You've Been on My Heart

Hi there. Happy Monday! Did you remember to change your clocks on Saturday? I know not everywhere in teh world does it, but it is nice to think that I could have had an extra hour of sleep. However...I did not...lol. I was woken up at 3 by one child with a nightmare, and at 4:30 by another who was worried about the first one not being in bed....lol. Then for the next 3 hours I was asked multiple times when I was getting up. Oh fun! Well, I did manage to rest a little on Sunday afternoon, and relax a bit in my craftroom making this card using the one of the Tender Thoughts sets from Eureka Stamps. If you haven't checked these out before, you really need to. These stamps are great. There is one bigger stamp with a sentiment included on it, and then a smaller one that you can use to make the image "pop". As you can see, I did just that with this card. I started with the On My Heart stamp. I stamped it, colored it, and trimmed it down. Next I layered onto some green and orange CS. Then I stamped the Butterfly and Sunflower stamp. Trimmed it, colored it, and used pop dots to layer over the base stamped image.

Well that is all. Thanks for stopping by!

Eureka! Stamps - Big n Little Cat

Today I have for you a card that can be used for many occasions.
I'm a big catfan , so I've decided for the cute catstamp.
It is a stamp from the shop Eureka! Stamps an his name is Big n Little Cat.
In the shop you can buy this stamp as rubber stamp or digi-stamp.

I colored the image with watercolor pencils and I wiped with terpentine.

Have a nice day

Happy Santa

Hi All!!!

Halloween is over and if you haven't been working on your Christmas cards you'd better get started!!!

I have a quick and easy Christmas card to share with you today.  This Santa Head is 2 1/2" x 3" so it takes up quite a bit of a card front and it's so cute that you don't need to do much else to it!

You could make this more of a CAS card by taking out some of the layers.  

It's a great image because it requires very little coloring to look good!

I did addTulip Puffy Paint to his hat to create the fluffiness!

Here's a closer look.

Stamps:

Santa Head by Eureka Stamps

Merry Christmas digi by Eureka Stamps

Paper:

Polka Dot patterned paper unknown source

Prism Kraft Paper

Neenah white card stock

Ink:

Memento Tuxedo Black dye ink

Copic Markers

Other:

Spellbinders lable die

brads

Martha Stewart Bakers Twine

Tulip Puffy paint

Thanks for stopping by.

Happy Stamping!

Kristine

"Life is Good"

Hello!  I hope you've had some time to do a bit of stamping lately.

Today I'm showing you a simple card that I made with one sentiment stamp. 

I used the "Life is Good" (#16307) stamp from QKR Stampede.

I stamped this sentiment 3 times with VersaMark ink and then heat embossed them with gold embossing powder.  It's hard to see in the photo, but the words are a nice metallic gold.

Once they were embossed and cooled, I used a circle punch to punch the words out in the circles and also punch out circles in some coordinating papers.

The circles were all put through my Xyron and adhered to a piece of card stock.

The edges were all inked with Distress Ink.

I used an EK Success border punch on the right edge of the card.

Thanks for stopping by today.  Leave a comment if you wish and be sure to come back soon.

Oh Nuts!

Hello and welcome!

 Today's card is from Eureka stamps.

 I used the Squirrel stamp and the words Oh nuts. 

He looks so cute with his armful of nuts! lol

I colored the image with colored pencil.

Thanks for visiting today!

Stop by again!

Barb

Pumpkin Time

Nothing says fall like a pumpkin and QKR Stampede has some really nice images of them.  I used the Pumpkin Vine image and colored it in with Copic markers. 

I did some faux borders on this card with the light orange and that involves cutting 1/16” strips and gluing them to the card which saved on paper as well and bulk when mailing.

The bottom leaves were cut out and placed on ¼” circles of cardstock that act as my pop dots so they could add a little dimension to the card. 

Since part of the designer paper had a red distressed look to it I used Ranger Distress Ink barn red to add distressing to other areas and also antique paper to the image panel and tea dye with the already used red sponge for the Kraft border.

Paper: The Paper Company – brown, Basic Grey designer paper, unknown Kraft, Bazzill – light orange

Accessories: foam tape, Making Memories brads, copic markers

Everything Including The Kitchen Sink

Yes, I have the kitchen sink- Hopefully mine never looks like this! I found this hilarious image at Eureka Stamps- now who would appreciate a funny card with this image. I think a crafty person will totally understand the humor.

 I colored with Copic- I actually stamped twice and fussy cut a few pieces like the note and red pot.

Wanted to share a close up of the extra embellishments I added to the twine and ric rac on the front. You never know what you can find at Eureka Stamps- so many new items being added all the time.