Paper Funday Guest

I'm honored to be guest designing for The Paper Funday Challenge this month where the theme is Cute or Creepy. I chose cute and created this fun little pumpkin shaped card using oval dies. 

To create the card I die cut 5 ovals from white card stock and stamped two different plaid stamps from Texture Tiles 4 on them in Rusty Hinge Distress Oxide. I inked the edges with Vintage Photo Distress Ink and assembled them to create a pumpkin shape. I traced the shape onto white cardstock and fussy cut to create my pumpkin shaped card base. The flowers were stamped on mixed media paper and colored with Arteza Real Brush Pens. A burlap ribbon stem and white paint splatters complete this fun little autumn card. 

~This post contains affiliate links at no extra cost to you~~~

 Supplies and Tools:

• From Creative Worship Stamps
• Texture Tiles 4 
• Bushel of Blessings 
• Forever Loved Stamp Set
• Forever Loved Die Set 
• Stitched Ovals Die Set  
• Versafine Clair Nocturne Ink  
• Burlap Ribbon
• Black Rhinestones 
• Arteza Real Brush Pens 
• Vintage Photo Distress Ink (Ranger)
• Rusty Hinge Distress Oxide (Ranger) 
• White Acrylic Paint Splatters 

 This post linked to:

• Tic Tac Toe Challenge - Die Cut, Plaid, Layers
• Die Cut Diva's Challenge - Anything Goes

Guest Designing for A Cut Above

I'm honored to be guest designing for the June Challenge at A Cut Above. This month's theme is "Anything Goes." Create a project using at least 1 die cut and come play along! 

I used the big perspective butterfly from Tim Holtz as the main feature on my card and added some flourishes, Petaloo flowers, and a die cut sentiment to accent it. To make the sentiment stand out just a little bit more, I added white polka dots with a gel pen. 

Supplies and Tools:

• Perspective Butterfly die (Tim Holtz)
• Adorned Dies (Sizzix - Tim Holtz)
• Script Words Dies (Altenew)
• Circular Grid Embossing Folder (Anna Griffin)
• Petaloo Flowers 
• White Gel Pen
  

This post linked to:

• Cut It Up Challenge - Anything Goes with a die cut
• Try it on Tuesday Challenge - Things with Wings
• Little Red Wagon Challenge - And always shall be your friend

Try it on Tuesday - Oh So Sweet

I'm honored to be guest designing for the Try it on Tuesday Challenge today where the theme is Oh So Sweet. I created this bee themed black and white card using products from Creative Worship Stamps.

~This post contains affiliate links at no extra cost to you~~~

  Supplies and Tools:

• From Creative Worship Stamps
• Background Builders: Stripes
• Sweet As Honey
• Botanical Branches 
• Versafine Clair Nocturne Ink
• Crochet Lace
• Heart Paper Clips
  
• Gingham Ribbon
  
• Printable Text Background from Mel Stampz
• Metallic Paint Splatters 
• Black Acrylic Paint Splatters 
  

Color Hues Challenge

 I'm so honored to be guest designing for The Color Hues Challenge today where the colors are Navy Blue and Lime Green. I went with a mixed media card featuring that gorgeous butterfly die from Tim Holtz. 

Supplies and Tools:

• Sympathy Sentiments 1 (Stamp Simply)
  
• Adorned Dies (Sizzix - Tim Holtz)
• Perspective Butterfly die (Tim Holtz) 
• Tiny Gingham Digital Paper Pack (Jenny Allsorts) 
  
• Paper Doily
• Petaloo Flowers
  
• Chipped Sapphire Distress Ink (Ranger)
• Twisted Citron Distress Oxide (Ranger)
  

This post linked to:

• Simon Says Monday Challenge - Add some texture
• A Cut Above Challenge - Anything Goes with a die cut

Summertime

 I'm back with another card featuring Papertrey Ink's May Release. This time I combined their Elegant Edges die with the Frozen Delights stamp and die set.  The background was created by ink smooshing distress inks on mixed media paper and then die cutting and layering them to form a sunrise. 

