"Be yourself beautiful bold Loving unique"

Hello again and I am so happy to here showing you a card I made for Laura's Inspirational Compadres DT. It is always fun making a new card of trying a new way of doing one. This card I used vellum and embossed it first with the saying from the stamp set Altenew "Thoughts and Reminders" But since I didn't have black embossing ink , I first embossed the words with versemark, I then dipped it in black ink to give it some color.  Then for the flowers I used the stamp set from Altenew " Vintage Flowers" stamped in embossing ink, and then embossed with white embossing powder. I  then painted it in with Picked raspberry distress ink.with just a small paint brush. For the first time I tried this it was really easy and fun  To match that I took and cut out a heart shape, and painted the frame  with the same distress ink on watercolor paper. Then glued it all on a 7 x 5 craft card. I really love how it all turned out and can't wait to make something else doing this.
Thanks for stopping by, and taking a peak of my new card, and don't forget to stop and check out Laura's store, she is always adding new things.
"Be yourself beautiful bold Loving unique"

It's a New Year, so "DREAM"

Hello again! I am so happy to be doing another card for Laura's Inspirational Compadres DT.
Lots of dreaming ahead for the new Year that is upon us all.
For this card I used Newtons nook " Day dream,  stamp set, "Mochaccino, sequin mix, Avery Elle Wonky Stitches die. to cut out the square for the shaker card.  Using the  We Are Memory Keepers Fuse tool to make the shaker window.
 The following distress ink, for the cat and mice, Frayed burlap. The frame, Picked Raspberry and for the grass "Mowed  Lawn".Bees and butterflies," Mustard seed" The background, Salty ocean and Seedless preserves.  Then stamped the words in black ink after I had applied the ink to the background. Thanks for stopping by and seeing my new card, and don't forget to stop at
  Laura's shop for all the products used .
Pleasant dreams to all.

Challenge Inspiration JAN 2016- resist

Welcome To Laura’s Loft January 2016 Monthly Challenge

Ready To Have Some Fun And Be Inspired?

I love doing challenges, as I am new to card making and it makes me get out of my comfort zone. I hope you like and get some new ideas for your cards and projects.

Laura's Loft is giving away  a $25 gift card to the winner of the challenge!

The challenge runs from Jan. 16-29 th. Play as often as you want.

You will have until 11:55 PM on the 29th to upload your projects 

Winner will be announced on Jan. 31 on the Laura's blog.

To enter to win this prize go to http://www.lauralscott.com/llc2  and enter your creations in the Inlinkz.

Good luck and have fun.

Second place gets this great gift certificate from Avery Elle.

"Fly By"

Coming up with a idea was when I got this new stamp set

Avery Elle "Fly By"
I fell in love with this stamp set as soon as I saw it. 

I love this stamp set because my dad is a small plane pilot since I was a little girl.

So I made this card for him. 

The first thing I did was cut a double stitched rectangle using:

Avery Elle "Wonky Stitches Die"

It measures about 5 1/2 x 4. This die set has 5 pieces in it, and I have used it alot already.

The challenge is resist and what I did was masking. I had never done this before but I gave it a try.

The first thing I did was stamp with Memento Luxe Tuxedo Black ink, on the white card stock and on some masking paper. I then cut out the stamped objects

and layed them on top of the stamped objects on the card stock.

I took Tim Holtz Salty Oceans, distress ink and applied it with the mini ink blending tool, on the white card around the masked objects. Then I took off the masking tape and my stamped objects below it where perfect!

I was so excited that it worked. Then I colored in with a copic # R27 the words Love you. 

For the clouds I embossed them with WOW "Sparkling Snow" embossing powder, it sure gave them a real sparkling look.


So not to think I could take it to easy, I did some searching on something else I could do.  I found a resist painting by using wax paper with a embossing folder, and adding distress ink on top of it. So that's what I did, and it did work really well.

Tis the season for Love! So I wanted to make a card for a guy and as you know that's pretty hard sometimes.
I got a idea off of Pinterest, looking at different pictures and ideas of how to do it.
I embossed a piece of wax paper, then mad a sandwich of scrap paper, card stock, wax paper, card stock, scrap paper. Then took a hot iron, with no steam and pressed it for about three times. Then peeled it away and you could see a faint print on it.
Then used Tim Holtz mini distress inks : Peacocks Feathers, Mustard Seed & Fired Brick. To apply them I used the mini tool plus the mini pads, and then had fun adding it to the wax design left on the paper. I just kept going back and forth with the colors until I was happy with it. Then I sprayed Tattered angel glimmer shine, on top of it to give it a little more shine.
For the butter fly, Altenew Bejeweled Stamp set, and the matching die set Altenew Bejewled die set.
Then embossed it with WOW copper embossing powder.
The saying on the card also embossed with copper embossing powder.
The words where from the stamp set The Greeting Farm "Flutter Heart"
The words Love Ya is from Cas-ual Fridays Die  "Love Ya"
and used gold glitter paper for the words.
I ended up really having fun making this card, and can't wait to do it again.

