Happy Birthday

It is the first day of school here in VA.  It is bittersweet as my daughter is a senior this year and my boys are both in college :( 

Anyway, I thought what better way to cheer myself up than to play along with a couple of challenges from Splitcoaststampers.  This weeks CAS (clean and simple) challenge was to use a stencil, so my background is a polka dot stencil by Donna Downey that I clear embossed with versamark, then used salty ocean, broken china and tumbled glass distress inks and blended them over the top.  They colours are for the colour challenge today which are coastal cabana, tempting turquoise and pacific point.  I feel that the distress colours that I chose are a good substitution to the SU ones mentioned.  The dessert option was to use dots, which was a bonus as I had this awesome mask that was polka dots!!  I die cut a couple of butterflies and embossed the large one with an embossing folder from quickcutz and the smaller one I did some more emboss resist using a French script b/g stamp from SU, then blended on some more distress ink.  The butterfly and sentiment are popped up for a little dimension! 

Well, I hope you all have a wonderful Tuesday.  I don't know about everyone else, but I am ready for fall!!!

The challenges can be found here:  CC236, CAS236

 

Supplies:  cardstock - bazzill

distress inks, butterfly die by lifestyle crafts, pearls

sentiment by PTI - Birthday Basics

stencil - Donna Downey

 

Hoot Hoot!!

Wow, it has been over a month since I posted anything on my blog!!  Shame on me!  It's not that I haven't been creating, I just don't seem to have had much time for blogging them.  I can't believe it is almost September already!!  Both my boys have started college (one's a freshman and the other is a senior) and my daughter will be a senior in high school next week!  Ugh, I feel old, lol!!

Anyhoo, I have a super simple little card to share that I just made.  I am rather obsessed with washi tape at the moment and have a ton of it.  Seriously, I think I could lay all my washi tape out and reach from Virginia to California.  It's a sickness really, ha!  Isn't that little owl washi tape just adorable??  I created the little dots using my pearl pens and the sentiment from Papertrey Inks Wise Owl set was just perfect for this cute little card!

 

supplies:

various washi tapes, sentiment by PTI Wise Owl

aqua mist ink, twine, pearl pen

 

Enjoy the rest of your day :)

 

Toodles

Dawn

Summer Card Camp Week 3 Day 3

So I have decided that next time I take an online class, I am going to have to take off work and cancel all family activities, lol!  I simply don't have enough time to play and participate as much as I want to!!  I did manage to make a card for Wednesday's homework though and was inspired by Kim Jackson and her water colouring and dry embossing.  I started with 3 distress markers and scribbled them right on to my craft mat then spritzed that with water.  I also spritzed a piece of water colour paper and then, with a paintbrush, water coloured the distress inks over the entire panel starting with dusty concord, shaded lilac and finishing up with broken china.  I watered the ink down a lot as I wanted a very soft ombre effect.  I spritzed the panel with pearlized water and dried it with my heat gun.  Next I ran it through my cuttlebug using an embossing folder from Lifestyle Crafts.  I did the same technique on the die cut label.  I die cut a butterfly and stamped a background using an antique brocade stamp from Hero Arts in sweet plum ink.  To give the butterfly and the label some definition, I sponged on some antique linen around the edges.  I also used sketch # 2 for this week, but I had to flip it because of the way I had coloured my background.  The label and the butterfly are popped up.  I have had so much fun taking this class and can't wait to see what Jennifer and Kristina come up with next.  I am hoping to find some time so that I can check out the galleries and see what everyone else has been creating.  Anyway, I am off to work today.  Happy Friday and thanks for looking :)

 

Supplies:

stamps: sss everyday happy, hero arts antique brocade

lifestyle crafts butterfly die and embossing folder

distress markers: broken china, shaded lilac, dusty concord

ink: memento luxe rich cocoa, sweet plum

antique linen distress ink

pearlized water

may arts twine

label die: pti

purple gemstones

 

 

 

Summer Card Camp 2 Week 3 Day 2

Oh my gosh, 2 posts in one day, woo hoo!!!  Back with another card that I made from today's class.  Today one of the lessons was embossing die cuts and I was so inspired Jennifer's first card, that I cased it changing things up just a little.  I absolutely love the prim poppy die cut by memory box.  It is so delicate and I love Jennifer's tip to die cut 2 pieces of cardstock glued together and that is what I did.  Worked like a charm!  I used more of the beautiful memento luxe inks and clear embossed them.  I embossed the poppy image 3 times and the butterflies only once.  I also embossed the sentiment using the rich cocoa ink and clear embossing powder.  I popped my embossed panel up over the aqua mist panel.  Can't wait to see the gallery.  I haven't visited it in a few days. 

