Smiles

The Monday Greeting Challenge at The Outlawz this week was "Anything Goes". I received a MISTI for Christmas, so I was playing with it. The stamps that I used are from Unity Stamp Company. I used versa ink on the flowers.

Sketch Saturday #392

I found a new challenge page (well actually one that I had done in the past) - Sketch Saturday. This is my take on the current sketch. The stamp is from Unity Stamp Company.

Happy 60th birthday!

The final coloring challenge at The Outlawz was this past week. I have been having a great time making these cards with the crazy birds. My hairdresser will be turning 60 in February, so I had to make him a great card!

snow family

The Twisted Thursday challenge at The Outlawz this past week was snowmen. I had some cute snowman fabric and used the snow family for this card.

Sunflower

Wednesday sketch at The Outlawz. I needed to step away from Christmas when I did this. And since it is more like late spring in Pennsylvania then winter, I thought sunflowers were appropriate. All of the elements on the card were stickers that I colored with copics. The ribbon is wrapped around the card with the fourth sunflower placed on top.

Fat Snowman

The color challenge at The Outlawz this week gave an option of 5 colors. The three I chose to use were Robin Red, Pure Gold, and Green Glow. The twist was that you needed to include a snowman or snow on your card. I do love this fat snowman and have been using him a lot lately.

Bird Houses

Another Northwoods image. Again, I used water colors and a touch of glitter on this card.

Casology 178

The Cue Card at Casology this week was "Merry". I stamped and embossed the Merry Christmas in gold. I used Spellbinders Labels 4 to cut the frame in the red sparkle paper.

Crazy Bird Birthday

Another Tim Holtz crazy bird card. I am loving this mixed media technique with these birds.

Winter Wonderland ATC

I did this ATC for a "Winter Wonderland" swap. Of course, I needed to be a little non-traditional. The background is done with gelatos. All the elements were done with die cuts. The tips of the tree were done with a white pen.

Butterfly

Another Northwoods image I have been playing with. These will be birthday cards for this year.

Crazy Bird Birthday

The Paper Ala Mode challenge at The Outlawz this past week was "Anything Goes".  I decided to play with a technique that a friend had shared. The background is made on a cereal box in which paint was lightly applied with your fingers. You then stamped onto the first layer. Finally, paper from sewing patterns and music were added. I went one step further and stenciled the alphabet on using texture paste. The birds, of course, are from Tim Holtz. I love these crazy birds!

Pots of Flowers

I have been playing with my Northwoods stamps lately. I have been coloring with my watercolor crayons. It gives such a soft look to the picture. I then use glitter on the flowers.

Fat Snowman

I recently did this image as a card for someone. I liked it so much that I decided to use it on my canvas for the Pages in Time mixed media kit this month.

Jingle Bells

The Monday Greeting challenge at The Outlawz this week was to create a card based on a Christmas movie. I read "Music", not Movie. So, I created Jingle Bells. Oh, well it was fun.

Cocoa Snowman

The Sunday CAS challenge at The Outlawz was to include a snowman on your card. This snowman is from Bugaboo. I used washi tape to create the stripes in the background.

Winter Wonderland Pocket Letter

This is the latest pocket letter I have created. I love the bargello technique and works well for me with the pocket letters. Everything is very monochromatic. I used stamps, die cuts and stickers on my cards.

Triple fun cupcakes

 I am working on my cards for early in 2016. This is my cupcake card for January for my friends in stamp club. I used a die cut to cut them out and then put them on sticky paper and glittered them. I used washi tape to border my background.

 

Explore

Another Prima Boy challenge. After I dressed him, he looked like he was ready to explore. I cut circles in half to form the rocks.

Girly, Girly

The Twisted Thursday challenge at The Outlawz this week was "Girly, Girly". I have this fabric which has all little boys and girls on it. It is the first I have had the opportunity to use it. It came out really cute.

cute birds/owls

This was my card for the Wednesday Sketch challenge at The Outlawz. I thought they were owls, hence the brown, but now I think they are birds. The stamp is from Unity Stamp Company.

Play

I have been playing with the Prima Boy Paper Dolls. I have found them to be more challenging than the girls. I thought this came out cute with his skateboard and paper airplanes.

Music

The Monday Greetings challenge this week was to add music to your card. My music is both on the background paper and coming from the piano. I embossed everything on this card with gold embossing powder. I used a black copic to border the focal points.

Hedgie Christmas

The Saturday Paper A La Mode challenge at The Outlawz this past week was to make a Christmas card. I used a Penny Black image for my card. I used Sparkle-n-Fluff on their hats. The stars and scissors have glossy accents on them.

