A Card for a Boy

I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to create my weekly Whimsy card for this week...too much sickness has been going around our house for a few weeks now. I am hoping that everyone has recovered now. I apologize for not having done a whole lot of blog commenting in the recent weeks.

I was working on my new release cards yesterday (for next week's blog hops), when I decided to create this quick card that requires no coloring. As much as I enjoy coloring, I also love just stamped cards, and I think it'll make a great card for one of the kid's class mates.

Just did some stamping and added washi tape and some designer papers. The circle sentiment was popped up using dimensionals. 

Products used:

Happy Birthday, Boy Talk

neenah &SU card stock, MME designer paper

washi tape

SU and distress ink

I am entering the card here:

Sister Act Card Challenge -  Anything Goes
Southern Girls -  Stars
Loves Rubber Stamps  - Anything Goes

Thanks so much for stopping by!

 Hope you have a wonderful and sunny weekend. 

I will be back with a new project on Tuesday for our Whimsy Stamps April release & blog hop.

Poppy and Bee

Happy Friday! It's my turn this Friday to post to the Just for Fun Rubber Stamps blog, and I created a CAS card for my post, using the beautiful stamp "Gathering Pollen". I love poppies and knew I had to have this one, as I don't have a big collection of Poppy stamps.

The frame is not part of the stamp, it was one more recently released stamp from JFF, and I thought it would work really well with this stamp. The frame was stamped first, then I stamped the flower to fit the bloom inside the frame. The bloom was stamped again onto xpress it blending card and colored with copic markers, then fussy cut. I adhered it then with pop up tape, but it's  hard to see in the photo. I colored the inside of the frame using a copic marker. The red and white striped paper is vellum paper. I stamped the sentiment onto a strip of card stock and then attached to my card.The only embellishment is glitter.

Stamps used:

Gathering Pollen, 2-sided background small

Friends are flower...sentiment

 PS...if you are in the Cambridge, Maryland region...

Rubber Stamp, Paper Arts
& Scrapbook Show

Stamping by the Sea
Cambridge, MD

It's SPRING outside so get out of the house &
 come join us for some  stamping FUN!

Saturday April 18, 9:00 am-5:00 pm
Sailwinds Park

200 Byrn Street, on the Choptank River
Cambridge, Maryland 21613
We are bringing NEW stamps and

Debby will be showing lots of fun exciting techniques showcasing them.

Come out, join the FUN and bring a friend!

 

For more show information: www.seasidestampin.com/sbs.html

Penny Black and More - April Challenge

Wishing all my blogging friends and readers a 

very Happy Easter, filled with lots of sunshine, love and happy memories.

It's the first Sunday of the month, and that means it's time for a new Penny Black and More challenge. We have another fun and easy theme for you - Birthdays. I hope you'll play along with us. You have until the end of the month to join us, and don't forget you don't have to use a Penny Black stamp, any company works, just no digi stamps.

For my card today I inked up some of my brand new favorites from Penny Black's Bring on the Happy Release. It took a while for these stamps to arrive at my house, but I am so happy that I finally got them and the wait was well worth it. By the way, all new stamps that I had on order are now finally available in my Etsy *Stamp* shop.

I didn't really intend for the background to look "beach-y" but somehow it does LOL. I guess no-one said you can't eat a cupcake on the beach :-) 

I started out by stamping my image using memento ink onto xpress it blending card. It's been colored using copic markers. I stamped the image again onto a sticky note, and cut out a mask to cover up my image on the card, so I could do some stenciling.

The beautiful stencil is also new from Penny Black - Hypnotic. I used SU's soft sky ink for stenciling. Another stencil was used on the bottom portion. Glittered the wings and a little bit of the icing and then stamped the sentiment. I didn't really plan on ever purchasing any Penny Black sentiment sets (because I have so many sentiments already), but really fell in love with their sentiments from this release, so I bought 3 (they are all available in my shop too.) 

I used another sentiment from this set "Sprinkles and Smiles" on the inside, and did some stenciling too. 

Products used:

cupcake, sprinkles and smiles, hypnotic stencil

(all 3 are available in my Etsy stamp shop)

MME designer paper, xpress card, recollections 110lb card stock

copics and pencils for coloring

washi tape, glitter, sequins

Thank you so much for stopping by. 

Happy Hello

Time for a little Whimsy inspiration, so I decided to turn this cutie, that I colored a few days ago, into a card. What a fun image to work with! It's been stamped onto blending card using memento ink and then colored using copic markers.

I kept the card clean and simple. Just added some designer paper to resemble a tree trunk, and cut out a "hill" for some grass. Added some washi tape and the sentiment, and then embellished with a flower, some twine and punched butterflies.

This stamp does come with a matching sentiment - Hang in there - but I chose to use a "happy hello" sentiment instead.

Products used:
Hanging in there,  Everyday Moments
(both by Whimsy Stamps)
xpress blending card, Prima designer paper, SU card stock
stitched border trio die set (Whimsy Stamps)
MS butterfly punch, glitter, flower, twine, brad
 copics for coloring

I am playing along here:
Everybody-Art-Challenge - Anything Goes
Bunny Zoe's Crafts - - Spring Colours

 

Thanks so much for visiting!!