Flamingo Birthday Card

There is just a little time left for JFF’s By the Water Challenge.  Hope you have had a chance to enter!  If not, click over here to the challenge to submit your entry. 

I’d like to share this flamingo card as one last By the Water card.  These are so fun and summery. I have a friend with an August Birthday who is going to love them.  I colored this stamp with markers and then added loose pink and blue glitter to certain parts of the image. You can barely seen the glitter in the photo, but trust me, it is fun!

For the inside of the card, I stamped the flamingos in light pink and put this fun sentiment over top. It leaves just enough room to put a little greeting inside.

Have a wonderful day!

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.  

Christmas Wishes In July

Hello everyone! Hope you are well. I have been so busy this month outside of cardmaking.  However, I am still working on my goal of making Christmas cards this month.  Here is one more.  

The background was stamped with white pigment ink onto kraft paper.  I then used some sparkle embossing powder over top.  I stamped, colored and cut out the image.  I added loose glitter to the wings and white flocking to the hat.  This card was hard to photograph so I hope you can imagine how sweet it looks!  

The frame for the heart was hand cut since that was the biggest heart die I have.  It is imperfect but I just went with it since it really looked like it needed a frame.  I don’t think a non-cardmaker will notice too much. 

Supplies: Stamps are Gina K Christmas Magic and Inkadinkado Warm Holiday Wishes, Avery Elle Pigment ink and Versafine and Memento Black inks,  Cuttlebug embossing folder, other items from my stash

I’d love to play along Mod Squad’s Christmas in July challenge. 

Ocean Engagement Card

My very good friend just recently got engaged, and he asked her at the beach!  Her happy place.  So, naturally, I wanted to make a themed engagement card to congratulate the happy couple. 

I stamped my shells in different neutral colors of Versafine ink, cut them out,  and colored them with sponges and distress inks.  Before that distress ink dried all the way, I brushed on some different colors of Perfect Pearls.  Then I set the Perfect Pearls by spritzing them with water.  

You can see that the background was made by tearing papers and then layering them to look like the sea and the sand.  The sand is kraft paper that I stamped with a mesh background stamp. The water is a double-sided blue cardstock I had in my scrap box.

Since I was hand delivering this card, I added lots of bling. I thought the gems and pearls looks very bridal and pretty.  

On the inside of the card, I stamped a shell, and then my sentiment over top in navy.  

Don’t forget that JFF’s Monthly Challenge is By the Water!  I hope you will share a card with us, and there is a gift certificate up for grabs!   The linkup is here.

I would also like to enter this in the Library Challenge - The Gift of the Sea

Have a wonderful day!

Splash of Love - MMH July 2019 Card

So, I did need one more card to send to my son at camp, and luckily, the My Monthly Hero kit from Hero Arts for this month arrived in time.  

I did a fairly simple scene using mostly items from the kit.  It even included 5 inks, so I used most of them on this card too.  The one big addition was an alcohol ink background I had sitting around.  This I used for the water.  I hope my son is having lots of fun at camp! I wonder if they have a dock like this there.

I would like to enter this card into Crafting By Designs Summer Fun, and SimonSaysStamp’s Wednesday Challenge Make Your Own Background.

Thanks for looking!  Have a great day!

Summer Floral Thank You

Hello!  I hope those of you in this heat wave can stay cool.  I tried to take a walk this morning before it was too hot, but honestly, I think there was no chance of it not being too hot!  I am cooled off now after lots of water.  Might as well spend the afternoon inside with my stamp supplies!

 I am sharing a pretty Thank You card made with some flowers from this great set called Florals Sheet.  I realize I should know what this flower is, but I can’t think of it.  Does anyone know?

I used the flowers as a two step stamp. I stamped the solid portion in pinks, and then used an old fashioned stamp positioner to get perfect placement of the outlines.  I added a couple accents using a marker and a white gel pen.  I trimmed these out and placed them over my die cut.  

I am entering this in the current Tuesday Morning Sketches Challenge.

I hope you have some time for stamping this summer!  

Heidi

A Christmas Hug - Snowflake Card

Hello again!  Still trying to get in the Christmas spirit! It is going to be one of the hottest weeks all year, so might as well make some snowflakes to cool down.  It is hard to see in the photo, but I added some Nuvo Glitter drops on the snowflake.  

Supplies: Dies and Stamps are SimonSaysStamp Peaceful Christmas, Inks are Hero Arts Cornflower and Soft  Sky, Gina K Designs Innocent Pink, Versafine Onyx Black. 

I did start with this sketch from CASEthisSketch.

Thanks for visiting!