It’s been a bit rough the past few weeks. I’ve only posted little since the week after Easter due to a death in my husband’s family. Getting a grip on my own complicated feelings towards the death of my Mother in Law, while expected, happened all too quickly. Trying to support my husband only brought up a lot of mixed emotions (after 34 years of marriage to her son and after having cared for her during her illness)  therefore, I had NO mojo to work on cards or anything else for that matter.

But, life goes on so here I go…

Today’s card is a Christmas card…Nothing picks me up more than the holidays. I recently received some goodies from Lawn Fawn and wanted to try them out. Enjoy…..

Here’s a list of the materials used in this card:

                           The mountains were cut from scrap corrugated cardboard. All materials were bought at Simon Says Stamp, Hero Arts or Amazon.it.

I am entering this card into the following challenges;

http://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/mondaychallenge/the great outdoors

http://craftycreationschallenges.blogspot.it/AG

https://craftingbydesigns.blogspot.it/2017/05/may-anything-goes.html

http://cutecardthursday.blogspot.it/AG

http://craftingwithanattitude.blogspot.it/

Thanks all! Ciao e a presto!

Lisa

Eccoci di nuovo…

L’ultime settimane sono state un po’ difficili. Ho scritto sul blog solo poche volte dalla settimana dopo Pasqua a causa di una morte nella famiglia di mio marito. Tenedo conto  sui miei complicati sentimenti verso la morte della mia Suocera, mentre era previsto, è accaduto troppo in fretta, non mi sono sentita fare nulla. Ho tentato sostenere il mio marito ma la morte mi ha sollevato un sacco di emozioni miste (dopo 34 anni di matrimonio con suo figlio e dopo averlo curato durante la sua malattia), quindi non avevo nessun mojo per lavorare .

Ma la vita continua così eccomi qui …

La cartolina di oggi è un biglietto per Natale … Le feste mi fanno sorridere. Recentemente ho ricevuto alcune prelibatezze dal Lawn Fawn e volevo provarli. Spero che vi piace…..

….for…. GRADUATIONS…. I’ve got a couple of graduations in the next month or so for various nieces and nephews as well as my friends’ kids. I have usually been not so good at making graduation cards…partly because I don’t really like what’s out there. There are only so many ways to put a tassel and hat… that is…until I found Tiddly Inks! They have the cutest graduation characters! I had such fun coloring them in and making this card. (This is the first one of many…)LOL

This one, in particular, is colored using the school colors. I used Copic pens BG02, B02, B12, B23, B24 , B26, C2, C4, C8, Y26, Y28, Y11, E000, E00 , E02, E 08, E18, E19, E30, R20, Sakura white gel pen and black gel pen.

I used the following materials: Tiddly Inks Digi stamps Graduate part and Grateful Graduate, Fiskars Monumental Moments Clear Stamps. Memento Tuxedo Black, Spellbinders Etched Alphabet, Foam Tape from Simon Says Stamp, Tombow Glue, Neenah Solar White 80 lb, colored cardstock

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

http://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/mondaychallenge/we’ve got your number

http://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/AG

http://www.cardchallenges.com/2017/04/wednesday-sketch-challenge-sketch-330

http://craftycreationschallenges.blogspot.it/AG

http://inspirationdestinationchallengeblog.blogspot.it/#127

https://words2craftby.blogspot.it/2017/04/w2cb-40-n-u-m-b-e-r-m-o-u-s-e.html

http://wordartwednesday.blogspot.it/

Ciao e a presto! Lisa

Last year, I had seen Sandy Allnock color in a Tiddly Ink stamp on her vlog and thought that it was an adorable image. I found the stamp, as well as a couple of others, don’t remember where, and had them sent to me. That said, I was never able to find them again, or….so I thought! Ah..ha! I came across the Tiddly Inks Challenge blog a couple of days ago and bought some digi stamps. The theme is “Road Trip” so I saw “Snail Mail Wryn”. What better road trip than to take a snail? Of course, the trip is to bring wonderful greetings and I will be sending this off to a friend of mine in the states tomorrow! 🙂

I was thinking about coloring her on plain white Neenah Solar White cardstock but decided to fussy cut her and add a background so I drew in some large mushrooms. I hope you like it because I really enjoyed coloring it with a ton of Copic markers…really too many to list. I added a fairly thin foam tape and pasted her on top of the mushroom.

