Darling Donkey Smiles & NBUS#83

 

Today's card is being entered in a challenge over on the FB Group: Unity Show and Tell (Create in Layers).

For this card I used the stamp set: Darling Donkey Smiles.  Patterned paper from the (Hay.There.) packet - Also from Unity Stamps.

Image stamped with Memento Tuxedo Ink & Colored with Pencils.

Added details:  Punch: EK Success Daisy Scallop, Flower Punch retired SU. Banner Punch: SU, Tiny Heart Punch (Family Treasures) Card Stock: White, Cajun Craze, Old Olive and Petal Pink SU. Gems & Glitter.  Foam Tape & Distressing Tool.

Since this is the first time this stamp set has been inked up I'll submit over at the NBUS blog as well.

Wing and a Prayer

Welcome & thanks for stopping by & leaving a comment. - Again if I don't reply to your comments it's an issue with blogger.  Try to leave a contact name/e-mail address in your reply if you want a personal reply back.

Up today is a card that I made for a friend who recently had surgery and is recovering from it.

 For this card I used the Unity Stamps (Wing and a Prayer) stamp set and paper from Unity (A little tenderness) pattern.

Card Base: Early Espresso, Next I used a piece of the patterned pape that I distressed the edges with ink. 

 I stamped the bird on white cs and colored with Prisma Pencils and blended with stubs/gamsol. It was cut out with a Unity Circle die. 

 The hearts are from a die collection that was given to me as a gift so I do not know the company/source of where they came from. One was cut from a retired SU card stock and the other from the patterned paper pack.  I used staples to mount them to each other.

The sentiment was stamped with Early Espresso ink on Petal Pink cs and distressed.  I added some chocolate brown pearls to complete the card. - Image was mounted with foam tape.

I hope you have enjoyed this card.  Have a great day & Happy Stamping/Crafting!

Inspired by...Winter Knits

 Hello & Welcome.

I'm excited today to share my first card of 2026.  I chose the Inspired by Winter Knits challenge for this card.

I decided to go for the colors and the textures for my card from the Inspiration photo. - There is also a sketch you can follow.

Here is my card:

So for this card I used, Frosty & Feisty (pissy kitty).  I wanted to use this particular piece of patterned paper (which took me forever to find in my paper stash). I've had it forever.  It was called, Alpine Stash from KI.

My card base is Night of Navy then I used a Unity rectangle/scallop die to cut the patterned paper out.  You can see in the photo but it has a slight shimmer/sheen to it.  I then used a piece of Close to Cocoa (retired SU) card stock and embossed it with a Herringbone folder and cut a strip of.  I layered that to the patterned piece.  

The kitty was stamped with Memento Tuxedo black ink and colored with pencils that I blended with Gamsol.  I added some white splatters and layered that on a piece of Early Espresso cs. - Unity and MFT circle dies were used.  The piece was mounted with foam tape.

The sentiment was stamped with Night of Navy ink.  - To finish the card I added some light blue gems.

Hoping to get back into stamping more as the year progresses. Thanks for stopping by.

No Card today - Announcing the GIU winners

 Hi,  A huge thank you to everyone who left comments last week on my cards for (Growing In Unity) GIU week. 

I have selected my winners using a Random number generator.  The winners are: Debbie Nalley Farrell and TK Watson.

Please e-mail Kelli@unitystampco.com within 2 weeks to receive your $20 gift credit to use at Unity Stamps and Congratulations!

Day 5 - GIU Week - Let's say, Hay!

 Hi,  - Wow the week went by fast.  Today is my last day as the featured GIU stamper.

Today's card is so fun.  If you haven't noticed by now I gravitate towards, "cutesy" stamps. and this one is no exception.  

Don't forget to leave a comment (contact name) for your chance at a Unity gift voucher of, $20.

So for this card I started with the (Thinking of Moo) Uniquely Unity set from December 2024. - I can't believe it took me this long to use it.

I stamped the image with Memento Tuxedo Black ink on Watercolor paper and used watercolor pencils and a paintbrush/water to color it.  Then I cut it out with a Unity Die and added some photo corners.

I love that Unity has a great line of patterned papers and the (Hay.There.)  was the perfect choice for this little cow.

