Hats Off

Hey Stampers!  I don’t know about you but I am so glad today is Friday. It has been a long week. So I have gotten several stamp packages in the last few weeks. One package was from Honey Bee Stamps. I purchased some things when they were having their birthday sale.  Two of the sets I got were Congrats Grad and Penny the Platypus . I will be honest I got Penny set because of the graduation cap. I didn’t even look at any other images so I was pleasantly surprised to see a lot of other images I can use.

Today’s card features both of the above sets. A coworker is graduating from college today and I made this card for the office to give to her and used the colors of the college she is graduating from.

I took a piece of red card stock from my stash, I think it might be Real Red from Stampin’ UP!  but I am not 100% sure. I cut the piece to just under 4 1/4 x 5 1/2. I took the graduation cap and stamped it in a random pattern with VersaFine black ink and covered it with clear embossing powder. I heat set those images. I let it cool for a minute and then I took the diploma image and stamped it in the open spaces; heat embossing them as well. When embossing multiple images at different times be careful that you don’t put the heat too long on the images you already embossed.

I set aside the focal panel to cool. In the meantime, I cut a piece of black shimmer paper from my stash, to show just a small border around the red piece. My card base is made from one of the gray shades from the Recollections Storm Cloud paper pack. Once I had my layers adhered to the card base I stamped “Hats off to You” on a white piece of card stock framing it with a piece of the black shimmer paper. I adhered it across the card and added a Silver Glossy Dots on either side of the sentiment.  On the inside I stamped “Congratulations on your Graduation “. I love how this card turned out and hopefully she will too.  Check out Honey Bee Stamps for these stamps and a ton more. Thanks for stopping by.

Come and create something with me,


Andi

Classic Not Old

Hey Stampers!  Happy Wednesday!  I have a card today using a new release from The Project Bin called Classic Man.  I am going to confess something to all of you.....masculine cards are my weakness.  I don't have a lot of "guy" stamp sets or even images so when Denise sent me this one I was so very excited.  I love the car image in this set and there are a TON of wonderful sentiments that you can use for all cards but are perfect for a dad, brother, son, or male friend. The font on the sentiments is perfect as well.    The card stock I used on my card comes from a Recollections paper pack that I got from my local Michael's.  It is called Storm Clouds and is 110# weight.  I used the lightest gray to stamp the image and the sentiment in Night of Navy from Stampin' UP!   I was stuck for a moment because as I said I don't have a lot of masculine supplies so I was digging through my stash looking for patterned paper and stumbled across some of my Lawn Fawn paper from the Perfectly Plaid Winter (which is no longer available).  The piece I used is white and gray plaid and I think is the perfect compliment to the other card stock. I cut the focal image and the patterned paper using my oval die set from Kat Scrappiness. I used the second largest die for the image and the largest die from the patterned paper. I adhered the image to the patterned paper with foam tape and then attached it to the base with my ATG gun.    The card base is A2 size and made from the darkest of the grays in the Storm Clouds paper collection.  I stamped "Happy Birthday" inside in the same Night of Navy ink.  I added a total of five Silver Glossy Dots to complete the image.

I hope you enjoyed my card for today and thank you for stopping by.  I hope if you are like me and struggle with masculine cards you pop over to The Project Bin and check this set out.


Come and create something with me,


Andi

Yappy Birthday!

Hey Stampers!  Thanks for dropping by.  Today is the last day of the Love Your Pets Blog Hop presented by Jessica Lynn Original.  I have had so much fun participating in this hop.  It makes my heart happy to know that just by uploading my cards to her blog Jessica Lynn is going to donate money to Lucky Mute Rescue.  All the information on the blog hop is in Jessica's post.  There is also a link where you can donate money directly if you are so inclined.

Today's card uses the lab puppy image.  The images in Flynne's Puppies are so adorable.  I colored him with my Copics C3, C5, C7, and C9.  The ducky is Y23, Y18, Y15.  I can't not find my notes o his eyes.  I used my white gel pen to add some high lights.  I used my Paw Prints Embossing Folder.  I used a precut frame that reminds me of a Polaroid picture.  I stamped "Yappy Birthday in black ink.  The strip of pattern paper is from the Rainbow paper pad from Pink and Main. The card base is Sunshine card stock from Simon Says Stamp.

So that is my card for today. I hoped you have enjoyed the hop and getting to see some different stamp designs.  Thank you for stopping by. 


Come and create something with me,


Andi

Tiddly Inks Spring Blog Hop!

Hey Stampers!  Happy Saturday!  I am participating today in another blog hop.  I am hopping with Tiddly Inks.  Christy is doing things a little different instead of us linking our blogs to each others, she will have a post today that links all the blogs that are participating so just go to the Tiddly Inks blog that I linked and start the hop.  Tiddly Inks does amazing digital images and recently starting doing clear stamps.  I used Wryn's Berry Sweet for my card today.  The hop is all about Spring and I love the Wryn images. I used my Prisma color pencils to color everything but I am so sorry I forgot to write down what I used for each piece.  I have the 72 piece set of Prismacolor pencils I really like how it turned out however I would probably color her dress different next time but that is just me.  The card base is 4 1/4 x 11 scored at 5 1/2 so it made a top fold card in Doll Pink from Simon Says Stamp.  I used a piece of Flirty Floral  patterned paper from Queen & Co.  I am out of town and don't have access to all my supplies and forgot to grab stamp set so to improvise I used a purple marker that I found on my niece's table and carefully wrote "Happy Spring!" 

