Into The Woods With A Frog Prince

 

Hello and welcome.   Today I have another ATC (artist trading card) to share.  I'm still dealing with this migraine and I just couldn't physically, or mentally for that matter, concentrate enough to make a card.  My ATC is using Gecko Galz Gnomes At Home (retired) ATC set and the April 2024 newsletter freebie.

After printing both collage sheets on Neenah white card stock, I trimmed the background sheet before running a forest foliage marker along the edge to cover up the white before fussy cutting the frog prince.  Once I had glued him to the background, I added another layer for the bottom.  The only embellishments used was color spritzing some of the forest foliage marker and a few tiny jewel bling on the crown and in the trees.  I'm happy with how it turned out.

Challenges entered:

 

Never Before Used Schtuff (NBUS) #61 - Use Your NBUS (background, frog image)

ATC Around The World April 2024 - Clean And Simple (CAS) 

Gecko Galz Facebook Group April 2024 - Into The Woods I Go 

Digi Choosday Wk 16 - Anything Goes 

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - Anything Goes 

 

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.

Stamps: Gecko Galz April Digital Collage

Card Stock: Neenah White; Scraps

Accessories: Computer, Printer, Bling, Color Spritzer, SU Forest Foliage

Woodblock Wednesday April 2024 Edition

 

 

Hello and welcome.  Today I'm taking part in the Woodblock Wednesday challenge on Instagram where we're challenged to dig out, and dust off, our woodblock stamps and show them some love again.  My card this month is using a long retired set of Hero Arts Poetic Prints Collection called Patterns and Petals that I haven't even used yet.  It was still in it's original packaging.  I'm not even sure how long I've had this stamp set, but I do know it's been over a year.

I grabbed a scrap piece of Neenah white card stock and folded it to make a clean and simple slimline card.  Taking three of the stamps out, I stamped them using various Versamark inks (key lime, aquatic splach, mango madness) before stamping my anniversary saying using memento tuxedo black ink.  The only embellishments I added were a few Gin and Tonic sequins from Picket Fence Studios.  

Challenges entered:

 

Stay Crafty With A Blog Named Hero April 2024 - Anniversary 

Woodblock Wednesday April 2024 - Use Those Woodblock Stamps  (Hero Arts, Saying)

Crafty Gals Corner #254 - Anything Goes 

Colorful Options April 2024 - Pastel Colors or Rainbow (pastels) 

Paper Funday #64 - Anything Goes Optional Sweet Treats (anything goes)

 

Hero Arts

 

Colorful Options

 

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.

Stamps: Hero Arts; Rubber Stampede (saying)

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; Versamark Key Lime, Aquatic Splash, Mango Madness

Card Stock: Neenah White Scrap

Accessories: Sequins, Glue

PIP Challenge 2416

  Sponsored by 

The Cutting Café

The Cutting Café Blog

 

 

Hello and welcome.  Today begins a new challenge over at Pammie's Inky Pinkies and this week we're being sponsored by The Cutting Cafe.  I would like to thank them for their sponsorship.  The last couple of weeks, I've had a very nasty migraine that just wasn't letting up or going away, so I used a template I already had from The Cutting Cafe called Polo Shirt Shaped card which is retired now.

I started out by printing the template onto Neenah white card stock then fussy cut the template out.  Once that was done, I printed a long retired GinaK digital paper set called The Great Outdoors, adhered it over the white shirt layer, also fussy cut around it, before adhering it to the card using Scor-Tape.  After adding the rest of the shirt "elements" using Bearly Arts © glue, I added some tiny pearls from My Favorite Things as "buttons" I've had in my stash for years. 

Challenges entered:

Never Before Used Schtuff (NBUS) #61 - Use Your NBUS (template, digital paper)

Splitcoaststampers USEIT2024 - Use Your Unloved Stash (pearls, digital paper, template)

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day and don't forget to join us at Pammie's Inky Pinkies.  

