Speedy Fox & Friends Challenge #214 Vintage

This week's challenge at Mark's Finest Paper Speedy Fox & Friends is VINTAGE.  Anything Vintage will work for this challenge, so get your stamps out and start stamping!!!

I used Big Boy Toys and Plywood stamp sets to create this card. I have a time piece embossing folder that I used and some old token pieces from a transit line (I used one here). To finish it off I used some decorative brads, some copper wire that I shaped and some twine.  Just have some fun and create a card! There is a prize given out each week.

This is one of my favorite stamp sets because it is so fun to color.   I love old trucks and cars!

One of my favorite places to visit close by is Bodie Historic State Park.  If you ever come to Central California you must visit Yosemite National Park and if you get to the east side of the sierra (just east of Yosemite) go to Bodie.  It was left as it stood in the late 1800's early 1900's after the gold was played out.  People left everything.  Old wagons and even cars out in fields now part of the landscape. Product still on shelves in the general store...furniture still in place...you get the picture.  There is also an old gold mill still there where you can go on a tour (guided by a man dressed in the "time period" and speaking as if he were actually working there at that time) and see  Fascinating!!

North Coast Creations- Ballet

Ballet stamp set by North Coast Creations.
Dies by Spellbinders.  I saw a creation using interlocking die cuts in "Card Maker" magazine.  I wanted something different so I thought I'd give it a try.  It works really well.  The first photo shows the card almost shut tight, the next is almost open and the third is obviously open. 
Pearls adorn this creation from the outside top and bottom to each interlocking die cut.

North Coast-Dancing

The Ballet stamp set from North Coast Creations.  These beautiful ballet shoes are great as the main focal point or for a background...I've used them as both here on this card.
Dies are from Our Daily Bread Designs: Elegant Ovals, Antique Labels, Ornate Borders and Flowers, and Vintage Labels

ODBDSLC204-INSPIRATION PHOTO CHALLENGE

The challenge this week is to make a card inspired by one of these photos.  I chose the Aqua of course.

For this Shining the Light challenge at Our Daily Bread Designs (ODBD), I used the Watering Can stamp and Watering Can die, the Ornate Frames Sentiments, Fancy Foliage dies,  the Quatrefoil Pattern die and the Vintage Flourish Pattern dies.
Other dies by Spellbinder.
To see all the creations in one place or join the challenge, click HERE.  You have until June 1st to join us.  For this challenge you may use any stamps but if you have ODBD stamps we would love to see you use them.  If you participate, you have the chance to win the $15 certificate toward ODBD stamps or to be spotlighted for the Shining the Light Award (The Shining the Light Award is only for those who use ODBD stamps).  We would love to see your creations.

For more inspiration please visit my talented design team sister:

Cheryl Scrivens

Diana Nguyen

DJRants

Elizabeth Whisson

Linda Carson

Robin Clendenning (you are here)

Our Design Team captain, Chris Olsen,  is out with an injury so she will not have a card this week. I will put a link to her blog though in case you might want to go leave her some love!!

Is. 40:6-8  "All flesh is grass, and all its loveliness is like the flower of the field.  The grass withers, the flower fades, because the breath of the Lord blows upon it;  surely people are grass.  The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God stands forever."

June Class-Stamping with Embossing Folders

This is one of three cards I will do in class for June.  We will be doing the "Stamping with Embossing Folder" technique.  If you want to join in the class, call 559 642-6611, The Cat's Meow, or go to her web site at:
www.catsmeowstamps.com.  This class will not be posted on the web site until June 1st but you can call any time. 
The other two cards will feature the technique as a background.

Popped up Flutter Fairy

 Here is a card that has several layers.  Some are popped up and some are just molded and slightly popped with dimensional glue.  Her little front arm and front foot are the highest layers.  Even some of the butterflies on the top above the sentiment are popped up.

This stamp set is from Tiddly Inks.
Dies are from Spellbinders.

