You're not old...

I always have problems trying to make a masculine card, so this year for my dad's birthday card, I found a 6x6 pad of paper by Authentique that was masculine and stuck to those colors.  I kept the lay out really simple and I think I kept it pretty masculine.

I used a car outline sticker from Elizabeth Craft Designs and paper pieced it onto blue card stock.  I used my wink of stella and wink of luna pens to color in some accents.  Then I matted it all on paper from that pad and stamped the sentiment with Clark's ABCs from Lawn Fawn.

For the inside, I used some scraps from the paper pad to add a little interest and finished the saying with the same alphabet stamp.  Clean, simple, and masculine :)

I'm playing along with Inspiration Destination's Anything Goes challenge this week.

Thanks for stopping by!

Angie

Ah.... the weekend

It's Friday! And I've gotten quite a bit of crafting done lately so I thought I'd pop in and share a card I made for two current challenges:

            

Simon Says Stamp is a pretty easy challenge - 'stamp it' (no digi images allowed!), but the Lawnscaping one is always tough, so I thought it would be a fun to give it a go.  I recently bought some Lawn Fawn steps that have been sitting  on my desk begging to be played with, so this was perfect!

To create my one layer card, I used a really heavy card stock and stamped my images.  I knew I wanted to use the cogs down the side so I had masked off that area to play with later.  Once everything was stamped, I used my prismacolor pencils to color it all in.  I love my copics, but for a one layer card, I didn't want to see the marker bleed through.  Initially I thought I'd use some embossing paste for the cogs, but decided to use embossing powders and a faux cloisonné  technique I learned recently. (I learned the technique with embossing paste, but just skipped that step so it was a more flat on the card front.)

Have a great weekend!

Angie

SUPPLIES
PAPER - 120 lb white card stock
STAMPS - Lawn Fawn Beep Boop Birthday and Bannerific
INK - Memento Tuxedo Black, Close To My Heart Pigment Inks
OTHER - Prismacolor Pencils, Dreamweavers Cog stencil, ultra thick embossing enamel, clear embossing powder

Cupcake Layering

Happy Labor Day weekend!  I thought I'd start off my long weekend by doing a little crafting so I'm sharing this little birthday tag I created using another up cycled counter sample and a Cupcake digi stamp from My Whimsical Little World.

I took the cute Cupcake digi and printed six copies on one sheet.  I knew I wanted to layer it so I colored in different parts on each image with my Copics, fussy cut them all, and layered them with little bits of foam tape.  I coated the flame with some glossy accents.  While that was drying, I grabbed my tile piece, added a strip of patterned paper that's cut with a curve (a scrap of some other project!).  Once the flame was dry, I placed it on my tile and added a little shading on the patterned paper with a grey Copic.  To finish it all off, I added a few pieces of bling, some ribbon, and some twine.

I'm playing along with a couple of challenges on this one - 

Simon Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

MarkerPop #50 - 

Thanks for stopping by!

Angie

SUPPLIES:

STAMP - MWLW Cupcake Digi

PAPER - Copic Xpress It, Basic Gray RSVP

COPICS - Wrapper: V12, V15, V17; Cake: E25, E27, E29; Layers: C00, C1, C3, R81, R83, R85, V04, V06, V09, V01, V12, V15; Candle: Y15, Y38, YR68, B02, B04, B06, C00, C1, C3; Under cake shading: C3

MISC - counter top sample, Stampin' Up! Pool Party Seam Binding; Queen & Co. Twinkle Goosebumps Clear; Purple Bakers Twine, Glossy Accents, Foam tap

Celebrating Birthdays with My Whimsical Little World

My Whimsical Little World has another great new release today. The theme... birthdays! Three new digistamps are available today.  But before I show you, I must tell you... be sure to stop by the Grand Opening for My Whimsical Little World today on Facebook from 10am EST to 6 pm, there will be great fun to be had and some prizes along the way!

Now onto today's new releases!!  First up we have Christopher...

Here's Birthday Belle:

And lastly, Astrid. 

Astrid also comes with two sentiments - 'happy birthday cupcake' and 'love ya', the 2nd one I've used on the inside of the card.

Be sure to stop by the other design team members to see what they've come up with as well!

Paola

Marilyn

Martha 

Kimberly 

Thanks for stopping by!

Angie 

SUPPLIES:

DIGISTAMPS - MY WHIMSICAL LITTLE WORLD Balloon Christopher, Birthday Belle and Lola, Astrid

PAPER - Basic Grey RSVP 6x6 Paper Pad, Stampin' Up! Island Indigo, Rich Razzleberry, and Summer Starfruit

MISC - Prismacolor Pencils, RSVP embellishment pack

Happy Birthday, Mom!

Friday was my mom's birthday and I created this little card for her:

The purple background is a print from playing with my gelli plate.  I did a slight ombre on some glossy cardstock with alcohol ink and stamped the image onto that.  Matted the imaged and added some dazzle border stickers.

For the inside, I used a strip of that same paper with one of the smaller dazzle strips.  Stamped the image and sentiment in a matching ink.

Thanks for stopping by!
Angie

Happy Birthday, Grandma!

So I made a quick card for my Grandmother's bday and got it in the mail hoping it would reach her today.  Then I learned yesterday that she's in town, so she won't be getting my card for some time.  So instead, she'll get a preview here :)

Pretty simple one this time around...I wanted to play with some embossing powders.

And I used the color palette from ColourQ #182:

Thanks for stoping by!

Angie

SUPPLIES - 

STAMPS: Simon Says Stamp's Banner Sayings, Impression Obsession's Wavy Lines

INK: Versamark; Stampin' Up! Pool Party, Wisteria Wonder, and Gumball Green

PAPER: Stampin' Up! Pool Party, Wisteria Wonder, and Gumball Green; Neenah Solar White

OTHER: Zing embossing party in Leaf and Powder, KaiserCraft Rhinestones

Ball of Cuteness

Wow!  It's been almost two weeks since I've posted.  I can't believe how time has flown by these last couple of weeks.  I've been busy making some samples for a local store, Farmhouse Memories, with some adorable little stamps that she's starting to stock.  I thought I'd finally do a post to share a couple of them...

I started off small, by making this little gift tag:

I stamped the Stampabilities House Mouse Make a Wish 2 image, colored it with my copics then used a mid-sized Spellbinders rectangle to cut it out.  I rounded the corners with my corner chomper.  I attached the image to the scalloped rectangle (also cut from a Spellbinders die) with foam tape and added a little line of sparkly stickers from Starform.  I added an eyelet to the upper left corner and finished it off with some green ribbon.

The second one I'm sharing with you, I'll also be throwing into MarkerPop's latest challenge #15...

The theme is perfect for valentine's day (or just a love themed card), which I thought was perfect for this stamp:

For this one, I used Stampabilities House Mouse Close Knit Friendship.  Colored it with a few light R Copics.  I used a Spellbinders die to cut out the image and also the Lacey Circle that it was matted on.  Then I used some sewing floss to crochet around the edges - I would have used yarn, but apparently in my massive stash, I have no pink!  The sentiment is from Variety Pack 2 by Words to the Rescue.  The inside goes on to say, "One fabulous couple.  Happy Anniversary."

Thanks for stopping by, 

Angie

Color Throwdown Happy Birthday

I know someone who has a birthday this weekend so I decided to use the colors from this week's Color Throwdown to create a card for him.

Here's the card I came up with:

And here's the inside:

Short and sweet ;)

Thanks for stopping by,
Angie

SUPPLIES:
STAMPS - Stampin' Up! Border Banter, Smarty Pants, and Happiest Birthday Wishes
PAPER - Stampin' Up! Early Espresso, Crumb Cake and Very Vanilla
INK - Stampin' Up! Lucky Limeade, Crumb Cake and Island Indigo
OTHER - Tim Holtz edge distresser and finger daubers

Happy Birthday Spinner

Have you seen the color combo at colourQ this week??

I love the combo (and the owl comforter inspiration is super cute as well!).  I just so happen to need a masculine birthday card and thought these colors were great.  As I got started, I decided to turn it into a tag instead of a full card, so here it is:

I took the birthday spinner from SU!'s Take a Spin set and colored it with markers then stamped it.  I didn't have a gray marker so I had used black, but I didn't like the dark color mixed in with the grean and teal, so I went over it all with a VersaMarker and embossed it with some silver powder... much better!  The spinner itself was a bronze color so while I had the silver embossing powder out, I coated the hardware so it matched the gameboard.  The base, that the twine is wrapped around, is a coaster that I covered with some black fabric tape.  I wanted it to have that game board feel. :)

On the back, I kept it simple.  I used another SU! stamp and the same markers as I had on the front.  Pretty straightforward.  

Here's a  closer pic of the front:

Thanks for stopping by!

--Angie

SUPPLIES:

Stamps - Stampin' Up! Take a Spin and Bring on the Cake

Ink - Stampin' Up! Markers in Gumball Green and Taken with Teal; VersaMarker

Paper - Stampin' Up! Whisper White, Gumball Green, Crumb Cake

Other - Stampin' Up! Game Spinners; Silver Embossing Powder; Stone Twine from the Twinery; coaster; 7 Gypsies Gaffer Tape; silver brads; Rock Candy Distress Stickles; Cropadile

Birthday Monkey ATC

I was playing around this weekend with some paper piecing and decided to make something on a smaller scale than a regular card, so I made an ATC for the All That Scraps Wednesday Challnege...

