Sea-Horsin' Around

Hello, hope everyone is having a wonderful crafty weekend.

I am so excited to share this card with you today.

A while back on Pinterest I saw a card that had "water drops"on it

and it looks so real and amazing.  Well I dug into it and found out it

was actually a rubber stamp that made them.  I never would have thought

that was what it was.  So I looked into it and found these terrific stamps

by Design by Ryn.

I ordered the complete set of all the water drop styles.

I couldn't wait to try it out.

So I used Distress inks, Salty Ocean, Twisted Citron, Mermaid Lagoon and a little Mowed Lawn on water color paper and made my own background.  

I Googled seahorse and found this image.   I colored her up with watercolor paints, hand cut it out then covered it with Crystal Lacquer.

I stamped my water-drop stamp onto the background paper with 

Memento Black Ink and then went to work with my paint brush 

and wet inside each "bubble" then dabbed up the excess water with a paper

towel and it lifts some of the color off and waa-laa this is what you get.

Went back and added some slight white highlights with my Zig white chalk pen.

I mounted the background on a couple layers using the colors in the "water",  

 cut some seaweed using my Cricut Explore then pop dotted the seahorse on top.

I had the perfect sentiment to go with it too.  It is a stamp by Pink by Design

set called Crikey.  I bought it many years ago so I am not sure if it is still available.

I will be entering this in a challenge over at Design by Ryn Customer Creation Challenge.

Thanks so stopping by, I hope you enjoy my card and am inspired by it. 

Inspirational Cross

Hello I made this card for my son that has had a little rough

patch lately.  He lives in his RV in Wyoming and the water pipes  burst

and his RV got frozen to the ground.

Well this happened around Christmas and he still is waiting

for the repairs to get done.

I bought him a cross to hang on the wall in his RV so

I thought I should make a card to go with it.

I found the cross image from Googling intricate cross and then
imported it into Design Space and cut it with my Explore.
The Explore is amazing with it's ability to cut things like this.

Here is what was left on the mat after I picked it up.
Unfortunately I could not get it all off at once.

Thanks for stopping to take a peak, have a great day.

An Old Man birthday

Hello again.  This is a fun cards however

if you are easily offended you may not want to read this.

I have had this digital image for years but can't remember whose it is, sorry. 

I colored him up using my Copic markers and used some papers from a Karen Foster paper pack.

I was trying to think up a sentiment and drew a blank so MsWipz

over at the CraftingCircle message board came up with this one for me.

Tee he he he he.

I hope you can read it.  I set it all up in Cricut Design Space and had

my Explore write it then cut it out.  

And that's it LOL

Thanks for visiting today.

A couple Valentine cards

Hello, I wanted to share a couple Valentine cards with you.  I know it has passed

but did not get a chance to post them before.

The first one is a Cricut cut/write file.  I love the way it did all the doodling

and cut out each layer to line up.  It also cut a matching envelope.

It's it wonderful.

The second one I have to share is a heart shaped card

I created in Design Space and cut with my Explore.

I imported the Bugaboo elephant image into DS and then

had the Explore print it and cut the heart shape around it.  I then colored it using my Copics.   I also had the Explore write then sentiment on the heart before cutting it out.  

I pierced holes all around the edge of the heart and then connected the holes

using the same pen I wrote the sentiment with.  This something I recently saw on Sandy Allnock's blog, it gives it a stitched look.   You can see it here in this VIDEO
And here is the inside also written with the Explore.

I am also entering this in the February Valentine challenge over at
Pink and Main Challenge blog

Thanks for stopping to take a peak.    Hope to sneak in a couple more blog posts over the next week.

Pretty Butterfly

Hi, I have a pretty  card to share with you today.

I saw this on Pinterest and just had to try it.

I just happen to have the Stampin Up butterfly she used

but it can be done with any dies.

I just love how striking this looks. 

