Loves Rubber Stamps Challenge 72 - "Hipster Baby"

I am so honored to be Guest Designer over at Loves Rubber Stamps for the month of October.  The Design Team and Laura Love have some serious talent and they inspire me creatively! In fact, I had some performance anxiety and wanted to make sure my card was special enough.  I ended up really iking this little guy and this card, so that is a plus!

This week is ANYTHING GOES, so come along and play with us this week at Loves Rubber Stamps Challenge Blog and check out what the Design Team created.   

Challenge 72 is sponsored by Shape EZ, which you can find over at Whimsy Stamps.  Shape EZ are downloadable templates and cut files that you use to create special cards and projects.  They come in all kinds of fun shapes, so definitely check it out.


So for Loves Rubber Stamps Challenge 72 "Anything Goes" I used a Saturated Canary image.  You can find all kinds of Saturated Canary stamps over at Loves Rubber Stamps Store. 

This baby is such a little hipster and so adorable!  I love his onesie, so I used little onesie snaps at the 4 corners as an embellishment - did you notice?

Materials Used:

Image - Saturated Canary

Coloring - Copics

Paper - Recollections

Cardstock - Cryogen

Embellishments - Candi Dots colored black with Copics; onesie metal snaps; Star from stash

Die - My Favorite Things banner die (for the candle, I cut off the bottom point)

Layout - From Digi Sketch Challenges

Challenges Entering:

Digi Sketch - Layout and Theme "For The Boys" (Oct. 5)
C is For Challenge - Boys/Men (Oct. 12)
Here Come The Boys - Challenge 61 Baby Boy (Oct.4)
That Craft Place - Challenge Baby (Oct. 12)
Paper Crafting Journey - For a Boy (Oct. 9)
Crafty Sentiments - Favorite Technique or Color (BLACK &RED) (Oct. 7)

7Kids Challenge Blog - Anything Goes with Marker (Oct. 8)

Loves Rubber Stamps Challenge 72 - "Hanging Around"

I am so honored to be Guest Designer over at Loves Rubber Stamps for the month of October that I made 2 cards for this first Challenge! Ok, overkill but I am really geeked out!

This week is ANYTHING GOES, so come along and play with us at Loves Rubber Stamps Challenge Blog and check out what the Design Team created.   

Challenge 72 is sponsored by Shape EZ, which you can find over at Whimsy Stamps.  Shape EZ are downloadable templates and cut files that you use to create special cards and projects.  They come in all kinds of fun shapes, so definitely check it out.

So for this card I used a Tiddly Inks stamp set called Hang In There. You can find all kinds of cute Tiddly Inks stamps over at Loves Rubber Stamps Store. You can't go wrong with Wryn!

This is such a cheerful stamp and image so I wanted to use cheerful colors.  

Materials used:

Tiddly Inks Polymer Stamp set - "Hang In There"

Lawn Fawn Polymer Stamp set (bird) - "Home Sweet Home"

Copic Markers - Various colors shown above

Spellbinders Nestabilities - Standard Large Circles & Scalloped Circles

C.C.Designs Die - Olive branch cutters

Recollections Paper - Sweet Flora

Sizzix Framelits Die - Message Frames

Sweet & Sassy Stamps - Cloudes & Raindrops Die Set

Fiskars Grass Punch

Stash - twine, velvet ribbon & blue flowers

Challenges entering:

Tiddly Inks - Challenge 119 "Anything Goes (Oct. 14)
Robyn's Fetish - Challenge 179 Nature (Oct. 5):
Oozak - Challenge 23 "Anything goes" (Oct. 15)
ABC Challenge - W is For "Words" (Oct. 12)
Crafty Sentiments - Favorite Technique or Color (technique reverse die cut) (Oct. 7):
7Kids Challenge Blog - Anything Goes with Marker (Oct. 8)

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I {Heart} Card Sketch 36: Cool Dino

Good Morning Crafties!  Today at From the Heart Stamps Sketch Challenge we have another fabulous Sketch created by the super talented Calypso.          

                                                                    <<<Here is Sketch 036!

I used the "Cool Dinosaur" stamp and he comes with some great sentiments too!

Here is the card I made for my nephew Rylen's birthday in October. 

Materials used:

From the Heart Stamps - Cool Dino Digi Stamp

Copics

Echo Park "Here & Now" Designer Paper

Red Cardstock

White Cryogen Cardstock for Dino & Sentiment

Sewing machine for red zig-zag

Stash button & twine

Hope you play along with us.  Remember, EVERYONE who enters will receive $1 to FromTheHeartStamps.com. Use it as a discount, or save them up to earn a free stamp. I’ll have a new sketch for you next week. Linky will close on Sunday at 10PM CST.

