Kokopelli - Have a Great Day

Hi, back to share another card with you.

Hope you all had a great weekend.

For this card I followed the sketch this week over at

The House that Stamps Built.


Here is the sketch.

I live in the desert in Arizona so I love all the southwestern things, when
I saw this stamp from Repeat Impressions I just had to get it.

I colored it with my Poloychromo pencils and mounted it on a distressed piece of paper.  I embossed the side panel with a southwestern embossing folder
then a simple square embossing paper on the back.
To the corners I used my Nuvo drops to had some copper dots.

So that is it, I hope you like my card and thanks so much for stopping by.

You're the Best - Angie girl

Hi, finally got to get back in my room and create 

something.

This card I created using Unity Stamps and following the sketch

this week at Tuesday Morning Sketches.

Here is the sketch, a rather simple one this week.

I changed up the center a bit to use an oval instead of 

a square.

I have a BFF that is great and always there for me even if it

is just to get together and have a couple glasses of wine and chat.

So I wanted to make a card to send her to tell her how special she is to me.

I stamped the Unity Angie Girl stamp from the "Today I am Happy" set on kraft cardstock.  I colored her using my Polychromo pencils.  The color I

like the best on kraft is red but I wanted to give the purple a try.

This would also be a great image to paper piece her hat and shirt.

I cut an oval frame using a Gina Marie die out of purple paper

that has a sling chevron pattern to it.

The background is a piece of paper from a Watercolor stack from Michaels.

I embossed the background paper but then ran it through again after I embossed it but not inside the folder but underneath it.  This flattens the pattern a bit to

make it have a softer look to it.  The "you're the best" is also a Unity stamp from the Butterflies & Sunbeams set.

Thanks for taking the time to spot by and take a peek at my blog.

Challenges entered:

Unity Stamps Facebook page - use an Angie girl

Tuesday Morning Sketches - sketch - ends 5/27

Elliebelle's Crafting - girls & ladies - ends 5/31

Crafty Creations - anything goes - 6/10

Crafty Gals Corner  - anything goes - ends 6/5

Noah's Ark by Rick St Dennis

Hi, I am back to share my card for this months

Crafty Awesomeness challenge at the Crafting circle. 

This month our sponsor is Rick St Dennis you can see all his images HERE at his on-line shop. 

Here is my card.

This is one of the images we got to work with.

Noah's Ark.

I have to say is not one of my finest.  I am not too happy with how it turned

out, maybe I will try to color is again using Copics, this one was done

with my Polychromo pencils.  

If I do color another one I will come back here and post it.

Well, you have until the end of the month to join in the challenge.

Thanks for stopping by.

Coloring on Red

                    You know all the rage right now is coloring on kraft cardstock me

included love it.  I love the look, I love the way the color lays down, 

I just love everything about it. 

So I recently ran across where someone colored on colored paper,

I believe what I saw was blue.

Well I recently got my Perfect Poinsettia set of stamps from

Gina K so I thought it would be perfect to give it a try

to color on red.  So for my project this month over

at the Crafty Awesomeness Challenge I made this card.

I stamped the poinsettias and heat embossed them in gold.  This set

of stamps is actually a multi-step set of stamps, much like the truck one I did HERE.  For this card, I only used the lined/detailed stamp.

I colored in the poinsettias using my Polychromo pencils.

I love pink poinsettias so that was actually my driving factor

to color on red paper.

I die cut the Merry Christmas using a GinaMarie die.  I thought it needed something so I covered it in Versamark ink and then heat embossed

it using clear embossing powder.  It made it stand out a bit more. 

I then mounted the red panel on gold foil paper to pick up the gold

embossing.  I am slowly making a dent in my Christmas

cards but still have a way to go.

Sorry this post is late, it was just one of those times where

I couldn't get it together in time.  I had the card all finished

but had to sit down and type up this blog post.

Thanks for stopping by and remember to head over to

the Crafty Awesomeness Challenge where it is

and anything goes challenge so come on over and let's see what you got.

Sunflowers in a Jar

Hi, this card was made following the sketch this week at

Tuesday Morning Sketches, I love to play along here when I can.

Here is the sketch.

I flipped it sideways so I could fit my sunflower image that came

in this months Unity Kit of the Month.

I stamped the image onto kraft card stock and colored it using my
Polychromo pencils.  The sentiment is an Altenew stamp.
I loved the place paper and thought it would pull all my colors together,
it is from a DCWV stack a few years back called Autumn Amber.

Thanks for stopping to take a peek at my blog.