Isn't he cute :)  I paper pieced him with some papers from Kaiser Craft and Lawn Fawn and added some Stickles to the cupcake for a sprinkled icing effect.  The sky is made from washi tape then run through my cuttlebug to cut out some cloud shapes.  Super cute!

Thanks for stopping by!

--Angie

SUPPLIES:

STAMPS: CC Designs Birthday Monkey

INK: Memento Tuxedo Black

PAPER: Lawn Fawn Bright Side Collection and Kaiser Craft Hey Birdie Collection

DIES: Grass and Cloud dies from Sweet & Sassy Stamps

OTHER: Washi Tape from Love My Tapes, Crystal and Ruby Stickles

Swiss Pixies Frame Card

Today I wanted to play with one of my Swiss Pixies stamps from CC Designs.  I love coloring them in! 

I stamped Gretel on some white card stock and colored her in with Copics.  I based the colors of her outfit based on a piece of paper I wanted to use for the frame from Basic Grey's PB&J paper pad, but when I cut the frame from the paper, I just wasn't happy with it, so I found another piece from the same collection and was much happier with it.

I'm entering this into the latest All That Scraps Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes.and MarkerPop's Fur/Hair coloring challenge:

Thanks for stopping by!

--Angie

SUPPLIES - 
STAMPS: Swiss Pixies Gretel by CC Designs; Amy R Birthday Sentiments
INK: Memento Tuxedo Black
PAPER: XPress IT Blending Cardstock; Basic Grey's PB&J
COPICS: Hair - YR14, E15, E18; Skin - E00, E01, E11; Clothes - Y11, Y13, Y28, R37, R39, R59; Ground - C00, C1, C3
DIES: Stampin' Up! Top Note; Spellbinders Classic Ovals Large
OTHER: Crystal Stickles, Stampin' Up!'s Fancy Label and Word Window Punches; Stampin' Up! Brights Buttons, The Twinery's Maraschino Twine

Happy Birthday Crow

Today I'm sharing a card that I made for my sister-in-law's upcoming birthday that I also am entering in the following challenges:

     

    

as well as the Guest Designer call over at Paper Smooches.  So without further adieu, here she is:

My sister-in-law researches crows, so I thought it would be fun to color in the little peep as a crow, which also brought in a little more of the gray color from PDC's color palette.  I kept the inside simple by adding a sentiment and stamping the bird a few times along the bottom:

Have a creative weekend!

--Angie

SUPPLIES - 

STAMPS: Paper Smooches Party Posse, Chit Chat and My Peeps; Hero Arts Flower Dot Background

PAPER: Stampin' Up! Pool Party, Lawn Fawn Bright Side Petite Paper Pack, Neenah Solar White

INK: Versamark, Stampin' Up! Pool Party, Memento Angel Pink and Rhubarb Stalk

OTHER: Clear Embossing Powder, Black Embossing Powder, The Twinery's Slate twine, 1/2" Corner Chomper, Stampin' Up! Fancy Label Punch, Stampin' Write Markers in Basic Black and Pumpin Pie, Blender Pen, Heat gun

Ribbon Embossing

This past Friday, Danielle Daws posted a video tutorial on embossing on ribbon (check it out here).  I loved how it looked so had to give it a try.  Then I saw the lastest inspiration photo for the Paper Smooches Sparks Challenge: 

and I knew exactly how I wanted my card to look...

The inspiration I got from the challenge photo was text only and the color pallette - blue, orange, black, and white.  I loved how it turned out that I ended up making two more cards with different sentiments:

and

Lastly, here are all three together:

I can't wait to try more ribbon embossing!

--Angie

SUPPLIES - 
PAPER: Neenha Solar White
STAMPS: Paper Smooches Sentiment Sampler and Good Gab; Hero Arts Newspaper Background
INK: Versamark; Stampin' Up! Pumpkin Pie
OTHER: Zing Black Embossing Powder; Heat Gun; Ribbon from stash; 1/2" Corner Chomper

Birthday at the Beach

Quick post this week! - My Grandmother is an April Fools Day baby.  Here's the card I sent to her:

 

I colored Beach Babe Kaylee with my Copics aand fussy cut her.  I die cut the waves from some alcohol inked paper.  I used a scallop circle and dabbed ink around the edges to create the clouds.

Since I did some coloring, I'm playing along with the current Lawnscaping Challenge:

  

Have a great week!

--Angie

SUPPLIES - 

PAPER: Neenah Solar White, Stampin' Up! Daffodil Delight, glossy paper

INK: Memento Bahama Breeze and London Fog; Ranger alcohol inks; Copic markers

STAMPS: from the dollar bin at Michael's

OTHER: Waves die from MFT 

Oh Crab...