I am entering this in the Tiddly Inks challenge:

http://tiddlyinkschallenge.blogspot.it/2017/04/challenge-200-road-trip.html

Ciao, Lisa

Ok…going a tad bit out of my comfort zone for this card but I really wanted to try something different. I wanted to use the Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Flower Garden collection. Iìve tried several times to use it but have never like how anything turned out so today I was determined!

I was playing around with my Distress Oxides and realized that the only color I hadn’t used was Iced Spruce. Don’t know why as it is such a pretty muted green.  I had seen on a You Tube tutorial by Carol Held of Carol’s Craft Room how she mixed the Distress Oxide with a translucent medium. So, I set oI stamped the daisy in the position that I wanted with the Curved Square frame from Spellbinders on top, not sure how I wanted to go with it. I then fussy cut other stamps of the daisies. Since I did not have a stencil that I liked I used an old background die from Spellbinders Fancy Lattice and used that. I mixed the Iced Spruce distress oxide with translucent embossing paste, applied it and let it dry. I then colored around the image on the card with distress oxide, thought it too light so I went back in with some distress markers in Pumice Stone and worked my way out. I colored in the disk area with Copic markers, G85 and G99, but decided to leave everything else white. then glued them on top of the frame.

The final product is rather monochromatic but I think it works quite well and I am pleased with the result.

Materials used:

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

http://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/showers and or flowers

http://craftingwithanattitude.blogspot.it/#26

http://fabnfunkychallenges.blogspot.it/2017/04/347-in-garden-challenge.html

http://inspirationdestinationchallengeblog.blogspot.it/2017/04/ag-no-126.html

http://carabbiemomentsofcraft.blogspot.it/2017/04/challenge-116.html

http://deepoceanchallengeblog.blogspot.it/2017/04/challenge-153-spring.html

http://stampwithsarahkay.blogspot.it/2017/04/challenge-285-spring.html

http://wordartwednesday.blogspot.it/2017/04/challenge-278-279-anything-goes.html

http://www.cropstop.com/blog/#April

http://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/blog/work-wednesday-april-2017/

Ciao, Lisa

Stavo giocando con i miei colori Distress Oxid di Tim Holtz e ho notato che l’unico colore che non avevo usato ancora era il Iced Spruce. Non so perchè non l’ho usato ancora ma  è veramente bello come colore; un verde molto muto. Avevo visto in un tutorial di You Tube di Carol Held (Carol’s Craft Room) come mescolare il Distress Oxide con il embossing paste traslucido. Così, ho impostato la stampa nella posizione che volevo sopra il telaio Curved Square di Spellbinders, non so come volevo andare con esso. Poi ho tagliato altri stampe delle margherite. Dal momento che non ho avuto uno stencil che mi è piaceva, ho usato un fustello di Spellbinders. Ho mescolato l’inchiostro Distress con la il embossing paste traslucida. Poi ho colorato intorno all’immagine lo stesso colore di inchiostro ma ho pensato che fosse troppo sbiadito, quindi ho ricolorato intorno l’immagine con i marker Distress di Tim Holtz in  Pumice Stone.. Ho colorato nell’area centrale del fiore con i markers Copic, G85 e G99, ma ho deciso di lasciare tutto il resto bianco. Quindi incollarli sulla parte superiore del telaio.

Il prodotto finale è piuttosto monocromatico, ma penso che funziona abbastanza bene e sono soddisfatto del risultato.

I so love Simon Says Challenges…this week’s Monday Challenge is called “Splash it on” and it calls for incorporating water into the project. “It can be an image of water, or water coloring, or splashing water onto your creation.”

It sounded like fun and…since I am on some sort of quirky kick of making shaker cards I decided to use a Mermaid stamp that I have had for eons and do not remember who it is from.  I used Simon says hybrid inks, Scuba and Mint Candy, to color some acetate. My first tries were a bit too dark so on the third try I just went over lightly. I fussy cut the mermaid and colored her in using Copics, sandwiched everything in and violà. The background is white so that the water currents show up a bit more.

I cut some starfish from an old Cuttlebug die, colored them and put Glossy Accents on top. I decided to put the wording of “It’s the little things that count” on the bottom to make it look as if it is a treasure chest at the bottom of the sea.

This was the first one….I decided to do a second one with a colored background and clear acetate.

