Here is a card I made for Sketch Challenge 11 in the Facebook group Build Your Stash Holiday Cardmakers.

For the doily type circle thing.. I stamped and heat embossed. The poinsettia is two white flowers that I sprayed with red and layered together. I added some micro beads to the center. The sentiment is also stamped and heat embossed. The sentiment rectangle is die cut out of Tim Holtz Metallic Kraft-Stock. The strip behind the circle is also the same metallic paper. I am just going to say it… this is not one of my favorite cards. You know once in awhile we make those ones we are not thrilled with. Sometimes you just need to get it done and move on.

Supplies:

• Hero Arts Circle Design stamp
• Hero Arts Peace & Joy stamp set
• Spellbinders Circle die set
• Spellbinders Curved Rectangles die set
• Tim Holtz Distress Spray
• Tim Holtz Metallic Kraft-Stock

Memory Box Floral Cluster Wedding Card

Today I have a wedding card for you. These are ones that I do not make very often. This is for very good friends of my sons. He actually married them. It sounded like a very nice wedding and reception with some friends of theirs and my sons who came from out of state. I also made a card for my son to give them and you will see how different the two are. I will add to this post a bit later.

The guys in the wedding party wore dark blue suits. I am not sure what all the girls wore. I have not seen to many photos yet.

I chose to go the more formal route with the card from my husband and me. It is hard to tell in the photo but the background is dark blue.

I used a die to cut out the white background pattern.

The flower cluster is die cut from Tim Holtz Gold Metallic Kraft-Stock along with the sentiment. Since there is all the texture on the background I was thinking it might be a good idea to back the gold die cuts with thick cardstock next time on this type of card.

Entered over at the Love Handmade Cards challenge in Flickr for the June challenge.

Supplies:

• Papertrey Ink Cover Plate Harlequin Die
• Memory Box Floral Cluster Die
• Lawn Fawn Scripty Congrats Die
• Tim Holtz Metallic Kraft-Stock – Gold

Maker Mania #3 Projects

Hello! I wanted to say a little about Maker Mania and post the quick things I made so far. It is an online event with many papercrafting stores giving presentations on using the supplies that come in the kit you buy to participate.

I priced out the things in the kit or something very similar and it added up to more than the kit price or very close. There was a paper set, a die set, embossing folder, a stamp set, guilding flakes, luster wax. So you get all of the ideas and demos for nothing. You don’t make something really specific with the kit but you see at least 60-80 different projects that the participating stores made. They show different techniques and ways you can use the products in the kit.  They made cards, scrapbook layouts, mixed media projects. I enjoyed it and thought it was well worth the money.

The event was 3 days with presentations all day each day. You can go back and watch all of the videos that were recorded in Facebook. Then you can choose some projects to make with your kit and get lots of  ideas. At the start of each day they did a quick project which you could do right then. Here is mine.

Bump Out Card – I used some paper I had in my stash, the flower die set that came in the kit, a couple die sets that I had. Funny thing is I just grabbed some paper I’ve had forever. I was not that excited about the paper and I ended up really loving the result. For the grays I used the same gray paper for all the gray but I colored over the leaves and stem with a bit of a darker gray Copic pen. I used Spellbinders die Sentiments 3, Sizzix Free Style Florals die, Papertrey Ink Mat Stack #4 & Layers Mat Stack #4 dies.

Entered over at the Die Cut Divas June Challenge of Birthdays.

Here we have candy/treat holders – The brown and red one is the measurements Nina gave us. And the orange and green one is one I made by changing the measurements. Which by the way I did before my coffee and it involved fractions. Wow. Ha. I made it to fit two Ghiradelli squares. Cute.

 

Next up we have a mini album – Seriously it was very quick to make. One sheet of patterned paper. I used the die set from the kit to cut out the flowers from a book page. I inked everything up also.

This is a panel where I tried a technique that become something. Just apply alcohol ink to Yupo, blow around to spread ink, while you still have some wet spots drop guilding flakes on so they stick to those spots. A pretty look.

My Favorite Things Fresh Cut Flowers Background

Catching up as usual but I think this finishes off April. I know April was over weeks ago. Some day maybe I’ll be ahead.

Here we go with some heat embossing and watercoloring. One of those I think I can remember what I did.

I heat embossed the flowers on some watercolor paper using copper embossing powder. I used Distress Ink to watercolor the flowers and leaves. If I am going to be honest I watercolored the background more to cover up a few spots more than just coloring it. Kind of different for me. I do like how it turned out though.

The mat under the flower panel is some Distress Metallic Kraft-Stock.

The sentiment is heat embossed.

Supplies:

• My Favorite Things Fresh Cut Flowers Background stamp
• Distress Inks
• Copper embossing powder
• Distress Metallic Kraft-Stock