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Good Day Blog Friends!

Today I have a card to show you that I just love.

I wanted to make a card using the 

Crazy Dogs stamp set from Tim Holtz

I chose this one, because I love that surprised look on the 

little guys face.
I stamped it onto water color paper 

with VersaFine Onyx Black Ink and colored him with

Lyra Water Color Crayons

The black card stock had been crumpled,

 spritzed with water and had Perfect Pearls brushed onto it.

It's hard to see the shimmer in the picture, but in real life it has a lot 

of shimmer and shine.

I tore the card stock to mimic the shape of the dog, then 

adhered the dog to it.

The background panel was made using 

alcohol inks on deli paper

that I found in my stash, I adhered it to a piece of 

white card stock.

I stamped the sentiment using an alphabet set

that I have in my stamp collection.

I thought it went perfectly with the look on the dogs face.

The whole panel was then adhered to a black card base.

Inside I stamped the 

"happy birthday" with the

Big Scripty Words

from Lawn Fawn

with VersaFine Onyx Black Ink

onto a color that coordinated with the 

front panel.

I'm glad you stopped by today and hope you'll come again soon.

Until then,

have fun crafting.

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see what the products are.
I didn't necessarily purchase from these sites,

except where specified,

and you may find better prices elsewhere,

I am in no way promoting any particular site.

Father's Day Gears

Hello!

Today is the last post in my

Father's Day Car series.

For these cards I used the

Cogs & Gears stamp set from Inkadinkado.

I used my MISTI stamping tool and positioned the stamps on the tool.

Using the MISTI makes it so easy to stamp more than one card and have 

them all positioned  and stamped perfectly.

I stamped with VersaMark ink then brushed on Perfect Pearls Powder

To give the shine to the images.

I layered the panel with the images onto card stock then onto

white card bases. The card on the left I used shiny silver card stock

for the mat, you can see the shine of the silver in this picture.

I stamped Happy Father's Day from the

Happy Birthday Set from QKR Stampede.

Here is a picture that shows the shine from the Perfect Pearls.

Here are the other 2 cards I made with this design.

The sentiments are a variety of techniques,

plain stamping with VersaFine ink,

VersaMark and Perfect Pearls or

Heat embossing with silver powder.

I enjoyed making these cards and making each one a little bit

different from the others.

Thanks for stopping in and I hope you have enjoyed

my Father's Day Card series and have been inspired in some way.

Father's day is going to be here soon, I hope you've made a card or two.

Until next time,

have fun making something!

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see what the products are.
I didn't necessarily purchase from these sites,

except where specified,

and you may find better prices elsewhere,

I am in no way promoting any particular site.

Not Just Cards Challenge June

Hi all you friends from blogland!

Today I've got an announcement,

I have been accepted to a design team and I'm 

pretty excited.

It's the team for the

"Not Just Cards Challenge Blog"

Each month on the 11th of the month, a new challenge is

posted along with inspiration from our design team.

Every month there is a sponsor as well as a theme

and sometimes there are some cool prizes.  

Be sure to check out the NJC blog and participate in the challenge.

This month our sponsor is 

All Dressed Up 

I worked with

3 Little Summer Girls

One of the nice things about digital stamps is that you download them

to your computer and you can size them to the size you want to use. 

I decided that I wanted to do a scrapbook layout with my images, so I made them

 fairly large, each of the girls measures about 5.5" tall.

I printed the images onto white card stock,

colored them with my Fantasia colored pencils

and fussy cut them.

I started my pages with white card stock.

I used a Stormy Sky and Broken China Distress Inks

too create the sky and water.

For the sand, I tore some light brown marbled card stock so there

would be a straight "shoreline" yet still have a little bit of a rough edge.

I used a Perfect Medium ink pad and swiped it in different

areas of the water and sand, then brushed Perfect Pearls Powder 

onto the water and sand.  That is what gives it the shine.

For the sun I cut a mask, applied it before I inked the sky,

then after I had the sky done, I removed the mask and used 

scrap card stock to ink the rays with Squeezed Lemonade Distress Ink.

The little girls were adhered to the page with foam tape to give a little dimension

to the page.

The photo mats were made from some card stock that I had in my 

stash

The title was stamped with VersaFine Onyx Black ink and

a set of alpha stamps that I have in my stash.

I have no idea what company they are from.

Since there were 3 little girls in the image and I only used 2 on the 

layout, I made a card with the 3rd one.

I used some coordinating paper from my stash

and added the little girl with some foam tape.