Supplies and tools:

• From Papertrey Ink:
• Elegant Edges Summer Sun
• Life's a Picnic Sentiments
  
• Frozen Delights Stamps
• Frozen Delights Dies
• Versafine Clair Nocturne Ink
• White Acrylic Paint Splatters
• These colors of Distress Ink (Ranger):
• Mermaid Lagoon, Mowed Lawn, Mustard Seed, Saltwater Tafffy
  

 This post linked to:

• Simon Says Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes
• Tic Tac Toe Challenge - Blue, Free, Drink
  
• Allsorts Challenge - Anything Goes
  

Papertrey Ink May Release

 I'm so honored to be guest designing for Papertrey Ink's May release. Today's card features their newest Into the Blooms stamp set. I die cut the flowers from mixed media paper and colored them with my Arteza Real Brush Pens. I added white paint splatters and tiny pearls to them before adhering them around the die cut Scripture. 

There's a fun Instagram Hop today, so be sure to visit my page and click on the above card for all the details. 

Supplies and tools:

• From Papertrey Ink
• Into the Blooms: Violets Dies
• Reflections Dies
• Reflections Stamp
• Arteza Real Brush Pens 
• White Acrylic Paint Splatters
• White Pearls
• White Crochet Lace
• Printable Text Background from Mel Stampz
• Tiny Gingham Digital Paper Pack (Jenny Allsorts)
  

 My second card features their newest hot foil plate and fun new Suited for Summer stamp/die set. 

  I'm back with another card featuring Papertrey Ink's May Release. Today's card features a new hot foil plate. Since I don't have a hot foiling machine, I decided to use the plate to create a letterpress effect. This time I used watercolor paper and turned it over so the design was raised instead of indented. I created a messy watercolor look using my Arteza Real Brush Pens, and added a little collage of fun images from this month's release.

Supplies and tools:

• From Papertrey Ink:
• Through the Palms Hot Foil Plate
  
• Suited for Summer Stamps
• Suited for Summer Dies 
• Into the Blooms II Dies 
• Into the Blooms: Christmas Sprigs 
  
• Arteza Real Brush Pens
• White Acrylic Paint Splatters
• Versafine Clair Nocturne Ink
• These colors of Distress Oxide (Ranger):
• Blueprint Sketch, Twisted Citron, Picked Raspberry
  

 This post linked to:

• Simon Says Monday Challenge - Lots of Texture
  
• Shopping Our Stash Challenge - How does your garden grow?
  
• Cut it Up Challenge - Send me flowers
  

Graceful Speech

 I'm so very honored that Karen ask me to guest design for the Word Art Wednesday Challenge this month.  It's always an Anything Goes Challenge, with the option to use the free word art she supplies. Their sponsor this week is Stamp Simply and one lucky participant will win a $20 gift card to their store.

Supplies and Tools:

• Word Art Wednesday free word art
• Floral Cluster Summer Roses (Stamp Simply)
  
• Floral Cluster & Sprigs (Stamp Simply)
• Vintage Farmhouse Digital Papers (Jenny Allsorts)
• Nested Rectangle Dies (Spellbinders)
• Paper Doily
• Lace
• Red Twine
• White Acrylic Paint Splatters
• Mini Pearls
  

This post linked to:

• The Flower Challenge - Color your flower
  

Joyful Mother

I'm so very honored that Karen ask me to guest design for the Word Art Wednesday Challenge this month.  It's always an Anything Goes Challenge, with the option to use the free word art she supplies. Their sponsor this week is Avery Elle and one lucky participant will win a $25 gift card to their store.