Speedy Fox & Friends #213-Magic Masking Tape

Today's challenge is to use the masking tape technique.  That is to pick up your ink with masking tape and lay it on your project to transfer the ink.  For my card, I masked off my image and laid color down for a background.  I used Lime Green Brilliance at the bottom and Sky Blue Brilliance for the top part.  The blue is hard to see but it is there.  you can use it to lay down color and stamp on top of it too like a silhouette stamp.
I used the Bearded Iris stamp set for today's challenge.
To join the challenge you can click HERE.  There is a prize given out each week and as before, I will give a prize out to a random commenter.  Please leave an email address on your comment so that I can contact you about an address to send your stamp set to.

Color challenge at SplitCoastStampers

This is a card I did for SplitCoastStampers (SCS) for the color challenge.  I couldn't help but think of flowers for these colors and I just happened to dye some seam binding the other day that turned out, well what you see, kind of a cantaloupe color.  The image is from Power Poppy.  It is a digital image that I downloaded and then printed on cardstock.  I used Copics to color and the dies are from Spellbinders.  To find this challenge and others like it, go to: http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/index.php this link is for the HOME page where you can find daily challenges.
To find my gallery page with hundreds of card samples, go HERE.

ODBDSLC203-SKETCH

This week's Shining the Light challenge at Our Daily Bread Designs (ODBD), is the sketch challenge. This is the sketch:

I have used ODBD paper from their Rustic Beauty pack. Also a stamp from the Scripture collection 13 that I die cut with Vintage Labels.  I used a border from Beautiful Borders and some leaves from Fancy Foliage.  Just adding some ribbon and a pre-made butterfly finished off my card!! I let the beautiful paper do the shining this week!

To see all the creations in one place or join the challenge, click HERE.  You have until May 20th to join us.  For this challenge you use any stamp but if you have any ODBD stamps we would love to see you use them.  If you participate, you have a chance to win the $15 certificate toward ODBD stamps or to be spotlighted for the Shining the Light Award (The Shining the Light Award is only for those who use ODBD stamps). We would love to see your creations.

For more inspiration please visit my talented design team sisters:

Cheryl Scrivens

Chris Olsen

Diana Nguyen

DJ Rants

Elizabeth Whisson

Linda Carson

"But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord." II Cor. 3:18

Speedy Fox & Friends #212-No Designer Paper

Isn't this little guy cute!! Love tree frogs! 

Well today's challenge is to use no designer paper so I made my own background paper with a butterfly stamp (from the Bearded Iris set) and an embossing folder that looks like the bumps on a frog.  I used VersaMark ink with the butterfly so it just made the paper darker instead of changing the color.  I added a gray panel with a white die cut on top (looks something like a trellis and you know tree frogs are often found climbing on things!)

To join this NO DESIGNER PAPER challenge, click HERE.

Prizes are given out each week.

Stamp sets from Mark's Finest Paper (MFP): May Release, Tree Frogs and Bearded Iris.
This week I have a prize to give out as well...I will chose a random comment number to send a stamp set to.  So, when you leave your comment, please leave an email address as well so that I can contact the winner to get an address for shipping.  Prize stamp set is also from Mark's Finest Paper (one of the new release sets).

North Coast Dancing

These stamps are from the Ballet set!!! Such a pretty set.
The card is a center step card.  Here are the basic directions:
Cut 8 1/2 X 5 1/2 piece of white cardstock.  Cut horizontally starting at 1" from bottom and 1 3/8" from side, a 5 inch long slit..do this to the other side as well.  Score between the slits at 1", 1 1/2", 3", 4 1/4" and 6".  Score outside the slits at 4 1/4 (see card, folded in half on the outer edges). Fold the inside scores accordion style (see card).  Now decorate.
I added heart shaped pearl halves and a shear bow to finish off my card.
See stamp set below.
This next card is my "Glamping" card, as in glamorous camping RV style.

This card is folded in thirds and tops of both sides are shaped to match design.

This new release is called  Happy Camper.  I did use a stamp from the "all occasion" set at ODBD as well for the inside.

Prize Information:

Two winners will be randomly chosen from the comments left on the designers blogs to receive a $10 gift certificate good towards the purchase of NCC stamps just for commenting on our Design Team cards! You have until May 17, 2014 at 10:00PM EDT to leave a comment on each of our designers blog posts.  Our 2 random winners will be announced here on the blog on May 18, 2014, be sure to check back to see if you have won!

