Tag: Whimsy Stamps

October AJ Page-Magical Potion

Hello friends and happy weekend!  It’s the last Saturday for this month and next week will be November 1st!  Can you believe it?!  We’re nearing the end of the year, but I’d like to stop and enjoy the wonderful Autumn season right now while it’s here!

Last Saturday of October brings us to the monthly AJ page with my crafty friend Carol (from Crafty-Stamper) who is collaborating with me to “SMASH OUR STASH”! 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” OCTOBER prompt of “MAGICAL”: 

I couldn’t let this month go by without adding in a Halloween themed AJ page!  I love making them and getting out lots of dies from several different companies that made this one a fun project to pull together.

Background:  I used an 8.5″ x 5.5″ piece of Mixed Media cardstock and blended the background in various colors using a light yellow for the center where the window is open and the cauldron is brewing up something magical!

I then took a cogs and wheel stencil and sponged on some gold ink in various places.  I took a cool background stamp from Whimsy Stamps called Vintage Wallpaper and stamped it in random places.  I also cut a strip of wood plank background paper from my stash to add at the bottom of the page.  I then took my gold ink pad and swiped it around the edges of the page.

Die Cuts:  The large spider web cut from holographic paper, the witch, the fire, and cats all came from Whimsy Stamps.  The Cauldron and potion bottle came from Taylored Expressions, the window came from Simon Says Stamp and the wood under the cauldron came from Lawn Fawn.  For some of the pieces, I ink blended or added a gold highlight to the edges.  For the potion bottle, there is a tiny label on it that says “Moon Dust” with a moon on it.  (It’s hard to see in the photo.)  I added some glitter to the contents.  After ink blending the flames, I covered it with a glitter brush pen.

I took a marker to added some shadows under the witch, cat and cauldron.  I took some yellow sequins and added it under the potion bottle to make it look like she’s added it to the potion.  Lastly, I took a couple of Tim Holtz sentiment clippings to add to the scene.

  • I hope you’ve enjoyed my art journal page today!  I had fun with it!  Thanks so much for dropping in and I’ll be seeing you soon!

Challenges:

  1. Art Journal Journey – Steampunk/Halloween or both
  2. Creative Artiste – Anything Goes Mixed Media
  3. Anything Goes in a Card Free Zone – No Cards
  4. Penny’s – Anything Goes Using Paper
  5. Little Red Wagon – Not a Card

June Art Journal Page-Positive Thoughts and Positive News!

Hello friends and welcome to the weekend!  June has seemed to go by so very fast and I don’t know how time seems to keep flying by, but I think keeping busy is the best thing to do to stay in a positive mind set.  I also have some positive news at the bottom of this post!

Speaking of positive….it’s our monthly AJ page with my crafty friend Carol (from Crafty-Stamper) who is collaborating with me to “SMASH OUR STASH”! 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” JUNE prompt of “ABSTRACT FIGURE(S) or SHAPE(S)”: 

I didn’t really have a plan in place when starting my page.  I happened to remember these fun nesting dies that I had which remind me of a body of water/pond, but I thought they would work great for the “ABSTRACT SHAPE” prompt for this month.  I started thinking of a rock or cave with these holes or crevasses where a rainbow light is coming through and a girl is in deep positive thought where butterflies are floating above her.

For the background:  I started with a 8.5″x5.5″ watercolor cardstock and the oxide inks in Black Soot, Hickory Smoke and Pumice Stone.  I rubbed the ink pads onto a glass surface, sprayed with water and “smooshed” the paper multiple times after drying with a heat tool in a process of about three times.  I then stamped the “IMAGINE” definition text all over the background and went around the edges with black ink.

Each die cut shape was cut from a rainbow paper pad that I lined around the edges with a black marker.  I black heat embossed the heart and the sentiment above the girl.  The girl was cut from a magazine and placed on the largest rainbow shape so that her feet were dangling off.  The butterflies were cut from a printed file and attached randomly over the page.  Lastly, I covered each butterfly and the center of the heart with a glitter brush pen.  You may be able to see some of the shimmer in the photo.

