I miss you Pig Time

Hi everyone! I'm getting crafty today and joined in on the challenge over at

Sunshine is what they are looking for on the projects today.  

I pulled out my twisted sunburst stencil and using a blending brush added it to my base layer.

I used the sentiment stamp I miss you Pig Time as a border on the edge of the stenciled rays to give them a finished look as well as keeping my card CAS (clean and simple).

I knew I wanted to have just a little bit of dimension so I die cut out the pig and fussy cut out the dirt pile. I didn't pop them up but layering them over the border made a difference. 

I used Altenew warm sunshine ink for the rays and when a bit darker at the base and lighter on the rays. This was the perfect color!

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Pig Cause Stamps/dies~InkyStamper

HOHOHO

Yup, you read that right! I made a Christmas card today for a challenge over at the Christmas Card Throwdown.  I was looking for some fun things to craft other than my academy classes and this challenge looked fun!! What better than a color challenge! So fun and I pulled out stamps/dies I haven't used yet. Even better!!!

I went with a more traditional background. I love all things peppermint so it was fitting to pull out this background stamp. I love how it stamps. I haven't used it yet and now I can't wait to make other cards in different colors. 

How fitting that it just so happened to snow today. Yup, snow. Illinois goes through all four seasons in a day A LOT!!

I stamped the hat and beard three times and stacked them to give a bit of dimension to the sentiment area.  I love adding dimension. I've even started adding it into my scrapbooks. 

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Happy Birthday

While sitting here thinking how different this Easter has been to previous years I thought I should get a card made for my son's upcoming birthday at the end of the month.  I can't believe he's going to be 18 and I'll have no more littles.  

I chose the challenge over at "Just Us Girls" for this card. I enjoyed doing it as I don't usually stray from the standard A2 size cards. 

I made a 5x10 sized square card and used the largest stitched square die from The Stamps of Life to create the sentiment piece. To create the matching card base and Happy sentiment I used the direct to paper technique. This is a great way to get matching cardstock every time.

I stamped the mountains of the base and then stamped them two more times and cut them out. The top layer is popped up to give added dimension. 

Not sure if your seeing a theme here...but I love adding dimension where ever I can.  I cut the happy out twice from white cardstock and adhered the three layers together. This saves on dimensional dots and uses up any left over cardstock that you'd end up throwing away.

Here's one last look at all the different layers. I only used one sheet of cardstock to create this card and all I threw away were the scraps. 

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Deck The Halls

Hi everyone! I'm here today getting crafty and trying to get some cards and projects made for an August craft fair! I happened upon a fun challenge over at AAA Cards.  I love doing clean and simple cards, a lot.  I have a hard time doing all the cute and fancy cards that I LOVE seeing.  Just doesn't seem to ever work out for me lol.

Here is the challenge.  I love the twist they added on and I got the perfect stamp set in the mail yesterday for it!

I decided to use a die to cut out the image square and then attach it to a colored cardstock base. I like doing this as I can add a panel inside the card for the sentiment.  I added a couple of rhinestones to add just a touch of bling.

Supplies: beautiful baubles stamp set (stampin up), midnight and rouge ink (Catherine pooler), dotted rectangle dies (the stamps of life), baby bling rhinestones (want2scrap), colored pencils

Happy Easter CC70

Good morning everyone! I hope you have a fantastic day so far.  I wanted to share a card I made for a Easter Card challenge over at Soul Scrappers.  I found this one to be a bit challenging as I don't really have a lot of Easter supplies on hand.

I ended up finding some cute eggs on Cricut and a egg wreath for the background.  I dug through my stash of stamps and even found one that said Happy Easter! 

I used some thin washi tape to add some more color and Nuvo drops as my embellishments.  I like how they give just a bit of flair.