So many great challenges are happening this week and I want to play along with them all!!  :D  I know I won't get to spend all weekend in my craft space so I won't get to play along with them all so I knew I had to at least make one card tonight.  I narrowed down my choices and decided to use the sketch from CPS:

The inspiration photo from the Paper Smooches SPARKS challenge:

I see distress, ocean theme, blues/greens, and that vertical stripe pattern

And finally, since they just arrived a couple of weeks back and I hadn't used them yet, I decided to make it with an acetate card which fits Young Crafters Unite's challenge:

Once that was all settled, I had a plan and attacked!!  Here's what I came up with - 

I found it a little difficult photographing it because I kept getting glares in the acetate.  I used some washi tape (which was my self challenge this week) for the vertical stripes on the circle.  The tape was actually a bright aqua color so I distressed it with some Vintage Photo ink and it toned it down giving it the look I wanted.  The crab is also colored with Distress Ink (Fired Brick and Worn Lipstick).

The waves are on glossy photo paper with some alcohol inks and a felt applicator.  I used Ranger's Stream, Meadow, and Snow Cap.  Then ran it through my Cuttlebug with the wave die... super simple!  I lined the front circle up with a circle I cut to fit right behind it - for a little more color and to cover my tape for both the inside and the outside.

The inside says "Belated Birthday Wishes."  I had no luck getting a picture of that, but it's a sentiment from Paper Smooches Word Salad set.

Have a crafty weekend!

--Angie

SUPPLIES - 

PAPER: Neenah Solar White; Office Max cardstock; glossy photo paper

STAMPS: Paper Smooches Word Salad and Chubby Chum Pals

INKS: Distress Inks - Antique Linen, Vintage Photo, Worn Lipstick, Fired Brick, Walnut Stain; Memento Tuxedo Black; Alcohol Inks by Ranger - Stream, Meadow, Snow Cap, and Alcohol Blending Solution

OTHER: Aqua wash tape (can't remember who makes it, but I bought it at AC Moore), alcohol ink felt blending tool, MFT wave die, finger daubers, Tonic edge distresser, Uniball Signo white gell pen, Spellbinder's Standard Circles Large, Tiny brads from stash, Snail adhesive, Foam tape/dots

Week 2: Alphabet Stickers

This week I challenged myself to use alphabet stickers. I wasn't really sure what I was going to do with that so I decided to work on the card then add the stickers later.  As it started coming together, I decided I'd use the alphabet stickers for the inside. 

I started by using the CPS sketch this week:

and created this card:

 

I used a few ink pads and a blender pen to color in the raccoon.  Wrapped him with some charcoal twine and added a heart punched from glitter paper.  It's a little hard to see in the first pic, but the red is mounted on a black card base.  The hearts were die cut on my Silhouette Cameo (a Christmas gift from my hubby!!) and instead of using the hearts that were cut, I used the negative image and popped it up on the red.  I think you can see it a little better in the next pic:

As I was going through my stamps for the front, I kept trying to think of cute little statements for each of them knowing I was going to be putting something on the inside.  Once my eyes saw that little raccoon, I knew exactly what I wanted.  So I went sifting through my alphabet stickers and setting on these from ProvoCraft:

And what sentiment did I settle on?  Well, see for yourself:

The finished card is 4 1/4" square, so it would fit in a standard size envelope with some excess in the length.  Since I had some scraps laying around, I went ahead and crafted an envelope to fit:

I took a standard envelope and sealed it.  I then cut the envelope so it would be 4 3/8" square.  I added a piece of coordinating paper as the new flap, and there it was, an evelope that fit perfectly!

While I was super motivated (and with some spare time), I made another 4 1/4" square card. 

I colored the bot in with some copics then made him sparkly by coloring over with a Spica glitter marker.  Then I used some more of the same stickers for the inside of this one:

And I created an envelope for this one as well:

You can't see in the picture, but the envelope flap is stamped with the 01011110001 stamp that is on the card front.

Next week, I'm challenging myself to use some buttons.  I have tons of them, so I'm going to put some to good use!

Have a great week!

--Angie

SUPPLIES -
"You Stole My Heart"
-Paper from Stampin' Up! - Basic Black cardstock, Real Red DSP, Whisper White cardstock
-Snail adhesive
-Foam adhesive
-Stamp - Lawn Fawn's Critters in the Forest
-Silhouette Cameo
-Blender Pen
-Ink - Stampin' Up! Crumb Cake, Basic Black, and Early Espresso; Memento Tuxedo Black
-Charcoal Twine from the Twinery
-Red, adhesive glitter paper (found in my stash)

"Birthday Bot"
-Paper - Stampin' Up! Basic Black, Neenah Solar White, Circuit pattern paper from Boxer
-Snail adhesive
-Foam adhesive
-Stamps - Lots of Bots by Stampin' Up
-Inks - Stampin' Up! Basic Black, Memento Tuxedo Black, Versamark
-Copics and Spicas
-Lifestyle Crafts Tag Its
-White Embossing Powder
-Silver brad