One Crazy Stamper May Challenge

It's the start of a new month, and another challenge on the One Crazy Stamper blog.  This month's challenge is "Anything Goes" + an embellishment!  I'm using one of the fun new BFF stamps from Art Impressions - called Cupcake BFF, and I chose glitter as my embellishment.  Here she is with some Chilled Cucumber Soup papers:

The sentiment says:  "A Special Treat for Someone Sweet".  It's a fairly large card, 5"x 6 1/2", and I've popped her up on some pop dots.  Here's a closeup:

 

You can use any stamped image that you like for the challenge (no digis please!) and be sure to add at least one embellie to your project.  Head on over to the OCS Design Team blog to see what the rest of the Design Team has to show you.

OCS products used: Art Impressions Cupcake BFF

Memento Tuxedo Black Ink

Tim Holtz Distress Glitter (Pumice Stone)

Pop Dots

Copics: Skin E11, E00, E000, R20

Hair: E55, E53, E51

Tights: W5, W3, W1

Shoes: G07, G14, G40

Lipstick: R22

 

 

Square Dancers

This is my Tuesday post on the Art Impressions blog!

I have a little country & western flavour for you today... I have a square card using Square Dancers (Sku#1929):

Aren't they a pair?  Here's a close-up:

Copics used:

Dress & neckerchief: R59, R24, R22, R20

Jeans: B97, B95, B93, B91

Shirt: BG02, B01, B000

Hat: Y26, Y23

Boots: E57, E55, E53, E51

Skin tones: E13, E11, E00, E000

Hair C3, C1

 



The Challenge #5 - Guest Designer!

Well, I was pretty excited to have been chosen as the winner for Lesley Croghan's sketch challenge called "The Challenge" this past week, and as the winner, she's asked me to join her as a guest designer for the current challenge, #5!  I chose one of the new Art Impressions Girlfriends sets and some pretty October Afternoon papers:

It's a fairly large card, 5" x 6 1/2", as I thought the larger card would balance the size of the image.  Here's a closeup:

And here is the wonderful sketch:

We would love to have you play along!  You can find the details here on Lesley's blog.  Here's my proud winner's badge:

 

Patterned papers are Cakewalk, October Afternoon; Cardstock is Slate & Colonial White, CTMH; Ink is Tuxedo Black, Memento; Stamp set is Laughing Set, Art Impressions; Copic Markers; Twine is American Crafts.

 

Laughing Girlfriends

It is my Tuesday post on the Art Impressions blog today!

I'm sharing a card made with one of the newest Girlfriends releases: Laughing Set (Sku#4385)

Now the funny thing about this set, is that these two gals strongly resemble two girls that work where I workout!  The hair, the facial features - it's uncanny how accurate they are... and the two of them have been friends a long time, so this set makes me smile :o)  Here's a closeup:

You'll want to check out all four of the new 2014 Girlfriends sets - you can find them here!  And there is still time to participate in our current Best of Friends challenge, we want to see your cards with two or more people on them.

 

Happy Stamping everyone!

 



Viva La Verve

I thought this week's Viva La Verve sketch would be a great way to show off some background paper, and then decided to try a new technique on my stamps.  I pulled out Verve's Bloom & Grow set, and coloured the flowers and leaves with my Tombow markers.  I gave them a light spritz with water before stamping them, which gave them a cool water stained/watercolour look!  I really like how they turned out.  I originally had just a plain cream background panel, but felt the card needed a little something more, so I used a page out of an old dictionary instead that I stitched down. 

Here's a closeup of the flowers:

Patterned paper is Woodland Park, October Afternoon; Cardstock is Crystal Blue & Colonial White, CTMH; Stamp sets are Bloom & Grow, Verve and All of You, CTMH; Ink is Outdoor Denim, CTMH; Tombow markers.

Seize the Sketch & Color Throwdown

This card came together in a strange way tonight...  I loved the colours in this week's Color Throwdown challenge, and when I stumbled across the sketch at the Seize the Sketch challenge I knew that I wanted to give it a try.  I've used these Carta Bella papers for several cards, so I pulled them out onto my craft table, and sitting there beside them was an image I'd coloured weeks ago, perfectly fitting the colours, the papers and the sketch?!  It all came together pretty quickly after that:

It's not quite this limey in person!!  Here were the challenges:

Patterned papers are True Friends, Carta Bella; Cardstock is Slate, Cotton Candy & White Daisy, CTMH; Ink is London Fog, Memento; Copic Markers;  Flower & Button, CTMH; Stamp set is Camper Crazy, CTMH.

Atlantic Hearts Challenge

I've had this little hello coloured and sitting on my desk for a while now, and when I saw this week's sketch at the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge, I knew it would work nicely.  So just a quick and easy card tonight, using some pretty CTMH papers that are retired: