Mini Stampfest with Lynette April 24, 2019

Lynette and I had a lot of fun trying to figure out how to make this Z Box Fold card.
We used Deb Valder's tutorial from Splitcoaststampers
starting with a 4 x 9.75 inch piece of white cardstock.
We found other tutorials for similar cards, but we liked the finished
size of this card: 4.25 x 5.5 inches.

Here is Lynette's sweet frog card.

On the front she used a Penny Black frog stamp called, "Oh I wish".
The ferns/leaves were made with some of her dies.

On the inside she used an unmounted frog stamp from her stash.
She did a fabulous job coloring the stamped images with coloring pencils
and then fussy cutting them!

Here's the card flattened out to show you the folds and cut area.
The bottom part is attached to a base -a piece of green cardstock that is 4.25 x 5.5"

For my card, I used Lynette's Silhouette Sentiments stamp set from
Stampin' Up. I used markers to color directly on the stamp.

The circle was die cut  with a "stitched circle die" from Lynette's stash.
I cut the rectangles with a paper trimmer.

Once we figured out where to place the cut and folds, this card was easy to make.
Looking forward to making this again.

Thanks for visiting!
Hope you enjoy the day!

Easter 2019 Lamb Cake

Happy Easter Monday!

Here is the lamb cake I made for our Easter celebration yesterday.

I used my mom's Wonderful Pound Cake recipe

and butter cream frosting.

I spread a layer of frosting on with a spatula first.

Then I piped on the frosting with a Wilton bag and star tip.

I used green food coloring to color the coconut for grass.

Then added Cadbury eggs on top.

Here is a close up. I like to use raisins for the eyes and mouth.

Wishing you a beautiful 50 days of Easter!

Mason Jar Bouquet

These cards were inspired by Lindsay Weirich, 
the Frugal Crafter, and her Happy Heart Bouquet Card Tutorial.

I used 2 strips of printed papers from my stash for the background.
Die cut the oval from scraps of watercolor paper.
After stamping the vase, leaves and flowers
I used a water brush to pull color from the stamped vase
to add more blue color as shown.

The background for this card was made with embossing folder stamping technique-with pearlized acrylic paint from my stash. I like these two tutorials:
Heidi Wegman's Embossing Folder Stamping
and
Audrie Magno-Gordon's Embossing Folder Stamping

In my rush to get this card finished for a belated birthday,
 I forgot to add blue color underneath the mason jar.

Materials Used: Inks- distress broken china, worn lipstick, victorian velvet, wild honey, hickory smoke, abandoned coral, 
Stampin' Up! certainly celery, wild wasabi

Stamps- Stampin' Up!, Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous, Judith and Heather, Hero Arts

Park Lane Rose Repeat embossing folder
Spellbinders Nestabilities Oval die
Water brush
Eyelash yarn from my stash

Thanks for visiting. Hoping you spend time with your favorite person today!

Springtime

Springtime, warmer weather, the birds and their songs...just love this time of year.
Pulled out my old Printworks bird and sentiment stamps to make a few cards.
You can always click on an image to see a larger view.

This background was made from my new Gina K water droplets stencil and Dina Wakley's turquoise acrylic paint from Ranger.
Ink:
distress broken china, tumbled glass, gathered twigs
Versafine onyx black

Loops of twine attached with a flat glue dot

This background was made with Dina Wakley turquoise acrylic paint sponged onto a Tim Holtz Stampers anonymous flower stencil. I wish Tim's stencils had names to identify them.

This background was made with a Park Lane embossing folder called Flower Retreat. I used embossing folder stamping technique with twisted citron distress paint from Tim Holtz-Ranger.
Attached a ribbon cinching it as it was pressed onto a strip of "super high tack" tape-I used Scrapbook Adhesives brand.

Hoping you are enjoying a beautiful day!