Tag: 97

J is for JUMP

Happy Friday friends! 🎉 I see that we are nearing the end of August and that it’s time for kids to get back to school, which means, Autumn is heading our way!  I think I’m ready for cooler weather right now!  I just love all things Fall as it’s my favorite time of the year!  What is your favorite season?

Today starts up a new challenge over at the Alphabet Challenge Blog!  Our next letter is “J”, and the hostess has chosen “J is for JUMP” (this can be anything that jumps!)   *Please remember that this is a bi-weekly challenge, so you have two weeks to enter.*  I hope you’ll join in the fun with us.  Here’s the project I’ve made for this challenge:

I knew when I saw the theme for this challenge that I had to use a pile of leaves for “jump“!  I also think the best critters for that would come from Lawn Fawn of course!  Can you see the little “wee” mouse jumping out from the pile?!

I started with a white card front by blending some blue inks in the background for the sky.  I also used the Lawn Fawn Leafy Tree Backdrop: Portrait die to go over my ink blended sky background.  The frame and tree were cut out from dark brown woodgrain texture cardstock.  I used some green cardstock to cut the circle from the die set to place behind the tree as well as the LF Grassy Hillside Border die behind the tree and frame as well.

For the Autumn leaves pile and sentiment, I used the LF Jump for Joy stamp set/dies.  All images were colored with Copics and I white heat embossed the sentiment over the ink blended sky.  For the mice critters, I used the LF You Autumn Know stamp set/dies.  For the little bunny, I used the LF Butterfly Kisses stamp set/dies.  Some of the die cut images were just attached and others were popped up with foam tape for dimension.  I actually wanted my pile of leaves to be larger, so I stamped, colored and die cut two of them.  (I needed that little mouse on the right to be jumping out from the pile too!)

This was a fun one to make because I kept pulling out different sets to figure out which critters I wanted to use, but these cute mice get me every time.  It makes me look forward to seeing the colors, sights, smells and sounds of Autumn coming.  I hope you’ve enjoyed it too and I look forward to seeing all of the “jumping” that will appear in the gallery!

Thanks so much for stopping in today!  Have a great weekend!

Challenges:

  1. Ally’s Angels – Anything Goes
  2. The Creative Crafters – Anything Goes
  3. Sweet Stampin’ – Animals
  4. Lil’ Patch of Crafty Friends – Anything Goes
  5. Pammie’s Inky Pinkies – PIP2533 Anything Goes
  6. Creative Inspirations – Anything Goes
  7. Craft Rocket – Animals

I is for Ink Blending

Hello friends and happy August!  Hope you’ve been having a good start to your month so far.  I thought it was supposed to be the “lazy days of Summer”, but it sure isn’t feeling that way lately! LOL Now it seems like we’re getting ready for “back to school” time!  Where is this year going?!

Just wanted to share a new challenge up today over at the Alphabet Challenge Blog!  Our next letter is “I” and the hostess has chosen “I is for Ink Blending”   *Please remember that this is a bi-weekly challenge, so you have two weeks to enter.*  I hope you’ll join in the fun with us.  Here’s the project I’ve made for this challenge:

I sure love to do some ink blending!  I love doing the dark to light with a watermark effect especially for ocean scenes.  So I started with a regular blend of blue ink colors starting light at the top and then working my way down to darker blues.  I think the colors used were Tumbled Glass, Salty Ocean, Blueprint Sketch and Blue Saphire Distress Oxide inks.  I then added the “Ray of Light” stencil (MFT store closed) over and ink blended with the same colors.  It was then spritzed with water and dabbed with paper towel for the bubbly look.

BEFORE I started any ink blending at all, I had an “Under the Sea” border die cut (MFT store closed) that I used to create a mask with labeling tape so that I could leave the border at the bottom for sand.  After the ink blending was finished, I ink blended some Antique Linen and Frayed Burlap Oxide inks to create the sand.  I didn’t worry about it getting into the blue area because the colors are much lighter in tone.  After ink blending was done, I cut the panel out with a “Wavy Pierced Rectangle dies” From Whimsy Stamps.

For the rest of the scene, I pulled out these cute ocean critters from Doodlebug called “Sea Life” (purchased from Scrapbook.com) that I stamped, colored with Copics and then fussy cut.  Even though I had the coordinating dies (no longer available), I didn’t want the white border to distract from the ocean scene.  It did come with an extra “seaweed” die in the set that I just cut out in white cardstock and then ink blended some green colors over it to add to the scene.  I also used a white gel pen for highlights and dots in the sand along with a brown marker and glitter gel pen for more details to the sand.

Here’s a closer view of some of the details. I tried tilting it slightly, but it’s hard to capture the sparkle from the sand with the glitter gel pen.

I know this looks really similar to my last post with the mermaid AJ page, but I think I was having some fun with these underwater projects, and I just sat and had a playing session with it.  I do hope you’ve enjoyed my card today and will join us in the challenge for some ink blending fun too!

Thanks so much for dropping by today! Have a great weekend!

Challenges:

  1. Four Season – Anything Goes Summer
  2. Critter Crazy – Anything Goes with Featured Critter
  3. Pearly Sparkles – Under the Sea
  4. Sweet Stampin’ – Use a Stencil + stamping
  5. Try it On Tuesday – Summer
  6. Cardz for Galz – Create a Scene
  7. Crafty Animals – Anything Goes with Animal(s)
  8. Allsorts – Animals/Anything Goes (various products mentioned and linked throughout the post)

Z is for ZOOM!

Hello there friends and welcome to April already!  I do not know if this year seems to be flying by because I’ve been busy with life or it’s just flying by anyway!  Speaking of things flying by…

Today starts up a new challenge over at the Alphabet Challenge Blog!  We are on the last letter of the alphabet this time and the hostess has chosen “Z” is for ZOOM (anything that goes fast) for the theme.  *Remember that this is a bi-weekly challenge, so you have two weeks to enter*  I hope you will find some time to join us in the gallery!  Here’s what I’ve created:

How cute is that pup standing on the bike seat to look over his bird friend perched on the basket!  The name of these adorable animal friends are called “Gus & Gertie” which are a set of characters designed by Taylored Expressions. (If you click on the link, you can see the full line of them.)  The set I’ve chosen is called Gus & Gertie Best Buds.  I like these animals because they’re very easy to color!

I could’ve chosen the airplane from the set, but I kept thinking of those electric bikes & scooters you can rent from cities and they seem to go really fast when I see kids whizzing by on them! LOL

I kept my scene in a circle and added some clouds in the background that I stenciled in and then layered some hills/slopes and a grass border on the front.  I just popped the “ride or die” sentiment at the top and attached the die cut image with foam tape.  I layered the scene onto a black circle base that was attached to a red brick embossed background.  All was attached to a top folding A2 white card base.

That’s all for me today!  Thanks so much for checking in with me as I enjoy reading what you have to say!  Enjoy your weekend and I’ll see you soon!

Challenges:

  1. Critter Crazy – Anything Goes with a Featured Creature
  2. Unicorn – Use Dies
  3. Crafty Animals – Anything Goes with Animal(s)
  4. Crafts Galore Encore – Anything Goes
  5. Just Us Girls – Die Week (no flowers)