Faux Stained Glass Window Card

Good morning, what a week we have had! thunder storms hit Sunday and were so close they kept us awake all night which was not a great start for the first day of school Monday. Then Tuesday night we had straight line winds and tornadoes that ripped up a good portion of the trees in the neighborhood including our beautiful Maple which crushed Mollie's play set. We lost shingles off the roof and have suffered water damage from the rain. happy to say no one was injured and that was all that mattered.

That's my news out of the way now onto my card making!

It's the start of a new mood board challenge over at SumMore Fun, this one fit's in with the Labor Day weekend. Check out the board lower down.

For my card I have chosen to use the color palate:

I stamped the red rubber  Stained glass butterflies onto heat resistant acetate with versafine ink. I then heat embossed it. I have to admit as I had it portrait on my desk I thought it was flowers with 2 butterflies and colored it accordingly. It was only when it was laid landscape on my desk I realized what I had done but this shows the versatility of the stamp!

Once colored I trimmed it down leaving a 1/4 inch around the image. I then cut a window in the front of a blue card and adhered my stained glass image into the aperture.

I added some faux stitching around the aperture with a fine tip marker.

Some grey pearls were added to the grey sections of the image.

So want to join our challenge and get the chance to win a gift certificate to SumMore Fun? 

                                                                                                                 

Want some discount too? Use the code SHARON10 at check out and I will save you 10%

Now check out the mood board:

And then pop on over to the SumMore Fun Blog for details, our few rules and to link your project.

  Thank you for stopping by, If you are looking for more inspiration check out my teamies creations on the Blog, FaceBook, Instagram and Pinterest.

Pastel dancer

Good morning, it's the last weekend of the summer break and unbelievably it is raining!!!

So if you are looking for some crafty inspiration have you seen the stunning new releases from SumMore Fun that were launched on Monday? If not head over to the store, they have the gorgeous A Rose By Any Other Name which has some stunning roses as well as a good amount of sentiments that you can mix and match.

There is also the stunning dance set On Point I have used this set in my inspiration post today.

These dancers are so elegant and the scripted sentiments also included in the set is so fitting!

I stamped the dancer and the sentiment ballet onto white vellum and heat embossed with fine white powder. I then added some muted color to her using colored pencils. 

Isn't she beautiful and she has 2 other dancers in the set!

I used some pale lavender design paper and stamped some of the other images in the set on this. You can currently get the ballet slippers as a free digital stamp here.

I wrapped the vellum around the stamped paper and adhered this to a purple card base. I added white gel pen dots to the vellum to tie in with the white embossing.

You can check out all the new stamps as well as the digital stamps in the online store

Have you checked out the latest SumMore Fun Mood board challenge? You could win a $20 gift certificate for the store.  

                                                                                                                 

Want some discount too? Use the code SHARON10 at check out and I will save you 10%

Now check out the mood board:

Easy for this time of year with back to school cards!

There are only a few rules so why not link up your latest project!

Thank you for stopping by, If you are looking for more inspiration check out my teamies creations on the Blog, FaceBook, Instagram and Pinterest.

Back to School

Good morning! 1 more week and it's back to school here, I might get some more time for crafting then!

There's a new mood board challenge started over at SumMore Fun and it's perfect for back to school so that's the theme I have followed or this card:

I made my 'chalk board' by stamping Victorine Original's Map Background onto black card in white ink. I then added this to the center of a white card blank matted with beige card. I then hand cut a frame to fit over this and adhered it to my card using foam squares adding lines with a pen in each corner to give the look of a frame joint.

I chose to use the Back to School Digital Stamps that are free for news letter subscribers this week. I used a graphics program to color the crayons and apple and resize all of the images. I colored the pencil, scissors and rule with alcohol markers. The sentiment was cut and framed like the map. I used a small brad and some twine on this to make a picture. I then added the Back to School elements using foam squares.

So want to join our challenge and get the chance to win a $20 gift certificate to SumMore Fun? 

Want some discount too? 

Use the code SHARON10 at check out and I will save you 10%

Now check out the mood board:

And then pop on over to the SumMore Fun Blog for details, our few rules and to link your project.

Thank you for stopping by, If you are looking for more inspiration check out my teamies creations on the Blog, FaceBook, Instagram and Pinterest.

Rain Forest Foilage

Good morning, hope you are all still enjoying the heat! I'm so over it now and want fall!!
Today's make is using a freebie from SumMore Fun. The Rain Forest digi stamp is free for a limited time so use the link to grab it!

I printed the digi stamp on to white card and colored with alcohol markers. I then stamped the sentiment which was from the Oops a Daisy stamp set. This was matted onto green card and a white card base.  Lastly I added black dots with a fine tip pen.

Simple card but gave me the chance to do some coloring!

Rain Forest Foliage is available free as a digital stamp for this week only.

It is also available as a rubber stamp in 3 different sizes, if you order the rubber stamp you get a SVG outline of the stamp for free!

Have you checked out the latest SumMore Fun Mood board challenge? You could win a gift certificate for the store. Oh and the prize doubles if you use stamps from from the store! 

Want some discount too? Use the code SHARON10 at check out and I will save you 10%

Now check out the mood board:

There are only a few rules to follow so what have you got to lose?

Thank you for stopping by, If you are looking for more inspiration check out my teamies creations on the Blog, FaceBook, Instagram and Pinterest.

Little Yellow Teapot

Good morning, 

We finally got some rain this week which means the lawns are all green again! August is finally here and we are on the count down to school starting again! 

Over at SumMore Fun we have a new moodboard challenge starting and this one is all summery bright colors as well as great pictures see below for more details

First let me show you my design, I have chosen to use the colors from the mood board:

I have used the Victorine Originals Tea Pot stamp. and colored it in different shades of yellow and green markers. I matted my card with some matching colored card and a teacup patterned paper. I then added an action wobbler to my tea pot and adhered it to the center of my card, this means that I can tip my teapot up:

I then added the sentiments around this as well as a few yellow enamel dots.

So want to join our challenge and get the chance to win a gift certificate to SumMore Fun? Oh and the prize doubles if you use stamps from from the store! 

Want some discount too? Use the code SHARON10 at check out and I will save you 10%

Now check out the mood board:

And then pop on over to the SumMore Fun Blog for details, our few rules and to link your project.

Thank you for stopping by, If you are looking for more inspiration check out my teamies creations on the Blog, FaceBook, Instagram and Pinterest.