I need to clean up my crap room (affectionately named, lol!)  My hubby went into last night and told me it looked like a hoarders room!!!  Yikes!  OK, he MIGHT have a point, but I haven't found a way to be creative without being messy, have you?

Anywho, here is my card for today's class:

 

supplies:

cardstock:  kraft, white, aqua mist

ink:  memento luxe - lilac posies, sweet plum

rich cocoa, versamark

die cut:  prim poppy by memory box

embossing folder:  lifestyle crafts

Martha Stewart butterfly punch

nestabilities

pearls

Summer Card Camp 2 Week 3 Day 1

Yippee!!  I am excited to be back playing along with the online card class that I am taking.  I was having withdrawals, lol!!  I am not a purple person, so I was a little nervous about the colour combo for this week, but after taking some deep breaths and realizing that I had just bought a whole bunch of the beautiful new memento luxe ink pads (occupational hazard for working in a scrapbook store, lol!!),  I felt a lot more comfortable with it.  I went with sketch 3 and kept it simple, but I am pleased with how it turned out.  When I struggle with a colour combo, I tend to just use little bits or strips of the colours.  I find that helps.  Here is my card:

 

supplies:

ink: aqua mist (pti), memento luxe - rich cocoa

lilac posies, sweet plum

paper: marshmallow, kraft (bazzill)

aqua mist (pti) mme limetwist

bakers twine WRMK (we are memory keepers)

stamps: MME the sweetest thing

sentiment: hero arts

scallop border punch: SU

sequins

corner chomper

 

http://onlinecardclasses.com/summercardcamp2/

 

August Card Class

How was everyone's weekend?  Ours was good.  Today we attended the Christening of the sweetest baby boy!!  He is adorable and was as good as gold.  He is the baby of some long time friends of ours and we got to visit with lots of other old time friends and do some catching up!

I have my card samples up at the store for my August card class.  As usual I am keeping them simple.  I did do a sort of artsy one using distress ink pads because I was very inspired by a card that the very talented Jennifer McGuire made here: http://www.jennifermcguireink.com/2013/07/video-watercolor-stamp-your-story-blog-hop-giveaway.html  If you haven't checked out her blog, do it now!!  She makes it look oh so easy and I just love her stuff!!

Anyway, tomorrow is Monday and it is back to the old grind stone.  Now that my samples are made for my class, I am hoping to find time to play in the final week of the online card class that I am taking!  I hope to be back soon with some more new cards.  Have a great week! 

 

Class details:  Wednesday August 7th @ 10.30 am

and

Saturday August 10th @ 10.30 am

Call Scrapdoodles @ 540 548 3788 to sign up

or swing by the store in person:)

 

TTFN

Dawn

 

Ombre Embossing

Woo hoo!  I am back with another card for today's online summer card camp 2 class.  This time I am trying Amber Kemp-Gerstel's technique of ombre embossing!  I have never tried that before, but I love how it looks.  I started with a large sentiment from Papertrey Ink and used 3 different coloured embossing powders from various companies (see below) over the image that I had stamped in versamark.  I kept this very clean and simple, but I like how it turned out.  I added a touch of brown glitter trim to make it pop a little!  Again, sorry for the bad lighting.  It is 10.30pm and I am in the basement in my crap room:(

Thanks for looking and your kind comments.

TTFN
Dawn

supplies:
cardstock: white and aqua mist by pti
embossing powders:  pool party by SU, teal zing by American crafts, green a la mode by Hampton art
brown glitter trim by making memories
stamp set:  a big thank you by pti
versamark ink