Supplies and Tools:

• Free Word Art from Word Art Wednesday
• Marigold Paper Pad (Kaiser Craft)
• Lace
• Scalloped Stitched Rectangle Dies (Gina Marie Designs) 
  

This post linked to:

• Make My Monday Challenge - Florals
• Double D Challenge - Pretty Florals for Mom
• Beautiful Blossoms Challenge - Mood Board (colors)

Topflight Stamps 7th Birthday Blog Hop

It's Topflight Stamps 7th birthday and to celebrate, I’ve teamed up with some great designers to showcase celebratory projects using the unique products available at Topflight Stamps. 

Please hop along with us and see all the beautiful talent from this group of amazing designers! There is a master list of Hop stops on the Topflight Stamps blog! We are also Hopping on Instagram at 11 AM EST! You can start at the Topflight Stamps account @topflightstamps .

 Did I mention there will be prizes?

Of course, it wouldn’t be a birthday celebration without prizes! Topflight Stamps is giving four lucky winners $50 Gift Certificates to the store. Two winners will be chosen from commenters on the blog hop and two will be chosen from commenters on the IG hop. For a chance to win, make sure to visit all the stops on the hop and leave a comment by April 1st. Winners will be announced on the Topflight Stamps blog on April 3rd. U.S.A winners only due to shipping issues. Good Luck!

  I decided to create a set of four masculine birthday cards!

Usually, masculine cards are hard for me,

but these stamps are so much fun to work with that they made creating this woodsy set a breeze!

Supplies and Tools:

• These supplies from Topflight Stamps:
• Into the Wild (Katzelkraft)
• Winter Wonderland (Katzelkraft)
• Pine Cones (Katzelkraft)
• Woodgrain (Darkroom Door)
• Eclectica (PaperArtsy)
  
• Spanish Tiles stamp set (Darkroom Door)
• Kraft Twine 
• White Acrylic Paint Splatters
  
• Crafter's Companion Mounting Foam 
• Versafine Clair Nocturne Ink
  
• Arteza Real Brush Pens 
• Vellum
• Circle Dies (Spellbinders)
• Dotted Oval Dies (Sizzix)
• These colors of Distress Ink (Ranger):
• Vintage Photo, Antique Linen, Uncharted Mariner, Prize Ribbon, Rustic Wilderness, Evergreen Bough 
  

 This post linked to:

• Alphabet Challenge - Z is for Zoology 

Chamomile - Giveaway!

 I'm back with another collaboration post for Altenew. This time I'm featuring their Paint-A-Flower: Chamomile stamp set and the gorgeous Luxurious Motifs 3D Embossing Folder. I embossed a piece of bright yellow card stock and then lighting inked over the raised design with white pigment ink. The floral tea cup was stamped on watercolor paper in waterproof ink. To color the image, I scribbled the markers on my glass mat, picked it up with a waterbrush pen, and applied it to my image. I used a white gel pen to add the white polka dots.

💗 I have a second $25 gift card to Altenew to give away. See my Instagram account for all the details.

⭐There's a Bonus Giveaway on my Facebook page where one lucky commenter will win the Luxurious Motifs 3D Embossing Folder.

 Supplies and Tools:

• From Altenew:
• Paint-A-Flower: Chamomile
• Luxurious Motifs 3D Embossing Folder
• Linear Crossroads Die
• Featured Sentiments Die Set 
• Summer Travel Dual Tip Pen Bundle
  
• Yeti Ink (Lawn Fawn)
• Versafine Clair Nocturne Ink 
• White Gel Pen
  

 I created a second card with this stamp set using the Moroccan Tile 3D Embossing Folder for the background and the Script Words Die Set for the sentiment.

I kept this one clean-and-simple to show off those vibrant flowers and the beautiful embossing. 

