For today's card I used a Sketch from Global Design Project for a personalized graduation card.
I layered a Blue Alcohol Ink background with a star-filled Gel Press Print using foam tape for dimension.
I added a few more stars, a My Favorite Thing Arrow Greetings Die-Namics Congrats Banner and letters to personalize the card for the recipient (I love being able to do that).
I'm also joining the Seeing Stars Challenge at the Country View Challenges.
The theme at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers is W is for Wicked.
Halloween is the one holiday whose stamps I keep filed by theme vs. manufacturer, so I pulled out my drawer to see what might work. I settled on the main sentiment from The Project Bin Haunt It!, which is from 2016, so I'm also linking-up at the Anything Goes theme at the Retro Rubber Challenge.
I took a little liberty with the Sunday Stamps Sketch Challenge by reversing the stacking of the elements (since cutting my sentiment in two wouldn't really work).
For the horizontal elements, I added a sentiment from My Favorite Things Sassy Pants Spooktacular.
The background panel is from a Gel Printing marathon I had on Christmas Day 2021, which used Natalie Kalbach's StencilGirl Flower Maze Stencil, so I'm linking-up at the Stencil Challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More.
I finished with some tiny gems.
When I saw the new Beer-themed dies and sentiments from My Favorite Things, I knew I needed to add them to my stash. I used them for the current My Favorite Things Wednesday Sketch Challenge.
I inked white cardstock with three colors of Distress Oxide Ink (Mustard Seed, Wild Honey and Rusty Hinge), and then die cut the My Favorite Things Frosty Beer Mug Die-namics. After die cutting, I added a big more ink along the edges and at the bottom and then splattered with water to try to give the effect of the bubbles in the beer.
I die cut the foam for the mug twice from textured watercolor paper and turned the one on the back upside down to give some more dimension to the foam (using a very thin foam tape between the layers).
I used this Bokeh designer paper from my stash and added some circles punched from Shimmer Vellum for the other two circle elements in this week's My Favorite Things Weekly Sketch Challenge and then I stamped the sentiment from My Favorite Things Here's to You in Rusty Hinge Distress Ink. I paired it with some rusty designer paper from Crate Paper Metal Textures.
I took my color inspiration (and a drink as well) from the Just Add Ink Challenge.
I'm also joining the I spy Something beginning with "B" from the Allsorts Challenge with my Beer & Bokeh.
The 6th day of the 12 Tags of Christmas at Ellen Hutson is the classic Christmas Carol Jingle Bells (not to be confused with the fabulous Jingle Belles who will be back on January 1st).
I couldn't resist pulling out My Favorite Things Sassy Pants Holiday Sentiments and pairing them with the Memory Box Jingle Bell Border.
I used the My Favorite Things Stitched Tag-Corner Rectangle STAX Die-namics from a panel that I smoosh painted with Dylusions Shimmer Paints and a scrap of my favorite pink ribbon.
Now go forth and poop some Jingle Bells.
I added the My Favorite Things Joy, Peace, Love Dies to my inventory this week, so I decided to go ahead and break them out for some masculine holiday cards using the current MFT Color Challenge.
I used a kraft card base and cut out the words using the remaining three colors.
I finished with a tiny epoxy star sticker for the top of the tree.
Since my Sarcasti-chick card won me the Queen of Snark, I have the honor of guest designing with the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers this week. The theme is C is for Colourful (or Colorful).
I decided to make a card featuring one of my favorite colorful mediums, alcohol ink, this time turned into a Gel Press Print, which gives such a wonderful overlap of colors.
I stuck with just a sentiment, so as much of that colorful print was viewable. This perfectly snarky sentiment is from My Favorite Things Sassy Pants Best Friends.
I hope you'll come join me and share your Sassy Colorful Designs.
Missing my friends and family tonight ... so I made a card to send some love through the mail using this week's My Favorite Things Wednesday Sketch Challenge.
I combined stamps from My Favorite Things Miss Your Hugs and Essential Sentiments.
I'm also joining the Slimline Card Challenge at The House That Stamps Built.
And with my Long Distance Hugs, I'm joining the Long Challenge at CASology.
The current Seize the Birthday Challenge is to make a card using three shades of green. When I saw the green gel press print on my studio table leftover from Saturday's Mixed Media Art Journal experimentation, I thought it would be the perfect piece to build my card around.
I settled on the sketch from the Sketch-N-Scrap Blog for my layout and pulled out three coordinating green shades of cardstock. I need more masculine cards, and the first vintage car I remember our family having was green, so I chose stamps from Ciao Bella Paper Ride to Live.
I used four different stamps from the set and die cut the ivory cardstock with a stitched circle die.
I finished with a sentiment from My Favorite Things Anything-but-Basic Birthday Wishes.
I'm also joining the Going Green Challenge at The House that Stamps Built.
I loved the pretty little krafty muslin hearts at the Inspired By Challenge.
I started by crimping some kraft paper and die cutting my heart. Next I die cut the top of the heart from a scrap of floral paper that looked somewhat like the fabric in the picture.
Of course I didn't realize until I started matching scraps of cardstock to the floral paper that my card would end-up being a palette of Halloween colors ... oh well, valentine diversity. The layout is the Sketch from Try Stampin' or Not on Thursday. I put my three dots up on the heart rather than down on the rectangle.
Since the My Favorite Things More Essential Sentiments was still on my studio table, I used one of those sentiments ... I thought the "stat" part was a bit funny paired with a heart (too many hours watching medical TV shows).
I'm also linking-up at the Simon Says Stamp Love is in the Air Challenge.
When I saw the AAA Birthday Challenge to use a LARGE sentiment, I knew it was the perfect opportunity to break out one of my favorite die cuts.
I chose a purple and blue Gel Press Print for the Die-Versions Solo Sentiments Happy Birthday Die.
I paired it with a sentiment stamp from My Favorite Things More Essential Sentiments.
I'm also playing Tic Tac Toe with the Paper Craft Crew (Birthday Celebration; Die or Punch; Feminine).
I'm also linking-up at the Anything Goes Challenge at Dies R Us Challenge.
