Polka Dot Bikini

Today’s card is for the Friday Mashup challenge to do a card with a summer theme or do a card with polka dots or mash it up and do a summer card with polka dots.

When I thought about the polka dots the first stamp I thought of was a Rubbernecker stamp Ethel in Bikini. She is wearing a polka dot bikini, and bikini’s are summertime to me.

Ethel was stamped on glossy paper with Memento Tuxedo Black ink, then colored with a Alcohol Ink Fillable Pen, filled with Blending Solution and various Alcohol Inks, then cut out.

The Sun is from an old retired SU set called Sensational Scenery, stamped with Mustard Seed Distress Ink and also cut out.

The next layer was white cut with a Nestie Label Four die, I ran a blue Gelly Roll Stardust Pen around the inside of the die before removing, Stippled Tumbled Glass in the center, then added some sand at the bottom.

The next layer is the same blue as the base card, cut out with a Nestie Label Eight die, and a white gel pen run around the inside of the die before removing.

I chose a yellow ribbon with white polka dots, ran it across the same blue as the base card, and punched the top and bottom with a MS punch around the page border punch called Cherish. Stamped the sentiment from a MFT set called Twisted Sentiments with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink. This is layered of a piece of white using the same border punch on top and bottom. Then I added two flip flop brads.

The next layer is blue with white polka dots from a DCWV stack that I have lost the cover for. I punched the corners with the MS punch around the page corner punch (Cherish). Layered onto white using the same corner punch, then layered onto the base card.

It has been a while since I have been able to play with my toys. This is my busy time, being outside cutting grass & weed eating. Since my Mother bought the house across the road in stamping land, we have two houses here to take care of, and three in non-stamping land (my Mothers, Mother-In-Law’s and mine), plus a garden. I also cut grass & weed eat at the farm that we hunt.

It’s a good thing I like cutting grass, I’m beginning to hate weed eating though. I spent five hours weed eating the other day, I had an hour for lunch, and didn’t get it finished, but let me tell you, I was about finished. I don’t think I could have pulled the cord to start the weed eater to many more times.

I was here in stamping land last week, but didn’t have time to do any stamping. My DH decided he wanted me to put a flowerbed in out back, so we hauled in two ton of topsoil. We can only carry one ton on our trailer at a time. By the time I shoveled it off of our trailer onto my cart, then shoveled it off again, I’m sure it turned into four ton. All two ton wasn’t put in the flowerbed, I spread some around in different places in the yard. The soil in the yard has been pretty sad since building the house, we still don’t have grass in some places, but it’s getting better. I also bought a bunch of flowers and planted them along with some we dug up in non-stamping land. Then I had him get me two scoops of mulch and I spread it. I ran out of mulch, money and time to get it finished.

This trip we brought down probably a ton of old sheep and steer manure, which I spread around yesterday. It looked like it was going to be a piece of cake to spread it, it was so old it mostly looked like dirt, but then it rained on it the night we got here, and made it a little difficult to shovel, but that is done. So finally I’m getting to play today.

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Happy Stamping!
judy

Reward for Dog

Today’s card was made with two of the stamps I won at a Rubbernecker blog hop, from the generous Mr. Rubbernecker.

The main image Ethel Nailing The Stud a new release from Rubbernecker last month, was stamped with Onyx Black Versafine on white cardstock, colored with Prismacolored pencils & Goo Gone, then cut out. Next I stamped the sentiment also a Rubbernecker new release from last month called Reward For Dog Text on white cardstock also with Onyx Black Versafine, then cut and embossed with a Nesties rectangle die.

With those done, I had to figure out what else I wanted. For the fence, I took a piece of white cardstock, grabbed my Scor-buddy and made some fence boards, then did the Acrylic Resist Technique. The cardstock was painted with an Adirondack Dabber (Snow Cap), sanded, Tea Dye Distress Ink sponged over it, wiped with a damp paper towel. I repeated the steps until I wound up with the way it looks now. A MS grass border punch finished up the bottom of the scene. For the background, a piece of white cardstock sponged with tumbled glass Distress Ink, then the tree from a Flourishes Forest of Trees stamp was inked with Peeled Paint Distress ink and stamped three times. The scene was then layered onto a piece of purple cut to size with a white card base.