Please visit our other designers and leave your comments for a chance to win:

Julie

Lori

Lisa

Dawn

Sandee

Amber

Sabrina
Robin...you are here.

ODBDSLC202-FLOWER RECIPE

FLOWERS RECIPE

F=FLOWERS, L=LACE, O=OCTAGON, W=WEATHERED WOOD, E=EMBOSSING, R=RIBBON, S=SEWING

ODBD STAMPS USED: Fuschia, God Loves You, Key to Heaven

ODBD DIES USED: Fancy Foliage, Daisy Chain Background (for embossing), Angel Wings (the keys).

ODBD PAPER COLLECTION: Rustic Beauty

Well, you probably guessed it...the challenge for this week is to use 4 letters (or more) in the word Flower.

F could be floral, fiber, etc., L could be lace, lattice, lavender...you get the picture.

To join the challenge go to Our Daily Bread Designs (ODBD) Shining the Light Challenge HERE.  You can see all the creations from our designers there as well.  To get more information from each designer about their individual card, and to get more inspiration, click on each name below.

Cheryl Scrivens

Chris Olsen

Diana Nguyen

DJ Rants

Elizabeth Whisson

Linda Carson

You have until May 18th to join us.  For this challenge you use any stamp but if you have any ODBD stamps we would love to see you use them.  If you participate, you have the chance to win the $15 certificate toward ODBD stamps or to be spotlighted for the Shining the Light Award (The Shining the Light Award is only for those who use ODBD stamps).  We would love to see your creations.
"And I will give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth, will be loosed in heaven."  Matt. 16:19

Speedy Fox & Friends Challenge #211- Use a Punch

Hi friends, This is a new set from MFP called Tiger Lily.  Part of the May release.
The challenge this week is to use a punch.  Today my butterflies have been punched.  I added rhinestones to them.  On the Tiger Lily I added yellow Stickles to the Stamen and some Bisque Liquid Pearls to the Stigma.
Please come and join the challenge Here.  There are a kazillion cards you can make with a punch and there is a prize awarded!!!
Have a fantastic Mother's Day tomorrow!!!

ODBDSLC201-WING IT

ODBD stamps used: Holy Angels, Flourish Label Borders

ODBD dies used: Vintage Flourish Pattern, Ornamental Crosses, Vintage Labels

Other dies by Spellbinder.

I added Rhinestone wings and corners and a pink bow to complete my card.

For Shining the Light Challenge at Our Daily Bread Designs (ODBD) the theme this week is wing-it.

If you haven't seen the new May release you should go to the on-line store and take a look, HERE!!

To see all the creations in one place or join the challenge, click HERE.  You have until May 11 to join us.  For this challenge you may use any stamps but if you have any ODBD stamps we would love to see you use them.  If you participate, you have a chance to win the $15 certificate toward ODBD stamps or to be spotlighted for the Shining the Light Award (Shining the Light Award is only for those who use ODBD stamps).  We would love to see your creations.

For more inspiration please visit my DT sisters:

Cheryl Scrivens

Chris Olsen

Diana Nguyen

DJ Rants

Elizabeth Whisson

Linda Carson

"But those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint". Is. 40:31

Speedy Fox & Friends challenge #210-Flowers

The stamps I used today are from MFP-Amarylis and MFP- Hum along. 

This challenge is easy to join as it is called flowers.  I know that everyone has a flower stamp, right?

This is the Amarylis, it comes in a wide variety of colors and some multi-colored, some with stripes down the center (like mine) and some solid.  I looked them up on the web...lots of pictures.

I added some yellow Stickles to the stamen.  These flowers are very bright and bold but that is just the way I like them...lots of bold color!

Join in the fun HERE.

ODBDSLC200-SPRING COLORS

ODBD stamps used: Hummingbird, Glory (sneak peak), Ornate Frame Sentiments

ODBD dies used: Hummingbird, Quatrefoil Pattern, Antique Labels and Borders, Beautiful Borders, Ornamental Crosses (the top corner pieces are from the lattice cross).

