Merry Christmas

Happy Monday! Hope you had a great weekend! I have a Christmas card to share with you today. Fellow DT Member Robin inspired me to get started on my Christmas cards when she shared some beautiful Christmas cards last week. I usually work on Christmas cards throughout the year, but this year I have not! So I am happy to say I've got one Christmas card completed for this year.  Which means I have a ways to go, but at least it's a start!!  Here's my card.

 I started by stamping the Christmas Hurricane Lamp onto white CS with Memento Black ink, colored it with Copics, added some Clear Wink of Stella to the bow and Nuvo Blizzard white drops to the berries and flame. The Merry Christmas Arc greeting was stamped with black ink and then I die cut the panel with a stitched rectangle die and glued the panel onto the cranberry card. Easy peasy! 

So why didn't I created a few more of these and add them to my Christmas stash?!! I really don't know. I do like the look of this so maybe I'll find some time this week to create a few more. How about you? Have you started creating your Christmas cards yet?  DRS Designs has lots of beautiful Christmas images to help you get started. You can see them here.  If you need some inspiration, you can check out some of the beautiful Christmas cards created by the Design Team here.

Thanks for stopping by today.

blessings,

shelia

Splish Splash

Happy Monday! Hope you had a great weekend and are ready for an awesome week. My card today features the two little fish from the new 4 in 1 Ocean designs. I really like these two little fishes.

 I'm not sure why, but I wanted to use this collage frame with the fish, so I die cut the frame, glued it and all the pieces onto white CS and then applied a few shades of blue Distress Oxide inks to create the water. I splattered a little bit of water onto the panel for some texture. While the panel dried I stamped, colored and fussy cut the fish. I placed the fish were I wanted them and stamped the bubbles image with the same distress inks. The greenery and coral were die cut with a couple of SB dies. I glued the greenery and coral onto the panel after stamping the greeting with VersaMark ink and heat embossing with white EP.  Next I added several layers of the collage frame that were die cut in white. Once the frame was glued on, I glued on the littlest fish and attached the larger ones with foam dots. I decided the coral needed something so I added clear Nuvo drops to give it some dimension. 

Last I glued it all to the white card base. I like how this fun little scene turned out. Makes me want to go visit and aquarium!!

Thanks for stopping by today and have fun getting creative this week!

blessings,

shelia

Let Freedom Ring!

Happy Monday everyone. And for those of you in the United States, Happy Fourth of July Week! With that in mind I have a couple of quick and easy patriotic cards to share with you today. I am really liking DRS Designs' new Stars and Stripes Border image. I used it on both of todays' cards.

For the first card I stamped the new border image on the top and bottom of my panel with Versfine Majestic Blue ink, then the greeting was stamped with Hero Arts Red ink. I die cut some stars out of red CS using a Darice die set and then some out of glitter white CS and added them to complete the look.

For the second card I stamped the border image on the top only with the same blue ink. The star wreath was stamped with Memento Black ink, colored with some Copics and then some Sakura Gelly Roll pen was added for some sparkle. The new Made in the USA circle was stamped with Majestic Blue ink onto white CS, die cut and add to a red circle. The support ribbon was stamped with Memento Black ink onto white CS, colored with Copics, fussy cut and glued onto the panel. I added some sparkle with the Sakura Gelly Roll pen too.

Hope you have a fantastic week!

blessings,

shelia

Up, Up and Away!

Hi Everyone,

I have a simple card today that features a hot air balloon along with a couple of tiny hot air balloons.

I started with a piece of white CS and sponged on some SU Bashful Blue ink with a homemade cloud border to create the sky. Once that dried I stamped the greeting and two tiny balloons. The larger balloon was stamped onto white CS, colored with Altenew Artist Markers, fussy cut and added to the panel with an Action Wobbler. Here's a picture from the side so you can see the dimension. I think these action wobblers are fun to use on cards. It's such a surprise when the recipient opens the card.

I'm entering this into the Cupcake Inspiration Challenge to have a pop up element on your card. Here's a picture of the inspiration cupcake.



Thanks for stopping by!

blessings,
shelia

It's All in the Accessories!

Hi Everyone,

I have a fun card today that was inspired by the Inspiration Challenge at Splitcoast Stampers that uses the sketch from this week's Sketch Challenge at Tuesday Morning Sketches.

