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.

hello 2018

Hello!  I am really excited to be typing this post this morning.  I am returning to creating and could not be more excited to get started.  I have missed all of this process so much and feel like I am finally in a place to be able to create regularly.
I participated in a challenge over at Laurel Seabrook's blog.  I loved the pillows she chose for this challenge, there was a lot to be inspired by.

                           hello card.

On my first card, I was inspired by the patterns, pillow shape and the diamond grid texture.

                               happy happy happy day (Inside reads:  you Rockstar) card

On my second card, I was inspired to make a masculine congratulations card using the colors as my focal and a glittered black stock for the dimension.

 I am thankful to be able to share today and look forward to a year of creating♥

danni