Thinking kitty

Hi!

I had this cat from Penny Black's In The Garden stamp set colored months ago but had left it sitting in my basket of colored images completely forgotten. I am terrible that way! I am also terrible with using up my scrap papers and I am sure I am not the only one ;-)

So here the adoable cat all made into a card. And I used all scrap papers on the card! I colored her with a combination of copics and Prisma Pencils/OMS. She has stickle on her collar and the flower petals.  A girl's gotta have some sparkly right?

Card Supplies:
Stamps: Penny Black - In the Garden 
Paper: Bazzill, Copic Blending, MME
Ink: Memento, SU
Other: Prisma Pencils/OMS, Stickles, Ribbon, SNSS Scallop Border Die, Spellbinders Ovals, Copics - RV21, 23/G24/Y04, 06, 08, 17/E30, 31, 33, 34, 35, 37

Enjoy your day!

A lot of Green

Hello!

I am going to keep my post short and sweet today. We start our holiday celebrations today and I still have a lot to get done before we head out the door!

The sentiment is from Penny Black's Winter Whites and Greens stamp set. I thought the sentiment was too plain so I used the Mini Floral Vines stencil from Crafters Workshop to add the swirls and dots. And of course after adding the stencilling, I wasn't sure if I like it. You got to experiment every once and a while, right? :)

Card Supplies:

Stamps: Penny Black - Winter Whites and Greens

Ink: SU

Paper: SU

Other: Buttons, Twine, Ribbon, Cheery Lynn Doily Die, Crafters Workshop Stencil - Mini Floral Vines.  

Thank you for stopping by to visit! Have a blessed day!!

Hidden Treasures

Hi!
I was going through my crafting area rearranging a few things and came across my forgotten collection of wood mounted sentiment stamps. It was like finding a hidden treasure so of course I had to pull the drawers out, sit on the floor and look through them all...yes, just like a little kid ;o)
As I went through them I set aside the ones I knew I probably wouldn't use again and pulled out a few to use right away.
I forgot how much I loved some of these sentiments. This is one I picked up at a LSS when I got into making mini books and calendar pages. It's a Penny Black stamp called The Best.
I embossed the cardstock with Sizzix Regal Flourishes embossing folder. The bits of pattern paper are Bo Bunny's Gabrielle Collection and I cut out a couple of the butterflies from the pattern paper to adhere to the card.

I hope you have a wonderful day and maybe you will come across a hidden treasure too!



Card Supplies:
Stamps: Penny Black
Ink: Memento, SU
Paper: SU, Bo Bunny
Other: Sizzix Embossing Folder, Spellbinders Labels 20

Outlawz POM Challenge

Happy Thursday my friends!

Today I have a card to entice you to pop over to The Outlawz POM Group and check out the challenge for this week.
Can you guess what it is? If you guessed embossing you are correct! The challenge is to use embossing folder(s) or embossing powder on your project. The rule we have for the POM challenges is that you can not use Alcohol ink markers on your project. Anything in your crafting arsenal of mediums is perfectly fine to use.

For my card I used both embossing folders and clear embossing powder. When I want to match my wet embossing to the colors of my project, I will first ink up my stamp with versamark and ink it again with the colored ink before stamping on the paper. Sprinkle clear embossing powder over the stamped image or sentiment and heat it as you normally would. Inking the stamp with versamark then with the colored ink will not harm your ink pad at all.

The sentiment is by Serendipity Stamps that I have had in my stash forever! The embossing folders are Cuttlebugs Swiss Dots and Sizziz Dots folders.

I hope you will visit us at The Outlawz and play along with this weeks POM Challenge!

Remember this month we have Digi Doodle Shop sponsoring us for the month with a $10 GC!!
Every submission will get you another chance at winning! Drawing will be June 2nd.

The Outlawz also has three sponsors site wide for the month of May!!
Rusty from Oozak.com is providing a $50.00 gift certificate.
Susana's Custom Art and Card Designs is offering a $25.00 gift certificate (store merchandise only).
Color Me Creative Classroom is giving one Copic class of your choice.

