the male room #146 animals

 I wanted to play with the newest challenge over @ The Male Room because I am out of masculine cards, and that is not good in this house of boys.  The challenge gave me an excuse to go looking for masculine animals for masculine cards...wink. 

hello card 

I haven't inked up this super cool steer skull from Jen Hadfield Simple Life Homemade stamp set, and I am so thankful for the challenge to push me to do so.  I created my background using strips of kraft cardstock and then distressed the card using Distress Ink Frayed burlap.  I distressed the card two times, allowing for a short drying time between as I stamped the steer skull.  I stamped the skull using Colorbox Ink Wheat, then masked off the horns with washi and stamped the skull again using The Stamp Market Island Ink.  I stamped the image two times with the Island ink and am very pleased with the contrast, so beautiful.

I was inspired to create another card using another stamp from the set: the rooster.

This card was fun to heat emboss and ink-smoosh.  

I started by ink smooshing the diecut scallop frame from Pinkfresh Studio so it could be drying.  I then diecut a block of kraft cardstock using the same Pinkfresh scallop circle die and stamped the star from the same Jen Hadfield stamp set using Papertrey Ink Fresh Snow and heat embossed it.  The rooster was stamped in Colorbox Wheat and raised with mounting dots.  To layer the scalloped circles, I cut the smooshed one in half and then took a little off each side so that it could frame the rooster.

Thank you for stopping by, this was such a fun challenge.

night night

We are back with another challenge over @ Inspired By 
card challenges this week. This awesome photo prompt 
has a little bit of everything!  Amazing colors, patterns, 

quilting, mirror, everything fun to get the creative mojo going.

This week, I was inspired by:

*the colors

*the sketch

*the quilt

*the fun patterns

Hello Card

Since staying home, I have decided that I HAVE
 to use more patterned papers in my cards again. 
 I have so many that I can 't bear to throw

out so I need to incorporate more onto my cards again. 
 This challenge has given me the perfect opportunity to do just that!  I have 4 different patterned papers on this card and I love the result.  
It's soft, and feminine/girly, and will be perfect to 
attach to a gift or some flowers soon!

I even used some buttons, tulle, and crepe paper to create my rosette, 

bonus use of lots of goodies from my stash.  I love crepe rosettes, and

even though they can't be mailed, they are so fun on gifts or on a 

card that you tie to a gift, flowers or hand-deliver.

My next card is inspired by the sketch this week.  

Hello Kitty Card

I created my block from the sketch a little larger 

because I wanted a square card to really accent 

the big hello.  I used MORE patterned papers (winning),

 fussy cutting, distressing, die-cutting, 

and machine stitching.

Thank you so much for visiting and make sure to check what the amazing

team created on THE BLOG!