I hope that you’ve enjoyed my AJ page today!  Thank you so much for checking out what I’m doing over here!  I appreciate your kind thoughts!  I’ll be seeing you soon!

Challenges:

  1. Art Journal Journey – People
  2. Try It On Tuesday – Add Some Text (not one word/greeting)
  3. Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge – Anything Goes
  4. Creative Artiste – Anything Goes Mixed Media
  5. Anything Goes in a Card Free Zone – No cards

Positive news!  My first grandson was born this week!  He’s the most precious thing I’ve ever seen!  I didn’t want to leave, so I hope I can come back very soon to see him again!❤️

This is me having a lovely conversation with him.  LOL

Sending Love Using My Stash

Hello friends!  Just popping in with a quick post to share a card I’ve made for a few challenges.

This year, I’m going to try and “shop my stash” instead of buying and buying and buying all the things.  YES…I know it’s easier said than done, but I’ve joined a fellow crafter that I’ve known for a long time to join in her monthly challenge prompts in her group on FB  (This & That With Danni’s Dreams) to help keep me motivated in spending less.  I’m sure she’d love you to join her, so check it out.  Her monthly prompts are from her “Use Your Stash” challenges that she just started this year.

Her themes/prompts for January 2025:  gnome(s), embossing folder, border die/punch, heart(s) and 12×12 paper.  (You can choose one, several or all.)  Here’s the card that I’ve made “Using My Stash” with ALL of the prompts:

I think gnomes are cute and I happen to have several stamps, so it was no problem finding one of those!  I’ve used an older gnome set from Whimsy Stamps Gnome One Like You.  I colored him up with Copics, but I fussy cut out the gnome and the heart balloon to pop up over the image on the circle that I’ve stenciled some pink clouds on.

The background has an older Sizzix embossing folder not sure of the name, but it’s a 3D embossing folder with hearts piled up.  The embossing folder and hearts was another two of her prompts.  I splattered some gold watercolor over the background before placing it over an A2 sized top folding cream card base.  I also used a corner chomper to round the edges of the right two corners.

I’ve used some very old 12×12 papers from Stampin’ Up! called “Fan Fare”.  I hoarded it for a long time and even wrote the coordinating colors on the back of the package!  It’s high time to use some of it up…even if it’s a small strip!  I’ve also taken the Whimsy Stamps Basic Border dies (not available any more) to cut a mirror gold strip along the edge of the papers. (The remaining of her other prompts used.)

I gold heat embossed the sentiment from the stamp set over a piece of the cream cardstock.  I cut it out with a banner die and sponged some light pink ink around the edges.  Lastly, I covered the heart balloon with a glitter pen and added a couple of tiny sequin hearts around the gnome.

I had a great time pulling out items from my stash and it felt good to be using them!  I certainly plan on doing more of these every month!  So stay tuned for more posts to help “Use Your Stash”!  Thanks so much for dropping in!  See you again soon!

Challenges:

  1. Freshly Made Sketches – #FMS668
  2. Creative Friday – #376 altrosa (Old pink)
  3. Crafty Calendar – Add a Die Cut
  4. Stamping Sensations – Anything Goes optional:  hand colored image

Anniversary Gnomes

Hello friends!  I hope you’re having a great start to your week!  I’m just popping in to share the card I made my husband for our 25th wedding anniversary…he’ll be getting it this morning and then we’re off to a date night (afternoon as we’ve gotten older)!😆 

I think this turned out pretty cute!  I dug into my Whimsy Stamps stash and colored up these cute gnomes and fussy cut them by hand to add to the scene.  I cut off the string and heart in the center of their hats and stamped the image over the green cardstock with the cut out image layered over top of it.

For the background:  I blended some Autumn colored inks in various places and then stenciled in the leaves with a light brown ink.  I die cut the mountains and attached them to the background by sizing it up with the green die cut tree border for placement.  I stamped the “love you” sentiment all over the green background and then layered the colored image over top of the other.  I added some silver sparkle on the heart in the center of the hats.

