Hello Earthling

I have this great stack of patterned paper called Boyhood by DCWV, and in it, is a blast from the past... the space invaders that we loved back in the day when we played with Atari's and not smartphones. I have always wanted to use this paper, but couldn't find the right inspiration. Cue the Out of this World stamp set from My Favorite Things. 

I cut and stamped two rocket ships to add to the card. I chose to use an orange plaid underneath the space invader paper so it would pop a bit more. I finished with the sentiment Hello Earthlings from the Out of this World stamp set from Scrappy Moms. 

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Lantern Light

Lately, I have been really drawn to Oriental or Asian designs, especially lantern, so I was thrilled to find this stamp set by Mark's Finest Papers. I coupled the stamped lanterns with two die cut lanterns by Spellbinders. I paired the colors orange and turquoise in the lanterns, my favorite combination. Because I wanted the overall look to be elegant, I added a floral corner border from Spellbinders in black to match the black of the sentiments. 

Out of This World

I have fallen in love with the stamp set Out of this World by My Favorite things. There are several rockets, aliens, and sentiments to choose from. I started my card with a blue base (sort of like the night sky) and embossed it with a Darice Clouds folder. Next, I stamped the rocket and colored it with Copics. I added a few orange stars to the back ground, and then I added a sentiment. This sentiment comes from Scrappy Mom's set also titled Out of this Wold. The sentiment says, Shooting By to Say Hi. 

Father's Day

Greeting Crafter's

Here is my blog hop post for CardzTV today.

I wanted to try to come up with something really different for my Father's Day card... I have done mustaches, ties, tools, and more. I found this adorable lizard by CC Designs, and I knew I wanted to use it. I used my Copic markers to color it in. 

B000, B00, B02, B04
YG05, YG17, YG99
E23, E25, E29

I cut the lizard using the Spellbinders die cut Nestabilities Labels 23.
I used two Cardz TV stamp sets for the two sentiments: Heavenly and Happy Days. 
I added the Spellbinders die cuts Shapeabilities Foliage to the bottom left corner, and finally, a button that is decorated like a tortoise shell. 

The plaid paper is from DCWV, The Boyhood Stack. 

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For my Mom

I had a wonderful time with my family for Mother's Day. I wanted to make my mom a special card to let her know how much she means to me. I used patterned paper from the Recollections Black Jack stack, Sweet & Sassy It's a Girl Thing stamp set, and the CardzTV Going in circles stamp set. I added a small floral jewel in the center of the circle. I'm pleased to say that my mom love it. 

Mother's Day

I am so excited to be part of the Cardz TV Blog Hop. The stamps are easy to use and easier to clean. Each stamp set has numerous possibilities. For my project, I wanted to get a head start on Mother's Day next year. I started with a floral image on the corner and colored it with Copic colors in B000, B00, B02, and B05. I added some glitter dots all around the flower. Next, I used Cardz TV's Simple Thoughts to stamp the image live each day with laughter. Then at the top of the card,  I used the Mother's Day stamps from the CardzTV set Going in Circles. Now, I have a whole year to wait to give it to my amazing mother.

Luv You

Greeting Crafter's

Here is my Gallery Post for CardzTV today. I am showcasing a clean and simple card that I made for my boyfriend. He's supportive, loving, caring, understanding, and encouraging. He's the total package. Did I mention he is totally beautiful. I love making cards for him as little surprises from time to time. 

For this card, I started by taking a red piece of cardstick and embossed it with a Darice heart embossing folder. Then, I punched the tag from an EK Success punch and stamped my sentiment using CardzTV Love Ya Set. 

Now, it gets fun. I fell in love with these puffy dimensional heart stickers that I found at Target for $2. There were two sheets of stickers, each sheet with 10, and all in the same love you theme. I simply layered the sticker I wanted onto two scalloped circle punches. Each layer is popped. 

My plan is to make more of the cards with the different puffy stickers to send to all of my nephews and niece. 

