Masculine Moose birthday card. Using Evergreen Forest 3D EF and Pine Forest Dies. After embossing the whisper white cardstock, I sponged some varying colors of green atop the embossed tree images. I still love the Merry Moose Stamps and coordinating punch.

 

Sponged Deer

SUPPLIES:

• PAPER: Mossy Meadow, Espresso, Baked Brown Sugar
• STAMPS: In The Meadow, And Many More, 
• INK: Tip Top Taupe, Whisper White, Pear Pizzazz, Daffodil Delight
• ACCESSORIES: Sponge Daubers, Candy Dots, Stampin Write Markers, White Gel Pen, Word Window and 1" Circle punch, Square Lattice EF

First sponged bottom of Brown Sugar CS with Pear Pizzazz. Stamped deer and trees in Taupe, then grasses in Pear Pizzazz. Masked sun with 1" circle and sponged Taupe around sky and trees; sponged pear pizzazz around tree branches. Stamped flowers in Whisper White. Colored deer with Taupe maker and blender pen, then added gel pen highlights to flowers and deer. Added Espresso marker to deer eye and nose. Sponged sun with Daffodil Delight; distressed and then sponged edges of Brown Sugar cardstock with Taupe and Whisper White. Embossed Espresso with Square Lattice EF and distressed edges then sponged with Whisper White. Mounted on Mossy Meadow card.

Stamped sentiment in Whisper White on Espresso and then sponged edges with Whisper White. Added candy dots.

Remembering Kauai

SUPPLIES:

• INK: Bermuda Bay, Coastal Cabana, Island Indigo, Early Espresso, More Mustard, Crushed Curry, River Rock, Craft White, Memento Black
• CARDSTOCK: Whisper White, Espresso. Vellum
• STAMPS: Wetlands, Peaceful Petals, Simply Sketched
• ACCESSORIES: Scallope Oval and Oval Punch, Square Lattice EF, sponges, daubers, brayer, white gel pen. Brads.

This is a thank you card to my in-laws for an invite to vacation in Kauai with them. It is a CASE of a Zindorf scene with a little twist. This is the link to Zindorf post on Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/346284658824392500/

After sponging and brayering the sky, ocean and land, I stamped the foliage in Memento Black and hilighted with White gel pen. I stamped the flower from Peaceful Petals in Memento Black on the vellum (heat set or wait a long time to dry because it smears easily!). Then fixed the vellum over the beach scene with brads and mounted with white, and then espresso embossed with square lattice EF.

Lacy Bloom With Hope

SUPPLIES:

• STAMPS: Bloom With Hope, Dictionary, I Love Lace, Secret Garden
• INK: Night of Navy, Pool Party, Smoky Slate, Soft Sky, Memento Tuxedo Black, Certainly Celery
• CARDSTOCK: Basic Black, Whisper White, Pool Party
• ACCESSORIES: Fringe Scissors, Vintage Brads, Paper Doily, Bitty Banners & Secret Garden Framelits, Belndabilities, Sponge Daubers, White Baker's Twine

Stamped Whisper White background panel with Dictionary background stamp in Night of Navy; sponged edges with Night of Navy. Stamped Flowers on Whisper White using Memento Black; colored with blendabilities markers. Stamped background stamp I Love Lace in Soft Sky over entire image; sponged Pool Party, Smoky Slate, Night of Navy. Colored flowers again with lightest color of blendabilities to remove any pattern from I Love Lace stamp. Stamped leaves from Secret Garden set in Certainly Celery, cut with framelit. Selected just a few leaves and sponged edges with Always Artichoke, then added black around very edges. Cut Pool Party with fringe scissors and sponged with Night of Navy; added Paper Doily also lightly sponge with Night of Navy. Stamped Happy birthday in Night of Navy on Pool Party and cut with Bitty Banners framelits; sponged edges. Added bakers twine and vintage brad.

Vintage Goose

SUPPLIES:

• Cardstock: Crumb Cake, Basic Black, Whisper White
• Ink: Early Espresso, Basic Black, Crushed Curry, Baked Brown Sugar, Cajun Craze, Basic Gray, Soft Suede
• Stamps: Wetlands, Truly Grateful, Teeny Tiny Wishes, Gorgeous Grunge, Parlor Prints
• Accessories: Beautifully Baroque EF, Square Lattice EF, Word Window Punch, Burlap Ribbon, Paper Doily, Decorative Brad, Versamark Pen, Clear EP, Heat Gun, Sponge

Stamped Crumb Cake card with Parlor Prints background stamp in Early Espresso. Inked another panel of Crumb Cake cardstock using sponge with Baked Brown Sugar; inked EF with Crushed Curry and embossed; added more Baked Brown Sugar and Cajun Craze with sponge.

