SplitcoastStampers (SCS) Dare to Get Dirty (DTGD or 'inky') Challenges

This was is for the first challenge, hosted by Lydia aka UnderstandBlue --

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Be sure to join us for these card challenges at:  SCS DTGD

Card Recipe:

Stamp Set from Gina K. Designs, "Winter Wings" by Asela Hopkins

Cardstock (Pure Luxury White 120#, Black Onyx 100#

Inks: Memento

Paint: Yasumoto Shimmer Watercolors

PSX Detail Gold embossing powder; embossing buddy

Spellbinders Classic Ovals and Lacy Ovals dies

Viva Pearl Pen "Gold"

Cuttlebug folder 'fans'

Crop a dile Corner Chomper "deco"

Scor Tape 1/4"

Monoadhesive tape runner

Black ribbon, black adhesive-backed half pearls

Pigma Micron Pen, black #0.45 mm

A Penny Roller (kinetic) card for our very mobile grandson, Kyle :)

When I was half way done working on this, I misplaced it. This is very easy to do on 'my side of the bed.' My husband fears to venture onto my nightstand or crafting bins... (play Jaws music here.)

So I found it today and set it on the scoreboard. The cat (the big cat) stood on it, then sat on it while I had my head turned. By the time I moved her off, it was newly creased in several more places. (I love my cats I love my cats I love my cats).

Poor card looks like it's been sat on, run over, and folded up, but I finished it and am mailing it away anyhow. I even made my first amateur video to show its moving parts (below) and you will see why I don't make YouTube or any other videos.

Stamp set, pattern paper and (crumpled) card stock, white, 80# and 120# by Gina K. Designs. Stamp sets are "Life's a Beach" (isn't it though?) and "On the Move" for the sentiment. I just hand printed the letters for Kyle's name.

I saw a picture of Kyle the other day, uploaded to Facebook - so sweet! He had been swimming. He's going to be four this fall. When I asked our other grandma who lives near them to please kiss Kyle for me, all she said was, "If we can catch him." I think that explains this card.

My amateur video on how the parts move

Please - no hate mail. I really don't have a clue how to make a video, and the radio was playing in the background, Hawai'ian music. Aloha.

Shades of Orange

Today at StampTV Lee began a new Live Chat Challenge that will be a new on every other Saturday I believe. Check it out! Today's challenge is to use some Gina K. Design floral stamps and an encouraging sentiment, then send the card to a friend who could really use the card now. Since I had also just watched a new technique for sponging on YouTube, I incorporated that into my challenge card.

Entered Into STV Live Chat Challenge: Floral Encouragement card

Come on over and play along with us. Gina will be giving away a fabulous prize!!!

I stamped the flowers, leaves and butterflies from the stamp set in Wild Honey distress ink. I gently sponged the outer edges of the image with Dried Marigold, leaving the center of the image lighter. Then I sponged darker Wild Honey around the edges and corners, including sponging the edges really dark. This will help the image to 'pop' on a white card base.

Stamp set: Summer Blooms by Gina K. Designs
Cardstock also by Gina K. Designs, Pure Luxury White

Color Me Creative Guest Designer

Have you ever seen any of Suzanne Dean's Coloring Tutorials? They are amazing! Her videos taught me to understand the basics of using Copic and other alcohol ink colors. I am only a beginner. By watching others' techniques you can lose your fear and begin to grow with coloring! Here are some of Suzanne's How to Color with Copic videos: Suzanne on YouTube

I am honored to be asked to guest design at Suzanne's Color Me Creative Copic Challenge !

The sponsor and prizes for this challenge is from digital Artist Alicia. You can see her digi images at her Etsy Shop here: Alicia's Little Shop

Here is my sample, using Alicia's Ballerina (without the included bunny). One great ability with digi images is that you can make them larger or smaller according to your needs at the time ☺

Also entered into the TTCRD July 16 Anything Goes Challenge

Thank you so much for looking!

Card Recipe

Card size 7 x 5-1/2

Digital Stamp: Ballerina (without included rabbit) by Alicia (link above) colored, cut out adhesive pop dots on back for dimension

CS: Gina K. Designs Pure Luxury White 120#, Green Apple layer; Bazzill pink.