This post linked to:

• Beautiful Blossoms Challenge - Anything Goes + optional mood board
• Simon Says Wednesday Challenge - Add Some Texture
• Little Red Wagon Challenge - Never Been Used Stuff
• Krafty Chicks Challenge - All Occasions

Pretty Peonies

  I'm back with another guest design post for Altenew featuring those gorgeous peonies from Paint-A-Flower: Coral Sunset. This time I used them to create a background panel for my card by embossing them in white on piece of purple card stock. The main illustration is stamped in waterproof ink on watercolor paper. To color them, I scribbled the markers on my glass mat, picked it up with a waterbrush pen, and applied it to my image.

💗GIVEAWAY: There's one day left to enter the $25 gift code to Altenew giveaway on my Instagram. 

 Supplies and Tools:

• From Altenew
  
• Paint-A-Flower: Coral Sunset 
• Summer Travel Dual Tip Pen Bundle
  
• Featured Sentiments Die Set 
• Arteza Real Brush Pens
• Versafine Clair Nocturne Ink
• Paper Doily
• Versamark Ink
• White Embossing Powder
  

This post linked to:

• Word Art Wednesday - Anything Goes
• Beautiful Blossom Challenge - Anything Goes or optional moodboard
• Krafty Chicks Challenge - All Occasions

Try It On Tuesday - Add Some Text

 I'm honored to be guest designing for the Try it on Tuesday Challenge today. Their theme this week is: "Add Some Text." I chose to make some cute little kraft bags and stamp my text in the form of alphabet letters on the front. 

 ~This post contains affiliate links at no extra cost to you~~~

 Supplies and Tools:

• From Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps:
• Love in is the Air stamp set
• Love is in the Air die set
• Delicate Doily Die
• Skinny Lowercase Alpha
• Sentimental Wordfetti
• Texture Tiles 4  
• Bold Caps Alpha  
• Versafine Clair Nocturne Ink 
• Lace
• Arteza Real Brush Pens
• Pinking Sheers
• Yeti Ink (Lawn Fawn)
• Candied Apple Distress Ink (Ranger)  
  

This post linked to:

• Simon Says Wednesday Challenge - Let's have some fun
• Little Red Wagon - Sentimental You

Altenew Collaboration

 I'm so excited to be collaborating with Altenew for today's floral friendship card. They have so many awesome paper craft supplies that it was hard choosing just a few to work with.  For the background I stenciled my design in distress ink on mixed media paper. The flowers were stamped on watercolor paper in waterproof ink. To color them, I scribbled the markers on my glass mat, picked it up with a waterbrush pen, and applied it to my image.

💗GIVEAWAY: On lucky person will win a $25 gift card to Altenew!! See my Instagram account for all the details.

Supplies and Tools:

• From Altenew
  
• Paint-A-Flower: Coral Sunset 
• Leaf Bed Stencil 
• Summer Travel Dual Tip Pen Bundle
  
• Linear Crossroads Die
• Creative Edges: Lace Die 
• Script Words Die Set
  
• Saltwater Taffy Distress Ink (Ranger)
• Canson Watercolor Paper
• Canson Mixed Media Paper 
• Versafine Clair Nocturne Ink
  

This post linked to:

• Little Red Wagon Challenge - Sentimental You
• Inkspirational Challenge - Use Stencils
• Stencil Challenge - Anything with a stencil goes 
• Stamping Sensation Challenge - Mood board (flowers, colors)
• Just Add Ink Challenge - Flowers

The Color Throwdown Challenge #770

As the featured stamper from challenge number 768, I'm honored to be guest designing for the Color Throwdown Challenge today. The colors for this week are white, black, dark green and yellow green. I had fun pulling out a bunch of Tim Holtz products to create this wintry cathedral window scene. 

 I created a background for it by ink smooshing three shades of green distress ink on mixed media paper and generously splattering with white acrylic paint. The flower and all the greenery where cut from mixed media paper and colored with distress inks and Arteza Real Brush Pens. The window was cut from black card stock and dry brushed with white gesso. I layered the window on a thin piece of cardboard to give it a chipboard feel.  

