April Card Making...

After a slump of a few weeks...I know that last post shows a ton of cards, but honestly, those were mostly in January and February...I think I've found some mojo and got going again.

The first group of cards were made at a SU card making party at Tracy's March 20th. 

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4/8/2014

Sentiment - OWH Hero Arts "Dude"

DP / CS - Stash

Bling / ribbon - stash

Ink - Memento Tuxedo black

OWH Sketch #91

Sentiment - OWH Hero Arts "You're a Winner"

DP - Carta Bella Vroom Vroom Rough & Tumble by Samantha Walker

CS - stash

Buttons - CTMH

Ink - CTMH Outdoor Denim

Sketch - Stampington Take Ten Winter 2011 (Dress Form pg. 41)

Sentiment - CTMH "Howdy"

Image (cows) - Maui Cows (now out of business)

DP / CS - stash

Ribbon - stash

Ink - Memento Tuxedo black

OWH Sketch #97

Sentiment - Inkadinkado

DP - Graphic 45 6x6 pad "Botanical Tea"

Ink - Memento Tuxedo black

Thanks for stopping by.  Be looking for more cows...heh heh heh...

Spring cleaning, and catching up the blog.

It's been awhile since I've posted and I have made a bunch of cards since Christmas.  A few I have posted, but there are many not entered here and I want to save them in case I decide to make another one or two or tweak the ideas.  Not that I have any dearth of ideas with the OWH website and the OWH FB page, and all those magazines I get and have saved.  :)

So here, goes.

These 4 were made at one of Tracy's card making parties (probably the November one, as we did not meet in Dec).  She is my SU dealer.  (hee hee)

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OWH Sketch #37

Sentiment - Stamp Francisco

DP / CS - stash

Ink - Memento Tuxedo black

Sentiment - SU

Flower stem - Rubber Stampede Daisy Stem

DP - SU Polka Dots

Red hearts - Bazille

Ink - Memento Tuxedo black

CTMH - Garden Green

Sentiment - SU "Forever With You"

CS - CTMH Garden Green

Fabric Paper - stash

Ink - CTMH Cranberry

OWH Sketch #31

Sentiment - SU "For the Birds"

DP - SU Rich Razzleberry

DP Gold Postal Cancellation- stash

Ink - SU Rich Razzleberry

Sentiment - SU "For the Birds"

CS / DP - Stash

Ink - SU Soft Suede

Sentiment - Inkadinkado

CS - Stash

Washi tape - Scotch Expressions 3M

OWH Sketch #41

Sentiment - CTMH "Special Friendship"

CS / DP - stash

Sun image - Inkadinkado "Me & My Big Ideas"

Ink - Memento Tuxedo black

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1/5/2014

Sentiment - Hero Arts "This is Big"

I <3 Bacon - Duct Tape

DP / CS - stash

Ink - SU Tempting Turquoise

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Sentiment - Inkadinkado

DP - CTMH

Kraft - stash

Candles - Inkadinkado

Ink - Memento Tuxedo black

CTMH  Pepperwood

Sentiment and Chair- Hero Arts "Wish You Were Here"

CS - Gina K Designs Cherry Red

Kraft - stash

Embossed with Cuttle Bug

Ink - Memento Tuxedo black

SU - Real Red (chair)

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1/20/2014

Sentiment - Hero Arts

CS/DP - stash

Ink - Memento Tuxedo black

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Any Hero Cards

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The following group are cards made at Sandy Allnock's Fancy Folds Card class, 

1/30/2014.  Held at  Impress stamp and craft store in Tukwilla, WA.

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3/4/2014

Sentiment - SU Perfect Pennants

DP - Bella! Melrose Vintage Papers - Vogue

CS - Gina K Designs Cherry Red

Brads, pearls, bling - stash

Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black

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3/4/2014

Masculine cards

Sentiment - OWH Hero Arts "Dude"

CS/DP - stash

Baker's twine - stash

3/6/2014

Using up scraps...

Sentiment - OWH Hero Arts "All the Time"

Hamburger image - OWH Hero Arts "Dude"

DP - The Guy Stack - DCVW

CS - Kraft - Stash

Pearl Pen - black

Copics used to color the hamburger

Scraps from The Guy Stash

Sentiment - SU Perfect Pennants

Brads - stash

Sentiment - SU Perfect Pennants

Sentiment - SU - Perfect Pennants

Boot - SU Bootiful Occasions

Sizzix Die

Baker's twine - stash

Brown chipboard stars - Studio Calico

Ink - Memento Tuxedo black

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3/12/2014

Using up a 6x6 pad.

