Folded star card

Hi crafty people!

Today I have something a little different for you.

I saw this folded star card on

Sue's Rubber Stamping Adventures 

and just had to try it.

I must say, I love how it turned out.

 

On the inside I stamped and colored this adorable snowman from Stampendous.  I was lucky enough to win him from Kristine at

Stamping and Scrapping in California

I colored the image with FlexMarkers and covered the snowman in Stickles.

Can't have a snowman that doesn't sparkle now can we?

I hope you like my card and will take a look at the blogs of the 2 ladies that inspired me to make this card.  They really are quite amazing.

If you try this folded star card, let me know how it turned out.

I'd love to see how you make yours.

Thanks for stopping by, leave a comment if you will.

Come again soon.

 

Until next time, Happy Crafting.

Make new friends

"Make new friends, but keep the old.  One is silver and the other's gold"

Do you remember that song? 

I remember singing it in rounds when I was a girl scout. 

That's what this image,

"Lg Best Friends Sitting (#5906) from Eureka! Stamps,

reminds me of.

The kids in my area just went back to school about a week ago

and this makes me think of when I was young

and when my kids were young.

Each year we'd wonder about our old friends,

what they did over the summer,

if they were going to be in our classes etc.

As well as if we'd be meeting new friends,

who they would be,

were they new kids to the school

or just to the class?

Some wonderful memories!

So enough reminiscing, about the card.....

I used Distrress inks to make the background of sky and grass.

Then I stamped the image onto that background and also onto a piece of white card stock.

I used a bronze Creative Memories pen to color the bench

and colored the 'friends' with FlexMarkers, then fussy cut them.

I adhered the 'friends' right over the stamped image on the background.

I used a Martha Stewart all around the page punch set for the border.

Thanks for stopping by today, leave a comment if you will and be sure to come and visit again soon.

Until next time, Happy Crafting!

Fall Fun Challenge

Happy Monday!

It's Monday and that means it's a new Eureka! Stamps Challenge on the Eureka! Blog. 

If you haven't joined in our challenges yet,

head on over to the Eureka! Stamps blog and join in the fun. 

All the rules etc. are there, so once you are done here,

pop over and take a look and see what's up.

Join the challenge and you may be the lucky winner of some

Eureka! Stamps digital stamps.

This weeks challenge is "Fall Fun"

I have chosen to use

"Lady Throwing Leaves" (#22005) from Eureka! Stamps

I think she looks like she's having a ball with those leaves.

And that little puppy looks a bit stunned, doesn't he? 

Guess he's not used to all the frivolity.

I stamped the image onto white card stock and colored it with FlexMarkers.

I hope you'll be inspired to join in our Fall Fun challenge.

Be sure to hop on over to the Eureka! Stamps store and see what fun images you can find there, the store is loaded with lots of wonderful stamps that come in red rubber or digital format.

Thanks for stopping by, come again soon.

I hope you'll leave a comment and let me know what your favorite thing about fall is.

Until next time, Happy Crafting!

Read All About It challenge.

Hello all!

I hope you're having a wonderful day!

Today I'm showing you a card I made using 2 images from

Biblical Impressions.

"Round Ornament" (#83405) and

"Icicle Ornament" (#83406)

Simon Says Stamp & Show

has a weekly challenge and this weeks is

"Read all about it"

 One of my favorite techniques is to stamp onto pages of old books,

so this was right up my alley. 

And since my crafting room is finally finished with the re-do,

I spent some time last night playing around in there.

I colored the images with FlexMarkers then used Distress ink , crumpled the page a little but and used a little more Distress ink. 

I wanted a bit of a vintage feel and I think I got it.

Stickles were added for a little sparkle and shine.

I used a silver card stock for a mat.

I used the same Distress ink on a white card stock base, then used VersaFine ink to stamp the tree needles from the top of the "round ornament" onto the base.   

I'm entering this card into the challenge over at

Simon Says Stamp & Show,

so keep your fingers crossed for me. 

Someone's going to win, maybe it will be me.

Thanks for stopping in to visit, come again soon.

 

Until next time, Happy Crafting!

Track Star

Welcome to my post for the QKR Stampede Challenge!

Our theme this week is "Back to School"

For this card I used

"Sneakers" (#12706) from QKR Stampede

I thought this card would be fun to send to someone who has just made the track team or tennis team or any athletic team.

I stamped the Sneakers image onto gray card stock and colored it with FlexMarkers.  The shoelaces were colored with white gel pen.

For the background I used Distress inks.

The "track" was made by running brown card stock through the Cuttlebug in an embossing folder and inking the raised areas with Distress ink.

Thanks for stopping by today.  I hope you will stop by the

QKR Stampede blog,

check out all the inspiration and join in our challenge.

Someone is going to win a fun prize, maybe it will be you.

QKR Stampede has a wide variety of stamps in both

red rubber and digital format.

There is something for everyone, so stop in and see what you would like, never know, like I said, you could be our next winner.

Leave a comment if you will and come again soon.

Until then, Happy Crafting!

Give Thanks

Hello!  Welcome!

Today I have a card that I have made with

"Pumpkin Vine" (#18802) from  QKR Stampede and

"Give Thanks" (#34109) from Biblical Impressions

QKR Stampede and Biblical Impressions are sister companies and they both have tons of fabulous images.  QKR Stampede offers their images in both unmounted red rubber as well as in digital format.

At this time Biblical Impressions does not offer digital format.

All my stamping has been done with rubber stamps.

 

I stamped Pumpkin Vine onto the gold card stock and colored it with FlexMarkers.  I stamped the image again and colored the leaves and fussy cut 3 of them.  I used foam tape to add them to the bottom of the card.

 

For the base card, I used white card stock and inked it with some distress inks.  I also used some distress ink on the gold piece on the torn edge.

 

The Give thanks sentiment is only part of the sentiment.

The entire sentiment is "Give thanks to the Lord"

I masked off the "to the Lord" with a post it note, inked up the stamp, then removed the post it before stamping.

I do sometimes cut my sentiment stamps apart to use them like this, but this particular sentiment is simple to mask.

 

I hope you have enjoyed today's card and that you will come back soon.

Please leave a comment and let me know what you think.

 

Until next time, Happy Crafting!

Leaves

Hello blog friends!

Today I'm showing you a card made with one of my favorite

QKR Stampede images.

"Leaf" (#3901) was one of the first stamps I got from QKR and it has remained one of my favorites.

I stamped the image onto white card stock with VersaMark ink

then embossed them with white embossing powder.

I used Distress inks to color the leaves, then fussy cut them.

The green diamond design was done by positioning a piece of acrylic, inking with Distress ink, moving the acrylic, inking again and so on until I had covered the entire sheet.

It was then cut to size for the card.

The base card is also white card stock and I inked the edges of it also.

Here is a close up of the leaves so you can see the detail a bit better.

The white ribbon is from May Arts Ribbon 

and the button is one from my stash, as is the embroidery floss.

 

I hope you like my card and may be inspired to try some embossing, some inking or maybe just some stamping.

Be sure to hop over to the QKR Stampede store and see all the fabulous image they have to offer in red rubber or digital format.

Also check out the QKR Stampede Blog and see the challenge going on there.  We have a new challenge every week, so pop in and check it out and also see what wonderful things the design team has to show you.

 

Until next time, Happy Crafting!