After the card was put together, I added Crystal Effects to the glasses and Starry Night Stickles on the earring. The nail on the left side holding the sign up is a piece of cardstock colored with the same Prismacolored pencil that colored the other nails, and punched with a Crop-A-Dial.

I have been wanting to play with these stamps every since I received them, but being in two different houses really creates a problem. Especially when all my stamping stuff is at one house, I don’t want to carry everything back and forwards.

I’m back in my stamping land again. My DSL in non-stamping land was down with some kind of problem since Monday morning. I get back here with a different internet service, and this morning Blogger was down. I don’t know what is going on. Hopefully everything is ok now.

Thanks for stopping by, and I really enjoy reading the comments.

Happy Stamping!
judy

Ballet Resist

Here is a card for Challenge #6 at Use It Tuesday, to use brads, eyelets, grommets, buttons, etc..

When I found out what the challenge was, I thought of this stamp I bought years ago and have never used. I don’t know the company name, but the label says Ballet Dancing Doll 2003 limited edition, RS. I think I picked it up at A.C. Moore, but I’m not positive.

Anyway, what made me think of this stamp is the movable arms & legs. The card doesn’t really look that great to me, I think I rushed through it too fast, trying too many different things at once, but I am pleased with parts of it.

I stamped the ballerina on white cardstock several times trying different things that didn’t work. Finally settling on onyx black Versafine. The skin and the blue parts were done with Prismacolored pencils & goo gone. For all of the yellow, green leaves, lips & fingernails, I used SU markers. While coloring the flowers in her hair, I thought of something I saw on the blog of Kittie Caracciolo. Of course I had to try it, I colored some scrap paper with the SU marker, then punched out holes with a 1/4” and 1/8” hole punch, glued the smaller hole in the center of the larger hole, and placed them on a mouse pad and pressed down with a dry embossing tool, then glued them in place over the stamped flowers. A dot of yellow stickles was added afterwards. For the smaller flowers, I grabbed my Crop-A-Dial and punched some more pieces.

You would think the leg and arm on the right side of the stamp would go on the right and the same for the left side, well let me tell you, I have had these arms and legs off and on so many times, it’s a wonder I didn’t have to stamp them over, trying to figure out how they were supposed to be. The arms are attached with yellow brads, the legs with blue brads.

Can you tell I know absolutely nothing about ballet??

The yellow background is another something new (to me) I tried, Cuttlebug wax paper resist. Gina K has a video over at Stamp TV. Along with a sewing machine, my next item I avoid using is an iron. If I can’t wash & wear, I don’t buy, I learned that lesson a long time ago…..after melting something I was trying to iron. Anyway, I cut a piece of wax paper the size of a Cuttlebug folder, (Divine Swirls), ran it through the Cuttlebug, then placed it between two pieces of white cardstock, and ironed, next I sponged rusty hinge Distress Ink over it and wiped with a paper towel.

Having made it this far, I was at a loss at how to finish it, so I just winged it, I punched the left and right edges of the yellow with a MS punch around the page border punch (swirling lace).  added a layer of white, using the same border punch, then sponged the edges with stormy sky Distress Ink. Next I have just a plain layer of black with a white base card. Next I added a punched black strip across the top. I didn’t think the four brads holding the body parts together was sufficient, so I cut another strip of black, and used the corner punch to the punch around the page set to make a tag, grabbed the Rubbernecker sentiment Flaunt It Text, stamped with Versamark, and embossed with detail white ep, added an orange mini brad to each side. Then using the Crop-A-Dial punched three holes for eyelets and added three orange eyelets.

The arms and legs are moveable, but can’t really show that in a picture, so here is another picture with them in a different position.

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Mothers Day 2011

I’m back in my stamping land. Nothing like waiting until the last minute to make a card is there? I have been having so much fun entering challenges, that I completely forgot about making Mother’s Day cards.

