Stashbuster Patterned Paper Challenge - Part 5 - Nine more cards!

 Hello everyone!  I have NINE more cards to share from my Stashbuster challenge.  This is the 5th post in my series to finish up this OLD patterned paper pack.  

I would say one of the most rewarding things about this project is not just using up things, but also being able to choose old and new stamps from all throughout my stash to go with the papers.  It feels great to use lots of things!

Here is a list of the stamps I used:

Gina K Designs Stenciled Spring

Unity Stamps Butterfly Birthday Cake

Stampin Up Birds & Branches

Gina K Designs Birthday Go-Round

Gina K Designs Birthday Blessings

Unknown Altenew flower stamp?

Hero Arts Happy Stamp n Cut set

Tim Holtz Wildflower and Stems thinlets

Unity Unknown coneflower and circle frame stamp (got these in a grab bag once)

Gina K Designs Happy Birthday To You

I Brake for Stamps Hummingbird

Studio G Shirt Stamp

This brings me to 21 cards!  But I have one more post coming up to use up the bigger scraps.  There really isn’t much left.  Many of these will be donated so I am super happy to have made a lot of cards quickly!  They won’t go to waste!

Thanks for stopping by!  What is the next thing in your stash you want to use?

Ink Pad Thumping and a Fancy Fold

 Hello everyone! Happy Friday! It is actually a little rainy here today, but the temperature seems nice.  I had my zoom meeting this week with the Artsy Inker craft group and April taught us Gina K’s technique called Ink Pad Thumping. It is basically Marker Thumping, but you use your small ink cubes instead of markers.  We stamped on glossy cardstock, which always gives a pretty look!

I did several images, but the one I liked the best is this floral from Just for Fun (JFF since closed down and I don’t know the name of the image).  The chevron Tweed Background was also made with the technique.    I made two cards.  April also had this idea for an easy Fancy Fold. I think you can see in the photos how it works.  

Here are the stamps I used:

Just for Fun Unknown Floral

Hero Arts Tweed Background

Close to My Heart It’s Your Day to Sparkle (Sentiment and banner)

Gina K Designs Birthday Blessings (butterfly)

Stampendous Birthday Wish (Inside sentiment)

I would like to enter in the Retro Rubber Challenge -  Flower Power.  All of my stamps here are much older than two years old!  

I would also like to participate in Word Art Wednesday -Anything Goes!

Thanks so much for visiting and have a great weekend!

Patterned Paper Stashbuster Challenge - Part 3 - More Birthday Cards

 Hello!  I am back with more cards I made using up my pack of OLD patterned paper.  I have three more cards to share.

I did a little coloring, a little paper piecing (which is a great way to use up scraps and I think I may do a lot of it for this challenge!) and some simple stamping too.  All these are simple layouts but I like how they turned out.

Here is a list of the stamps I used:

Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous Birthday (THMB012)

Unity Stamps Life’s Short…Eat cake! Stamp set

Close to My Heart It’s Your Day to Sparkle Stamp set

I would like to link these to Crafty Hazelnut’s Patterned Paper Challenge.

Garden Of Birthday Wishes with Peg stamps

 Thank you for all your recent comments!  I appreciate every one!

Just a quick share today of a card I made with peg stamps and some old pigment inks. (I’m not sure my pigment inkpads are going to last much longer, I noticed the pads are sortof compressing or degrading or something…)

Supplies used:

Rubber Stamp Tapestry A Spot of Tea stamp set, Cherry Blossom stamp set

Close To My Heart Daisy Meadows Stamp set

Darice Embossing folder

Avery Elle Pigment inks

Easy Tri-Fold with Bouncing Brayer Technique

Hello everyone! I hope your February is going well!  We are expecting some icy weather tomorrow.  However, this card is all Spring!

This is a card my friend April taught our online stamping group.  It is a fancy fold, and I have to admit that I almost never never never make these.  I don’t know why I assume that they are going to be too hard, but this one, you will see, is so easy!

The backgrounds were made with the Bouncing Brayer technique.  You ink up your brayer with dye inks and then just bounce it along your glossy cardstock.  Just repeat till you get the look you like.  

The stamps are Stampendous Hummingbird Hello and Birthday Wish, colored with pencils.

 In the above photo, I think you can see how you just take off one quarter of a full sheet of cardstock, and the others fold over each other for the Tri-fold.  

Thanks for stopping by!  

House Mouse Strawberry Card

Hello!  Just a quick share of this card made with such a sweet image.  I think mice (that are not in my house) are really cute.

I colored the image, House Mouse Sleeping with Strawberries, with markers and added white gel pen on the seeds. I simply cut it out with a Gina Marie Wonky Stitch Oval die and put over some patterned paper.  The sentiment and banner is from Close to My Heart.

