A One-Layer Card

I haven't played with these Painted Flower stamps in quite awhile; I think they were my first purchase from Altenew, and I still love them!  This time I challenged myself to make a 1-layer card.  That meant some masking!

supplies: white cardstock, Altenew Painted Flowers, stamped with Sweet Dreams and Green Valley mini inks, sentiment from (retired) Technique Tuesday Simply You, Penny Black Stitched Stackers die, Doodlebug tiny heart sprinkles

I first stamped my sentiment, then added the die-cut borders above and below it.  Next I stamped the flowers, and couldn't resist adding the tiny hearts - the colors are spot-on!

This sentiment stamp is dated 2012.  It's long retired, of course,  but it is still a favorite of mine. And once again, I'm getting my money's worth from the Stitched Stackers dies - this particular one is seeing its first use; I like the little subtle detail it adds here.  It's just a simple line-die, and never shows up in the pictures of this die set, which is primarily some nested rectangle dies - a nice little bonus!

Thanks for stopping by today!

More Antique Roses

Here's another card using Altenew's Antique Roses layered stamps and matching masking stencils.  It's for a cousin celebrating her birthday this month.

supplies: peach and white cardstock, Altenew Antique Roses layered stamps, matching masking stencils, Tea Party and Green Fields mini inks, Simon Beautiful Day sentiment, Sunny Studios Frilly Frames Lattice die, Doodlebug Tiny Heart sprinkles

Altenew does an amazing job making these layered stamp sets - the detail is beautiful, the next best thing to having a real flower in your hands!  And what a great idea to add these masking stencils to the sets.  If you want a nice flat card for mailing, they'll make your job so much easier!

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One more time, One Layer

.......no fussy cutting or die-cutting this time, all stamping.

supplies: red and white card, Nuvo markers to color, MFT's Tweet Holidays birds, birdhouse, and holly, Winnie & Walter sentiments from Big, Bold & Merry, Winter Wonderland, and Happiest of Holidays, Simon's Falling Snow stencil, texture paste, glue pen, and prisma glitter

Here's a close-up of the birdhouse, with its little surprise inside:

DH and I spent some time yesterday bagging wet leaves, and there are STILL some leaves up in the trees.........hopefully one more big wind will do it!  I do love fall, but its residue can get you down!

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

Simon Says..........Bright and Cheerful

Happy Wednesday!  Welcome to another challenge at the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Blog!

Our theme this week is Bright and Cheerful, and we're highlighting Hero Arts products!  One of the best things Hero Arts did was to introduce Color Layering stamps.  I have several of them, and I'm glad to see that they continue to add new sets with each release.  

First up, what's more bright and cheerful than a butterfly?!

supplies: white card, Hero Arts Color Layering Swallowtail, VersaFine Onyx Black and various Altenew inks, MFT Wonky Stitched Rectangle die

I imagined these flowers to be zinnias and stamped them in shades of pink.  This set has 3 layers for the butterfly and the flower, and I used my Misti to line them up.

Next up,  another color-layering set:

supplies: white and Audrey Blue card stock, Hero Arts Color Layering Flamingo stamps and matching die, Simon's Tropical Leaves and sentiment from It's Your Birthday, Altenew ink cubes (Tea Party, Sweet Dreams, Sea Shore, and Green Meadows), a woodblock party hat stamp, adhesive foam strips

I've had this flamingo set for awhile and I don't think I'll ever tire of playing with it - it always makes me smile!  This time I added a party hat to the mix and made a summer birthday card.  

Now it's your turn!  We have a $50.00 gift certificate 

to the amazing Simon Says Stamp store for 1 lucky random winner of this week's challenge!

And just a reminder to visit HERE to see Simon's newest release, Good Vibes.  If you'd like to see the card I made with my new die, please scroll down 1 post, or click HERE.

Tammy's Florals

Today is another of Tammy Tutterow's Five for Fridays, where her creative team shows off some projects that we've been working on during the month.

I have 2 cards today using some of Tammy's floral cling stamps.

supplies: white and black cardstock, vellum, MFT Tiny Check Brights gingham dp, Tammy's Sunflower Bunch, stamped on Bristol paper and colored with my Spectrum Aqua markers and water, Clearly Besotted Delightful Day sentiment and canning jar, Die-Namics Stitched Mini Scallop Rectangle die

I colored the sweet bouquet , cut it out, and then inserted the stems into my vellum canning jar before attaching it to the framed rectangle.  I use any excuse I can to use gingham, so this panel was brought in to pull out the yellow in the sunflower - the scale is just right!