I cut one piece of the plaid and a strip of the Hay and then added a piece of Pumpkin Pie grosgrain ribbon.  This was then mounted on a card base of Old Olive.

For the sentiment (which comes in the set) I stamped the Haaaaay!!! with Memento black ink and cut it out with a Unity Circle Die. Then I used a ruler and a black marker to underline the sentiment.  That was mounted on another circle of Pumpkin Pie cs.  

The image and sentiment were then mounted with foam tape and some orange gems were added for accent.

Almost forgot that I stamped the inside too. - those weird blobs are not on the card, shadows from the light coming in from the window.

It was so much fun creating cards for this week and I hope you have enjoyed seeing them as much as I did making them and sharing with you.

Day 4 - GIU Week - Let's Bee Weird

Hi,  Thanks for stopping by.

Today is Day 4 of my GIU week - I have another cute card to share.

This time I'm using the adorable stamp set, (Bee-hold) again. - I've used in once already on a card (see HERE) but just think these little bee's are to cute not to showcase them again.

For this card I started with a black card base.  The I used basic white and did some ink smooshing with distress inks.  - I stamped the bee on one panel and used the other for my second layer. I added some shimmer to the bee's wings with Wink of Stella and added googly eyes because they are so funny.  The sentiment was stamped with Memento Tuxedo ink.  I distressed a square panel and a strip of black card stock.  Added some gold bee Washi Tape and some small black pearls to complete the card.

Don't forget to leave your name in the comment for a chance at that $20 gift voucher.

Come back tomorrow as I finish off my week with another card featuring another awesome Unity stamp set.

GIU Day 3 - Aw Nuts

 Hi and Welcome to Day 3 of my GIU week.  

I love the variety of stamps that Unity has, there is something for everyone's stamping fancy.

Today I'll be sharing a card that makes me smile and I hope itmakes you smile as well.

I have a love for squirrels and enjoy leaving peanuts out for them to eat.  They are always so comical to watch.  So when I saw the stamp set:  Stay Squirrelly I just knew it had to pop into my shopping cart.

Here is the card that I created using it:

 This was a easy card to put together.  I started with a base of Early Espresso (SU) cs.  Then a piece of designer paper and pieces of Old Olive and Balmy Blue.  

I used a leaf embossing folder (Paper Studio) and embossed the leaves on just a portion of it. Then I layered the designer paper and the strip of old olive down the center.

The squirrel was stamped with Memento Tuxedo black on White card stock and cut with a Grunge Tag. I colored the image with Pencils blended with Gamsol and blending stumps. I distressed the edges with Balmy Blue ink.

I added brown embroidery thread after punch a hole in the tag and mounted it on the card with foam tape.

  The small acorn is from the current September KOM . I added some Wink of Stella for a little shimmer on the acorn.  The sentiment was cut with a fishtail die.  Green enamel dots were added.

I think this will make a fun card to give to someone when you forget their birthday. 

Be sure to leave your name in the comment section for a chance at the $20 Gift Voucher for some Unity goodies.

See you again tomorrow for another fun card creation.  Thanks for stopping by.

GIU - Day 2 Stir The Pot (Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge).

 Welcome! - Today is Day 2 of my GIU (Growing in Unity) stamp week. -  I want to thank everyone who left comments on yesterday's card.  

Before I post today's card PLEASE leave a name in your comment so I can put you in for the $20 Voucher.  I had several comments yesterday that were (anonymous) and a name was not left in the comment.  If you left one on the Pumpkin card please check to see if you included your name so I can count you in for the drawing at the end of my term. 

Now let's get on with today's card.  -  I love Halloween and Cats so this card was a perfect combination for me. Click to enlarge photos.

This card used another stamp from the September KOM (Harvest to Holiday).  That little "witch kitty" just made me laugh when I saw it and I knew I had to use it for one of this weeks cards.

I used a piece of Granny Apple Green cs and stamped an old SU background Sanded with some white pigment ink but unless you look really close you can't see it because my pigment ink pad isn't the greatest.  I'll be investing in a better one soon.  I added a punch goo border that I punched from Old Olive cs and embossed with a Versa Mark pad & Clear Embossing powder 2 or 3 times to give it some dimension.

