It's Father's Day!!!!!!!

Happy Father's Day to my dad, Dom and my father-in-law, Skip!  Happy Father's Day to my hubby, Frank  too - because after all - he is a daddy to Buddy, Nolie and Sweet Pea!

Here's one of three Father's Day cards I made for the holiday.  This will be given to my dad this afternoon at our BBQ:

This is a MAJOR collaboration of stamps!   The chair is from Eat Cake Graphics. The 'rug' is from Penny Black and the fish, slippers and sentiment is from MFT.  The image is colored with my Inktense watercolor pencils.

Happy Father's Day!!

Dad and I

Skip and I

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Watercolor Flowers

A bloggy friend sent me a BOATLOAD of Hero Arts stamps for me to sell in the charity tag sale we held in April.  She told me if I saw any that I liked to pluck them out - and although I liked A LOT of them - I only picked out 4 stamps out of the probable 100 she sent! (The goal was to fundraise, not increase my hoard - LOL)

Three of the 4 stamps I chose were these HA watercolor flowers - which I finally used and turned into these cards.  Pretty simple in layout - so they went pretty fast!

For each flower I used the Tim Holtz watercolor pens then spritzed with water and stamped on watercolor paper.  The background stamp is a HA/Basic Grey cling stamp and finished each card off with a MFT sentiment.

I really love how these came out and will have to keep these flowers in mind when I need to put together a quick card!!

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More Inktense Poppies!

I'm still playing around with the Inktense pencils and my Stampin' Up poppy stamp.  Loving them both!

Hope you have a nice Sunday!!!!!!!!!

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TMS#186 - Ciao Bella

TGIF Everyone!!!  Hope you had a good week!  I've got a BUSY day today!  Spin Class, Aqua Therapy and Acupuncture for Nolie, then Physical Therapy for me.

Here's a card I'll submit for the Tuesday Morning Sketch Challenge#186:

I colored Miss Tilda up last week and she found herself on this card yesterday.  I used MME papers and a MFT sentiment.

Short and sweet!  Hope you have a great day!!!!!!


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CAS26/RIC27 - Take A Deep Breath

Happy Saturday to you! Wow - this card was hard for me to photograph.  Not sure if it's all the branches that was throwing my camera off or what, but not the best reflection of what it looks like in real life!

I used the Impression Obsession stamp to participate in the Runway Inspired Challenge#27 and CASology Challenge#26. 

First I inked up the stamp with Weathered Wood Distress Ink and then lightly tapped it with Black Soot.  Then I wiped off the birds and colored them with two different colors of Distress Markers.  I added a MFT sentiment because wouldn't you like to take a deep breath out in nature where these birds are?

There's also glitter on those branches but I just couldn't capture it on my picture.  That makes it fit the 'winter' theme.

Here's the Runway Inspired Challenge picture:

OK - have a great day!

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Bellarific Friday - Serenity Now!

TGIF to you out there!!!!!!  Today's card is one I made following this week's Stamping Bella sketch challenge:

This definitely was a 'different' sketch, but I had fun with it!  I stamped one of Paula Williamson's images and then ever so carefully punched it into a circle.  The image comes with a square outline  - so I had to line it up just perfect!  Then I colored it with my Distress Markers.  I used a Stampin' Up background stamp I got at my LSS thrift sale.  I finished off the card with PTI diecut flowers and a MFT sentiment.

Here's the sketch:

Hope you have a terrific day!!!!!!!!!

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FTL#221 - Doggy Sympathy

Sadly, I made another doggy sympathy card (hopefully it's gotten to it's recipient by now) last week for a blogging friend who lost her senior doggy too.  I used the Clean and Simple Sketch#221 for my layout.

The minute I saw the sketch - I knew I wanted to use an 'xxoo' theme and the layout was perfect.
So, I die cut my "x" and "o" from my Sizzix dies and laid them out on the card front.  I hand cut my sentiment banner using a MFT cocker spaniel stamp colored with my pencils and a Skipping Stones sentiment embossed in white.  I felt the card was still too stark - so I drew border lines around the card with my Sharpie.

Here's the sketch I followed:

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SB#25 Friday Sketch - Merry Christmas

Hello!! I'm sure you noticed it's 12/12/12 today right?  Wonder what's in store for us today with that fun date!?

Well, what's in store for you is a doggy Christmas card I colored up on Sunday!  This is for Friday's Stamping Bella sketch challenge.

I started coloring this image up and then my friend came over who has a black labradoodle.  She asked if I could make a card for her vet - so I showed her what I was working on and she thought it was perfect!!

This was fun to color up.  I used a lot of pencil 'whisps' to get the hair dimension. I even used a black pen to make them even more bold.  There are random gems on the snowflakes too!