I also took a die cut silver cardstock frame to go around it and then I silver heat embossed the “happy anniversary” sentiment at the top of the scene.

All the layers were cut with a scallop rectangle die and placed over a side folding A2 grey card base.

And here’s what I put on the inside of the card.  I thought it up myself and printed it out on the computer.  It was cut out with the same scalloped rectangle die and attached.  I still need to sign it as I’m typing this up!

Here’s the inspiration that I used to help me create this card:

These are some more photos that we took while we were in Alaska last month.  After our cruise, we took a land tour and went on a train ride that took us up to Denali Park.  We had a good day to take a 3 mile hike one day and ran into someone that took our photo and we took their photo too!

I will be back later to share some photos of the stamp retreat I just came back from!  Always lots of fun and great to see my crafty friends!  Thanks for stopping by today!

Challenges:

  1. Retro Rubber – #rrcb242 Fall by the Lake (all products are at least 3 yrs old)RRCB #242
  2. Little Red Wagon – Emboss it! (sentiment)
  3. Penny’s Challenge – #583 Anything Goes Using Paper
  4. Krafty Chicks – #739 All Occasions (Anniversary)
  5. CRAFT – #738 Anything Goes
  6. Just Us Girls – #750 Stencil Week (leaves)
  7. Creative Knockouts – #533 Halloween or Fall (Fall)
  8. Crafty Catz – #681 Anything Goes with optional: dies/punches (I used dies)

October Art Journal-A Strange Feeling

Hello friends! **THIS IS A PRE-SCHEDULED POST AS I’M AWAY AT A STAMP RETREAT!!** 

The weather is finally starting to cool down now and we’ve finished cleaning the yard to prepare for winter months to follow soon.  Halloween will also be here in a few days, so I thought it would be fun to make my page today with that in mind!

Today is 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” October prompt of “ODD/Oddities” (anything unusual or strange): 

I don’t know if this is considered odd to anyone else, but I certainly do!  This weird scientist looking guy has a strange facial expression as he’s holding up a head in the bottle!  I’ve put so many details in this page that I thought you’d need to see close-up photos below.

For my background:  Starting with a 5.5″ x 8.5″ heavy watercolor paper with pre-punched holes at the top for binding later, I sprayed the background with mica sprays in Hocus Pocus, Jack-O-Lantern and Flickering Candle.  I sprayed some extra water over top to get them to blend together as they seem very concentrated and they didn’t move much over the watercolor paper after spraying a few times.  I took a leaves stencil inked over places with light brown ink.  I then ink blended the edges with black ink and stamped some lettering stamped randomly.  Lastly, I splattered with black and gold watercolor. 

Upon a closer look at the bottom:  I needed an area for shelves to hold the potion bottles, so I took some Tim Holtz Halloween collage paper and attached it with matte medium.  It crinkled a bit, but I sort of liked that look.  I then found some decorative strips in my stash and added those for the “shelves”.  The crow and “curious” ephemera was also found with all of my Tim Holtz Halloween stash….along with the paper doll “guy”.  I cut off a head from one of them to place inside the jar.  I added some thin metal wire around the jar and cut a slit in the guy’s hand to make it look like he’s holding it.  I also added a bit of color to the guy’s flower and bow tie on his jacket outfit with markers.  BEFORE popping up the paper doll guy to the page, I ripped some black cardstock for the ground underneath him and tucked in the bones.

For the Bottles:  I used a Taylored Expressions “If You Dare” Stamp & Stencil set to make all of the bottles.  I also used the TE “If You Dare Halloween Labels” to foil and cut out to place over each jar.  To die cut some extra “strange things” to put inside a few of the jars and the bones at the bottom, I die cut pieces from the TE “Little Bits Cauldron Confetti” dies.  (The die cut bats from this were also used on the top of the page.)  For more finishing details, I doodled in some of the jars and then added some colored glitter/sparkle and pearl drops for the inside contents.  If you look closely at the crow’s eye, you can see I’ve added a tiny dot of yellow sparkle.  Some of the details were popped up and some were just glued down.

