Rain, Rain, Go Away......

Good Morning:

I am here to share my another OSAAT DT card with you. I am loving this fabulous Design Team! Choccy, our fearless leader is so amazing and such a sweetheart. We have an awesome challenge for you this week at One Stitch At A Time; Challenge #130  'Under 18's'. What does that mean? We want to see cards for boys or girls under the age of 18. If you don't have a stamp or image to go with this challenge theme, why not pop into the Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps Store and pick one up? You are sure to find just what you are looking for.

Well, would you like to see my card for this week's challenge? Here it is:

 

Front of card

 

Close-up of the sun charm

 

Close-up of puddle

 

Close-up of raindrops on leaf

 

Close-up of digital image

 

Inside left page

 

Inside right page

(see the embossing?)

 

 

One Stitch at a Time Challenge #130 is sponsored by

With 3 x Promarkers

To win this you must use a SBDS (Stitchy store)product

and for those that enter with none SBDS creations, win $3.00 to spend in our store.

 

Be sure you stop by all of my team mates blogs and have a look at their stunning creations for this challenge. You will find links for all of them on the right-hand side of my blog. Are you ready to make your card for Challenge #130 - 'Under 18's'? We can't wait to see what you make and share with us!

 

Card Recipe:

Image - Digi Blessings 'Rain Rain Go Away'

Cardstock - Recollections

Patterned Paper - Recollections 'All Seasons'

Ink - CTMH 'Dutch Blue'

Ribbon - Dollarama

Baker's Twine - Stampin' Up 'Island Indigo'

Sun Charm - stash

Sentiment - CTMH 'Special Friendship' stamp set

Embossing Folder - Cuttlebug 'Happy Birthday'

Medium - Copics B00, B21, B24, B29, E11, E13, E15, G00, G02, G05, N0, N2, N4, R000, R01, R20, Y06, Y11, Y15, Y17 & Blender

Raindrops - CTMH Liquid Glass

 

I am entering my card into the following challenges:

Paper Pretties Monday Challenge - PPMC55 Create a Square Card

Forever Friends Fortnightly Challenge - No 44 - 'Embossing (Heat / Dry)'

Dream Valley Challenge - #40 'Something Old, Something New' (old - charm, ribbon, sentiment; new - digi image, baker's twine, patterned paper)

Little Miss Muffet - Challenge # 43: 'Writing'

Pile It On - #37 Patterned Paper

A Die For a Sketch - #4

 

I hope you have enjoyed looking at my card today. I am so glad you stopped by today :) Take care, stay safe, and I will see you again soon.

Hugs xo

 

 

Embossed Christmas

Good Afternoon!
Where is the time going?? This summer is just breezing by with one day blurring into the next. I thought summer was suppose to be relaxing.....apparently not. Hubby and I were away with our daughter and grand-children for a family reunion and I just can't seem to catch up again. We all had an awesome time, seeing family we haven't seen in quite awhile. Our son had to work, :( He wasn't able to get the time off as he used it all up when he got married last month in Michigan, U.S.A. A lot of my dear hubby's family hadn't seen our grand-children and Kasey totally loved meeting all of her cousins and having so many new children to play with. The final day of the Dampier Reunion was spent at the Waterfront and "Dampier's Landing" in Nipigon, Ontario. We had a gorgeous day for it and the kids really tired themselves out being in the fresh air and sunshine all day.
Tuesday was TOPS so that day was totally gone. Our veggie garden took off while we weren't looking, or rather the weeds did. I spent 2 hours in there on Wednesday and you wouldn't even know it. I have neglected the poor area so badly and I don't know if I will get ahead of the weeds again this summer. YIKES!!
Yesterday I had to watch my grand-daughter and grand-son while their mom worked, did her driving road test and got groceries. Today, I finally got to make a card and get back on my blog.