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Birthday Wishes

Greeting Crafter's

Here is my Gallery Post for CardzTV today. I am showcasing a card that I made for my niece's birthday. She is such a delight. This butterfly patterned paper by American Crafts really caught my eye, and I can practically see her running and chasing butterflies. Using the pink and red color combination, I added the heart patterned paper to break up the business of the butterflies and used black as a background for everything. The sentiment stamp is from the Good Times set at CardzTV. Finally, I layered scalloped circles to place my die cut butterfly from Paper Artist. 

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St. Patrick's Day

Greeting Crafter's

For my Gallery Post for CardzTV today, I am showcasing a CAS card that I made for St. Patrick's Day. I really wanted the mustaches to be the focal point, so I kept the background white. The sentiment stamp is from the Happy Days set at CardzTV. The mustaches are actually stickers that I found in the clearance section at Target. The top and bottom mustache is made of felt. The middle two have covered in glitter. 

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Heavenly

Hello Crafters. 

I was cleaning up the craft table... again, and I found some scrap orange paper, and I knew that I wanted to do some coloring. I love to color flowers, but I rarely find the right sentiment fitting the style of flower. CardzTV stamp set Heavenly is perfect. I decided to use "A Little Touch of Heaven" since I thought these flowers were so delicate and precious. 

I used my Copic markers the YRs and YGs. I just pulled three different colors. The floral stamp is from Mark's Finest Papers.  I added some glittery gold dots around the card and some turquoise ink using a dabber. 

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Smile!

Greeting Crafter's

For my Gallery Post for CardzTV today, I am showcasing a generic card that I made for a young girl. She is bright and beautiful girl. I chose this Simply Betty Digital Stamp called Lava Betty to color. Because I wanted to use lots of embellishments, the CardzTV small stamp "smile" from the Mixed Messages stamp was the perfect size. 

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Angel

Greeting Crafter's

For my Gallery Post today at CardzTV, I really wanted to go out of my comfort zone and use a really bold pattern paper. I decide to do some coloring that was small enough that it didn't take up too much of the pattern. I used my Copics for the coloring, and then I added the paper flowers and the red ribbon. For my sentiment I used CardzTV sentiment from "Heavenly." It was just perfect. 

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Best Friends

It's time for another challenge this week at Through the Purple Haze. You don't want to miss out on our sponsor: Bugaboo Digi Stamps:

This month's challenge theme is:

Funny

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For my project, I created a card to send to one of my close friends. I wanted to play around with color, using red and purple and some teal. The background paper really stands out, so I embellished very simply with the ribbon bow and flower. 

Prince of the Ocean

Hello Crafters,
For my gallery post today at CardzTV, I'm using the CardzTV set, Fun in the Sun. This is the perfect set of sentiments for all of your summer activities. 

My previous gallery post was a mermaid, so I decided to do a mer-man this time (or in this case, a mer-boy). I used two sentiments, "Splash" and "Keep on Swimming".

I played with various combinations of greens and blues on the body, hair, tail, and fins (all Copic markers). A few pop up fish stickers surround him, mat on a swirly blue patterned paper.


This is also project 32 of my Simply Betty Stamps Challenge: Color every image in the Simply Betty Collection. That's over 500 images not including the new releases this year. It's amazing how much inspiration I get from her images. I'm super excited about all of the encouragement and feedback from my followers. 

Catch Some Sun

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Challenge #24: Summer Fun

Our new challenge at ScrapbookerPhD is to focus on Summer Fun. This is going to be a fun challenge because June has just started. There are waterparks opening, lakes are getting warmer, and pools opening up. 

I took a hiatus from crafting, and goodness it feels great to be back, especially with Project 31 of my Simply Betty Stamps Challenge: Color every image in the Simply Betty Collection. That's over 500 images not including the new releases this year. It's amazing how much inspiration I get from her images. I'm super excited about all of the encouragement and feedback from my followers. 

For my Summer Fun project, I chose this adorable surfer girl from the Betty collection. I added a die cut sun, a chip board beach ball, and ceramic flip flops. All of the coloring was done with my Copics. 

