Prepared to be Scared!

Hey Stampers!  Happy Wednesday!  I am back today with another card featuring this adorable stamp set, Cool Ghoul, from The Project Bin.  I wanted the card to look like ghosts were floating across and around on the card.   I used the dies that come with this set to cut out several different ghosts using sheets from last years Boos & Crews from Doodlebug Designs. I also stamped one of each of the ghost images from the set on solid card stock that I had in my stash that I thought would go well with the colors in the patterned ghosts.  The bigger ghost cut from the purple card stock is on an action wobbler.  I stamped the word boo several times and the main sentiment "be prepared to be scared" in Simon Says Intense Black Ink.  I added some Doodlebug Sparkle Sprinkles in Lime Green and Orange.  I am loving this stamp set and know I will make  a lot of cards with it. 

So that is my card for today.  I hope you liked and will visit The Project Bin to check out this set and many more amazing sets.  Thank you for stopping by. 

Come and create something with me

Andi

Scent with Love

Happy Stampers!  Its a HeartCraft Paper double header weekend.  Today I am bringing another "love" card.  My card today features Scent with Love.  I love Peonies.  They are one of my favorite flowers.  Growing up my Grandma had a ton of Peony bushes and I was always enthralled when they started to bud and then bloom.

I printed and colored the Peony three times.I used R05, R27, and R29 for the blooms.  The leaves I colored with G14, G21, and G24. I fussy cut them out and arranged them in a tight bouquet.  For the sentiment, I didn't want it to be so stark white.  I used my finger dauber and Vintage Photo Distress Oxide ink to create a stressed looking sentiment.  My card base is green shimmer card stock from my stash.  I added some small dew drops to the blooms and used Prickly Pear Pearl Nuvo Drops in the corner and under the sentiment piece.  I used my corner rounder to round the  corners of my card and viola it is ready to be Scent with Love.( Did you see what I did there.  lol)

So that is my card for today.  I hope  you liked and will check out Heartcraft Paper for this stamp and more awesome products.  Also you still have time to enter the Anything Goes #2, top three entries win.  Thank you for stopping by.

Come and create something with me!

Andi

Love on the Brain

Hey Stampers!  Happy Saturday!  Thanks for dropping in to check out my project today.  I am showcasing more fantastics goodies from HeartCraft Paper.  I am using the new Love script SVG as well as the Loving Flowers from last month's release. 

The first thing I did was cut the "love" six times from white card stock.  Once it was all cut, I glued all the pieces together to make it a heaver sentiment.  I took a finger dauber and covered the word with Worn Lipstick and then edged it a little with Picked Raspberry.  I will note that I let it dry overnight before I added the ink. 

I cut the Loving Flowers from Doll Pink card stock I cut the outline piece because initially I wanted to make a shaker card but after trying a couple of different things, I decided I had to change my plan.

I added a piece of acetate to back of the heart piece after I adhered the word "Love" off center on the heart.  I wanted some kind of bling behind the openings of the heart so I found some of my specialty glitter card stock from Crafter's Companion.  I traced and cut out a heart to adhere behind my Loving Flowers.  Now you might notice in the photo that the glitter paper is two toned.  The paper did NOT come this way.  This happened because I used Glossy Accents to glue the Loving Flowers piece to the glitter card stock.  Apparently when the glossy accents dried, it made the glitter look two toned and in real life it looks amazing.  My Loving Flowers piece was about 5 x 5, so it wouldn't fit on a standard A2 size card.  Unless, I made the card base heart shaped as well   So I took a card base and lined the heart piece up and traced where I wanted to cut and got that ready.  I attached the card base to the heart piece.  Here is a photo of how the back looks.

Once that was adhered, my card was finished.  I didn't put a sentiment on the inside because I haven't decided what I wanted to do for the card love, wedding, anniversary, Valentine's, the possibilities are endless.

So that is the card project for today but I wanted to share something else with you today.  I purchased the Hello Summer Digital papers.  I will be honest, I had no idea how to print them.  Well I don't have a color printer so I took them to my local office supply store and had them printed.  I printed one of each pattern and it wasn't horrible like $.85 a piece.  If I bring my own card stock next time it will be like $.73 a piece.  I wanted to post a picture of how they turned out.  They look fantastic in person.  I will be doing some end of summer cards with these papers and I might have some awesome digital paper that is coming next month that I can't show you just yet.

One last thing before you go, you still have ten days to enter our Anything Goes Challenge #2.  There are some awesome prizes and if win you get a badge to post on your blog that you were a winner.  Please stayed tuned as HeartCraft Paper has some amazing things coming next month.  Thank you for stopping by.  