 Supplies and Tools:

• Cathedral Window Bigz die (Tim Holtz - Sizzix)
• Funky Wreaths Dies (Tim Holtz - Sizzix)
• Festive Bouquet Dies (Tim Holtz - Sizzix)
• Arteza Real Brush Pens
• Handwritten Music Overlays digital paper (Digital Curio)
  
• White Acrylic Paint Splatters
• White Gesso
  
• These colors of Distress Ink (Ranger):
• Rustic Wilderness, Shabby Shutters, and Peeled Paint
  

This post linked to:

• Die Cut Divas Challenge - All about the holidays
• Make My Monday Challenge - Wreath
• Inkspirational Challenge - Seasonal
• Allsorts Challenge - Christmas Time

Papertrey Ink Christmas Bouquet

Here's my second creation as a guest designer for Papertrey Ink. This card features their NEW Christmas Bouquet, Psalm Reflections Die, and Perfect Snowflakes combined with their previously released Holiday Berries stencil set. While I love using non-traditional colors, this time I went with the classic red and green, and I love how festive it looks. 

 Papertrey Ink Supplies:

• Christmas Bouquet Stamp Set
• Christmas bouquet Die Set
• Psalm Reflections September Die
• Perfect Snowflakes Dies
• Holiday Berries Stencil Collection
• Sentiment from the September 2023 Surprise Box

 Other Supplies:

• Black and Red Rhinestones
• Versafine Clair Nocturne Ink
• Versafine Clair Fallen Leaves Ink 
• White Acrylic Paint Splatter
  
• These colors of Distress Ink (Ranger):
•  Candied Apple, Abandoned Coral, Shabby Shutters, Rustic Wilderness, Peeled Paint
  

This post linked to:

• Simon Says Monday Challenge - Christmas
• Little Red Wagon Challenge - Layer upon Layer
• Word Art Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

Try it on Tuesday - Keep it Simple

 I'm honored to be guest designed for the Try it on Tuesday Challenge today. Their theme this week is "Keep it Simple." When I want to create a card quickly (and simply), I gravitate to my Graphic 45 paper pads since everything already matches and I can usually whip something up in a few minutes. (This card can be created in 5 minutes or less).

 Supplies and Tools:

• Elegance Paper Pad (Graphic 45)
• Farmhouse Scriptural Thoughts (Stamp Simply)
• Venice Lace
• Adorned Dies (Sizzix - Tim Holtz)
  
• Versafine Clair Nocturne Ink
  

Topflight Stamps Birthday Blog Hop

It's Topflight Stamps 6th birthday and to celebrate, I’ve teamed up with some great designers to showcase celebratory projects using the unique products available at Topflight Stamps. Please hop along with us and see all the beautiful talent from this group of amazing designers! There is a master list of Hop stops on the Topflight Stamps blog! We are also Hopping on Instagram! You can start at the Topflight Stamps account @topflightstamps .

Did I mention there will be prizes?

 Supplies and Tools:

• These supplies from Topflight Stamps:
• Scrapcosy 15 stamp set (Paper Artsy) 
• Spanish Tiles stamp set (Darkroom Door)
• Happy Birthday stamp set (Visible Image) 
• Handwritten Script stencil (Darkroom Door)
• White Gesso
  
• Aretza Real Brush Pens 
• Crochet Lace   
• These colors of Distress Ink (Ranger):
• Prize Ribbon and Chipped Sapphire 

 GIVEAWAY Of course, it wouldn’t be a birthday celebration without prizes! Topflight Stamps is giving four lucky winners $50 Gift Certificates to the store. Two winners will be chosen from commenters on the blog hop and two will be chosen from commenters on the IG hop. For a chance to win, make sure to visit the stops on the hop and leave a comment by April 1st. Winners will be announced on the Topflight Stamps blog on Monday, April 3rd. U.S.A winners only due to shipping issues. Good Luck!