Challenges entered:

Tuesday Morning Sketches - sketch - ends 8/20

Power Poppy - hues to use - no ending

Through the Craftroom Door - anything goes - ends 8/22

Tuesday Throwdown - anything goes - ends 8/22

Enjoy the Simple Things - Unity

Hi, I love working on kraft paper but many times forget about

using it.  The effects you can get coloring on it is fabulous so

today I have a card to share with you that I stamped using a

Unity stamps from last month's Kit of the Month and colored

it with PolyChromo pencils. 

I love how large this flower stamp is, actually most of Unity Stamps

are large, which makes them easier to color.  I used white and a pale

yellow color on the flower, and then a couple different greens on the

leaves.  The sentiment is also
a Unity stamp from the same KOTM.
  I distressed the edges of the kraft paper with my 

Tim Holtz Distressing Tool.  I added a strip of loopy jute like

string I recently picked at Michaels.

All and all I am pretty pleased with how this one turned out.

Thanks for stopping by to take a peak, I love to read 

your comments.

Oh Happy Day - BBQ

Hi, I have a cute summer themed card to share with you

today.  This month at the Crafty Awesomeness Challenge out sponsor

is Bugaboo Stamps.  Jodie has a whole new website set up for you

to make your shopping experience easier.

For this month I chose to use some of Bugaboos cute older

stamps.

This is actually 2 separate images that I merged together and printed on 

kraft cardstock.  I colored them using my Polychromos and I think a 

couple Prisma Pencils to get the correct colors.  Are they just the cutest?

The clouds and sun are Gina Marie dies that you can get here at the

Scrapbook Outlet.  She also revamped her website, must be something 

in the air, ha ha ha.

And that is it, a pretty simple card, I'll be back to share another card 

using a BBQ image, this one I call Hamburger Boy.

Get Well Teapot - Bugaboo

Hello, hope everyone had a great Valentine's day and didn't

eat too much chocolate.  

Today I have a card to share with you for our new 

Bugaboo Challenge at the Crafting Circle.  

This is just the second month of this brand new challenge so we would love fo you to join in the fun.

You can create anything you want as long as you use a 

Bugaboo image and there are some adorable ones.

The image I got to work with is called Flower Teapot and it can

be found HERE.

I printed out the image onto kraft cardstock and the colored it with a

mix od PrismaPencils and Polychromos.  I absolutely love coloring

on kraft cardstock with pencils.  The colors seem tp pop off the paper.

I thought this image was good for a get well card so I cut

out the sentiment using my Cricut Explore.  I picked up some

of the colors I used and then matted the kraft paper on those colors. 

The edges I stamped with a stamp that came in a ProvoCraft stamp

set I got a few years back.  The stamp is only about 2 1/2 inches long so thankfully I had my MISTI and got to stamp around the edges perfectly lined up.

So that's it!  Go ahead grab yourself a Bugaboo image and play

along, you will have till March 14th to enter.  Remember 

Jodie at Bugaboo has a Friday freebie, plus her images are very reasonable.

Happy Birthday Beautiful

Well you all know I love my Unity Stamps

but

this is the first time I have made a card using one of

the Unity Girls.

Isn't she great she is called
Poppy Girl.
I made her following the challenge over at the
Unity Facebook page Show & Tell.  The challenge
was to use a Unity stamp and the colors,
Red, White and Kraft.  I love coloring on kraft
the colors come out so vibrant plus you can color white.
I used my Polychromos to color this image.  I am
really in love with how this one turned out.
Thanks for stopping by and let me know what you think
of my card.

Challenges entered:

Great Impressions - Always anything goes - ends 12/31

Heartful Stamping - use stamped image - ends 12/10

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - anything goes - ends 12/16

All Dressed Up Fairy

A couple of weeks ago this imaged was

shared on the Kit & Clowder Facebook page.

This adorable image is from All Dressed Up.

I just received my set of Faber Castell Polychromo pencils so I

had to try them out and color her up.  I LOVE my pencils and am very glad I got them as I teetered on it for quite some time. 

I embossed the pink paper using a Cuttlebug folder and cut the

centers out with my Spellbinders cutting the pink piece a bit larger so I would

have a frame around her.  I added some flowers I had in my stash and 

that was enough to finish it off.  I will add a sentiment

when I decide how I will use it.

Thanks for stopping to take a peak.

This card will be entered into the following challenges

Crafting Circle - Crafty awesomeness

All Dressed Up - Anything goes using an ADU image
Get Creative Challenges - Pink plus one color

Crafting from the Heart - Anything goes