Card Base is Purple (one of SU retired colors though).  The designer paper is from DCWV. The witch cat was stamped with Memento Tuxedo ink and colored with Pencils and blended with Gamsol using blending stumps.  I added some light gray splatter with an old SU stamp (Itty Bitty Backgrounds).  I cut it out with a Square die (SU Stylish Dies) and then mounted it on a piece of Tangerine Tango* cs and distressed the edges. The sentiment was stamped with Memento Tuxedo black ink.  I added sequins (Picket Fence Studio) to compete the card and mounted the focal image with foam tape.

Will be sharing this over on the Two Old Bats Halloween challenge as well.

What a fun mood board.  Love the cat and witch hats...thus the inspiration for this card.

Thanks for stopping by - Leave a comment, including your name for a chance to win that $20 gift voucher from Unity Stamps.

GUI Week - Day 1- Fall Blessings & Four Seasons Fall Challenge.

 Hello and Welcome!

Today is my first day as this weeks (Growing In Unity) featured stamper.  This is my 2nd year of doing this and I am excited to share my card creations with you this week.

Be sure to leave a comment (no anonymous comments) with a name as 2 lucky people will be chosen at the end of my week to receive a $20 Gift Voucher at Unity Stamps!  

Without further ado here is my first card for this week: (Click to enlarge) I'll also be sharing this for the Four seasons Fall Season challenge:   I think it meets the Mood Board theme (bottom right) with the wonderful pumpkin and colors.

 This card came together quickly thanks in part to the amazing pumpkin stamp found in the September KOM (Harvest to Holiday).

I started out by using a piece of designer paper from Unity's, Haunted Hues paper pack.  I cut out a piece using one of the dies from Unity's,  Scallop and Rectangles. Then using my Stamparatus*retired SU I stamped the pumpin in the corner using Memento Tuxedo black ink. - After I had the pumpkin stamped I distressed the edges of the piece using Ripe Persimmon and Rusty Hinge inks adding some depth of color.  Next I colored the stem with a Pale Olive (YG95) Copic Marker and highlighted the pumpkin curves with Honey (Y38) Copic Marker.  Next I spritzed the piece with Antique Bronze Distress Spray (Tim Holtz - Ranger) which added a really cool shimmer to the piece.

On the (Old Olive) piece I stamped a Unity Background, (Woodgrain Whisper) with a Versa mark ink pad.  You don't see much of the background but it does add some subtle detail to the olive portion of the card.

The sentiment is from the same KOM and was stamped on Very Vanilla card stock with Memento Tuxedo black ink and distressed the same way as the pumpkin background.  I also curled the edges with my fingernail.

I wrapped some twine around 2 corners, mounted the focal piece with foam tape as well as the sentiment.  These main card background is Basic Black cs.  To complete the card I added a few sequins.

Here is a close up of the shimmer created from the Distress Mica Spray:

You can also see the background that was stamped on the olive piece as well.

Lots of steps but a super fun card to make. - Be sure to leave a comment (with name or a way to contact you) for your chance to win that $20 gift voucher from Unity Stamp Company.

Come back tomorrow to see my next creation & Happy Stamping.

Double D (Bee Happy Challenge) and NBUS #77

 Hello & Welcome.

Today I'm actually posting a card for a challenge:

Double D - Bee Happy Challenge  and since this is a brand new stamp set and also brand new Washi Tape I'm also going to post on NBUS #77

Here is the card I created:

For this card I went with a Black, White & Gold color scheme.

The stamp set is from Unity Stamps (Bee-Hold) UU stamp set.

I stamped the bee and sentiment with Memento Tuxedo black ink and colored the bee with a Gold Metallic Pencil and a light Yellow pencil.  Added some Wink of Stella to both the wings and the gold portion of the bee.  Added transparent white glitter to the eyes.  

The back ground is a piece of white card stock splattered with Distress Mica Spray and layered with a piece of SU designer paper that I ran through with an embossing folder (also from SU).  I added a strip of bee Washi Tape (Paper Studio) and some gold dots (Paper Studio).  I edged the bee with Going Gray ink and mounted with foam tape.  Dies from Unity Stamps were also used.  

Hope you enjoy it.

Reel Great Guy

 Hello and Welcome!

