Dont get carried away

I dont have anything new I created to share with you today so I thought Id show you a card I made for my Dad for Fathers Day. I love this tow truck image from Hambo! This looks alot like my Dads tow truck when I was about 5 yrs old. Im a complete Daddys girl and I always loved going with Daddy in the truck! He loved this card!

The main image is stamped with black stazon and colored with prismacolor pencils and blended wit gamsol. I added crystal effects to the windows and headlights. I used my prismacolor black marker to make the lines for the road. I also added silver brads to the center of the tires. The main image is also popped up on dimensionals. The going gray layer is stamped with linen in black it kinda reminds me of a road texture or tires I really cant figure out which one but either way it works for this card!LOL! This is one of the cards I kept messing with and ended up almost messing it up! I added corner piercing and tried to use the black marker but that didnt show up too well so I went back over it with the white gel pen. I also added piercing to the ruby red base on both sides of the image.

We're off today heading to FL for Faiths stamping retreat! Hope you have a great day!

Lighthouse OCCC

Quick post for today. Im trying to finish up the last of my Fathers Day cards today while Danny's at work.


My card today uses the OCCC sketch. Amy posted a card on her gallery the other day called Dream Thyme. She used river rock, true thyme and ruby red color combo. I loved it! The main thing I liked was how great the river rock and true thyme looked together. River rock is my least fave of the In colors but I love how it looks w/true thyme. I have 2 unopened packs of true thyme from stocking up last year!LOL! I finally opened one of the packs this morning.


I used my new Su set A light unto my path. I love this lighthouse image! The sentiment I used is from HM stamps Dads Outdoors. I dont know if Im thrilled w/this card or not. Something seems off to me like its not balanced but I decided to just leave it alone before I messed the card up by adding stuff to it!LOL!



Recipe:

Stamps: A light unto my path, Dads Outdoors

Paper: textured river rock, true thyme, vanilla, kraft

Ink: true thyme, artichoke SU marker

Other: Ribbon from Joanns, Brads, paper piercer, dimensionals

Lsc172 Knotty Cabin

Sorry I havent posted the past couple of days. I think I mentioned that my exclamation point was worn out. Well the next day none of my symbols or numbers worked so I couldnt sign in to my blog. Uggghhh! So you know how you go to town and come back w/everything except what you went to town for? Well guess what I forgot?! Yep a keyboard. LOL!


I made this card for todays Lsc172 and Beates wsc52. I need Fathers day card since I havent even started on them. Masculine cards are not my fave to make so I tend to put them off until the last minute. I LOVE how my card turned out today. Theres alot of dimension on my card since it will be hand delivered. Its very heavy and I had a hard time taking a pic of it b/c it doesnt want to stand up.LOL! Okay onto the deets. I started w/ a garden green card base stamped tone on tone w/canvas background. My next layer is choc chip layered w/close to cocoa strips stamped w/a wood grain background I got at Michaels a couple of years ago. I also sponged all the edges of the strips w/choc chip ink and used my choc chip marker to put a dot to look like nails. The ruby red layer is stamped w/weathered background inked in choc chip and all edges are sponged. I also popped this layer up on dimensionals. For my main image I stamped the cabin from H & M stamps onto Pti white w/timber brown stazon. I colored the image using prismacolor pencils and blended w/gamsol. I wanted to do something so I wasnt left with all the white background so I decided to give the Zindorf brayered scenes a try. I used my Versamarker and covered my image w/clear detail ep. This is the first time Ive ever used it and Ive have it for over a year. I was shocked it worked!LOL! Next I used post it notes to cover the top portion of my image and brayered wild wasabi ink for the grass. I used the garden green marker to make some grass. For the sky I used post it notes and covered the grass. I brayered soft sky and then cool carribbean. The edges are sponged w/garden green and cool carribbean. I layered the main image onto garden green and added stacked two dimensionals to pop it up. The Dads cabin sign is also popped up on the image. Since this was a masculine card I thought twill ribbon was the best way to go. I stamped the sentiment from the set onto twill ribbon and I think it was the perfect embellishment for my card.


Have a great weekend!

Unfrogettable smile

Its getting closer...retirement list! I love this set and hope its not on the retired list. I had to pull him out and give him some love just in case! I also had to make this card today to share a story with you.

Okay we went to my Moms house Friday to eat lunch and swim. We have been studying bugs these past couple of weeks and my kids can now spot a bug a mile away!LOL! So Madison was looking for bugs around Mama's porch and found a baby frog. She got her a cup and filled it to the top with water and pulled up some grass and threw in it. Now all of the above is something Im not aware of yet. After she's put the frog in the cup full of water and grass thhheennn she comes to me and says Mama look what I found can I keep him. I look in the cup and see the frog. Okay! Madison are you trying to drown the frog is all I can say. So I pour out over half the water and tell her yes she can keep it. So after we leave Mamas house we make a quick stop at Walmart to pick up a house for the frog. Its called backyard habitat and we first saw it a week or so ago and I told them when we got to frogs we would get one and watch the frog grow from a tadpole. So we get to the car and the frog is dead. I thought maybe the frog got too hot in the car even though I had let down the windows and the frog was in water. At this point my child is ticked off with me b/c I wouldnt let her take the frog inside Walmart. We get home and show the dead frog in the cup to my hubby who tells Madison she drowned her frog. The jury is still out on that one! Who knows! Okay so fast forward to Saturday afternoon we are getting the pool ready and we have a friend. A rainfrog....here comes Madison. She chased that frog for 15 minutes trying to get it I got so tickled at her until......She gets back around to where I am and tries to catch the frog who then jumps on my leg! I screamed he jumped! Madison caught him! It was so funny. My MIL got a real kick out of it! So now we have a pet rainfrog named Emily who we have managed to not drown yet!LOL!