Come and create something with me,

Andi

A Spooktacular New set

Hey Stampers!  Happy Wednesday!.  Now I know it is only August but when Denise released this set, I couldn't resist.  Halloween is probably MY favorite holiday to make cards for and this set is just adorable.  It is called Cool Ghoul.  It comes with nine stamps all together, two ghost images with matching dies and 7 sentiments.  So I dug out some Halloween paper from last year and I do mean dug out.  I have got to tidy up my craft room.  I used an orange card base A2 size.  I cut a mat piece from a glitter stripe and matted it with a piece of black.  I wanted to make a shaker card (I might be obsessed) so I cut the two ghost images into a piece of orange pattern paper.  All the patterned paper is from old Doodlebug Designs pads.  Once I had the die cutting done, I adhered a piece of light orange vellum instead of using acetate.  I stamped the ghost images on the ghost cut outs.  I originally stamped the sentiment onto the main piece but it didn't go so well.  So I re stamped it on a piece of orange card stock that is the same color as the base.  I adhered it with foam tape.  I added a couple of dots using my Autumn Pearl Nuvo drops.  I covered the back of the piece with foam tape and added some orange shaker bits and adhered the piece to card base.  I took my Spectrum Noir Sparkle pen and added some sparkle to the ghosts.  The ghosts sparkle nicely in real life and the shaker bits move freely.  On the inside I stamped "Boo!"  So that is my project for today. You will be seeing this set probably every Wednesday for the rest of the month.  I love it and there are some awesome sentiments.  I hope you visit The Project Bin to check this stamp as well as the many other fantastic sets offered.

In just a little bit of other news, I am now on the Southern Girls Challenge Design Team and I will be guest designing for a couple of companies in September.  Once I received my guest design goodies, I am going to do some haul videos so you can see all the fun stuff. So please stay tuned.  Thank you for stopping by. 

Come and create something with me,

Andi

Hello Sunshine!

Hey Stampers!  Happy Thursday! I have a new project for you today coming from Heartcraft Paper.  I used Pegasus At Rest from the release that hit the store on August 1st.  So a couple things first if you purchase this image, it doesn't not come with an SVG file but I have dusted off my Silhouette Portrait and started playing around.  Now I would love to give step by step instructions on how I did this BUT I am not confident enough yet in using my machine.  I will tell you that I was SUPER proud of turning this sentiment into a cut file.  I cut "hello Sunshine" three times using some 80 lb textured card stock that I purchased I think from Simon Says Stamp.  I printed my Pegasus on Spectrum Noir Ultra Smooth card stock.  My card base is piece of Spectrum Noir Watercolor card stock.  To create the background, I used my Distress Oxide Inks.  For the grass, I used Cracked Pistachio, Peeled Paint, and Twisted Citron.  Side note--does anyone else struggle with spelling Pistachio?  Okay moving on, the sky is Broken China and Salty Ocean.  

For the coloring of my Pegasus, I used Y08,11,15,17 for the mane, tail, wings, and horn.  I colored  the body with C00, C1, C3 and blended out with my Colorless Blender.  The hooves are C5 , which is also what I used to create the cast shadow under him.  I added some Spectrum Noir Clear Sparkle pen on the wings, mane, tail, and horn.  I also tapped the clear glitter pen against my finger to create some sparkle dots for some extra bells and whistles.  For one final touch, I used some tiny little flowers from stash to add a little interest. Everything is adhered flat with liquid glue.  I hope you like my card today and please check out Heartcraft Paper as there are 3 additional Pegasus as well as some amazing cut files, and other digis.  

 Also please consider submitting a project for our Anything Goes Challenge #2.  If you entered Challenge 1 click on the link, the winners are listed in the post for Challenge 2.  Thank you for stopping by.

Come and create something with me,

Andi

Looking for Fall

Hey Stampers! Happy Wednesday!Today is Project Bin Day and I something I really fun.  I am a total Fall/Autumn girl. While I was trying to figure out my project for today I was looking at my new kit from Tonic Studios and inspiration hit.  I used the New Leaf set.  I used the Autumn leaves and pumpkins please! with the pumpkin image.  I wanted to have fall colors so my card stock is reddish brown shimmer paper and brown shimmer paper.  The leaf dies are from the Tonic Studios Kit 12.  I am not sure if they kit is still available but I have linked to the Tonic website. For the leaf with the sentiment/image is cut from a piece of water color card stock from my stash.  I used Distress Oxide inks to create to color it.  I started with Squeezed Lemondade, then Wild Honey, Carved Pumpkin, Fired Brick and last Vintage Photo.  I will back and added more Squeezed Lemonade.  I stamped the sentiment in Simon Says Intense Black ink.  The pumpkin image I layered all the colors I used for my background.  I added some Midas Touch Glitter pen.  I put my layers together adding a piece of grosgrain light brown ribbon to the middle leaf.  The focal piece is added with foam tape.  I used Autumn Pearl Nuvo drops along with  a product that was in my kit that hasn't hit the market yet.  I forgot to mention when I cut the base, I let the top of the die hang over the side to create the base.  This makes me want fall to get here fast.  I love how this turned out and I hope you like it. Please check out the The Project Bin for the stamp set and many other fantastic sets.   Thank you for stopping by.