When we left here last, we were supposed to go to my Mother’s for Easter, and come right back, but due to unseen circumstances, it took us longer than we expected to return. For Mother’s Day, (actually Saturday instead of Sunday) my DH will pick his Mother up at the nursing home and bring her down to our Log Home for the day. I will be staying down here, playing with my toys and cleaning for the get together on Saturday.
This is going to be my Mother’s Day card for this year. I will enter it in the HM&F  #94 challenge, although I’m not really sure if it fits the challenge (This can be traveling, or going, or anything that gets you from one place to another.) Right now I wish somebody was carrying me around as I am very tired.

I chose the HMHH stamp Love Bunny for the main image, stamped on white cardstock with onyx black Versafine, and colored with Prismacolored pencils and Goo Gone. I used a SU black marker for the eyes on the adult bunny, and some black Inkssentials Enamel Accents for the eyes on the baby bunny. The tail on the baby bunny is a combination of Snow Writer and Polar White Flower Soft. The hearts were filled in with Xmas red Stickles. The main image was then cut and embossed with a Nesties circle die, and before removing the die, I sponged broken china Distress Ink around the image. The next layer (yellow) was just cut with a Nesties scalloped circle die, then I pierced each one of the scallops. The next layer is dp from a DCWV spring glitter stack, the corners punched with a ticket punch, then layered onto a piece of turquoise cardstock using a corner rounder punch, and layered onto a yellow base card. I attached yellow brads on the four punched corners. For the sentiment, I grabbed my trusty notebook with all my stamp examples in it to see what I wanted to use. I knew as soon as I spotted this Rubbernecker stamp called Some Bunny Text, it was perfect! I tried a new technique (to me) that I saw on Beate John's blog for wax paper resist. You just take a piece of wax paper, crumple it up and place it between two pieces of glossy cardstock, then iron. You can just use one piece of glossy cardstock, but by using two pieces of glossy cardstock you get two finished pieces to work with. You can not use photo paper for this technique, I tried it. After ironing the wax paper design, I sponged broken china Distress ink all over, then wiped with a paper towel, the ink does not stick to the wax, and comes right off. I stamped the sentiment with jet black Stazon, the glossy paper is slippery and very easy to smear, luckily I only smeared the “y’s” in Bunny a little, it was then cut and embossed with a Spellbinders fancy tag die, attached to the cardstock, and I slapped a flower brad on each side.

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Berry Full

Here is another card for challenge #5 at Use It Tuesday. Siobhan had asked me to make a card using ribbon/twine something that ties, as a guest designer for winning challenge #3. My first card Old Corset is showcased on the challenge page.  I wanted to make another card, since I had used the sentiments on the Old Corset card before, making sure before even beginning this one was totally unused items.

 
For this card I used a House Mouse Stamp called Berry Full Mudpie, that I have had for years and it’s never seen ink. It was colored with Prismacolored pencils & goo gone, cut to size, Milled Lavender Distress ink was sponged around the edges, then it was layered on black. The ribbon is brand new to me, but I’m sure it has been around for a while, I raided my Mother’s stash of ribbons the other week when I was at her house, I only walked away with two boxes full, and it hardly made a dent. I guess it’s considered ribbon, it’s so fancy with the green, red & blue metallic threads. Here is a close-up.