I would love to enter House Mouse’s Anything Goes challenge, SimonSaysStamp’s Wednesday Anything Goes challenge and WordArtWednesday’s Anything Goes challenge.

Are you crafting this weekend?  I hope you have a really good one!

Floral Silhouette Birthday Card

Hello everyone and Happy Wednesday!  It is a beautiful morning, crisp and cool, but it will warm up later on today.  I decided to use a stamp I just used recently, but in a different way.  You can see the previous card HERE.

First, I used watercolors to create a pretty background on mixed media paper.  Then, I die cut out the paper. Finally, I masked off the sides of the die cut because the stamp was just a little too wide.  I stamped the image in black.  I thought it turned out so pretty, and I love the detail of this stamp, especially the centers of the flowers. Isn’t it funny how a detail can please you so much?

I simply framed the image with a scrap of patterned paper, and also found a pretty scrap of hot pink cardstock for the sentiment tag.  My scrap box has gotten a little full, so I am hoping to attend to that this next month, as I am creating.

Supplies: I Brake for Stamps Half Sheet 138B, Versafine Onyx Black Ink, Spellbinders Fancy Edge rectangles dies, and Fancy Framed tags 2, Recollections Backyard Table 6x6 patterned paper pad, other items from my stash. (As always, save 10% on your entire order at the I Brake for Stamps Store by using my coupon code, SAVE10HEIDI )

I have a pin picked out to use for my Pinned It, Try It! series later this week, AND I have been working on some Christmas cards.  So hopefully, I will see you again soon once I have finished those up.  

Thank you for your visit!  I think I am up to date on my blog visits, but if not, leave me a comment and I will be sure to stop by and see what you have been up to!

Heidi

A Special Sparkly Birthday Card

Hello and happy Monday!  I needed to make a special card for my husband’s relative who is turning 90!  I decided to break out a background I made previously, but have been hoarding because I liked it so well.  

The background was made by inking directly on the watercolor paper with Distress oxide inks, spraying it with water and then laying this large woodblock tweed background stamp on top, and letting it dry.  I die cut this out with the wonky stitch die.  

I then stamped this gorgeous cake, colored it and added a bunch of loose glitter.  I know loose glitter is out of style, but I really think it adds some extra punch for really special cards and I have been using it again lately. 

I stamped the sentiment on a scrap of patterned paper.  The inside of the card has this sweet matching sentiment.  

Supplies:  Close to My Heart It’s Your Day to Sparkle stamp set, Hero Arts Tweed Background stamp, Memento and Versafine Black inks, Distress Oxide inks Cracked Pistachio, Lucky Clover and Faded Jeans, Avery Elle Wonky Stitched rectangles die, other items from my stash.

I would love to enter Pixe’s Crafty Workshop’s Snippets challenge, Cupcake Inspirations Food and Drink challenge, and SimonSaysStamp’s Monday Challenge S is for (sparkle for me)

Kittens — A Card and an Update

Hello everyone! Thanks for being here today.  You may, or may not have, noticed that I have not been around the blogosphere so much lately. I haven’t been at my craft desk much either.  My family adopted two baby kittens and while they are completely adorable and loving, it definitely takes time to raise them.  

We lost our sweet 17 year old cat last summer, who we had raised by hand after he and his brother were abandoned by his overwhelmed feral mom outside our workplace.  Now, that was more work than the ones we have now, as we had to wake in the night and come home at lunch to feed them with bottles. I have had cats and kittens my whole life, so after a year of mourning, it was time to get some new babies.  I always like to have two cats, since they are quite social, and many are happier as a bonded pair.  And, at the kitten stage, it is more appropriate for them to tackle each other rather than tackling people!

So, I made this kitten card to celebrate the occasion, plus it will work great for any female cat lover, of any age!  I got to use up some patterned paper scraps too.

Supplies: I Brake for Stamps Kitty in a Can, Florals Sheet, Memento and Versafine Black ink, Gina K  Double Stitched Rectangle dies, all other items are scraps from my stash.  Save 10% on these stamp at I Brake for Stamps with my code SAVE10HEIDI.

I would love to enter Tuesday Throwdown’s Furry Friends challenge, Pixie’s Crafty Workshop’s Snippets Challenge, Word Art Wedneday’s Anything Goes challenge.

Also, in case you were curious, here are our babies.  

Leaping Lions Handmade Card

Hello!  I have had the pieces-parts of this card sitting on my desk for quite a while, but hadn’t gotten the card finished till this morning.  I have gotten into the habit of working on bunches of projects at once, which may or may not be a good way to work. Lol.

