Holiday Card Series 2018 - Day 12 and A Giveaway

Hey peeps.  It's day 12 of my holiday card series and it's the last day of inspiration for this year.  I am so happy that you joined in on the first 11 days and I'll hope you have been inspired. This year I decided to make a personal video for day 12 as I never show my face on Youtube.  LOL. I know I'm trying to get better at this.

Anyway, head on over to my Youtube channel to check out the video and all the details for the giveaway.

Have a great day everyone and I'll see you back here soon.  

Using Large Background Stamps With Distress Oxide Inks - Tutorial

Hey peeps. I have a quick tutorial for you.  I pull out one of my large background stamps from My Favorite Things and made a funky background panel for a card.  It was really simple to make with some distress oxide and regular distress inks. Isn't this card so striking?  Just a large stamp, a few colors of ink and a sentiment die cut.  Just adding a few DIY enamel dots and my card was done.  This came together rather quickly.

To create this background I first stamped the image with three ink colors.  I spritzed it will some shimmer mist and heat set it.  Next sponged on some regular distress inks onto the panel in coordinating colors to blending everything together.  Spritzing on just a touch of shimmer at the end.

Next I die cut out the sentiment in the middle of the panel. To make the sentiment pop I also die out the sentiment out of yellow fun foam and attached the sentiment on top.  Placing it all back into the panel allows the sentiment to really stand out.  I love this technique.  I've done it several times on cards and I love the result each time.  You can find the other videos on my Youtube channel as well.
Here's is a quick tutorial on how this card came together.  I've linked to one of the videos to show you how I did this technique before on a card.

Have a great day everyone.  I'll see you back here soon.

Written In Watercolor

Hey peeps. Happy Monday.  I'm back with a quick card.  I needed to create some peace around me during this busy time so I pulled out my watercolor tools and made a card.  I need to make a few thank you and congrat cards so it was a perfect way to de-stress. I used the beautiful stamp set by My Favorite Things called Written In Watercolor.  For my watercolor background I used the Sakura Koi Watercolor palette.  Of course I used my favorite watercolor paper from Tim Holtz. You can pick up this gorgeous Judikins Egyptian Gold embossing powder over at Amazon. I purchased the washi tape from Michaels.  They don't have it online anymore but here's a link to one that is just as pretty. 

I also made a video showing you how this card came together.  I love the softness of this card and all the little watermarks.  Adding just a touch of washi tape set me card off right. This will finish up my coloring for The Daily Marker 30 day color challenge.

 

Have a great day everyone.  See ya back here tomorrow.  Go forth and be crafty~

 

Giving Thanks To Our Military

Hey peeps.  I hope everyone is off to a great weekend.  I just wanted to pop in with a quick card and video.  I made some cards to give out this weekend to our military members and veterans to thank them for their service.  Couldn't let this one slip by this year. I'm using the awesome MISTI to mass produce my cards.  I think this is an amazing stamping tool and hands down one of the best I've seen.  So let's get started. Here's a few pics of my card and then my video.

Now for the video.

Have a safe weekend everyone and I'll see you back here soon.

Go forth and be crafty~

Get Your Enamel Dots Out

Hey peeps.  I hope your wintery days are coming to an end.  Here is Georgia the cold weather is just beginning to end and spring is in the air.  Finally I think I might be able to open up my windows and let some fresh air in. 

It is the first of the month so you all know it's time for another challenge over at House Of Cards.  This month's theme is to use your enamel dots.  You can use any color you want.  Also, if you've made your own enamel dots we would love to hear from you.  

Here is a link to a post I had where I made my own enamel dots.  I used the enamel dots I made on this tag.  They were super easy to make and you can make them sooo many colors.  That's what I love about making them myself. 

 

Now it's your turn to show us how you use your enamel dots.  They are everywhere now and they are used in so many different ways.  So please join in on the fun.  Make sure to link your card up over at House of Cards so we can leave you some love.

Go forth and be crafty~

Thank You & A GIVEAWAY

It's Stamp-tember everyone!  I'm turning September into Stamp-tember!  First I want to take the time this month to thank all of my loyal followers.  I started this journey and 2009 and appreciate all the people who have followed me on my journey.  Check out the video I made just for you. :-)

Hugs and love~







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Seeing Spots - Stenciling with Spackling

Hey peeps.  How's your weekend going?  Mine is off to a great start.  I'm in my stamp room creating so what in the world could be better.  I've been playing around with my stencils and some lightweight spackling.  I wanted to see if it would work just as well as embossing paste.  And what do ya know...it DOES.  I even added some color and viola, instant happiness.


Check out my video so you can see how easy it was to create the cool effects on my card.  I'm also going to enter my card into the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge as well as the Naughty or Nice Challenge.






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Neenah Solar White 80lb Cardstock	3M Scotch ROLL YELLOW MASKING TAPE Post-It Adhesive 2650-Y	The Crafter's Workshop Stencil 6x6 Mini Squircle	Dap Fast'N Final Spackling
Ranger Ink - Studio by Claudine Hellmuth - Semi-Gloss Acrylic Paint - Dash of Red - .5 ounces	Dina Wakley Ranger PALETTE KNIFE Media MDA41771	*Sakura QUICKIE GLUE ROLLER PEN 38480	Simon Says Stamp THANKS ON A LINE Craft DIE 111313
*Bazzill BLACK Prismatics Paper Pack Heavy Weight 8.5 x 11 Cardstock

Thank You Prayer Angels

Happy Friday peeps.  This has been one crazy week for me.  Today I'm officially retiring from civil service with the United States Air Force.  I haven't slept a wink due to the excitement and sadness of the end of my journey.  But God has given me a new journey and I willingly accept it.

I took some time out to make a few cards for some special ladies in my life.  I call them my "prayer angels".  Even when I am at my lowest and can't seem to pray for myself, these fabulous ladies lift me up and keep me going.  I don't know what I would do without them.  So to Tanya, Dianna, Cheryl, Jan and Kim, I LOVE YOU and thank you for being a part of my life.  Of course any card that goes out with butterflies and flowers I must add a little sparkle.  I clear embossed the flowers and butterflies from the Second Nature set from Autumn Leaves on white cardstock and used several different SU ink pads to create my colored background.  I die cut my thanks sentiment from Simon Says Stamps and my butterfly from Cheery Lynn.  I used my Wink of Stella clear pen to add some sparkle to the sentiment, butterflies and background.  This card was rather quick to put together but in my opinion just as beautiful as the ladies I'm giving them too.

Well, peeps I have to run.  Ceremony is in a few hours.  Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a fabulous start to your weekend.

Hugs and love~

Glittered Thanks

Hey peeps.  Well I couldn't sleep last night so at 1:00 am I decided to wonder down to my stamp room and make a card.  I hadn't had a chance to make one all weekend so I thought, what the hell.  So this is what I came up with.  After being so inspired by Jennifer McGuire's card seen here, I just had to give it a try.

Well, ladies and gentlemen what do you think?  Of course I'm in LOVE with all the sparkle of this card.  I even had some glittered gems that matched perfectly.  Now, my husband on the other hand might not be.  He will be waking up with at least a few hundred pieces of glitter on him by morning.  I'm sure that will be the talk of his physical therapy appointment today.  To try this technique yourself take a peek at Jennifer's video.  I think once you see how easy it is to make such a striking card, yup you will be glittered from head to toe.

Thanks for stopping by today.  And don't forget to sparkle where ever you end up.

Hugs and love~