My next card is one-layer.  I'll need to line the card front on the inside, as my markers bled through......

supplies: white cardstock, mini Misti, Tammy's Flower Swag 3, Spectrum Noir markers and Wink of Stella clear glitter pen, My Favorite Things All Occasion sentiment

I stamped the sentiment using my handy mini Misti in the center of my card, then stamped the Flower Swag above and below it.  Easy peasy and nice and flat for mailing!

I hope you'll visit Tammy's blog to see what my other teamies have made this time - we all have such different styles, it's really fun to see the variety of projects!

Some Halloween cards

I'm not one to do much for Halloween except hand out candy on the day, but, when it comes to grandkids, I make an exception!  I wanted to share the cards I made for our grandsons for Halloween.  Our granddaughter will get THIS one.  My first card today is for our 7-year old.

supplies: purple, bright gold, white, and grey cardstock, Lawn Fawn Happy Haunting and Trick or Treat stamp sets, black and yellow markers to color the house, Memory Box Grove Branch die, circle die for the moon, Hero Arts Magical Background (retired)

And for the youngest munchkin, I did a CASE of Sally Traidman's card:

supplies: white cardstock, Hero Arts (retired) Happy Halloween sentiment stamps, Clearly Besotted (retired) pumpkin set, VersaFine black and Archival Bright Tangelo inks, googly eyes

I masked off the center of my card, and then, using my mini Misti, I first positioned the 3 pumpkins, and then the various sentiments to fill in the space.  The Misti made doing this pretty easy - I was able to line up everything without any drama, even stamping several sentiments at a time!

Thanks for stopping by!

Simon Says........One Layer

It's Wednesday and that means a new challenge at the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Blog!

Our theme this week is "One Layer", and the DT are playing with Paper Smooches products.  

I think I've said this before, but I have great respect for those of you who can make a 1-layer card interesting.  I found this challenge quite challenging!

supplies: white cardstock, Paper Smooches Blossoming Buds stamp set, Simon Hydrangea, Hero Arts Bubble Gum, Wplus9 Silver Lining, and VersaFine Onyx Black inks, heart line die-cut, Paper Smooches Dashes die, Doodlebug Lily White Glitter sprinkles 

I masked my card diagonally and stamped a ditsy floral pattern, bordered it with lines of hearts and stitching to give it a lace-like edge, and then stamped my sentiment in the remaining area.  Lastly I stamped the 3 flowers near the sentiment and centered each with a sparkly enamel dot.

On my next card I inlaid my image and sentiment:

supplies: black and white cardstock, BoBunny dotted cardstocks in 2 greens, red, and yellow, Paper Smooches Adorable Array and Birthday Words dies, My Mind's Eye enamel dots

Now it's your turn!  I can't wait to see what you do this week!  We have a $50.00 gift certificate for one random winner of our challenge!

Do you use Instagram?  If you do, we'd love you to add #ssswchallenge to your challenge entry uploads so we can see them on there, too!

Merry Monday.......One Layer

Here's my card for this week's Merry Monday challenge.  This week our challenge is to do a 1-layer card.

supplies: white card, Hero Arts Winter Town, The Craft's Meow (retired) Christmas Blessings (star and sentiment), VersaFine Lagoon Blue, VersaMark and Liquid Platinum embossing powder

I said it last week, and I'll repeat - so nice to be able to use older stamps for these challenges!  

MFT Color Challenge #14

I've finally got my act together here and can play in some of the new My Favorite Things challenges.  I was unsure about these colors until I actually tried them out for myself, and now - WOW, they are gorgeous together!

Though I don't have any MFT stamps here with me right now, here's my entry:

I used an old favorite Technique Tuesday stamp called Two Steppin, stamped in Hero Arts Navy and Simon's Hydrangea and Green Apple inks.  My sentiment is from Wplus9's Hand Lettered Hello, and the line of dots is from a Simon set called Thinking of You.  I added some Lawn Fawn green sequins to the centers of the flowers.

Though there are more multi-step stamps out there now, I can't think of many that are this size.  I hope that someone brings out some bigger designs soon, as they are really fun to work with.

