Music theme

It's time for a new challenge over at Archiscraps... this months inspiration is the Country Music hall of fame in Nashville. As you can see it is in the shape of a base clef.

Can you guess what this month's theme is? if you guessed Music you'd be right!!

here is my inspiration for this challenge!

Make sure you stop over and join in the fun! Archiscraps

Free Bookmarks

It's about that time already, the parents are scrambling around getting school supplies ready...I really don't miss that! Anyway last I started making bookmarks and dropping them off at the little free library boxes we have around town...I usually put them in a children's book or a young adults book...they make for a nice surprise. Here are two I just finished, I just need to laminate them and they will be done I'll be making at least 10 more in the next couple of weeks... the little libraries have more activity the closer it gets to school starting...haha probably trying to get all their summer reading done! 

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SSSMC Not a card

So here is a super quick post for the Simon says stamps Monday Challenge- Not a card...I created an artist trading card for an upcoming swap

thanks for stopping by..haha told you it was quick!

Make every day Amazing

I was really kind of stumped when I received this die set from SugarPea designs in my Scrapsalot design team box this month, I didn't have a clue what it was LOL other than the word die which in its self was worth it because I can make any sentiment I wanted with it and it's pretty small. when I talked to Debra the lovely owner of Scrapsalotllc.com she informed me it was a letterboard...I thought ....Oh, what a cute idea!! (they really need to put something on their packaging LOL) then I used my brain and when to their website to check it out!

 So I made this lovely card with someone in mind...she is into inspirational quotes and such and I thought she would really love to get this in the mail. It's a pretty straight forward card really easy ...the hardest part was figuring out what I wanted my little message to say! I did measure the board die because it seemed too simple so I wanted to make a frame...I used my silhouette portrait to create a scallop rectangle I also created just a plain rectangle frame too but I really like how the scallop one looked. Then I thought I needed something more...flowers yup I needed flowers and I just so happen to have these in my stash...add a couple enamel dots and we're done! the quickest card I've ever made if you don't include not knowing what the die was LOL

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Items from Scrapsalot shop
Sugarpea letter board die
waffle flower enamel dots

Simon Says: Make Your Own Background

Another card for the Simon says Wednesday challenge -Make your own background More watercolor using distress oxide inks

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perfect popsicle's

I was super excited when I opened my box from Scrapsalotllc.com this month
there are so many cute stamp sets to play with... this one is called perfect popsicle from Sunny Studio and it's a layering stamp...now I'll be the first to admit I was a wee bit intimidated by layering stamps but this one is fairly easy to layer as long as you know what your looking for LOL

 all I can say is practice practice practice...

Supplies used from Scrapsalot shop

Sunny Studios-perfect popsicle stamp
Lots of different Archival inks (not going to list all the colors)
Catherine Pooler Midnight
Honey bee-Over the rainbow pattern paper
Craft Medley -sequins B&W classics

Christmas in July

Here is another card for the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge
  to Create your own background...I went with a Christmas theme because the card group I'm in has a weekend challenge this weekend it's Christmas in July...I was also hoping it would cool me off since we're in the middle excessive heat warning :(   ha I didn't think how using the heat gun wouldn't help cool me off but it was quick work so it's all good!

yes yes I am playing around with my photos for Instagram...ya know it's about the likes LOL we'll see how it goes It was fun to do anyway and I think the pictures look better..but what do I know I'm a crafter, not a photographer!

thanks for coming by...Hope you have a fabulous weekend!

Create your own background

 Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge is to create your own background...well that's pretty simple I tend to distress inks or oxides a lot on my backgrounds ...this time I used Distress oxides and emboss resist. I used a cute stamp set from Clearly Besotted called playful pooches...

 I used the little accessories to create my background by stamping them with vera mark and I heat embossed with white embossing powder as I went along (they are pretty random LOL) I used Faded jeans and fossilized amber and kind of blended them together... that's it pretty straight forward...

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Animal magic

soi thought I'd just right into the new Monday challenge over at Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge
 This week its Animal Magic...  so here is my entry...