 
I don’t sew, as you can probably tell from the cards I have done with a sewing machine, so unless it’s in the package with a name on it I just call it whatever suits me. I chose a brand new piece of unused dp from my stash, it came from a DCWV Flower Shower Spring Stack, it’s layered on black with a purple base card. Another something I have never done before is use a button on a card, I do know how to sew buttons on that’s a piece of cake compared to a sewing machine. This button was snatched from my MIL’s button bag. The blue metallic cord was also something I snatched at my Mother’s, so that is also something I have never used, and it matched the blue in the ribbon perfectly. I have three gold brads in the top right corner, that doesn’t show up too well, instead of putting them in a straight row, I offset the middle one using a SU Mat pack template. I guess the dp is creating an optical illusion, they don’t look equally spaced. I have used the gold brads before. Now we are down to the sentiment, it’s from The Rubbernecker Stamp Company’s Laundry Days collection called Those Days Text, I don’t believe I have ever used this either, but my sense of humor tends to make me use something like this, so I’m not positive on this stamp. I originally stamped it on black with Versamark and embossed with jeweled gold ep, but when I took the picture, you couldn’t tell what it said, so I removed it, stamped on white with Onyx Black Versafine, cut it out using a pair of SU mountain deckle scissors, which I may have never used, as a matter of fact I haven’t even touched them in years, other than packing and unpacking, when moving my craft stuff from my other house. The edges was sponged with Milled Lavender Distress Ink, then it was layered onto black also cut with the same scissors.

Aerobics Suck!

This week’s color challenge at Stamp TV is to use crème de menthe, red hot and lemon drop. Here is an entry.

I chose to use two of my Rubbernecker Stamps, Aerobics Suck! and Ethel in Leotard. The main image was stamped on white cardstock with onyx black versafine, colored with prismacolored pencils & goo gone, cut out, then I decided to give her varicose veins, (hope you can see them in the picture), and her glasses have a coating of All Night Media Liquid Embossing Sepia Glass Finish, so she was laid to the side to dry. The layer under her is a piece of yellow matching the cardbase, it was run through the Cuttlebug with the Perfectly Paisley ef, then cut and embossed with Nestie Labels Thirteen, and sponged with some distress inks (Tumbled Glass & Fired Brick). The artificial crème de menthe layer was also cut and embossed with the Nesties. The red layer was also run through the Cuttlebug with an ef from the Heritage Collection, the corners sponged with Fired Brick. The sentiment was stamped on artificial crème de menthe with onyx black versafine, then cut out with a Ribbon Tag Trio die, I used another die from that set and cut out a layer of yellow to put behind it. The yellow ribbon was run through the tags and attached to the back of the red layer. The lady was added with foam pop-dots.

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Chunky Dunk

This card is for a challenge at Use It Tuesday We want you to cut into that piece of pretty, pretty patterned paper you have been hoarding and actually make something with it!

I have all kinds of patterned paper hoarded. I have used some out of different stacks, but it’s hard to remember which ones. I picked up a DCWV The Summer Scrapbook Kit in a Stack and flipped through it, I don’t think I have ever used any of this stack. When I saw the background dp for this card, I knew that I wanted to combine a couple different stamps, the sentiment is a brand new one (to me) from Creative Clear Stamps called Chunky Dunk, the main image is a Rubbernecker stamp called Ethel in swimsuit. Now I have itty bitty teeny weeny yellow polka dot bikini, going through my head, so I have to do some paper piecing. I know the background is not some pretty, pretty patterned paper, but I had to go with the flow. This card has a lot of hoarded items on it, not just paper. The white base card is from a brand new pack (I needed a bigger card) The blue layers, the striped layer and the background dp are all from same stack listed above, and as far as I know never used. The main image (Ethel in Bikini) was stamped on white cardstock with onyx black versafine, colored with prismacolored pencils and goo gone. The bikini was stamped again on yellow with white polka dots dp, along with the towel stamped on some polka dot dp from my scrap pile (I cheated here). I used a black marker to fill in the polka dots on the bikini (dah! I should have just stamped on yellow paper), and her earrings, a green marker for the flip flops. The image was masked and I stippled around her with distress inks (tumbled glass, pumice stone and old paper), cut out with a nesties labels six die, and sponged some more distress ink around the edge. Crystal lacquer was added to the glasses, after the card was all put together. Another hoarded item, is the green things on each corner of the main image, I don’t know what they are called, and evidently didn’t know how to mount them either, you can see the impression from my crop-a-dial on the first one I put in on the bottom right.  The sentiment was stamped in onyx black versafine on white and cut with a nestie labels twelve. I also added a piece of matching green ribbon.

Thanks for looking and I’d love to hear your comments.