A closer look at the top:  Mostly die cut pieces were used at the top and the first I put down was the spider web and spider from Whimsy Stamps called Spiders and Webs…they’re huge!  (this store is so good at spooky things!)  I drew a line with a black marker from the spider to the web.  For the window, I die cut it out from a really old Mama Elephant die I’ve had in my stash…not sure if it’s still available.  BEFORE I placed the window down, I die cut the moon from the Lawn Fawn Shadow Box Halloween Add-On die set.  I blended in some yellow and gray  and covered it with a glitter sparkle pen.  I added the die cut bats and placed the window over top.

Lastly, I took some Tim Holtz Halloween clippings word strips and added to the page.  I took a black marker and went around the strips above the paper doll “guy”.

I know there are people that are not Halloween fans or care for the spooky things, but I really enjoy the weirdness of it all and have fun making things with it!  In the words of Lydia from Beetlejuice:  “I myself am strange and unusual“.

Winona Ryder in a hat as Lydia in Beetlejuice

I do hope you’ve enjoyed my page today and I really appreciate you stopping by!  I will be back later with things we’re doing at the retreat!  See you soon!

Challenges:

  1. Art Journal Journey – Autumn Colors & Inspiration (Purple, orange, yellow and black!)

Halloween Hauntings

Hello friends!  It seems like this month has really flown by as I now realize that Halloween will be here next week and I wanted to get some cards sent out that I’ve made!

So here are my Halloween cards for this year….I had so much fun!

This one was so much fun putting together and it wouldn’t have been put together if it weren’t for the parameters on Craft Roulette #237 this week!  The four parameters consisted of these – 1. Project: Pop Up Card, 2. Colors: Trick-or-Treat, 3. Element: Boutique and 4. Random: jewelry

I used the Lawn Fawn Platform pop-up die and the build a house die with the Halloween add on plus a few other dies and stamp sets all from Lawn Fawn.  The front “welcome” sentiment was printed out from my computer and I made up the “Bougie BOO-tique” language to fit with the parameters of the challenge.😆  These ghosts are all blinged up and hanging out around their favorite “BOO-tique” to catch up on all of the latest trends in style!  One is wearing a necklace, another a tierra, another carrying a purse, another styling glasses with bling and the front ghost has earrings and a sparkle wand.

The background was done with the Lawn Fawn Platform Pop Up Add On around the back of the pop up.  I ink blended and then splattered with white Copic Opaque White mixed with water to get the starry night background.  This card went to my husband because he really enjoyed it and said that it wasn’t going anywhere, but it does lay flat for mailing.

 

This card was done for an Inky Inkspiration Challenge over on FB for September and they were asking for a slimline card.  I’m more into making the mini slimline size rather than a full size, so that’s what I went with!  I’ve used the cute Bat stamp set for all of the images, except for the background panel, which you’ll notice it looks like a BINGO card and it is!  It was the game that we played in a Zoom class that I took with Inky Stamper and we actually used this Bat stamp set for the projects we made and the BINGO card was included.  I decided instead of throwing it away, that I would use it as background paper for my card.  I just stenciled in some gray clouds over top and stamped some bats from the set with it.  The rest were just cut out and placed on the card with the bat being popped out with foam tape.

(I would’ve showed photos from the class, but I forgot to take photos of them!)

And here’s another card I made for World Card Making Day using the fun sketch from the Inky Stamper Inkspiration Group on FB.  I’ve used this really CUTE Zombie stamp set from Inky Stamper for this card.  I had so much fun coloring him up!

 

And this last card I made for someone who loves the spookiness of the season almost as much as I do!  I pulled this really cool image from an older paper pack by Whimsy Stamps.  In fact, all of the images on this card came from this store.  

I die cut the image out with the WS ATC Antique Frames including the sentiment that was white heat embossed.  The background was black heat embossed with the WS Vintage Wallpaper stamp over kraft cardstock.  I sponged some black ink around the edges which was also cut out with the WS Wavy Pieced Rectangle dies.  I cut out a few ghosts from white cardstock using the WS Boo die set and sponged some green ink at the very bottom edges.

