Celebrate

I got out my alcohol inks to make this neat background. I really need to play with these more!!

Sweet Stampin' - Spots and Dots
Stamping Sensations - Fabulously Feminine

Girl stamp by Stampabilities
Sentiment by Ranger
Glitter by Ink on 3 Liquid Pixie Dust

Happy (heart) day!

Is it too early to work on a few Valentines? I don't think so!! I cut out this llama twice, once in white and once in black so he would stand out more :).

Cheerful Sketches - January sketch

Sentiment by Amuse Stamps
Llama die cut by Recollections

Congrats baby!

Stinkin Inkers - Its news to me
Sunday Stamps - Challenge #195
C.R.A.F.T. - New (Year, Baby, Job)

Stamp by Clearsnap
Sentiment by The Ton

Cards in Envy - It's All About the Numbers

For this week's challenge at Cards in Envy, it is "It's All About the Numbers".  Create a card featuring numbers, a birthday, date, 2019, etc. You can see the challenge here. All cards must fit into a standard size envelope for easy mailing. 

I made this for my mother-in-law this past year and sadly, she passed away on Thanksgiving Day. She was still living on her own and driving her car around. She will be missed by so many!!

Stamp by Art Impressions
Numbers by Heidi Swapp

I love you a whole sloth

Art Impressions - Pretty Pastels
Die Cutting Divas - January 2019

Stamps by Art Impressions
Dot Studs circle die cut by Gina Marie Designs
Colored with Copic markers

      

Happy Birthday to you sloth-style

I love this sloth stamp. I found him at Hobby Lobby and used a 40% coupon on him. I added a little hat to him so he would be more of a birthday sloth :). I got out my Happy Birthday to you die cut and ran it through my Big Kick twice, once in black and once in white and joined the 2 together so you could see it better. I used my Liquid Tombow mono glue to hold them together. Liquid glue works great for these thin letters and it stays put. Then as I was trying to fit the sentiment on there, it would barely fit so i cut between the "birthday" and "to" and make it 2 lines and it fit perfectly. I watercolored him with my Jane Davenport watercolor paints. I added a little glitter to his hat by using a Gelly roll glitter pen

Die Cutting Divas - January 2019 Sketch

Sloth stamp by Momenta
Little hat by Amuse Studio
Circle die cut by Memory Box
Happy Birthday die cut by Memory Box (I think)
Cardstock by The Paper Studio

If flowers were hugs, I'd send you a thousand

This stamp set by Stampin Up is called Abstract Impressions and I have been using this set a lot using different color inks to make the petals. I saw a you tube video that showed how you can stamp the one solid flower off your page two times before you stamp onto your cardstock so  you get a much lighter impression. Then with the 2nd stamp, you stamp that off your page once before stamping that onto the other flower. Lastly, stamp the 3rd stamp directly onto the flower as that gives it an even darker look. That way, you don't have to stamp each flower using 3 different colors. I love this look!!

Atlantic Hearts - Sketch 297

Stamps by Stampin Up Abstract Impressions
Inks by Tim Holtz Oxides