Lassen Thanks

These cards were made with a stamp carved two weeks ago.  It went through four iterations before this stage, and I still may fiddle with it...

Supplies:

• Hand-carved stamp using Speedball rubber
• Ranger Arvhival Ink in Jet Black.
• Jane Davenport watercolors
• Strathmore watercolor paper

I'd like to share them at the following:

• Addicted to Stamps: (This is CAS to me... single stamp and sentiment...)
  
• Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers: (...skipping the snark... for now...)
  

SOS 380: Tic-Tac-Toe!

Hello!

I'm the proud hostess at Shopping Our Stash this week and I've come up with a Tic-Tac-Toe (because I always love them... hope you do, too!):

Here's one of the cards I've made to share:

This was made using the top row and the far- right column.

Supplies:

• Main panel was a background made a couple months ago and was just in background stack.  It was made using a Hero Arts stamp heat-embossed with pewter EP onto some inexpensive watercolor paper and colored with Color Bursts in Burnt Orange, Yellow Ochre, and Sepia.  After trimming the edges, I ran Distress Stain in Brushed Pewter aroud it to cover the white paper edges.
• The matting panel was made also a couple months ago on the same type of inexpensive watercolor paper, but this was a scrap that I had gel-printed on using unknown paints... could have been Liquitex... could have been Distress... I just have no recollection of it!
• The leaf is an old, old stamp-- one of the first stamps I think I bought as an adult.  I bought this in Willits, CA, on a trip to visit Humboldt before I attended HSU.  So it must have been back right around the year 2000... hmmm... I know I've used this stamp before, so it would be interesting to see the way I remember the story of this stamp from the past!  Anyway, the stamp was heat-embossed on a  scrap of watercolor paper in pewter and colored with Lindy's Stamp Gang Magicals in Dark Chocolate Truffle and Rudolph's Red Nose.  Gorgeous.  Then I fussy-cut it and inked the edges with heavily neglected Distress Stain in Brushed Pewter.
• The "Thanks" was heat-embossed with Pewter as well on a scrap of the gel-printed mat paper.

That is it!  I have some more to share this week-- let's just hope I have time!  The abbreviated weeks always mess me up!

Thanks for stopping by.  I look forward to seeing which way you'll play the tic-tac-toe!

Using Tim Holtz's Sentiment Words

I made these cool background/panels with homemade stamps, and decided to try Tim's sentiments with them... I'd say they were a success!  I personally love the graphic look of these, and the boldness and color IRL are just so aesthetically pleasing to look at.

Supplies:

• All colored CS are from a bulk package from Tuesday Morning.  It was fun to buy a mixed pack and pick through the random colors of cardstock.
• Hand-carved stamp inked with Ranger Archival in Black Soot from the Tim Holtz palette
• Finetec details in Gold Pearl
• White details are Liquitex Gesso
• Diecut sentiments are by Tim Holtz (Sizzix)

I'll share these at the following challenges:

• HLS Watercolor:
  
• HLS CAS:
  

Pine branch cards

Made these last week for special requests:

Supplies:

• Pine bough stamp embossed with both Lindy's Stamp Gang in Oakleaf Olive and Ranger Potting Soil EPs
• Sentiments written with Ranger Letter It pens and embossed with the leftover mixed powders
• Paper dipped in Stormy Sky DI
• Mat paper from an old old old 8x8" paper pad

How about sharing these at the following:

• CAS Mix Up:
  
• CASual Fridays:
  
• Back To Basics: Heat embossing

SOS: Chanson Papillon (butterfly!)

This week at Shopping Our Stash, Chris is our hostess, and she's chosen a theme for the challenge that is sure to draw a large crowd-- add a butterfly or two... or three... or four...!

I know that butterflies are many people's "thing"-- I do love them and appreciate them as a life form, but they are not necessarily my "thing" like birds or trees... however, when I started digging through my stash, I was surprised to find all kinds of snippets and a few stamps of butterflies! My focal, however, is a stencil:

Supplies:

• Butterfly stencil by Heidi Swapp 
• Stencil placed on Strathmore watercolor paper and sprinkled with Color Bursts.  Cut out when dry.
• Background is also Strathmore watercolor paper.  I used the butterfly mask that came with the stencil and applied Finnabair clear crackle paste around it (not my fave, so I am trying to use it up so I can try the Liquitex brand).   
• I then sprayed the panel with Dylusions in Pure Sunshine and inked it with Festive Berries DI through an old Heidi Swapp basket weave stencil
• I used a Signo white pen (that I am babying because it is low) for the border 
• Sentiment written with white Liquitex gesso
• Butterfly popped up with 3M dimensional adhesive

...and just in case you are interested in the soothing sounds of 1980...:

See you at Shopping Our Stash!

