Happy 2020 Graduation!

Hello Everyone. My card today uses the sketch from TMS Challenge for this week. It's a cute sketch and I immediately thought of graduation when I saw it. With the Covid 19 pandemic, grad ceremonies are going to be quite different for kids. I've started working on some grad cards for the kids I know who are lamenting their grad ceremonies this year.

Here's the sketch from TMS.



And here's my card.

This graduate's school colors are gray and crimson so I went with those colors. The gray looks better in real life. Anyway, I stamped the grad background with SU Cranberry Crisp ink as well as the grad hat hooray image, cut the panels to the correct size and added them to the card base. The rings and grad cap were created using various die. The grad cap is popped up on foam adhesive.

Thanks for stopping by today.

blessings,
shelia

Happy Birthday!

This week DRS Designs is proudly sponsoring the challenge at CRAFT Challenges. It's their 11th birthday so of course the challenge is  birthday this week and the prize is a $20 gift voucher to the DRS Designs on line store.  Hope you can find some time to play along.

For my card I used the larger Happy Birthday from the Birthday Multi Greetings and the sweet cupcake. I die cut the white panel using a rectangle die from Fawn Lawn and then stamped the greeting in various inks using my Misti to keep it lined up nicely. The cupcake was stamped with Memento Black ink onto white CS, colored with copics, die cut and layered onto blur and green CS.I added some fun foam to it before attaching it to the white panel. Everything was glued onto the matching green card base. This was pretty quick and simple to create. I debated about adding some ribbon or baker's twine to the top, but decided to keep it more masculine. This will go to my nephew who'd birthday is the end of this month.

Thanks for stopping by and I do hope you can join the challenge. You could be the $20 gift voucher winner!

blessings,
shelia

sending hugs and thanks

Happy Monday Everyone. Trust you had a good weekend and found some time to get creative. We had our warmest days yet here in NW Ohio this past weekend and I found myself outdoors as much as possible. I even took a nap on the deck swing Saturday afternoon. Of course it's cooling back down, but it was nice while it lasted. :-)

I've been working on some sending you hugs cards for my husband to send to folks from church who are in nursing homes. He usually visits them in person, but with the pandemic that is not possible. I went with a simple design since I needed to make 20+ cards for him.  I die cut the word hugs from some inked up glossy paper I made ages ago. I'm not even sure I remember how I did it, but I'm pretty sure I followed directions from a Jennifer McGuire blog entry. I know it's alcohol inks on glossy paper. Once the word hugs was glued onto the white die cut panel, I stamped the Sending you part of the Sending you happy thoughts greeting onto blue CS, die cut and added to the white panel as well, then attached the white panel to a matching blue card base.

This next card I created for our vet. A week or two into the pandemic our poor dog, Sahm tore her ACL on her back right leg and wasn't able to put any weight on it. I wasn't even sure if the vet was open, but fortunately they were. She ended up having surgery and is now starting to walk on that back leg again. Our vet lives in our neighborhood and if we happen to be walking by his house when he's outside he always stops us and checks on Sahm. So I wanted to send a thank you from Sahm to him.

The dog paw background image, Thank you greeting, dog bone image and small paw print image were all  stamped onto white CS with Distress Oxide Vintage Photo ink. Everything was layered onto some kraft CS. I added some Nuvo Aqua Shimmer to the dog bone and paw print. It shows up nicely in real life. Inside I stamped the paw image for Sahm's signature. I didn't get a picture of that and the card is in the mail already. 

Thank you for stopping by today. I do hope you are staying safe and healthy.

blessings,

shelia

Gnome One

Hi everyone. Trust you are staying healthy and safe. These are some crazy times we are living in right now. I don't know about you, but I am grateful for my craft room and being able to create cards during this time. It definitely relaxes me and helps bring things into perspective. I mean I can only clean and sort so much before I go a little bonkers and need to get creative!! 

Today's card features the peeking gnome. I think he is the cutest thing. 

The gnome, mushrooms and ladybug mushroom were all stamped onto white CS, colored with Copics and fussy cut. Next I sponged the cloudy sky with blue distress oxide inks and stamped the greeting with Versafine black ink and heat embossed it with clear EP, The grassy layers were created with an old Fiskars punch. Once everything was attached to the cloudy panel, it was glued onto a white card base. This was super easy to create and I really like the look. This gnome is so playful looking.

Stay safe and enjoy your card making.

blessings,

shelia

In Deepest Sympathy

Happy Monday Everyone. Hope you had a wonderful weekend. 