"Love Ya" for stopping by!!!!

Don't forget to stop by the other great designers for the challenge.

Laura
Deana
Jasmine
Emma
Debbie - you are here
Noe
Lisa
Dawn
Valentian
Linda Gorman
Robbie

Cheer Up

CHEER UP

Welcome back everyone. This is Debbie back again, and am so excited to be on the DT Inspirational Compadres for Laura's Loft. 

The card I made is for a male family member who had surgery. So I had just recieved the new stamp set from Laura's shop. 

 https://lauras-loft-shop.myshopify.com/     

The new stamp set is called:

My Favorite Things "Blue Skies Ahead"

I was also so excited to get my first stiched die set and as you can see it looks great.

I did add a little black marker ink to make some of the stiched dies stand out.

 Avery Elle "Wonky Stiches Die"

I also used the Virgina Turtle, enamel dot "Autumn" to finish off the two little tags that I had connected together.

Thanks for stopping buy, and I hope you all stay well this winter months.

Happy New Year,,Happy Mail Card

                         Happy New Year

As I welcome a new year, and have a little time before my next christmas party. I got some happy mail, and any happy mail for me is crafting things. My happy mail was The Stamps of life, stamp set and dies! Yes I am addicited to stamps and dies, because you can do so much more  things with them. So as I start my new year with a new card, its fitting it should say 

Happy Mail!

This card was so easy and fun to do...It is a 5 1/2 x 4 inch white card. On the background I used Tim Holtz distress ink, salty ocean, and mowed lawn, and applied it with the mini distress tool.

I wanted it to more stand out more and that is why I love using dies, and so cut out the mail box, bird, envelopes, and grass.

I then used Prismacolor colored pencils, black and darkbrown, to color the post in the mail box, and red for the big heart.

The envelopes I wanted to make them look like they fell out of the mail box, and cut four of them out with the die, and stamped them with the stamp with black ink. I wanted to make them look kinda spring, because here in Nebraska we have had lots of snow and cold. So I colored them with copic markers, bo1,bo4,r27,rv63.

The words rv63, and the bird with y15. 

The grass I stamped with distress ink, pineneedles, peeled paint. I made some of them to stand out by cutting them with the die cut and coloring them in.

So glad you stopped by and I hope you are getting some happy mail!!

December Challenge Tic-Tac-Toe- at Laurs's Loft

                      December Challenge "Tic-Tac-Toe" at Lauras' loft

Welcome to my very first challenge at Laura's Loft. The challenge was 

• Tic tac toe board. I was to pick three in a row and use them on a card. Wow this was harder then I thought and I was so happy to have just recieved my order from the November hop at Laura's shop.  So I used the new stamp set  Altenew Bejeweld. Using the butterfly dies I cut them out using Vellum clear, then stamped them using versamark . I embossed them with white embossing powder and the bow with WOW embossing powder HO,HO,HO, I also got at Laura's shop. The stencil I used was from Hedi swap and added a white color from CTMH. I picked out some white sequins , Lauren's Bouquet , from Laura's shop. The words are also on the stamp set Altenew Bejeweld. I really love this card and plan on using this stamp set and dies on so many products. 
• Thanks for stopping by and looking at my card. Below you will find the rest of the designers who also made a card for this challenge.  
• Be sure to checkout Laura's store at www.shop.lauralscott.com
• Also here are some links to some other blog challenges. Check them out and see what they have created. Thanks for stopping by. 
• Laura-  
• Deana-
• LeeAnn-
• Debbie- You are here
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1st. place prize is a $25 gift card to her store. How great is that?

Runner up prize is $10 gift card to Laura's store...

Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas

Hi I'm Debbie Brunssen. and I am so excited to make another card for the Inspirational Compadres DT and I am here to share it with you. I used the WRMK , Gemstone, embossing folder, on pearlized card stock. The stamped saying is from the stamp set 'cas-ual Fridays, "Must Love Snowflakes" . It was a fun quick card to make,, Merry Christmas! —

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