Outside of the Box

I am very excited to be part of the new Memory Box Design team. I am contributing to the Outside the Box Blog and my first post is today!

I thought I would share a card which I made that is similar but different to the card I am sharing on the Memory Box blog.

The design is very similar but there is one main difference between the two cards. Can you guess?

Products:

• Memory Box - B1181 Periwinkle
• Memory Box - E1036 Blossom Branch
• Memory Box - B1264 Cappa Flourish
• Memory Box - CL133 Little Birdie
• Spellbinders -Nestabilities - Labels 4
• Martha Stewart - Cornice Edger
• Memory Box Pearls
• Versafine - Vintage Sepia, Toffee
• Memento - Rosebud
• Watercolor Pencils
• Ranger Stickles - Fruit Punch

Thanks for stopping by! Hope you have a wonderful New Year's Eve!

Suzz

Tuesday Trigger - Moxie Fab World

Wow! Two challenge entries in one day... Only because I am on vacation this week could I create two different projects within a day of the challenges. :)

The Tuesday Trigger Challenge on the Moxie Fab World was created by Kazan Clark and inspired by this picture from Coastal Living.

Here is my take on the trigger:

Love the inspiration piece that Kazan created and I probably might try another card which emulates the clean and simple lines. But this morning the inspiration hit to try to capture what inspired the room design.

The background stamp is the new Hero Arts Silhouette Grass. I stamped it in the Versafine Toffee stamp. (I am loving this color more and more) The grass is shaded with watercolor pencil to make it pop on the background. I sponged the background with the Adirondack pool color. The shells, birds and dragonflies are from a new Hero Arts Clear Design set Antique Engravings. The sand is sponged using a dauber and then I added texture and colors using a textured sponge.

The sentiment is from Cornish Heritage Farms Joys and Sorrows.

Thanks for stopping by...

Suzz

Tag Tuesday Challenge #32

Louise's challenge this week is a Happy New Year challenge. The rules allow anything related to Happy New Year... I don't have very many celebration stamps so I decided to use my Cornish Heritage Farms set which has all different time stamps.

The background is sponged using Ranger Distress inks (Spiced Marmalade, Broken China, with a touch of Brown Corduroy). I stamped the images using Versafine - Habenero, Vintage Sepia and Deep Lagoon. The images for the time stamps are all Cornish Heritage Farms and the Flourish is a Stampabilities and the Happy New Year is from Hero Arts.

After I sponged the background I dripped water across the front to give it the watermarks. I also added a few star gems that I colored with my Copic. I felt like I had to have some bling for New Years!

Thanks for stopping over...

Suzz

Wings of Dreams

Just playing around with my new Hero Arts Designblock Silhouette Grass.

I had a labels 8 die cut shape from white cardstock sitting on my desk from another project and decided to create a background.

The background is created by smearing tattered rose on my craft mat and spritzing water on the ink until it beads. Then use your finger to mix up the ink into swirls on the craft mat. Drag your white card stock through it until completely covered. Let dry with something on it to keep it flat.
Stamp the grass using versamark. Stamp the sentiment and birds using a brown pigment ink. Heat emboss using a clear embossing powder.

Sponge over the bottom half of the card with brown dye ink and top half with Ranger Distress Ink Tattered Rose.

Sponge the edges with brown dye ink and around the tops of the grass to give them a shadow.

Tie some twine around attach a button and you are done. :)

Products:

• Hero Arts - Silhouette Grass
• Hero Arts - Old Letter Writing
• Memento - Rich Cocoa
• Versafine - Vintage Sepia
• Ranger Distress Inks - Tattered Rose
• B Line Design Cube - Birds
• Verses - QQ0841-3 Wings of your Dreams
• Spellbinders Nestabilities - labels 8

I forgot to mention my new header. I enjoyed pulling out some of my vintage goodies for my holiday header that I thought I would go rummaging again. The cards leaning up in the background actually have a price tag from Woolworth's on them with 30 cents! I loved Woolworth's when we were growing up, you could always get a great deal. The other set of cards says it is the property of the churches woman's club that my Great-Aunt belonged to. Don't know how my mother ended up with them but glad I have them. My favorite is that little dog and his rug. My mother loved that dog and he always had a spot of honor on her shelf in the kitchen.