You can read all about these wonderful prizes right here on the main page along with all the information about our summer party and let me tell you, we have some awesome prized to give away at the summer party so be sure to check it out!

Thank you for stopping by!

Card Details:
Stamps: Serendipity Stamps
Paper: Gina K Designs, Misc
Ink: Versmark, SU
Other: Spellbinders - Squares & Lacey Squares, Ribbon, Pearls, Cuttlebug and Sizzix Embossing Folders, Clear Embossing Powder

The Outlawz POM Ribbons or Lace challenge

Good morning!

It's Thursday and that means I get to share a card for this weeks The Outlawz POM Challenge. POM is short for Primsa's and Other Mediums. You can to use anything in your crafting arsenal except for Alcohol ink markers. And Prisma's can be ANY colored pencil, it doesn't have to be the Prismacolor brand. You do not even to color an image if you don't want to!

This week we are challenging you to use ribbon or lace on your cards or projects. Here is my sample for the challenge.

I chose to use ribbon on my card instead of lace. Both the flower and leaves are made out of ribbon. To make the flower I took piece of ribbon and stitched along side one edge then pulled a thread from one end to gather up the ribbon. Next I rolled the gathered ribbon similiar to how you would make a rolled rose. I had a bit of fraying going on in the center of the flower so I covered it up with a pearl.

To make the leaves, I just folded a piece of ribbon and tucked it under the ribbon flower.

These gorgeous flowers/pots images are from Penny Blacks In the Garden stamp set. I colored them with Koh-i-noor pencils and OMS.
The pattern paper is Basic Grey's Hello Luscious. I used a Crafter's Workshop stencil calld Mini Floral Vines on the green to add a bit more pattern to it.

I hope you will visit us at The Outlawz and play along with the POM Challenge! This month we are thrilled to have Digi Doodle Shop sponsoring us for the month with a $10 GC!!

Every submission will get you another chance at winning! Drawing will be June 2nd. If you join us, please remember to upload your cards to the gallery and to tag them with Pom512.

We also have three sponsors site wide for The Outlawz for the month of May!!
Rusty from Oozak.com is providing a $50.00 gift certificate to one of the challenge entrants at The Outlawz!

Susana's Custom Art and Card Designs is offering a $25.00 gift certificate (store merchandise only).

Color Me Creative Classroom is giving one Copic class of your choice.
You can read all about these wonderful prizes right here on the main page.

Thank you for stopping by!

Card Supplies:
Stamp: Penny Black, Gina K Designs
Ink: SU, Memento
Paper: SU, Gina K Designs, PTI, Basic Grey
Other: Ribbon, Spellbinders - Rectangle, Circle & Octagons, Pencils, OMS, Crafters Workshop Stencil

Hugs for you

Good evening!

Did everyone have a good weekend? Yesterday was a beautiful day which made my spring fever kick in full gear! lol!

I started this card last weekend before my wrist gave out and was able to finish it this weekend. I did as much as I could using my left hand so don't look to close at the card, hehehe...
The cs and dp is SU's. The stamp set is Hugs from Penny Black and is colored with copic markers. The sentiment is Gina K's Tag lines and is cutout using the double ended tags. I also used the labels two, square and oval nesties.
The borders are punch with Martha Stewart Floral Lace punch.
Other embellishments I used are Wavy Flourish punch, Brown Kaiser pearls, prima flower, Guava ribbon and paper piercing.

Have a great rest of your evening and stop back soon!
Sharri

Hedgehog Hugs

Good Morning and Happy Monday!

My morning started out nice and cold. The blower on our out door wood burning furnace went out last night and my husband could not get the 'real' furnace to fully kick in to we had limited heat through the night! Since the outdoor furnace also heats our water for the house and the the 'real' water heater is on the same propane line as the 'real' furnace we had cool water for showers this morning, Brrrrr! Nothing like a cool shower for a quick wake-up call!