So I've been busy stamping lately for my July term on the Dirty Dozen team (which sadly I can't show you those cards right now).

However I do have a card that I can show you today!

My nieces husband's birthday is today.  They both love fishing so I thought I would whip up a fast fishing themed card for him.

I used Unity Stamps (Reel Great Guy) stamp set and patterned paper also from Unity (Takin' em Fishin")

I used two patterns cut them out, glued on top of the other and then cut it out with a Scalloped Rectangle die.

The fishing lure image was stamped with Pecan Pie ink on a piece of old retired SU card stock and colored with pencils and blended with gamsol.  I edged the piece with some Crushed Curry ink and cut a portion of it off. - Then I mounted that to the card edge with foam tape.

The sentiment was stamped on a Fishtail Die with Mossy Meadow ink and also mounted with foam tape.  I added 3 small gold gems to complete the card.

I also sprayed some distress spray on the image which gives it a bit of a shimmer. You can sort of see it in the picture below.

Quick, Easy and perfect for a guy/or gal who love fishing!

Celebrating the 4th and NBUS#76

 Hi,  Welcome to my blog.

Today I'm sharing 2 cards using the same stamp set. Both these cards have been mailed and on their way to brighten someone's day. Click to enlarge card for better detail.

The stamp set used on both cards is: Purr-ade Crasher Pissy Kitty from Unity Stamp Company.

For this card I started with a card base of Night of Navy (SU) and stamped the small start and the meowica sentiment in a random pattern.  Then I layered that with a piece of designer paper from USC, (Grand Ol' Flag) paper pack.

I stamped the kitty on watercolor card stock with Versa mark ink and embossed with black embossing powder (Bold Black-SU). Then I used ink pads and a water brush to color the kitty.  I added glitter to the fireworks and Wink of Stella to the stars on the shirt/sunglasses. Image was cut out with a circle die from Unity.  I stamped the sentiment on the same watercolor cs and cut it out with a fishtail die.

Then I added another piece of the designer paper cut with a larger fishtail die. I finished the card off with a small punched star and mounted the image and banners with foam tape.

You can see the sparkle here on the glasses, shirt and sparkler.

Card #2:

Same stamped image of Pissy Kitty this time on Basic White card stock. Colored with pencils and blended with Gamsol/blending stumps. Then I fussy cut the image out.  I also stamped a second image and colored the sunglasses which were then cut out and later mounted with foam tape over the image (more on that in a bit)

Card base is Basic White. - Layered with patterned paper also from Unity but this packet is called, (Yankee doodle Dandy)

More patterned paper was used for the star layer, striped layer and the 3 small stars on the card.  All were from the above named paper package.

Postage dies *Unity which are currently Sold Out.  I stamped the sentiment with Memento Tuxedo black ink and edged the die with some Misty Moonlight ink (SU). The larger star and the kitty image were mounted with foam tape to raise them up.

After coloring the sunglasses and cutting them out.  I used some Diamond glaze (JudiKins) to make them look like actually sunglasses.  This was a bit tricky since I accidentally cut the hole on my bottle a little bit to much so the glaze comes out sometimes a little faster then I want it to.  You will notice that in the close-up of the glasses.  But hey, it's still a fun little detail.

There you have it, 2 different cards with the same set. - I hope you like them.

Happy 4th of July to everyone in America!

First time using these stamps and papers so off to NBUS#76 they go.

Friends Ephemera card

Hi,  Thanks for stopping by. - Your visit and comments are greatly appreciated.

Today's card uses the same colors as yesterday's card but is quite different.  

For this card I started with a Tempting Turquoise piece of card stock and a scrap of the Unity designer paper that I had left over.  I also found a packet of American Crafts ephemera (Bungalow Lane) that I had received as a Christmas gift.  I opened it and discovered that it had several pieces that would fit the same color scheme as yesterdays card.  I chose 3 different pieces to use on this card.

First step was using an old SU retired background stamp, (Sanded) which I stamped on a smaller piece of the TT card stock with the Pretty Peacock ink.  Then I took the pieces of ephemera and jazzed them up a bit by adding ink to the edges of the larger flower, Wink of Stella to the centers of the flowers and glitter on the little side berries. 

