I don’t think I’ve ever seen a red butterfly but I love this color combo and I wanted to practice using my Tombows again. The stamp (Artful Stamper) was stamped on to hot press watercolour paper and embossed with fine detail, gold embossing powder.
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I so love these Roly Poly stamps from Sunshine Designs. I stamped this one on watercolour paper, embossed with black embossing powder and coloured her in with Tombow markers. Geesh, no Stickles. Maybe I should add some. What do you think?
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Technique: Direct to Paper
Inks: Distress & Vivid
Stamps: Inkadinkadoo
This is an ATC Christmas tree ornament I created for an ATC group I belong to. Each year, in November, we create vintage ATCs that can be hung from the tree. We’ve been doing this for about 4 years now and it is such fun to pull them out every year and hang them. This cutie patootie is clip art from Luna Girl. I’ve added some gold Peel-Offs (Magenta), highlighted the tree lights with a glitter pen and pierced the borders using my Tim Holtz ruler; a tool that is a must have if you like to do hand stitching on your papercrafts.
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No matter the season I love to make cards featuring flowers and butterflies. This image, from The Stamp Barn, has been stamped twice, heat embossed with gold embossing powder and coloured in with Tombow markers. The butterflies have been cut out and glued with silicone to produce a 3D effect. I distressed the edges using Tim Holtz’s distressing tool and added a little Chocolate Tombow marker.
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I’m not sure who makes this stamp as I don’t own it. My friend gave me a few stamped and embossed images to practice my watercolouring and I’m having SO much fun playing with the various types of watercolours that are available. This image was painted using tube paints and I added some Stardust Stickles just because I love lots of sparkle.
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This is the second card from the make and take at our Sunday stamp club get together.
I don’t use glitter very often as it is SO messy, but this one was “controllable” as I used double sided tape and a paintbrush to apply the glitter.
I’ll have to stop by the local stamp store and see if they have any of these yummy decorations by Harmonie.
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Harmonie came to visit our stamp club on Sunday and we were able to make 2 cards. I actually took my fixins home with me and put the cards together at my leisure.
The image was coloured with Tombow markers and I just happened to have a Friendship Peel-Off (Magenta). I’m quite pleased with the way it turned out, considering I haven’t had a lot of practice using Tombows.
I’m also trying out a new photo editing program (Google’s Picasa) and this is my first attempt. Not too bad, eh? What do you think?
I’ll show you the second card tomorrow.
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Today I was inspired by Michelle Zindorf to play with a technique I hadn’t done in ages.
Here are a couple of cards I made. 
I used both sponge daubers and household sponges
June’s challenge over at GPP Street Team was grids. (Crusade #41). I wasn’t able to complete the challenge on time as it was July when I found out about the challenges. I wanted to do the challenge regardless and this is the first grid page that I did. I dug into my baggie of white scraps and embellishments, grabbed my favourite butterfly punch, paper trimmer and adhesive and before I knew it, the page was complete.
I can't believe it's been 10 months since I blogged. I feel like a bottle that has been washed up on the shore. The bottle is screaming for someone to pop the cork and let me out.
I'm still a rubber stamper at heart, but after seeing Susan's recent works of art, I'm trying to step away from my comfort zone and try something different. I've been playing a little with the GPP challenges and I must say they sure are fun. I was too late in getting June's challenges done in time to post, but I'll get them up on here soon.
July's challenge is Strip Ease. You can read all about it here.
This is what I came up with for my first challenge over at GPP. 
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When I saw this stamp from Rubbermoon I just had to have it! If you are like me, you hate panty hose and I would rather stay home than put those “beasts” on. Thank goodness I can go to work in jeans! I can also relate to the lady eating those chocolates (also Rubbermoon). Yummy!!!!
The image was colored with Prismacolor pencil crayons and Taltine (OMS) and mounted to layers of c/s cut with Spellbinders dies. The small scallop punch at the top and bottom is from EK Success. The background paper is from Magenta.
I can’t believe that summer is almost over. This is the first autumn card I’ve made. The chipboard tree is colored with Distress ink and I’ve added some Flower Soft to resemble autumn leaves.
I absolutely love this image from Magenta. They really do make the most awesome stamps captivating so much detail. There really isn’t a lot one has to do to have their images ready for a card. I sponged on a little Distress ink and that was it. Matched with the perfect papers, and voila an instant card. (I didn’t choose the papers or image. This was from my last Bar au Cartes class at the local ss).
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That would be as in birdie, not as cheap stamping stuff. LOL.
I used some Magenta chipboard to make this card. It’s the first time I’ve used chipboard and I really like the look. I inked the pieces with Distress inks and of course just had to add some Stickles. A birdie needs his bling too!
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Who doesn’t love a good sale, eh? This ATC I made for a monthly swap I participate in.
I’ve had this stamp for ages and have never used it. Feels good to ink up some neglected rubber. LOL
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Here’s another Stampingbella stamp and once again colored with Prismacolor and Taltine. I’m not sure who makes the background paper, but it sure is loverly, eh?
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Are you seeing a pattern here? LOL. Another purple fairy card. I love this Stampingbella stamp She’s just too cute! I’ve used Prismacolor pencil crayons and Taltine (OMS) once again. Really, I will try something else soon, but this just works so darn well for me. The punch for the border is from Martha Stewart and the corner punch is by EK Success. I’ve also added a small Magenta stamp to the background .
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Creative hugs,
Dianne
I’m not sure why, but I seem to be buying/borrowing a lot of fairy stamps lately. Maybe it’s because I’m a grandma now and am loving the “cute” LOL.
This Stampingbella stamp is colored with Prismacolor pencils and Taltine (OMS).
Hope this has inspired some of you to do some stamping today!
Basic Grey has the most awesome papers and I spotted this sheet at my local ss and JUST HAD TO HAVE IT!
I took another sheet of brown background paper and added some Distress Soot Black and distressed the edges a bit. I then added some Peel Offs that I colored here and there with an olive green Touch marker. I painted the boat with some US Artquest Mica Magic watercolor paints. A real quick card but it does have some punch to it and would make a perfect guy card, don’t you think?
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