Come and create something with me


Andi

New Challenge for Heartcraft Paper

Hey Stampers!  Happy 1st Day of August!  Today is not only the start of the new month but it marks a new challenge over at the Challenge Blog and New Releases hit the store at Heartcraft Paper.  If you are following the blog hop you are joining me from Denielle's blog.This is an Anything Goes challenge and there will be 3 prizes awarded.  I am using new images available as of today.  My image is called I Got Wings, using a sentiment "Just Showing Off".  I love this image, he reminds of the sassy horse from Tangled.

So my horse on the right is colored with Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens.  I used Moonlight on the body of horse, clear on the tail, mane, wings, and horn.  He is adhered to the background piece flat with just adhesive.  My horse on the left is colored with Copics.  The tail, main, and wings were colored with B000 & B0000.  His horn is colored with Y08 and I added a little bit of clear Sparkle pen.  The body is colored with C00 and C1 and smoothed out with the Colorless Blender.  Hooves are colored with C5 and C3.  This horse is on an action wobbler. The sentiment is edged with Vintage Photo Distress Oxide ink and attached with Scotch foam tape.

My card is A2 and the background piece is something I made awhile ago using Nuvo Shimmer Powder called Atlantis Burst.  I added the powder to a piece of water color card stock and then spritzed it with water to move the color.  I attached the background piece to a teal piece of card stock from my stash.

I hope you will join us this month for the Challenge.  To continue on the hop, please click on Patricia name below and it will take you to her blog and project.  Thank you for stopping by and check out the new release at Heartcraft Paper.




Last month's Challenge winner is listed on the challenge blog.  Below is the hop list in case you need to go back

HeartcarftPaper

Judy Markowitz

Rianna Fenning

Laura Wolff

Marcia Caradinta

Tina Brickers Turner

Carolina Flores

Tania Cordie

Denielle Whicker

Andrea Jacobsen--you are here

Patricia Lara

Varsha Gupta

Come and create something with me.


Andi

Thank you doesn't seem to be enough

Hey Stampers!  Happy Wednesday!  I am bringing you another wonderful card featuring Many More from The Project Bin.  I used the Thank You sentiments for this card.  I am going to confess something to you....I thought I lost this stamp set and I was going crazy but as you can see I found it.  Whew! My pattern pattern is from Queen & Co called Picture Perfect.  It is currently on sale for more than 50% off so I don't know if that means it is being discontinued.  Another confession, I got this pad for free.  I ordered some paper pads and got this instead of the one I ordered and when I contacted Queen and Co., they sent my correct pad and let me keep this one for free.  So I decided to use it on today's project.  The other thing I used from Queen and Co was the Circle Shaker kit items .  I stamped my sentiment on the pink pattern paper from the pad with Simon Says Intense Black ink.  I cut it out with the largest circle die.  I adhered the stamped piece to the left on the front of a A2 size card with a side fold.  I added my foam circle piece and then added some shaker bits.  I added the pre cut circle acetate that came in the kit.  I cut out the largest circle again to get my frame for the top of my shaker circle.  I added a strip of pink patterned paper on either side of the circle.  It was an inch in width.  I rounded the corners with my We R Memory Keepers Corner Rounder.  I took my Clear Spectrum Noir Sparkle pen and went around the frame for the circle shaker piece. 

On the inside of the card I stamped "But I'll Say it Anyway, Thank You!" and then added the same pink pattern paper from the front to the bottom of the inside of the card and added another frame around the sentiment, also going around the frame with clear sparkle pen.  I love this set with all the sentiments that having matching sentiments for the inside.  I hope you liked today's card and please check out out The Project Bin for this awesome set and many others plus I will give you a heads up.  Denise who owns The Project Bin has given the Design Team a sneak peek of our next set...I can't wait to get my hands on this new set.  That is all I can say for now but you are going to love it. 

Thank you for stopping by.  Come and create something with me!


Andi