Who Loves You?

This silly card was made using four little owl stamps, from the Paper Source, Impression Obsession, Inkadinkado and Sassafras Lass (Oliver and Friends).  I used the Inchie Inklings Inchie Card Sketch #3 for my layout and stamped each owl on an Inchie square, colored them with Copic markers and then matted them with two different shades of green card stock. 

The patterned paper and matching ribbon are from Adornit's Fern Collection - Owls All Around.  The sentiment is from Cornish Heritage Farm's U R A Hoot set.  Pretty simple, fun little card!

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Thank Ewe So Much!

Happy Thursday! Hope you are staying warm - it's 24 degrees here in not-so-Hotlanta. They are calling for snow this afternoon, which is a pretty rare occurrence here.

I made this card for Card Positioning Systems' CPS148 sketch challenge, which is sponsored by Gina K. Designs. The sheep and the sentiment are from Gina K.'s Down on the Farm set. They are paired with October Afternoon's Farm Fresh, Farm Yard paper - a match made in Heaven if you ask me! The sheep is stamped on an Inchie+ square (1 1/2 inches square), then I filled it in with some Liquid Applique. The doodles on the Inchie+ were done using a green Spica pen.

The striped ribbon is from Cosmo Cricket's Earth Love collection and the orange ribbon is from Martha Stewart. Pretty simple, but fun and I like the bright colors right about now!

Thanks for looking! Stay warm!

Inchie Birds

This is a card I made for Repeat Impressions using three stamps - the flying bird, the feathers and the nest with eggs. I stamped the bird on two Inchie squares and stamped the nest on the the third one. They were each colored with Copic markers and matted on squares of the patterned paper. The edges of each of the squares were distressed with Ranger Distress Antique Linen and Vintage Photo inks. All images were stamped with Memento Rich Cocoa ink.

The panel on the left was cut from a larger sheet I stamped randomly with the bird and the feathers. The SEI Love Notes patterned paper, from the Love Birds collection, was a perfect match to the bird theme.

Not much to it, but it's fun to play with the Inchies occasionally! Hope your week is going well so far! Thanks for looking!

Best fishes!

I made this card last month for Ellen Hutson's Inchie Challenge, but just realized that I didn't post it here at the time. The theme was 'top coat', and my top coat was a layer of Glossy Accents over the goldfish bowl. The coloring was done with Copic markers and the inchie was edged with a silver leafing pen. The inchie was mounted on the card with foam tape to add a little dimension.

The embossed border around the inchie was made using two of my square Nestabilities - I love that look.

The watery-looking paper at the bottom of the card was made using a background stamp from Stamp Camp and my Ranger Big and Juicy Waterfall ink pad. I topped it off with a little ric rac to resemble waves.

These little inchies are a lot of fun to play with if you haven't tried it.

Hope you're having a good week!

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Card details:

Card stock: Papertrey Ink Kraft

Stamps: Lockhart Stamp Company, Inkadinkado, Stamp Camp

Ink: Memento Black, VersaMagic, Ranger Big & Juicy

Miscellaneous: Glossy Accents, Copic markers, ric rac, Nestabilities, Silver leafing pen

Happy Birthday, Leigh Ann!

This is a birthday card I made for a very special someone. It's for my niece's 15th birthday, which is today. This card is actually a three-fer - it's Leigh Ann's birthday card, it's my submission for the July Inchie Inkling challenge and I used the Stampin Diva's sketch from a couple of weeks ago.

I used half of a 12x12 sheet of DCWV scalloped paper as my card base. All of the other papers are from Basic Grey's Oh Baby Girl collection. The glittery striped paper I used for the butterfly is from Making Memories Garden Party collection. The focal image is Lockhart Stamp Company's Itty Bitty Lavender. The sentiment and the frames around the lavender image were cut out using my Nestabilities and I also used my ticket corner punch on the sentiment. Copics were used to color the lavender image and then I highlighted the flowers, stems and bows with my Spica markers for a little extra shine. The butterfly was created with my Martha Stewart butterfly punch and I added a few self-adhesive rhinestones down the center to create a body for her. I finished it off with a few butterfly and flower brads.

Here's my favorite picture of Leigh Ann and me, back when she was just three or so. I love the expression on her cute little pudgy face. She is growing up to be a terrific, athletic, smart and beautiful girl. Niece Leigh Ann, I hope you like your card and I hope you have a wonderful birthday!

Hope you all have a great week - I'm just happy to be spending it at home. This has been a travel-filled summer for me and I'm weary of being away. Hopefully I'll have some time during the week to make some new cards and post them here. Then maybe Jenny will stop nagging me...

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Card Details:

Cardbase - DCWV

Patterned Paper - Basic Grey; Making Memories

Stamps - Lockhart Stamp Company (lavender); Stampabilities (sentiment)

Ribbon - May Arts

Brads - Making Memories

Punches - Martha Stewart; Stampin' UP!

Rhinestones - My Mind's Eye

Markers - Copic; Copic Spica

Ink - Versa Magic Chalk Ink - Eggplant; Memento Tuxedo Black

Happy Day!

Happy Monday! I created this card for the store this weekend using a little more of the paper I used for the last card I posted. I also played with one of my new Lockhart Company inchie stamps. They are fun to color and go fairly quickly due to their small size, so they are good for coloring practice! I colored a white flower border strip with some chalk inks to get it to match the paper better.

One of the other items I was asked to use on a card for the store was the pink Heidi Swapp Chandelier Crystal that is hanging from the flower border with the sentiment attached. The sentiment was cut out with my new Stampin'UP! word punch, as were the border pieces for it. I cut the largest border piece with the punch and then cut a little off the end of the sentiment and the middle border piece to have them graduated.

Thanks for stopping by. Hope you have a happy day!

Card Details:
Patterned Paper – KI Memories Bloom Trellis
Solid Paper – Marco’s Paper – Stardreams Stationery
Stamps – Lockhart Stamp Company; Amuse Artstamps
Flower trim – Doodlebug Design paper frills
Inks – Memento Tuxedo Black; Colorbox Chalk inks – Amber Clay and Burnt Sienna
Markers – Copic Spica
Colored Pencils – Koh-i-Noor
Other – Spellbinders Nestabilities – classic squares; Ranger - Yellow Stickles; word punch – Stampin’ UP!; Gamsol and paper stumps