Tag: Riley the Moose

Y is for YUMMY!

Hello and happy Spring!  Hope you’re having a great March so far.  We just received about an inch of snow on Spring day, so I hope it starts getting warmed up from here!  I’m ready for warmer weather so I can cook out on the grill….YUM!  Speaking of that….

Today starts a new letter over at the Alphabet Challenge Blog and our lovely hostess would like to use “Y” is for YUMMY as the theme this time.  How fun is that!  Remember you have two weeks to join in the gallery to play with us.  Here’s my creation for this challenge:

I couldn’t resist getting out this fun “Food Truck” set from Riley and Company to color up!  I also paired it with the BBQ Riley to complete the scene full of yummy goodies!  The images were both stamped and colored up with Copics.  I used the coordinating die to cut out the Food Truck and I just fussy cut with scissors for the BBQ Riley.

Before attaching the images, I used a cloud stencil and blended the background and then took a piece of green cardstock to cut out a grass border for the bottom.  I ink blended the edges of the blades and then used a green Copic marker to add some shadowing for the stamped images before placing them down on the scene.  BBQ Riley was popped up with foam tape.

Here’s a closer view of the images.  I used a liner pen to draw “yum items” under the menu board on the truck with a drawing of a balloon.  I also used a silver gel pen to color in parts of the truck, the lights above the “food” word along with the utensils on BBQ Riley and parts of the grill.

I found a speech bubble and sentiment from my stash that I thought would be perfect for this card and stamped it above Riley’s head as he’s holding up a hot dog.

Do you like to stop and eat at food trucks?  What’s your favorite?  Last summer we went to a small town festival and they served some lemon shake ups at one place along with some BBQ shredded pork and it was so yummy!  We also like to grab some kettle corn to take home too.

Did I make you hungry now?!  Hope you’ve enjoyed my card today and I hope you’ll stop by the Alphabet Challenge Blog to come play along too!  We’d love to see your yummy creations!  Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by!  I enjoy reading your thoughts!  Have a great weekend!

Challenges:

  1. AAA Birthday – Masculine
  2. Love to Craft – Anything Goes
  3. 613 Avenue Create – Anything Goes with optional: Any Occasion
  4. Unicorn – Boys/Men
  5. Passion for Markers – Add a Sentiment (colored with Copic markers)
  6. Pammie’s Inky Pinkies – PIP2511 Anything Goes
  7. Lil’ Patch of Crafty Friends – Anything Goes

December AJ Page-Keep Dancing + book and review

Hello friends!  Hope you had a great Christmas and were able to make some wonderful memories!  I can’t believe that we are ready to close out another year!  The time just goes way too fast and there’s so much more to look forward to!  I think the theme for my upcoming year is in this title post – KEEP DANCING!!!🕺

The last Saturday of the month (AND THE YEAR!) brings us to the monthly Art Journal Page collaboration with my crafty friend, Carol (from Crafty-Stamper)! We get creative trying to use up our never-ending stash piles along with a prompt for each month.  I know she always has great inspiration to share, so please check out her blog too! Here’s my AJ page with the “SMASH OUR STASH” December prompt of “Previous Prompt”:

Since this is the time of the year that we have a “look back”, I thought it would be fun to take one of this year’s previous prompts and come up with a new AJ page.  I chose April’s prompt of “SHINNY/SPARKLY”, and you can catch that page in the photos below or see my previous blog post HERE.

There’s nothing quite shinny or sparkly than New Year’s Eve!  I always think of the ball dropping on Times Square in New York, but it also had me thinking of a disco ball that is very sparkly.  Found this image online and printed it out.  Cut it out with a circle die and then added a bit of colored shading with my markers in grey.  I took a sponge to add glue to the entire ball and then covered it with chunky glitter.   I added some sparkle images and filled them with silver glitter and then die cut the numbers and glued them over top of the ball.

For the background:  It’s just a 6″x9″ black cardstock pre-punched at the top and then splattered with silver watercolor.  I added some music notes and die cut stars.  For the bottom, I used some woodgrain texture paper and cut strips to make a wood floor for the Riley the Moose disco dancer.  A silver metallic paint pen was used for the ball string at the top and the wording around the top of the ball.

I stamped, colored and hand cut the moose and popped him up over a die cut shadow for under his feet.  I typed a quote on the computer and printed it out over silver cardstock.  While it was still wet, I sprinkled clear EP over top and cut rounded corners for the page.  Lastly, I just popped up the glittered ball with foam tape and added some silver rhinestones at the bottom.

  • I thought it would be fun to do a review of all of the monthly pages that were created this year.  I put the months in order below.  (If you are on my website, just click on the photos to enlarge them.)
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November

I pre-punch the holes at the short side of the pages each month and then at the end of the year, I use my machine to bind them together to make a book.  I add covers and decorate them.  There is a post with last year’s book HERE.

For this year, I went with the vertical look and added a stretch cord to keep them together better.  I also tried out the napkin with the cover:

The napkin is at the bottom with the foil marble look.  My husband got some napkins for New Year’s, and I thought I’d try it out.  I added some chipboard, stamped and cut out numbers and added some wooden pieces.  I used the rose papers for the covers on the inside as well as the back of the chipboard covers.  It was put together with my Bind-It-All machine and coils.

I hope you’ve enjoyed seeing my Art Journal Journey throughout the year as I sure have enjoyed doing them!  I get to pull from my stash to use, but there is also so much more to use!  So this means that I will for sure be continuing with this journey and I hope you’ll join me too!

Thank you so much for stopping by to have a look back.  Wishing you peace, love and health for the upcoming 2024 year!  See you in the next year friends!!!🎉

Challenges:

  1. Art Journal Journey – Above Us Only Sky (New Year’s Eve Ball Drop on Times Square with stars in the sky!!!)
  2. Crafting From the Heart – Anything Goes #8
  3. Creative Artiste – Anything Mixed Media Goes with option of Christmas
  4. Alphabet – ‘T’ is for Texture (texture on the top page with woodgrain floor, the chunky glitter disco ball.  Texture on the book with chipboard, wood pieces and paste.)

{Cupcake Inspirations} Birthday Celebration Day 7🧁

We are rolling now!  We are on day 7 of celebrating over at {Cupcake Inspirations} with another feature of sponsors for our 500th “birthday celebration” challenge!! Super cool!!

Today, we are highlighting Riley and Company – Please check out the challenge blog for more details about this sponsor.

I have loved this little moose for many years and have collected some stamps from them over the years including some recent ones and I always get a chuckle from either the moose or the “Funny Bone” sentiments! So I had to help with featuring this sponsor:

I had to combine this funny sentiment with the cupcake theme and I thought it would be so fun to have little Riley peeking out from the edge holding a cupcake!😂

I took one of the images from the Basic Dress Up Riley, colored him with Copics and cut him out with coordinating dies. The sentiment was white heat embossed over a strip of black that I added Riley partially to the back of before attaching it to the background paper. I’ve also added a couple of banners and tied some black twine around the top of the card. I used a cupcake image from my stash, colored and cut it out and popped it up with a foam dot over Riley’s hand.

I finished the card with some sequins and some clear glitter Stickles.

Hope you’ve enjoyed my inspiration card for today’s sponsor and be sure to play along with us soon! Thanks so much for dropping by and I’ll see you again tomorrow!