LMMS – Rainbows and Sunshine

I am still playing with inks today and tried to create a tie-dye background with distress inks and water color paper.  I used the little distress ink cubes and created a rainbow on my craft mat. I spritzed it with water then laid my paper in it and did a quarter turn to blend. I fussy cut Polka Dot Pals Beatrix and popped her up with dimensionals. I heat embossed a fun sentiment and there you have it.

Recipe:

• Images: Polka Dot Pals Beatrix digi stamp available at Little Miss Muffet Stamps
• Sentiment Up, Up and Away Stamp set (Papertrey Ink)
• Paper: White cardstock (PTI), Purple cardstock (Recollections), Canson XL Watercolor paper
• Ink: Copics (markers for my little girl) and Distress Inks (for the background)
• Other: basic and polka dot backdrop dies (AJVD), Iridescent Blue (Queen and Co.)

Come on over and join in on Challenge #169 – Anything Goes!  There is still time to play for 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 Challenge #169 Mermaid Lagoon

It is that time once again were we take on another challenge at Little Miss Muffet Stamps!  Challenge #169 “Anything Goes!”

I got inky today and tried to create a water background with alcohol inks (Copic refills) and glossy paper and alcohol.  With water, there needs to be a water creature right? I went with a Mermaid. Swings ‘n Slides Mermaid – cute huh? I cut the mermaid in half and flipped her tail behind her (I cut a slot in the paper to tuck the pieces into.)

Recipe:

• Images: Swings ‘n Slides Mermaid digi stamp available at Little Miss Muffet Stamps
• Sentiment: One with Nature clear stamps at Simon Says Stamp;
• Paper: White cardstock (PTI), Turquoise cardstock (SSS), Glossy White card
• Ink: Copics (markers for my mermaid and refills for the background)
• Other: basic and polka dot backdrop dies (AJVD), Irridescent Blue (Queen and Co.)

Come on over and join in on Challenge #169 – 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

LMMS Hey There!

I finally got to play with my scraps and create a background using THIS Splitcoaststampers tutorial. I tweaked the design a bit but it was really fun and what a great way to use up scraps! I colored up Little Miss Muffets’ Jr Hatter Millie, (colored up to coordinate with my scraps) –  I made a fun CAS card but I would love to see what you do with this technique!

Recipe:

• Images: Jr Hatter Millie digi stamp available at Little Miss Muffet Stamps
• Paper: White cardstock (PTI) Navy card (Bazzill), scraps
• Ink Image: Copics,
• Ink Sentiment: Versafine Onyx Black and Clear embossing powder
• Other: basic and polka dot backdrop dies (AJVD) oval and scallop oval dies (Spellbinders)

You still have a little time to join in on Challenge #167 – 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 – What a Friend I have in Jesus!

I am in love with Sweet N Sassy Stamp’s new Hymn Blocks Stamps. I have just been singing these songs as I made my cards and having a wonderful time.

I knew as soon as I saw this stamp set that I wanted to create a set of cards (I mean how do I chose just one for a card?) For fun, I decided to challenge myself to create 6 different card fronts using basically the same supplies.

With three distress inks (Salty Ocean, Abandoned Coral, and Mustard Seed – used separately and together to create a rainbow effect) as well as some additional tools, I came up with the following:

First, I watered down the colors and with a paint brushed, I splattered them onto my card panel. I inked the hymn block with Versafine Onyx Black and heat embossed it.Second, I used an acrylic block and inked the colors (making sure to over lap yellow with the other two to create green and orange). I spritzed some water onto it the block and “stamped” the color onto my card panel. Again,  I inked the hymn block with Versafine Onyx Black and heat embossed it.For my third card, I stamped some butterflies and flowers from Floral Greetings with Versamark. After drying it, I blended the colors onto the panel, spritz a little water onto it to soften to look and  inked the hymn  block with Versafine Onyx Black and heat embossed it. You can’t really see the flowers and butterflies in the picture but in real life, they offer a little movement for the card.Next, I repeated the process from above but I embossed the flowers and butterflies so that they would stand out and I inked the colors up a little heavier. For this one, I inked the Hymnal Block with white and popped it up on a panel.The next card uses the ever fun “smooshing” technique using the same 3 colors and overlaps and acetate. I inked the hymn block with Versafine Onyx Black and heat embossed it.Last (but not least), I used a music notes stencil (from Tando Creative) and blended my inks over it. Before I removed the stencil, I spritz a little water onto it. Then I inked the hymn block with Versafine Onyx Black and heat embossed it.Oh my gosh – this was soooo much fun! Challenge yourself and see what you come up with 🙂

Have a great day and thanks for stopping by!

Lyn

LMMS – Sprinkles!

Today I have some sweetness to share! Using Little Miss Muffets’ Jr Hatter Sweetie, I made a fun CAS card. 

I recently saw a clever technique using an embossing folder that I HAD to try. First, I blended on a little distress ink, then I stenciled on a few spots of pinks. NOW for the technique… Basically, I put the inked panel in the embossing folder and with a small hammer, I tapped in random spots to emboss some but not all of the panel. It was pretty fun – try it out and see what you think!!

Recipe:

• Images: Jr Hatter Sweetie digi stamp available at Little Miss Muffet Stamps
• Paper: White cardstock (PTI) Brown card (Bazzill)
• Ink: Copics
• Background and Sentiment: Distress Ink – Walnut Stain and Picked Raspberry
• Other: basic and polka dot backdrop dies (AJVD) Fishtail dies (MFT)

You still have a little time to join in on Challenge #166 – 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 – 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