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For A Special Lady
Cardmaking · Challenges · Simon Says Stamp

For A Special Lady

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Hello crafty friends!! Please join me for a new challenge at the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge.  This week the challenge is

For A Special Lady

We are showcasing Altenew Products this week.  If you have any of these products, we’d love to see them used, but it’s certainly not a requirement to join the challenge.

As always, the generous folks at Simon Says Stamp will be giving away a $50 voucher to one randomly selected winner to shop at the fabulous Simon Says Stamp Store.  You can enter 5 times which means you can make 5 different projects following this week’s prompt and have 5 chances to win a shopping spree!! Sounds like a win/win to me!! I’ve linked all of the supplies that I used at the end of this post. Compensated affiliate links used where possible at no cost to you.

I feel so much better now that I have my 3 Mother’s Day cards done. To start this card off, I used a piece of A2 sized Arches Cold Pressed Watercolor paper and using my Mini Misti, I stamped the flowers from the Peony Bouquet stamp set by Altenew using Antique Linen distress ink. I used Antique Linen so that I could do some no line watercoloring. I had to stamp the flowers 3 times so that I could see the images clearly. Then after masking the flowers using Post It tape, I stamped the leaves using Peeled Paint distress ink.

I watercolored my images using the Mijello Mission Gold Water Color Palette. I am really impressed with these water colors. The colors are gorgeous and it’s so easy to create your own colors as well. After I colored the images, I once again masked the flowers and splattered the panel with metallic gold watercolor.

Using the Script Mom die by SSS, I cut the back layer using black card stock and I cut the top layer using the same Arches watercolor paper.

I topped the script Mom die with a Nuvo Aqua Shimmer pen and popped it up on some Gina K black foam squares. Lastly I added a couple Clear Round Drops as an embellishment. Using the Rounded Rectangle Infinity die by Hero Arts, I trimmed my front panel. I glued my card front down to a black card base and attached the entire panel to a top folding card base. My card base is Neenah Solar White 110 lb. card stock.

I made 2 additional cards, one is the same as this, just with different colors and the other design is a little different. Here is a picture of all 3 cards that I made this week.

I used Precious Moments stamp set by Altenew for my message inside.

  So now it’s YOUR turn. Happy Crafting!!    

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Altenew PEONY BOUQUET Clear Stamp Set…
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Altenew PRECIOUS MOMENTS Clear Stamp…
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Hero Arts Nesting ROUNDED RECTANGLES…
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Simon Says Stamp SCRIPT MOM Wafer…
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MINI MISTI PRECISION STAMPER Stamping…
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Arches COLD PRESSED WATERCOLOR PAD…
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Tim Holtz Distress Mini Ink Pad…
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Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad ANTIQUE…
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Tim Holtz Distress Mini Ink Pad…
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Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad PEELED…
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3M Scotch SUPER STICKY FULL ADHESIVE…
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EK Success HONEY BEE Non-Stick…
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FrogTape DELICATE SURFACE Masking Tape
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Silver BLACK VELVET Brush Size 2…
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Mijello MISSION GOLD WATER COLOR…
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Tonic SMOOTH PRECISION Nuvo Glue Pen…
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EK Success CRAFT TWEEZERS Precision…
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The AQUA Absorber Towel 17 x 27…
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Sizzix Big Shot Kick STANDARD CUTTING…
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Sizzix BIG SHOT MACHINE Gray And…
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Sizzix MAGNETIC PLATFORM Big Shot…
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Bazzill LICORICE TWIST Card Shoppe…
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Sizzix BIG SHOT WHITE TOOL CADDY 661081
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Marvy Uchida JEWEL PICKER Tool 91GRC
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Tim Holtz Tonic GLASS MEDIA MAT 1914e
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Therm O Web Gina K Designs BLACK FOAM…
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Zig Kuretake Gansai Tambi STARRY…
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Silver BLACK VELVET Brush Size 4…
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Tombow MONO MULTI Liquid Glue Two…
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Tombow XTREME Permanent Adhesive Tape…
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Neenah Classic Crest 110 LB SMOOTH…
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Studio Katia SSS EXCLUSIVE CLEAR…
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Tonic DELUXE ADHESIVE Nuvo Glue 200N
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Well Hello There… Distress Oxides again
Cardmaking · Challenges · Handmade Greeting Cards

Well Hello There… Distress Oxides again

Happy Ink Designs7 Comments

Hi again!!  I’m back with some more distress oxide backgrounds.  I just can’t get enough of these!!  I want to take an entire day and just play.  In a perfect world, I’d actually have time to do that, but until then, I’ll settle with experimenting as I go.  I had a lot of fun playing around with these last week too, I actually ended up making a few cards which is always nice.  Seems like I just don’t have all that much time to make cards these days.  These boys keep me on my toes!!   You can check out my last week’s cards by clicking here.

This card was SUPER easy and super quick.  The theme this week at Always Fun Challenges is Dies and/or Punches.   I’m going to try and keep this post short and sweet as I am in the middle of yet another Birthday sleepover weekend.  This time for my son’s BFF that is living with us.  Hey!  My Birthday is tomorrow (Oct. 2), maybe I should have a sleepover too!!!!  That could be kinda fun, if I had some crafty friends that lived close by.  We could craft the night away!!

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I have to show you how cute these boys are.  I just love them with all I got.  This is everyone singing Happy Birthday to Bub.  Mine is the one on the far right and Bubby is his BFF.