ODBD paper: Christian Faith Paper Collection

 This week for Shining the Light Challenge at Our Daily Bread Designs (ODBD), we are doing Spring Colors.  To see all the creations in one place or join the challenge, click HERE.  You have until May 4th to join us.  For this challenge you may use any stamps but if you have any ODBD stamps we would love to see you use them.  If you participate, you have a chance to win the $15 certificate toward ODBD stamps or to be spotlighted for the Shining the Light Award (The Shining the Light Award is only for those who use ODBD stamps).  We would love to see your creations for this our 200th challenge!
     My card today was made up from using the new release (May) Morning Glories twice (it is a corner stamp) to make a frame.  I cut out the center and used the Quatrefoil Pattern die cut behind the frame, then I mounted them onto a piece of coordinating paper from the Christian Faith collection of ODBD. I die cut the lattice cross and used the two ends to form my corners at the top.  I stamped and die cut my hummer and colored then used Stickles (glitter glue). The words are from Ornate Frame Sentiments and cut out using the Antique Labels and Borders die.  For the bottom I used one of the Beautiful Borders (sort of representing the tops of a fence) and threaded it at the bottom with blue floss then added pearls.  The ribbon runs between the morning glory frame and the Quatrefoil then around the decorative paper. Hummer and sentiment are popped up.  I also used some Liquid Pearls, in various colors, around the frame.

For more inspiration please visit my talented dt sisters:

Cheryl Scrivens

Chris Olsen

Diana Nguyen

DJ Rants

Elizabeth Whisson

Linda Carson

"Through the Lord's mercies we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness.  'The Lord is my portion,' says my soul. 'Therefore I hope in Him!'  The Lord is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him."  Lam. 3:22-25

Speedy Fox & Friends Challenge 209-Rain

Well, This sunflower is blooming through the storm as we all should do!! Usually the storms of life, though they feel terrible at the time, they make us stronger.
Today the challenge at Mark's Finest Paper, Speedy Fox & Friends, is to create a "Rain" card.  I don't have any rain images so I used a combination of glue dots sprinkled with clear embossing powder, then heated and Crystal Effects on the cloudy looking sky and on the flower.  I even put some "water" splashes on the sentiment.
Remember there is a prize given out each week so join in the fun.  Submit your entry HERE.
I used Bring on the Sun and Huge Blooms stamp sets today.

Tea Party time-for Emily

This card is for Emily, a 6th grader who love Bible drills and colorful fish!  I made this card to help cheer her up as she is going through some difficult health issues! Inside is a Bible verse for her. This was part of the Tea Potters challenge over at Splitcoaststampers.  We do cards each week for someone who is suffering from health issues, a death or other loss and needs cheering up.  Come join us Here.

I used watercolor paper to make the background and then stamped on top of it with the water swirls AND the fish.  I also stamped the fish on white card stock and colored with Copic Markers then cut them out and glued them on top of the fish I stamped on the watercolor background.  I stamped them on the watercolor even though I knew I was going to cut them out of the white and glue them on, because they had some parts and bubbles that were too small to cut out.

I glued fiber with long fringes to the bottom to look like seaweed.  Lastly, I added some sparkly sequins.

I hope she likes it!

"Therefore comfort each other and edify one another" 1 Thes. 5:11

ODBDSLC199-SKETCH

I am showing a closer up semi side view to show the second layer of flower 

which makes it look a bit more 3-D. 

Below is the sketch, as you can tell, I turned it 90 degrees.  I felt like this better suited the stamp that I had planned to use.  A sketch is just a starting point, you may turn it on it's side, upside down or backward, which ever way suits your need, and think of placement rather than shapes...that top rectangle could be an oval or a heart, you get the picture.

The stamps I used today are: ODBD Lilac and Ornate Frame Sentiments

I used the Beautiful Borders die from ODBD and also the Christian Faith Paper Collection from ODBD.

This card is for the Shining the Light Challenge #199 (The sketch above).

To see all the creations in one place or join in the challenge, click HERE.  You have until April 27th to join us.  For this challenge you may use any stamps but if you have Our Daily Bread Design Stamps (ODBD) we would love to see you use them.   If you participate, you have a chance to win the $15 certificate toward ODBD stamps or to be spotlighted for the Shining the Light Award (The Shining the Light Award is only for those who use ODBD stamps).  We would love to see your creations.