I also did a bit of water coloring with distress inks to create my background...I'm surprisingly pleased with how it turned out LOL  Sentiment is from a stamp set from My creative time Called thanks for the lift, the little squirrel is one of the very first stamps I bought and I got it from Walmart LOL and its still one of my favorites..😀
thanks for stopping by....I'm sure I'll have another one for this challenge later in the week...or maybe tomorrow LOL

Distress ink water coloring

Happy Monday my crafty friends...thought I'd share a super quick water colorish type card....It was really easy...I started off with a piece of watercolor paper (the really cheap kind from Walmart) I used my new stamp from Honeybee stamps that I got from Scrapsalotllc.com actually everything except the paper and embossing powder is from there! anyway, I stamped using vera mark ink and used Ranger's black embossing powder and quickly embossed it with my heat gun. I think it took me longer to figure out which colors distress inks I wanted to use.... I went with Salty ocean, seedless grapes, and peacock feathers

I smooshed the inks on my mat then add a generous amount of plain water around my sentiment then took a wet brush and picked up some of the ink off my mat, I did one color at a time adding more water when needed. I used my heat tool to dry between layers..I just kept playing with it until I liked how it looked. It did warp a bit but I put in under something heavy overnight and in the morning it was fine. I added some black ink droplets/splatters then trimmed it and adding it to a basic 5 1/2x 4 1/4 note card added some enamel dot and sequins and the card is done!
so what do you think?

thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a fabulous week!

Items used from Scrapalot shop

Distress inks- Salty ocean, seedless grapes and peacock feathers
Honey Bee stamps- Congrats
Waffle flower- enamel dots
Craft Medley-sequins
Vera Mark ink

One thing leads to another

Happy Friday!! I hope you all have a fabulous weekend...they are calling for a scorching week here :( not too happy about that...warm is good but NOT this HOT LOL

So I wanted to share a project I did late last night into this morning...it all started with wanting to color a seahorse for the daily marker 30-day coloring challenge...and one who doesn't know about that can find it here...

 so this little guy started it... I think the reason I love cardmaking/crafting is you get to use your imagination... I have stamps of sea creatures (sets I used  Hero arts-color layering waves and Photoplay-fish tales) but no plants or anything else to make a scene. so I had to think a little outside the box LOL I have a ton of cheapo stamps from Joanns so I pulled out a couple leaf ones and used them as seaweed and such...haha one thing leads to another and all of a sudden I was making another circle with another seahorse with lots of ink blending I mixed between distress oxides and plain distress inks...and a huge mess LOL Most of the supplies used came from my favorite crafty supply shop Scrapsalotllc.com

 Here is my first card...

 It's funny you start off with one idea and then you have thousands running through you head LOL...and here is my second card.... by the time I was done I had blue ink on everything!

So what do you think....was it worth the mess? I think so! I really love how both turned out! Thank you for coming by and if you read any of this post thanks for reading my rambling LOL 





Things I used from Scrapsalot shop
 ~Catherine pool~ Midnight ink
~Hero arts-color layering waves
 ~Photoplay-fish tales
 ~Hero arts stencil- mermaid seawaves
  ~Nuvo drops-crystal clear
~Distress Oxide-Faded jeans
~Distress inks-peacock feathers and salty ocean
 ~Craft Medley sequins

Creative ideas

First I'd like to take a moment and that Debra from Scrapsalot...without her and her new design team I wouldn't have some of the wonderful tool/toys to play with...so thank you so very much...being on your team has been a blast so far!
So now that is out of the way I have to ask...Do you dream about project ideas? I know I do...My problem is remembering them when I get up LOL okay so I had a dream about this wicked cool die from Hero arts it's their beach frame fancy die  which by its self is really cool and pretty, I've made a couple different beach scene cards with it,

 but I like versatility when I buy crafty stuff I hold it in my hand and try to think of three things this could make before I but it LOL I know it sounds insane (drives my husband crazy) but I don't have a lot of space and I don't want a bunch of just too look at it. Now die's are different especially this one since it came in my design team bundle...Yeah it's beautiful and it's intricate but its beach very specific LOL so back to the dream...it was about this die but when I woke I couldn't remember ...it drove me crazy for days until yesterday when it hit me...the top of the die reminded me of Fir tree (Christmas tree)

 Just look at that... it looks like your peeking through snow covered trees... is it sad I'm super excited about this... I think I just found my Christmas cards this year!
I justed lined up the die in the middle of my panel but only ran the top portion through my machine then took it out and turned the die around on the same panel... I tried to line it up... it lines up pretty well there is only one small section you'll have to cut with a craft knife... it's really really tiny though LOL

Now think of using the negative of the die cut you just did as a mask... ink around and over it in shades of green... haha I did it looks like a jungle... now I just need to add something in the center... I'll share that when I figure it out!

Things I used that you can get from Scrapsalot

Distress Inks
Catherine Pooler midnight and grass
Hero art Fancy frame die
Hero Art stamps (don't think she has this one but has stamps)
waffle flower enamel dots