Happy Place

I took a hiatus from crafting, and goodness it feels great to be back, especially with Project 30 of my Simply Betty Stamps Challenge: Color every image in the Simply Betty Collection. That's over 500 images not including the new releases this year. It's amazing how much inspiration I get from her images. I'm super excited about all of the encouragement and feedback from my followers. 

Come join my blog and cheer me on while I work my way through the Simply Betty Catalog.

I made this project specifically for the Cardz TV Stamps Gallery. I'm using the CardzTV set, It's All Good. This is the perfect set of sentiments for any occasion, even just to say hello.

I used the sentiment "Go to Your Happy Place" because I wanted to color an enchanted ocean with mermaids and beautiful coral. Haven't we all wanted to be a mermaid at some point in our lives.

I used random colors from my Copic marker collection to color my mermaid. She is a digital stamp from Simply Betty Stamps. Betty has several mermaids to color. I happen to love the purple shiny octopus in the corner. It's actually a sticker, and so is the starfish on the bottom. The die cut corner border is from Memory Box and called Oceana Corner. I love it.

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Gallery Designer - Faith The Crafting Professor

Awesomeness

How much fun is this image by Stamping Bella, called the right shoes?

As soon as I saw her, I knew I wanted to try to color those shoes with real depth and dimension in the shadows of the bow and the heel of the shoe. I deviated from a traditional red or black shoe, and went with sassy turquoise. 

The sentiment is from a funky set from C.C. Designs, the Teen Scene set. 

Stinker

I'm addicted to SVG cutting files, especially Pretty Papers, Pretty Ribbon because they are so easy to use. I love that they upload in one file all bundled. That means all I have to do is size and cut. I'm thrilled once again to be a guest designer for Pretty Papers Pretty Ribbons.

I immediately fell in love with the cutting file, Rainy Day Critters, especially the skunk, and I knew that in my stash I had a stamp related to a skunk and paper to match the rainy weather of the April scene. I loved sizing the puddle to be big enough for the skunk to really stand in it. The rain clouds on the patterned paper are very different shades of gray, and to lighten the mood, I added a fun yellow butterfly to the corner. The sentiment is from CardzTV the Critter Captions set. 

Challenges Entered

The Crafter's Cafe: Animal Antics

Fab 'n Funky Challenges: Masculine

The Sisterhood of Crafters: April Showers

Make My Monday: April Showers

Steampunk Bubbly

Here it is... Project 29 of my Simply Betty Stamps Challenge: Color every image in the Simply Betty Collection. That's over 500 images not including the new releases this year. My how time flies... I can't believe that I'm about to hit 30 projects featuring Betty's stamps. I'm super excited about all of the encouragement and feedback from my followers. 

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For today's project, I wanted to make a special card for a very good friend of mine, and she asked for something a little steampunk. Simply Betty Stamps came out with a line of Steampunk Cuties, and I thought this Steampunk Bubbly was the perfect image for her. 

I colored her using my Copics, and decided to go for an overall look of pink and gray. I did add in some blue for the bubbles. The gear is a Spellbinders die cut, and I added a handmade bow. 

Challenges Entered

Penny's Paper Challenge: For the Girls

Craft-Dee Bowz: AG + Bow

Monday Morning Challenge: 2+ Colors (pink and black/gray with a tiny hint of blue)

Sentimental Sundays: No Sentiment

Wedding Card

Two friends of mine, young friends, recently got married. They are just the cutest couple, and I know Jenna since she was a teenager. I wanted to make her something cute for her card, and went with Cupid Marci from La La Land Crafts. 

Funny story about this card, I made it in the middle of the night. Ever happen to you when you can't sleep? But I made her in stages... I would try to sleep, and maybe get an hour, and then get up and color. Hence, some mistakes (oops). It was actually quite soothing and stopped me from tossing and turning and general frustration.

Challenges Entered

Deep Ocean Challenge: Things with Wings

Crafty Cardmakers: Things with Wings

Mema's Crafts: AG + Dies

Pile it On: Fancy Frames

Sister Act Card Challenge: AG