Dies:

Memory Box Butterflies die, punched Jillibean Soup (Winter Tortellini & Spinach Soup) pattern paper, covered with Glossy Accents

Spellbinder Lacy Rectangles large die, cut/embossed/softly sponged with Memento Angel Pink ink

EK Success 1-1/2 inch scallop circle for flower

Cuttlebug Vintage Corners, foil adhered to chipboard

Leaves stamped "A Year of Flowers by Melanie Muenchinger," colored, cut out, rolled with pencil. Adhesive pop dots to back.

Mulberry roses and large handmade flower colored with:

  Memento Angel Pink and Rhubarb Stalk inks, softly painted with Perfect Pearls "Pearl" mixed w/water, Glue Dots to backs

Pearl button brad to center of large flower is colored with Copic RV13

All white adhesive back pearls by Queen & Company colored with Copic RV13

Lime color ribbon 1/4" satin

Rhinestones by KaiserCraft Hot Pink, Crystal Elements in Clear

Stickles Diamonds (petticoat under tutu)

Cuttlebug Embossing Folder Cherry Blossom (green layer)

Scor Tape to adhere all layers together

Copic Markers Used

Skin - E50, E51, E53. Cheeks RV00, RV10

Hair - E31, E33, E35, E15

Outfit , lips, ribbon on her hair - RV000, RV00, RV02, RV10, RV13, RV14

Eyes, flower on dress, leaves under flowers - YG03, YG05, YG11, YG23, YG25

Build Dreams, Camping

For our oldest grandson, Evan.

He went on a camping trip to Catalina Island (California). He's getting older all the time! So I made this card for him to help mark another adventure in his life.

Stamp Set: The Good Life by Theresa Momber, available at Gina K. Designs
This scene is colored with Memento Markers, touched up with Stickles Diamonds and Stardust glitter pens in Yellow (Coleman lantern) and clear (metal chair frames and pegs for tent).
I wanted the fish to look like trout so painted them with pink and blue, a touch of lavender, then spread Stickles over them. I added stickles to the fire, too.

The tent is paper pieced and pop dotted, as are the fire, lantern, the fish and the sentiment.

I cut the ends off a toothpick, then colored it lightly with brown, used Glossy Accents to attach to card.

Add twine at the bottom, and the aqua Bazzill paper in the background is embossed with Stampin' Up Square Lattice.

Entered Into: The Outlawz, Twisted Thursday Challenge

Thank you for stopping by and taking a look!!!!

Pink Vintage Trailer

We have some good friends north of Los Angeles and we go waaaay back. They restore vintage pull trailers. When I saw this stamp, I just HAD to make them a card with it. I hope they like it ;)

Stamp set: "The Good Life" by Gina K. Designs
Cardstock: base 120# GKD Pure Luxury White; pink by Bazzill
Ink Memento Black, New Sprout, Sea Breeze, Rhubarb
Colored with Copic Markers, Sakura Clear and Pink glitter pens
Modern Word Punch by Stampin' Up
Fiskar's scallop border punch
Button, twine, lime and pink rhinestones, Corner Chomper photo corners
Adhesive pop dots (sentiment), glue dot (button), Glossy Accents behind rhinestones, twine knot

Entered into: The Outlawz, Paper a la Mode, "Favorite Tool"

Thank you so much for stopping by!!!

Color on Color, I chose Yellow

Hello friends,

This card is an answer to a challenge from Gina at Stamp TV for her Release Challenge last week. She asked us to stamp an image onto a color piece of cardstock, then use similar colors to finish the coloring. I used Copic markers.

Stamp set: "Arranged with Love" by Melanie Muenchinger at GKD
Cardstock: Sweet Corn by GKD; I used Bazzill for the orange layer and the top pale yellow layer
Stickles Diamonds to centers of some of the flowers

Thank you truly for stopping by and commenting!

Gold Embossed Bouquet

I am doing the mental moon walk here -- think this may be a CAS card {finally}! Why are CAS cards so hard for me? This time I made up my mind to just stop, use lots of white space, stop, walk away, deep breathe, and leave it alone LOL.

