Coastal Cabana Holiday

My card today is for the last HYCCT challenge"Another year in the books" I can't believe October is already over, where did it go? The challenge was to create a card inspired by a childhood book. Since I didn't have any "Pooh" stamps, I chose a Laura Ingals Wilder book, Little house in the big woods. I loved the books and the series that was inspired by them little house on the prairie. 

To make y card I started with a piece of watercolor paper and masked off the bottom, that would be my "snow". I mixed some Coastal Cabana Re inker, one of my favorite Stampin Up colors with some alcohol to make my own spritz and spritzed my watercolor paper with it. I removed the mask and stamped a tree from the set Festival Of Trees several times, some using the entire tree and others only using a portion of it.  I added a house  and greeting form the Holiday Home set  to finish it off.

 I am entering this one in the challenge at Less is More, non traditional christmas card.

Supply List:

Stamp Sets: Holiday Home, Festival of Trees, (Stampin Up)

Dies: Homemade Holiday Framelits  (Stampin Up)

Hello Friend

I am also sharing this one on the Sweet 'n Sassy Blog

Today I am playing with this cute vintage set,  Keep In Touch. I love this vintage typewriter and I found the perfect design paper to go with it from My Minds Eye.

To make my card I started out with a Pool Party base cut to A2 size, next I added the quotation design paper cut to 4 x 5 1/4. The next step was to add my 2" strip across my card. I then stamped the typewriter in Pool Party on a scrap sheet of paper and on my stitched circle.  Next I stamped my greeting on a small piece of paper to fit the typewriter, curled it a bit, then glued it down, I then used the coordinating die to cut the one I stamped on my scrap paper, and placed it on top of the other for dimension and this makes it look as though my paper is feeding out of the typewriter.

I also made  this one for one of the HYCCT Challenges on Splitcoast Stampers. The challenge is "keep In Touch"  fitting huh?

Supply List:

Stamp Set: Keep In Touch (Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps)

Die: Keep In Touch Die Set (Sweet n' Sassy Stamps

Stitched circle (Lil Inker)

DSP: My Minds Eye

Blissful Butterflies

Catching up on my HYCCT challenges, this one is for the challenge Hope Soars- cards inspired by things that take off, butterflies, birds, plaines etc.

I am also entering this one in a couple more challenges, I used the current sketch from Freshly Made Sketches

I also used the colors from Color Me (Team Hayley)

Basic Grey, Blackberry bliss and Garden Green

Supply List:

Stamp Set: kinda Eclectic (Stampin Up)

Die: Stitched circle mat (Lil Inker)

DSP: Stampin Up

Punches: Elegant Butterfly, Bitty Butterfly (Stampin Up)

One Layer Wonder

My card share today is another one made for the HYCCT challenges at Splitcoast Stampers.  The challenge is Soft and Cozy - use something soft on your card, so I used felt for the small feather. 

I am also entering this one in CAS on Sunday's challenge of One Layer Wonder. 

Supply List:

Stamp Set: DIY (Precious Remembrance), Four Feathers (Stampin Up)

Die: Feather Framelit (Stampin Up)

Stencil

Pretty Pink Balloons

Sharing some Paper Smooches on this card I made for one of the Hope You Can Cling To Challenges at Splitcoast Stampers. The challenge is Pretty Pink Balloons. 

I am also entering this one in the vellum challenge at Addicted to CAS since I used vellum on two of my balloons

Supply List:

Stamp set: Pretty Phrases (Paper Smooches)

Die: Balloon dies (Paper Smooches)

Design paper: Lawn Fawn

Vellum

Journal pen

Candy!

Playing along with this weeks  CASology challenge 

Supply List:

Stamp Set:  A Pocketful- Valentine (Wplus9), Gorgeous Grunge (Stampin Up)

Die: Love Notes (Wplus9)

Three

Another one for the HYCCT challenges at Splitcoast Stampers for the challenge of "Heart Song"

Use music, Birds, hearts or encouraging words on your card. 

I am also entering this one in the Keep It Simple challenge 

To make my card I started with an A2 sized white base and stamped the three cute birds on a limb. I made my clouds with my copic marker, added the Polaroid frame around them to finish my card.

Supply List:

Stamp Set: Winter Sparrow (Lawn Fawn)

Die: Instant Camera Die (Lil Inkers)

Copic markers 

True friend

If you are looking for my Halloween Inspiration post please scroll down 

Playing catch up on my Hope you Can Cling Tp challenges at Splitcoast Stampers. This one is for the challenge "Chicks Stick Toghter" a friendship challenge. I am also entering this one in his week's  CASology

Supply List:

Stamp Sets: Stippled Blossoms, Gorgeous Grunge

Let Your Hair Down -Hostess- (All Stampin Up)

Cardstock: Pool Party

Inks: Coastal Cabana, island Indigo 

Side By Side

I made this one for another one of the Hope You Can Cling To challenges at Splitcoast Stampers, The challenge is "Side by Side" to have two elements on your card beside each other and to use both pink and purple.  I also used a technique I learn in my OCC copic class, I had no idea you could use copic refills to color your embossing paste and that is what I did on my card I used some E43. 
I used this weeks CAS(E) This Sketch

Addicted To CAS- Stencil

I am also  entering this one in two of the Anything Goes Challenges 

Loves Rubberstamps 

and 

Papertake Weekly

Supply List: Stamps: Beautiful Brushstrokes kit (Papertrey Ink) Dies: Beautiful Brushstrokes kit, Circle Scribbles (Papertrey Ink) Greeting: Fresh Cut Florals (Wplus9) Embossing paste Copic Refill

It's A Good Day To be Happy

I am playing catch up with the Hope You Can Cling To challenges at Splitcoast stampers.  I made this one for the challenge of "Hope Floats"  to use something that floats on your card with an encouraging greeting. This set from Mama Elephant was perfect. 

I also used some techniques I learned in my OCC colic class of backgrounds. I actually used Copic markers to make my cloud background instead of sponging. For the patterns on my balloons I used a white Signo pen

Supply List:

Stamp Set: Up & Away (Mama Elephant)

Die: Index Card (Mama Elephant)

Hope You Can Cling To

Yesterday started a month long challenge that is dear to me Hope You Can Cling To on Splitcoast Stampers. It is where for the month of October you make cards for the challenges but at the end of the month you send your cards to breast cancer patients at M.D. Anderson in Texas. I lost my Mom to breast cancer when I was young, as well as some friends. There are lots of prizes to be had so please come play along. 

This one was made for Lydia's challenge "You Raise Me Up" using the Paper Tole technique, I raised my dogs snout and nose to make him look 3D.

I am also entering this one in the challenge at Addicted To CAS

*Warning you will be seeing a lot of Pink on my blog this month*

Supply List:

Stamp: Lawn Fawn (from my OCC class)

Tag Die: Stitched Dou 1 (Pretty Pink Posh)

Hello die:  (Mama Elephant)

Sequins (Pretty Pink Posh)