Our Daily Bread Designs make some beautiful flower stamps.  Go visit the store to see all they have, click HERE.

For more inspiration please visit my design team sisters:

Cheryl Scrivens

Chris Olsen

Diana Nguyen

DJ Rants

Elizabeth Whisson

Linda Carson

For Lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone.

The flowers appear on the earth; the time of singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.  The fig tree puts forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grapes give a good smell.  Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away!  Song of Solomon 2:11-13

Speedy Fox & Friends Challenge #208 Kraft

Stamp set used: Hoppy Easter. Come join us at Speedy Fox & Friends for this week's "Kraft" challenge.  Use Kraft cardstock on your project...that's easy!!  To submit your project in the challenge, click HERE.
Remember, there is a prize given out each week for the lucky winner of the challenge!
I started out with the pink by cutting with a circle die off the edge.  Next I did the kraft by cutting 1 size smaller to form a frame.  I ran these together through with my chicken wire embossing folder.  Next, I cut the chicken wire background and glued it to the back of my circle frame.  I added the grass to the bottom and glued in place. I covered the back with a piece of light green stock.  I cut a 1 1/2" X 1 1/2" square of corrugated kraft then cut it in half to make two corners and glued them down.  I wound yellow/white bakers twine around twice and tied a bow then I glued the layered panel to a kraft folded card.
I stamped both bunnies and the Hoppy Easter on white, colored and cut out the bunnies, circle cut the words.  The big bunny is popped up and the words (after I made a circle frame from kraft) I popped up as well. I used Liquid Pearls-pink around the words. I cut the embellishments from dies and applied Stickles on the rose then glued everything to the card.

Color Challenge Cross

The colors for this challenge at Splitcoaststampers was Very Vanilla, Piroulet Pink and Pistachio Pudding, or whatever you have that's close.  I did something close! Dessert on this challenge, NO STAMPS!
I have some word dies so I chose Love which the cross signifies.
All the dies are from Our Daily Bread Designs (except the word which is from Elizabeth Craft Design).  I used pink pearls and sheer pink ribbon with a button to decorate.  The flowers in the center are from the Ornamental Cross set. The flourish background die (green) and the pink panel also are part of the Vintage Flourish Pattern set.
I used pink Liquid Pearls for the stitch lines.

 The ultimate Love was shown on the cross when Jesus, the perfect man, died for you and I because the penalty for sin is death.  He took our place that day, paid the penalty in full, the perfect lamb of God was the sacrifice.

ODBDSLC198 Pastel Easter Blessings

Today I'm happy to share my pastel Easter card for Shining the Light Challenge at Our Daily Bread Designs (ODBD).   This Sunday is Easter, we will celebrate the risen Christ!!!
Our challenge this week is "He is Risen" with pastels (a project or card displaying a cross, verse, or sentiment about the true meaning of Easter-not commercialized...no bunnies...).
To see all the creation in one place or to join the challenge, click HERE.  You have until April 20th to join us.  For this challenge you may use any stamps but if you have any ODBD stamps we would love to see you use them.  If you participate, you have the chance to win the $15 certificate toward ODBD stamps or to be spotlighted for the Shining the Light Award (The Shining the Light Award is only for those who use ODBD stamps).  We would love to see your creations.
For more inspiration please visit my design team sister:

Cheryl Scrivens

Chris Olsen

Diana Nguyen

DJ Rants

Elizabeth Whisson

Linda Carson

I cut the larger cross twice, once in blue and once in yellow. I replaced the parts you would normally just throw away from the blue cross with yellow (I kept the yellow cross for another time).  The yellow sort of reminded me of a halo.  The flowers are from the Ornamental crosses set, I cut one from several pastel colors then formed them a little and filled them with yellow Flowersoft.  All the stamps and dies I used are as follows:

Our Daily Bread Designs stamps: Flourish Label Borders, I Am the Way

Our Daily Bread Designs dies: Vintage Flourish Pattern, Ornamental Crosses, Beautiful Borders and Fancy Foliage.