The Inspiration Challenge took us to a fun site, Fudge and Mabel that has lots of felted animals. I was inspired by this cute giraffe. Here's the classic sketch from TMS:



And here's my card.

I stamped the adorable animal images from DRS Designs (monkey, pig, giraffe) onto white CS, colored them with Copics and then die cut them with a SB Circle die. I stamped the sunglasses, bow and ball cap from the 4 in 1 Fashion Accessories, colored and fussy cut them and then glued them onto my critters. I stamped the Accessories greeting with VersaMark ink and heat embossed with white powder before embossing the panel with an EF from my stash. I added some sparkle to the hair bow with a Sakura Gelly Roll pen. The sunglasses have some clear Nuvo drops added to the lenses. I really like how this turned out. You can't go wrong with such cute animals and a classic sketch design!

Thanks for stopping by.

shelia

Smile

Happy Monday! Hope your week has gotten off to a great start!  Today I thought I'd share a card that hopefully brings you a smile! I definitely smiled while creating it! I've been having lots of fun creating with the new 4 in 1 Fashion Accessories image (927D). Today features the monkey image with some of the accessories.

I had one piece of the reinker background left, so I die cut it with a Fawn Lawn stitched rectangle die and glued it onto the white card base. The monkeys and accessories were stamped onto white CS, colored with Copics and fussy cut. Once they were glued into place on the card, I added the accessories along with some clear Nuvo drops on the sun glasses and some Nuvo Glitter drops on the strip on her bag. The sentiment was stamped with VersaMark ink and heat embossed with detail white EP. I used  Concord and 9th dies to cut of the leaves on the side.

My next card uses the new Leonard Flying a Kite image (903G). The sketch design for this card was one used a couple of weeks ago on Splitcoast Stampers.

Leonard was stamped onto white CS, colored with Copics and die cut with a SB circle die. The kite from the 4 in 1 In the Sky image (952D) along with the sunglasses and bow from the 4 in 1 Accessories image (927D) were also stamped onto white CS, colored with Copics and fussy cut. After die cutting the larger stitched circle I used a punched cloud as a guide and sponged on TH Tumbled Glass ink to create the cloudy sky. I glued the larger kite and then drew in the string with a black pen. The new Missing You Pig Time greeting(904D) was stamped onto white CS, die cut and added with foam adhesive. Some white and orange Nuvo drops were added around the elements.

Thanks for stopping by today.

blessings,

shelia

It's All in the Accessories!

Hi Everyone. Hope you had a wonderful weekend and found some time to get creative! I have a couple of cards to share with you today using some of the new images from DRS Designs. My first card features the new Leonard the Pig (903G) flying a kite. Leonard is a fun image, super cute and easy to color. Today I added a ball cap and bow tie from the new 4 in 1 Fashion Accessories (927D).

The background for this card was created using baby wipes and reinkers. It's easy to do and I really like the look. I stamped Leonard and the birds from the 4 in 1 In the Sky stamp onto the card with black ink and heat embossed with clear EP. The bird was colored in with a white gel pen. I stamped Leonard again onto white CS as well as the kite from the 4 in 1 In the Sky stamp, colored them with Copics and fussy cut. Both are glued onto the card front and then I added the ballcap with a foam square and glued on his bow tie. The new Missing you Pig Time greeting (904D) was stamped with black ink onto white CS, die cut and added with foam squares.

I had so much fun adding the bow tie and hat to Leonard I decided to see what other images I had that I could use. Here's one I came up with.

I stamped the elephant, bow, shades and bag (927D) with Memento Black ink onto white CS, colored them with Copics and fussy cut. After gluing the elephant onto the background I added the bow, shades and bag. The bow has some clear Wink of Stella on it and the shades have some clear Nuvo drops. I added Blizzard white Nuvo drops to the pink stripe on her bag and to her nails. I stamped the greeting onto the pink CS, die cut and layered it onto black CS. The same Blizzard Nuvo drops were added to the greeting. Everything was added to the pink panel that was embossed with a flourish folder.

Here's a look at the inside.

After stamping the greeting I stamped with bow, shades and bag on the inside and colored them and added Nuvo drops once more.

I'm still looking through my stamps to see what other critter images I have that I can dress up with these new accessories. This is just too fun!!

Thanks for stopping by,

shelia