Like I said, I love these colors together!  Give them a try, and I think you'll love them too!  Thanks for stopping by!

Share the Love: One Layer

Today's challenge at the Winnie & Walter Blog during Share the Love week with Simon Says Stamp is One Layer cards.  This idea came to me almost immediately.

I just love the effects you can get with Simon's MaryAnne Snowflake stencil!  I paired it up with W&W's Big Bold Seasons, masked off the sentiment panel, and then moved my stencil around and pounced on broken china, salty ocean, and peacock feathers distress inks.  I added some iridescent sequins that I got in several of Simon's Card Kits, plus some teal ones from my friend Carol.  I love how they give a nice sparkle, just like real snow does!

Thanks for your visit today!  

Just Saying Hello

Here's another card for the Hero Arts One-Layer challenge.  I've seen these swoosh stamps used as backgrounds several times now and I like the effect they give......

supplies: Hero Arts Forever (bird silhouette) and Dauber Bunch (sentiment), The Craft's Meow retired Typically Teen (swoosh stamp), Hero Arts inks Soft Pool, Tide Pool, and Splash

This card reminds me of the birds that we hear each morning, even before we get up, singing their little hearts out!  

Thanks for coming by!

Mama Elephant challenge

Mama Elephant has started its first challenge, called Mama Elephant & Me!  This inspiration was so fun that, even though I just have 1 ME set, I had to have a play!

Love those colors, and it just so happens that my set has a sentiment that could refer to a wedding day, so here's what I did:

I chose one of the several flower clusters from their Water Blooms set, and after stamping and masking off the sentiment, proceeded to stamp it all over the card front, changing the ink colors as I went.  I never noticed this before, but I think this particular flower cluster looks a bit like hydrangeas.....what do you think?

Velveteen stamping

Here's another card for Hero Arts one-layer challenge.  I wanted to do the Velveteen Stamping technique again, and I think this may be my most successful try at it.  Basically you stamp an underlying pattern on the card in white ink, and then overstamp solid images in colors, and if all the planets align, the first pattern shows through the top ones, creating a fun design!  Here's my card:

I stamped the Winnie & Walter sentiment first on an angle, then masked the sentiment and overstamped the Hero Arts Tweed pattern in Colorbox Frost White ink, to cover the top and bottom of my card.  After allowing that to dry thoroughly, I again masked the sentiment, and stamped the flowers (Hero Arts 4 Fun Flowers and the little one from Remember) in various pool, green,  and mint inks.  We're allowed to use embellishments for this challenge, so I added just a few sparkly sequins in clear and blues.  

I'm very pleased with my results, and this will be used almost immediately, as my family has 3 birthdays in August coming up!  

I hope you'll give this technique a try if you haven't already; it's really fun to do!  Thanks for visiting today!

Ombre

For the 2nd day of their Share the Love week at Winnie & Walter, we're still playing with distress inks, but they want us to do something in an ombre effect.  I did something a bit different, and used 4 colors of distress inks to color my pretty new flower stamps from The Big, the Bold, and Extras set.

supplies: tumbled glass, broken china, peacock feathers, evergreen bough, shabby shutters and peeled paint distress inks, The Big, the Bold, and the Happy, (sentiment),  Big Bang Confetti Scenery (tiny dots)

Lots of masking here, to make my flower bouquets!

Thanks for visiting!

Always

Hero Arts just started another of their challenges HERE, and we're to make one-layer cards.  I pulled out a cling flower stamp that hasn't been inked yet and here's what I made:

Using some washi tape, I masked off my edges, then stamped Old Letter Writing for my background in a grey ink.  Next came this flower from Cherish Yesterday, inked in shaded lilac distress ink and a mowed lawn distress marker.  I removed my masking and added my sentiment from the Remember set, stamped in VersaFine onyx black ink.  Very simply done, but I like the results!  

Thanks for visiting!

Hello Gorgeous

Like everyone else, I've fallen in love with Winnie & Walter's stamps, in particular their beautiful handwritten sentiments.  They have just posted their 2nd Playdate challenge, and here's my take on the inspiration.

supplies: Winnie & Walter The Big, the Bold, & the Happy and The Big, the Bold, and You, Technique Tuesday Two-Steppin', picked raspberry, bubble-gum, and mowed lawn inks, gold sequins from Lawn Fawn

While I had these stamps out, I decided to make them into a background.

This one started with watercolor paper, and I stamped the solid flower repeatedly in several pinks, added some leaves here and there, and some touches of yellow in the centers of the flowers.  Then I spritzed the whole panel with water until the colors softened and bled.  After drying thoroughly, I stamped my sentiment from The Big, the Bold, and the Happy in versafine black onyx ink and attached it to a card base.  June is the month of roses and anniversaries, so this will go out quite quickly.....

And one more, for my hubby next week - anniversary #43!!

supplies: Simon's Doll Pink card base, Hero Arts Painted Flower, picked raspberry distress ink and peeled paint distress marker, Winnie & Walter's The Big, the Bold and The Happy and The Big, the Bold, and You for my sentiment, sequins from Pretty Pink Posh and Simon Says Stamp

Pink and green is one of my favorite color combinations, so it was a pleasure making these cards.  We have until June 15 to play to win a guest design spot next month!!

Simon Says.........Keep it Clean and Simple

It's Wednesday and time for a new challenge at the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge!

This week our theme is to keep it Clean and Simple, and you have an option to make a 1-layer card, too, if you wish.  The DT are all using Hero Arts products this week.  You don't have to use them for your creation, but we'd love to see them if you do!

Hero Arts has been dear to my heart ever since I started stamping, so this is a special week for me.  I've made 2 cards, one using new stamps and the other some older ones.

My first card uses a new set from the Stamp Your Story series, Cherish Yesterday.  It contains some beautiful florals, one of which is this lilac sprig, which is a flower that holds much meaning for me.  I stamped it in 3 inks: seedless preserves and dusty concord distress inks, and Hero Arts Passion Flower.  The butterfly is from a sister set called Forever.  It was stamped in Hero Arts Iris ink, fussy cut, and popped up above the card.   In order to get 3 stampings across, my card is 6 1/4" long, as opposed to the usual A2 size of 5 1/2".

My second card features the beautiful cling spray of flowers from the set Floral Blossoms.  It is the perfect stamp for a CAS card, as it will fill up most of the card, leaving just enough room for a sentiment.

I used Distress markers to color the stamp itself, and then simply stamped it onto my white card base.  My sentiment is from HA's Dauber Bunch, and I added pink and green sequins from Pretty Pink Posh's Springtime Mix and some clear sequins from a former Simon card kit.

Now it's your turn - what will you make that's CAS?  Heidi has provided another $50.00 gift voucher to the brand NEW Simon Says Stamp Store to the random winner of the challenge.

Roses for you.....

The current sketch at CASE This Sketch is so appealing to me, and I wanted to try one more time, and this time make a truly 1-layer card.

I always enjoy playing with this PTI 3-step rose set, The Sweet Life, and used all distress inks.  I was going to mask a square for behind it, then I spied this old Hero Arts solid stamp called Graphic Scribble.  I stamped it using their Soft Granite ink. And my sentiment is from a tiny Hero Arts set also, simply entitled Messages.  

Yellow roses have always been my favorite, and I like the yellows mixed with the grey backdrop.   Thanks for visiting today.

Another 1-layer card

For the first part of last month, Hero Arts had a little 2-week challenge to make 1-layer cards.  I never shared this card here, so today's the day!  And I also want to enter it into the Moxie Fab World Birthday Card Challenge.

supplies: white cardstock, Hero Arts stamps Truly Appreciated (sentiment), Speckled Ornaments, Scattered Leaves, Luscious Frames, and HA inks Splash, Tide Pool, Soft Pool, Butter Bar and Green Hills, with an orange marker for a little detail

As I've done before, I masked off the area for the sentiment, but this time, I left a small area to have one of the flowers "falling" into the sentiment area.  

Thanks for visiting!

A one-layer card

It's good to be getting back into the swing of things after our vacation.  Here's a card I made for the current Hero Arts Blog challenge, to create a one-layer card.  I used these Hero Arts stamps: Looped Circle Pattern, Pattern Hearts & Flowers, and Made with Love.  I stamped the flower and sentiment, then masked off a panel around them and stamped the looped pattern over that.  After coloring with various markers, I used a grey marker to outline the flower to make it appear to be above the card.

Thanks for visiting me today - hope your weekend is going well!