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Here’s a recent one that I absolutely love.  My friend had just made this shirt for me so we were showing some Jr Cubs spirit.  This was right before a game.  I shared this on my IG, but I love it so much, I thought I’d share it here too.

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And one more of my card…

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I am TOTALLY late to the show, but my crafty friend, Darnell is currently running her NBUS challenge so I’m also entering this into her 10 day long challenge.  This is one that I’m sure everyone can enjoy.  NBUS stands for Never Before Used Schtuff and if you guys are anything like me, you could participate in this every day for a month and still not get thru all of your NBUS…  Please check out her blog for all the details and follow her!!  She’s hilarious and she does this challenge a few times a year.  It’s the perfect push to use those products that you’ve never used before.

Anyway, below is a very simple video and below that is a list of the products that I used.  Thank you so much for stopping by!!  And I’ll see y’all next week ~

Disclosure: Please note that links to merchants mentioned within this post might be using an affiliate link which means that – at zero cost to you – I might earn a commission if you buy something through that affiliate link. That said, I never recommend anything I don’t personally use and find to be a valuable asset to my business.  Any time you use an affiliate link, I greatly appreciate it.


Floral Cards Featuring Altenew’s Spring Daisy
Cardmaking · Challenges · Handmade Greeting Cards

Floral Cards Featuring Altenew’s Spring Daisy

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Hello my crafty friends!!  I hope everyone had a nice weekend.  I love this time of year when it’s almost Summer, but not quite.  It’s not too warm out yet, it’s not foggy either (when it’s hot inland, we get the fog…) This weeks’ theme at Always Fun Challenges is flowers so with Summer on the brain and Spring in the air, I made this card using Altenew’s Spring Daisy set and I’m here to tell ya..  I am in LOVE with this set!! I stamped out a couple more panels because I want to copic color a few as well. There’s so many possibilities with this one!!  But for these two, I used watercolors. I also made a process video which is located below or click here to be redirected to my YT channel.  You can always just click on the video tab at the top as well.

I had a lot of fun making these.  I had no idea where I was going to go with this one so I just kept at it and this is what I came up with.  At first I was going to make that yellow flower gray, but I didn’t like where it was headed. I’m not that great of a watercolorist so I just couldn’t get the grays to do what I had in mind.  And since I wasn’t liking where that yellow flower on the right was going, I started another card front, just in case I had to abandon this one.  I’m soooo glad I saw it through!!  I ended up with TWO cards that I love!

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I painted the background a really light blue color to get the outline of the flowers to pop out more.  I absolutely loved painting these.  I just took my time.  I did multiple layers of color, I added a few different colors in each flower.  I let them air dry instead of using my heat tool.  I heard I might get a better result that way.  Not sure if it’s true or not, but I really like how these turned out.

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For the blue and purple flowers, I did the same thing only for the darkest color, I used a very small size 1 paintbrush to feather the color out, like I would have done if I were using Copic markers.

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To finish it off, I added some Nuvo drops to both cards and matched some colored card stock for the background.

And that was it!!  It took me awhile to make these, only because I made two at the same time and because I air dried them, but it was totally worth it.  As soon as I have some free time, I’ll copic color the other panels I stamped out and share them with you.  Until then, I hope you all have a fabulous week ~

Oh!  And don’t forget to head over to the Always Fun Challenges blog and add your card(s) this week.  Remember, the theme is flowers.  Can’t wait to see what you create!!

Misty

Haul Video!!!
Cardmaking · Handmade Greeting Cards · Haul Goodies

Haul Video!!!

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Hi guys!!  Just wanted to let you know I have another haul video over on my YouTube channel which you can get to by scrolling down or by clicking here.  I’ll warn you, it’s kind of a long one, but it’s all great stuff.  I hope you’ll check it out!!

Below is a link to as many of the items as I could find.  Some appear to be retired, unfortunately.  But everything else should have a link.

CAS – Peony Bouquet by Altenew
Cardmaking · Challenges · Handmade Greeting Cards

CAS – Peony Bouquet by Altenew

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Well hello there my crafty friends!!!  I hope everyone had a fabulous weekend.  We are on week 3 at Always Fun Challenges and this weeks’ theme is Clean & Simple.  I must admit, I struggled with this one a little bit.  I don’t usually make CAS cards so I really had to make myself stop and think before I added something I couldn’t take back.  I used Peony Bouquet by Altenew.  This stamp set was so much fun to play with.  I actually just received another one of their lovely layered sets called Spring Daisy, along with a few other goodies.  I hope to have a haul video up on my YouTube channel in a couple of days.  Until then, you can check out my process video for this card by scrolling down to the bottom of this post or going to my YouTube channel by clicking here.  It’s a pretty short video, since these cards were so easy to make.

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I decided to make this card for my son’s teacher who is really sick right now.  In the process of making this card, I realized I do not have ANY get well soon stamps.  At all.  I ended up using Sending and Wishing by SSS, but I definitely know what’s going on my Wishlist now.

I used the MISTI to stamp the flowers right where I wanted them.  Then I added the sentiment and I was done!!  I can’t believe how fast and easy this was to make.  I learned something very valuable while making this card…  I need to make more CAS cards!!!  I liked it so much that I made another one in another color.  Here’s the 2nd one.

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Thank you so much for stopping by!  Be sure to check out the Always Fun Challenges blog to see all the inspiration from the other oh so talented Design Team members.  You can enter your own project here.  If you’re not able to playing along this week, I hope you will at least head over and check out all the beautiful entries.  I’m always amazed at the amount of talent there is.

Have a wonderful week!

Misty