Stempel Spass

There are already so many gorgeous cards at the RIC#27 ......  Here is my take on it - quickly, before Linky closes. I used the Memory Box Bare Oak stamp for this card. The little blue leaves I found in my ancient Hero Arts Birds Branch alphabet set. I colored the leaves with my Marvy Markers, since I don't have such a vibrant blue ink pad. The sentiment is Papertrey (Mixed Messages)  --x-- Every once in a while I make those delicious breakfast cookies - they are pretty big and one of them is enough for breakfast, which I bring to work and have it with a cup of coffee. My hubby devours them for dessert after dinner - so they really do not last very long.  And that's how you make them: Breakfast Cookies 1 cup whole wheat flour 1 cup all-purpose flour     1 t baking soda ¼ t coarse salt 2 sticks butter – room temperature (I use about 2 T less) 1 ½ c...

The German KIS challenge has Frame as a theme, and so does the Tuesday Throwdown challenge .  A while ago I attended a fabulous class by Fred Mullett and got myself that cool octopus stamp. I thought it pairs well with the framed octopus. I inked it with a multicolored ink pad and I masked the framed octopus stamp. I then inked the upper and left margin of a white card, since I did not have a matching background paper and glued the octopus onto it. No sentiment - it already has one in Japanese - maybe somebody knows, what it says - let me know, that would be interesting! I hope you like it! Looking forward to your comments ;)

Pink, grey and green - not a color combination I would think of normally. But here is my card for the 10 minute craft dash: I inked up my new Hero Arts Tweed background stamp with grey pigment ink, clear embossed it and colored it with Copics. The sentiment is Hero Arts as well (Essential Messages). The embossing almost did me in - tok a long time, but then the coloring is so much easier. It took me 9 minutes and 49 seconds to finish the card - just enough time to put some gems on it - took me about 20 seconds to find them..... Thanks for looking! Have a great day!

This weeks  Less is More  challenge has "Sports" as a theme. I have a paucity of sports stamps and the few I have I did not feel like using. So I searched the internet for a suitable sentiment ( by Eric Shanteau) to make this card "fit the challenge". I am sure those ladies will have a great time swimming after their drinks.... The stamp is from Art Impressions, colored with Copics. Thanks everybody for your nice comments on my prior blog posts - I so appreciate you taking the time to leave a note.  And here are some more of my Ithaca pictures: Today we have ice rain and slush outside, so that kind of fits.   I hope you liked them.

I always fall for geometric shapes. Naturally I had to have this Hero Arts background stamp. Isn't it gorgeous? I stamped it up first with Versamark and then with grey distress ink and clear embossed it. I colored it with markers. The sentiment is from Simon Says - the "absolutely " set. I used the paper players color palette for their Challenge #128 - such pretty combo!

This week challenge at CAS-ual Fridays is "  Round of Applause- CAS cards that celebrates an accomplishment, and feature at least one circle".  A   while back I found that beautiful clock on  Pinterest  and always thought I should make that into a card. And then I got my Simon Stamps order yesterday and - VOILA - this card "emerged".......... I used my Spellbinders dies and my brand new Simon Says ABSOLUTELY die/stamp combo. I die cut it twice, once in dark red and once in white and glued it with a slight off-set together to give some dimension and shadow. The die cut is mounted with pop-dots. The You're is a partially inked up sentiment from Hero Arts (Sending smiles messages) I also submitted this card to the Inky chicks first challenge - anything goes. I LOVE that "theme"!!

Feeling Sketchy has this pretty layout  this week. It is such a well balanced sketch. It reminded me about this neglected frame stamp that I have in my closet from "Just for Fun" - time to pull it out and re-ink! Here is my take on the sketch: The hearts are from Hero Arts (Hugs N Hearts) and the sentiment is Penny Black (all you need...) The punched out heart is made with a Marvy punch. Again I used one of those handy dandy Home Depot paint chips. First I punched a couple of hearts with the solid color, but then I thought its kind od neat if I line up that white strip with the black strip from the frame and I left it at that. This card is a little busy for me, but I still like it!