The glass beads and colored paper are stuff that I have in my stash. The white paper is Neenah Solar White 110lb.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

http://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/mondaychallenge/

http://pennyschallenges.blogspot.it/

http://carabbiemomentsofcraft.blogspot.it/#116

http://www.cardchallenges.com/2017/04/wednesday-sketch-challenge-sketch-329.html

http://simplypapercraftsforalloccassions.blogspot.it/2017/03/challenge-45.html

http://avenue613.blogspot.it/#196

https://artisticinspirationschallenges.blogspot.it/#177

https://classicdesignteamchallenge.blogspot.it/2017/04/1st-april-2017-classic-design-team-open.html

http://craftingwithanattitude.blogspot.it/#26

http://crafting-with-friends.blogspot.it/#41

http://crafty-girls-creations.blogspot.it/2017/04/challenge-35.html

http://creataliciouschallenges.blogspot.it/2017/04/challenge-113-anything-goes-with.html

http://createsandmakes.blogspot.it/2017/03/challenge-10-anything-goes-optional.htm

http://creativefingerschallengeblog.blogspot.it/

http://dragonflydreamschallenges.blogspot.it/AG

http://stampingwithdragon.blogspot.it/April AG

Ciao!

Lisa

La sfida di lunedì di Simon Says Stamp di questa settimana è chiamata “Splash it on” e chiede di incorporare l’acqua nel progetto. “Può essere un’immagine di acqua o di colorazione dell’acqua o di spruzzi d’acqua sulla tua creazione”.

Sembrava divertente e … dal momento che mi piace fare i shaker ho deciso di utilizzare un timbro di una sirena che ho avuto per anni e non mi ricordo da chi è. Ho usato Simon Says Stamp inchiostri  ibridi, Scuba e Mint Candy, per colorare foglie di acetate. Le mie prime tentazioni erano un po ‘troppo scure, quindi alla terza prova l’ho sfiorato con il colore. Ho tagliato la sirena e per colorarla ho usato i Copics. Lo sfondo è bianco in modo che le correnti d’acqua si mostrano un po ‘più.

Ho tagliato alcune stelline da un vecchio fustello di Cuttlebug, le ho colorato e messo in in mezzo. Ho deciso di mettere il testo di “Sono le piccole cose che contano” sul fondo per far sembrare come se fosse un tesoro in fondo al mare.

Questo è stato il primo …. Ho deciso di fare un secondo con uno sfondo colorato e acetato chiaro.

Hello all,

Today I had such fun making this card! I adore Penny Black’s little mice and I used the “Homemade” stamp and its bowl of cherries!  You can just see that little guy waiting to eat! 🙂

I colored the image using Copic pens  R14, R29, YG17, YG67 C1, C2, C3, Y00, E11, E93, E35, E00 R20, B12, B01 and B0000. I cut the rectangles using Lawn Fawn Stiched Rectangles. It’s a great card to give to a friend!

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

http://www.cardchallenges.com/  for MFT Sketch

Classic Design Team Challenge AG

Simply Paper Crafts

Crafting Circle

Crafting with an attitude

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge

http://mytimetocraftchallenge.blogspot.it/

Challenge #278-279 – Anything Goes

http://cardsgalorechallenges.blogspot.it

http://thecraftyaddicts.blogspot.it April challenge 35

http://addictedtostamps-challenge.blogspot.it/ Show history

http://avenue613.blogspot.it/2017/04/challenge196-april-2017-anything-goes.html

http://alwaysfunchallenges.blogspot.it challenge-1

Hello all, I was working with my new set of Lawn Fawn’s Out of this World’s stamp set. It is adorable. As the challenge is anything that hops I wanted to create the little space guy hopping on the moon. It’s a fun card and can be used for a boy’s birthday. I used distress inks for background and little crystals for the stars. Too bad you can’t see it too well. I used Jane Allen’s technique for coloring in the white outline of the cut-out and I like how she colored her moon in one of her cards for MFT.

I am entering this card in the following challenge:

SSS Monday Challenge

Ciao e a presto!

