BRI Mood Board Mountain Thanks Card

When I saw the Butterfly Reflections Ink Mood Board for November, my eyes were immediately drawn to one image on the board. It was a gorgeous mountain and sky scene and I knew at once I wanted to try to recreate it with some of my dies. I never make cards without any stamps, so this was a huge departure for me, but I love how it turned out. 

 I used Hello Bluebird's Glacier Peaks dies to cut out several sets of mountains. Then I cut them all with my circle dies. I used one of my smallest circle dies to mask off the moon in the background, then I inked up the background circle with Distress Oxide inks in peacock feathers, black soot and a little bit of chipped sapphire.

 I used my Versamark ink to ink up two sets of the mountains and I added gold embossing powder to one and white glitter to another. I inked up the final mountain in black soot Distress Oxide Ink. Finally, I cut out the word, "thanks" from Hello Bluebird and added it to the front of my circles. I used my Ranger Multi Matte Medium adhesive to adhere it all together, then attached to to a square, white card base.

Lawn Fawn Taco Birthday Card-Masculine Cards Challenge

I got this mini stamp set from Lawn Fawn a while back, but hadn't found time to use it yet. So, when they announced their latest lawnfawnatics challenge, "Masculine Cards" I was so super excited to pull it out and ink it up! 

My hubby and I have a couple that are our best friends and we usually go out with them every Saturday. They introduced us to this wonderful street taco place in our town and now I crave them constantly! So so good! Anyway, onto the card. I wanted a birthday card, but I didn't want to use a sentiment stamp, so I used some patterned paper that coordinated with my colors. The black paper says "Happy Birthday to You" and the sprinkles remind you of sprinkles and of taco toppings!

Enjoy! And go get yourself some taco's!

Always Fun Challenges-Watercolor Card

I'm so excited to be sharing my first card as a member of the Always Fun Challenges Blog! When Waleska told me the first challenge would be "watercolor", I kinda panicked! I don't paint and watercolor cards terrify me! In fact, I only own paintbrushes so I can spatter my card backgrounds. But, I remembered a video from the amazing Jennifer McGuire that I watched a while back where she used distress inks to watercolor and thought I could give it a try. 

 In her video, she uses dark papers, like navy blue and craft cardstock to watercolor her images on and I loved the way it turned out. I loved doing this! My paintbrushes are garbage, but it still worked out so well! The colors are so beautiful and you get such cool changes in color with only one ink!

 I used my one and only floral stamp from WPlus9. It's their Beautiful Ranunculus stamp. I had so much fun using this technique that I will definitely be buying more of their floral stamps! I stamped the flowers with my Versa Mark ink pad, then used gold embossing powder. The sentiment is one of my favorites, from a set called Compliments Volume 2 from Ink Road Stamps (they have the BEST sentiments!).

 Here are some behind the scenes pictures of my painting the cards. I don't have a Tonic Studios Glass Mat yet (saving up for that one), so I use a piece of white paper that I've laminated. I use it for projects like this all the time and it works great! Plus, I can replace it for super cheap whenever I want to.

Hello Bluebird Spooky Speller Graveyard Scene

 I was so excited to get to play with these Hello Bluebird sets. Spooky Spellers Stamps and Dies and the Spooky Scene Die set.

I've been seeing so many cool, spooky night sky scenes in October, and I wanted to try one out myself. I hadn't seen one in green, and green is my favorite color, so I decided to go for it. I love how it turned out so much! It's so glowing and spooky!!! I especially love the little graveyard background. Hello Bluebird is just too much fun!

I inked the background with Distress Oxide Inks after cutting a circle mask out of a post it note pad for the moon. I used twisted citron, mowed lawn and black soot. I finished the card off with a few black and green sequins and some clear crystal nuvo drops. I just wanted a touch of sparkle and dimension to the sky.

Here's a peek of the card as I set it up. I colored the edges of my pumpkins so they wouldn't stand out too much. 

Hello Bluebird Fall Challenge-Snapshot Card

Hi friends! The fall challenge from Hello Bluebird Stamps has me dreaming of stamps and cards at night. I love a fun challenge like this because it really helps drive my creativity! 

 I realized as I was assembling this card that I've never used my word bubbles that came with my Photo Stack Dies. They're so cute, it's crazy that I haven't played with them till now! I'm terrible at remembering to use my stand alone dies. I'm going to set a goal for myself to use them more often!

 So, for this card, I stamped these two cute kids with pumpkins from the Pumpkin Patch stamp set and colored them. I knew I wanted to use this teal patterned paper for the background, so I colored my images to coordinate. I used mostly yellows for the pumpkins, because I wanted them to be bright and happy and contrast with the blue.

 I wanted some greenery in the background that could peek out of the pictures frames, so I also stamped these green branches from the Fall Banner Buddies stamp set and colored them. I inked the background of the pictures with some teal clouds using some cracked pistachio distress oxide ink.

 Here is the full picture of all the markers I used.

Hello Bluebird Bright Fall Card

I really wanted to make another card for the Hello Bluebird October Fall Challenge, but of course, I wanted it to be completely different from my first card. I decided to go with bright, fun colors. For some reason, I knew I needed a turquoise raccoon. 

 I used Hello Bluebird's Fall Banner Buddies and Leaf Play stamp and die sets for the leaves and animals. I also used their Gallery Frame #2 Die for the frame.

 I used my squeezed lemonade Distress Oxide ink to create the yellow cloudy sky. I used Hello Bluebird's Sunshine Scene Die, but I just used the clouds as stencils for the sky. I love how it turned out!!

 After I assembled the card, I finished it off with a few Crystal Nuvo Drops in Duck Egg Blue. I don't use Nuvo drops very often, because I'm super clumsy and I almost always end up ruining my projects when I try to use them, but I knew this one had to have them, so I tried to be extra careful.

Here are the copic markers I used. I figured it's easier to take a picture of the markers used than trying to list them out one by one!

Fawny Friday Feature!

I was so thrilled and honored to see that I was featured by Lawn Fawn for their "Fawny Friday". When you spend so much time creating cards, it's always nice to know that someone out there notices and likes what you do. Thanks again Lawn Fawn!