SNSS – Thank You For Loving Me!

Another rainy day – Ughh!! One good thing comes from a rainy day though…time to play with my stamps and stuff!

My card uses a couple of pieces from Sweet N Sassy Stamp Sets – The Good News (the 3 crosses) and the sentiment comes from Precious Poppies. This set has some beautiful poppies but even better are the many awesome sentiments that come with it.

I played along with the Featured Stamper Challenge at SplitcoastStamper again this week and it was a messy, fun, incredible time. Nathalie’s gallery is unbelivable! She has serious talent. Though I had a hard time choosing a card to case, I chose THIS one because she had a tutorial for it that I just HAD to try. Let me tell you now… She make it look a lot easier than it is! I hope she likes this attempt and I hope she has a great weekend as the featured stamper!

Nathalie’s tutorial uses alcohol inks on Yupo and she uses Ranger Alcohol inks on her card. Since I didn’t have the colors she mentioned, I found Copic refills that I thought were similar (B95, YG63, W5, B00). I used black Stazon to ink up my images. The alcohol inks just seemed to fall in all the right places to make this so beautiful.

Thanks for the inspiration Nathalie!

Lyn

FTHS Coffee and Friends

Ooooh! I love my Distress Oxides!

For today’s card, I used Fossilized Amber, Spiced Marmalade, and Vintage Photo oxides. I spritzed water on to it and let it dry. Then I used my original distress inks in vintage photo and pulled out my Tim Holtz Splatter Stencil to create a background for my card. With my Copics, I colored up Friendship (Faithful Friends). She has be printed up in my stash for a while so when I saw her, I thought all of these pieces were meant to be together!

As always, I used my polka dot and basic backdrop dies from AJVD to get my layers. Then I used my stitched circle dies to cut out my image and my base and by inserting the image in, it gave me stitches on both sides. It turned out pretty cute I think! I hope you were inspired!

I am going to enter this one into a couple of Challenges this week:

• Cuttlebug Mania – A Cuppa
• Shopping our Stash –SOS #300 – Caffeine Fix

Thanks for stopping by!

lyn

PS and By the Way!

I won a top 3 pick at Shopping our Stash AND was a Runner up at Cuttlebug Mania!

LMMS Challenge #160 – Monster Hugs!

It’s time for another challenge at Little Miss Muffet – Challenge #160 “Anything Goes!”

For my card today, I went with a shaker card and a new freebie – YES it is FREE this week and Little Miss Muffet Stamps is sponsoring Passionate Paper Creations this week. Use coupon code PPCFriends to receive $5 off any purchase of $15 plus grab this cutie while you’re there! He is called Candy monster

Recipe:

• Images: Candy monster digi stamps available at Little Miss Muffet Stamps
• Paper: White and True Black cardstock(PTI)
• Ink: Copics; Versafine Onyx Black and clear embossing powder
• Other: Polka dot and Basic Backdrop dies from AJVD, Stitched Square Dies from Simon Says Stamp, beads

Come on over and join in on Challenge #160 – Anything Goes!  There are prizes… For our prizes, one lucky winner will be awarded a $10.00 Gift Voucher to the LMMS shop. We like to select a couple other projects to highlight as well.  Good Luck!

Thanks for stopping by!!

Lyn

SNSS Stained Glass Background

I have been wanting to create another card with the new “God is For You” stamp set from Sweet N Sassy Stamps. I wanted to create another CAS one to show off the sentiment.

Though it looks CAS, it kind of wasn’t…I sat down with a pencil and drew out four card fronts buuuutt then I colored up one and it took a lot of time and ink so I decided to rethink it. Now I think I will investigate different inks but I will finish them because it is so wonderful.

The bold blocks (I outlined them in Sharpie) are such a great background for the sentiment. It really reminds me of stained glass – I L-O-V-E it!

**Enabler Alert – Sweet N Sassy Stamps is having a great sale this week on quite a few stamp sets – no code required 🙂

Thanks for stopping by!

Lyn

SNSS – Give Praise Shaker Card

It’s the weekend!! YAY! I have had a crazy month (or two) and I am soooo tired! I have a report to finish up but I decided I needed to take a fun break just to keep myself sane! Today I am playing with a new stamp set that SNSS just released. This set is called Give Praise. I can’t wait to do a Bible journal page with this, but for today, I decided to try a shaker card idea from Jennifer Mcguire.

It turned out pretty good, though I am going to need some more practice to get the shaker a little more shaker-y….

I used some scrap paper and inked up a bunch of the stamp elements then colored them up with with my Copics. I ran the base background through my Cuttlebug with some embossing dies. Then with Circle dies, I created a frame. With Distress Ink, I dropped some color onto some watercolor paper and ran that though my Cuttlebug with an embossing folder. I cut out the elements for the shaker pieces and added sequins.

Now I am sitting here just shaking it for fun. See, my break was truly successful!

Have a great one and thanks for stopping by!

Lyn

LMSS Christmas Kitty Shaker

If you are like me, you sometimes bookmark images you want and go back to them later. Well, I found some of my bookmarks in the retired section of the Little Miss Muffet Store. My image today is a retired one and I love it, but like all good things it didn’t last. SO this is me reminding you (that’s the kind of friend I am) to check out the retiring items before they too are gone.

http://www.littlemissmuffetstamps.com/Retiring-Products_c_1…

My card today is a fun (still CAS) shaker card. I love it!