  Jesus our savior!  He died for our sins "all have sinned and come short of the glory of God"  Romans 3:23, "But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us" Romans 5:8 "For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord" Romans 6:23, and then He rose again to live in our hearts forever.  He will never leave us nor forsake us once we have accepted Him as Lord and savior of our lives!!! "I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly" John 10:10
"If you declare with your mouth, 'Jesus is Lord,' and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved." Romans 10:9
If you haven't received Jesus Christ as your savior, why wait, tomorrow is not guaranteed.

Speedy Fox & Friends Challenge #207, Letter T

Today's challenge at Speedy Fox and Friends is to make a card using the letter "T".   My card today is T for truck.  I also used a sketch for this card making it very fast and easy to do.
Please join in the fun and remember there is a prize given out each week to a lucky winner.  Join the challenge HERE.
The stamp set I used today is called "Big Boy Toys" by Mark's Finest Paper.
I used some embossing folders and also some screw head brads for embellishing.
I color with Copic Markers.  Other inks are Versafine-red (words), Brilliance-black (on embossing) and Memento-black for stamping image and words.

Cards for kids

 Stamps by kraftin Kimmie

 Stamps by Penny Black and Kraftin Kimmie

 Stamps by Kraftin Kimmie

Stamps by Penny Black

Yesterday I made these four cards to send to a young man who wants to give them out to patients at a Children's Hospital where he regularly receives treatment.  This is a Tea Pot challenge over at SplitCoastStampers.  If you are interested in making cards for hospitalized kids, all are welcome.  Go to:

http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/forums/teapot-tuesdays-f260/mmtpt297-apr-8-lets-play-t586154.html

I made all of mine with one sketch but you can do whatever layout you like, just gear it towards a little girl or boy and/or teens.  Something happy and uplifting is great!

The Liebster Award

This morning when I opened my private messages at SplitCoastStampers, I found out my blog has been nominated for the Liebster Award by my talented blogging friend Elizabeth Lincoln.  I know Elizabeth as "I Love Rubber" at SCS.   Visit her blog Paper pass times and prepare to be impressed. 

The Liebster Award helps bring awareness to blogs with less than 300 followers. I entered into the world of blogging in May of 2013 and this award would greatly help in sharing my work.  Thanks for the honour and the hand up Elizabeth.

Rules for participating in the Liebster Award nominations:

- Thank your Liebster  Blog Award presenter on your blog and answer the 11 questions they presented

- Link back to your presenter's blog

- Copy and Paste the pink Liebster logo to your blog

- Nominate 5 blogs to receive the award, who have less than 300 followers and create a list of 11 new              questions for them, and

- Inform them of their nomination

I hope you'll take time to visit these amazing artists, I know you will be impressed.

Melissa Cash

Diana Nguyen

Angela Bode

Here's my list of questions for my nominees to answer:

1) What or who started you rubber stamping?

2) What do you do when not in your stamping area?

3) Who has influenced your style?

4) Are you a multi-tasker or single-mindedly finish what you start no matter what?

5) What is your favorite coloring method?

6) Why?

7) What is the funniest thing to happen while crafting?

8) If you could go to a crafting weekend or retreat, where would you go?

9) Who would you want to take along for a great time?

10) Do you try to keep your craft room neat/tidy?

11) Do you organize by color, type, manufacturer or what?

These are the questions asked me by Elizabeth:

1. Was there a single event that lead you to crafting? My mother was an artist and so my sisters and I have always been involved with art of one kind or another since my mother did a lot of different crafts.

2. What other art forms to you enjoy? Photography & scrapbooking are the only other crafts I do presently but I HAVE done numerous others in the past such as quilting, sewing, candle making, Tole painting, macrame, cross stitching, oil and watercolor, etc.

3. What other crafts have influenced your style?  Watercolor, Tole painting.

4. When you go shopping in a crafting store what is the one weakness you can't resist? paper, ribbon, etc.?  Dies and/or embossing folders

5. Have you influenced others in your family to also craft? My son and daughter are very good at drawing and that is basically all they do at present.

6. Do you work one creation through to completion or do you multi task with many on the go at one time? Both depending on if I get stuck, I leave it and move on, going back when I get more ideas.

