Lots of Daisies

Today I am sharing a card inspired by the photo challenge at Just Us Girls Challenge this week.  

I love the St. Patrick's Day feel of it without the shamrocks and other regular St. Paddy's Day stuff.  I really liked the bold word and the daisies.  So I broke out gold stencil paste and made a background for the bold word happy to "hang" on.  

Once that was dry I attached my banner and stamped the sentiment using Brilliance ink which dried beautifully.  I was a bit worried I was going to have to start over, but it all worked out.  

Thanks for spending a minute of you day with me.

Amanda

Supplies

Stamps: PTI (Botanical Silhouettes), Stampin' Up (Sentiment)

Dies: PTI (Happy Banner)

Paper: PTI (White,Harvest Gold)

Other: Daisy Punches, Gold Stencil Paste, Brilliance Ink, Distress Ink

Be happy...

...it's contagious.  I love this sentiment!  As soon as I saw the picture at Cure For the Monday Blues this week I thought of it.  

It's such a happy picture.  So many things to look at and so many bits and pieces to choose from.  I zoomed in on the polka dots, the color yellow, and the slight imperfections in the pieces to come up with this.

These are the days when I am glad I don't get rid of stamps.  I'm not sure how old that flower stamp is but I know where I lived and how many kids I didn't have when I bought it so I know it's been around for awhile.  The imperfect scallop is actually a stamp that was stamped with a Marvy Matchable ink pad and had cut.

Thanks for sharing part of your day with me.  I'd love to know what you think.

Amanda

Supplies

Stamps: Stampin' Up (Flower), PTI (Polka Dot Basics, Ombre), Stamping Bella (sentiment)

Paper: PTI (White)

Other: Marvy Matchable Ink, Copics, Momento Ink

With a Cherry on Top!

Today I am sharing a birthday card for a little girl whose birthday is coming up.  I used the sketch at CAS(E) this Sketch with the Color Play Combo that was in the Papertrey newsletter this month.  The sketch is really fun.

And the colors screamed birthday.  After seeing the sketch I knew I wanted to use this oldie, but goody ice cream stamp and when I saw the color combo the rest just fell into place.

Normally I don't particularly like color challenges, but this one was screaming at me.  It fit perfectly with the image I had already decided to work with on this project. 

I stamped and embossed the ice cream then colored it to ensure maximum color pop and applied glitter on top.  I painted pigment ink on the hot fudge and embossed it with clear embossing powder to make it glossy like freshly melted chocolate.  The whole ice cream panel is popped up, though it's hard to tell in the photo.

Thanks for taking a peek.
Amanda

Supplies:
Stamps: Stampin' Up (ice cream from years ago), PTI (sentiment)
Dies: PTI (One liners: Happy)
Paper: PTI (Sweet Blush patterns, Hawaiian Shores, Raspberry Fizz, White, Royal Velvet)
Other: Versacolor Ink, Momento Ink, Stampendous Embossing Powder, Copics, Glitter

Ho, ho, ho!

I really want to get my Christmas cards designed.  It's almost September and Halloween treats and festivities will be here before we know it.  I like to have the thought process of the Christmas cards done before then.  It makes my life easier.  Lucky for me there were a few points of inspiration this week to get another one done.  First, in case anyone doesn't know, Tim Holtz does a monthly tag on his blog with a specific technique.  And while I've wanted to participate since they began I have never been able to until now.  This month's masking technique is something I used to do back before the littles and it immediately made me think of this Santa stamp that Santa was nice enough to bring me a couple of years ago.  Of course, the Christmas card with Santa kept getting put off for this and that.  A few challenges helped get back on track.  First, there was the reminder about masking from A Creative Romance, so I had my focus back.  Then as I was trying to put it together I needed a little something different than I was doing.  The tic-tac-toe board at Jingle Belles Rock Challenges led me to die cuts.  For the last little sparkle Holly Jolly Christmas Challenges took me to the glitter drawer.  It all came together like this.

I really like the final product.  It feels very me and what I would send to the serious group on my Christmas card list.  Since I like it so much I would also like to enter it in a few Anything Goes Challenges - Craftin' Boutique Challenges, Creative Corner Challenges, and Jo's Scrap Shack Challenge.

Thanks for looking.  I hope you enjoy it.  Let me know what your thoughts are.

Supplies
Cardstock from PTI and Stampin' Up
Stamps from Stampers Annonymous and PTI
Dies from Sizzix and PTI
Ink from Ranger
Twine from The Twinery
Stickles from Ranger
Paint from Ranger
Masking film
Distress Stain

Welcome to the neighborhood

I love the photo inspiration over at Papercraft Star.  Photo inspiration challenges are my favorite, especially when people explain their inspiration.  I missed the challenge last week thanks to a bit of moving going on in the house, but I managed to squeeze in the photo of the card for this week.  Here is the delightful photo to get inspired by.



I love so many things about this photo.  Ultimately I decided to go with the home theme and the colors.  I love the blues and purples.  Love them!  And here is where I went with it.

We had friends moving into the area and when you're military, the same base/post is just like being in the same neighborhood. 

Thanks for taking the time to look.  Let me know what you think.

Supplies
Cardstock from Bazzill, PTI, Stampin' Up
Stamp from PTI
Die from Sizzix
Ink from Ranger

Double the background

In case anyone is curious, when you decide to rearrange your house you will not get any crafting done.  In all honesty, you won't get much of anything done no matter how hard you may try.  Ask me how I know...

During the last week, I have been pondering the challenge over at Papertrey for their Make it Monday challenge this week.  I saw the challenge on Monday - use two background stamps one over the other.  I thought about all the background stamps I had over the next couple of days.  Eventually I came up with the idea of embossing the chicken wire over the beams from their barn background set.  Of course, I didn't actually get to sit down and try it until today.  The effect was even better than I expected. 

I stamped the beam after stamping off so it wouldn't be too dark.  Then stamped the chicken wire and embossed it with an enamel embossing powder.  I used the hexagon cover plate to cut out a few hexagons to mimic the shape of the chicken wire for the sentiment. 

I am also entering this in the Simon Says Stamps challenge - Anything Goes - this week.

Thanks for looking.

Supplies
Cardstock from Papertrey
Stamps from Papertrey and stash (I don't know where I got the flower stamp.)
Ink from Ranger
Embossing powder from Stampin' Up
Die from Papertrey
Twine from Papertrey
Watercolors

Sketch inpired Halloween

We love Halloween in this house!  LOVE it!!  So when I saw the sketch challenge over at JUGS this week I immediately saw a spider web in the corner.  Here's the sketch that brought Halloween out even earlier than usual.  I was especially happy to be able to use the stamps my children picked out for me as gifts because, honestly, they were so off season I had forgotten about them.



You can't have a spider web without spiders.  It all fit together as it should. 

I hope you enjoy a little fall in the midst of the heat.

Supplies:  Cardstock from PTI, Stamps from Michaels (I don't remember the brand as my children gave them to me for my birthday), and Stampin' Up, Ink from Ranger, Embossing Powder from Stampendous