Dad's Birthday

Well this should be it for tonight. You know how I like a great challenge or three. Lol.  This card uses no stamps which was the challenge on the Less is More blog tonight #338.

I also wanted to play with the My Favorite Things sketch #342 and color #73 challenges.  Also I wanted to enter this in The Simon Says Stamp "You've Got the Edge" challenge.

My card started with a soft grey base. I cut out the collar point and used a Cutter Bee tool to make the dashed lines to look like stitching. The tie is paper pieced with teal and coral cardstock. I then cut the happy from the same teal cardstock and birthday out of white cardstock. Then backed it with black cardstock. Thanks for stopping by, Sue.

Seasons Blessings

Hey all, a quick little Christmas card for you with a very sparkly tree.  I started with some white cardstock. I die cut the tree shape with Papertrey Inks Christmas tree change up die. Then stamped the greeting from Stampin Up in Versamark and heat embossed it in silver. Backed the tree with window film and made a shaker pocket with Scotch foam tape. Filled it with silver stars and glass beads. Closed the shaker with DCWV glitter paper. Mounted the panel on an A2 white card base. 

This will be entered in the CAS-ual Friday's  Christmas in July and the Simon Says Stamp Work it Wednesday sparkle challenge.

Thanks for stopping by, Sue.

Birthday Wishes: Wheels

Playing with a few challenges on this perfect

summer evening. 

Addicted to CAS #116 was a challenge with wheels and the Make it Monday #292 challenge was to use color blocking in the background. 

I started with a piece of Strathmore watercolor paper. I inked a clear stamp block with PTI mint julep, tropical teal and stormy sea inks. Misted it with water and pressed the block onto the watercolor paper. It did not blend really well so I took a water brush and tried to move the color a little more. I then dried it with my heat tool and stamped the bicycle from Hero Arts and the greeting in Smokey shadow ink.  Greeting is from the set Ways to Say: birthday from PTI.  Finally I mounted it on a A2 white card base.

Thanks for stopping by, Sue.

Party Time

Hello, Ellen Hutson is having a July Pin-Sights challenge with this picture as our inspiration.

Now that just screams fun. So my card has a party hat complements if Tim Holtz colored with Prisma colored pencils and a Papertrey Ink shaker filled with glass beads and tiny butterfly pink sequins to give the receiver a big party type smile.

Papers are from a Basic Gray Urban Praire pad. 

Thanks for stopping by, Sue.

Christmas in July

Hey there, This will be my first Christmas card of the year.  I am still trying to perfect the watercolor techniques with Distress Ink.  This was all stamped on Canon watercolor paper.

I stamped the Beautiful Blessings:Holiday greeting in waterproof black ink then again just below it with Vesamark ink. Clear embossed it for a drop shadow effect. This was for the PTI Make-it-Monday #291 resist shadow challenge.  I used red and green Distress Ink to watercolor over the greeting creating a diagonal line for the Reverse Confetti #50 sketch challenge. I did cut the rectangle panel with  Spellbinding die and popped it up with some foam tape. To enforce the diagonal line I stamped the SU bayberry sprigs in white ink and embossed them. Lastly I am entering this in the CAS-ual Friday's CFC#178 Chistmas in July challenge. Thanks for stopping by, Sue.

Clean and Simple HB

Hi again, Tonight I thought I might try a sketch challenge at Freshly Made Sketches.

The sketch was picked by the "clean team" so I tried to make my card as clean as possible.  Started with a 4.25" square card. Impressed 2 Spellbinders dies at an angle and die cut PTI candles in the center of the squares. I backed the candles with an old Stampin Up background paper. Flames with yellow cardstock and glossy affects with glitter. 

Lastly I cut a banner and stamped a PTI birthday greeting in orange and mounted it with foam tape.

Thanks for stopping by, Sue.

Sparkle and Shine

Hello, I had a bunch of leftover card pieces on my desk and wanted to put them together. I will enter this on the Simon Say Stamp Work it Wednesday challenge for July. We were to "bling it up".

I used watercolor paper and Distress Ink for the background. Die cut and layered several white cardstock "shine" together to give it thickness then glittered it.  I die cut the "BRIGHT" from mirrors cardstock. Added some glitter dots and some drops of Glossy Accents across the panel. Last I mounted it to a light gray A2 card. Thanks for stopping by!