Today I have a couple of Sympathy cards to share with you. Sympathy cards are never easy to create so I try to have a couple in my stash. DRS Designs has just released the Deco Deepest Sympathy greeting. It is a bit on the bold side and just the right size for the front of your card.

On my first card, I began by stamping the silhouette Branch with Mint Melody onto green CS, then die cut the panel with a MFT die. Next I stamped and heat embossed the greeting onto white CS,  die cut with a SB oval die and then glued it onto the lower half of the panel. The medium daisies were stamped with Memento black ink onto white CS, colored with Copics, fussy cut and added to the panel. To give the flowers a bit of dimension some Nuvo Crystal Glaze was added to the centers of the flowers and then I popped one of the flowers up with some foam adhesive.

My second card used the same silhouette branch image for the background, but this time it is stamped with Stazon Dove Gray ink onto both dark and light gray CS. After die cutting the panels I attached them to a light gray card base. The greeting was again stamped and heat embossed. For embellishments I added some colored and fussy cut flowers from the Three Flowers with a Butterfly  image. For some dimension I added some yellow dew drops from Altenew. The leafy circle was created using a die from the February small die of the month set.

Thanks for stopping by today.

blessings.

shelia

Caught a Bug?

Happy Monday Everyone. Hope you had a great weekend and found some time to get creative. I'm having fun playing around with the newest images from DRS Designs. If you've been checking out the blog this past week, then you have seen all sorts of beautiful and fun creations using the new images, especially the new Peeking Gnome (994D). He's the featured image on my card today. He is just the cutest!

I started by stamping the Peeking Gnome onto white CS with black ink, colored him with Copics, fussy cut and set him aside. I wanted him peeking over some mushrooms, so I stamped the larger one from the Toadstool image, masked it, and stamped the smaller one from the same image as well as the ladybug mushroom. I continued to mask all of those images, and stamped another larger mushroom from the Toadstool image as well as the new Mushroom Line Background (990F). After coloring them all with Copics, I added the Feel Better Greeting onto the sign, drew in the grassy border with a Micro pen and then sponged in the grassy area and stamped the easy grass background with some green ink. 

I added all the masks back onto the images and sponged the sky with blue distress oxide ink using a MFT small cloud stencil. The Caught a Bug? greeting was stamped directly onto the panel with VersFine Black Onyx ink. 

I decided I needed some more lady bugs on the mushrooms so I stamped two more onto white CS, colored them with Copics, fussy cut and glued them onto the card. I used a Micro Pen to dray their antenna into place so I wouldn't have to try and fussy cut those!!

Finally I glued the Peeking Gnome over top of the larger mushroom to complete the scen. This was a fun card to create! You can check out all these images and the other new releases from DRS Designs here.

Thanks for stopping by today.

blessings,

shelia

Fairies and Gnomes

Happy Monday!  DRS Designs is releasing some new images and I think you are going to really like these. My first card today uses two of them:

Fairy with  Globe (1009F)

Tiny Flying Fairy (995C)

I started by die cutting the frame from MFT several times in white CS and once in green. These were all glued together to give the frame some dimension. The frame was glued onto the die cut white panel and then attached to the card base.

Using the negative pieces I stamped the tiny flying fairy three times, coloring them with Copics and adding some shine to their wings, etc. with a Nuvo Aqua Shimmer Pen. The Fairy with Globe was stamped onto white CS, colored with Copics and fussy cut. Some Nuvo Crystal Glaze was added to her globe and wings. I used the Make a Wish greeting, masking each part so I could stamp it one word at a time onto the panel where the fairy would go. After I attached her with foam dots, she just didn't look quite right so I colored some CS green, cut it into a small hill shape, stamped the easy grass background with some green ink and then glued it under her to give her some grounding.

My seven year old granddaughter will love these new fairy images! Maybe this will have to be her birthday card this year.

This next card I created for the Inspiration Challenge this past Saturday at Splitcoast Stampers.

This card features the new

Peeking Gnome (994D)

Gnome Smile Greeting (997C)

I started by stamping the wood grain background onto some kraft CS. After the ink dried I stamped the Versatile Background image with Hero Arts Unicorn white ink and sponged some Distress ink on as well. It's hard to see the white ink, but it does add to the look of the wood. Once that all dried I die cut the window with a MFT die and glued the panel onto a white card base. The gnome was stamped, colored with Copics and fussy cut and glued into place. The greeting was stamped with Versafine black ink and heat embossed with clear EP. I used a Small Die of the Month set from SB to die cut the grass and small flowers. This was a fun card to create and I really like the way it turned out. This peeking gnome can be used in so many ways!

Be sure to check out these new images and all the rest here.

Thanks for stopping by.

blessings,

shelia