Animal Antics

Just popping in very quickly with a little card that I have made for my daughter for Valentines.  Not very traditional but I have figured out that I am not a traditionalist and that's ok.  I'm going to enter this card for the current challenge over at Simon Says Stamp, which is "Animal Antics".

My card uses all Paper Smooches stamps as they have some cute animal stamps.

Paper: cardstock (PTI); designer paper (MME - Blush)
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black; Memento Tuxedo Black; Copics
Stamps: Paper Smooches (A Little Lovin; Pretty Phrases)
Other: dimensional foam adhesive; clear embossing powder

My card is 4 X 4 and on the front panel I have scored a margin which is covered with some pretty paper from my My Mind's Eye paper pad called Blush.  That little margin is adhered on the inside of the card.

I coloured "Natasha" with copics and then stamped the image again, coloured "Mommy", trimmed and adhered her with dimensional adhesive, I wanted to give the impression of nurturing and protecting my little girl, which is what I love to do most!

I hope you like it!  Thanks for coming by to take a peek and have a wonderful day!

You're Special

The idea for todays card came from yesterdays Clean & Simple Online Card class.  So last night I was playing around and made a small card for my niece using the Hero Arts "Flower Wall Paper" cling stamp.  I like the fun idea of stamping the stamp on a strip of paper, and then stamping again and cutting out some elements to then adhere over the strip.  Ok, I know, that sounds confusing, so here is my little card:

Paper: Neenah Solar White; Hero Arts Layering paper; PTI cardstock
Ink:Versafine Onyx Black; Prismacolour pencils; HA Soft Yellow Shadow ink
Stamps: Hero Arts; Paper Smooches
Other: Dimensional foam

I just cut a banner out of the yellow cardstock and stamped the background onto it with the yellow shadow ink, it's very subtle, but it's there.  I then stamped the background again with black ink on Neenah cardstock and coloured in a few random flowers and fussy cut them out.  Finally, I adhered them with some dimensional foam for dimension.

The sentiment is from Paper Smooches' "Sentiment Sampler".

I can't believe that the online class is done!  Today was the last class.  I still have so many techniques and ideas to play with, perhaps I'll get some time this weekend!

I hope you have a great weekend planned ahead!  Take care!

Tuesday Trigger: Finesse The Dress

Don't you just love these colours! This is the inspiration trigger over at Moxie Fab World this week.  Love this combination.  My card is really based on the colours and I also picked up on some of the gloss and the flourishes, other than that, the image itself, as you will see, has ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with this beautiful dress, quite the contrary!!!

Paper: cardstock (PTI); Neenah Solar White
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; Copic Markers; Versafine Smokey Gray
Stamps: Paper Smooches (Falling For You); PTI (Fanciful Flourishes)
Other: Glossy Accents; dimensional dots

I just had to sue my Paper Smooches again, I love this set called "Falling For You"!  And I love that gray cardstock from PTI.

Simple card, a bit of glossy accents on the one heart and on the bat, and I also stamped a flourish under the sentiment strip.    And I popped up the bat with some dimensional dots, you can see it better here. This was fun to do.

Short post right now, got to go and get ready to go out for a bit.  Beautiful cool temperatures here today withs sunshine and bright blue skies!

Wishing you a fantastic day!

Halloween Or Fall

It's Halloween or Fall (for those who do not celebrate Halloween) over at Wee Memories AND the sponsor is lovely Paper Smooches!  Yippee!

I went with the Fall theme and a Paper Smooches stamp from "Falling For You".

Paper: cardstock (PTI); patterned paper (The Paper Studio - Affinity line)
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; Copic Markers
Stamps: Paper Smooches (Falling For You)
Other: Gems (Paper Studio); Nestabilities Die; Dimensional squares; Glossy Accents

I love this pattern paper with the perfect Fall feel and colours and wanted to use it in conjunction with this stamp from Paper Smooches.  I also added some Glossy Accents on the leaves. I have popped up parts of the acorn as well as the frame around it. You can see the dimension better here:

I like that touch of blue/turquoise that was in the paper.

Thanks for taking a peek.  I hope that you are having a fabulous weekend, it's eventually raining here,  oh so beautiful!

Sending Monster Love

(This is my 2nd post of the day, so please scroll down if you want to see my Christmas card).

I finally broke out the lovely "Falling For You" set from Paper Smooches which Kelly had sent me in our RAK exchange.  There is a challenge over at CR84FN blog, to use yellow, orange and brown, and I though I would give it a bash using this set.  I know, the inspiration photo is Fall, and I feel quite silly posting my rather, well, silly card, but it's a colour challenge, so, I used the colours!

Paper: notecard (Hero Arts); Neenah; cardstock (PTI)
Ink: Walnut Stain DI; Memento Tuxedo Black & Tangelo; Copic marker
Stamps: Paper Smooches (Falling For You); Hero Arts (Envelope Pattern); PTI (Bakcground Basics: Houndstooth)
Other: Twine (The Twinery); dimensional tape; Large Scallop Edge Die (MFT)

I stamped that monster onto some Neenah white cardstock and overstamped him with that gorgeous Houndstooth background from PTI, and trimmed him out.  I then stamped him again and cut out the tooth and the two eyes, coloured them with Copics and adhered them back onto the main image.  My monster is popped up using dimensional tape to the background mat which was stamped using the Envelope Pattern stamp from Hero Arts in Walnut Stain.  I added a strip of chocolate brown cardstock which I had used a scalloped die on and a little bit of twine.  The entire centre panel is also popped up on the notecard.

It was a quick, fun card to make and it has me smiling!