I thought it would be fun to make the eyeballs of the skeleton and the edges of the ghosts glow in the dark, so I used some glow-in-the-dark embossing powder over them and finished off the sentiment panel with green gems.  (It’s too hard to take a photo of the glow-in-the-dark!)

Well that’s it for me today with all of the Halloween cards!  I hope you’ve enjoyed them or have been inspired in some way!  Thanks so much for stopping in and I’ll see you again on Saturday with another Art Journal Page for the month! 

Challenges:

  1. Creative Fingers – #287 Anything Goes
  2. Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers – ‘H’ is for Halloween
  3. Lil’ Patch of Crafty Friends – #240 Anything Goes
  4. Pammie’s Inky Pinkies – #PIP2442 Anything Goes
  5. Make My Monday – #237 A Spooky Halloween
  6. Two Old Bats – Anything Goes Halloween
  7. Crazy for Stencils – Anything Goes using stencils + Halloween (2nd bat card)
  8. Unicorn – Autumn/Halloween

Things That go ‘BUMP’ in the Night for Sparkles Monthly

Hello friends!  I hope you’re having a great weekend!  Did you have “good luck” on Friday the 13th?  It’s getting closer to Halloween!  I don’t send out very many Halloween things, but it’s something that I share with friends and my adult kids because it holds some special memories of just having fun.

Today begins our October challenge at Sparkles Monthly with a theme that was my turn to pick: Things That go ‘BUMP’ in the Night (Does not HAVE to be Halloween!)  So, if you’re not a Halloween person, this theme is open-ended.  Try nocturnal animals, Santa on the roof, etc.  Just have some fun crafting!

Of course, I love Halloween and had fun making my card:

I thought these mice were just too cute!  They were out bumping around in the night trying to be scary but scared each other instead! LOL

The mice came from the STAMPtember collaboration with Whimsy Stamps and the set is called Spooky & Mice.  I colored them with Copic markers and die cut them out with the coordinating dies.  They were popped up with foam tape over the background.

For my background:  I used a cloud stencil on a white piece of cardstock and blended some clouds with purple ink and then blended around the edges with black and grey ink.  I then took the SSS Spook Up Some Fun stamp set and stamped black stars over the background and I also white heat embossed the oval sentiment panel that was in that stamp set over black cardstock and set it aside.  I’ve also splattered the background with black, white and silver acrylic paints.

While that panel was drying, I heat embossed the Whimsy Stamps Spider Web Frame with a white sparkle EP and then cut the middle of it out with scissors so the cloud background would show.  I stamped the spider hanging down onto the background while sizing it up with the frame and then drew a black string with a marker for it. Glued on the frame, attached my oval sentiment panel, and attached it to a top folding A2 sized grey card base. (Then added the mice with foam squares.)

Lastly, I’ve added some silver gems on each side of the sentiment oval and attached a few clear sequins over the night sky background.

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  I hope you’ll be able to join along in the fun with us this month!  I’ll be seeing you soon!

Challenges:

  1. Two Old Bats Halloween – Anything Goes Halloween
  2. Crafty Animals – Anything Goes with an animal
  3. Critter Crazy – Anything Goes with a featured critter
  4. Creative Inspirations – Autumn or Halloween
  5. Craft Rocket – Autumn and/or Halloween
  6. As You Like It – Favorite Halloween or Fairies & why? (I love to make Halloween theme because it’s so fun with cute, scary or fun characters and I love the colors too!)
  7. Most Magical Time of the Year – Anything Halloween or Christmas
  8. Creative Moments – “It’s Alive!”

August AJ Page-A is for Adventure

Hello friends!  Wishing you a happy weekend!  We’ve had a heat advisory in our area all week, so I’ve been staying indoors organizing, cleaning and crafting!  Hope that you’re taking some time to enjoy your weekend even if it’s just for a moment of time.

I can’t believe we’re at the last weekend of August, because it’s time for 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” August prompt of “LETTERS”:

Thinking of YOUR stash, what do you come up with from the prompt?  I think as crafters, we probably all have some type of lettering in our stash!  I have stamps, stickers, chipboard, wood, stencils, ephemera, etc so I knew this would be a good opportunity to pull out something.  And if that doesn’t work for you, I suppose you could take the prompt literally, and attach an actual written letter or make one up yourself to add to your AJ page.  Lots of ways to interpret a prompt which makes it easy to come up with a plan to inspire you.  So this is what I came up with.

For the background:  I started with a 6″ x 9″ Strathmore Acrylic paper with pre-punched holes at the top and stenciled some crackle paste over my Tim Holtz alpha stencil and let dry.  I then took some Distress Oxide sprays in the colors kitsch flamingo, salvaged patina and speckled egg and mixed with sprayed water to let the the colors run over the stenciled areas.  After it dried, I used the Tim Holtz Grunged stamp set and stamped more letters over the background with black archival ink.  The edges were blended with dark gray ink and then I splattered the page with gold and white paints with a fan brush.  Lastly, I took some white gold metallic wax and went over the stenciled letters.

The film strip came from the Whimsy Stamps Slmiline Film Strip die cut out from black cardstock. For the three image sections, I found some packaging with maps images on them and cut it out with the same die.  Since the packaging had a slick surface, I painted it with clear gesso so I could stamp over it.  After it dried, I stamped the three panels with the TH Grunged stamp set in the same colors of Oxide inks as the background and then stamped the travel images with black archival ink from an old Stampin’ Up! set called “Traveler”.  To finish is off, I used an old chip board letter “A” from my stash, painted it black and added some more of that white gold wax along the edges, found a TH “small talk” sticker to go over it and then I drew some lines around it and sponged it to make it look grungy.  I finished it with more ephemera I found in my stash from Tim Holtz and Stamperia… and decided to call it done.

  • Thanks so much for stopping by today!  I hope you’ve found some inspiration with my project!  Enjoy your day!

Challenges I’d like to enter my page for:

  1. Art Journal Journey – Where in the World? (travel theme)
  2. Crafting Happiness – Any type of craft
  3. Creative Artiste – Anything Mixed Media
  4. Paper a la Mode – No Cards – I was inspired by grungy things
  5. Crafting From the Heart – No Cards – Anything Goes
  6. Ally’s Angels – Anything Goes

July AJ Page-Always Look Up!

Hello friends and happy weekend! As we finish off another really hot day…probably for most of the U.S. right now, I do hope you’re staying cool and enjoying the rest of the month of July.  We’ve been in a heat advisory in our area for the last few days, but hopefully it will cool down soon.  In the meantime, I will be crafting inside!

It’s time for 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 will have some wonderful inspiration to share, so please check out her blog too! Here’s my AJ page with the “SMASH OUR STASH” July prompt of “STRIPS/STRIPES”:

I don’t know why this makes me giggle, but it does!  I thought the best way to create the “STRIPS/STRIPES” prompt would be to pull out some more of those never-ending stash of pattern papers!  So I pulled some out for the strips at the bottom that I cut out with a hillside border die and one of the pieces happened to have stripes on it which worked out for both!  I thought it would look great for the field that the cow WAS on.😆

For the background:  I started with my usual piece of 6″x 9″ pre-punched at the top from Canson Watercolor paper and made a galaxy background with watercolors.  I had fun making a mess with it!  I let it air dry underneath some heavy books to keep it flat as it dried.  Once dry, I splattered some Copic opaque white with a fan brush over it.

This is where I added the strips of cut papers at the bottom.  Before I cut the green layer at the bottom, I ran it through my printer to create the quote on my computer.  I sponged the edges of it with green ink.  I also sponged some black ink around the edges of the galaxy background too.  The striped paper was painted with a light green ink and then splattered with a darker green color as I was trying to mute it a bit.  The “fence” behind it was cut out with white cardstock and placed behind the striped strip piece.

