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Today's Challenge - Finally

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Apr 082008

I have finally finished today’s Color Challenge on Splitcoast. It’s only taken me all day! I colored the image once, had it ready to go and messed it up. I started all over, had a few interruptions, and finally got it finished after dinner.

I stamped the image, and colored it with Copic Markers. As I was working on the background, it occurred to me that it might be fun to add a sand trap around the green. Uphill green, sand in front — makes for one tough hole. If you under hit – you’re in the sand, over hit – you’re down the other side. I’ve played a few holes like this before. You hit the ball, hope it’s going to hit the green and stick. With any luck, if it rolls anywhere, it stays somewhere just off the fringe. The background paper was sewn to a panel of green cardstock and then layered on blue. The twill tape was sewn to the card front and then the edges were fringed. I added a few dots around the border of the sentiment and both the image and the sentiment are raised on mounting tape.

Stamps: Rubbernecker Old Characters Collection 78-04 Ralph Golfing and 74-12 Paradise Text from Rubbernecker Stamp Company

Paper: Georgia Pacific White, Navy Blue, Green, and BasicGrey Aged and Confused Vagabond

Ink: Ranger Adirondack Pitch Black and Archival Jet Black

Accessories: Copic Marker, Sewing Machine, Twill Tape, Brads; Mounting Tape

I hope everyone has had a great day and it was nearly as hectic as my own!

A Chip and A Putt

Challenges, Copic Markers, Hanna Stamps, Masculine, Spellbinders, Stampin' UP!, Techniques 12 Responses »

Mar 272008

Happy Thursday! Hope everyone is having a great day so far. Once again, I drug my flabby fanny out of bed a little after 9:00 a.m. (I have got to quit this) to rain. I looked out and the streets were flooded once again, but luckily the carpet in the stamp room is still dry. Cross your fingers for me!

I’m curious today. How many of you have fingers that lock up? When I got up yesterday morning, the ring finger on my right hand was locked. It was folded down toward my palm and didn’t want to move back into place. I had to give it a little nudge with my left hand. It bothered me throughout day the yesterday and this morning it was the same thing again. I called my mother, because her thumb used to do this. I asked her what caused it. I am thinking my diet is not the most spectacular and I might be missing some needed vitamins. She told me I was just getting old! That her fingers have gotten worse and she really didn’t know what it was except maybe arthritis. Which makes sense, I have spent the better part of my life working as a legal secretary and typing is just second nature to me. As for my diet, some of you know this and most of you don’t, I have a wheat allergy. Since last November I have been on a gluten/wheat free diet. Sometimes I slip and I’ve been slipping quite often the last few weeks. But for the most part, I can stick to the diet but I seem to go for the easy things – rice cakes with chicken salad, ham rolled up in cheese, and oatmeal with bananas. Let’s not forget that I will never give up my chocolate, but I have learned that it must be plain milk chocolate – nothing else added but maybe almonds (which I eat by the handfuls – almonds that is). Anyway, enough of my babbling about diet, etc., I’m more curious if this is happening to anyone else and what you do for it. So, spill! I’m curious!

I was excited when I saw that the SCS Ways to Use it Challenge is a spray challenge. The challenge is to have fun spraying – glimmer mist, airbrush, color spritzer, water misting – anything that you can spray. I’ve had some Rileys from Hanna Stamps sitting out on my desk for a few weeks now, and one of them is Golfer Riley. It’s warming up, it’s almost golf season here in this area and today seemed like a perfect day to use Riley.

Riley and the green were colored with Copic Markers and then I airbrushed the sky with the Copic Airbrush System. I learned the other day how to make the perfect mask for working with the airbrush system. I stamp the image on either a post-it or a sheet from a writing tablet, cut it out and then paint the back with rubber cement. While the rubber cement is still wet, place it on your image. You can airbrush the masked image then and the mask doesn’t come up. You need to remove the mask carefully, by pulling from one corner, but when you have removed the mask, the rubber cement will clean right off your image. Just take you fingers and wipe across and the rubber cement rolls right off (not to be gross or anything, but it’s kinda like a booger). Anyhoo, back to the card. The blue panel behind Riley, is Soft Sky paper, that I misted with Shimmer Mist that I made with Soft Sky Reinker, Perfect Pearls and water. Once the layer had dried, I sponged both the edges of this panel and the image panel with Soft Sky. I decided on the sentiment “You’re my favorite” from the set Things Hanna Would Say, well because I could then right on the inside “DUFFER!” BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA – can’t wait to send this one to a golfing buddy!

