HSS109 - Delight in Life

I love this card!!  Have you ever made a card that just makes you happy??  This one does!!!  The challenge on the Hand Stamped Sentiment's blog is Rainbows.  There are a couple of cardmakers out there who make GREAT rainbow cards and I'm always blown away at their beauty.  So I knew I wanted to play along and have some fun with a rainbow!

Hmmmm, but what to do?  Since I have a bunch of Distress Inks, I decided to use those.  I laid out my rainbow colors: Barn Door, Spiced Marmalade, Mustard Seed, Peeled Paint, Faded Jeans and Dusty Concord.  (Here's the card)

Next I took a dauber to each color and swiped a rainbow arc across my cardstock. Then I spritzed it with water and perfect pearls so it glistens!  I used my dauber to create the grass too.  Then I stamped Rowley from Eat Cake Graphics, masked him and used another dauber for the sky.  I removed the masked and colored him in with prisma pencils and added a few more blades of grass with my pencils.

And in a moment of whimsy - I even added a few hash marks to 3 of Rowley's limbs to create movement!!  Wow - that's a big deal for me!!!

I search my whole inventory for a great sentiment to go along with this cheerful guy - and I used my Verve sentiment embossed in white.   The card was still pretty one dimensional - even with all that color - so I reached for these dew drops my blogging friend Cheryl @ She Stamps sent me a while back!  I love that they pick up the colors of the rainbow since they are clear!

Have you checked out Eat Cake Graphics stamps yet?  I'm really enjoying using their stamps!!!  I'll have another card up next week using another one of Holly's fab stamps!!

You've got until Monday at noon to play along with the HSS Challenge:

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FTL181-Thank You

Ahhh, the weekend!  Hope you have some fun plans!  We're headed out tonight to see friends up from Georgia.  It's also his birthday - so Happy Birthday Johnny!!!!

Last week's Clean & Simple sketch challenge was a cute one - very easy to use my Lawn Fawn banner stamps!  I'm glad these challenges run for 2 weeks because I usually am behind playing along!

Pretty self explanatory!!  The banner and letters are Lawn Fawn and the "YOU" is from Papertrey Ink's All About You set.  I'll admit - I wish I did a little better job lining up the stamps on each side of the YOU.  I bet you wouldn't of even noticed if I didn't tell you, right?  lol

Here's the sketch if you want to play along :)

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LIM 58 - Thank You So Much

TGIF!!!  I really don't know where this week has gone to!  But, I'm back with another card!!  This one for the Less Is More Challenge # 58.  The challenge was to make a one layer card with script and a sentiment.  Now, I've been failing on most of my LIM cards for not leaving enough white space.  Hopefully this one fits the bill!

The first thing I did was stamp the PTI flower and stem.  Then I masked the flower and leaves only and stamped the Inkadinkado script stamp over it.  I really didn't know where to put my sentiment, but decided lower right corner and to set off the main image from the sentiment, I added two score lines.  A simple addition, but I think it really helps!

This is another challenge that ends today!!  Just under the wire!!!

Have you turned off your word verification yet??  :)


Oh - my blogging friend Cheryl at She Stamps is having a March Follower Blog Candy Giveaway! Go check it out!!!

Have a great weekend!


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JUGS127-Faux Embossing!

Have you missed me?  Wow - I'm quite behind in blogging and blog visits!  But, I've managed to make a few cards the past few days - now to get them posted before the challenge dates are up!!!

I'm getting in under the wire for the Just Us GirlS challenge # 127 - which is Faux Embossing.  I hadn't heard of this technique and it was pretty easy - so I knew I'd be able to participate.

I was in need of a baby card, so I decided to use my Sizzix star die.  I die cut 7 stars and laid out 6 of them on the same color cardstock (this creates the faux embossing).  I used two different PTI sentiments to create my sentiment and placed it over my ribbon.   I kept the card pretty simple because I wanted the faux embossing to show!

I'm pretty late for this challenge, but here's the info on it anyways:

I've got to write up a few more posts and then I'll be around to make my overdue blogging visits!!!

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Say NO to blog comment verification!!!

Hi blog readers! I'm on vacation and have been checking blogs on my iPad. It is getting harder and harder to comment on blogs that still have the word verification on. So I found this great tutorial I thought I'd share about how to turn it off.

I've been using the comment moderation option on my blog and it's been working out great. Here's the tutorial:

http://www.ashleysisk.com/2012/02/just-say-noto-word-verification.html

And just because I'm chatting about blogging - my two other "things" about blogging is that I like it when the comment window opens up as a pop-up. That way - I can still look at the project while commenting on the project.

What I don't like on blogs is music playing automatically. My feeling is if you want music on our blog-that is totally fine, but you should give the reader the choice to play it.

How about you? What do you like or dislike about blogs? Is there anything about my blog that annoys you????

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