Supplies used:

Neenah solar white paper, Lawn Fawn “Out of this world” stamp set, Distress ink in Stormy Sky and Black Soot, Distress marker in Stormy Sky, Copic Markers, Small Crystals, white gel pen, black gel pen, 3M corrector tape

As you know, last week I was working on a card with a fairy digi stamp for a design team at Crafty Creations. As I really like this stamp I went ahead and made a couple of other cards. For the first one, I had imagined the fairy sitting on the moon thinking but I didn’t want just any moon. I like the Tim Holtz Alterations Crescent Moon and Stars Die and I wanted to use it, but I also wanted to make a shaker card and with the
is die, not so easy. So I cut out a template, and traced it onto the card and cut it out using an Exacto knife. The night sky was made with Brusho paints. I wanted to convey her state of mind. I colored the fairy with Copics, cut her out using my Brother Scan and Cut and put it all together.

The second card was easier, I had an extra piece of patterned paper with clouds from an earlier project, cut a frame with a pearlescent cardstock and placed her in the bottom left corner just sitting and thinking about how much she misses you. Both cards are A2 in size.

I am entering these cards is the following challenges

:# 186 Things with wings
#186 Things with Wings

Supplies used:

Neenah Solar White paper, Brusho watercolor, Copic Markers, Little Fairy digi stamp from Bugaboo Digi Stamps, Momento Tuxedo Black ink, Copic multi-liner in sepia, white gel pen, small crystals for accents. various leftover papers from other projects.

Come sapete, la settimana scorsa stavo lavorando su un biglietto fatto con un timbro digitale con una fata per un team di progettazione a Crafty Creations. Siccome mi piace molto questo timbro digitale ho fatto un paio di altre cartoline. Per il primo, avevo immaginato la fata seduta, pensierosa, su la luna, ma non volevo un qualsiasi luna. Mi piace tanto la Crescent Moon and Stars Die di Tim Holtz Alterations e volevo usarlo, ma volevo anche voluto fare uno shaker ma con il fustello fatto  non è così facile. Così ho tagliato la luna seguendo una traccia fatto sulla carta e ho tagliato la figura usando un cotello Exacto. Il cielo notturno è stata fatta con Brusho. Volevo trasmettere il suo stato d’animo. Ho colorato la fata con i COPICS.

La seconda cartolina era più facile, ho avuto un pezzo di carta stampata con le nuvole da un progetto precedente , tagliato una cornice con un cartoncino perlescente e il suo posto in basso a sinistra appena seduto e pensare a quanto lei ti manca. Entrambe le carte sono a dimensioni A2 .

A presto! Ciao!

I am entering these cards is the following challenges

:# 186 Things with wings

Hello all,

I just joined Crafty Creations Challenges Design Team and all I can say is that I am excited!  I hope I live up to all the beautiful cards that the design team has done.

Anyway… Challenge #339 is themed “Anything Goes” using  Bugaboo Digi Stamps, who happens to be the sponsor for this challenge. Their stamps are adorable! I fell in love with this little fairy sitting on a cloud.

One of the great things about digi stamps is that they can be resized. You just need to make sure that they are not pixel-ly. I start off by saving them in the original size (which usually is fairly large) and then sizing it down to what I need. I always print out a test run on printer paper before I print it out on cardstock. I have a laser printer so I let the toner cure or set and dry for a few hours before I use alcohol markers, otherwise, the image will smear.

After coloring her and fussy cutting her out I used MFT Homespun Gingham paper for the frames. I stamped and white embossed the larger frame just to shake things up a bit.

I really like how it turned out and hope you enjoy it. You’ll also enjoy Bugaboo Digi Stamps. Check them out!

Just so everyone knows, I’ve made three cards with this stamp that will be seen ASAP on this blog.

Ciao!

Ciao a tutti,

Da poco faccio parte di un Design Team di Crafty Creations e sono molto contenta far parte di questa nuova esperienza! Spero di fare un bel lavoro!

Comunque … Eccoci con la sfida # 339 e la tema è “Anything Goes” cio’è libertà di tema, usando i timbri digitali di Bugaboo , che sono lo sponsor per questa sfida. I loro timbri sono adorabili! Mi sono innamorato di questa piccola fata seduta su una nuvola.

Una delle più bello usando i timbri digitali è che possono essere ridimensionate facilmente. Si deve solo fare in modo che essi non sono dei pixel-ly. Si comincia salvandoli nel formato originale (che di solito è abbastanza grande) e poi ridimensionarli su misura che serve. E’sempre consigliato stampare un test eseguito su carta normale prima di stamparlo su cartoncino. Ho una stampante laser così ho lasciato asciugare il toner per un paio d’ore prima di usare le penne d’alcol, in caso contrario, l’immagine sarà macchiata.

Spero che vi piace! Ciao!!!!!!