Wish Birthday Card

Hello Friends!

I made this fun birthday card for a friend of mine who's birthday has passed.  It feels like years but I think I'm a little over a week late at this point.  I was going to give it to her in person-but we all know how seeing people in person is going (not so well!).

My friend had taken a picture with a moon backdrop.  And that's how I was inspired.  This is a clay mold from a Finnabair mold.  Side note: I love making clay molds!  I have all sorts of shapes.  I like to watch tv and just make them.  LOL.

The sentiment: vellum and black cardstock and a Tim Holtz die (Thank you Jennifer McGuire for the vellum idea!) and a Taylored Expressions strip die and stamp.

I used Iris Potion Sparks Prima art alchemy paint which is now one of my most favorite colors.  It's so shiny and fun.  Actually all of the sparks paints are-and I'm totally addicted.  The moon is painted with Ginger Magic.  The clock is a bit of green (fairy wings is the name of that sparks paint).

The clock is a little wooden clock.  I used a key in the middle.  I also used Old Silver Finnabair wax with a Paige Evans Star Stencil.  The pink stars were in my stash.

And I used micro beads to fill in.  Here is a close up.  They are around the moon too.  I'm still working on making my molds smooth on the back.  So here's the truth-when I glue them down there are gaps.  I used the micro beads to fill in these gaps.  I glued more micro beads in places to even out the micro beads look.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Stencil Fun--the silver stars are made using a Paige Evans Stencil

Seize the Birthday #185: Touch of Green--clock

Time Out Challenge: Birthday Theme with die cutting -wish is a Tim Holtz die.

Thank you for stopping by!  Until next time my friends--reach for the stars! :)

St. Patrick's Day Layout

Yay!  This layout was picked in the Top 3 at Stick It Down! :)

Hello Everybody!

Happy Saint Patrick's Day-although a little late in the evening.  Here is a St. Patrick's Day layout that was inspired by the sketch at Stick It Down.

I knew I wanted shamrocks-and I found 3 glitter foam shamrocks that were so old the adhesive didn't work on the back LOL.  No worries!  So I cut out more shamrocks from my silhouette.  The true green ones are distress ink mowed lawn that I inked on there.  And I painted the lighter green ones with Sparks Fairy Wings acrylic paint by Finnabair.  Side note-I love sparks paint.  I just sort of discovered them and they are so glittery and shiny! :)

When I was going through the St. Patty's day cut files I saw the light bulb and had to use it.  I cut out glitter green paper for it.  The title with the arrows are also cut from the silhouette on white cardstock inked with distress oxide lucky clover.  

Then I added some gems and used some washi tape to edge the middle paper.  Our pictures are from instagram.  So Fun! :)

Here is the sketch:



Here is the close up of the light bulb:

Thank you for stopping by!  Until next time my friends-yay green! :)

Rainbow Card Challenge

Hello Friends!

I am so excited to share with y'all that I am a new member on the Rainbow Card Challenge.  This challenge is so fun-there is a color each month and you make a card using mostly that color.  

This month the color is Emerald.

I love this color so much!  There are so many possibilities!

So here is my card:

For the background I mixed together modeling paste and a Golden Fluid Acrylic paint-Permanent Green Light.  Then I spread it through the crafter's workshop stencil 325S on watercolor paper.  

I used a hello die cut from Taylored Expressions for the main sentiment.  I inked the little background of the hello with distress oxide lucky clover.  The little sentiment is a Gray Muse stamp.  Lastly, I added 3 icy sparkle crystals from studio katia. 

Please go check out the other Emerald cards from our awesome team!  We look forward to seeing your card!

Until next time my friends...stay colorful! :)

Design Team!

Hello Friends! 

I am so happy to say that I am on the Rainbow Challenge Design Team!  These talented ladies create colorful cards every month, and I am so excited to be apart of the inspiration! 

This month's color was Fuschia. 

And here is my card:

I used a Page Evans stencil, Tim Holtz heart die, Stampin Up Sentiment and Stampin Up Melon Mambo ink and paper.

If you missed this month's challenge--No worries!  Tomorrow starts a different beautiful color that we can't wait for you to be apart of! :)

Until next time my friends...stay colorful! :)

An Odd Card

Hello Friends!

Over at the Funkie Junkie Boutique Blog, they are having a challenge requiring something odd.  I thought what could I make for this?  And I remembered that my son used to watch a show called The Odd Squad and they solved math problems in order to fix all sorts of odd happenings.  I also got out a stamp set that I bought a few years ago and hadn't used-because it was a little different than the rest of my stamps. 

Here is my card:

I made these cool circles with a stencil (probably Ranger but I don't know which artist) and blue velvet opal magic wax which is just awesome.  (this isn't the odd thing, keep going)

Here's my sorta odd stamp.  Now that I have created this card-I am excite to use this stamp again.  Her arm and legs are separate stamps and I think when you have more sets you can interchange them.  This is a Clearly Constructed Art Stamp by Catherine Moore.  One of the main reasons I hadn't used her is the space in her skirt.  Like what do I do with that?  LOL. I colored her with Prismacolor markers.

So I make these gears and upcoming clock out of paper clay and molds (from Mod Podge).  I had pieces of a gear that broke, and it was perfect!  I painted these with Prima Opal Magic pink blue paint. And glued them in the space.  Then I put another wax on the clock but I don't remember which one. This is under the clock.

So I moved her arm and her feet so you could see them in a different place because of the brads.  

What else is odd besides my teacup wearing character friend here?  The number circles are missing the number 4.  And there is a moon face on the left side of the card.  Why?  So odd.  And maybe she is a robot with all of those gears!  Also, odd.

I had a great time creating this card.  Maybe I should think more odd. :)

Here are the challenges I would like to submit this too:

The Funky Junky Boutique Challenge: Leap into the Odd

Use Your Stuff: Circles -Background stencil and number circles

Thank you for stopping by! :)  Until next time my friends...stay odd :)

Happy Birthday Card

Hello Friends!

My dad's birthday is coming up soon and somehow the planets aligned so that I could make him a card before his birthday.  Yay!

I used mostly Tim Holtz products with the exception of some gold ink that outlined the card and sentiment, background paper and the Finnabair Vintage Gold Paste I used with Tim's Star stencil.  

I used vintage photo distress oxide around the edges of the card.  

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Unicorn Challenge: #51 Anything Goes

Cardz 4 Guyz: Use ink or paint--distress oxide and gold ink around the edges of card and sentiment

Brown Sugar Challenge: #298 Anything Goes 

Thank you for stopping by!  :)

Love is in the Air!

Hello Everybody!

I was watching a Jennifer McGuire video-and she was paper piecing cards.  And I was inspired!

I used Crate Paper "Hello Love" for all of the paper except the white panel where the hot air balloon and sentiment are stamped.  The hot air balloon is what is paper pieced.  I added some little dots with a puff paint that I bought at Micheal's.  It had 4 colors in a set-all Valentines pink, red, white, and this blue.  

The stamps are from The Alley Way.  Do you still have stamps from them?  This is one of my favorite sets to this day.  

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Inkspirational Challenge: #207 

Always Fun Challenges: #149 Love/Valentine's Day

Thank you for stopping by!  Until next time my friends-may your day be filled with love! :)