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Sunday, December 23, 2018

Last Minute Christmas Cards


Love this one using my two favorite companies...Simon Says Stamp and Lawn Fawn. 



This card is for the " it must be sparkly and have flamingos on it" kid in my house. I think I nailed it!

Sunday, December 9, 2018

Sweat treats Christmas Cards


Loving this months kit from Hedgehog Hollow!



Thursday, November 22, 2018

December Daily Part One

Here is part one in the video series. Next up...Decorating the pages!


Cant wait to decorate!

Monday, November 19, 2018

GIVEAWAY!

Time to make our December Daily mini for 2018

To help you decorate your fabulous December daily I am giving away 2 totally awesome ephemera packs! To enter just leave a comment below, follow me on YouTube and Instagram and comment on the YouTube Video. One name will be randomly selected from comments left on this blog post and one will be randomly selected from the YouTube comments. This is just my way to say Thank You so much and hope you all have a wonderful holiday season!


My Instagram is ruleforty2

Tuesday, October 2, 2018

Cocoa Love

I made this card for my hubby since we both love cocoa and he has a cool mustache :D


Pull the tab and he scoots right over to his favorite cocoa chick.


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Monday, October 1, 2018

AI Vibrant Colors Challenge

I think this image is so sweet. 



I colored her with just a couple of bright copic colors and attached her to a candy bag...Perfect place for her. 


Saturday, September 29, 2018

Hello Fall card

Todays card is a fun technique using the Simon Says Stamp October card kit and stamps from Unity Stamp Co.


I used the alcohol ink in the kit and the lift ink stamp pad to create the background and the my zig markers on this sweet fall image from Unity Stamps to create a fast watercolored image to go with my background. The hello die is a Lawn Fawn and I cut it a few times from black card stock to make it stand out more on the card.
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Saturday, September 22, 2018

Frightfully Sweet Halloween

Its almost October!!

Today Im using up the last of my Frightfully Sweet stamps from MFT 
that I had colored and die cut a couple of weeks ago. I love these little guys but its time to move on to some new fun Halloween goodies coming in the mail soon!


Shaker cards are so fun


The door opens to reveal the full bunny handing out candy


I couldn't resist a treat box
Below is the video link showing the process and the material used to create these fun projects.







Wednesday, September 19, 2018

New Lawn Fawn yay!


I love this stamp set.. you can mix and match soooo many stamp sets to create some adorable scenes.

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So Many Snowmen

A little head start on winter. I have been waiting to play with this stamp and today was the perfect day for a cup of warm coffee, lots of snowmen and my Prismacolor pencils.


For the background I used my Distress Oxide inks in Faded Jeans, Stormy Sky and Black soot. Spritz it with a bit of water and then added a ton of snow using a white gel pen. I wanted them to be peeking in through a window as if to say "come out and play" 

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Saturday, September 15, 2018

Pop it up Challenge

Here is my entry to the Simon Says Stamp Pop it up Challenge. For this card I used my reverse layering technique (Video is in editing right now) to create this cute card featuring MFTstamps puddle jumper stamp.


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Friday, September 14, 2018

Reverse Layering

Today's card is also for the MFTstamps Superstar challenge. This is my clean and simple entry.




I tried to angle my camera so its easy to see the layers so hopefully you can make them out. I stamped and colored my images then using the coordinating dies I cut a second panel around the stamped images and popped it up for a reverse layer effect. I will do a video showing how to do this because I don't feel the pictures show how beautiful these cards turn out.
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Thursday, September 13, 2018

Two Way Slider Card

I created this two way slider card for the Innovation Master Challenge over on the MFTstamps blog.

I wanted my slider to pull my Frightfully Sweet critters up the hills to trick or treat at houses on the top of each hill....BIG ideas...tiny little space. so instead they are heading for the candy buckets instead. Maybe houses next time on a much larger card base.



I want to thank MFT for inspiring me to create every month with awesome challenges that make me think outside of the box and sometimes outside of my creative comfort zone. This was a blast to make and I hope it inspires others to take it to the next level.
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Here is a link to the video. I pull the tab in the beginning of the video so you dont have to wait till the end :)

Thinking of You

I think we should all have a little stash of these types of cards on hand for just in case occasions so here are a few I made using the flower stamps in this months Hedgehog hollow card kit.