I stamped the same sentiment with Versa mark ink and embossed with Black ep. - The flowers were then layered with foam tape and the punched heart was added along with 3 gems and finally another piece of the Washi tape was added to complete the card.  Simple and easy to create.

Again since I finally used the Ephemera I will add this card to NBUS #75 challenge.

Friends Make the World Beautiful - NBUS#75

Hello and Welcome!

Today's card is one I made for (no challenges at all).  I have a friend having a birthday this week and I plan to give this card to her.

The card is (loosely) based on this card: Created by Tonya Brooks.  You can view her video on how this card was made HERE

Originally I had planned to use some floral dies I had to look similar to the ones in this card.  However...as often happens when I start making a card mine took a detour and wound up looking like this:

So basically I start with an A2 size White card.  Then I took a piece of patterned paper from Unity Stamps (Jubilant Tapestry) and distressed the edges with, Pretty Peacock ink (SU).  Next I stamped 2 areas with a background stamp from the Feb. KOM (Happy Soul) with Memento Tuxedo black ink.  I then cut a piece of Tempting Turquoise (*retired SU) card stock and used a retired* SU punch to create the paper border.  I then distressed it with the Turquoise ink and wrinkled it up.  To create the brown section I used a piece of Core'dinations card stock and an embossing folder (SU - most like it's retired) After embossing it I sanded it with a sanding block so the peach color came through. That piece and the turquoise piece were then glued down on the patterned piece.

I cut a tag out of the same piece of brown card stock but turned it over to the peach side and distressed with SU Calypso Coral ink.

Next a sentiment from the Unity March KOM (Love and Good Vibes) was stamped with Versa Mark ink and embossed with Black embossing powder. I used a punch and a die from my stash for the 2 hearts which were glued and then stapled to the tag.  The flower is from an old SU punch and was distressed with the coral ink.  I added some gems and Washi tape and a piece of turquoise ribbon (SU*) that I frayed before threading it through the hole. This was mounted with foam tape.

Since the paper was new (or had never been used) along with the Washi tape, Sentiment stamp & one of the hearts I'll enter this for NBUS#75 which is offering a gift certificate to at least 3 people for participating in the challenge as they are celebrating 75 challenges!

Flap Card Attempt & Announcement

 Hello and Welcome! - I've been absent for a bit but not because I haven't been stamping. (More on that later in the post).

So awhile back I found a card that I had received in a card swap that had this cute little flap on it that had been closed with Velcro.  I wanted to try and make a card similar to that so I looked up flap cards and found a YouTube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD51w3HslUs) on how to create an "easy" flap card.

I watched the video and followed the directions and while my card is nothing like the one she made and doesn't close like hers it's still a version of a flap card.

I used Sweet Miss Daisy (Unfrogettable) stamp set again for this card.  The images were stamped on Watercolor paper and colored with watercolor pencils and then fussy cut.  The balloon has crystal effects over it but doesn't show well in the photo.

Needless to say this card was not as easy as I thought it was going to be.  Oh the parts all came together just find but keeping it closed was another story.  I tried some Velcro (which wasn't very good quality) so I ended up ordering a different brand which eventually worked.

Anyway here are 2 shots of the card showing the Velcro and the inside of the card.

Hope you enjoyed my version of a flap card.

Now for my Announcement.  -  If you've never heard of, Splitcoaststampers.com   be sure to check it out. It's an amazing place to see all kinds of cards and projects for Free with one exception...see below.

I was asked to be on the Fan Club - Dirty Dozen Team! - So I've been busy making cards for the June theme (Golden Opportunity).  However since it's a paid membership you won't be able to see my cards here on this blog for now. - The membership is only $24.95 a year or 6 months for $14.95.  

Tomorrow is the day the Dirty Dozen posts their projects for June.

I'm just excited about being asked and I promise that while you won't see these cards unless you join the Fan Club I will still be creating cards for this blog that you can see like the one above.

Floral Challenge with TK

Hi and Welcome!

It's time for a new challenge between myself and TK (Time for Kards).

This time we are using another image from Penny Black called, 

Garden Trio which also features a matching die set, Garden Trio Cut-Out.  Plus circle dies from PB (Stitched Square and Circles).

Here is my card that I created with the images and dies that she stamped and cut out for me to use.

