Sellabella- New Home Card

A friend of ours just bought his first house. We went to his housewarming party yesterday and here's the card I made for him. I know it's a little girlie, but I just couldn't resist using this stamp. I mean, come on! If I didn't use it for him, who knows when I would have another opportunity to use it.

I colored the image in with my Copic markers and used some old buttons that I resucued from a pile of clothes that we were about to throw out.

Cruisabella

One of the gals at http://www.stamp-shack.com/ sold me a bunch of her old (yet still awesome) Bella stamps. Thanks Angie!

This one is called Cruisabella... isnt' she fantastic?!

I made this as my monthly challenge card. This month's challenge is "Road Trip." The sentiments are by Scrappy Cat.

The picture doesn't really show it here, but Some of the flowers are cut from the background paper and glued onto the card. For some of these pieces, I used dimensional foam adhesive.

I also used clear glaze over the red portions of the car and I used stickles in silver on the bumper and diamond stickles on the headlights. Fun, fun, fun!

Pregabella- Celebrate!

A good friend of mine has just found out that baby #2 is on the way. Now that's something to celebrate!

For this card, I used one of my new Bella stamps called Pregabella. I also used paper from one of my 8x8 TAC stacks, prima flowers and some cell phone bling that I bought at Dollar tree!

I colored the image in with some copic markers and inked the inside of the card with some CTMH ink. The Celebrate sentiment is by Studio G.

Celebrate in Style

I made several pieces of background paper while experimenting with my alcohol inks. This piece is much lighter than the previous card that I posted. This one is probably from the third or fourth time I ran the paper through the ink.

This image is from my Stampin Up! Celebrate in Style set. I colored the image with copic markers. I also used nestabilities for the background.

Alcohol Ink Technique

There is an awesome tutorial at www.Stamp-Shack.com that shares how to use alcohol ink for scenery cards.

For this card, I used Tim Holtz Adirondack Alcohol ink in Butterscotch, Stream and Wild Plum. This made the "sunset" background. It looks like they're watching evening fireworks on the 4th of July.

The stamp is by Stampabilities and it's just one I found on the sale rack at Hobby Lobby.

This technique generally calls for glossy cardstock... Well, I didn't have any of that and live nowhere near a store that carries any. I decided to experiment with posterboard and it worked beautifully! The posterboard comes in sheets of 11x14 inches and comes with five sheets. Works for me!

Dollar Bin Treasure!

I fell in love with this stamp the moment I rescued it from the dollar bin at AC Moore. Makes me think of being in Florida! I love layering cardstock and using my Martha Stewart punches. I stamped the background using CTMH Taffy ink and for the focal piece, I layered the orange with dimensional foam adhesive. I love the way it pops. I also used diamond stickles to sugar coat the orange. (Or it could be a sugar coated Grapefruit too!)

Pink Cat Studio Billy and Monkey

I made this little card using my new Pink Cat Studio Billy with a little sock monkey that came in my Dress Up Billy set.

I added clear dimensional glaze to Billy's clothes and the red portions of the monkey just for a little added detail.

This is such a cute little guy.