Shello

Hello friends! Hope you had a great weekend! I’m so tired! I forgot how much work it takes to put together a garage sale! We had a nice day for it and it was a great turn out! We are happy to have gotten rid of those big items in our way around the house. We ended up donating the rest that did not sell. Thinking of this, I probably need to go through my craft stash and do the same…but somehow, it’s just so much harder to decide what to keep and what not to…the pile ends up changing eventually! LOL!

If you remember, I have also been participating in the ICAD 2018 challenge which I have been going into my craft studio each day and creating at least once a day. I can share with you the results of that each week as go, so be looking for that soon!

Today I have some fun “underwater” items to share:

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Along with a fun painting retreat that I had went to in April this year…it was all the kick start I needed and then came the inspiration to blog again! I am happy that I did as I missed sharing my art and communicating with my fellow crafty friends here! 🙂

For the card above, I wanted most of the card to look underwater and that’s where I’ve used vellum and die cut out a wave at the top of it. I stamped the shoe image from above, the fish and underwater background stamp and colored with Copics. I added the sentiment banner and the awesome two toned pearls over the top. The edges of the vellum were sponged with blue ink and I added some blue sparkle on the waves.

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Next, I have this really cool Jumbo Tag that I’ve decorated with contents from this same kit! I’ve used this cover die and instead of die cutting with it, I’ve used it for embossing. Before I used the die, I covered the background with some distress inks and splashed some water droplets over it. I colored the images with my Copic markers, fussy cut them out and attached to the background.

Here’s closer view of the images colored up. Hard to see in the photos, but I have covered the mermaid’s eyes as well as the fisheyes with some glossy accents. You can also see how cool looking those fish scale flat backs are…love the different shimmery colors in it! And to give you an idea of the size of the tag, it’s 4″ x 8″!

Hope you’ve enjoyed my underwater creations today and I’ll see you again with more of what I’ve been crafting! Have a great day!

I would like to enter mermaid tag in following challenge(s):

Hand Stamped Sentiments (HSSIC291)– inspirational photo:

2. Cupcake Inspiration Challenge (CIC447) – Magical Creatures

Life is Good With Coffee

Good afternoon friends! Today is the final day for the Coffee Lovers Spring/Summer Blog Hop, so I thought I’d share my last creation today using some of my favorite stamps!

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So I thought it would be fun to go with a Summer theme this time with a couple of “coffee lovers” hanging out in the hammock on the beach! (I am hoping that maybe someday in the future that this can represent hubby and I together!) LOL!

I have started my card by masking a circle and blending in a nice tropical sky and then spritzing it with some shimmer spray before removing the mask. I added some scene elements by stamping and coloring images from the Lawn Fawn Life is Good and Love You Latte stamp sets. I fussy cut them out and then attached them to the scene. I made a little slit with my craft knife on the hammock to fit the cups inside. Don’t you just love that mustache?! 🙂 I cut the panel out with the LF Stitched rectangle die and added a black strip along the side which I then mounted to a top folding A2 sized white card base. And here’s a closer look at that sparkle on the background:

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I also put some glitter gel pen dots on the sea shell and the heart above the cups.

Hope you have a great weekend…I will be working in my garage sale, so looks like no crafty fun for me for a couple of days! Hope you have a great one! Thanks for stopping by and sharing a smile with me! 🙂

Here are the challenges I’d like to enter this card for:

Coffee Lovers Spring/Summer Blog Hop
Lawn Fawnatics – Mood Board
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday – Anything Goes
QKR Stampede – Anything Goes (every week)

Cute Card Thursday – Hello Summer!

Hello friends! I’m totally excited to be back on the design team for the challenges over at

If you do not already participate in the challenges over there, I highly recommend it! There is a brand-new challenge every Thursday of the week along with fun prizes from our sponsors! The ladies on the team are so talented and fun, so there is plenty of inspiration provided each week as well!

This week’s challenge is of the theme: “Hello Summer!“ and our sponsor is the lovely Bugaboo Stamps!

I have used one of the sponsor’s images on my card today:

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This image is called, of course, Pig Vacation from Bugaboo. Now, I’m not sure about that, but this guy looks so happy that I think I’d like to go along him! 🙂 Summer is definitely here where I live as we’ve had some record-breaking temperatures! I think vacation sound really good about now as well!

I have used my Copic markers and glitter gel pens to color him in, cut him out with a die-cut tag and added some black twine for a luggage tag look. The wording underneath comes from a Lawn Fawn die-cut that I glued on. The rest of the decorative papers and embellishments come from an older card kit in my stash. I cut the decorative papers using the Lawn Fawn Stitched dies which was mounted onto a piece of black card stock and then mounted onto a white top folding card base.

Here’s closer look at the coloring details:

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I hope that you will stop by the Cute Card Thursday challenge blog and have a look at the rest of the inspiration for this challenge and enter your “Hello Summer” creation with us this week! I can’t wait to see what you come up with!

Thanks so much for stopping by! Hope you stay cool as we enter Summer and don’t forget to share some smiles! 🙂