"MOM" - Stampendous Altered Type (alphabet set)

Miss you flower centers were donated sentiments - stash

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4/9/2014

I discovered I have a plethora of cow stamps.  Here's one.  More to come.  

Cow - VAP! Scrap

Sentiment - A Muse Artstamps

Grass - CTMH "True Happiness"

CS - stash

DP - Black & Wht Cow - Canvas Corp

Baker's twine - stash

Ink  - Memento Tuxedo black

Wrangling scraps and OWH Sketch #214

Sunday's sketch just got my creative juices flowing...or maybe it was that 2nd cup of coffee.  But I grabbed a couple of the 6x6 pads I have been hoarding and decided to cut into them.  It doesn't hurt after the first incision.  And then I went nuts and made probably 20-25 cards using this sketch.  Fun, fun, fun.  Here are some that will be going to OWH and a bunch of them are going in my card drawer so I have cards on hand to send to friends and family when an occasion arises.

OHW Sketch #214

DP Bo Bunny (6x6 pad)

CS - stash

Pearl Pen cream dots

Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black

Sentiments - Hero Arts / Word Borders

Hero Arts / Whimsical Message

Then I made a bunch of birthday cards...

OWH Sketch #214

DP My Mind's Eye (6x6 pad)

CS - stash

Sequins - CTMH

Sentiment - OWH Hero Arts - Year Round Sentiments set

Who's idea was it to use up scraps?  Great idea!  And Debbie Doty Caldwell gave me another great idea she CASE'd.  I think I'll steal that one too.  :)

OWH goes for a Western Challenge. Yee-haw!

The challenge this week is to make western theme cards for one of OWH's contacts.  Well, it just so happens, I DO have some western type stamps, so I dug them out and made some cards to send to Sandy.  I do not have any herds of wild horses stampeding across the plain, or cowboy type stamps, but I think these will work.  I hope you enjoy them...I had fun making them.

The following two I made using a stamp set from CTMH called Southwest Pottery.  I do not believe they make it anymore.  I've had it over 10 years.  It was fun to get it out again.

CS - stash

Striped DP - My Mind's Eye - Wild Asparagus

Ink - SU Soft Suede

Sentiment - Hero Arts / OWH - Dude

Ribbon was in a multi-pack of ribbons I received for some entry on the OWH site.  (I'm sorry, Sandy, I don't remember what I won this for, but LOVE the ribbons.)

Brad - stash

The treatment of the stamps here just shows portions of them, but there are 4 and they really are very nice pots.  

DP - Jet Set Sunny - Shimmerpaper - KI Memories

Ink - CTMH Autumn Terracotta

Raffia and brad - stash

Image and Sentiment - CTMH "Howdy" set

CS - CTMH and some more of this YELLOW paper Sandy gave us at one of the OWH card making sessions a couple of years ago.  Yeah, still trying to use it up.  :)

Ink - SU Soft Suede and Memento Tuxedo Black

Image colored with Copics

Spilled milk - Creme Pearl Pen

OK, OK, cowboys don't herd dairy cows, but I told my husband that she kicked over the milk pail because she wanted to roam the prairies with her western bovine cousins.  That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Yee-haw.

Let your light shine...and the mid-week throw down.

This last weekend I went to my very favorite LSS in Beaverton, OR, The Peddler's Pack.  It's hard to go there and not come out with a bag of goodies!  Someone had posted a card with a circle with ribbon snippets fanning out from behind and it made me think of a sun, so I went there to specifically to find a "You are my sunshine" stamp.  Well, alas, they did not have one anywhere, but the owner  said they could custom make me one on the computer right then and there!  And I could have it the very next day.  Yow!  Unfortunately, I was not going to drive all the way back to Beaverton the next day (about 20 miles from my house), so she said she could pop it in the mail.  Monday was a holiday, so it took 2 extra days to get to me, but there it was, in the mail Wednesday!  AND The mid-week throw down was for light, or sunshine, or light bulbs and it was MEANT TO BE!  Can you say serendipity?  Enjoy my take on the theme.

CS - my stash

Sun stamp - Zap stamps (dollar bin at Michael's)

Ribbon - my stash

Dry embossing - Cuttle Bug

Gold heat embossed sentiment - CTMH embossing powder

Cloud effect - CTMH stencil

Sentiment - custom acrylic stamp by Peddler's Pack, Beaverton, OR

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