I stamped Spring Blossoms from Flourishes (won a stamp set from them THANK YOU FLOURISHES) in VersaMark, sprinkled detail gold embossing powder, hit it with the heat tool, then colored in with Copics and Spectrum Noir.

Happy accident: cut the yellow layer incorrectly, so just used two squares of it, pop dots behind it, scored the main card and added three pearls. PAU (pronounced POW in Hawai'ian = done, finished!)

All cardstock by Gina K. Designs (120#, 80#)
Stamps by Flourishes, "Spring Blossoms"

Entered into: 

The Outlawz, Copic Coloring Challenge, #CPC062813

Color Me Creative, Summer Challenge #71

 

I truly appreciate each visitor and your comments!

Thank you for coming by ♥ Aloha ♥

 

Peachy Paint Chips

Hi friends!

Bruce brought home some paint chips from where he works, so I tried to make a CAS card with one of them (LOL), not.

The circles and butterflies are darker peach (bottom), medium peach (center), lightest peach (top). I used Dried Marigold Distress Ink to sponge around everything. The background is a JustRite stamp "Elegant Fronds." The sentiment and little stamped butterflies are from Theresa Momber's sets, "Mountain Wilderness" {I LOVE VERTICAL SENTIMENTS!!!}, and "Sending Sunshine" which has two tiny butterfly stamps in it.

I cut out 3 smaller circles from an embossed white card to place on top of the peach circles. Then distressed the edges of the layer, used a Fiskar's corner punch on two corners of the same layer, and added rhinestones to butterflies and one corner. Touched up the butterflies and circles with Perfect Pearls pearl with water. I do like shimmer and sparkle!

It's so very hard for me to do CAS anything. So, it turned out more shabby chic :D  The inside top flap is stamped with same background stamp in same ink, with two small butterflies on the main inner layer.

Thank you for stopping by to peek!

 

Thank you for coming by!!!!

 

Hydrangea

Hello, everyone!

I would like to thank Laurie Morris at StampTV and Outlawz for showing how to make hydrangeas out of the heart paper punch, I just sponged some colors onto the petals and glued together, pinching and using a stylus to make them have some dimension. Finally, I painted a sheen of water mixed with Perfect Pearls silver.

Here is Laurie's Hydrangea Tutorial on YouTube

Entered into: Through the Craftroom Door

 

Thank you so much for stopping by and taking a look!

 

A "Golden Hello"

{The recipe follows after photograph}
I cut two die cut layers from white card stock. I used VersaMark to stamp the small flower from "Grand Sentiments" all over the main panel, sprinkled with Gold embossing powder and then heat until shiny.

I colored in all the flowers with some Copic markers from the tan group. Cut the oval out of tan card, popped up with two layers of adhesive foam dots, added four small pearls. Cut the white oval, sponged inside then stamped with Hello and curly horse shoe kind of design, both from "Lace Medallion Labels" and added the six tax rhinestones. Used double layer adhesive pop dots under the white oval.

I took some gold shiny tulle, laced it through the sides of the deco label, and tied a bow. I spread the bow into a circle shape.

Cut three round layers out of white card, sprayed it with water and scrunched up tightly and let dry. Opened, sponged with tan colors, painted edges with gold. Added large gold brad to center and made into flower. Glued onto tulle flower.

Used three premade paper flowers, and after coloring and painting with gold, placing them to upper right of focal image. Painted gold into centers of all background flowers.

Final step: Cut scallop, and applied two layers of gold embossing powder, heat set. Placed just under gold tulle to meet the Flourish Challenge this week :)

Entered into:    JustRite Challenge #099
                       Flourishes Timeless Tuesday Challenge #225
                      Through the Craftroom Door

 

It took me three days to make this. I can only do so much at a time.

Thank you SO MUCH for looking!

