Stempel Spass

The wonderful Darnell from djcardkreations  is celebrating her birthday today!  HAPPY BIRTHDAY you sweetheart! I wish you many more. I love seeing your new creations and your blogposts - they are a treat to read! You have inspired my at so many levels - thank you! I am sure everyone knows Darnell - if not you better head over to her wonderful blog..... Darnell, this is for you: I hope you like it! I got inspired by this weeks "Masking with die cuts" over at  Make it Mondays . The super talented Erin Lincoln is showing us how to do this expertly. Its a great video to watch! So I went to "work" on this card. I diecut post it notes for masking, sponged around them and then stamped in the flowers, deliberately leaviing an off center white border around the stamps. the happy is die cut from a paint chip. All supplies are by Papertrey. Added some tiny white dots and some sprinkles of Mr. Huey. There is a linky Party going on over at Ardyths b...

There is a brand new challenge out there created by  Jackie Rockwell - I am sure you know her - she is a dynamo when it comes to creating challenges! Its called: Right now there is a GDT search and I am trying to just squeeze in here at the last moment with this card: The challenge is to CASE a card from the inspiration cards below: As you can see I chose Amy Kollings card - at the left bottom, just because I liked it, had little time and I remembered those already put together die cuts in my snippets pile from a prior card (see HERE ). I added the flowers - also left over scraps and Paper Candi. The die cuts are Papertrey Beautiful Blooms and Rainbow Stripes. The sentiment is Paper Smooches - Sentiment sampler. And, since it involved so many snippets its going into the Snippets Playground ! And Paper Smooches has anything goes this week - I know, its only the sentiment this time...... Thanks for visiting and have a great day!

This weeks Make it Monday  is the brainchild of the super talented Betsy Veldman  who inspires us to make our own cover plates. This is really easy, if you have an unlimited supply of Papertrey products. However, if you don't it becomes quite tricky. I thought it would be easy, but no its not - at least not for me.....The problem with the older Papertrey dies is, that you can't break them apart - like the matching dies for my all time favorite set Happy Trails, which I first thought I'm going to use. So rummaging through my PTI box I found that the only dies I have are from the set Beautiful Blooms and that was that.... And here is the card: Its a little tricky to do, since the dies are only minimally larger than the stamps - so you can't really stamp into the opening as Betsy showed us in her video. I laid the card stock with the negative die cuts onto the card and traced around with a pencil. I removed the negative die cut and stamped into the traced out...

Betsy Feldman  shows us a cool technique on this weeks  Make It Monday . She calls it "Drop Shadow Die Cuts". Its simple, yet effective. I had to try it..... Looks cool right? All die cuts and stamps are Papertrey, except the "happy" - that's from Paper Smooches.  I am also playing in the Curtain call challenge this week. The delicious inspiration photo is below. Guess what the centers of my flowers are......... ......you got it!  Mini Marshmallows I am also linking this card with: Creative Friday  -   Kraft Snippets Playground   - everything die cut is made with snippets And just to show you the snow we had 2 days ago - now imagine that with an additional layer of perhaps 6 inches of heavy, wet snow followed by icy rain....... Stay warm!

Hi, just a quick post - I have been so busy with so  many things, but thought I share two cards I made recently and since both involve stripes I thought I may as well link them up with this week's Paper Smooches challenge ...... Both have Washi tape - I am getting more comfortable using it....The sentiment is Paper Smooches - Sentiment sampler, some enamel dots and the flowers are from PTI.  I hope you like them. See you tomorrow - its going to be a BIG day! I am also linking this with the  Simon Says Wednesday challenge  - CAS

Today is blog hop day  at Papertrey   yeahh! And again there are delicious color choices.... For my first card I choose this picture and combined it with the challenge that's going on right now at Crazy for CAS , for which I choose this sketch from challenge #16:                And that is the card that came out of this: I masked the squares, die cut the flowers, colored them with ink pads and embellished them with little link circles and a drop of glossy accents. The sentiment is from the Papertrey Happy Trails set. I added 3 dots of liquid pearls. I am going to work on my second card now...