7. What is your favorite coloring medium?  I love my Copics. Why? They blend so well. I love the colors you can achieve.

8. What is the funniest thing that has ever happened while crafting? One night my sister and I were painting on T-shirts, it was very late and she was getting the shirt she had on into paint every time she reach over toward my side of the table, when I noticed I pointed it out to her and we both started laughing so hard my husband came out of our room, where he had been fast asleep, and got on to us which , of course, made us laugh even harder!

9. If you could go on a crafting weekend with 3 other crafters who would they be? Melissa Cash, Ronda Clark and Kim Meeks...they are all very fun girls to craft with.

10. Is your craft room tidy or do you like creative disorder? I like creative disorder which is in order to me.

11. If you could go on a holiday to any art gallery in the world, what would it be?  Italy or France not sure which I would like to see the most or where the most art is.

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ODBDSLC197-WATER OR RAIN

Today I bring you The Sea, the largest body of water on Earth.  At sunset, if you are traveling along hwy 1 in California, you will see the waves breaking on the shore and you will notice that they reflect the colors of the sunset sky!  It is a beautiful sight to see. My image is die cut in two parts, using an outside cutout die and an inside cut.  The outside cut has the piercing already in the die.  The flourish frame is from the same set and I added a darker color to the embossed stitching around the edges.  I used paper from Blooming Gardens behind the flourish pattern die.  The "sea grass" is just thin cuts of green vellum and curled with my fingernail.  The little "succulents" are a small flower die in the Crosses set.  The smallest cross die is on the sentiment panel (the largest is approximately 3-4").  I used some yellow flower soft in the centers of the flowers after molding them on a soft foam with a large ball stylist.  I also made some "sand" with Dune pigment ink, heavy embossing powder, micro beads, gold mica chips and gold dust.  I happen to have some tiny star fish and shells the I also added to the sand.
My image is colored with Copic Markers and then I added Diamond Dust to the sea spray and waves breaking.   The sentiment was sponged with distress inks.
Stamps:  The Sea, Clean Heart
Dies: Ornamental Crosses, Vintage Flourish Pattern
Paper: Blooming Gardens and misc. aqua and white
This week at Shining the Light challenge (Our Daily Bread Designs-ODBD) is to create a card or project that includes an image with water, uses a technique with water, or is primarily "Aqua" in color.
To see all the creations in one place or join the challenge, click Here.  You have until April 13th to join us.  For this challenge, you may use any stamps but if you have any ODBD stamps we would love to see you use them.  If you participate, you have a chance to win the $15 certificate toward ODBD stamps or to be spotlighted for the Shining the Light Award (Shining the Light Award is only for those who use ODBD stamps).  We would love to see your creations.

For more inspiration please visit my talented design team sisters:

Cheryl Scrivens

Chris Olsen

Diana Nguyen

DJ Rants

Elizabeth Whisson

Linda Carson

I used these dies, part of the new April release.

"The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, than the mighty waves of the sea." Ps.  93:4

"The sea is His, for He made it; and His hands formed the dry land." Ps. 95: 5

"Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; let the sea roar, and all its fullness; let the field be joyful, and all that is in it.  Then all the trees of the woods will rejoice before the Lord." Ps. 96:11-12

Speedy Fox & Friends challenge #206 Vellum

Today's challenge is to use vellum in your creation.  I used vellum for my main image.  I embossed with white pigment ink and white powder.  I then colored from behind with Copic Markers.  I cut the image in an oval and sponged yellow distress ink on the edges.
Stamp set used: Black Eyed Susans for Encouragement  by Mark's Finest Paper.
Please visit Mark's Finest Papers for more inspiration and to join in the challenge HERE.

Be Strong and Courageous

I did this card today for my friend Kathleen Lammie of SCS. She has a very rare lung disease and needs a transplant NOW!!
I put this card in the Tea Potter challenge (They are all making cards for Kathleen today) and in the color challenge (the colors were Navy, Olive and aqua).
I will be sending this card off tomorrow!!
I used the new release crosses and ornate bg dies from Our Daily Bread Designs, The scripture and cut out is also from ODBD.  Under the ornate bg frame is a stamped and embossed bg in Navy.