Nursery Deco cards for Less is More challenge

Hello! Happy Tuesday! Yay for short work weeks! Friday being Good Friday and Monday being Easter Monday makes for a lovely long weekend of crafting hopefully:)

I decided that this week I'm going to participate in new blog challenges I haven't before, one's I've seen and like but haven't participated in. I hope I can stick to this plan as I still haven't finished those wedding invitations I mentioned in my last post, ugh.

Today I am playing along with the "Less is More" challenge blog. This is a challenge blog for clean and simple card designs which I adore so I had to start playing along.

This weeks challenge is to combine any three previous challenges into one creation. I have used week 59-Masking, week 68-Baby or child, week 215-Include an animal.

I decided to make some baby cards because my nursing partner at work is expecting, and does not know what she is having yet so I just made a boy and girl version, I'm sure I will be able to use the other eventually.

I did a lot of masking on these cards as I wanted to keep them one layer(minus the gems & pearls). I  started with 120lb card stock from SSS. I stamped my little scene from the Nursery Deco stamp set from Mama Elephant on both the card stock and some scrap paper so I can create masks for each image. I colored my images in using Copic markers and at this point covered them with my mask to protect the coloring and then blended some color onto the background (It's not very noticeable on the boy card but its a light blue color). I removed my masks, stamped my sentiments, adhered this panel onto a card base and added some cute pearls.

Copics used:

BG01 B00 B97 B93 R35 Y13 YG63 E55 E57 E53 C3 colorless blender

This card was done the same way of course just using some sweet girly colors instead and some gems:)

Copics used:

E53 E57 E59 E31 E33 C3 BV00 BV000 colorless blender

Hope you enjoyed my CAS baby cards! I think they ended up really cute:) Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies not mentioned below:
Pistachio Pudding card stock from Stampin up
Pretty in Pink ink from Stampin up
Bashful Blue ink from Stampin up

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"Workout" stamp set from Simon Says Stamp

Hi there! Happy Friday!! Yay

Hope your week has gone well & you're finding time to craft. I am currently working on wedding invites for someone so I am crafting but not for myself lol, that's ok I hope be done them by the end of the weekend:)

Here to share a couple of cards I made using the Work Out stamp set from Simon Says Stamp from the Hop To It collection. I loved this set when they released it. It just reminded me of me. I enjoy working out and like yoga, I also have friends I work out with sometimes, so I was drawn to it. I usually try and justify the stamp sets I purchase, make sure I can use them to make cards for others. I couldn't figure how I would use this one but I just purchased it anyways because I love the images. The sentiments are so encouraging so it inspired me to make some encouragement cards & I like the way they turned out:)

I will also be playing along with the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge blog today - Its Anything Goes!!

This card I started with pink pirouette cardstock as my card base and used some scrap pattern papers  in my background. I stamped my image on some white cardstock and colored in with Copic markers, and fussy cut it out.

I adhered it on to the circle I cut out and stamped with a Hero Arts background. 

I also stamped this image on separate white cardstock, colored with Copic markers and fussy cut it out. I embossed some Fog cardstock with a chevron embossing folder in my Cuddlebug,as my background. I cut out a frame using my paper trimmer from some Mint cardstock. I adhered my sentiment behind my image and adhered them both on to my card base.

Supplies that are not listed below:

Work Out stamp set from Simon Says Stamp

Pink Pirouette cardstock from Stampin Up

Crumb Cake Cardstock from Stampin up

Copic markers used:

E00 E11 R20 E53 E55 E57 E59 RV02 RV04 G00 G000 C1 C3 BV000 BV00 B000

Lawnscaping Distress Addicts Challenge

Hello again!!

I'm stopping in to share another card I made for the Distress Addicts challenge for Lawnscaping.

I had already made a card for this challenge but wanted to make one that had a more all around distressy look, if that makes any sense. So I  created this one.

I started off with some crumb cake cardstock as my card base, then used some sticky back canvas to do my stamping on. I haven't used this stuff forever but thought it would be perfect for this look. So you can cut out a perfect shape of this stuff if you prefer but I like to make just a little cut with my scissors and then tear the rest by hand to get that sort frayed look around the edges of the canvas. I stamped directly on the canvas and colored in with Copics. I had to sort of pounce my marker to color the images so blending more than one color wasn't really an option on this sort of material.
I took my scissors to fray the edges around the card and sponged on some Frayed Burlap Distress ink around the edges of both the canvas and the paper to finish the distressy look.

Thanks for stopping by to see my card!

Clean & Simple elephant card featuring Wplus9

Hi Crafty Friends!

So there has been a stamp set I've been in love with but every time I went to order it it was sold out, I finally received it about a week or so ago and wanted to share a card I made using it with you.

It is the Unforgettable stamp set from Wplus9. Its so very cute. I have made 2 cards so far with set but I have another in mind so I hope you don't get tired of me using it :p

I'm sharing the clean and simple one today.

I used 120lb white cardstock from SSS as my main piece. I stamped my cute little elephant on  it and also on a scrap piece to be able to cut out and use as a mask. I used a negative of a circle cut out to mask off the rest of my card and masking my elephant as well, I sponged some bashful blue ink as my sky and some lucky limeade as my grass. Once I removed my masks I stamped by lovely sentiment with black onyx ink and added some little gems to give it the finishing touch.
Hope you enjoy this cute little elephant as much as I do!! Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies:

Unforgettable stamp set by Wplus9

120lb cardstock by Simon Says Stamp

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink

Bashful blue ink from Stampin Up

Lucky Limeade by Stampin Up

Pool Party by Stampin Up

Old Olive Ink by Stampin Up

Copics used:

C1 C3 R20

The Card Concept Cupcake challenge

Hello!

Happy Monday! Hope you all had a lovely weekend!

I was personally hoping to get more crafting and blogging in but sadly my power was out most of Saturday, the weather wasn't even that bad, I don't get it! Oh well, I did manage to create this cupcake card for The Card Concept Challenge.

The yummy looking cupcakes in their photo inspired my card. I also really wanted to use this set from Mama Elephant that I have had for a bit and have yet to use it till now. I believe my card would fit into the clean and graphic category for this challenge.

I used pistachio pudding cardstock as my card base and then white cardstock to create my subtle background with a chevron stencil and some pool party ink. I stamped my cupcakes on separate white cardsctock (120lb from SSS) colored them in with Copic markers and then cut them out to adhere onto my card. I stamped both sentiments with Versa Mark ink and heat embossed with black and gold embossing powder. I covered my cupcake tops with some Wink of Stella glitter pen but sadly it doesn't show up well in the photo. To finish it off I added some random silver sequins.

Hope you enjoyed my cupcake card! Thank you so much for stopping by!:)

Copics used:

RV02 RV04 G00 G000 V06 V12 C1 C3

Supplies that are not listed below:

Pistachio Pudding cardstock from Stampin up

Crumb Cake ink by Stampin up

Wisteria Wonder ink by Stampin up 

Distress Addicts Lawnscaping challenge

Hello again!

Here to play along with the Distress Addicts Lawnscaping challenge today.

I love playing with my Distress inks so this was a fun one for me. Although I ended up making sort of a clean simple card.

I started with a white card base and masked off sides just using painters tape. I then sponged on 3 different colored distress inks randomly within that masked area. I colored my cute doggy images on a seperate white cardstock with Copic markers and then fussy cut out. I colored these in just using one marker colored ink and then sponged some distress ink on them around the edges. I added some butterfly's and my sentiment and that finishes my card:)

Thanks so much for stopping by!

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