Wednesday, August 29, 2018

Beautiful day

Hi everyone,

Well it continues to be so amazingly hot and beautiful here and has been such a great summer. I haven't felt much in the swing of things for crafting lately but hope to jump back in soon.

I have a card to share which I am entering in the current Simon Says Stamp 'Anything Goes' Wednesday challenge. Detail on their blog here.




I used a Neat and Tangled stencil and some Distress ink to blend my background. I stamped the Altenew flower with black ink and heat embossed with clear embossing powder. I then moved onto watercolouring my flower. The stamped leaves were left over from another project so I just added them to the back of my flower. I used a scalloped rectangle die to cut out a border for my card. I added the stamped sentiment and some Nuvo crystal drops for accents and that completes my card.

Well off to the gym for Zumba, Pilates and Yoga - 2 hours total. Love, love my exercise.

Thanks so much for stopping by,

Supplies:

Altenew Beautiful Day stamp and die set
Neat and Tangled Geometric Circles Stencil
MFT Die-namics Stitched Rectangle Scallop die 
Distress Ink
Nuvo Crystal drops






Saturday, August 18, 2018

Back to school

Hi everyone,

I have been a little MIA lately. Have a lot going on. My daughter just moved to Hawaii to start a new life with her fiance and we are having work done at the house. New front stairs and a new walkway to be precise. My garden has taken a bit of a beating but there's always next year. It will all be worth it to see the finished job.

Anyways I do have a card to share for the Wednesday challenge at Simon Says Stamp where the theme is 'Back to School'. Details here.

Here's my card.


I started by creating the blackboard base to my card. I rubbed white ink over the black piece of cardstock to make it look like eraser marks then added a strip of metallic silver washi tape to the top and bottom of the piece and added it to my card.

The clipboard was actually cut from a 12x12 piece of Doodlebug paper called Take Note

I stamped the 5 sentiments and the Be die from Simon Says Stamp was die cut with black fun foam.

The little birdie was stamped and die cut using Lawn Fawn products.

The Mom's Notes sentiment was stamped using a Stampendous stamp set.

I added some glossy accents to the Be, some gold star embellishments and 2 pieces of Lawn Fawn twine in black and yellow.

Well that's it for my card and thanks so much for stopping by.

Supplies:

Simon Says Stamp Be 3x4 stamp set and die
Stampendous Recipe Favorites stamp set
Lawn Fawn A Birdie Told Me stamp and die 
Doodlebug Take Note 12x12 double sided patterned paper 
Lawn Fawn twines
Glossy Accents
Hero Arts White stamp pad
Black fun foam
Silver foil washi tape