TGF Super Secret Stamp Club #007

Hi everyone! It's here! My very first stamp since joining

The Greeting Farm's Super Secret Stamp Club subscription.

What's that? Well it's a 3-month online subscription where they mail you a "mystery" stamp 1-5 months before it's scheduled to be released as an exclusive first look.

You get these stamps for $8 a piece as opposed to the regular $12! 

For more info on this SSSC click here.

The first one I received is absolutely adorable!

 Isn't he just too stinkin' cute?! I just love him!

This stamp is called "Puppy Love"-SSSC no.007

I don't have many boy stamps so this was a fabulous suprise!

 I'm very happy with how his hair turned out as well. I was a little worried with the side whip, but I think it came out fine. And this little pupperoo just called for a brown spot over his eye for personality.

I coordinated the circles into the inside of the card as well. The circles was inspired by Kristina Werner's July Mail Call theme. You can find her here.

Hope you all enjoy!

*Neenah Classic Crest 80 LB SUPER SMOOTH SOLAR WHITE Paper Pack 25 Sheets	*Neenah Environment 80 LB SMOOTH DESERT STORM Paper Pack 25 Sheets	*Tsukineko MEMENTO Full Size Ink Pad TUXEDO BLACK	*Copic SKETCH 72 PC SET B Markers BBBS72B
*Sizzix BIG SHOT EXPRESS Machine 655750	*My Favorite Things PIERCED CIRCLE STAX Die-Namics MFT	*Simon Says Clear Stamps BIRTHDAY MESSAGES SSS101391	*PRE-ORDER Lawn Fawn INTO THE WOODS Lawn Ornaments MIXED SEQUINS

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Birthday card using Lawn Fawn stamps

Hello everyone and happy hump day!  I have an adorable card to share with you today.

I finally messed around with some of my older stamp sets and stumbled 

upon my Simon Says Stamp Happy Every Day stamp set. 

It has this great solid stripe in it that I wanted to use to create my own rainbow pattern paper with. 

So that's where my first idea was born. 

I went through all of my ink and ended up choosing all Stampin' Up! ink for the stripes.

Here is a list of the colors I used:

Real Red, Pumpkin Pie, Daffodil Delight, 

Wild Wasabi, Pacific Point, Perfect Plum

I cut my flag shape first from Neenah Solar White cardstock, then stamped my stripes across.

Using the MFT Pierced Circle Dies I cut a circle from the center.

Then I used my 1/8" hole punch to punch out two holes for my thread to eventually go through.

Then came the struggle of deciding on an image to use with my newly made rainbow paper.

Once I saw this Lawn Fawn dino staring up at me from the pile I knew he was the one!

As cliche and silly as that sounds it was soooo true.

 I stamped him with Memento Tuxedo black ink and colored him with my Copics.

And because I couldn't leave well enough alone I added some bling

with my Wink of Stella clear glitter pen to his rainbow

scales as well as every other stripe on the

rainbow pattern paper.

Rummaging through my stash of paper I chose Bazzill wax lips cardstock for my card base.

I had some scrap black recollections cardstock I needed to use up so I used that

to mat my flag pattern paper onto, leaving myself a small red border.

At the last minute I chose to emboss the sentiment using green and purple that I got in the clearance bin at Michaels (sorry I can't link to those)

Then for the inside of the card, I certainly couldn't waste that rainbow die cut circle so I stamped my sentiment on that using VersFine Onyx black ink.

The sentiment also came from the SSS Happy Every Day set that I used the stripe from earlier.

Stamped some little dino tracks using MFT Kraft Hybrid Ink across the bottom of inside of the card.

And there you have it! An adorable dino birthday card that could be given to anyone!

Hope you all enjoyed this card and I'll catch you back here next time.
 I'll be entering this card into the new Simon Wednesday Challenge:Anything Goes!
You can check out their challenge blog and play along here.

 

Super Simple Sunday

Hello everyone!

Today I want to show you a card I made using one of my newest Art Impressions Girlfriends stamp!

This is the Art Impressions Girlfriend Blend stamp and I just love it! 

My Nana is always wanting cards from me to give to her girlfriends and these are just perfect for them. She told me whenever I send her a new box of cards she puts them out on the table at brunch and the ladies practically fight over them on the table :)

The girlfriends sets always seem to be their favorite.

So here is the card. I kept it super simple, focusing mainly on my Copic coloring and the sharp angles. I've been trying to steer away from my normal straight lines/layers.

I even forced myself to try different skin tone combinations on this card and I have to say I'm quite pleased with how it turned out.

Well I'll keep this short and sweet today. I hope you all enjoyed and I'll see you next time!

Challenge and Valentine card # 4

Well Friday came and went and due to technical issues this wouldn't post last night so I'm back at it this morning hoping I will have better luck. So in keeping with my "Friday Challenge" theme this week I will participate in the Tiddly Inks challenge. I have yet to participate in one of there challenges, but I love their stamps and use them all the time so why not?!

You can find this challenge on their challenge blog here. This weeks challenge is "clean and simple" which ironically enough is the same theme from the last challenge I participated in. This card is also the number 4 card in my Valentine card series. I hope you like it.

 

And really, what better stamp to use just days after they announced that HBO's Game of Thrones season 4 will premiere on April 4th! Who else cannot wait for that to come back on?? As always I will link to all the supplies used that I can. Be sure to check back again on Monday for Valentine card #5.

Copics:

Skin: E50,E00,E11. R20

Hair: E50,Y21,E53,E55

Dress: R24,R29,E19

Leather straps: E57

Shoes: W1,W3,W5

Green Dragon: Y17, YG61,YG63

Red Dragon: R27,E19,E31

Blue Dragon:YR23, BG72,BG75

Egg shell: E53,E55,0

Ground: E53,E55,E57,E59,Y21

Supplies: