The February Penny Black Saturday Challenge is to incorporate Hearts or Flowers.
I started with a Penny Black Masterpieces Made Simple Adorable Amore. I love how they fit exactly into the Penny Black Stitches of Love Dies to add a bit more texture.
I used the current Atlantic Hearts Sketch with a Penny Black Music Lines Sticker and another sticker sentiment.
I'm also linking-up at The Male Room Nature Challenge with my sweet winter scene.
The February Poppystamps Challenge is Me & You ... the perfect opportunity to create another valentine.
I started by die cutting the Poppystamps Heart Confetti Collage from some lovely salmony pink glitter paper. I backed it with a soft pink marker colored paper.
Next I used the Sketch from Try Stampin' (or Not) on Tuesday and used some handmade chalk paper for the background (you can see how I made it here).
I die cut the hearts collage a second time and added hearts inside the hearts finishing with a Doodlebug Sprinkle Heart. I replaced the heart in the sketch with a sentiment from Memory Box Big and Little Valentines stamped on the other scrap of the marker colored paper.
I'm also joining the Somebody to Love Challenge at little red wagon.
Cathy Zielske's Love Your Guts Die Cut is one of my favorites, so I decided to pair it with one of my Gel Prints and some vellum for some fun Valentines. I just love the combination of purple & lime green.
I'm linking this one up at the Country View Be Sentiment Challenge.
Since I had the papers out, I reversed the colors and made a second version. I added some clear embellishment bubbles to this one.
This one is linking-up at the Crafting Happiness Love Challenge.
The current Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers Challenge is G is for Glitter.
The only glitter I really like to create with is glitter paper where none of the glitter rubs off ... otherwise I invariably find glitter on my skin & all over my studio for days.
Today in the mail I got new Love You Gallery Script layering die cuts from Memory Box, so I decided to try them out on some glitter paper to see if I could create a Snarky Valentine.
I layered white cardstock on top of the red glitter and then attached the die cuts to a blue Gel Print from my stash. I added a few Eyelet Outlet Enamel Hearts and a perfect snarky sentiment sticker.
I finished with a mat of more red glitter paper on a white cardstock base.
I'm also joining the Global Design Project Love Challenge and Crafting Happiness Love Challenge.
Last year at our Scrapbook House Outing, I made lots of fun Alcohol Ink Panels. This one featured lots of pinks including new glittery alcohol inks from Couture Creations. It's glittery all over, but in the photo it's most visible at the top left and
I die cut the panel with a stitched rectangle and then cut the small Essentials by Ellen heart out of the center. I die cut the next size of Essentials by Ellen Essentials Heart and put it over the opening in the back panel before attaching the smaller die cut heart with foam tape for dimension. I added an Essentials by Ellen Valentine Vibes sentiment in the center of the small heart.
I finished with some Pinkfresh Studio Essentials Crystals.
I'm joining the Cut It Up Challenge where the theme is Love & the Love is in the Air Challenge at Make My Monday.
When I saw this chalk printing video by Cassie Stephenz, I knew I didn't have the high pigment chalk she used, but I was curious if any of the chalks I had in my studio might produce a similar effect.
All I could find were these vintage Pebbles Shimmer Chalks, so I figured I would give it a try. I used a blade to pull out the half-circles of chalk & shave them onto the top of the water.
I tried four different color combinations after my initial blues, and pulled these four prints ... not as vibrant as Cassie's, but still pretty cool. I sprayed the paper with clear varnish spray to keep the chalk from rubbing off onto my fingers and everything else.
I used the yellow and coral print at the top right to make this card with the Simon Says Stamp CZ Design Love You Sending Sunshine Die Cut cut from coral cardstock & vellum..
I am so grateful to have so many people in my life who could be the recipient of this card.
I made it with four different Uniko Stamps to celebrate Uniko's 10th Birthday with an Instagram Shared design.
I used the colors from The Paper Players Color Challenge to stamp Uniko Mid-Century Modern, Uniko Mid-Century Modern II and Uniko Background Blocks Wonky Stripes and then I die cut them with large & small Hexagon dies. I positioned it all on a Bermuda Bay card base.
I stamped the sentiment from Uniko You Are ... Sentiments Outline in black and die cut with a rectangle Nested Notch Die. I finished with some dots in coordinating colors.
The theme at Shopping our Stash is My Heart BEETS for you - to make a card featuring Hearts or Vegetables (or both).
We're big Schrute Farms fans at our house (it's the name of my husband's fantasy baseball team), so there we have several pieces of beet-themed art. And of course, I couldn't resist this fun BEETS for You stamp set from Unity Stamp Company.
I inked it using Chianti & Shady Lane Versafine Clair ink (a shout out to DelBellos Designs for having the remainder of the refills I needed) and stamped on watercolor paper. I also stamped the sentiment from the set and die cut with a Spellbinders Heart Die Cut.
Next I cut more hearts from a piece of brayered paint paper in my stash and then assembled my card, finishing with tiny epoxy hearts.
I tried another Distress Oxide ink-blending combination using the colors from Hand Stamped Sentiments (which I translated to Speckled Egg, Dried Marigold & Brushed Corduroy).
I used the layout from the TGIF Challenges and the Simon Say Stamp Frame It Challenge to complete my design. I cut my blended panel in half and flipped one side before trimming it into 2 pieces.
I added a frame from My Favorite Things Single Stitch Line Tag - Corner Rectangle Frames together with My Favorite Things Die-Namics Fab Foliage. Sentiment is from My Favorite Things Essential Sentiments. I finished with some white sparkling enamel dots.
With my Fab Foliage, I'm also joining the Little Red Wagon Challenge where the theme is Nature, Flora or Fauna.
One thing that has changed about my crafting since March is the joy of doing it on Video Calls with crafty friends. I was so used to crafting in solitude ... but being able to talk with others and hear about their lives and how quarantine is going in different corners of the world has been life-saving for me.
So what better theme for my card making during today's video call than Quarantine Cards.
I started with this fun drinking sticker from Quarantine: Social Distancing Quotes from A Vintage Girl & Her Daughter and built my card around it ... remember if you want any of these stickers, using my code SMILYNSTEF at checkout will get you 15% off your purchase.
I used this week's Sketch from the Inspire.Create Challenge and some fun drinking papers from my stash. I finished with enamel dots framing my sticker sentiment. I loved how it perfectly coordinated with one of the local beers in our refrigerator.
The next one used stickers from both Quarantine: Social Distancing Quotes and Quarantined Out.
I used a bingo card from my stash together with lots of coordinating papers and the Layout from Sketch Saturday.
I accented the quotes with some fun floral gems. This card is inspired by my sister's 40th Birthday celebration this last week ... there was a lot of Quarantine Chill.
The final card uses stickers from super-fun Quarantine Time sticker sheet.
I combined three of the stickers from this set together with a hand-washing sticker from Quarantined Out for another fun bingo card design.
I used this week's Freshly Made Sketch and finished my Bingo Card with some pink gem clusters.