I stamped my images with a Nuvo clear mark embossing pad then used Nuvo copper blush embossing powder on watercolor paper so I could color my flowers with Zig markers. The Be strong sentiment came from Unity Stamps and the blue embossed paper was from Tonic studios and came in last months Simon Says Stamp kit. Hope you have a wonderful week and Thanks you so much for stopping by!







Wednesday, September 5, 2018

Beautiful Mermaids!

Simon Says Stamp Sept 2018 Card kit Beautiful Mermaids.


The Papers I used for my cards and color inspiration is an older paper pack from Graphic 45 called Le Cirque




The Copic colors I used for all three images I matched using my Hex chart by Sandy Allnock and the papers from G45. I can tell you that this chart is my life saver when I need to match colors I have with paper packs when creating my cards. I highly recommend it if your a Copic marker user like me.

Flesh- E00, 21, 95, R20
Light Blues- B06, 14, 24
Dark Blues- B97, 99
Light Yellow- Y06, 08
Dark Yellow- Y26, YR24
Greys- N2, 4, 6
Green- G24, YG 25, YG67
Light Red- R24, 27
Dark Red- E07, 08, 09
Orange- YR07, 18, 68
Brown- E25, 27, 29

Thank you so much for stopping by!


Thursday, August 30, 2018

Fall 2018 Card Series

Harvest Mouse stamps and die set by My Favorite Things!



See the video on how I built up this scene using the Waffle flower Apartment builder die set 


Copic colors were matched to the woodland Forest paper pack by Pebbles for this card three card set.

Brown mouse- E13, 15,18 (1) E42, 44, 47 (2)
Cool grey mouse- C0, 3, 5
Warm grey mouse- W00, 1, 3, 5, 7
Reds- R24, 27, 29
Barrel- E25, 27, 29
Oranges- YR14, 18, E09
Greens- YG93, 95,97
Blues- B95, 97, 99

I know this is an older stamp set but I never got the chance to use it last year so I am super excited to play with it this year!! 
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Tuesday, August 14, 2018

MFT Tutu Trio

Love Love Love this stamp set!
I made three cards and a video using this set...link to the video is at the end of this post.

Card 1





For this card I made a dance studio using the Waffle flower Apartment builder die set
altering it just a bit to give me large picture window.

Card 2




On card 2 I used my square dies to cut 2 triangle shapes on my panel then used distress re-inkers and water to create the background. Super easy and a bit messy but it turned out super cute.


Card 3 ( My Favorite )




For this card I used the slider die that came in my Art Impressions slider card kit to make the slider window then put my little ballerinas under the slider for a cute surprise when you pull down. I tried to do some stenciling as not many stamps go up and down but that was a disaster so I used stickers for the slider piece and little enamel harts from Doodlebug. Here are the Copic colors I used for the images.

Large Bunny- W00, W1, W3, R20, R85, R83, R81, BG70
Small Bunny- N4, N2, N0, R20, BG72, BG75
Bear- E44, E42, E41, R20, V25, V22, V21

Thank you so much for stopping by! 
Have a wonderful week!



Sunday, August 12, 2018

MFT Challenges

My Favorite Things color and sketch 

challenge







For this challenge I used the free with $60 stamp set and Miss You die. I colored and fussy cut all the images then used papers from G45 for the sketch challenge.

Lawn Fawn Challenge 34

My Favorite place





my favorite place is my home. I love working in my yard and planting flowers in my little gardens. For this challenge I used several different Lawn Fawn images and die cuts plus a tree die that I added flowers to from the spring sprig dies. The birds are from Big Scripty Words and the watering can, sentiment, spade and flower box are from Some Bunny stamp set. I wanted a larger friends sentiment than what came in the Some Bunny stamp set so this one is from a Hero Arts set.
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Saturday, July 28, 2018

Christmas in July!

Simon Says Stamp is having a Christmas in July blog hop and challenge featuring Tim Holtz!
Unfortunately I have not stocked up on my Christmas Tim yet but I have been wanted to make a card with this stamp set.



My son loves old cars so I got this set for him. One Christmas card done sooooo many more to go!
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Simon Says Stamp Anything Goes Challange

I love Art Impressions so when I saw the Anything goes featuring Art Impressions Im in!



I have been really practicing my colored pencil work and even splurged on a set (small) of Faber Castell Polychromos pencils... Luv Them!
Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful weekend.

Tuesday, July 24, 2018

MFT Challenges

My submission for the MFT challenges



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Sunday, July 15, 2018

Birthday Shaker Card



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