I have a new Christmas card to share with you today. It has a few different techniques on it this time and combines several challenges. There are actually 3 types of embossing on my card (hence the title, lol). Can you figure them out? I have also used ink to distress the edges, added ribbon and glittery scrolls at the bottom. I must admit, when I first saw the colour challenge for this week at 52 CCT, I was very skeptical. I had NO idea how I was going to pull this challenge off, but I think it turned out pretty decent.
Here is my card:

Front of card

Close up of Emboss Resist Technique

Close up of Glittered Scrolls

Front View Again

To make my card, I used the following supplies:
Card base & white cardstock - My Stash
Black cardstock -
Ribbon - Dollarama
Ink - Versa Mark and CTMH "Black", "Sky" & "Moonstruck"
Embossing Powder - CTMH "Clear Detail"
Stamp - Stampin' Up
Embossing Folder - Stampin' Up "Petals A Plenty"
Have you figured out the 3 embossing techniques yet? The white cardstock is dry embossed with an embossing folder, the sentiment is heat embossed onto white cardstock using clear embossing powder. The reason you can see the sentiment is because of the 3rd technique; emboss resist. To do this, you heat emboss your image/stamp with clear embossing powder, then sponge darker colours onto the paper and your image. You wipe the ink off the embossed image to make it show up. The clear embossing powder resists the ink colours. You can find a tutorial on how to do this HERE on the Split Coast Stampers blog.
 I am entering my card into the following challenges:
Addicted To Stamps - #34 Card For Someone Special
Robyn's Fetish/IDIC - Christmas in July
Christmas Card Challenge - Week #33 Emboss Resist
Paper Pretties Monday Challenge - PPMC #48 Embossing
Simon Says Stamp & Show - No Rules
Holly Jolly Christmas Challenge - Heat Embossing
Lollipop Crafts - Challenge #84 Christmas in July
Christmas Cards All Year Round - Christmas Flowers/Holly
52 Christmas Card Throwdown - July Colour Challenge

Always Playing With Paper / Merry Monday - Sketch With a Twist. This means you are free to make cards using any of their past sketches. Here is the sketch I chose for this card:

Well friends, I am off to try and get another card done today. Take care and thanks so much for stopping by.

Hugs xo

Jace's 1st Birthday Card

HAPPY 1ST BIRTHDAY TO MY GRANDSON JACE

In honor of his first birthday, I have made him a red, white and blue card with lots of glittery stars. For Jace's card, I used a sketch from Crafting Life's Pieces Challenge blog.

Here is the fabulous sketch:

I really loved this sketch and look forward to using it lots; especially for easel cards. The red, white and blue colour theme came from 2 different challenge blogs: Paper Pretties Monday challenge and The Poodle Parlour.

Here is Jace's 1st Birthday card:

Front View

Close-up of blue glittered stars

Close-up of red glittered stars

Close-up of white glittered striped I made on the red paper

Inside of the card

Supplies Used:

Image - Sarah Kay stamp "Jean-Luc Playing Ball With Claude"

White Pen - Signo Uni-ball

Sentiments - CTMH "Say It in Style" and "Curly Sentiments" stamp sets

White Cardstock - my stash

Patterned Paper - CTMH "Fanfare"

Inks - Memento Black and CTMH Moonstruck and White Daisy

Copics - B21, B24, B29, C03, C05, C07, E23, E29, E31, E33, R000, R01, R20, R24, R29, R46, Y06, YG63, YR04 & Colourless Blender

Star Embellishments - I made these by using the Creative Memories star punch to punch shapes from white cardstock. I then edged each star with glue and covered that with either Martha Stewart "Brillo" or Recollections "Marine" glitter. The white stripes on the red paper were made by adding strips of Bee Creative Tape Sheets and covering that with Making Memories "Spotlight" glitter.

 I am entering this card into the following challenges:

CLP Challenges - CLP 48 - Use their sketch

Paper Pretties Monday Challenge - PPMC #44 Use Red, White & Blue

The Poodle Parlour - Red, White & Blue

The Squirrel and The Fox - Challenge 20 Make It Sparkle

Pile It On - Challenge 26 Make Your Own Embellishments (I made the stars myself)

ATC's and Cards With Attitude - Challenge 16 Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by to visit; I love it when I get friends popping by.

Hugs xo