Sea and Sand

A little card for the Limited Supplies Challenge over at SCS today. The challenge: use only the colors of the sea and sand, and must use fibers, piercing, and brads. My seahorse image is from Anita's, stamped in SU's Blue Bayou on River Rock cardstock. I then distressed and pierced this main image panel. I used a bunch of different stamps to create patterned papers on SU's Blue Bayou, Soft Sky, and River Rock cardstocks, including Inkadinkado and Stampabilities. The sentiment is from Anna Griffin. The side panel with the fibers was crinkled and distressed, in honor of yesterday's Ways to Use It challenge. :) This project really made me long for the shore.... but it's a landlubber's life for me, for now :) Have a wonderful day!

Teacher Appreciation Week Gift Set

I made four sets of cards like this one for my kids' teachers. This week is Teacher Appreciation Week for us, and on Thursday we were to send in a "little gift." Is that a throw-down challenge for us papercrafters, or what? LOL! Anyway, these cards all use Stampin' Up's Parisian Breeze Specialty Paper, along with Chocolate Chip, Baja Breeze, and white cardstock and matching ink (with a few exceptions if you're reading on.....).

This first card uses the tree swallow Stamp of the Month (April) from Cornish Heritage Farms - Oh, how I LOVE their stamps!! I stamped the swallows in taupe ink from Anita's, then overstamped the script from Inkadinkado in Baja Breeze. The distressing is done with Ranger's Vintage Photo (same for all the cards here). I also added a cute little corduroy brad from SU... they're so soft and cuddly, it's hard to part with them! The border punch is from Fiskars.

This card was lots of fun to make. I debated using my Copics to color the image, but instead used a blender pen with Baja Breeze and Ranger Antique Linen inks (and a tiny bit of Pink Pirouette on the shell). SU's white cardstock is THE BEST for this sort of thing, because it has such a smooth surface. The image is from Inkadinkado. The starfish in the background are from Stampington (Christine Adolf's collection - LOVE IT!!). I used some regular old twine (glued down) and some Making Memories brads (to make it look tacked down :))

Nothing too complicated here... another of my fav stamps from Inkadinkado. The background Baja is embossed with Cuttlebug dots. Added another fuzzy corduroy button (sniff sniff, it's okay, I know they're going to good homes LOL!)

Okay, for all you Stampin' Uppers.... First of all, a big THANKS to "eured99" on Splitcoast Stampers, whose card I CASEd from HERE. The stamps are from Sense of Time. I ran the Baja CS through the Cuttlebug textile embosser. This was the only time I snuck in a non-SU paper (the bottom pinstripe is from the Bohemia line). I figured I needed to keep at least one card semi-masculine :)

Another SU card, and another SHOUT OUT to "bigsky", the lady whose card I cased HERE. Hers is MUCH more beautiful, but at 3:00 in the morning, I was desperate! So I simplified. The image is from SU's Bloomin' Beautiful. I again used the same inks (plus Always Artichoke) with a blender pen. I used a Fiskar's border punch, and some velvet ribbon I got at Michael's... this stuff is VERY close to Baja Breeze and it's on sale this week (from Dashes, Dots, and Checks).

Wow, that was long-winded. Hope you found something you liked. Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Limited Supplies Card Challenge

My card today is for the "Limited Supplies" challenge over at Splitcoast Stampers . The challenge was to use only one color of cardstock, two patterned papers, and three embellishments. It's very liberating to do a card like this sometimes, because you stop obsessing over whether it "needs more" - you're simply not allowed to do it LOL!!! I made the dotty background paper with a handmade stamp. I will have a tutorial for you early next week. But for now, I am Without. My. Camera. YIPES!!!
I never knew how totally attached and addicted I am to my camera until this weekend, when hubby and my son took it on a camping trip. I tell you, it's making me NUTS!! I had wanted to finish getting photos of the stamp-making process to post with the card, take pictures of my daughter's volleyball game, take pictures at tonight's Carolina Hurricanes vs. Pittsburgh Penguins hockey game (I'll be third row away from Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, Jordan Staal - with NO CAMERA!), and also get some shots of the beautiful blooming trees that are everywhere on this bright sunny day. Ack! But I know I will be treasuring and scrapbooking the pictures my husband brings home of their fun weekend. Still, I think we need to be a two-camera household very soon ;).
Have a wonderful weekend, and LET'S GO CANES!!!

Black and White

I decided to make a card for the Limited Supplies Challenge over on SCS, and this one was to use only black and white. The focal image is an Anna Griffin stamp by All Night Media. I used the little side scroll image from my $1 stamp project on my last post for the border. The only other embellishments are pearls from Hero Arts and ribbon from Jenni Bowlin. I've never used this color combo before, but I think I like it!