Stamps: Golfer Riley and Things Hanna Would Say from Hanna Stamps; SU Flannel Plaid

Paper: Neenah Classic Crest Solar White; SU Old Olive, Soft Sky and Basic Black

Ink: Ranger Adirondack Pitch Black and Archival Jet Black; SU Soft Sky and Old Olive

Accessories: Copic Markers and Airbrush System; Ranger Perfect Pearls and Mini Mister; Spellbinders Nestabilities; Tsukineko Sponge Dauber; Cuttlebug; Ribbon; Brads; Mounting Tape

I hope you all have a great day!

Hanna Stamp Previews!

Copic Markers, Hanna Stamps, Inchie Art, Masculine, Sewing/Stitching, Techniques 7 Responses »

Mar 102008

Happy Monday! I hope everyone had a nice weekend and you’re not starting your week off one hour late. It was in the 50’s here yesterday and most of the snow has melted and the roads are clear. Thank goodness, since it was on the news last night how Jeffersonville is on the last dredges of their salt supply.

Mallory and her friends left here Saturday night for Florida. She called last night and they made it safely with no problems. I know those kids are going to have a fabulous time! I can still remember my first College Spring Break in Florida – how could I forget – that is where I met my husband, Lance. We actually lived in the same dorm and he worked in the dorm cafeteria. However, I had only met him once in a friend’s room and didn’t pay that much attention to him. I went to Florida with some friends, and he went to Florida with some friends, one of them being the same friend whose room I met in him. Now here are three girls thinking that we really don’t want to run into those guys. The first day on the beach who walks up, but Lance and his friends. We ended up hanging out with them all week and when we got back to school, Lance and I started seeing each other. That was 30 years ago this month.

Enough reminiscing, let’s get to some stamping. On Friday this week, Hanna Stamps is releasing five new sets. I have a couple of previews for you today! The first one is from the new set, My Best Friend. I picked one stamp from this set to work with, because I couldn’t resist the prissy little dog! Doesn’t she just look like a well-heeled, spoiled pup?

I stamped the main image in Brilliance Graphite Black and then colored it with Copic Markers. For some accents on the dog house, I added Ranger Frosted Stickles to the dots on the house. Once it was dry, I masked the image and lightly airbrushed Cool Shadow in the background with the Copic Airbrush System. The image was then punched out using a 2″ Marvy Uchida Punch and matted on 2-1/2″ and 3″ layers of different cardstock. I used the Inkssentials White Opaque Pen for the dots on the pink layer, and Ranger White Opal Liquid Pearls were placed on the scallops of both pieces of the brown. My background paper, SU Berry Bliss, as sewn to another layer of cardstock on the sewing machine, and then attached to the card base of Chocolate Chip.

Stamps: My Best Friend from Hanna Stamps

Paper: Neenah Classic Crest Solar White; SU Pretty in Pink, Chocolate Chip and Berry Bliss

Ink: Brilliance Graphite Black, Adirondack Espresso

Accessories: Copic Markers and Airbrush System; Sewing Machine; Ranger White Opal Liquid Pearls, Frosted Stickles and Inkssentials White Opaque Pen; 2″, 2-1/2″ and 3″ Marvy Uchida Punches; Fiskars Scallop Scissors; Mounting Tape; Ribbon

The second preview is from the new set, Mikey. He so reminds me of a college student and since we are dealing with Spring Break, he just had to have a tan.

All the images were stamped with Brilliance Graphite Black and then colored with Copic Markers. Each image was then punched out using a 1-3/8″ square punch and matted on SU Blue Bayou what had been punched out using the 1-1/4″ square punch. The six individual squares were then matted on a piece of SU River Rock. Using an artist pen, I doodled around each square and on the River Rock. The background paper, SU Western Sky, was matted on Soft Sky. Both the image panel and the panel behind it are raised with mounting tape. The sentiment is stamped directly on the designer paper. Oh and since this is a guy card, no ribbon! Just piercing, brads and photo corners.