Stamps: None

Card Stock: Neenah White; GinaK Digital Paper

Accessories: Computer, Printer, Glue, Pearls

Some Migraine Inspired ATC's

 

Hello and welcome.  Today I'd like to share a few ATC's (artist trading cards) I made this last week while dealing with this migraine that won't go away using products from Gecko Galz.  Thank goodness for Gecko Galz's pre-colored images, otherwise I couldn't have pushed through with these.  I'm happy with how they all turned out but took me way too long to make.

First up is the one I made using the provided image for Gecko Galz Gothic challenge.  After printing the image onto Neenah white card stock, I cut it down to size before layering the image onto one of the backgrounds of the Creatures Of The Night (retired) ATC collection then inking the edges of the layer using a Stampin Up basic grey marker.  I then went and ran a Tim Holtz paper distresser along the edges to "age" it a bit before re-inking the edges using the marker again.  I then added some black brads before layering (again) the image panel onto another background sheet of the Creatures Of The Night ATC collection using glue dots.  Once again, I ran the basic grey marker along the edge then distressed the edges again.  After digging through my stash and adding a black cat sticker I've had for years, I found a small resin black rose and added that using glue dots.  The final touch was color spritzing the basic grey marker over the image.  

Challenges entered:

 

Gecko Galz Monthly Gothic Challenge - April 2024 (use provided image) 

Never Before Used Schtuff (NBUS) #61 - Use Your NBUS (image, background paper, rose, cat)

Two Old Bats Halloween April 2024 - Anything Goes Halloween 

Splitcoaststampers USEIT2024 - Use Your Unloved Stash (cat sticker, rose)

 

Two Old Bats

 

The next ATC was inspired/made for the Gecko Galz monthly steampunk challenge again using the provided pre-colored image.  It's also printed on Neenah white card stock with the edges of the image colored using a CTMH autumn terracotta marker before layering it onto a scrap of espresso card stock.  I then added that to one of the backgrounds from the Time Flies ATC Collection, inked the edges using the marker before distressing that layer as well.  After adding some brushed metal mini brads, I then adhered the image panel to another one of the Time Flies backgrounds making sure to run the marker along the edge as well.  I then dug through my stash and found a package of Tim  Holtz sprocket gears I've had for years and hadn't finished using.  I then added a Dollar Tree© fancy clock I bought a few months back and added that using a pop up glue dot.  After adding some clear mini sequins around the butterfly, I then color spritzed the CTMH marker over the whole card. 

 

Challenges entered:

 

Gecko Galz Monthly Steampunk Challenge - April 2024 (use provided image) 

Paper Funday #64 - Anything Goes Optional Sweet Treats (anything goes)

Digi Choosday Wk 15 - Anything Goes

CD Sunday Plus #131 - Anything Goes Digital (Gecko Galz)

 

 

 

Next up is a sweet spring ATC made using the Gecko Galz My Little Chick-a-dee collage sheet.  After selecting an image and cutting it down to size, I then layered it onto a scrap of eggplant envy card stock before running a magenta marker along the edge before layering again onto a scrap of Music Man digital paper pack before adding brads.  Again I ran the marker along the edge of the layer before using my distressing tool on it and then layered twice more onto scraps of magenta and eggplant card stock.  I then made my own floral spray using both of my Martha Stewart fern/butterfly trio punches, paper crimper, and bottle of tiny magenta Prima flowers.  The final touches were some magenta bling in the butterfly and flower centers and diamond ice stickles highlighting the centers of the image flowers.

Challenges entered:

 

Gecko Galz Monthly Challenge - Ethereal Spring 

Gecko Galz Facebook Group April 2024 - The Beauty Of Spring 

The Four Seasons April 2024 - Anything Goes Spring 

Triple B Challenges April 2024 - Birds, Blooms, Butterflies (chick, blooms, handmade butterfly)

Snippets Playground #478 - Use Those Snippets (butterflies, fern, layers) 

Sparkles Monthly Challenge - April Showers Bring May Flowers

 

Gecko Galz Monthly Customer Challenge

 

Gecko Galz Facebook Group

 

Triple B Challenge

 

The Four Seasons

 

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.

Stamps: Gecko Galz

Card Stock: Neenah; Stampin Up; Scraps; Gecko Galz Digital Paper

Ink: none

Accessories: Computer, Printer, Brads, Primas, MS Punches, Glue Dots, Pop Up Glue Dots, Ice Stickles. Bling, Cat Sticker, Black Rose, TH Sprocket, Chipboard Clock

Another Top 5

 

 

 

Hello and welcome.  I discovered today that my here made Top 5 for the  The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge #160.

A Joyful Old Fashioned Santa

Hello and welcome.  I have another card I made while trying to focus on something else and not the migraine.  I've had to do something because nothing was touching it, or even taking the edge off plus I know crying will just hurt more.  I've had this pre-colored Santa image printed for a couple of weeks for the Gecko Galz© monthly Christmas challenge and I'm finally assembling it.

I started out by digging through my stash of designer paper and discovered this Recollections© Christmas paper I've had for years and haven't finished using it yet.  Once I had it adhered to my card base, I layered the Santa image and added brads before adhering it to my card using pop up glue dots.  I then dug through my embellishment stash and discovered this wooden JOY.  So I pulled that out, then pressed it into a Tim Holtz© picket fence distress ink pad to "paint" it.  Once I had the coverage I wanted, I then glued it to my card right under the Santa.  The final touches were some red/gold/navy fibers I've had for years and some Crafty Meraki midnight shimmer illusion bling around Santa's head and also the "dot" for JOY.

Challenges entered:

 

Never Before Used Schtuff (NBUS) #61 - Use Your NBUS (image, wooden joy) 

Word Art Wednesday Wks 643 and 644 - Anything Goes Uplifting (joy)

Peace On Earth #61 - See Mood Board (inspired by snow, pine branches, color red)

Gecko Galz Monthly Christmas Challenge - Use Provided Image

Park Hopping My Happy Place May 2024 - Anything Goes Theme Park Inspired Optional Hello Kitty (inspired by Christmas decor at Disneyland)

The Holly and Ivy Christmas #161 - Anything Goes Christmas 

Christmas Craft Creations April 2024 - Non Traditional Colors  (navy/black/red/gold)

Christmas Crafts All Year Round April 2024 - Santa, Elves, Gnomes (Santa)

 

 

Peace On Earth

 

Christmas Craft Creations

 

 

Christmas Crafts All Year Round

 

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.

Stamps: Gecko Galz

Ink: None

Card Stock: Neenah; Stampin Up; Recollections

Accessories: Computer, Printer, JOY, Bling, Brads, Pop Up Glue Dots, Meraki Bling

 

 

His Eye Is On The Sparrow .......

 

...or in this case a Finch. :)   

Hello and welcome.  Today I'd like to share a card I made using a digital image from Sweet N Sassy Stamps entitled Gold Finch.  Now I've had this image printed for some time and just haven't used it until now thanks to health, migraine and life in general.

After printing my finch on Neenah white card stock, I colored it using both prismacolor and copic markers before layering and adding some tiny black brads.  Once that was done, I pulled out my Timeless Hymns set and stamped the song words using my MISTI before layering and adding brads as well.  I then pulled out my paper pouncers and stippled Tim Holtz wild honey, scattered straw, frayed burlap and tea dye distress inks until I was satisfied with the coverage.  Taking both layered panels, I added them to a black card base using glue dots then added a small yellow bow from my stash.  As an afterthought, I then decided to distress the layered edges so I ran a fingernail along the edges until I was satisfied.  The final embellishments are a black 3D glaze pen highlighting parts of the finch, and frame, and a couple of yellow/gold sequins to finish it off.  I'm fairly happy with how this turned out considering I made it while dealing with this migraine that will not go away.  :(  

Challenges entered:

 

Never Before Used Schtuff (NBUS) #61 - Use Your NBUS (finch image)

Triple B April 2024 - Birds, Blooms, Butterflies (bird)

Word Art Wednesday Wks 643 to 644 - Anything Goes Uplifting (hymn)

Gem Of A Craft Wk 7 - Anything Goes 

I Spy With My Little Eye #14 - Wings (wings)

 

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.