Challenges Entering:

Melonheadzfriends - Animal Challenge (Oct. 13)

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4 x 4 Snowman

Here is another cutie 4 x 4 card I made for FatTastic Tuesdays Use a Charm Challenge.   I handmade the bead charm.  The snowman I used very light Gray alcohol markers to try to get shadow on white.  Coloring white is hard, but I like the result! 

Image - 

Stamp is from Cosmo Cricket Jolly Days

paper is also from Cosmo Cricket Jolly Days

Neenah cardstock on snowman

Kraft Cardstock behind snowman

Stash ribbon & handmade charm with glass beads

Challenges entering:

Fat Tastic Tuesday - Challenge #2 "Use a Charm" (Sept. 31)

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{Charming} Owls...

Over at Fat Tastic Tuesday Challenge Blog, the Challenge this week is to use a charm on a 4 x 4 card. Sooooo I thought it would be a great opportunity to dust off the old beads (I used to make bead bracelets).  Wow! Am i out of practice.  It was super hard to loop the chain and attach these beads to the "mom" Charm.  I definitely need to make more charms!

The adorable owl digi is a new release at Handmade Harbour.  There are lots of great stamps there, check it out.  

Materials used:

Image - Handmade Harbour "owl" digi stamp

Paper - Recollections

Coloring - Copics

Charm & ribbon - Stash

Challenges entering:

Fat Tastic Tuesday - Challenge #2 "Use a Charm" (Sept. 31)

Self-Portrait....

"Captured Memories" is the sentiment and I am not sure how this turned out a self portrait, but this project had a life of it's own.  I love these Dilly bean images because they are a little quirky.  The Dilly Beans challenge was to use ribbon, and I wanted to try a different route so I punched holes in the card and did "Corset" kind of ribbon tie.  Hope you like it!

This is the layout I used from Sketch N Stash:

You can never have too many tiny clothes pins when you are a carmaker!

Materials used:

Image - Dilly Beans

Polaroid frame - Lawn Fawn

Sentiment - printed from computer

Camera paper - Echo Park "Here & Now" love love love this paper!

Cardstock - Neenah

Coloring - Copics

Challenges entering:

Dilly Beans  - Ribbons Challenge (Sept. 27)

Sketch and Stash Challenge -Challenge 122 Sketch (Oct. 7)
Creative Fingers  - Challenge 3 "Make it Shine" (I added a rhinestone for some sparkle!) (Sept. 26)
Pennys Papercrafty  - Challenge 149 2 types of paper (Sept. 24)
Card Making Mamas - Challenge 74 For the Kids (Sept. 31)
Handmade Harbour - Midweek paper craft party (DT, not eligible for prizes)
Whoopsie Daisy - Ribbons & bows (Sept. 29)

I {Heart} Card Sketches 035

Good Morning crafties!  Well this is my first "unofficial" post as a DT member at From the Heart Stamps.  I say unofficial, because I technically start on October 1 - so I jumped the gun a little.  Shhhhhh......

I had a couple ideas and wanted to use From the Heart Stamps Sketch 035 as the layout.  It's really a fun layout.

I wanted to make a card with a slider component.  I used my Craft Knife to cut the small slider line.  The curves where easier to make with a regular hole punch.  Then I attached 2 pennies with 3-D tape and put one side under the slider and the top side I glued the bunny image to it.  Now bunny can slide back and forth.

Also, I wanted to use a non-Autumn digi and make it look like an Autumn image.  I chose this super cute Spring digi from From The Heart Stamps called Bunny Hello.  As you can see it's kind of a Spring image.

See how Fall/Autumn it looks with different coloring and sentiment! That's what I love about digital images, you can really change it up.

This little bunny slides left and right.  My kids loved playing with it, so it's definitely kid approved.  Give Sketch 035 a try and play along in our challenge From the Heart Stamps Sketch Challenge.  

Materials Used:

Image -From The Heart Stamps Bunny Hello digital image

Coloring - Copics

Slider - 2 pennies; 3-d "dot" tape; Craft knife

Sentiment - I made it on the computer and printed it

Embellishments and paper - Michael's Recollections

Die - Fiskar's grass die

Challenges entering:

Card Makin Mamas - Challenge 74 For Kids (Sept. 30)
Creative Fingers - Make it Shine Challenge 3 (Sept. 27)
Marker Pop - Challenge 31 Fall (Oct. 1)

Created With Love - Challenge 59 Fall Colors (Sept. 28)
Crazy Challenge Blog - Challenge 154 - Colour Challenge (Sept. 29)
Paper Nest Dolls  - Challenge 13 Happy Fall (Sept. 27)
Dis Digi Designs - Fabulous Fall Colors (Sept. 27)
Get Inky Challenge - Challenge 13 Birds, Bees Flowers & Trees (flowers & trees & leaves (Sept. 28)

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