Make a card Monday!

 Happy Monday everyone! Today I have a card to share with you for MACM. I'm kind of loving these portholes (just in case that wasn't obvious from my previous card)

So I just received a new order from SSS which included Paper Smooches Nauticool stamps and coordinating dies so I went to work! Combing both the Nauticool and the Briny Blue stamps I created this adorable little card.
Both Simon Says Stamp and Paper Smooches have Anything Goes challenges up this week so this little guy is going to be splashing along in those challenges. I encourage you to join in the fun as well because the winner for either challenge gets fabulously spoiled :D

 I couldn't find any of my wood grain cardstock, but I wasn't about to let that stop me! I pulled out my Hero Arts woodgrain background stamp and created my own using versamark and white embossing powder. and I really like how it turned out.

I, of course, still did not have acetate so I just cut a circle from some plastic packaging that I was no longer using for my porthole window.

 The only gold brads I had were way too large for what I wanted so instead I took some pastel yellow ones, coated them in versamark and gold embossing powder and vwalla! Pretty gold brads and everyone is none the wiser ;)

I stamped the dolphin onto a scrap of Neenah cardstock, copic colored him and masked him off.  Then taking my round blending tool I added in the water using some distress ink.

I attached the small scrap to the hole behind the woodgrain stamped cardstock. I decided to add some natural twine from Lawn Fawn to add to the nautical look. I pierced a hole above and below the circle hole and threaded it into the top and bottom. 

Once my twine was secure I attached the porthole using some foam adhesive.

The little anchor and life preserver provided the perfect little accents.

 I stamped my sentiment from the AmyR Oh So Beachy sentiments onto a scrap of white cardstock, cut a tail end and lightly sponged the edges using the same ink from the water.

Then I used more foam adhesive and attached the woodgrain piece to the blue Bazzill card base, stamped another sentiment inside the card using the same stamp set, and that finishes the card for today.

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Need a Lift?

Hello everyone! Today I have a super adorable elephant card to share with you. 

I just love, Love, LOVE this little elephant stamp from Lawn Fawn.

Elephants are, after all, my favorite!

This was a very tedious card to make I will admit. 

I thought I had a cluster of balloons as a stamp, 

but apparently I only had a single balloon.

Was that going to stop me? Absolutely not!

So I stamped one balloon at a time, cutting and masking off each individual balloon as I filled up the balloon cluster until I was satisfied.

Then I stamped and masked the elephant just below that.

With all of the balloons already masked, 

I cut some cloud masks and placed those down.

Using my new Ranger blending tool and some Tim Holtz distress ink I smudged a sky.

Then came the fun part...unmasking the tape to reveal the clean stamping under neath. 

I colored pretty minimally just using 2 colors for shadowing on the balloons then I added strings to the balloons and around the elephant using my Copic multiliner.

And of course it needed some sparkle so I added some Wink of Stella clear glitter pen to all of my balloons.

Took out my Anya Lifts stamp from The Greeting Farm for the "Need a Lift?" sentiment and placed it onto my Simon Says Stamp banner die cut. Dimensionals gave the perfect lift (hehe see what I did there) for my banner when I attached it to the card.

The tails of the banner flush against the card I secured using a little Tombow. 

Now for the inside of my card I stamped the other sentiment from the Anya Lifts stamp set as well as a couple more balloons. 

Colored them in with my copics and added glitter to them as well.

And there you have it! A super sweet, super adorable card sure to brighten anyones day!

I will also be entering this card into this weeks Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge blog.  This weeks theme is Anything Goes! so hop on over and play along.

The randomly chosen winner will receive a $50 gift voucher to the Simon Says Stamp store! Is it sad that I already know what I would use that for? hehehe

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