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The Challenge theme at Impression Obsession is Pick a Holiday ... Any Holiday ... and I chose Father's Day.
Since I also like to send Father's Day Cards to my brothers (who are awesome fathers), I combined one of my favorite Beatles lyrics In My Life with Retro Masculine die cuts from Impression Obsession.
Layout is from Paper Craft Crew Challenges.
We're still creating vintage cards at Jingle Belles this week. I had so much fun last week, I created another glue-as-you-go collage with a combination of vintage elements from my stash.
This time I started with a page from a vintage Pressure Cooker Recipe book.
I added some gum drops and vintage stamps before finishing with a vintage Santa, some champagne gems and a metallic sticker sentiment.
Another week of blogland discoveries:
Have a tremendous Thursday.
Oops ... I let myself run out of Thank You Cards ... so tonight I made a few quick ones using the My Favorite Things Wednesday Sketch Challenge.
I started with the Rectangle Peek-a-Boo Window ... and then stamped Geometric Greenery on some Paint Samples
I die cut my Greenery and stamped a sentiment from the same set ... quick & easy peasy.
I did the same thing for my second card, this time using a larger sentiment from Thanks So Very Much.
I was thrilled to receive at shout-out at the very first Library Challenge.
Come visit me at the Technique Junkies Blog where this week I'm joining their third challenge with a card using the Technique Junkies Sketch Challenge (you have until April 15th to Link-Up a Sketch card for a chance to win free stamps ... and who doesn't want free stamps).
Remember, if you go shopping at Technique Junkies, use my discount code TJ10Stephanie for 10% off your purchase.
When I saw the theme at Retro Rubber Challenge was Anything Goes, I decided to do some "old school" stamping tonight with some wood block stamps in my vintage collection.
My Stampington & Company Large Snowboarder is at least 8 years old. I bought it because it reminds me of my brother. He loves snowboarding and sent me a text this week about how much he enjoys it ... this card is inspired by him.
I used some blue and metallic gold watercolors to paint my mountain on a piece of watercolor paper ... and then used the same colors to do a rather abstract paint job on my snowboarder. The sentiment is from 2007 by Wordsworth by Rubber Soul (also a wood mount stamp).
I will confess, my MISTI has spoiled me ... but I was glad to see that I could still go "old school" and ink-up some of my favorites.
I am loving these coordinating Truly Taylored papers & stamps from Stampin' Up for guy cards.
The layout is this week's Paper Players Sketch.
It's been fun collaborating with Joy Clair Stamps for the month of March.
Today I combined stamps from Joy Clair's Christmas Coffee & Ugly Sweater Background Builder (I love how the repeated design elements work together).
I've been staring at the Essentials by Ellen Inspiration March Pin-Sights Challenge Photo Montage for some time now ... and my eyes kept coming back to those layered squares of color.
I went to my scrapbox and found most of the colors in the palette on the right, and then cut them into 1" and 1 1/4" squares.
I stamped the Mermaid in White Craft ink and embossed with white embossing powder on a scrap of teal cardstock. I wanted to make it shimmer, so I added some Brutus Monroe Texture paste over the embossing for a subtle golden glow.
I finished with one of the sentiments in the EBE Mermaid's Tail Set, which pretty much describes how I feel this week ... and a few *bubbles* with glittery enamel dots from Eyelet Outlet.
The design teams from My Sweet Petunia and Pink & Main are having a fun Blog Hop today.
This stamp company was new to me, so I had fun choosing from their fabulous stamps and dies ... and I also played with some of their designer papers (they are two-sided ... love that) and Glossy Dots.
First ... I have a long-time love of tiny sentiments, and they have an awesome selection. And I couldn't resist pairing them with these adorable little Planner Peekers (they are meant for planners, but are perfect for card-making).
I started with the Owl who looked super-serious in those too-big glasses, so I paired him with some "Get It Done!" sentiments. I used two from the Planner Peekers and one from Get Fit. My MISTI makes it so easy to get the alignment I want (I started out with them straight, but decided I liked it better a little wonky) and then stamp them all together.
I colored him a dark blue and paired him with the Beach Bum papers (awesome for masculine designs).
I finished with a coordinating wrap of twine.
The Unicorn seemed much less serious, so I paired her with papers from the Rainbow Collection & sentiments from Planner Peekers and Happy Mail (again ... love the tiny sentiments)
I colored my unicorn in shades of Hydrangea Blue with a silver sparkly horn.
This one is also for the Paper Made Bakery Tic Tac Toe Challenge ... where I went with Bold Sentiment, Red & Twine.
For the final in my trio, I re-stamped the Panda directly on my robin egg blue card base. I was able to line up all of my stamps on my MISTI and stamp it at once (which would be adorable for making sets). The sentiments are from Happy Mail.
Love this cute little guy.
I used a strip of paper from the Beach Bum Collection & finished with some Eyelet Outlet Enamel Heart stickers.
The next set I fell in love with was the set of Easter Icon Stamps ... I love stamps that can be punched out with a circle punch (again, takes me back to things I fell in love with when I started stamping many years ago).
I decided to find colors that I could pair with those vibrant Rainbow Collection Papers.
So much spring fun ... and of course, perfect coverage when I stamp with my MISTI. I used a 1 3/4" punch, which left a nice border.
I made another trio of cards with a variation on a theme.
I couldn't resist those sweet little bunnies in jelly bean colors. I added a sticker sentiment to finish the design.
This card is also for the Here Comes Peter Cottontail Challenge at Shopping Our Stash.
The little check felt like he needed to be yellow, so I paired him with two other Icons stamped in Orange on Yellow Cardstock and attached them with foam tape for dimension ... I added some of those Glossy Dots with the Rainbow Paper.
This one is also inspired by the If You Give a Crafter A Cookie Challenge (aren't those cookies adorable).
For the final design using these stamps, I made a spring card using three stamped butterflies and a sentiment from a tiny extra set that was included with my order called Flower Mouse on a 4" x 8" card base.
I also couldn't resist trying the Coordinating Dies & Stamp sets from Pink & Main ... I chose Congrats ... perfect for babies, weddings, new home, graduation, or any event that deserves a congrats (there is a sentiment for each).
I love that there is a die cut for both an outline and the word to really make the word pop ... It was perfect to use with all of the paper scraps from the Rainbow Paper Collection that I had on my studio table (and do you see ... more awesome tiny sentiments).
I wouldn't resist adding a few more of those fun Glossy Dots to finish.
Keep hopping along for more fun ... we will choose two lucky commenters from the hop to win one of two prizes: a $50 shopping spree at My Sweet Petunia or a $50 shopping spree at www.pinkandmain.com - leave your comments no later than Sunday, March 25th, at 11:59 PM CST and winners will be announced on Tuesday April 3rd, on the PInk & Main and My Sweet Petunia blogs.
Stephanie Severin <---- YOU ARE HERE