A friend told me about a very reasonable on-line store that has quite the variety of stamping and crafting supplies. It is called 7kidscollegefun.com. I was impressed with the prices and ended up ordering several things from them.
One of my purchases was a new Penny Black clear stamp set called Hugs. I love the images in this set and had to ink one of my favorites up right away.

Aren't those hedgehogs adorable? I stamped them with mementos tuxedo black ink on 80 lb pure luxury cs and colored them with the Koh-I-Noor pencils and OMS. I used DCWV textured cs and dp from one of their mat pads. The card size is about 5x6.
The sentiment is from Gina's Down on the Farm and is stamp in black versafine ink and embossed with clear embossing powder. It is cut out using the double ended labels spellbinder die cuts.
I used the Martha Stewart Floral lace Border punch on the bottom of the yellowish colored dp them used an embossing border folder for the burgundy colored strip and layered over the yellowish strip. I embellished the primas, doubled ended label and the corners of the scalloped rectangle with Kaisers brown half pearls.
The corners of the cs were punched with the Tonic duo corner punch - tag ticket.

Have an awesome day and thank you for stopping by today!
Sharri

Snow Swirls

Hello!


OMG! Is it cold here in Wisconsin tonight! I think it is a good night to snuggle up with a blanket, my daughter and our furry babies. I have to share a picture of my furry babies, Chuckie and Caitlyn. It is not often I can get a picture of them both sitting still...lol! Do you think I need to trim Caitlyn's face so you can see her eyes or better yet so she can see...hehehe!

Okay on to the card.
This is another card using the Penny Black stamp, Warm and Cold. I just love this snowman.

All the cs and dp is SU's. I stamped the snowman with Mementos Tuxedo Black ink, colored him with with Koh-i-noor pencils and OMS and used crystal lacquer on his nose, eyes, mouth, arms, and the ends of his scarf. Blue rhinestones are his buttons.

I made the snow swirls by embossing a piece of whisper white cs with the divine swirls embossing folder, cut diagonally along the swirls then used my quickie glue pen to add the baby blue glitter to the swirls. I added the swirls over the snowman as an after thought - and it actually turned out to be one of those good afterthoughts...hehehe!
I punched the snowflakes from fuzzy white paper and added a blue rhinestone to the center of each one.
The let it snow sentiment is from SU's Cold Play stamp set.

Thank you for stopping by!
Sharri

Penny Black snowman

Oh my goodness, how time flies!


I have not been a very good blogger this past week. It was crazy!! I had two birthdays in my family on top of the Thanksgiving holiday which left me with no spare time.
Can you believe Christmas is in just a 3 weeks? Anybody else behind on their Christmas cards, gifts they want to make and shopping?

The card I am sharing today is made with a Penny Black stamp I picked up at Hobby Lobby a couple of weeks ago and a Basic Grey paper pack, Two Scoops which I picked up at Gina's brick and mortar store. The colors in the BG pack matched perfectly with Wasabi and Baja Breeze.


I colored the snowman with Koh-i-Noor pencils and OMS. I put crystal lacquer on his nose and arms. Blue rhinestones were used for buttons and the snow is white liquid applique, glitter sprinkled on top, then heated to make it puffy.
I also found a couple of the new nestibilities, large labels, small labels and labels two. I really like how they look layered. I am still searching for the labels one. Every store I have been to is out of them. I think I need to buy them on-line, which I didn't want to because I always end up spending more than I wanted to...hehehe!
I used the fancy photo corner punch and layered them with the dp on the bottom and baja on the top.
Fuzzy white paper was used for the snowflakes with a blue rhinestone in the center.

I hope everyone had a great holiday weekend and awesome start to the week!
I am off to catch an update on the weather. They are forecasting another winter storm here in Wisconsin.

Thank you for stopping by!

Hugs,
Sharri