A Sweet & Sassy Guest Spot!

Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps that is! I’ll be a guest designer with them for September!! How fun is that! I’m excited about showing you their stuff!
Be sure to visit their blog on Tuesday for a blog hop!

This card is a combo challenge of the Featured Stamper on SCS, Darlene (another Ohio gal!), and our CCEE challenge with supplies sent to us by Cindy.

Isn’t he the cutest bear?! It’s a digital set called Leave Me Smiling. See the trail of ants through the leaves? I drew those in so my card would have bugs on it per Cindy!

  Cindy sent us the wonderful patterned paper, chipboard flowers, the adorable twill, yellow brads, and flower brad. I daubered distress inks onto the flowers, then stamped one of the sentiments from an acrylic set from Sweet ‘n Sassy, called, His Eye is on the Sparrow, several times.

The image is colored with Copics then I took my daubers with whatever ink was left in them and sponged round the bear.

Wednesday I’ll a fun card to show you, a new set from SNS!

If you’d like to see what the other girls did with their supplies or even play along with us, you can go to our blog.

Thanks for stopping by!! Hope your week is wonderful!

Dawn

A Sneak Peek

Officially I’m a Guest Designer for Our Daily Bread designs on Sept. 1st!! Excited? You bet! They’re a favorite of mine as you know! I’ve received my images for this release…so you’re getting an early peek!

Be sure to check in here Sept. 3rd, and the OBDD Blog because we have a fun challenge and give-away for you.

I’ve seen some samples that the girls have been doing…WoW! You’re gonna love them!

Enjoy your weekend and as always…thanks for stopping!

Dawn

The Magic of Paper and Copics

The need of a sympathy card and today’s Ways to Use It challenge on SCS …Very Vintage 

Several days ago I printed this digital image, Forget-Me-Not, from Sweet n’ Sassy not knowing I’d be needing it so soon.

Now, my title? Well, as you can see I started out coloring my flowers in stages of pinks…got them finished and thought about the NAME of the set and WHY I was making the card! I know, flowers can be any color you want them to be…but instead of starting all over I just colored over!

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I love how all the colors blended and “magically” became blue Forget-Me-Nots!

Now, since this was to be a vintage card, I had to dirty it up a bit. All the pieces were sponged with Distress inks, even the ribbon and green lace (so they weren’t so bright)! The ribbon looks “older” in real life with the sponging…honest!

The flower centers have Crackle Accents and Liquid Pearls and are popped up on a thick foam dimensional. 

The cool vintage ledger paper is from Mel’s blog, she’s got lots of freebie stuff!! It’s printed on white with just the edges sponged with Old Paper, Tea Dye, and Walnut Stain Distress inks.

stamps: forget-me-not digital- sweet n’ sassy paper: prism kraft, sunflowers med, georgia pacific white ink: old paper, tea dye, walnut stain distress-ranger other: copics r21-32, e04-55-30-53, yg21-91,y35-38, b12-23-24 , computer/printer, cuttlebug/embossing folder, spiral punch, spellbinders ribbon tag, anna griffin ribbon, prima lace, lace from my sewing stash, pearls, crackle accents-ranger, liquid pearls, top note, foam dimensional, glue dots, zip dry glue, dauber, craft knife, scissors

Thanks for stopping by today,
it’s been my pleasure showing you how I cover up boo-boo’s! tee hee

Dawn

Grandma Goes Overboard!

Don’t get worried…it’s not a headline!

This is my CCEE challenge card for today… (host Cindy Motherway's challenges based on the popular 60's song The Birds & The Bees.)

Let me tell ya about the Birds and the Bees
And the Flowers and the Trees
And the Moon Up Above
And a Name I Just Love!

Notice the last line she changed…this is our CNFS (catchy name featured stamper), Grandma Overboard on SCS.

I also combined it with SCS’s Technique challenge today, Painted Grid. I’d never done this before, it was fun! After coloring my image and masking, I took Magic Mesh and wrapped it around my brayer then rolled it in acrylic paint and rolled over my image. (first I did her top, then I masked the entire image… airbrushed the background and brayered)

 

The image is from Art Impressions…I just love these old gals! Paper from DCWV and I faux’d the layers with a Copic marker.

To see what grannies the other girls did, you can click here.