Colorful Thank You

(FOUND IN DRAFTS)

It finally  came together,  but every time I see it, I'm looking at it sideways... too off-balance?  It's,  like,  hard to look at for some reason... I don't know.  I'm confused, LOL! I wonder if Tim Holtz would cry if he saw it!

Supplies:

• Tim Holtz resist paper inked with Dis in Picked Raspberry and Mustard Seed
• All dies are Tim's
• Flowers colored with Color Bursts 

That's about it!

Hearts with wings Two-fer!

Made these to play along with the current Twofer Card Challenge!

Supplies and notes:
"Hope" card:

• Card masked off with torn Frog Tape
• Card inked with DOx in Faded Jeans and Cracked Pistachio
• Miscellaneous splatters of water and ink
• Heart stamp by Blue Fern Studios inked in Ranger Archival in Jet Black
• "Hope" stamp by Verve Stamps (pretty sure NBUS) inked with Ranger Archival in Jet Black

"Thanks card:

• Card stamped with heart stamp in Ranger Archival in Jet Black
• Heart stamp by Blue Fern Studios colored with Distress Stain in Aged Mahogany then coated with Glossy Accents
• Wings glittered using Glossy Accents with Stampendous Multi-fine glitter (NBUS)
• "Thanks" stamp (might have been NBUS) from a Hampton Art set
• "Thanks" lined with Pebeo relief liner in clear glitter
• Edge torn and sparkly black Scotch washi tape added... hard to see on the image

Here is  the cute graphic for the Twofer Challenge:

No small thing

This card will go to one of the people who helped with my MIL's memorial.  Everyone was so helpful, but when we thanked them, they were all so humble about it, but in this situation, there were no small acts of kindness!

Supplies:

• Recollections resist paper sprinkled with pigment powders
• Lindy's Stamp Gang Magicals in Blazing Black, Poppin Pink, Tiffanylou Blue, and Silent Night Silver
• Color Bursts in Violet
• The trees were cut from Tim's resist paper using his Treeline die
• Trees inked with DI in Black Soot and Chipped Sapphire
• Tim's Small Talk stickers
• Background cardstock by Core'dinations

I'd like to share this at:

• JUGs:
  
• Try It On Tuesday: My favorite things... one of my all-time fave things to do is to play with powdered pigments using resist papers... I could do it for hours and hours on end.
• HLS:
  

SOS: Getting Sentimental

Welcome to another fabulous week of stash-shopping fun at Shopping Our Stash!  This week, Chris is our hostess with the mostest, and she is encouraging us to make the sentiment your focus! 

Here's my submission:

Supplies:

• These letter stickers are many years old by Basic Grey (my fave)
• The greenery is from Tim's mini greenery dies, cut from a French dictionary from the 1800s and affixed with matte Mod Podge
• The background panel is a scrap from my MILs old stationary

This is a thank you for once of the people who helped plan my MIL's memorial, which is today.

Join us at SOS and use what you got!  

Monoprint Thanks

Really love these CAS thanks:

Supplies:

• Color Bursts used through Tim Holtz's Flowers stencil (blue) and Roses stencil (red) then monoprinted onto Strathmore watercolor paper
• The watercolor panel popped up with 3 M dimensional tape
• Tim's found relatives popped up also.  On the blue card I just edged the photo with a black Sharpie.  On the red photo, I coated the girl with Distress Collage Medium in Crazing then edged it with Brushed Pewter Distress Crayon... click for detail.
• Sentiment written with a Micron 08

I'd like to share these at the following challenges:

• Simon Says Stamp on Monday: Tear it up (Ummm, I guess I'm in a tearing phase-- these will be my third entries into this challenge...)
• Frilly and Funkie: Give Thanks (and these are my second entries here... even though they are pretty simple, the definitely say funky-vintage to me!)

