Rubbernecker challenge - make it old, respect the age

The current challenge over at Rubbernecker Stamp's Inspiration and Challenge Blog is to make it old, respect the age. I have this great Graphics 45 paper in my paper stash of old sports ads, and I have this "Vintage Golfer" from Stampabilities of an old golfer. Don't you just love a golfer in knickers?
I am not sure of who makes this sentiment. I forgot to label my storage box with that information.

Check out this challenge over at the Rubbernecker blog site HERE.

CCEE1730

CCEE1730 - Walk on Stilts Day

Create a tall thin card with any theme to celebrate walk on stilts day.
  Maryann Einam is our hostess this week.

My card was made with a Power Poppy digital. The wonderful thing about digital images are the ways they can be sized and placed on your card.  The peonies were colored with copic markers. 

Hope you can play along with us this week. Just link your card over on the cceestampers blog site that can be found here.  Just use CCEE1730 as your keyword over on SCS. 

CCEE1729 Space Exploration challenge

CCEE1729 - Moon and Space Exploration Day

 Another day on the days of the year Calendar is Moon and Space Exploration day, use this theme to inspire your card. Thanks, Maryann for this fun challenge.  I did a little more experimenting with my Distress Oxide inks after Googling some space pictures and I thought I might get that effect from these inks if I did them on dark cardstock. Here is my attempt:

I was lucky enough to grow up in the 60's when space exploration and the race to the moon was the driving force between the US and Russia to see who would be first. We were a very proud nation when 48 years ago today this was the headline of the day: 

July 20, 1969: One Giant Leap For Mankind

Christmas in July cards

Today's colors on the Color Challenge at SCS are perfect for some other Christmas in July challenges I have wanted to do.  So I am entering this into the Dragon Journey's challenge this week as well.
This is my favorite technique for adding color to the background, and it gives me additional uses for my huge collection of embossing folders in my stamproom. I simply rubbed the Distress inks (mowed lawn and old barn) onto the inside of my embossing folder. Then I spritz it with water and close up my paper on the inside and press down. It's not always an exact look and I like leaving some spaces clear of ink. I added some diecut pine needles to it, and stamped the car (Unity stamps) on a different piece of paper.I colored it with my copic markers and added silver metallic ink to the hub caps and fender and chrome on the car.  I cut it out and popped it up over the pine needles. I added this sentiment from Sizzix in versafine black. Loved the vividness of the colors I acheived with the distress ink. They are now my "go to" ink pads. Happy Stampin' this week!!

Thanks, for Dragon Journey's for selecting this card as their winning princess card this week. I am very honored.

In the pink challenge 122

Here's another card made with my new Unity stamps from my grab bag I received from them. I just love this image. When I checked on the "in the pink" challenge this week, I found it to be one for specal ocassions. Well, every day is worthy of celebrating for some great thing that happened, so don't overlook the blessings tucked into each day. And I can think of no better way to celebrate an event but in pink sneakers. I used these perfectly wonderful scraps from my fabulous pink scrap bag, and added the gems just for the extra bling for celebration. The image is actually stamped onto a piece of design paper that I went back and colored the white parts with a white galaxy pen. I even colored over the leaves so that the green marker would not be a distorted colored because of the paper. Hope you find the special ocassion of this day for yourself!! Just being YOU is worth the celebration.

CTD451

This is for the Color Throwdown Challenge #451. Fun colors for summer. Had fun using my new stamps I got in my Unity Grab bag this week.  The shoes are paper pieced, which I stamped on a pink piece of design paper. I made the background with Distress Oside inks.

Power Poppy's Power and Spark July challenge

The power and spark challenge for July is to copy a bloomie. I went to Cindy Lawrence's blog and found this gorgeous card to case:

and here's my card that I made from the inspiration of this pretty card:
                                                     

I used a different digital image and sentiment. I added stars instead of twine, and added a little more color to the image. 

CCEE1728

According to the days of the year Calendar, today is international Rock Day - use the colors of stone ( greys, browns, black, white etc..) for your card.

I did some reverse embossing on this card, some sponging, and made use of diecuts. The scripture from Psalms refers to God as "the ROCK of my STRENGTH."   

Join us in this week's challenge over at the CCEE blog and check out all the cards for the team while you are there. 