Thanks for stopping

Dawn

For The Love of Joanne and Lighthouses

My good friend Joanne (jojot) is Featured Stamper on SCS today! Congratulations Joanne!! If you think back to our Nova Scotia trip, I got to meet Joanne when we went through Connecticut!

I did 2 cards for the challenge…both of them I think just say “Joanne”.

We share a love of lighthouses and before we ever met face to face or talked on the phone, we discovered we had the same lighthouse in common! Nubble Light is her favorite (click on it to see the pics I took this summer)… she so generously sent me some stamped images after our trip, so I had to make a card! But…first…I made this one.

Joanne’s love of the ocean and travel are the theme for this card. It’s because of Joanne I had to buy this corner punch! She has made some awesome cards with it! Also when we met she gave me this border punch…such a sweetie!

The Impression Obsession image is colored with Copics, masked then airbrushed over a cloud template. The middle layer is from DCWV’s Travel stack and the red layers are all faux’d… white cardstock colored with a Copic.

And what’s an ocean scene without some sand from Mudd Puddles?

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I used a card Joanne had sent me along with the lighthouse images for my layout. How ironic that it is the same layout as the card I chose for the one above!

I flipped it and added my sentiment as another layer.

Colored with Copics and sponged with whatever blue was left on my dauber from a previous card. The sentiment is from Stampabilities.
Pattern paper is from DCWV Latte stack.

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I hope you have a wonderful day, thanks for stopping!

 

Cowboy Mounted Shooters...Fun Night!

We had a fun time last night watching cowboys and cowgirls run an obstacle course shooting balloons! You can read about the association here and see if there are any competitions in your area! It's good, free entertainment...and who knows, you just might get a ride afterwards!!
Thanks to the nice cowboy and his horses Jackpot & Smarty!

Cowboys and Snowmen

Somewhat of an odd combination? Not really...they're just what I happened to use for today's Sketch Challenge on SCS *wink*

I needed a "guy" birthday card for a friend today. I just love this little cowboy from Inky Antics.
It's colored with Copics. For his chaps I used the blender pen and dotted it around to remove the color and give them some texture.

The hay bale was repeatedly stamped then airbrushed. The "leather looking" strip? That's a piece of an old belt I ran through the Cuttlebug!
I "dirtied" everything up by sponging Frayed Burlap distress ink around the edges.

stamps:inky antics ink:tuxedo black-tsukineko, frayed burlap-ranger paper:gp white, prism kraft/nautical blue med other:copics, abs, foam dimensionals, cuttlebug/ef, martha stewart fence punch, sakura white gel pen

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This next card is a new Winter rubber stamp image from Janlynn. It's colored with Copics, masked and sponged with distress ink that was left on my dauber from a previous card... and Mudd Puddles Snow sand added under the snowman.

The sentiment is also a Stamps Happen image from Janlynn...I only inked up the the top portion of the greeting for this card, then used my white gel pen to highlight the word.

stamps: stamps happen/janlynn ink: tuxedo black-tsukineko, distress ink paper: gp white, deja view, dcwv, hollo's black other: copics, mudd puddles sand, sakura white gel pen, foam dimensionals, snowflake buttons-jesse james beads, cuttlebug/ef

Thanks for stopping!

A Get Well Wish and A New Look!

Notice the new look to my blog?! Too cool! Thanks to Amber for pointing me to Shabby Blogs. It’s so easy to do! (now I’m trying to figure how to get those cute dividers onto my page!)

A good friend of ours had a disagreement with a ladder last week…the ladder won! Poor Dave ended up with an ambulance ride, one of those halo thingys on his leg with pins in his ankle and another surgery this week to put plates on his shin. OUCH!

Being so busy with fair, today was the first chance I had to sit down and make the card I had in mind. The cute cowboy and sentiment are from Inky Antics. It’s colored with Copics, masked and then airbrushed.

The Technique Lovers Challenge on SCS today was Leafing Pen Resist. You take watercolor paper and a leafing pen (Krylon) and just have fun. I tried to make mine look like a barbed wire fence. Then you take Color Wash (or watercolors) and spritz over the paper. The leafing pen will resist the color! You can dab at the wet paper with a paper towel, spritz with water and/or just keep adding color until you have the desired look. (don’t mix too many though or you’ll just have a muddy look!)

I also used the Copper Krylon Leafing pen on the star brads.