This stamp set is one that was RAKed to me, secondhand. It is so cute.  I colored and die cut the images and then created a stenciled background.  I did cut up the sentiment so that I could put part on the outside and part on the inside.  

Supplies:  Reverse Confetti Leaping Lions stamp and die set, Memento and Versafine black inks, Hero Arts Soft Sand, Butter Bar, Forever Green and Red Royal inkpads, Plaid stencil, Distress Oxide inks Candied Apple, Wild Honey, Fosilized Amber and Fired Brick, Echo Park Happy Camper 6x6 paper pad

I’d love to enter this card into the ModSquad Challenge Use a Stencil.

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Sending Happy Wishes - handmade floral card

Hello!  Today is a glorious and sunny day!  Tomorrow we should get bad weather from that “bomb cyclone” weather system.  What an awful name for it!  Too dramatic for me.

Anyhow!  Today I created with a stamp I won from the new release from Blue Knight Rubber Stamps.  They are a newer company, and although I saw them last year at the stamp show, I don’t think I shared any cards from the stamp I purchased. (I think I was in a hurry to get those cards sent ASAP.  Do you post every card you make?  I post a lot, but not all.)

I colored this in springy colors. I especially like that little vine that meanders through.  Next time I color this, I think I am going to color that in the darker green to draw more attention to it.  I picked out a scrap of cardstock for my sentiment, then tore the edges off to make it look a bit organic.  

Supplies: Blue Knight Rubber Stamps Wild Flowers, Power Poppy Natural Beauties stamp set (sentiment), Memento and Versfine Black inks, Spectrum Noir alcohol markers, cardstock from my stash.

I would love to play in SimonSaysStamp’s Monday Challenge - Feminine cards, and Word Art Wednesday’s Anything Goes challenge.

Thanks for visiting today!  

Paper Tole Hot Air Balloon Card

Hello cardmaking friends!  I hope you are doing well!  I have a classy birthday card where I did the paper tole technique.  

Basically, I stamped that hot air balloon three times on my patterned paper.  I then cut out each section of the balloon, and layered them.  I use fun foam to pop them up. I find it is a little thinner than foam tape so it is not so thick in the envelope, but it is nice and dimensional!  However, this is probably a card I would hand-deliver rather than mail.  

The background was watercolored using ink from my Distress Oxide inkpads.  It is lovely and smooth and has a nice matte finish.

Supplies: Just for Fun Rubber stamps Hot Air Balloon, May All Your Wishes sentiment. Versafine Onyx Black ink, Distress Oxide Blueprint Sketch, peacock feathers, Watercolor paper, Avery Elle Wonky Stitched Rectangles die, other items from my stash.

Thanks you so much for your kind comments!

Owl Soccer card for a Girl

Hello!  The sun is shining and I have so many errands to run today, but I wanted to get this card posted first.  I needed to make a soccer card for a little girl, so I hunted through my stamps to see what might work.  This scene is what I came up with.

Most of the stamps are from Purple Onion designs.  I thought the owl was cute and it almost looks like she is kicking with her little feet!  I masked a birthday hat onto the owl and colored her with a pink shirt with white stripes, thanks to my white gel pen.  

The soccer ball was covered with a thick layer of glossy accents.  It needed to dry overnight.  I did stamp the ball on the panel, but then used an action wobble to pop up the glossy ball.  When you touch it, it boings a little bit, but it does push down flat in your envelope.  You can buy the action wobbles at Art Impressions or Amazon.  I needed the Mini size for the soccer ball but there is a larger size too.

I did decorate the inside of the card, but totally forgot to photograph it!

Supplies:  Purple Onion designs stamps Ruby (owl), grass, Party Hat, Happy Birthday, Unity Stamps Making the Team stamp set, Memento black ink, Spectrum Noir alcohol markers, MAMBI Champs 8x8 patterned paper pad, Gina K Passionate Pink cardstock, glossy accents, action wobble.

I would love to enter Tuesday Throwdown’s Anything Goes challenge.

Thanks, as always, for your kind comments and for all my followers. I hope to be back around to visit y’all later today. Have a great day!

Stunning Lion Face Masculine Birthday Card

Hello! Thanks for visiting.  This card is not a super typical card for me, but I have been searching for some stamps that are really different and will make cards for different recipients easier to make.  

I first made a loose watercolor background.  I stamped the lion right over it and hand cut it out.  I had this cool paper from a camping patterned paper pack that it happened to coordinate perfectly.  I thought this sentiment circle, from this sentiment set, looked like something that might be stamped onto a box for your safari trip - so that worked out great, too.  