Recipe:

• Images: Christmas Kitty Digi from Little Miss Muffet Stamps
• Paper: White, Red Poppy, Simply Chartruese cardstock(PTI)
• Ink: Copics
• Other: Polkadot and basic backdrop dies (AJVD), Stitched Square Dies (SImon Says Stamps) Shaker materials, acetate, Christmas embossing folder

Come on over and join in on Challenge #152 – Anything Goes! There is still time! There are prizes… For our prizes, one lucky winner will be awarded a $10.00 Gift Voucher to the LMMS shop. We like to select a couple other projects to highlight as well.  Good Luck!

Thanks for stopping by!!

Lyn

LMMS – I am Batty for you!

OK – I am trying another new background today! This has been pretty fun trying new backgrounds and actually using all of those Distress Inks that I thought i “needed”. What backgrounds have you tried lately?

This is supposed to be a night sunset sky. Like when it has set and it is dark and no longer orangey – Does it look like that to you? It was pretty fun (and messy :)). I used another new Halloween image from Little Miss Muffet called Jr. Hatter Batty. Like all Hatters, she doesn’t let disappoint.

I added stars with a white gel pen but didn’t love it so I went back over it with inks to tone it down but overall, I am happy.

Recipe:

• Images: Jr. Hatter Batty digi from Little Miss Muffet Stamps
• Sentiment: Tiny Treats: Halloween by Paper Trey Ink
• Paper: White cardstock (PTI), Black cardstock (Recollections), Water Color Paper (Tim Holtz)
• Ink: Copics (Hat) C1, C3, C5, C7, C9, R01, (Clothes) YG21, YG23, YG25,  BV01, BV02, BV04, (shoes) E43, E44, E47, (Hair) E11, E13, E17, (skin) E00, E02, E11, E21
• Distess Inks: Mowed Lawn, Antique linen, Shaded Lilac, Chipped Sapphire, Black Soot
• Other: Polka dot and Basic Backdrip dies (A Jillian Vance Design), White gel pen, black Glaze pen (bat eyes and buttons)

There is still time to join Challenge #147 – Anything Goes! Come join in! There are prizes… For our prizes, one lucky winner will be awarded a $10.00 Gift Voucher to the LMMS shop. We like to select a couple other projects to highlight as well.  Good Luck!

Thanks for stopping by!!

Lyn

LMMS – Monster Mission!

Do you have a list of backgrounds you want to try but haven’t? I do too but now my list has one less to try. I have been wanting to do a “galaxy” back ground for a while, and I finally just jumped in and did it. Little Miss Muffet Monster Mission digi is a perfect companion for this background. What backgrounds are on your list?

I added Perfect Peals into the background so it looked like stars were EVERYWHERE and I absolutely love this project. Not only is the monster adorable, this background is fantastic and pretty easy!! Can you see how sparkly it is? I watched THIS video for my technique inspiration. Hope you try it out!

Recipe:

• Images: Monster Mission digi from Little Miss Muffet Stamps
• Sentiment: Boy Basics: Out of this World Stamp set by Paper Trey Ink
• Paper: White cardstock (PTI), Black cardstock (Recollections), Water Color Paper
• Ink: Copics (Rocket) W00, W1, W3, W5, W7, W9, R24, R29 (Fire) YR63, YR68, R08, YYR21, Y17 (Monster) YG21, YG23, YG25, FV2, BV02, E43, E44, E47, E00, E11, E21
• Distess Inks: Fossilized Amber, Picked Raspberry, Wilted Violet, Chipped Sapphire, Black Soot
• Other: Polka dot and Basic Backdrip dies (A Jillian Vance Design), Gesso, Perfect Pearls

There is still time to join Challenge #146 – Anything Goes! Come join in! There are prizes… For our prizes, one lucky winner will be awarded a $10.00 Gift Voucher to the LMMS shop. We like to select a couple other projects to highlight as well.  Good Luck!

Thanks for stopping by!!

Lyn

LMMS Birthday Duck – Tag

Today’s project is a three layer gift tag. Instead of adhering the layers to each other, I let them flow freely for fun swinging tag.

My cards today use: Little Miss Muffet digi Jack with Balloons. Not sure why this thing makes me smile so much but I love it 🙂Recipe:

• Images: Jack with Balloons digi from Little Miss Muffet Stamps
• Paper: White cardstock (PTI), Red cardstock (Bazzill), DP (PTI)
• Ink: Copics (Duck) Y32. Y35, Y38, YR12, YR15, YR16, (Balloons) YG21, YG23, YG25, B00, B01, B02 (Mushroom) R14, R17, R22, W00, W01,W03, W05 (Sky) B0000, (Grass)
• Other: Die-namics Stitched and Traditional Tag STAX, Ribbon, Twine, hole punch

There is still time to join Challenge #144 – Anything Goes! Come join in! There are prizes… For our prizes, one lucky winner will be awarded a $10.00 Gift Voucher to the LMMS shop. We like to select a couple other projects to highlight as well.  Good Luck!

Thanks for stopping by!!

Lyn

Summer Reading – let’s go!!

I have been wanting to make some simple bookmarks for summer reading and today I have a few that I finally made. I went through my small images and found a few that I thought would be perfect. I have one for the perrrfect book, for a pirrrate book, and one for a plan old fun one. I can’t wait to give to the little guys and get them on the road to reading this summer!

Recipe:

• Images: Feline Sleeping, Monster Bubbles and Skull and crossbones pirate digi by Little Miss Muffet Stamps
• Paper: Black card stock (PTI)
• Ink: Copics
• Other: Stitched Circle Dies (Simon Says Stamps), Circle Dies (Spellbinders), Paperclip

There is still a challenge going on a LMMS…so come on over and join in on Challenge #139 – Anything Goes!  There are prizes… For our prizes, one lucky winner will be awarded a $10.00 Gift Voucher to the LMMS shop. We like to select a couple other projects to highlight as well.  Good Luck!

Thanks for stopping by!!

Lyn