For the flying saucer and alien, I used an UFO die set from Whimsy Stamps and cut it out with several different specialty papers like holographic, silver glitter, green metallic, black glitter, vellum and acetate (for the front window of the saucer).  I popped it up with foam tape over a die cut piece of vellum that I’ve colored with a yellow marker and sprayed with shimmer spray…hard to pick up in a photo, but you can barely see it.  I attached it over the background by using my Xyron sticker machine, so you can still see through it.

I glued the “confused cow” from the MFT The Whole Herd stamp set within the “beam” vellum.  The hillside borders that I cut the bottom strips with came from MFT as well. 

I hope you’ve enjoyed my AJ page today and been inspired in some way!  Thanks so much for dropping in and don’t forget to look up!!😆

Challenges:

  1. Art Journal Journey – Come Fly with Me!
  2. Crafting From the Heart – Anything Goes except cards
  3. Creative Artiste – Anything Mixed Media
  4. Ally’s Angels – Anything Goes
  5. Crafting Happiness – Any Type of Craft
  6. Penny’s Paper-Crafty – Anything Goes Using Paper
  7. Through the Purple Haze – Anything Goes

Cowboy Courage and Dad Jokes

Hello friends!  Hope you’ve had a great Fourth of July weekend and staying cool through this really hot week too!  I had planned on scheduling a post or two while I was gone last month, but time just didn’t let me get there and I’m a bit behind, but I wanted to share a couple of masculine cards I made for some men in my life for Father’s Day:

Up first is this card I made for my dad.  He’s a huge John Wayne fan and so I thought it would be fun to print out one of his famous quotes for a card.  After printing it out, I stamped the large rope lasso image around it from the Whimsy Stamps Cowpoke clear stamp set.  I printed the quote over a piece of kraft cardstock and stamped with chocolate colored ink with the rope frame and colored it with Copics.  I also cut the other images from the same stamp set over White Copic Blending Card and colored it with Copics.  I just fussy cut them out with scissors and placed them over my card front with some foam squares.  I cut a section of the horseshoe out so that it “appears” as if it’s hanging around the lasso and glued it over each side of the lasso.

I thought it would be fun to add some more details to mimic the boots by die cutting the loopy stitched borders from the Whimsy Stamps Straight Edger Die Set and then I ink blended around the edges with chocolate ink.  I also did this with the envelope you see behind the card too.

He really liked this one!  I remember as a child sitting with him sometimes and watching those really old “cowboy movies”.  LOL

The next card I made was for my husband…

This card was PERFECT for him!  Most of the time, the kids would always tell him that his jokes were NOT funny, but the fact that HE thought they were so funny is what made them laugh! 😂 And then he would claim that they were laughing or smiling, so he knew they liked them!😄

So, when I saw this Dad Jokes stamp set from Lawn Fawn, I knew it would be a good one to have on hand for cards with him.  I kept this card a simple one with a grassy stitched border and then I used one of those woodgrain papers from Lawn Fawn and also die cut the LF Father’s Day Border using the same woodgrain paper for it.

I positioned the little chicks to the side with the *crickets* sentiment above them and then the other one laughing while the little chick with the tie is telling the “dad joke”.  I popped up the speech bubbles with foam squares.  You will also see that I’ve stamped another “dad joke” on the envelope with some ha ha ha next to it as well.

**Side note:  My husband’s favorite “dad joke” from the stamp set was…”What’s brown and sticky?…A stick!“**  He had to tell that one to the (adult)kids of course! 🙄 

Hope you’ve enjoyed my masculine cards today or had a smile!  Thanks for dropping in and I’ll see you soon!

Challenges:

  1. 7. JulyThe Male Room – Monochrome (Top card only with brown tones)
  2. Alphabet – ‘G’ is for Giggle/humorous card (Second card only)
  3. Lil’ Patch of Crafty Friends – Anything Goes
  4. Corrosive – Anything Goes
  5. Pammie’s Inky Pinkies – Anything Goes
  6. Penny’s Paper-Crafty – Anything Goes using Paper