Stamped goose on Whisper White in Early Espresso; colored with versamark pen and heat embossed with Clear EP. Stamped woodgrain background in Basic Gray; added dots in Crushed Curry; sponged on Baked Brown Sugar and Cajun Craze. Used Square Lattice EF on black to mat the goose (hard to see in picture). Distressed edges on all pieces and inked with Soft Suede.

Moose at Sunset

First stamped the moose in Stazon black; inked grasses again, and stamped upside down across bottom. Masked moose and brayered sky with Daffodil Delight, Pumpkin Pie, Cajun Craze. Sponged in More Mustard and Daffodil Delight on Sun. Stamped Trees in black. Colored Moose with aqua painter and Brown Sugar, Soft Suede, and Early Espresso. Added a few grasses from Wetlands set.

Bear At Sunset

SUPPLIES:

• stamps - wildlife reserve, lovely as a tree, happiest birthday wishes
• ink - basic black, basic gray, calypso coral, so saffron, marina mist, melon mambo, night of navy
• cardstock - soft suede, chocolate chip, basic black, very vanilla
• accessories - square lattice folder, sponge dauber, brayer, markers,signo white gel pen, linen thread and brads

Started by stamping the bear and coloring with markers. Masked the bear and stamped trees. Masked off ground level with bear and brayered marina mist, then sponged night of navy and bashful blue. Masked off tree line  and sun, then brayered so saffron, calypso coral, and then melon mambo. Sponged in basic black for hillside; added little grasses along stream edge with black marker. Added a few white lines in water with signo gel pen.

End of Day

Masking, sponging and brayering using COUNTRYSIDE and LOVELY AS A TREE sets.


stamped truck and colored with copic markers. Masked off sun, brayered in bashful blue then brayered top right corner with marina mist over the bashful blue. Masked the truck and stamped trees; sponged in basic gray and basic black for the ground.Sun was sponged with very vanilla and then with pearl x powders.

Thanks for looking (:

Oh Snowy Night

Inspired by my front yard...

I first stamped the tree from LOVELY AS A TREE set in basic black onto basic gray cardstock. Stamped again and then "stamped off" before masking and then stamping the lighter background trees. Then using the stamp a ma jig, I stamped a light shadow of very vanilla, inking the left side of the stamp heavier than the right. Sponged in very vanilla across the bottom, and sponged the moon in reverse punch out of 1 3/8" circle.

Sentiment is from teeny tiny wishes.

Sponged Delicate Doilies

SUPPLIES:

• ink - lucky limeade, always artichoke, bashful blue, marina mist, crumb cake, soft suede, early espresso, versamark
• stamps - delicate doilies, everything eleanor, french foliage, netting background, lacy and lovely
• cardstock - early espresso, bashful blue, very vanilla
• accessories - heat gun, clear EP, early espresso baker's twine, designer woodgrain buttons, labels framelits, sponge daubers

First stamped the delicate doilies with versamark and heat embossed with clear EP; colored doilies in with bashful blue. Sponged in various colors, then stamped netting background, dots from french foliage, and the flourish from everything eleanor.

POPPIES

A wonderful trip to see family in California for the Thanksgiving holiday. So much to be thankful for... and many thank you cards to make!

SUPPLIES:

• stamps - pleasant poppies, teeny tiny wishes
• ink - stazon black, bliss blue, basic gray
• cardstock - wisteria wonder, bashful blue, whisper white, black
• accessories - copic markers, white highlighter gel pen, decorative brad, word window punch, square lattice EF, lacy brocade EF, bakers twine, big shot, sponge dauber

Stamped the poppies on the bashful blue cardstock using black stazon; colored the poppies with copics and sponged in bliss blue and basic gray around them. Added white highlighter gel pen.

Inked the lacy brocade embossing folder with bliss blue before embossing the white cardstock.

Lodge Tree

SUPPLIES:

• stamps - christmas lodge, parlor prints, teeny tiny wishes
• cardstock - bashful blue, elegant eggplant, basic gray, whisper white
• ink - not quite navy, elegant eggplant, basic gray, taken with teal, baja breeze marker
• accessories - designer button, bakers twine, pearls, lacy brocade EF, moden label punch

NOTE: Stamped the tree in not quite navy on whisper white; added baja breeze to some of the tree. Stamped parlor print background over it in basic gray. Sponged in varoius colors - taken with teal, not quite navy, elegant eggplant, basic gray.

Got the Blues?

