Photo goodness and Stamping goodness

My first goodness to share with you requires a stop at my daughter's blog to take a look at the adorable photos she took on a Pumpkin Patch trip with some of my grandkids. The focus was to be my youngest grandson, but you can see some glimpses of some of my other grandkids too. I took this one photo from her blog to share this cute little scene with four of our grandkids. Now for the Stamping goodness. This card is shown in the gallery at Pink Persimmon but I wanted to show you the details. All of the stamps are from Pink Persimmon. Are they cute or what? I love the look of a new set of alphabet stamps and I love the font on this super cute set. So I arranged these letters on an acrylic block and repeatedly stamped the alphabet to create a background on the notebook looking paper by Scenic Route. I punched the one side with the Stampin' Up journal punch so it looks like I tore my paper out of a notebook. The little girl from the Little Red Wagon set was stamped on white paper and again on this adorable red, plaid paper by October Afternoon. Then I just cut out the dress portion and glued that on top of the image stamped on the white paper. The other portions of the stamp were colored with Copic Markers. I attached the little girl and the wagon with foam tape because I just love the dimension this gives a card. The wagon is also coated with Aleene's Paper Glaze. I so love the epoxy look that gives and it makes it look like a new, shiny, red wagon. (ps, another great thing about Aleene's is that it is available at stores like Michaels so it is so easy to get ahold of)

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

ABC’S card

Materials:

Cardstock – Curious Iridescent Cryogen White/CutCardStock.com and Vintage collection/Core’dinations

Patterned paper – October Afternoon and Scenic Route

Stamps – Soda Pop small alphabet and Little Red Wagon/Pink Persimmon

Fluid Chalk stamp pads/Clearsnap

Versafine Black stamp pad

Clear embossing powder

Journal border punch – Stampin’Up

Clear Paper Glaze – Aleene’s®

Copic markers

Mini black brads

Sandpaper

3M Foam tape

2 Sketches 4 You and the Bonus sketch

I wasn't going to actually put a large star on my card using the 2 Sketches 4 You sketch #25 for this week because that was far to obvious of a design element and when I use sketches I always try to step back and think outside of the box on what else that design could be but then I picked up this Scenic Route paper from my stash and knew instantly that I needed to hand draw my own star to go with the print on the paper.

I drew my star on a piece of scratch paper just like the ones on the patterned paper and then cut that out for a pattern for the star that I was going to use on the card. The "numbers" print paper is the opposite side of the star print! Aren't they the perfect combo for a kids birthday card?

A simple Thickers number 3 seemed like the way to finish my card. The smaller star is a punch and so is the circle that I put the number on.

I wanted to do the bonus sketch this week too and I was having so much fun "making it my own"! That wonderful embossed white cardstock comes embossed like that. The clerk said it was Bazzill.

I was still playing with my Cornish Heritage Farms stamps and came up with this piece. The stamp block was stamped with a red/orange ink on white cardstock and then colored that by rubbing over it with a yellow stamp pad. The label shape was cut out. Here is a little bit of recycling, I received a wonderful box of chocolates and there was an adorable label on the top and I just knew I needed to keep it for a pattern! I added a little border punched edge and a very simple mix of some other cardstocks. So this card has no patterned paper on it.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

PARTY! PARTY! PARTY! card
Materials:
Cardstock
Patterned papers Surprise/Sunny Lane/Scenic Route Paper (both sides)
Martha Stewart border punch
Number “3” sticker – Thickers/American Crafts
Star punch
Big star is hand drawn
Rub-on greeting - Target

BEAUTY IS FOUND… card
Materials:
Cardstock – Embossed/Bazzill
Stamps – Greeting and Stamp Block/Ornamental/Cornish Heritage Farms
Stamp pad – Ancient page and Fluid Chalk/Clearsnap
Flower – Prima
Self Adhesive pearls – Mark Richards, Inc
Border punch – Martha Stewart
Corner rounder punch - Fiskars

CPS and CHF together

Isn't it funny how quickly we use letters for appreviations!? CPS is Card Positioning Systems blog and CHF is Cornish Heritage Farms stamps. These two groups worked together this week to bring you some crafting goodness. I received the Ornamental Beauty and Ornamental Scrapblock to play with and as usual, I couldn't stop at just one card.