The butterfly is still attached to the base in the center.
You have to put your die on the paper then just line up the cutting plates on your Big Shot or Cuttlebug to just before the center or body of the butterfly.  Then holding the die in place on your paper line up the cutting plates over the other side or other wing still leaving the body outside of the plates and run it through again.  You should end up with a butterfly with it wings cut out and the body still attached to the paper.
I went ahead and cut out another butterfly out of holographic paper just so I could have that pretty paper on top.  I used my corner punch then tucked my paper underneath.
Thanks for stopping by and hope you like my card.  

Some-birdy.....

......wishes you

I wanted to share this card with you that I made using a digital

image I colored using my Copics.  I have always liked coloring but kind of got away from it, but I found Kit & Clowder and it has me all excited about coloring again.  Thanks Crafting Circle for introducing me to Alyce at Kit & Clowder.

More on Kit & Clowder a little later.

I created card following a sketch this week at the CraftingCircle message board.

I embossed the light blue circle using a Darcie cloud embossing folder then took my white ink pad and just wiped it over the raised area to give the clouds a bit of color.  I colored the Cuddly Buddly image using my Copic markers.   They have some pretty cute images, in fact this one is a freebie. 

While we are talking about CuddlyBuddly here is another one I colored up and put on a card, another freebie here too!

I am lovin getting back to coloring and using my rather large investment into Copic markers.  

I have signed up for the Hair & Skin class at Kit and Clowder and am learning alot although I have not completed it yet.  Alyce is fabulous and a great instructor.  She also has a free class called 

Mindful Me that I highly recommend you taking. 

She has a great variety of classes even some using pencils.

I hope you enjoyed my cards and thanks for stopping by. 

Some more catching up

Hi, hope everyone is having a great weekend.

I am going to post a few various cards that I have

been working on lately.

Here is a thank you card that opens into a step-card

instead of the plain old center.

The center is a Stampin Up stamp.

and here is the inside.

I love the way the starburst card looks but sometimes they are a bit difficult to get right.  The papers are K&Company papers.

Here is a cute animal shaped card from the Create a Critter cartridge.  I covered part of his body with Fun Flock for more dimension.

And one last one, a diamond fold card.

The turtle image is from NitWits, that I uploaded and cut with my Explore.

Thanks for stopping and taking a peak.  Hope you enjoy the cards I

shared with you today.  Most of them were made playing along with challenges over at the CraftingCircle message board.

Come over and join in the fun, there is a nice variety of challenges.

Pretty butterfly card

Hi, today I have a card to share with you that I made following

the sketch this week at Tuesday Morning Sketches.  Although

I have not done them for quite some time I do love following

a sketch to create a card.

I love the soft colors and how this turned out.

I made the background paper after watching a video

on You Tube from Deanna Paper Crafts.

The butterfly is a Stampin Up stamp that I stamped on watercolor paper and then colored using my Distress Ink pads.

I cut the lacy circle using my Explore and the Sophie cartridge.

This is also one of the sketches for the current challenge going on

at the CraftingCircle message board.  Got till the end

of the month so come on over and play along

Well Hello........

......long time not posting.  

I know it has been quite a while since I last posted and I always want to get back to paying more attention to my blog but it just has not happened.  However now I am going to try real hard to post at least weekly.  Thanks to all those that have followed me and still peak in when I do post.

So to catch up I am just going to post some random cards I have made lately to show you what I have been up to.

First off for a challenge on the CraftingCircle message board a month or so ago we were challenged to use the Bohek method to make some background paper.  I had been wanting to try this so I was glad it same up.

So here is my card that I used my Bohek paper on. 

It was so much fun making the paper and I love the way

it turned out.

Here is a great male card.  I think it is called "triple stamping".

I colored the image with watercolors to give it a more mute look.

A few more that I have made recently.

Well that should get me a start back into blogging, I hope.  See you all real soon

Have a fabulous day.

Good Things

Hello everyone, I finally got to participate in a Mojo Monday

challenge again.  It has been way too long.

I made this card using some single sheet papers from Michael"s and a Stampin Up stamp.  I thought he was so cute perched on there

on his piece of watermelon. 

I colored him using Copic markers and did some sewing both 

with my little machine and some faux sitting with

me gel pen.   I used a Verve stamp

for the sentiment.

So there it is.  Thanks so much for stopping by.