Begonia Thanks

These colors play so well together...

This stamp is a begonia.  Here are a couple of my dad's begonias, going strong still in the central valley:

Supplies:

• Begonia stamp found at the local thrift shop, brand new.  
• Flower embossing on both panels using Lindy's Stamp Gang EP in Oakleaf Olive 
• Twine from Hand Made Modern
• Sentiment written with a Zig Emboss Writer and embossed with Ranger EP in Princess Gold
• All ink is DOx in Abandoned Coral and Cracked Pistachio

I'd like to share this at the following challenges:

• Casual Fridays:
  
• Frilly and Funkie: Give Thanks
• Time Out:
  

SOS: Quick thanks!

Hello, paper-crafters! This week at Shopping Our Stash, the challenge is "Quick thanks..."  

The idea is that you guys to create a thank you card quickly!  "Quickly" is a relative term...

Supplies:

• The main panel is actually letterpress paper cut from some fancy monogrammed stationary.
• The focal image is a stamp by Andrea at Snapping Monsters.  I have been thinking about this stamp set lately and so I went for it.  I embossed this gal in Recollections EP in black.  I used my trusty old Loew Cornell watercolors from my college days.  
• Sentiment written with a Zig emboss-writer and embossed with the same EP.
• I used a  tiny scrap of leftover Cosmo Cricket paper that I'd colored with Color Bursts for the top and bottom of the background.  I am happy to use this up since I seem to love to accumulated background that I never completely use... although I'll miss this one because I think it is so pretty!  See why I am a hoarder?  
• The main panel was popped up over top using 3M 

Thank you for stopping by, and Happy Thanksgiving.  My family dinner was yesterday... I ate so much that I had to stay up late working a jigsaw puzzle (should have been blogging, but I was totally in a food coma!).  Whether you celebrate Thanksgiving or not, have a great week!  Hope you can squeeze in some time to make a quick thanks with us at SOS!  (I'll be squeezing into my stretchy pants!)

Scribbly Stained Glass Thank Yous

Here are some just lovely CAS cards...

I am IN LOVE with them... want to make about 100,000 of them. Which is your fave?

Supplies and notes:

• Tim Holtz Scribbles stamp inked with Distress embossing ink then embossed with Recollections EP in black on Strathmore watercolor paper
• Various Color Bursts and Lindy's Stamp Gang Magicals 
• Popped the entire panels up with 3M dimensional adhesive.  These images distorted the cards, but I assure you that the panels are well-fitted!
• Sentiment written with a Micron Pen in 05... I tried to match the thickness of the Scribbles line

I'll share these at the following places:

• Creative With Stamps: Thankful
  

SOS#328: Autumn Color Palette

Good day to ya'll!

This week at Shopping Our Stash, our hostess Chris is encouraging us to create something based on this beautiful palette:

This is what I came up with:

Here are a few process pictures:

Supplies:

• Distress Crayons in Festive Berries, Peeled Paint, Hickory Smoke, Fossilized Amber, and Rusty Hinge.  (I was trying to use the Hickory Smoke with the Peeled Paint to achieve the darkest value on the palette, but it didn't work out as I'd envisioned... story of my life.)
• I drew the fall wreath on some heavy Strathmore watercolor paper then used an old paintbrush with water to blend them a bit.
• DecoColor paint pen in white was used to try to accent the wreath, but it ended up too glossy for my liking.   To mask this, I added Stampendous Frantage in Shabby White, which actually was the best thing that could have happened since it resembles the Baby's Breath in the image.  Love it.
• The background diecut was from a David Tutera packet, purchased on clearance years ago.  (I always think things like, "I wonder if Tim Holtz would read this and go, 'Haha, Mario... she bought Tutera's stuff on clearance!'"  LOL.  Anyway, I sprinkled it with Terre Verte Color Bursts and dried it on the wood stove.
• The sentiment had been printed years ago.  I just cut it out and edged it with the Tarnished Brash Distress Crayon.

I could see more going into a card like this in the future, but it's kinda nice and simple right now.  

Hope to see your guys' interpretation of the beautiful color challenge at Shopping Our Stash, and please click the link to visit my stash-shopping homegirls' blogs as well!