Thanks for stopping by...

Suzz

Bluebells and more Bluebells

There are a couple of new cling stamps from Hero Arts which are silhouette stamps. I purches the Silhouette bells and wanted to create something based on Jenn B's gorgeous card. I will still have to try that because I ended up with a bunch of different cards using my bluebells but not one used the technique that Jenn did. :)

This is the last one I created. I used watercolor pencils to color in the flowers and stems and added a touch of glitter along the edges.

The stamp is so lovely by itself that I first created a set of cards using nothing but the stamp and a sentiment stamped in a solid color.





You can guess what happened on this card... I stamped off center and had more room at the top. So I compromised and stamped my sentiment on the top.

This is a gift card holder. The card slides in under the picture. The background is a mix of distress inks inked onto the stamp randomly.
The tag slideds out like this:
These two I masked the area and sponged/stamped over the bluebells...


I just wanted to mention that everytime the stamp was used I kept thinking of the old song we used to sing while jumping rope... Bluebells... Cockershells... Evy, Ivy, Over...

Hope you had a beautiful Christmas and are resting up. We had a lovely celebration and I had 15!!!! Copics in my stocking... I think Santa did really well for me.

Have a lovely day!

Suzz

A few more Christmas Cards to share

I received a couple more Christmas cards from my stamping friends...

The first is from Nancy not only is she inspirational in her card making but she is also inspirational in her faith. She sent me this beautiful card:

What is so lovely is she used a muted ink on the background and stamped several images and the colors are so soft and lovely.

The second card is from my friend Lyn... Her daughter Lisa is my best stamping buddy. They both have taught me so much about stamping and techniques. She lives in sunny Florida!

Love the flamingo for a Christmas card.

The last is something I created inspired by these cute pillows from Pottery Barn. Here is my card based on the inspiration picture:
Joy to you and your family this holiday and for all of next year!

Merry Christmas!

Suzz

Tag Tuesday Challenge #31

Louise's challenge this week is a shaped tag. I have this really nice Silhouette which I was lucky enough to win from Hero Arts and QuicKutz. Unfortunately, it does not get enough use. So I went over to my library of shapes and ended up creating three different tags. (I had so much stamping time yesterday! Yeah!)

The first is this stunning design from the Silhouette shapes. It comes cut out and all I did was trace the shape to create a background and glimmer mist the front with candy apple.

I added the little tag on top with the sentiment but like how it looks without the little tag too.

The bird is a new cling stamp from Hero Arts and it is part of the Two Birds Cling set. I also have a EK Success leaf punch that looked very similar so I used it to create a nest for my bird.

The next one is an owl shape which came in multiple pieces all cut out by the silhouette. The owl is stamped using a Cornish Heritage Farms Scrapblock Ledger and then layered with a Hero Arts Flourish stamp. The tummy and eyes are stamped using a Hero Arts Script stamp. I decided to not create a tag with this and use it as a gift card holder and added a pocket on the reverse side.

Louise's tag was so cute and reminded me of the old ornaments you could find on the Christmas tree that I wanted to create something similar and ended up creating this Christmas Tree tag. I used the Jolly By Golly Paper from Cosmo Cricket. There is stamping under the ribbon. (But not much)

Finally... I had to share this. When I carried the tags over to take pictures I set them down and started with the beautiful flower shape and when I looked over the tree was sitting on the owls head and looked so much like an elf hat that I had to take a picture of it!

I think he looks so serious and has this goofy Christmas hat! I hope you enjoyed the tag show. I didn't list all the stamps but if you would like to know, drop me a line. I am always happy to share product lists.

Well today my children are having friends over to make sugar cookies... Lots of flour, sprinkles and frosting everywhere! So I don't think there will be too much stamping going on unless maybe later..

Have a wonderfully frosty day!

Suzz