The scrapblock is about 6" square and it is full of great designs. I cut out a portion of that stamped design for the front of my card to fit with the CPS sketch. I used Copic Markers to color in the design.

This beautiful greeting piece is part of the set. I stamped it on white cardstock with black ink, embossed that and then colored it with Copic Markers. It is cut out and attached to the punched out scallop circle. These are added with foam tape for added dimension. Portions of this design were accented with the Diamond Glitter 3-D Fashion paint by Tulip but it is pretty hard to really see that in my photos. That adds just a touch of glitter and dimension.

On this card, I also used a portion of the whole stamp block. The flower is stamped with black ink and embossed and then colored with the Copic Markers to match the Pink Paisley patterned paper I used.

It was fun to have all of this dimension with the cut out flower that is added with foam tape.

The stamp block was again stamped, this time on watercolor paper with a white stamp pad and embossed with white embossing powder. It was real simple then to use my watercolor crayons and a watercolor brush to add the color to this piece.

The white dots that were added to the design are White Slick 3-D Fashion paint by Tulip. This is a fast and great way to add a neat accent and a little dimension. The glitter Thicker letters seemed like the perfect accent.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

SKETCH 113 – LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL card
Materials:
Cardstock – Core’dinations
Stamps courtesy of Cornish Heritage Farms – Ornamental ScrapBlock and Ornamental Beauty
Copic Markers
Versamark black stamp pad
Clear embossing powder
Martha Stewart Border punch
Scallop circle punch – Papershapers/EK Success
Rhinestone – Me & My Big Ideas
Diamond Glitter 3-D Fashion paint – Tulip

SKETCH 113b – WHATEVER THINGS ARE LOVELY card
Materials:
Cardstock
Stamps courtesy of Cornish Heritage Farms – Ornamental ScrapBlock and Ornamental Beauty
Copic Markers
Versamark black stamp pad
Clear embossing powder
Patterned paper – Pink Paislee

THANKS DARLING card
Materials:
Cardstock
Stamps – Ornamental Stamp Block/Cornish Heritage Farms
White stamp pad – Joann and White embossing powder
Watercolor crayons and watercolor brush
White Slick 3-D Fashion Paint – Tulip
Lace paper – K&Co.
“darling” rub-on – Luxe
Buttons
Green glitter Thickers – American Crafts

What a CUTE little owl!

No doubt whatsoever, owls are "HOT" right now. Any kind and any size. I guess I just like trends because this is one bandwagon that I have gotten on. Wonder how long these guys will be around? One of my absolute favorite papers companies is We R Memory Keepers and these papers are from them. The pink/salmon colored paper was scored with the Scor-Pal tool and then those folds were sanded a little bit to distress them. And for added distressing I used the Tonic Paper Distresser on the edges of the papers. These papers have a white/distressed took to the edges of the papers so I was just adding to that look.

My little owl was stamped and embossed with black embossing powder. I love the richness that the embossing gives to the black. I did some inking to add a little color to his body.

Another interesting accent is that I added the Aleene's Paper Glaze to the inside part of each of the leaves and then sprinkled the Clearsnap green glitter on that. I like using the Paper Glaze as my glue for something like this because it dries a little 3-D and it really holds that loose glitter.

LITTLE OWL - HELLO card

Materials list: Cardstock

Patterned paper – We R Memory Keepers

Owl stamp – Inkadinkado

Hello stamp – October Afternoon

Black stamp pad and black embossing powder – Clearsnap

Aleene's Paper Glaze - Tulip

Green Glitter – Clearsnap

Tonic Paper Distresser

Scor Pal scoring tool

3M Foam Tape