Card of the day-Wednesday

Happy Wednesday!

Today's card of the day for the Enjoy Michael Strong Stamps Yahoo group

was inspired by a Hawaiian shirt I saw at Summerfest music festival last Wednesday.

As I was sitting waiting for the show to begin,

I pulled out a post it from my purse and made this sketch:

I thought Mike's mini flowers,  leaves and little fish from the mini creatures stamps

would be fun to use for my water scene.

I used colored pencils to draw the mountains, palm trees, shore and the water ripples.

The flowers, leaves and fish were stamped then fussy cut and attached with dimensional foam.

Added some gemstones to jazz up my simple card.

Stamps: Michael Strong

Inks: distress dried marigold, abandoned coral, shaded lilac and broken china.

SU certainly celery ink.

I'm not claiming to be an artist. 

I just had a lot of fun trying to sketch the scene and make a card later.

Maybe my feeble attempt will inspire someone else! 

If you do something like this, I'd love to hear about it and see your creations!

Thanks for visiting!

Card of the Day-Tuesday

Happy Tuesday!
Today's card of the day for the Enjoy Michael Strong Stamps Yahoo group

 has a special digital sentiment created by Hetty Sanders!

"Time to drink some coffee".

Hetty printed it for me while we visiting her in June.

Thanks so much, Hetty!
The base of my card is kraft cardstock.
I sponged distress antique linen on the edges of the sentiment layer.
You can barely see the tea staining on the white layer.

I used loose tea leaves after making a few cups of tea for iced tea.
Not too thrilled with the results-

very light brown coloring
...and a mess dealing with those tea leaves!
 I have to tell you something funny about it.
My daughter happened to be visiting
while my my paper with the tea leaves was drying on the kitchen table.
She thought the loose tea leaves were BUGS!!!
I probably should have used coffee grounds in keeping with my coffee themed card, right.

I sponged the edges of my tea stained paper with distress worn lipstick.
Then stamped SU's coffee beans from SU's Espress Yourself
using distress walnut stain ink. 

Wrapped pink & white twine on right edge.

Added distress picket fence distress stain to a piece of corrugated paper. 

Stamped Michael Strong's mini hearts in distress worn lipstick and faded jeans 

then fussy cut them. 

To make the cup, I stamped the heart in worn lipstick on white cardstock. 

Then using Versafine black onyx ink, I stamped the cup
from Coffee with Friends by Flourishes Stamp Simply, then fussy cut it.
Using dimensional foam tape. I attached the sentiment, hearts and cup layers. 

Thanks for visiting!

Card of the day-Monday

Happy Independence day to my United States readers!

 This week I'm card captain at the Enjoy Michael Strong Yahoo group.

For this card, I was thinking "fireworks" bursting in the night sky!

Not sure if that image in my mind's eye has been transferred to my card?

Probably not!...but that's ok! I had fun with this. Love Mike's mini flower!
Have used it so many times! You will see it again later this week.

Stamps: Michael Strong's  Mini Cloisonné Flower, Stampin' UP! Everyday Expressions

Ink: Stampin' Up!'s Ballet Blue
 Stars Cuttlebug embossing folder.

Thanks for visiting!

June 22 Stampfest with Lynette

Lynette and I spent the day stamping at my house on June 22.

Well, we did a lot of visiting too, not just stamping :-)

These are the cards we made.

Lynette brought a sample of this card and strips of printed paper so this was easy to make.

She CASE'd Silke Ledlow's card here. 

Pinterest pin here.

Stamps: SU-Watercolor Trio-including the birthday sentiment

Inks: SU-going grey, TH distress- fossilized amber

This card was CASE'd from this Pinterest Pin It's a shame the pin does not lead to a blog. I would love to know who originally made the card, so I can credit her.

We decided not to have a navy blue card base and made 2 versions.

One on Kraft paper above and one on white paper below.

Stamps: SU- A Beautiful Thing, Hydranges (small flower) and Best Blossoms (leaves)

Savvy stamps-happy birthday sentiment

Inks: TH distress spun sugar, worn lipstick, abandoned coral (stamped off for large flower and first stamping for the little flower inside), dried marigold

SU-wild wasabi for leaves

This card was inspired by Viv's card on her Daizy-Mae Crafty Blog.

Pinterest pin here.

Stamps: SU-Fast and Fabulous, Hero Arts-sentiment

Inks: TH distress-chipped sapphire, shaded lilac

 SU-celery

This card was inspired by Joanne Travis' card on her Sleepy in Seattle blog.

Pinterest pin here.

Stamps: SU-Day of Gratitude-white embossed, Silhouette Sentiments-bird and sentiment

Inks: TH distress faded jeans

Thanks for visiting! I hope you return tomorrow! I am card captain for the the Enjoy Michael Strong Yahoo group, sharing a card each day til Friday.

May 2 Stampfest at Lynette's

Lynette and I spent the day stamping at her house yesterday.

Here's a pic of all the cards we made.

Our inspiration for this was Katherine Schaefer's "Bee Yourself" card in the Winter 2016 Stamper's Sampler Take Ten magazine.

Stamp:  PSX Rose Topiary

Ink: Stampin' UP! night of navy

Spellbinders nestabilities labels 10 die

Martha Stewart edge punch

Book paper

Julie Davidson's Window Flip card was our inspiration here.

Stamps: SU serene silhouettes and unknown stamp

Tombow markers: red 847, brown N37

Lifestyle Crafts Zig Zag embossing folder

other embossing folder unknown.

Kraft base: 4-1/4 x 5-1/2"

White layer: 3-1/2 x 5-1/2"

the length of the Kraft and white were trimmed slightly during assembly.

Red: 11 x 3" score in half

2" circle cut out of red front as shown

1-3/4" black scallop circle

1-1/4" white circle

Our flower drapery card was inspired by Connie Babbert's Drapery Card.

Used double sided printed paper: 4 x 11-1/2"

Scored at: 3", 4", 6", 7", 9", 10"

A diagonal cut is made from the point at the 3" score line to 1-3/4" from the opposite edge.

The paper is folded at the score lines to create the drapery look. So easy and fun.

We could add a sentiment on the blank blue area...or not.

We were happy to find Jan Farring's Tea Cup Drapery Card 

and we substituted the tea cup from Lynette's SU set: Tea Shoppe .

Used double sided printed paper, 2-1/2 x 9" for drapery.

Scored at 1", 1-1/2", 2-1/2", 3", 4", 4-1/2",5-1/2", 6", 7", and 7-1/2"

Fold your paper so that it looks like the photo.

A diagonal cut is made from the corner at the 9" to 1" lower than the opposite corner.

I looked at the photo of Jan's card to lay out the folds like hers.

Then I could see where to draw the diagonal and which side would be 1" down from that corner.

This sympathy card is inspired by Leonie Schroder's card. 

Here is the pinterest pin for it: 

We embossed the just the top of our blue card. Sorry, I didn't write down the name of Lynette's embossing folder. Using SU's Serene Silhouettes, we inked the flowers in distress stormy sky and the stems and leaves in distress peeled paint (both of these markers look different than the corresponding ink pads, by the way). 

Stamped the sentiment in PSX sympathy stamp.