CR84FN26 - Rain Rain Go Away

The  CR84FN26 challenge this week has some beautiful yellow hues. My good friend Lisa  gave me this adorable stamp and I couldn't wait to ink her up!

The sentiment is from Hero Arts and the adorable Mabel Lucie Attwell A stamp is from The Artistic Stamper. 

The image is stamped on kraft using Ranger Archival Ink and colored with watercolor pencils.

The clouds happened by accident. I stamped the sentiment on Labels 21 and decided it looked like a cloud and decided to create a second one. :)

Here are the beautiful  inspiration colors from CR84FN:

For all the details on the challenge this week go to the CR84FN blog.

For more inspiration the fabulous CR84FN Design Team:

Deborah Frings * Sue Lelli  * Andrea Matthews *  Stephanie Kraft * Suzanne Czosek (me)  *  Heather Jensen * Mona Pendleton  * Lisa Somerville 

This month we have a brand new guest designer Lin Brandyberry at Sending Hugs! So happy to have her join us!

Happy Birthday Stephanie!  Have a wonderful day and I hope it is very special!


Have a blessed Sunday. My youngest is going to be participating in a May crowning today and I am sure it is going to be wonderful.

Suzz

Workshop Excursion

 

I decided to get going on my masculine valentines after seeing all the challenges based on love Simon Says Stamp and Show some Love, The Artistic Stamper - Love is in the Air and Flourishes Timeless Tuesday - FTCC103 - Valentines Card.  

I did a stealth mission down to my hubby's workshop. I went looking for sandpaper to create my hearts from. The wonderful thing was he had this almost white colored sand paper in addition to the natural tones so I was able to create two tones in my hearts. The other wonderful thing was the back side of the white sandpaper had this wonderful red colored surface. I actually went back down to see what else I could snag. :) Unfortunately my DH is very organized and very neat so there weren't any other scraps or items I could purloin. :)

If your hubby is more messy I bet there would be more fun bits and pieces to sneak back to your crafty space.

The card was easy to put together after the hearts were die cut, stamp Hero Arts image using Ranger Archival ink on sandpaper. Sponge edges with Ranger Archival ink. (I used a sponge that was already ragged and ready to be thrown out as the sandpaper rips up the sponge)

The rest was just cutting the sandpaper to size (used my rotary cutter to handle the roughness and flipped it over to paper side. Distressing the edges and sponging with the black ink. I was going to stamp my sentiment but couldn't find a Be Mine so I pulled out some stickers.

We are waiting for the blizzard to hit. The kids are getting out early today from school and pretty sure they will be home tomorrow for a snow day. (Which they are very excited about). One of the downsides to working from home is if we do get snowed in I still have to work. :)

Thanks for stopping by..

Suzz

Tim's Tags - Day 10, 11, and 12

I am finished! Whew! I created my last couple of tags today. Here is the link to Tim's Blog.
I created them for The Artistic Stamper December Challenge, ArtyJen and the Moxie Fab World challenge Glitter is Glam.

Here they are:

Day 12

I loved the background paper he used on his tag today, so I pulled out mine from the Melissa Frances Home for the Holidays. The image is Graphics 45. Lots of glittery goodness. :) The edges were done using the tape gun around the edges and sprinkling on the chunky glitter. The image was distressed with Adirondack snow cap acrylic paint and Vintage Photo. The background was distressed using Vintage Photo. I also was struggling finding charms for the tag when I realized I could make mine using the faux metal technique. :)  The holly is stamped using the Memory Box Holly Sprig stamp and Vintage Photo dye ink.

Day 11:

The trees are Stampers Anonymous and are embossed using the really cool Rangers Tinsel Embossing powder.  This embossing powder mixes the metal and glitter beautifully. Usually the glittery embossing powders don't look glittery when embossed and this has a gorgeous silvery shiny finish.  The background is a few layers of inks and stamps. Stamp the map onto the tag using versafine Vintage Sepia.  Next step was to stamp the snowflake stamp from Hero Arts using versamark and clear emboss. Sponge blues and browns over top to show off the snowflakes.

The edges were smudged using versamark and embossed with the same Tinsel embossing powder. The deer is an old stamp I have from Stampabilities stamped in versamark and embossed using the same Tinsel embossing powder. . The sentiment is from Penny Black. Love PB holiday sentiments.  The frame for the sentiments is from Spellbinders Fancy Labels dies.

Day 10:

Once again no die. :) Had to hand draw and cut out the snow man.  There was a lot of surgery happening on my snow man. He had a little liposuction and a nose job!!   Loved the effect of the embossed acetate.
Glad to have finished up the tags. Although I have one background on a tag finished that needs to be completed.  That is going to wait for now as I am going to move onto some other fun challenges.

Thanks for stopping by!

Suzz

Twelve days of Tags - Day #4

Loved that Tim's tag #4 today featured patterned paper. I used to never use PP and always stamped my backgrounds but there are so many pretty papers out there and you can stamp on them too! :)

Here is my take on tag #4.  I am also going to pop this over into the Simon Says Stamp and Show your Tag challenge and The Artistic Stamper December Challenge. :)

The paper is from the Father Christmas pack of paper from Pink Paislee. The edges are sponged and images stamped using Faded Jeans Ranger Distress Inks. The Postcard and Script are Stampers Anonymous. The tiny snowflakes are from Memory Box. The sentiment is Cornish Heritage Farm.  The snowflakes on the pendant is the Hero Arts DesignBlock. Once again this was really fun to create. I won't mention that I created it twice because I wanted my image to work with the Postcard stamp. :)

Thanks for stopping by...

Suzz

Play Date Cafe Challenge #54 -

The Play Date Cafe Challenge this week has great colors and a fab sponsor!

Our sponsor this week is  The Artistic Stamper. I had a hard time choosing my stamp but I was drawn to the sweet images from the  Mabel Lucie Attwell collection. There is a wonderful selection and I am definitely thinking about adding to my collection! :)

Here is the sweet inspiration photo:

The image was stamped using the Memento and colored with Copics. The paper is a combination of Memory Box and Websters pages. The flowers are Prima. The edges of the green paper are sponged using the Memento Pear Tart and Rich Cocoa.  

If you are looking for  inspiration the team has some fantastic projects to go look at!

The Play Date Cafe design team:

Sarah Anderson

Ruby 2 Shoes

Savannah O'Gwynn
Andrea Ewen

Julie Ranae

Lisa Somerville

Hope your Thursday is wonderful!

Suzz