Stamps: Sweet N Sassy Stamps

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; Tim Holtz Wild Honey, Scattered Straw, Frayed Burlap, Tea Dye Distress Inks

Card Stock: Neenah; Stampin Up

Accessories: Computer, Printer, Fingernail, Prismacolor and Copic Markers, Brads, Glue Dots, 3D Glaze Pen, Bow, Sequins, Glue, Paper Pouncers

Black Cat ATC's

 

Hello and welcome.  Today I'd like to share some ATC's (artist trading cards) I made using the free collage sheet provided called Black Cat Moon for the monthly ATC challenge over at  Gecko Galz.  I decided to make three of them from the collage and try stretching my creativity a bit.  Now, let me divert momentarily to say I LOVE black cats.  Lost both of mine during the pandemic to old age (one at 17, the other at 19), and they were sisters/litter mates until the end. 

I started out by printing the collage sheet on Neenah white card stock before cutting out all of the elements.  Taking the blue moon cat first, I layered it using a black scrap before layering more using the blue/gold background from the collage before one more layering on to a navy card stock scrap.  As an after thought, I went and distressed the edges of my layering before taking a navy marker to run along the sides of the ATC layers.  I embellished my ATC using a small bow sticker, brads, some Crafty Meraki Midnight Shimmer Illusion, color spritzed the navy marker over everything and diamond ice stickles to highlight the moon and white flowers. 

Next I took the black cat with the floral crescent moon.  Pulling out my Castle Arts watercolor pencils, I colored the flowers/leaves with them before stippling memento tuxedo black ink around the image using a paper pouncer then layered it using scraps before adding some tiny black brads.  I then layered that panel on to the blush/navy/black background from the collage before layering again on scrap black card stock.  I then dug through my sentiments stash and pulled out a small "Hello" clear stamp and added that to the bottom right corner before color spritzing the navy marker over everything.  For the remaining embellishments, I added diamond ice stickles, Crafty Meraki bling and a small piece of black fibers to the bottom left corner.  

For the last one, I took the grey/gold background, layered that and added some tiny white brads.  I then fussy cut the black cat and moon out before gluing them to the ATC.  I then dug out a long retired Small Script wooden set from Stampin Up, and stamped the "wish" between my cat and moon.  Once that was finished, I dug out of my stash some silver Stampendous class-a-peel star stickers, added those to the ATC before adding the diamond ice stickles to highlight the light parts of the moon.  The final embellishments were two googlie eyes on the peeking cat for an added touch of whimsy and silver star stickers I've had for years.  I am extremely happy with how these all turned out.  Fortunately, the migraine meds were taking the edge off enough to assemble/create everything.  

Challenges entered:

 

Gecko Galz Monthly ATC Challenge - April Black Cat Moon 

Park Hopping My Happy Place May 2024 - Anything Goes Theme Park Optional Hello Kitty (inspired by the Haunted Mansion Disneyland and Disneyland's feral cat colony)

Never Before Used Schtuff (NBUS) #61 - Use Your NBUS (collage sheet)

Crafty Catz #669 - Anything Goes Optional Any Cute Critter (cats)  

Creatalicious #276 - Something New (digital black cat collage)

Critter Crazy #85 - Anything Goes Featuring A Critter (black cats)

Digi Choosday Wk15 - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.

Stamps: Gecko Galz Black Cat Collage

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; Tim Holtz Picket Fence Distress Ink (back of ATC)

Card Stock: Neenah White; Scraps

Accessories: Computer, Printer, Googlie Eyes, Color Spritzer, SU Night of Navy Marker, Brads, Glue Dots, Diamond Ice Stickles, Castle Arts Watercolor Pencils, Distressing Tool, Glue, Bling, Bow, Fiber, Star Sticker