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.

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.

Go Wild!!

Good morning, hope you've all had a great holiday weekend

I'm going a little wild today with SumMore Fun - well I would be if the raccoons hadn't over eaten:

The cheeky chappies have raided a bin and are now in a food coma!!

I used the Raccoons stamp and colored them with alcohol markers on white card stock. I then matted a white card base with kraft card and some spotted design paper. I used the 'go wild' and 'Happy Birthday' sentiments from the Happy Camper stamp set around my image and then matted it with kraft card before placing it at an angle on my card. I added a few enamel dots just to balance the design.

Here's a closer look at the trash bandits:

Aren't they just adorable?

Don't forget about our moodboard challenge over on the blog. Join in 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.

A Very Daisy Thank You

Good morning! from a warm sunny Michigan - yes at last the weather is turning and we are enjoying spring.

Today's card is using a technique that has been around for a while now but this is my first attempt at it. Stamping my background using SumMore Fun's Oops a Daisy stamp set  I made an eclipse card:

I stamped one of the daisies multiple times in different orientations then colored them with alcohol markers. I then stamped the tiny swirl which is a stamp from the Curly Cute stamp set.

I then took my alpha dies and cut the words THANK YOU across the images.

I matted a white card base with yellow card and added the negative part of my stamped background.

Using pop dots I replaced the letters letting the yellow card show through.

I then replaced the center of the O and A lining it up with the images. A simple card to make but I love the effect.

Don't forget about our challenge where you can win win a gift certificate to SumMore Fun? Oh and the prize doubles if you use stamps from  the store! 

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

 Check out the mood board to use this time round:

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 cards on the Blog, FaceBook, Instagram and Pinterest.

Popping Hearts

Good Morning and Happy Valentine's Day everyone!

I'm taking over the SumMore Fun blog today and what better way to celebrate the day than with red and pink with hearts!

This is the front of my card, I have used 2 sentiment stamps from SumMore Fun that do compliment each other. First I started with the larger Happy Valentine's Day stamped in the center of my card in red I then multi stamped Dot Happy Valentine's Day with pink ink all around the rest of the card. 

When you open the card it pops with hearts:

Once I'd made up my card insert which is a die set from Karen Burniston, I stamped the Medium Sketch Heart on 4 piece of white card rotating them so they face opposite ways. These were then matted onto pink card and adhered to the pop up section of the card.

My front was matted in the same way and added to the card I then used a few enamel dots as embellishments.

Don't forget you still have a few more days to enter our moodboard challenge you can find the details here - just add all those Valentine's cards you have been making - I'm sure they will fit the theme:

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

Kick up your heels

Good Morning!

Well was Santa good to all of you? I hope you had a blessed day and enjoyed time spent with loved ones.

My card today gives you a little insight into my personality:

Despite growing up in a city I am a country girl at heart, give me boots and jeans and I'm happy.

The stamps I have used today are from 2 Raisin Boat sets sold by SumMore Fun first one is Urban Cowgirl I have used the lasso, horseshoe and Urban Cowgirl sentiment from this set. Both stamped in a dark brown ink. I then Stamped the rest of my wording using the Goes with Mountain Country Gal set along with the boots which I colored with Copic Markers.

I used a white card base, matted with black card, I inked the edges of my topper with distress ink to tie in with the colors of my stamped images.

A few enamel dots completed my design.

So kicking up your heels fits in with the theme of the current moodboard challenge over at SumMore Fun - who likes to party on New Year's Eve? 

This shows that your card for the challenge doesn't need to be all sparkly just use the colors included in the mood board! There is still plenty of time to get your entries in

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

We Three Kings

Hi, hope you are all having a great day. Time is going so quickly the holidays will be here before you know it.

 Today I'm showcasing a traditional Christmas card with a modern twist using Sum More Fun stamps. 

I used distress inks to make a night sky and stamped the Victorine Original stamp: Three Wise Men onto this. I matted a card base with black card. I then die cut and embossed a piece of silver mirror card and arranged this over my image so that it was visible through the oval aperture.