Supplies: I Brake for Stamps Lion Face, Sentiment set, Versafine Black ink, Pink Paislee Outfitters 6x6 paper pad, Recollections grey kraft cardstock  (As always, save 10% on your stamp order at I Brake for Stamps with my code, SAVE10HEIDI)

I’d like to enter this card into Lost Coast Portal To Creativitiy’s Follow the Yellow Brick Road challenge and SimonSaysStamp’s Wednesday Challenge Anything Goes!

Thanks for your visit today!!  I’d love it if you had time to leave a comment or follow my blog!

Happy Bee-day Card

Hello!  Hope you are doing well.  I never seem to have enough birthday cards that are good for kids, so I have been trying to make an effort to build up a stash of them.  

I mixed a couple sets here to get the sentiment, just carefully inking up the words I needed.  I did color this with alcohol markers and added just a little detail with a glitter gel pen.  

Supplies: Lawn Fawn Bee Mine and Year Two stamps sets, Memento and Versafine Black ink, Spectrum Noir alcohol markers, Sakura stardust glitter pen, Recollections Backyard Table 6x6 paper pad, Gina Marie X Stitched circles die

Showing glitter details.  Click to enlarge.

I would love to enter this project in the Lawn Fanatics Flower, Floral and Foliage challenge and the Daily Marker’s 30 day coloring challenge. 

I appreciate each visit, every comment and all my subscribers!  You can find me on facebook or pinterest, too.

A “Deep Breath” Kind of Birthday Card (and a fix for blogger slow comments)

I have noticed as I am getting older, my friends aren’t looking forward to their birthdays so much.  Who knew!?  But, many of them do look forward to getting a handmade card from me, so I sometimes enjoy using some punny sentiments like in this card!

I colored the image with alcohol markesr.  This is my second attempt.  The first one was far too colorful.  I enjoy coloring and hope to play along with the 30 Day Coloring challenge (link below) quite a bit this month!

Supplies:  Art Impressions Deep Breath Birthday stamp set, Memento Black ink, Spectrum Noir alcohol markers.  Gina Marie X Stitched Rectangles dies, Crate Paper DIY Shop 6x6 Patterned paper, Gina K Designs Jelly Bean Green cardstock, Goosebumps embellishments.

I would love to play along with these challenges:

Art Impressions Anything Goes Challenge

Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Challenge

SimonSaysStamp Wednesday Challenge Patterned Paper

I have been noticing that it is taking lots of clicks and extra time to get Blogger to post some comments.  How annoying!?  I changed my settings to open a pop-up window for comments and that seems to solve the problem.  (Credit to Viv for this idea.)

Thank you to everyone for taking the time to make comments! I always try my best to return visits.  The blogging community of stampers cannot survive unless we interact with each other, so I always strive to visit other blogs to admire your work and find inspiration!  

Have a great day!

Plant Trio by Gina K - Patterned Paper December Challenge

I have a friend who is coming up on one of those “milestone” birthdays.  I don’t like to overemphazise such things, BUT, as I was going through my stamps, I saw this Plant Trio set with a saying that I thought was very appropriate for the occasion.

I am also announcing Crafty Hazelnut’s December Patterned Paper challenge!  Anything Goes so long as you use some patterned paper from your stash on your project!  

I colored this image with my Derwent Coloursoft Pencils.  I initially planned on using a marker to highlight the word, “long,” however, I sortof unevenly inked up that sentiment, so it was already bolder.  It works!  I also used some coordinating paper on the inside of the card.

Supplies: Gina K Plant Trio stamp duo, Versafine Olympia Green ink, Happy Birthday from Anita’s Stamps, Versafine Onyx Black ink, Derwent Coloursoft Pencils, LoveNicole Aquarelle 6x6 Patterned Paper pad, Avery Elle Wonky Stitched Rectangle dies.

Thanks for stopping by!

Patriotic Birthday Card

The 4th of July is one of my very favorite holidays and while there are lots of family birthdays near to it.

I started with a card idea from Rubber Stamp Tapestry's facebook page (link here, not sure if it is a public or private photo) and decided to take my own spin on it using supplies I already had.

Supplies: Rubber Stamp Tapestry A Spot of Tea and Holiday Stockings stamp sets, Avery Elle Pigment inks, Darice star die, My Mind's Eye Summer Fresh paper pad, Hero Arts Happy Stamp n Cut die and stamp set

I would love to participate in the following challenges:
Curtain Call Red, White and Blue
SimonSaysStamp Monday Challenge Red White and/or Blue
Cards In Envy Patriotic Please

Thanks for stopping by! I hope my cardmaking friends in the USA have a wonderful Independence Day!  Come back again soon!