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

To stay on the doggy theme - here's are two quick pictures of the Puppy Chow I made last week.  I got the recipe from Iowa Girl Eats and then had to laugh when the recipe is right on the Chex box too!

Believe me - I know these bags are NOT decorated like a crafty person SHOULD decorate them....but after making THREE different recipes (peanut butter, Nutella and soy nut butter) of them......I'd had enough :)    I did use my Lawn Fawn alphabet for the lettering :)

Well - hope you have a nice Wednesday!!

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Impression Obsession Tag

Happy Thursday!!!  Hope you're week is flying by!

Are you getting tired of the tags?  I promise - there's a card tomorrow :)

Here's another quickie tag using some more 'new' Impression Obsession dies and stamps:

For the tag background, I used my IO newspaper print stamp with Distress Inks.  Then adhered the IO tree die cut.  I wanted the tire swing to be popped up, so I threaded some thread through the tag and looped it around the popped up tire.  For the snowy effect - I used liquid pearls on the tree and sprinkled glitter while it was wet. Then added more bling :)

Here's a close up:

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Christmas Tag and PB Card

Hello All!
I've been crafting up some tags this week for my hubby's gift baskets.  He needs 30 of them, so I've been busy with those.

Here's one of the tags I made using some patterned paper:

Not much to explain about the tag except it looks better in person (LOL)

I'll enter this in the Stamping Royalty #152 Tag Challenge

I also made a card following the Penny Black Cute 2 Elegant sketch:

I'm embarrassed to say how long this CAS card took me!  I embossed the PB "Joy" stamp with green ink and clear powder.  Then embossed PB background with white powder.  I colored it in with Distress Markers and after that was all done - I added some perfect pearls to get a nice shine.  And...like the tag above - it looks better in person!  Oh well.......someday I'll take better pictures!

Hope you have a terrific day!!!

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Christmas Penguin

A friend gave me this Mo Manning/Stamping Bella penguin stamp so I thought I'd color it up for another Christmas card.

I really need to get a 6x6 pad of Xmas paper because the stuff I have is REALLY old and has no matching solid paper.  So, I decided to grab my My Mind's Eye pad and use some non-traditional pinks and browns for this card:

I decided to pop up the scarf, and from the angle I took the shot, you can see under the pop up.  Also - her beak became lost with the scarf popped up - so I ended up removing the pop ups closes to the beak and gluing that portion down to the base.  It looks a whole lot better.

Ms. Penguin is colored with my prismas and gamsol.  It feels like forever since I used them!

Hope you're having a great week so far!!!


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Can't say Thanks enough...

So..................is everyone feeling like a stuffed turkey today?  I'm off to spin class at 9:30am - so that's my plan to burn off my overindulgence of yesterday!  It will be painful - believe me!

In between NUMEROUS loads of vacation laundry, I was able to get in some crafty time.

This card is for the Mojo Monday 268 challenge and the ColourQ#164 challenge.  This was a great layout for using up some scraps.  I randomly stamped some Hero Arts and MFT sentiments on the yellow circle and then I used a Simon Says Stamp sentiment for the banner.  I also drew some lines around the edges because it was looking a little boring.

Here are the two challenges if you want to play.  Otherwise - I hope you had a fantastic Thanksgiving!!!

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Thanksgiving Blessings

Here's a quick card I made using a MFT set that I've never really used. I think it's called "Branch Out"

Simple and quick........  :)

Don't forget my giveaway!  Leave a comment on THIS POST to enter!

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Ghouls just wanna have fun

Talk about using up your old stuff!  I used more of the glitter I've had for quite a number of years PLUS these  Ranger "Pop It Shapes" I bought years ago at a $1.00 store!

I laid the diamond shape 'Pop Its" along the bottom of the inside of the card (after messing up the front of the card and cutting it off!!).  Then I peeled the protective layer off and pressed the glitter onto the Pop It.

I used an MFT sentiment and added ribbon and button.  Not sure who's getting this card because I don't send Halloween cards, but I was happy to use some of these Pop Its!

Cindy and I are off to Maryland this morning on a doggy rescue mission.  We were supposed to go yesterday but put it off due to big storms.  It will be a long day of driving down and back, but we're the crazy dog ladies - so it comes with the territory I guess!

I'll 'hopefully' make my blog rounds on Thursday!


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SFYTT-Aug & PC19 - Thanks

I was feeling the need to color up a Memory Box image - so I grabbed my "Adore" stamp.

I colored up the image with my prisma pencils and popped up the flowers.  I colored the background with Distress Inks and added some water splotches.  I really didn't want to have the "Adore" on it - so I slit the image and ran ribbon through the front to cover it up.  Using the Sketch For You To Try August layout - I put the card together AND I was so excited to see that my card actually worked great with the {Pin}spirational Challenge#19.

Here's a close up:

Here are the two challenge:

Hope you have a terrific Friday!!!!!!!!

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