Sending lots of prayers Dave’s way for a speedy recovery! 

Thanks for stopping!

Dawn

Always Shoot For The Moon…

Our CCEE challenges this month come from Cindy (Mothermark) who used the song lyrics, Let me tell you bout the birds and the bees (first challenge) and the flowers and the trees (second challenge) and the moon up above…today’s challenge! We had to have a “moon” on our card.

I wasn’t sure just which way I was going to go with this “moon” idea or what set I was going to use. But when I went upstairs to think about it, Melanie’s Inspiration Mosaic from GinaK was sitting there… still uncut, virgin rubber…*gasp*…I had to use it!!

· Inspiration Mosaic stamped in Black Soot Distress ink on Pure Luxury, embossed with clear ep
· Sentiment stamped in Black Soot, embossed with clear ep
· Moon is reverse masked (I cut a circle with my Spellbinders Nestie, placed the “hole” where I wanted the moon and colored with Copics, then I dtp’d Versamark and embossed with clear ep
· Sunflowers from Signs of Autumn, stamped and masked, stamped again, colored with Copics, then I went over them with a Versamarker and embossed with clear ep
· Broken China, Faded Jeans, Weathered Wood & Black Soot Distress ink was then sponged over the entire image
· Layered on glossy and Pure Luxury Green Apple

To see what the other girls did you can go to our CCEE blog.

Today is freezing…not weather-wise but putting up corn and broccoli.

Thanks for stopping!

Dawn

Champaign County 2009 4H Llama Show

Thanks to Linda Pohle for being our judge today!

Here is our Junior and Senior Showmanship.

The Junior and Senior Obstacle

We did a fun audience participation after the kids were done. Ten volunteers played "Musical Llama Rugs"! Nine carpet pieces, ten llamas...just like musical chairs except the llama had to have at least one front foot on the carpet when the music stopped! Too FUN!

This was on the front page of a local newspaper on Saturday!
You can read the article here

Today At The Fair…

One more day and we’re DONE!! Tomorrow is SHOW day!!

Here are some shots of more people feeding the llamas, again, young and old alike!

 

This little boy was so funny, every time he’d go to feed Freddie his little mouth would open until Freddie took the corn husk. LOL

This is Jennifer and her baby, Colton. She used to be in our club and now her son is learning  early about llamas!

Champaign County Fair 2009

Just a few shots while sitting at the fair.

A vendor across from us serves fresh corn on the cob and saves the husks for us. Boxes and boxes of husks!
People enjoy feeding them to the llamas.
I never tire of hearing the giggles of the kids,
old and young alike, as they feed them!

I Stamped!! and a Brush Class Sample

It’s been days since I’ve made a card! I was behind on my CCEE challenge and the SCS challenges to boot! So this is a combo of “birds & bees”, color, sketch and today’s WT, pleats!

I stamped Our Daily Bread’s, Sing to the Lord, and colored with Copics, then airbrushed with the Spellbinder’s die in place.

I stamped the bees from Artful INKables, Thought I’d Bug You, on a strip of white cardstock and sponged it with Distress Dried Marigold and Peeled Paint, then scored it on my Scor-pal for the pleats.

My flower was close to the colors of my colored flowers, but it still needed a little something. I took the same Copic, Sardonyx, around the edges of the petals, then I spritzed it alcohol. Copics are alcohol based so this let the color bleed some. I kept up this process until I was happy with the color!
For the extra leaves, I swiped Peeled Paint on cardstock, spritzed it with water and scrunched it up good, flattened it out and hurried the drying process with my heat tool! Doing this gave the leaves the same texture as the flower.

*Designer tip…here’s another good tip! To get your layers to match your colored image, use one of the same markers you colored with to go around the edges of your layering piece. (bird layered this way)

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Another Jessica Sprague class, Brush*Abilities Day 4, using Photoshop brushes. Today we made our own grunge frame with a brush added. It was really easy to do! I just need more time to be able to play around with it…yeah, how many times have I said that!!

I added some WordArt from Elegant WordArt too.

Well, I’m off to start canning beans………ugh! Jared is heading out to pull all the yellow wax beans which means while the canner is going I’ll be picking off the yellows and the process starts all over again! Remind me that in Winter I’ll be thankful I did this!

Thanks for stopping!

Dawn