It's All About the Boys for Challenge #55 today

 For today's inspiration post in the There's A Stamp for That Facebook group, I chose to focus on the boys prompt.    I have been wanting to play with this die set and so I dug it out, cut out the monitor and then created a Nintendo controller which you will notice is totally absent from the card! I had an idea in mind and when I was part way through I realized it wouldn't work the way I wanted it to so I changed directions and created the switch controller instead. I then coloured up this cute guy  from a Sweet Sentiments stamps set with my markers.  I stuck to my favourite red combo - R59/29/24 and blue - B29/26/24/21.

To assemble, I stamped the Happy Birthday directly on the card base and  I added vellum to the monitor to make it look realistic.  I did the same with the Game On! and the screen on the controller.  Those little stamps are very finicky!  Then I assembled it all.  

I have to confess that I don't know the name of the die set or the stamp set.  I have had the die for a loooong time and the stamp set doesn't have the name of the stamp sheet and is no longer on the Sweet Sentiment website.  I will keep looking for the details.  The Game On was stamped with a tiny letter set I got from the dollar store years ago.  The Happy Birthday is from the  Yay! Birthday Bundle from Hero Arts.

Happy Crafting!

TASFT Challenge #55 and Monthly Fairy Challenge

 

Danni has declared it Fairy February so I needed to get in on this challenge! The latest bi-weekly challenge has boys so my goal was to cover both with this card! 

This card is filled with Kraftin' Kimmie goodness.  The house is from the Fairy Village! set, the fairies are from the Fairy Folk! set and sentiment is from the Life is a Joy! set. 

How I made this card: 

I stamped the house first and then I coloured in the sky. I used alcohol on a piece of fluffy material to mottle the blue sky.  I then coloured in the grass.  Next I coloured the fairy house and fairies. I fussy cut the fairies. I then added the sentiment to the background and popped the fairies up with some foam tape and added them to the card.  Last but not least, I used a glitter Jelly Roll pen to colour the wings and added trios of the pen throughout the sky to look like fairy dust! 

What I used:

    Stamps: Kraftin' Kimmie Fairy Village!, Fairy Folks!, and Life is a Joy!

    Ink: Memento Tuxedo black ink

    Copics:

        Sky: BG000

        Grass: G99, YG67, YG63

         Stump: E29/27/25/23/21

        Window: Y11

        Door: E49, R59/29/24

        Moss: YG17/25/11

        Mushrooms:  R59/29/24 and W3/1/0

        Girl Fairy Dress: R29/24/20

        Boy Fairy Clothes: R59/29/24

        Skin: E04/11/21/02/00 and a kiss of R20 on the cheeks

  Other products:  alcohol, sherpa fabric swatch, Jelly Roll Glitter pen

Happy Crafting!

Birthday Wishes

 One of the crafting groups that I am a member of is the Creative Scrapbooker VIP (Village of Inspired People) group.  They sponsor monthly crops and different events within the group each month.  For a nominal monthly free, you can participate in all the events.  

One of the items they have is an Angel VIP birthday card project.  You can add your name to the group to receive cards and you can send cards to anyone on the list.  It is a fun thing to do as well as receive and is completely optional.  

Well, I cannot believe the beautiful birthday cards I received! They started arriving a few weeks ago and I set them all aside to open this morning.  Wow, talk about beautiful.

Here is the stack of them!

Here are the beautiful cards:

They are all now on the fireplace mantel where I can enjoy them.

If you are interested in the VIP group, details can be found here.

Happy Crafting!

It has been too long!

 Wow, I can't believe I haven't posted since January 23rd!  I was sick for a bit and that really wiped me out for a bit. I am now back at it!

I am finding that there are soooo many events happening in the first quarter.  I did some Cricut courses virtually and some courses about turning your crafting into a business.  There is a card making summit coming up in the next few weeks and more.  Wow, I never realized that there were soooo many events.

Here are some pictures of some cards that I did in the past few weeks.  One of the things that I did while sick was make a list of the classes and projects I have that need finishing and I my goal is to work through them all this year!

I started with the Crop and Create Fall 2022 Cardmaking event.  I had some classes that I wanted to get done...before the next Crop and Create in March! I am happy to say I finished them up this week.  I used the cute balloon ones for one of the challenges on the There's A Stamp for That facebook group.

I have also been busy with my Mixed Media classes.  We have had 1 session where we play with our supplies and then 3 classes.  Here are my creations:

Here we used resist and scribble crayons to colour around the circle.  I stamped the butterflies on some paper from our kit and then fussy cut them out.  We added texture and ink with stamps to the background before adhering the butterflies.  I really like how this turned out. These classes are all about going outside of my comfort zone and trying new things.  I did make a mess when I tried to stamp the sentiment across the 2 pages but a few layers of gesso, some white paint and scribble crayons hid my booboo!  

Playing with texture and colours I typically wouldn't use and adding outlines to see how the mediums work.  We used stencils in this class for the shapes and some rice paper sayings for the sentiments.  I added the heart stamp to balance out the page.

A single page layout! We used a heart stencil and stencilled with iridescent medium (think shiny), acrylic paints and then finally scribble sticks (faint hearts in background).  The saying is a rice paper sentiment. 

I think that is it! Crafting is a great way to spend the evenings and weekends during the winter.

Happy Crafting!