SUPPLIES:

• stamps - inspired by nature, teeny tiny wishes, parlor prints
• ink - basic gray, not quite navy, taken with teal, black; sahara sand marker
• cardstock - whisper white, basic gray, bashful blue, night of navy
• accessories - square lattice EF, fancy fan EF, word window punch, modern label punch, itty bitty punches, pearls

I sponged the taken with teal and basic gray on the whisper white cardstock; added not quite navy and black around edges and corners. Stamped the flower from inspired by nature in not quite navy; added shadows with sahara sand marker and just a few white highlights. Stamped the parlor print background in basic gray over the top of it all.

Colorful Woodgrain

SUPPLIES:

 
stamps - sincere salutations, lovely as a tree
ink - pumpkin pie, rich razzleberry, melon mambo, wild wasabi, going green, black stazon
cardstock - espresso, whisper white
accessories - primrose petals stitched ribbon, scallop oval and scallop punch, large scallop edgelit, woodgrain embossing folder
 
To make the background on the woodgrain, I colored the negative of the embossing folder with a pumpkin pie and rich razzleberry pen.

For the tree scene, I stamped the tree in stazon black, masked off the sun, and sponged in the various colors.

Winterish Day

To make this card I colored the negative portion of the woodgrain embossing folder with a crumb cake marker before embossing the white cardstock. Punched corners with ticket punch. Matted with espresso; punched corners with ticket punch.

Stamped lovely as a tree in black stazon, then sponged crumb cake, espresso, baja breeze, not quite navy, and going gray; cut with labels framelit.

Cut crumb cake with labels framelit, embossed with square lattice EF. Added decorative label in baja breeze, and modern label in espresso.

Stamped happy birthday from teeny tiny wishes set in not quite navy, punched with word window and matted with modern label. Added mini brads and small circle from itty bitty punch (I punched this out of the embossed woodgrain before adhereing the tree). Adhered to crumb cake card.

(Added espresso sponging to the edge of all the pieces before adhering)

French Foliage Thanks

I saw this card technique posted on Stampin' Connection by Marian Garcia. I loved the simple effect of the masking and sponging. I changed the colors and added the tab at the top.

Mask off the top and bottom of the card leaving the width exposed that will be sponged. Sponge in graduated colors - dark, medium, light. I began by sponging the daffodil delight on the right and worked my way left, adding calypso coral to the middle and melon mambo to the far left side. Whie still masked, use espresso to stamp the leaves that will only be inside the masking. Remove the mask and stamp the rest of the leaves that overlap the masking in espresso; add the dots and and round paris stamp in melon mambo. Stamp sentiment and add word window punch to top with button and baker's twine. Cardstock is so saffron.

Embossed Doily

I started with a piece of vanilla cardstock and stamped the doily with versamark then heat embossed with stampendous' pink pastel EP. Brayered pumpkin pie, cherry cobbler and so saffron over card then sponged early espresso inside doily;wiped off excess from brayering. Used ticket punch on top and matted with espresso and added designer series button and espresso baker's twine; added dotted scallop ribbon border punched in pink pirouette and espresso. Stamped thanks so much from old sincere salutations on pink pirouette; punched with oval, and matted in espresso with scallop oval. Used ticket punch on top edges of espresso and white cardstock.

Acrylic Block Leaves

 

I tried the acrylic block technique and didn't like the image on the paper so I decided to diecut the leaves out of it and add some color spritzing and brayering to them.

I stamped pumpkin pie and cajun craze on my acrylic block, sprayed with water, then stamped on whisper white. I then diecut all of the leaves; used SU's color spritzer tool and added cherry cobbler, more mustard and crumb cake. Brayered edges with soft suede on some leaves and cajun craze on the others. Background panels are embossed with wood grain folder. Cardstock: espresso, so saffron, whisper white. Happy Thanksgiving from TEENY TINY WISHES set. Leaves are spellbinders nested maple leaves. Ribbon is daffodil delight. I used popup dots on a few of the leaves.

Brilliant Sky

No matter what I did with the picture the background looks more bluish, but it is actually basic gray. I first stamped the LOVELY AS A TREE image in stazon black, masked the sun, then sponged in daffodil delight, calypso coral, melon mambo, rich razzleberry for the sky. Sponged lucky limeade, wild wasabi and always artichoke for the grass. The gray and lucky limeade backgrounds were stamped with the NETTING background stamp. Stamped the thinking of you from TEENY TINY WISHES and cut with bitty banners framelits. Added matting, small circle punches, and brads. No frills, just a peaceful and colorful scene :)

Birthday Jump

This card is for a friend's 13th birthday. The 4 wheeler is from the RIDE ON set (retired). I masked off the sun and bottom and brayered so saffron, calypso coral and rich razzleberry. Stamped tree tops from LOVELY AS A TREE. Sponged soft suede, basic black and espresso on the bottom. Stamped 4 wheeler and colored with sahara sand a basic gray, colored trees with moss, sponged a little yellow in the sun and added white highlights to the rider and trees.