Mod Squad Challenge

This card I made for the Mod Squad Challenge this week making the sentiment the focal point of the card. I love using up my scraps left over from previous projects and usually bag them according to color. The stamps are from Unity.e

Vintage or Newspaper Rubbernecker challenge #13

I love this vintage image that I bought at a scrapbooking convention here in Houston a few years ago.  I thought it perfect for this fun challenge. I also used oxide inks to sponge onto the edges, I stamped the image with versafine black. I had this great strip of Graphics 45 design paper to add to the mix.

Check out the challenge HERE.

TT351 and CC643

I try to make my Christmas cards all during the year because I don't like making the same cards and I can fit them into different challenges, which helps with motivation and ideas. This one I have done form the Color Challenge on Splitcoaststampers of olive, brown, and gold. I also used this for the Tuesday Throwdown challenge to make a one layer card. I am all about one layer cards when it comes to cards that will go in the mail. Since all of my Christmas cards go in the mail, this will fit perfectly into the stash I have going.

I used Sizzix diecut and then stenciled with the negative part of the die with the olive ink. Then I stamped the deer (Unity), added some gold stamped dots with gold metallic ink, and added the versafine black sentiment (not sure of source). I added gold sequins as my only embellishment.

Cards for the Unity challenge using flowers

These were my inspiration cards for the Unity challenge this week. The cake was a new stamp I received yesterday from my latest order fro Unity. I loved my grab bag I ordered too. I was so pleased that I did not have any duplicates of stamps I already had. And one of the stamps was a "Texas Forever " stamp. It is like they must have handpicked these just for me, a Texan girl. LOL

My love for Unity stamps continues to grow as does my collection of their stamps. 

Check them out if you haven't already. HERE

CCEE1727 masks

Hi Everyone,
Welcome to another month of  challenges. It's Maryann as our hostess for the month.
Hope you have fun with the challenges.

Create a card using a mask, whether it is using a masking technique of a stamped image of a mask.

I could not find any stamp I had that had a mask on it. So, I did the reverse masking technique and masking technique on this. The sun is a reverse masking process, and then I masked the bird to sponge the sky. I used a Unity stamp for the bird, a Verve stamp for the quote from Ann Lamott, and distress inks and distress oxide inks.

Keep my sister, Lynn in your prayers this week. She had a serious fall this week and is recovering. That is why she is not participating in the challenge this week.  May God cover you, Lynn, with His grace and His mercies as you heal. Hope you are better soon.

Power Poppy's Hues to Use Challenge

This is for the new fun challenge over at Power Poppy's blog . Something about a red rose speaks All American to me. I made a stencil with the stars by punching out stars from a scrap of paper. Then I sponged  faded jeans Distress Oxide ink into the stars. I used my copics to color this wonderful digital from Power Poppy. I didn't seem to find any red, white, and blue ribbon in my stamproom, but I found this fabulous wide red and white stripe. It just seem to be the finishing touch.

SC652 and City Crafter Ch. 369

I did this card for the Sketch Challenge #652 on Splitcoaststampers, and I also did it for the
City Crafter Challenge #369 to use black and white. We are always in need of sympathy cards for our care team at the church, so I am trying to get some done to share with the others on the team.
I used an Inkadinkado stamp set for this one and the sentiment is from Stampin' Up. I embossed the larger white panel, and used black and white design paper for one of the long panels.

Two new challenges I am trying

I have a nice quiet day today, so I am using the day to make encouragement cards for my Care Team at church. How excited I was to find a couple of new challenges over on Paper Playful's sight to try as my motivation today. I first ran across the Calling all sistah's challenge 02 which is to make an encouragement card using the challenge colors. This challenge can be found here. http://callingallsistahs.blogspot.ca/

I also found the CAS watercolor challenge to use a butterfly. Here's the link:  CAS Watercolor challenge for July.

The stamps I used are from Unity Stamps, I used Distressed Oxide inks from Ranger for my inks and for watercoloring. I stamped the butterfly in versafine black.

I plan to give these to the ladies who serve on the care team with me, so they can send them out to those they call on to send encouraging words to those who are going through a tough time now.

Happy July to you all.

Look what this card acheived!! I am so honored!