The flowers in this card reminded me of, (poppies) so I wanted to go with poppy like colors for my card.  I had a very old piece of designer paper from (My Minds Eye) in my stash that has never been used and decided to base my color scheme off of it.

Card Base: Tangerine Tango (retired SU - this was one of my favorite SU colors and I was sad when they retired it). Next layer is Costal Cabana - SU.  Then the designer paper.  Also used were Unity Stamps Rectangle and Scallop dies.

The sentiment is from PB - Blooms stamp set.

I colored the image with Colored Pencils and blended with a blending stump and Gamsol).  For a little touch of sparkle I used some Black Diamond stickles (Ranger). 

You can see some of the sparkle on this close-up section of the card.

To achieve the darker shading behind the flower I cut out another circle on masking paper and used it as a mask and ink blended some Pecan Pie ink over the patterned paper.  The flower, circle and sentiment are raised up using foam tape.  To complete the card I added some small white pearls.

Don't forget to stop by TK's blog (Time for Kards) and check out what she created.

Thanks for stopping by.

IB#336 - Lemons

 Hello & Welcome!

Today's card is being shared for the Inspired By challenge #336 - Lemons.

Here is the inspiration photo and sketch:

Here is the card I created for this challenge:

I was inspired by the colors of the photo and also the sketch which I altered a little to fit my squares into a patterned that worked for my card idea.

For this card I used a stamp set from Catherine Pooler,  Your Zest Life.  - I've featured this stamp set before on (this post) using the same paper but different stamps, So you'll have another idea for this stamp set.

Details: Card Base: SU - Night of Navy card stock.

Designer paper was purchased at a JoAnn's store. I used a Scallop Rectangle Die from Unity Stamps to cut it out.

Lemon slices stamped with Memento Tuxedo ink on SU Daffodil Delight card stock and cut out with the matching dies.

Lemon was stamped on SU Basic White card stock with Daffodil Delight Ink and cut out with the matching die.  I added sparkle to the lemon and slices with a Wink of Stella Pen.

The sentiment was stamped with Versa Mark ink and embossed with SU Bold Black embossing powder on a piece of textured yellow card stock.

The squares are from Stampin'Up! - Stylish Dies and were cut out with Navy textured card stock. I mounted the images over the squares with foam tape and added some homemade enamels dots:

thanks to Leslie Miller for this idea.

A sample of the sparkle from the Wink of Stella:

Thank you for stopping in and don't forget to check out the Design teams cards and 

Art Nudge#525A and Freshly Made Sketches #686

Welcome  and Thanks for stopping by.

Today's card is being entered for Art Nudge #525A  and Freshly Made Sketches #686

Here is my card for these two challenges:  Click to enlarge

Details:  Image and Sentiment - Sweet Miss Daisy - Unfrogettable

Designer Paper - Sweet Miss Daisy - Ribbit

Card stock: Distress Watercolor Card Stock - Ranger,

SU retired Chocolate Chip, Close to Cocoa - Also Old Olive which is not a retired color.

Inks: Distress Ink from Ranger: Mustard Seed, Crushed Olive,  also used Memento Tuxedo Black, SU Early Espresso

Distress Mica Spray - Antique Bronze

Punch - Birthday Candles EK Success

Circle Die

Water Brush SU

I'm trying my hand at "water coloring" and still have a ways to go but think this turned out okay.

Foam Mounting Tape 

I stamped the image with the Memento ink and water colored it then fussy cut it out. The Close to Cocoa panel was stamped with the bugs using the Early Espresso ink.  Then the frog image and panel were spritz with the Mica Spray. 

Lots of shimmer on this card.

This is going to be hubby's birthday card this year. - I'm happy with how this one turned out.

Paper Players #736 (Something Old, Something New), Freshly Made Sketches#685 & A Challenge with a Friend

 Hi,  Welcome to my blog.

So today I'm combining a challenge that I'm doing with a friend,  TK from Time4Kards along with this weeks Paper Players #736 challenge:

Something Old, Something New. and Freshly Made Sketches#685

My good friend, Terri (aka TK) and I met awhile back for a visit and coffee together.  She brought a long an envelope filled with stamped images and sentiments that she said we could use to do one of our challenges together.  We each used the same image for our cards.  