Recipe:

Spellbinders Resplendent Rectangles, Opulent Ovals, Classic Oval and Scalloped Borders Dies

EK Success 2-1/4" scallop punch

Gina K. Designs Pure Luxury 80# white card stock

Stamps by JustRite Stamps

Bazzill tan card stock

PSX detail gold embossing powder

VersaMark embossing pad

Perfect Pearls gold, silver

Memento VersaMagic inks in Pixi Dust, Sahara Sand, Toffee Crunch & Brilliant Galaxy Gold

Copics, Cropadile, Brad, pearls, rhinestones, tulle, three small paper roses

 

CAS hexagon shaped paper punches

Well, {stretching fingers} I've been doing some online shopping & I have a new toy - a Stampin' Up hexagon paper punch (feeling giddy). So, after punching out shapes from a paper pack from Basic Grey, I made some simple cards. I used JustRight stamps for sentiments and borders, and a Hero Arts bumble bee stamp with a dab of Glossy Accents on his wings, then some adhesive pop dots behind the hex shapes for dimension. I placed a few sparkles behind the bee for his sparkle trail.

The last honeycomb type card has a double stitched tan ribbon (Gina K Designs), lavender pearls, a pierced label and Swiss Dot embossed panel (sorry I got the date stamp on that one). Thank you Beate Johns - I watched your video on SCS for the piercing around an oval or other shape technique you shared!

There is a simple sweet bee stamped and colored on the insides and backs of the cards.

Hope you try it -- it really is so much fun!

 

Thank you so much for coming by ♥

 

Our 20th Anniversary, a Tri Shutter card for Bruce

Happy Anniversary to us :) We made it to a glorious 20 years.

(We've both been married before, so it's more like Bruce's 50th and my 35th LOL) It's a very long story, but I can't express how joyous I am to have 20 loving years with this man!

The ship is a free digi from the internet. The map panels are also free digis of a world map found on the internet. I just enlarged and printed it, then cut out pieces to fit and distressed it a bit with distress inks. All the stamped shells, fish & stars are from JustRite stamps. The sentiment is typed and printed. It's extremely heartfelt to me, and what I used to tell Bruce long before I knew it was a sentiment.

I painted the ship with Broken China distress ink first, then Perfect Pearls (plain white pearl) and water. The border outlines were drawn with a gold Sharpie marker. I used some Vintage Paper distress ink around the ship oval and the sentiment, then tipped around with Perfect Pearls in gold mixed with water. I used Memento Rich Cocoa to stamp the ocean critters.

Finished up with some gold nail head stickies by Mark Richards and a golden anchor charm tied on with some twine. Bazzill cardstock.

Entered into: CDAC Inspiration Challenge

 

 

Thank you very much for looking!

 

Tulips Basket

Sending thanks to my friend Shari in Canada. She has sent me paper punched decorations, embellishments, stamp sets, designer papers - you name it, not to mention the shipping costs. So Shari, I send you virtual hugs and ♥

This is a free digital image from Birds Cards! She is so sweet to share these with the world, so feel free to visit her blog:

http://www.birdscards.com/free-digital-stamps/flowers/

Cardstock by Gina K. Design, Pure Luxury 120# white
Tulip basket is free digi from Birds Cards
Sentiment by JustRight Stamps, "Just the Right Words"
Colored with Copic Markers
Sponged with VersaMagic Chalk inks

Entered into the following Challenges: 
CDAC 1-2-3
(Sentiment, Designer paper, Embellishment)

Outlawz Copic/Promarker May 10-16, 2013
(April Showers Bring May Flowers)

 Thank you for looking!

Gratitude Wreath

It's always a blessing to have friends, and I made this for one here on the island. She is so thoughtful!

For Karen Y. ♥

Two more friends contributed to the card. Susan S. - thank you for sending me the stamped image from Gina K. Designs, "Floral Wreath." And thank you to Shari M. for the pre punched lacy border. I'm so glad I could combine both elements from you ladies!

I also used a sentiment taken from the set "Thanks a Million" by Gina K. as well. Colored with Copic markers. I added a touch of green to the blue flowers, a tip from either Melanie Muenchinger or Sharon Harnist -- both ladies are incredible with coloring. I apologize for my brain cells and not remembering exactly which lady said not to be afraid to add the color of the leaves into the flower petals.

Entered into challenges:

"Mayflowers" at StampTV, for the May Release Party

"Anything Goes" at Through the Craft Room Door

Check out both sites for fun challenges with the nicest of people!

 

Thank you so much for looking!