I then stamped The Wishing You Joys of The Season onto white card and matted this onto black and silver card. This was adhered to the top part of the card. 

I love clean and simple cards and this is so easy to do using Sum More Fun stamps.

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

Dear old Santa

It's the 8th of December, yes we have snow and yes I'm starting to decorate the house. Shopping has been done and my cards are starting to make their appearance.

Today is a new mood board challenge over on the Sum More Fun blog and of course its all about Christmas - All Decked Out:

It"s a great board for this time of year - who doesn't make cards following this theme and if you join in you can win yourself a gift certificate worth $20 

However If you use a Sum More Fun stamp it doubles to $40

 Who doesn't think of  Father Christmas at this time of year. If you've got kids his name is constantly being mentioned.

This leads me to my make I chose the colors of red and green from the mood board:

I love this stamp such a traditional image of Dear Old Santa. I wanted to keep my card simple so I colored him with Copic markers. I then took pieces of green and read card and die cut frames. Using the waste from the green frame I cut it to size and adhered the cut oval over my image. I then added the red frame to the center of the oval. This was then placed onto a 7x5 in card base. I die cut the word believe and some holly. This along with some glittery enamel dots were arranged around the image.

So what are you waiting for head on over to the Sum More Fun blog and join in the fun.

We do have just a few rules which you can find here 

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

Grazing in the snow

Good morning, snow hasn't arrived here YET! so I thought I would share some with you.

I'm over on the Sum More Fun Blog with a snowy tunnel card using Victorine Original's Elk Silhouette in the snow stamp. 

I stamped elk image twice using blue ink and added crystal glitter using a quickie glue pen to one make the snow sparkle. I then adhered this onto a card base. Using a set of scalloped circle dies I cut apertures from 2 snowy papers. I used blue card to make 4 concertina stripes, adhered 2 of these to opposite sides of my card base and added the kraft colored snowy layer. I then fussy cut (yes antlers and all!) the 2nd Elk out and turned him over, colored him black and added him to the kraft layer to give the original one a mate!

The blue snowy layer was placed over this using the remaining concertina strips to give dimension. I then decorated the outer layer with die cut snowflakes and the word Noel. 

You can find the products I have highlighted on the Sum More Fun online store

And if you are looking for more inspiration check out their social media sites:

Sum More Fun Blog

Victorine Facebook

Raisin Boat Facebook

Instagram

Pinterest

Oh and don't forget the Mood board Challenge is running until the 7th December

Thanks for stopping by

Victorine Originals Mood Board Challenge

Good afternoon! I hope my American friends have all had a wonderful Thanksgiving and are not still in a food coma. Who took advantage of the many Black Friday deals? We have shopped some of them more on line than in-store though.

Today is my debut for Sum More Fun - I found out a few weeks back that I had been given the open design team position and since I just love their stamps I am so thrilled to be on the amazing team.

Sum More Fun have a mood board challenge, you can win a $20 gift certificate - If you use a Victorine Originals or Raisin Boat Products the prize doubles.  

Your project inspiration can come from the photos, the colors palette, and/or the theme. Cards, ATC, Mixed Media, Scrapbook Layouts, Journaling, and Planners are welcome. 

Please read the rules before entering!

On to my make, I am following the color palette:

I have used the Empty Snow Globe Stamp Stamped it onto x-press It cardstock and colored it with my Copics then cut the center circle out of the globe adding snow covered acetate to this..

I stamped the tiny string of lights from the Christmas Borders Set across the top of my image and the tiny snowmen from the same set onto a separate piece of card.

After coloring these I fussy cut a bunch of them, wow was that a task! for inside my globe.

I used a snowflake digital paper for inside the globe and made a fake shaker by gluing the cute tiny snowmen and sequins to the digital paper.

this was then layered over the back of the globe.

I matted a 5x7 inch white card based with some pink snowflake patterned paper and then added my image.

A die cut sentiment across the bottom balanced out my design. 

Sum More fun is an umbrella name for a number of stamps that are being brought together under one name. Today's make is using the Victorine Original stamps range.

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to go enter the challenge!!!