I am relatively new to coloring with the pencils so I haven't mastered blending by using a white pencil but overall happy with how she turned out.  So I hope you check out the hop and visit some of the other participants and give their blogs some love.  Thank you for stopping by!

Come and create something with me!

Andi

Corgi Love (Love Your Pets Blog Hop)

Hey Stampers!  Happy Thursday!  I am here today with my second card for the Love Your Pets Blog Hop from Jessica Lynn Original.  Today's card features the Corgi pup from the Flynne's Puppies set.  I love this image, cause you can tell by the crown of roses that this girl is a sassy pup.  Today I going to give and link the products that were used because I made a video for this card.  This was my first solo video.  I hope you like the video.  I will also have still shots of the card I made in the video plus the one I made in my practice video that NO one ever see.  Lol.  I am not 100% sure what I am doing so this first video is going to be pretty rough.  I am trying to be brave.  So pictures and links for the products plus the link for the video.  Links for Kelly L's blog and YouTube

Doll Pink card stock
Pink Glimmer card stock
Paw Prints Embossing Folder
Pink Champagne Glitter drops
Hearts a Plenty confetti
Flirty Florals pattern paper
Flynne's Puppies
Foam strips
Scalloped Stitched Heart Die

The Copic markers I used were

Flowers RV02,RV14, RV34

White Fur C0, C1

Eyes G02, G07

Nose C5,C7

Fur E13, E15, E18, E33

White Jelly Roll pen for high lights and accents.

And if you watched the video I promised a picture of my fur baby, Porter.  Here he is!  Thank you for stamping by.  I hope you enjoyed the cards, my pup, and my video.

Come and create something with me


Andi

Memory Lane

Hey Stampers!  Happy Wednesday! It is crazy that we are at the end of April already.  Wasn't I just commenting about it being the end of March?  Today's card features Kinda Sorta from The Project Bin.  I used "I like walking down memory lane because I love running into you".  I am most likely going to turn this into a sympathy card or maybe even a thinking of you card.  I used Green Apple card stock from Simon Says Stamp, as well as a Gold from the Assorted Glimmer Card stock.  My pattern paper is from Queen and Company called Flirty Florals.  I got this paper pad in Love Jar kit while the kit is sold out you can still get the 6x6 paper pad.  To create the fancy edges on the pattern paper and the Gold glimmer I used the Fancy Scalloped Border Dies from Kat Scrappiness.  When I attached the sentiment to piece to the right side, I thought the card looked bare but didn't want to cover the beautiful card stock soooo I broke out my Nuvo Glitter Drops (you thought I was going to say I used the Glossy Dots...lol...not this week).  I used Sunlight Meadow, Honey Gold, Pink Champagne, Orange Soda, Dazzling Blue, and Emerald City.  I put them all over the patterned paper.  I did do three dots above and below the sentiment.  I heat embossed my sentiment with Liquid Platinum embossing powder from Ranger.  This is a pretty quick, simple card.  I hope you like it and check out the wonderful products available from The Project Bin. 

I have linked to all the products I used today but  with the Nuvo Drops, I linked the  set from Amazon rather than the individual bottles.  Thanks for stopping by today. 

Come and create something with me,

Andi

Love Your Pets Blog Hop

Hey Stampers!  Welcome to the Love Your Pets Blog Hop brought to you by JessicaLynnOriginal.com.  I am so honored to take part in this hop as I was chosen to be a guest designer for this hop and was sent the most adorable set called Flynne's Puppies. I will be making and posting two additional cards using this adorable set and at least one video this week.  If you have this set or the kitty equivalent Celine's Kittens, make a card and add it to JessicaLynn's post If you don't have the JessicaLynn set but have a different dog or cat set and want to make a card please do and link it up.  This hop is different than other blog hop's I have participated in and here's why

We are going to be raising money for a local group called Lucky Mutts Rescue. (https://www.luckymuttsrescue.org)

For each card that is uploaded on our linky featuring a JessicaLynnOriginal stamp, we will donate 50 cents. For each that features another company, but is a pet stamp will get 20 cents.

We will also have a donate link on our site so if people just want to donate to them. If we raise $50 or $5000 all of the money is going to a great location. This is our first year, so I am hoping that we can do this each year.. and add more and more people to our event!

Now for the crafty stuff.  My card for today. I used the pug image from Flynne's Puppies.  I colored him with my Copic Markers.  I used E33,E35,E37, and E39.  His little tongue was done with R20 and R30.  His nose I just used black.  I used my white Jelly Roll pen to add the white accents on his muzzle and a little on his tail.  The base of my card is 110# Recollections white card stock.  I used a piece of Pacific Point card stock from my stash. I ran it through a Darice embossing folder called Paw Prints  that I picked up at my local Joann's. The pattern paper is from a Pink and Main 6x6 paper pad called Rainbow. My favorite part of my card is that  I put this little guy on an action wobbler. I love how this card turned out.  Here is quick video of the wobbler in action. It really is a super quick video but I love what the action wobbler adds to the card.  I hope you enjoyed my card today and will pop over to Jessica Lynn's blog and follow the entire hop.  I will be back on Monday with another card using Flynne's puppies. Thanks for stopping by

Come and create something with me


Andi