Addicted to CAS - Joy

The Addicted to CAS challenge this time was to make a card representing joy. The poinsettias are from an old Hero Arts set I had. I colored them and then cut them out. Each one is popped up and the one in the middle is double popped.

CAS on Sunday 73

The CAS on Sunday challenge was to include stars on your card. I chose to use a  tree that was made of stars and star stickers in each of the corners.

Cute Card Thursday 403

The Cute Card Thursday challenge this week was to added glitter to your card. I did a Z-fold for this card and used my favorite House Mouse stamps. The glitter was added to their "swings" and with Spica pens to their ropes and the tree branches.

Merry Christmas

The Twisted Thursday challenge at The Outlawz this week was "Christmas". I have been playing with stickers and copics a lot lately and continued to do so for this card.

Wednesday Sketch

This is my card for the Wednesday Sketch challenge at The Outlawz. The image is from Unity Stamp Company. I used a dark brown Viva Pearl pen for the dots.

CASeology 176

The current challenge at Caseology used the word "tree" on the cue card. I stamped this tree from Stampscapes with Wendy Vecchi Fern Green Archival Ink. The strip of washi tape on the side adds the finishing touch.

December Cupcake

This is my Cupcake Day Card for December. Isn't he just so cute?

Congratulations

A friend just graduated from her Nursing program. This is her graduation card. The image is from Penny Black.

December birthday card

I have been using Heartfelt Creations stamps this year for my birthday cards for Stamp Club. This is the card I made for the December birthdays. Wonder what I will do next year.

Ornaments

The Tuesday color challenge at The Outlawz this week was a inspiration picture of red, white, and green ornaments. I used the ornaments and colors as my inspiration. The ornaments are stickers which I colored with copics.

Season's Greetings

The Monday Greeting Challenge at The Outlawz this week was to use 3 different patterned papers and at least one die cut. I used a sticker for my image and colored it with copics.

Minion Birthday

The Saturday Paper Ala Mode challenge at The Outlawz was to make a birthday card. I had minions left after making gift tags, so I decided birthday cards were in order.

Let it Snow



The Friday coloring challenge at The Outlawz this past week was "Let it Snow".  Just another cute snowman from my stash.

Cute Card Thursday- Challenge 402

The challenge at Cute Card Thursday this week is "Festive Colors" I think my cute little reindeer is just that. Lots of red and green. The strip on the side is Washi tape. I used lots of red and green glitter on this card.

Winter Greetings

The Twisted Thursday challenge this past week was "Winter".  I love this cute snowman from Sweet-n-Sassy stamps.

CAS ornament

The current CAS card challenge at The Outlawz is to include an ornament on your card. This cute bear and his ornaments is from Bugaboo. The piece of washi tape made a great floor for the bear to be sitting on.

Transportation Home

The Sunday CAS challenge last week at The Outlawz was to make a card showing how you were going to get home for the holidays. I chose to go home is this really cool sleigh. I embossed it in gold and added the bow.

Black Belt

My friend's son just achieved his Black Belt. I used the bargello technique to add the colors of all the belts that had been earned. The karate outfit is a dimensional embellishment from Jolees.

Sending Love

Sketch challenge for the Outlawz this week. The image is from Unity Stamp Company. The scallop die is from My Favorite Things.

Snow

The challenge at Mixed Media Mojo this month was "Sentiment". My sentiment is snow which I did with glass bead glitter from Faber-Castell. I used gelatos and Viva Inca Gold on the background. There are embossed snowflakes and acrylic paint that was added with my splatter brush. The small snowflakes were done with texture paste.

Strange Lady

The Tuesday Color Challenge at The Outlawz this week was a Tic-Tac-Toe board. I went straight down the middle which included 2 shades of purple and a blue. The embellishment was to add sparkle. This image came from Unity Stamp Company. My sparkle was added to all the black areas and the fish by using Wink of Stella Pens.

More Backgrounds

This back used bubble wrap and ink.

On this background we painted a paper towel with patterned texture with acrylic paint and then transferred the paint to the cardstock. I used all neon paints with black cardstock. The butterflies are fabric.

Hello

The Monday Greeting challenge at The Outlawz this week was "Anything Goes". The image is from Penny Black and the letters are from Prima.

Backgrounds

This past month at Stamp Club we did a variety of backgrounds. This one used masking tape that you picked up ink with and then placed the ink on the cardstock. I used two colors of archival ink to do my card. 

This background used Prima chalk edgers that were placed on plastic wrap. The plastic wrap was then spritzed with water and then dabbed onto the cardstock.