Stamps: Mikey and Things Hanna Would Say from Hanna Stamps

Paper: Neenah Classic Crest Solar White; SU Soft Sky, River Rock, Blue Bayou and Western Sky

Ink: Brilliance Graphite Black

Accessories: Copic Markers; SU 1-3/8″ and 1-1/4″ Square Punches, Photo Corner Punch and Matt Pack; Faber-Castell Pitt Artist Pens; Brads

I’m sorry I don’t have product photos today for those of you who like them. I worked on these cards over the weekend and never stopped long enough to get a photo. However, I did notice on Kristi’s blog today, that she is now offering Seasonal Sets of Copic Markers. For those of you wanting the guess work taken out of choosing what colors you should get, you need to check this out.

Until tomorrow!

Rubber Room Remodel and Another in the Cowboy Series!

Copic Markers, Lizzie Anne Designs, Masculine, Sewing/Stitching, Techniques 9 Responses »

Jan 282008

Good Monday morning! I hope everyone had a great weekend. I spent Saturday and Sunday moving into the new rubber room. I’ve decided to wait to show you pictures until I’m finished moving in. I’ve got just a few things to finish up today, and then I’m done! Well, probably not done, because I haven’t worked in there yet and you know how that is. I’ll probably sit down to stamp and realize that I’ve got something in the wrong place and will need to move it. As I carried stuff down, I’ve tried to put it in the place where I think it needs to be. I already made on move yesterday and now find myself without a desperately needed cabinet. Luckily my mother was here at the time, and she had a great idea. After she left, I almost couldn’t stop myself to run out and buy this cabinet on sale at Target. Lance had been out running errands and I did try to call him to pick it up for me, but of course, he never answered his cell phone. As we were talking about what I wanted, my mother called. She has a cabinet in the garage at the river house that was my grandfather’s. She is going to let me have it – WOO HOO! Now I just have to get Kate and Will to bring it down to me.

I need to go out today, run a few errands and pick up a few small things that I need to finish up. In the meantime, I do have another Lizzie Anne Cowboy card to share with you. Another in the Cowboy Series – can you stand it?

Once again, the cowboy is holding something in this hand. This time it is the kite from the High Hellos set. The images were colored with Copic Markers and then the edges of everything were sponged with Vintage Photo Distress Ink. The background paper and the image were sewn on the sewing machine just to add a little something to the card. The sentiment is from Just Words II.

Stamps: Cowboy, High Hellos and Just Words II from Lizzie Anne Designs

Paper: Neenah Classic Crest Solar White, SU Cool Carribean and Chocolate Chip, DCWV Retro Print Mat Stack

Ink: Adirondack Pitch Black and Espresso, Tim Holtz Vintage Photo Distress Ink

Accessories: Copic Markers, Sewing Machine, Large and Small Oval Punches, Photo Corner Punch, Brads, Ribbon, Mounting Tape

Don’t forget to check back tomorrow, I’m gonna be offering some Tawdry Treats that you are not going to want to miss!

Cowboy Series #3

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Jan 172008

Happy Thursday! We have snow today, real snow. The kids across the street were waiting for the bus this morning and it was such fun to watch them play in the snow. I’m not talking tons of snow. Actually it is less than a half inch, but wet and pretty as it was falling heavier at that time. This is the Ohio Valley. It either goes around the valley or get down into the valley. I think this time it is going to go around us again. When this type of pretty, wet snow gets down in the valley we can have a foot of snow easy.

Enough of my babbling about snow. I was up early and waiting for the Ways to Use it Challenge on Splitcoast. It’s all about embossing today! It’s a rerun of an old challenge, to use embossing powders in our design. I rarely use embossing powders anymore, and I was looking for a new creative way to use it. What I ended up doing, as you can see in the photo below, was to take a Tsukineko Fantastix Bullet Point Coloring Tool, dab it on my VersaMark pad to pick up the ink, and then cover the ice cream in the cone with VersaMark. I sprinkled Ranger Ultra Thick Embossing Powder on the VersaMark and then embossed with my heat tool.

Stamps: Cowboy and High Hellos from Lizzie Anne Designs

Paper: Neenah Classic Crest Solar White, Kraft, Cosmo Cricket Wanted

Ink: Adirondack Pitch Black, Tim Holtz Vintage Photo Distress Ink, VersaMark

Accessories: Copic Markers, Sewing Machine, Tsukineko Fantastix Bullet Point Coloring Tool, Ranger UTEE, Ribbon, Brads, Oval Punches, Corner Rounder Punch, Mounting Tape