Okay about the card. I pulled out my unfrogettable set and the sketch drawn out. I knew I wanted to use some dp on the bottom half of the card and went digging through my scraps and found a peice of wintergreen dp. I punched out a piece for my sentiment using the WW punch. The sentiment I used is from Verve Visual. I love the sentiment! It fits for alot of my images. I colored the frog with prismacolor pencils and blended w/gamsol then outlined him with copic marker. I then covered him with crystal effects. I used the fiskars circle cutter to cut out my circle. I added celery ribbon and dew drops for the embellishments. Have a great day!

Winds of grace

I love todays sketch! My Mom called me while I was making this card and told me she wasnt so fond of the sketch. I told her to let me finish my card and I'd let her know if I did!LOL! But its the truth! If I can come up with a card I like then I love the sketch. If I bomb it I hate the sketch. Todays sketch was to use an off set oval. It could be a one layer card or not. I decided to use mask reversing ( I think that's what its called). I made a card when I first starting stamping it was a one sympathy card using this technique and I really liked it. You can check it out in my SCS gallery.

For todays card I knew I wanted to try to use blues and a neutral and a rubbernecker image for the RBC04. Those of you who visit my blog often know I swipe some of my Moms stamps and this old world map by Rubbernecker and Winds of grace by SU are two that I swiped a couple of weeks ago. These type of images are usually not my style but I wanted to give it a try. I started with a blue bayou card base. I layered textured soft sky stamped with the Old world map in blue bayou onto the card base. I distressed and sponged the soft sky layer with blue bayou. For my main image panel I used Fiskars oval template and cut my oval out of a sheet of copy paper. I used the copy paper to cover up the entire white panel except my oval. I stamped the sailboat from winds of grace inked w/choc chip in the oval. I used my sponges to sponge soft sky and blue bayou on the top and bottom of my oval. I distressed and sponged the edges of my panel w/choc chip ink and turned down the left corner. To finish off my card I added blue bayou and soft sky double stitched ribbon and a brad. Hope you like it as much as I do! Have a great day!

Double Stacked Bareback

For the first time Im so glad its Monday! Im so glad to put last week behind me! What a week!!!



To start off our challenge week Beth's challenge today was double stacked ribbon. The first thing that came to mind was twill and hemp. Ive had my Moms Bareback set for a couple of weeks now so I decided I finally needed to actually use it!LOL! We have a great system me and my Mom she buys...I borrow!LOL! Just kidding! But seriously its great that we live close enough that we can share sets especially since we usually have different taste in stamp sets so we have a wider variety of stamps. When I want to try something out of my comfort zone I usually borrow some of her images.



For todays card I started with a creamy caramel base 4 1/4 x 5 1/2. I stamped sanded inked in choc chip onto the creamy caramel base. I pulled out some scraps of outlaw dp and sponged and distressed the edges. The mediallion layer is 4 x 5 1/4. My 2 sq panels are 2 1/2 x 3 layered w/choc chip. On the sage layer I stamped the sentiment from Bareback then stamped the horses stamped off twice and stamped them over the sentiment. The horse head is stamped on vanilla and cut out w/Fiskars circles and sponged and distressed and popped up on dimensionals. To finish off my card I added my double stacked hemp and twine and 3 brads. I actually LOVE how my card turned out today! Have a great day!

FS35 Cowboy Kid Case

Its been awhile since Ive been able to do a featured stamper challenge. Today the featured stamper is Anna (sweetmissdaisy) and she has an amazing gallery! I had alot of fun playing with my cowboy kid the other day and when I saw Anna's card I knew I wanted to case it. I loved her layout! I changed the dp, colors, brads, and sentiment.

I used my HL chocolate textured cs for my card base 4 3/4" sq. My main image is colored w/markers and an aquapainter. I saw yesterday where reneejul1 posted a card that she colored this same way and had to try it! I love the results! I used my choc chip, creamy caramel, ballet blue, night of navy, and rose red markers to color the image. I stamped the wanted sentiment in choc chip after stampin off but after I posted the card I noticed you really couldnt see it so I went back and stamped it w/out stamping off and it looks better. I distressed and sponged the image and torn the right top corner off. I layered my main image on night of navy. To make the tabs I used the HL choc paper and placed 2 silver brads I adhered the tabs to the back of the night of navy layer. My Daisy D paper was perfect for this card so I distressed and sponged and matted it on ballet blue. All mats are 1/4".

Julie is going to post a tutorial on coloring w/the markers and I'll place a link to her blog when she does. It's definetly something to try if you have the markers! Have a great weekend.

Chocolate Bayou Kid

That sounds like a cowboy name doesnt it??!! So meet The Chocolate Bayou Kid long distance cousin to The Sundance Kid!LOL!

Okay about this card....I DID NOT have a good stamping day today. First off I knew better than to cut into my cs before making a template for the card. I used Beate wsc21 Library file folder card. After I messed up the first card I used a piece of computer paper to make my template. I still didnt get it just right but it will do for today!

I used today color challenge for the colors of the card. Choc chip, river rock and blue bayou. Well these colors just screamed cowboy to me! I also got to use some of my new blue bayou pp and choc chip wide grosgrain ribbon. I distressed and sponged all edges and the images were colored using primsacolor pencils and blended w/gamsol. Im going to keep the blah blah short today since it took me 2 1/2 hrs to finish this card.