A Humorous Birthday

Hi, today I have a card with a bit of humor on it

I have had this stamp set for a number of years and haven't

used it much.  I love chickens so when I saw this stamp set

from Rubbernecker I had to buy it.

I made this card following the sketch from last week over at 

The Outlawz.

I stamped the chicken on kraft cardstock using 

Catherine Pooler inks, Eucalyptus and Sauna.  I used my

MISTI (as I do for all my stamping) so I could stamp it

a couple times to make it show up on the kraft.

The chickens and the sentiment are both from the same

Mark's Finest stamp set, unfortunately, they have closed

down their shop.  I must have bought these stamps 6-7 years ago.

I used my chicken wire embossing folder for the background and

the background chicken paper is a single sheet I had.

Added a bit of twine and that was it.

I will enter this in the Retro Rubber challenge that

wants you to give your love to some old stamps.  The challenge

is open until June 15th so you still have time if you wish to play along.

Well, I hope you liked my card and got a chuckle out of it.

Just have to figure out who I can send it to that would get a chuckle also.

Hot & Spicy - Color Challenge

What a fun challenge this is.  Over at Less is More color challenge

this time the colors are "hot & spicy".  As soon as I saw this I knew exactly what

stamp I wanted to use. 

We recently took a trip over to Hatch New Mexico to pick up some chile

peppers (they are the best from there), once you see those strings of

red chile you know that Fall is here.

First off this challenge is all about simple or less is more as the

name states so I kept these cards as simple as possible. 

The string of chiles is a stamp from Mark's Finest Stamps, I bought this several years ago with the intention to use it on a Christmas card.  Living in Arizona I thought it worked well.

I colored the chiles with my Zig Clean Color brush markers, I tried

to leave some yellow showing but got a little too heavy handed with the red but it still looks good.  The Merry Christmas is a Hero Arts stamp

that I stamped in black and then heat embossed clear.

The second one I wanted to try and add a little more sparkle or elegance

to it, so I stamped it and heat embossed it in gold. I colored this

one using several Copic markers.

I fussy cut out the peppers but am going to work on trying to

scan in the image and cut it out with my Cricut Explore or Silhouette Cameo.

I would like to mass produce these so it would be very helpful if I can

get that figured out.

So what do you think, is that Hot & Spicy enough for you.

Leave me a comment and let me know which you like better.

I am so sad to say that when I went to link up Mark's Finest Stamps I

discovered that they have closed, such a shame but glad I

have the stamps I do have.

Challenges entered:

Less is More - hot & spicy colors - ends 10/13

Aurora Winds - clean & simple - ends 10/14

Color Inspiration - hand-colored image - ends 10/31

Scrapbook Stamp Society - anything goes optional Autumn - ends 10/22

Get Well Poppies

Hi, back again with another card.

I had carpal tunnel surgery so my hand was a bit sore

but I thought I would take a crack at trying to color with 

watercolors as they do not require pressure.

So using the sketch this week at Mojo Monday I create

this card.

 I stamped the poppies with a Mark's Finest stamp that I got a few

years ago, in fact, I don't think it is available anymore.  I love poppies, I think they are my favorite flowers.  I am pleased with how this turned out, the water coloring was pretty easy to do.  I wish you could see it in person as it

sparkles because I put Wink of Stella over the flowers.

The papers are from a K&Company pack and the get well soon is

a Hero Arts stamp, that I stamped with Distress ink Forest Moss.

The whole flower panel I have popped using Darcie fun foam.  I love that

stuff for popping things on cards.  Thanks, Crafting Circle for telling me about

it, it is super cheap and you get a lot in the package.  I have found that my 

ATG tape gun works great for adhering it. 

I hope you enjoy my card, have a great weekend.

Challenges entered:

Mojo Monday - sketch ends 9/4
The House that Stamps - Anything goes ends 9/6

A few more birthday cards

Hello everyone, boy I am on a roll clearing out my waiting to post basket, I told you I was behind on posting.  LOL

Today I have 3 more birthday cards to share with you.

Birthday Greetings

Lots of different texture and embossing on this card.  The background paper is pearl off white that I embossed using my butterfly embossing folder and my eBosser.  The center image I got off of Google and cut out. Sorry I stand corrected I actually got this image off of Pinterest.

Fabric buttons

A while back I bought a package of embellishments from Michael's dollar bin.  I loved the bright colors and have had it sitting on my desk waiting to use it.  Well FINALLY months later I did use it on a card.  The three buttons are covered with fabric and the pink rick-rack behind them also came in that embellishment package.  The happy birthday I cut using a new die I recently bought.

Spring Chicken

I love chicken things and have a collection of different ones on top of my kitchen cabinet, so when I saw this stamp set at Mark's Finest I just had to get it, not to mention the humor behind it.  I embossed the background with my chicken wire embossing folder.  I stamped the chickens in colors to match the paper, then stamped the chicken wire over the top of them with my Versa Mark stamp pad.

This one you have to see the inside also.

I thought this was funny, now I have to figure out who to send it to that would not be offended.

Thanks for stopping by again, will keep working on that basket of cards. 

No Spring Chicken.

Hi everyone thanks for stopping by.

I am so excited to share this card with you today, I think it came out so cute.

A while ago a bought this set of stamps from Mark's Finest I just had to have it as the sayings were funny and I kind of like chickens.

I printed the red checked paper using my Imagine and the Kate's Kitchen cartridge.  I kind of had to settle for this, I spent hours going through my huge paper stash and could you believe I did not have one piece of paper with a chicken on it!  

On a recent shopping trip :) I picked up this Cuttlebug folder that is chicken wire so that worked out perfect even better than chicken paper I think.  I took a piece of the clam shell packing from a Cricut cartridge and ran it through the Cuttlebug, then I rubbed silver ink over the embossed plastic but it did not dry too well on the plastic, but that's OK you can still see the embossing against the white background.  I stamped the two chickens on the white paper before I put down the chicken wire.

Here is a closer look at the chickens and the embossed plastic.  The piece of barbed wire border I cut using the Old West cartridge, then added some score lines.

Now in order to get the full effect of this you need to see the inside stamp.

Isn't that cute?  I hope the recipient doesn't get offended, I don't think so she has a pretty good sense of humor.

Well thanks for stopping by and I always love to read you comments and appreciate each one of them.

Challenges for this card

Love to Create  Anything goes   ends - 9/30

Make it Monday   Always anything goes   ends - 9/30