Moo Brew

The theme for the Mod Squad Challenge this time is Tea or Coffee so naturally I had to make a card for that. I chose to  use some new items I acquired with a gift certificate that I won at the Spring and Summer Coffee Lovers Hop. I am so glad I got these products that help to make coffee cards so much fun to do.

The coffee beans and plaid pattern papers are from the Coffee Paper Pack by Echo Park. And the stamps used for this card are from the Little Acres Creations set called Moo Brew. I sure love that cow sitting and drinking coffee.

Thanks for the visit and I hope your week is going well.

God bless,

Verna

May Rudolph Days

Hi everyone,
Just a quick post to show the card I have entered into the May Rudolph Days challenge. I love this challenge as it motivates me to make Christmas cards. And I am so thrilled as to how this design on my card looks too.

I did a no line technique that I have been wanting to try for quite some time. This is a solid image and I started out by stamping the design in with Memento London Fog (which is a gray) and then with my Bic or Copics proceeded to color in the image. I also used a bit of white colored pencil on the hat of the snowman.

Penny Black Stamps Used:
Bundled Up
Yuletide Wishes (sentiment)

Die used:
Maker's Movement Stitched Rectangle Stacker (formerly Cheery Lynn Designs)

Well, we will soon be leaving this morning for our oldest grandson's graduation from high school. So hard to believe he is that old and that he will be attending college this coming Fall. Time goes by so fast.

Thanks for stopping by and for your wonderful comments. Have a great Sunday.

God bless,
Verna

Birch Tree Holiday Card

I was beginning to think I had no Impression Obsession dies or stamps that would qualify for the current challenge but I lucked out when I remembered I had this one die set that included birds in it. So this is my entry for the Impression Obsession Challenge-Feathered Friends. With this die set I created a scene by doing some brush blending for a background. I hope you like it.

I took blending brushes and ink to create a sky and a snowy ground cover by using a torn paper mask. Then I took the birch die cuts which were cut from white card stock and then lightly brushed along the edge with some gray ink. After I had all the trees on my scene I then added the birds from the set that I had die cut from red glitter paper. I also stamped the sentiment and layered that to red glitter paper.

Impression Obsession Supplies Used:
DIE079-U Birch Trees
CL491 Life Stuff Sentiments

Other Supplies:
Gina K. Designs: Card Stock and Inks
Gina K. Designs: Connect Glue
Gina K. Designs: Glue Tape Runner
Stampin' Up!: Glitter Paper
Life Changing Blending Brushes-Picket Fence Studios

Thanks for the visit and have a wonderful weekend.
God bless,
Verna

Favorite Summer Colors

I found a new challenge in which we are to use our favorite summer colors. This is the card I am entering into Laurie's Fabulous Favorites   My favorite colors for summer are pink, yellow and orange along with some light blue and light green. So with that in mind I used a stencil to create this card.

Supplies used:
Paper Trey Ink Mix & Mat Hearts Die
Maker's Movement Stitched Rectangles Nested Essentials Dies
Gina K. Designs Art Stencils Daisy Chain
Gina K. Design Rose Peonies (Sentiment)

I used Gina K. Designs inks to add color to my stencil design using the Life Changing Blending Brushes from Picket Fence Studio. Then I die cut the panel out and placed it onto the heart die frame that was cut from black card stock. The sentiment was stamped on front of the stencil design. Adding this layered panel to a Dusty Rose card base was my next step. I also added some of the same design inside the card.

I have several anniversaries coming up later in the summer so this will be a handy card to have in my supply stash. Thanks for visiting and for your sweet comments.

God bless,
Verna

Tag Time

Just a little project rounded out my afternoon when I decided to make a tag for the Stamplorations Tagploration Challenge for May. The theme is all about Mom but since my Mom is deceased I just tried to make a feminine tag design with some pretty flowers and feminine colors on a blue tag background.

Supplies used:
Stamplorations Trendy Spring Blooms Stamp Set and Dies by Sherry Russ
Stamplorations Bloom Happy Stamp Set
Stamplorations CutPlorations Luggage Tags
Stamplorations Artplorations Stencil Make Marks 1 by Helen G. Designs

That was a fun little project and I enjoyed the creative process. Thanks for visiting and for commenting too.

God bless,
Verna

Back to Christmas Cards

Yesterday I ran across some of my Altenew stamp sets that had not seen any love for awhile so today I made a card using two of them.

For this card I used the Altenew Bells and Bows stamp set and the sentiment was from the Altenew Lyrical Script stamp set. After all were stamped I simply die cut the panel out with an MFT Die-Namics Wonky Stitched Rectangle Stacker die. This panel was placed onto a white card base and then I added rhinestones in the same colors as the bows.

Yesterday the quarry near our farm did a big blast and when I opened up my crafting supply cupboard out fell my new set of colored pencils from Spectrum Noir. They were scattered all over the place. I had four of the sets and each set had different colors in them. They were numbered so with a chart I finally after quite a bit of time got each one back into their own set. I hope the lead is not broken inside the pencils.  So therefore, not much creativity got done yesterday.

Also I want to show you the nice flag pole my family erected for me for Mother's Day. We had two flag poles previously and they were some flimsy poles from a kit so this time my hubby found an old well pipe and painted it silver and they cemented it into the ground so that it should withstand the winds. The other ones we had were bent over with strong winds.

Well, I hope your week is going well. Thanks for the visit and I will love to see what you think of my pretty bows and flag pole.

God bless,
Verna

Yellow & Blue Birthday

I have made another card for the current Impression Obsession Challenge in which the colors of yellow and blue should be used. So I pulled out the pretty IO Cover A Card stamp called Blackeyed Susan to create this birthday card.

I don't know about you but I love this huge cover stamp and so it was only a given that I would make a card using it. And, with the help of my Misti it was an easy way to get great coverage too.

Impression Obsession Products used:
CC236 Blackeyed Susan Stamp Set
CL653 Mini Messages3
DIE805-YY Checkered Frames
DIE814-U Pinked Stitched Sentiment Banner

Other Products:
Gina K. Design  glue runner, inks and card stock
Picket Fence Studios Life Changing Blending Brushes

I am also entering this in the Double D's Challenge-Frames.

Well, the weekend is upon us once again and we will be attending graduation activities so that will be a fun change of pace. I hope all of you have a great weekend and thanks so much for dropping by to visit.

God bless,
Verna