Hi friends!
It's time for another challenge at the CCEE Stampers
and this week we are celebrating National Tea Day in the UK!
This week, we are creating cards wtih tea - or coffee -
and although I have an English born mum, I'm a COFFEE girl!
~Making every day a memory!~
Hi friends!
It's time for another challenge at the CCEE Stampers
and this week we are celebrating National Tea Day in the UK!
This week, we are creating cards wtih tea - or coffee -
and although I have an English born mum, I'm a COFFEE girl!
Hi friends!
Mondays are always fun at Splitcoaststampers
because that means it's CAS card day!
Clean and Simple
- formerly known as One Sheet Wonders -
are actually harder for me to do :)
and use some fun dies
and add othe embellisments kinda girl!
The theme this week is: April Showers
so I chose My Favorite Things Puddle Jumper Rain or Shine.
then masking it off.
Next, I used Lawn Fawn's mermaid ink and a blender brush
to lightly ink the background.
Once that was blended, I pulled off the mask
and used my copic markers to color the image bright colors!
In hindsight, I wish I had spritzed water on the background ink
but that's probably why they say it's 20/20 - LOL!
to color outside my norm of using peach tones.
Truthfully, I'm often shy and super conscientious about coloring
skin tones and hair!
And the reason for that is I don't think that I'm very good at it.
I try and try and I get embarrassed because it doesn't look as good
so I sort of "stick to what I know."
His IG is filled with Stamp Anniething chibis of all colors
and walks of life - from Black and Brown friends to White
and everyone in between!
AND - for this one - I did do the water spritz! :)
For that reason, I decided to *try my best* to use darker skin tones
and created the same card - twice!
I'll enter my card to Simon Says Stamp - Monday - Brights!
Thanks for stopping by!
Hi friends!
Today I'm part of an Instagram hop ~
click on the link and it will take you there
and I thought I'd share my card here on my blog, too!
We are all one humanity and should find a way to #showup for equity and equality in a way that makes sense for YOU.
In the smallest of ways, including creating a card and adding a hashtag can help to promote unity among papercrafters!
For my card, I wanted to do something a little different.
Rather than be 'stuck in one box' and being traditional,
I'm sharing a card with flamingos that are NOT pink.
Rather, they are the skin tones that show from black to white
to all the colors in between, we STAND together.
I've used a variety of distress oxide inks for the background
and used my scrapbook.com domed blender foams to blend them.
When I tell you I'm obsessed with these ... I am!
to create the beach sunset scene.
I chose this as my background to represent where I live - Miami, Florida.
We live in a melting pot of cultural diversity with many colors,
languages and cultures!
I speak both Spanish and English daily!
Thanks for stopping by
and remember - love one another!
Hi friends!
It's my husband's birthday this weekend
so we are in full *celebration* mode!
He's such an incredible man and
does such amazing work for others in need ~
we are happy to celebrate him AND finally take some time off work! :)
It's also Day #3 of The Daily Marker 10 Day coloring challenge.
I won't be making full cards this time around but
I do have a theme for the first time: Things With Wings!
I thought that would be a different and fun approach this time
and you can follow my coloring on my Instagram daily posts :)
Here is my card for the 3/10 days of coloring:
I have two blog posts today! For the CCL duel, click here! :)
Hi friends!
Today is super exciting ... it's the return of The Daily Marker 30 Day,
a coloring challenge hosted by Kathy Rac.
For this round of coloring, it's only 10 days
and I've decided to do a theme:
Things With Wings!
"Look up at the Sky Day"
and airplanes are definitely up in the sky :)
To create this card, I colored with prismacolor markers
and colored up this cute image from PInk and Main called Plane Sweet.
I stamped and die cut the images and decided to use just this one ~
future card coming up soon!
I went with a distress oxide background,
using Ranger DOI and the domed blending foams from Scrapbook.com.
At the 11th hour, I took the banner off and popped on some clouds
instead and added a different sentiment - it looks more cohesive now!
I so love these segments of The Daily Marker coloring!
You can follow my Things With Wings coloring here on Instagram
for next 10 days ~ it's going to be FUN!
and link up your Look Up At The Sky Day cards, too!
Thanks for stopping by!
Hi friends!
Every 15th of the month, there's a new CCL challenge
and our hostesses this month are: LJ and Darlene!
The CCL = Classy Card Ladies and we're divided into 2 teams:
The Diamonds and The Pearls and we 'duel' card kits once a month.
For April, our hostesses came up with a theme of:
spring sketches!
Our gorgeous kit is from LJ and we received the stamped image,
beautiful embellishments and pretty papers
AND
Team Diamonds were asked to create our cards using THIS sketch:
Diamonds
Hi friends!
I hope you had a marvelous weekend
and your Monday is off to a great start!
Today's card is for the Hot Mess Success card group
and you can see how it started here.
In August 2019,
I posted a very messy card to my Instagram
and the very person himself Tim Holtz commented on my card <3
I was gobsmacked to say the least and over the moon :)
And the idea to do it EVERY month was born so here we are!
HOWEVER.
It's not *the* card.
I made my un-be-lie-va-ble messy card for this month
and had an absolute BLAST!
It was something I'd never done before
and I can't tell enough you how fun it was!
But the cards weren't dry and the video for my YouTube channel
wasn't quite ready and the clock was ticking so .........
You'll see it next month :(
And I can't WAIT to do it again - absolutely fun, fun, FUN!!!
So!
In lieu of that card, I'll share the one I had to scramble to make.
I took a page from Simon Hurley and watercolored with acrylic blocks.
I saw this video on his channel and it was quite fun.
The idea: Add ink to your acrylic block
(I used a square 2" block and Catherine Pooler inks
in Flirty Fuchsia and Tiki Torch) and spritzed it with water.
I quickly flipped it over to blot it down onto the cardstock and held it.
In a few seconds or so, the ink transfered with the water to the paper
and I repeated this step 6 times
until the background squares were done.
It's fun to find colors that marry well together and create patterns
like I did here and even overlap the colors.
The sky's the limit!
Once it was dry, I added a die cut silhouette from Altenew
as a focal point and used a large on to take up most of the card front.
Here are the cards from Barb, Carol, Darlene, Jeanette and Terry
and stay tuned for the OG first card that was crazy fun to make :)
Was this month's Hot Mess a Success? Absolutely!
Would I do this technique again? I sure would!
Thanks for stopping by!