THE OPEN GATE

These wonderful butterflies are borders by K&Company...beautiful!, the bees on the card are
from the same package of borders.........cute!!

This is a Thomas Kinkade stamp from Cornish Heritage Farms, The Open Gate. I stamped

on glossy cardstock with momento black ink and colored with Tombow markers.

Hi. Did you think I had disappeared? Working two days a week and I am TIRED when I get home. My brain is dead and all I want to do after dinner and dishes, around 8:30, is shower and sleep. I must be getting old.....yikes!

Today's card is for the Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge (MMSC40)(http://www.priscillastyles.blogspot.com/) Hard to believe they are at challenge 40 already, and I imagine it feels even more unbelievable to Priscilla and her design team. I used papers from My Minds Eye (HOME-glitter stack pink). Under the butterflies is a cut up lace doily. Flowers are from the Bridal Dept at Michaels. I popped up those butterflies over the lace. Added Kaiser pearls to finish. These Thomas Kinkade images are spectacular, each one more beautiful than the next.

Have a great day. Thanks for stopping by. Until tomorrow........

BSS-Monday Challenge-A Bleach Job!!!

Good Monday Morning. And welcome in to the Buffalo Stamps and STuff Monday Challenge. Today's challenge is an old technique, but I hadn't done it in a long time so I thought we would revisit it. I used bleach (yep, the regular laundry chlorox stuff) to remove color from the paper instead of coloring the image. On the first card with the butterfly, I stamped the image (Inkadinkado) with Versafine ink and embossed with clear EP. Then, using a very small paint brush and some bleach I had put in a small glass jar, I just "colored" in with the bleach. Drying with the heat gun speeds up the process, but you don't want to go over your embossing too many times or it will burn it. You never know what you're going to get. If you go over it a second time, it lightens it further.

On the second card, I stamped with clear ink and embossed with a red and gold combo EP.

This image is by Hero Arts.

On the gold card, I again stamped in black and embossed with clear EP. I went over some of the leaves a second time to make some lighter for contrast. This image is by Great Impressions.

On the final card, I stamped the image (Penny Black) with black ink and embossed in clear EP.

I'm really liking the effect the bleach leaves and I especially like how the butterfly turned out.

Hope you have a chance to try this technique. Thanks for stopping by. Until tomorrow.

Butterflies Aplenty

Hello, Happy Super Bowl Sunday! Before we head out to my daughters to watch the game, I just wanted to show you these little butterflies I put together for her first grade class for Valentines Day. I just used the Stampin Up Butterfly die cut by Sizzix and cut out the small and large butterfly from different valentines patterned paper. I then just taped a package of Smartees to each set of wings, mixing the papers. So cute and so fast! They are little so all they want to do is get to the candy anyway, so I think they will enjoy them. Brooke, one of the gals that runs the cinema Saturday challenge made airplanes with Smarties, life savers for wheeels and gum for the wings, so very cute.

Enjoy the rest of your Sunday. Until tomorrow.................

Paper Clip Heart

Hi. Happy Saturday. Hope your enjoying some time doing something you like to do. Today's card is for the House Mouse Challenge. There is a blinky on the right that takes you right there. The challenge this time is a Valentine.

This lovely pearl cluster was a gift from my blogger buddy Julia. They are stunning and the

best part is there are two more in the package and I can't wait to use them for an under the sea kind of card with some mermaids I have in a clam shell. Ooops, that's another day, another card.

I found these tiny flowers at Michael's in the bridal department. So cute!

The papers are from the Sweet Stack by DCWV. I cut the heart out with a Sizzix die and ran it through an embossing folder and trimmed it with some pre-gathered lace from my sewing days when I used to make my granddaughter lace trimmed fancy socks to go with her Mary Jane shiny shoes..........those were the days! The inside sentiment is by Paper Inspirations.

Have a great rest of the day. Enjoy the Super Bowl if that's your thing, or escape to your stamp room if everyone else is watching the Super Bowl!!!! Until tomorrow............

Special Friend

Hello. Hope your Friday was good. At least it's the last day of the week and we have the weekend to look forward to.

I made this card for the Penny Black Challenge, and I'm afraid I am really cutting it close. The challenge was Someone Special. This is a vintage Penny Black. I cut a strip out of the blue cardstock in a wave pattern. I faux stitched the edge. The felt flower was a gift from my blogger friend Julia, thanks friend.

My granddaughter Megan is sleeping over. She came to make Valentines for her teachers and she is stamping up a storm right now. Have a great weekend. Until tomorrow..............

Winged Beauty

Hello. Hope everyone is enjoying their Thursday. I got to spend most of the day in my stamp room. First I had a chance to look over all the goodies I got at Hobby Lobby on Monday. Then I opened a package from Sweat Pea Stamps that had arrived on Tuesday. I ordered some of the Ching-chou kuik Fantasy Art Collection stamps. Well, I knew I had to stamp one and color it up.
I chose this beautiful winged beauty. I am entering her in the Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge (MMSC39)(http://www.priscillastyles.blogspot.com/), and the Simon Says Stamp, which had a beautiful red rose picture to use as inspiration. There is a link to their site on the right. I loved how she turned out after coloring her with Copics, but then I decided to mist her with Glimmer Mist and I am disappointed that it made the colors much less vibrant. The heart is trimmed with punched circles to give it the scalloped edge. The roses are from Michaels Bridal Dept. I glazed them with Papier clear, then sprinkled Martha Stewart glitter on them. Corners are a Sizzix die. Lace is a MS border punch.

Have a great rest of the day. Thanks for stopping by. Until later..............

Baby Coming

Hi. I'm off to work today and tomorrow. I have made this card for a co-worker/friend whose best friend is expecting a baby. It's of course a House Mouse Design. Papers are from Nana's Kids paper stack. Border punch is by MS. The sentiment continues inside with to make a family happy and make a home complete.

My sister and I went to Hobby Lobby today. Got lots of stuff. Copics are on sale for 30% off!!

I'm entering this card in the Simon Says Stamp Challenge. There is a link to this challenge on the right. The challenge was to make a baby card.

Happy Ground Hog Day! Thanks for stopping by. Until later................