I used a little Glossy Accents to give the center of the

flower a little shine.

Inside I stamped a sentiment from the

Lovely Greetings stamp set from

CAS-ual Fridays Stamps

with Wilted Violet Distress Ink

onto white card stock, cut it down and

adhered it to a mat that matches the outside mat of the card.

Thanks for stopping by today,

I hope you'll pop over to the

Not Just Cards Challenge Blog

and see the inspiration from the other 

design team member and give the challenge a try.

I really enjoyed working with this 

3 Little Summer Girls image,

check out  All Dressed Up too, they may have something

you need to have.

Until next time,

have fun creating.

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see what the products are.
I didn't necessarily purchase from these sites,

except where specified,

and you may find better prices elsewhere,

I am in no way promoting any particular site.

Fishing Father's Day

Hello crafty peeps!

Today I'm starting a series of Father's Day cards that I have

created to send to the fathers in my life.

I no longer have my own father, but there are plenty of 

others that I'd like to share my appreciation with.

For this card I stamped

Fishing Gear, Fishing Hat and 

Happy Father's Day from the 

Happy Birthday set

all from QKR Stampede, 

onto card stock and colored them with my 

Fantasia Colored Pencils

I added a little VersaMark ink and Perfect Pearls

to the fish to give the scales a little shine.

The stamped panel was layered onto kraft card stock and

then adhered to a white card base.

I will add a personal note inside the card.  

Have you made any Father's Day cards yet?

I hope you'll come again soon to see some more

cards in this series.

See you then!

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see what the products are.
I didn't necessarily purchase from these sites,

except where specified,

and you may find better prices elsewhere,

I am in no way promoting any particular site.

Awesome Gears

Hi!

My last post was showing a card I made to share kindness.

Today I have a few more cards that I made for that purpose.

I wanted to make some cards that were a bit more masculine and I

decided to use the

"Cogs and Gears" stamp set from 

Inkadinkado

I arranged the stamps on my MISTI stamping tool

and stamped the images with VersaMark ink.

For the card on the left I only used the VersaMark,

which gives a watermarked image.

For the other 2 cards I stamped with the VersaMark

then brushed on some Perfect Pearls powder

which gives color and shine and only adheres where there

is the sticky VersaMark ink.

The banner was cut with the 

banner die from Simon Says Stamp

The sentiment is one from the 

Titled Banner Sayings set

also from Simon Says Stamp

This picture shows a little bit of the shimmery shine that the

Perfect Pearls gives.
I also used a little of the Perfect Pearls around the edge of the 

white card bases and the banners on 2 of the cards.

I love how these cards turned out,

I hope you like them too.

I hope you'll stop in again soon,

Father's Day isn't too far away and I have a series of

Father's Day cards to share with you.

Until then,

Create!

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see what the products are.
I didn't necessarily purchase from these sites,

except where specified,

and you may find better prices elsewhere,

I am in no way promoting any particular site.

Mother's Day Card #5

Hi crafty friends!

Now you are probably wondering why I have 

made so many Mother's Day cards.

Earlier this year I decided that I wanted to make

a point of sending out more cards to my family,

so that's what I've been trying to do for 

holidays.  I'm lucky enough to still have my

Mom, she is 92 yrs old and going strong.

But I also have a few sisters in law that I'll be

sending them too.

Just because they are not MY mother

doesn't mean they don't deserve a card, right?

Today I have card #5 in my series.

This poppy stamp is one of my favorites.

It is "Poppies" from Stacy Stamps

I stamped it with Versafine Onyx Black Ink

onto water color paper.

I colored it with 

Neocolor II water color crayons,

and fussy cut it.

The black background is from a piece I had

in my stash.  I made this using Perfect Pearls

and black card stock.

It's hard to capture the shimmer in a photograph, 

but in real life it's just beautiful.

The larger background was also in my stash,

it was made using

 deli paper and alcohol inks.

I simply wrapped it around a piece of white

card stock to give it stability,

then adhered it to the card base.

I love having these handmade background

pieces in my stash to choose from.

I used some craft foam on the back of the 

black piece to give a little dimension.

The sentiment is from 

The Happy Anniversary Stamp Set

from QKR Stampede.

I hope you are enjoying these cards,

I sure did enjoy making them.

Come again soon for card #6 and the

last in the Mother's Day Card Series.

See you soon!

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see what the products are.
I didn't necessarily purchase from these sites,

except where specified,

and you may find better prices elsewhere,

I am in no way promoting any particular site.