Since the Image is new to me and also the die-cut that I chose to use and I'm using very old card stock and a patterned piece of paper that I've had in my stash for a couple of years now I thought this card would work great for the Paper Players challenge.  

So without further ado here is my card:  Click to enlarge cards.

Here's another view of the card:

For this card I started with the patterned paper as my inspiration point along with this weeks Freshly Made Sketch #685.  I bought the designer paper at Hobby Lobby several years ago and have never used it.  Then I decided to use this image from the ones TK gave me.  It's from Penny Black (Blooms) and comes with a matching die although for this image I didn't have the die so I fussy cut my image.  I colored it with a mixture of Colored Pencils and Copic Markers.  I used 3 color pencils, Celadon Green and Powder Blue and Metallic Gold. The marker I used was, Powder Blue as well.  I added Wink of Stella, Gold Glitter and Tarnished Brass Mica Spray to the flowers and the Embossed Background and Sentiment Die Cut.

I used retired SU card stock colors, Sage Shadow and I believe, Bliss Blue.  Both have been long retired so that is my something old along with the patterned paper.

Other items used: Fishtail Die (MFT) Swiss Dot Embossing Folder, Hello Die (Unity Stamps), Rectangle Die (Unity Stamps) Small baby blue pearls and foam mounting tape.

This card has tons of shimmer on it.  Hard to see in the photos but this is a closeup of part of the card:

You can see some of the shimmer from the Mica Spray, the Gold patterned paper and the pearls.

Be sure to stop by TK's blog - Time 4 Kards and check out how she used that stamp.

Monster Mayhem3 - FMS#684

 Greetings! - Guess what? - It's another Monster Mayhem card!

This one I'm entering for FMS#684  *on a fun note if you want to skip all the details you can read about my stamping mishaps at the end. - I promise you will laugh.

My card is done the opposite direction and I used a rectangle image instead of the circle. Plus this is a bit different from my first two monster cards as very little coloring was done on this one. Plus I did not use the matching paper pack.  Instead I chose to go a more, "grunge" style and used a monochromatic color scheme.

Here is my card:

I finally found my cloud stencil that I was looking for a few cards back (I believe it was the mouse with the umbrella card).

So I started off by stamping the Monster with Memento Tuxedo Black ink on Crumb Cake (Kraft) card stock.  Next I made a mask of him and place it over the image white I blended white ink over the cloud stencil to create clouds.  My white pad is not the greatest so you don't see the white that well.  I need to find a different white pad. Then I colored the eyes with a white pencil and added highlights to the monster's hair and horns with a Copper metallic pencil.

Next up I spritzed the image with Brushed Pewter Mica Spray. Cut out with rectangle dies and mounted it on a piece of Basic Black cs that I distressed.  Wrapped some twine around the 2 corners and set it aside.

Next up I stamped a piece of Crumb Cake cs with Memento Black ink and a stamp from Unity Stamps (Squared Impressions) stamp set, tore the edge and distressed it with my finger and also added the same spritzing of mica spray to it. Then I added a strip of white card stock cut with a punch from EK Success . I glued that down to a piece of Copper metallic card stock and layered it onto the black card base.  I stamped the sentiment on the kraft card stock and mounted it with foam tape. The main image was also mounted with foam tape.

This really sparkles in real life, I tried to get a picture to show it but it looks even better than the picture.

So yesterday while working on the 2nd Monster card, I realized that I couldn't find the circle sentiment I'd put together anywhere on my desk.  I spent about a half an hour looking for it before deciding to just make a new one.  Of course as soon as I did that I found the original one...stuck to the back of the main image panel!

It get's better...so today while I'm stamping the background panel I stamped off the first image and then stamped the 2nd one which had barely any ink on it.  I'm thinking to myself that maybe I didn't get enough ink on it so I stamped it down a couple of times on the pad and then realized I'm not stamping on my ink pad.  I was stamping on top of my cell phone!  Boy did I feel silly.  Thankfully I was able to clean the ink off and discovered that my stamping pad was on my right hand side and not my left where my cell phone was.

Does anything like this ever happen to you while you are stamping?

That's it for my first set of Monster Mayhem cards.  - My, She Monsters will hopefully be here Monday so be prepared for more monster mania! - Thanks for stopping by.