Feathers!

I am up way too late to be very descriptive other than I received my MFT order today and have I got some awesome goodies.  Feather dies being one of them not to mention assorted stamps.

I gleefully made a pile of feathers earlier this evening...or I should say yesterday...Yikes...it's nearly 1am.  Okay I have to hurry.

Made feathers...made a card a few minutes ago because I just had to before going to bed.  Not my best effort  and just grabbed whatever paper and ink was near me, nor very imaginative but I LOVE these feathers.  Maybe later today I will elaborate.

Meanwhile:

Good night!

Playing Around with Chalkboard Style

Chalkboard stamping is hot right now.  It's a fun look and the fonts are very playful.  I found a 12x12 pad of chalkboard paper made by DCWV that has an interesting, slightly gritty finish to it.  Using it for the sentiment and card base, I played around with stamps from My Favorite Things, Color Box Frosted White pigment ink, patterned paper and washi tape from my stash.

Father's Day Cards

Happy Father's Day everyone.  I hope you all had an enjoyable day one way or another being with family, friends and enjoying a dad's company or remembrance of one.  My own dad passed away exactly 10 years ago tomorrow.  I had one of the most wonderful days with him, just the two of us.  The following day he was gone.  I am so blessed to have had that special day with him.  Every day with him was special.  He was a dear one.

Today was a nice laid back kind of day with my sweet husband Bob and our son Charley.  We were visited by Bob's daughter, her DH and 1 year old son via Facetime.  Technology is a wonder.

Charley and I both made cards to present to Bob today.  Bob has become quite the woodworker and recently acquired a vast amount of walnut wood from a friend's ranch, which is in the drying out process now.  It was quite a few weeks of hard work with a lot of help, bringing these 90 year old trees down, prepping them for cutting, milling the huge trunks, delivering half of the wood to our home and storing it.  So woodworking and walnut wood was our theme.

First Charley's card.  He is so clever and learned years ago that we make our cards...never buy them.   He is very handy with graphics.  He also hand writes a message as well which is nearly invisible on the left half.

And then mine:  This is also doubling for my friend Jen's monthly card sketch challenge at Club Scrap. It gave me a great beginning to this card and worked perfectly with the collage stamp from Club Scrap's Dashing collection.  With it's ruler, measurements and blueprint look it was the ideal stamp to reflect all the work that Bob has been doing with his building.

He was really pleased with both cards.

This card begins with the left triangular flap, opening to a right flap and finally unfolding to the inside which isn't shown here.  Too mushy for public display, LOL.

Papertrey Ink MIM #120: Overlapping Ombre

I like the ombre look but had not tried it.  So I thought how fun that this is this week's PTI challenge.   Still a bit limited in my PTI collection but diligently working on that I selected two stamps from the gorgeous set Mendhi Medallions.   These stamps are truly amazing in the details that show up.  I just love this stamp!

Card base is Kraft cardstock from Club Scrap.  All stamps are PTI.  I stamped the large medallion in Distress Ink Spiced Marmalade, Rusty Hinge and Ripe Persimmons.  Then stamped the smaller medallions in the same inks and punched out with a 1 1/8" punch adhering them to the card with foam tape.  Sentiment is from PTI Mat Stack 2.   The small medallions and card base are edged in whatever last brown Distress Ink I used with my applicator, LOL.

This is a simple card but I do like how the colors blend.

PTI June Color Challenge

Papertrey Ink's June Color Challenge is a mix of blues with a green and cream.  Not my usual colors to start out with but it was fun to go through my stash of Club Scrap card stock and see what I have.  I think I came pretty close to the colors being called for.  I used another challenge from Paper Artists Online using an interesting folding card and combined the two challenges in order to submit to both.  My opinion on this card is still out on this one.  I think it's because I was trying to do two different looks and combine them, which may or may not have worked.

But as always, I had fun experimenting and crafting.  I don't expect myself to make a masterpiece each time I sit down at my craft desk.  The very fact that I am making anything is a good reason to be happy and enjoy the process.

All paper is from various Club Scrap collections.  Stamps are from Papertrey Ink's Happiness in Bloom and the die is their Mat Stack 2 die.   I used Distress Paint Antiqued Bronze for the majority of stamping plus Distress Ink Blue Sapphire and Old Paper.

Jen's PAO June Card Sketch Challenge

Jen's selection of sketches are always terrific and get my creative mojo moving.  Very simple use of three circles and a border is our challenge this month.


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The results:

Background is a stamp from Club Scrap's Vogue collection.  All other stamps and dies are from Simon Says Stamp Flower Friend kit.

Lemonade2drink - The Card

Today The Stamps of Life, June stamp set arrived!  This will be such a fun summertime collection to use for  cards and scrapbook pages for picnics, 4th of July, parties and so much more.  So tonight I had to drop everything and make a card with this set.

To begin with all patterned papers are from a 6x6 Teresa Collin's collection: Carolina Breeze.  Fresh yellows and shades of grey seemed the perfect backdrop with a little paper piecing for this card.  All stamps are from the Lemonade2drink set.  The punched edge of the card was made with a Martha Stewart border punch.  The sentiment " 'sour' you?" (so how are you?) is stamped on a layered die cut set from TSOL's Postage Dies.

I attempted to make the glass look like it was filled with lemonade only part way with the darker top portion being just the glass.  The lemon was stamped and cut out then attached to the glass rim.