Simon Says Stamp Summer Vacation: Kids Challenge

Hi, I'm Natalie and I'm 12 years old. I created the card below for the Simon Says Stamp Summer Vacation: Kids Challenge Anything Goes with Glitter. 

I drew my card design and then colored it with the Prismacolor pencils I bought with my savings and used a glue pen to add glitter to the word in the speech bubble on the front that says "HEY".

**no zebras were harmed in the making of this card.  I would never really harm a zebra**

Thank you for looking at my artwork. 

Kraft bag gift card holder

I love this Kraft Bag Gift Card holder tutorial on SCS--super easy to put together and looks great.

I colored the bloom from Birthday Blooms with copic markers and went over the entire image with a clear wink of stella pen--it's tough to get a good picture of the shimmer on this flower but you can see a little more of it in the next photo.  I also rubbed a bit of gold ink in the center of the flower.

I stamped a sentiment from Banner Banter on to a couple of tiny banners I made with the triple banner punch--best punch ever, seriously.

I used a couple of skinny strips of pattern paper from Birthday Bouquet and gold card stock to dress up the card portion of the project.

I chose to omit the flags on each pull out piece because I felt the inserts were easy enough to grab and pull out. I also used my MFT gift card grooves die for the gift card portion instead of putting flags on an actual gift card and tucking it in.

Thank you for stopping by and have a wonderful weekend!

Bloom Friend

I'll admit I am a bit obsessed with this flower stamp. 

 I embossed with clear embossing powder on watercolor paper.  I watercolored with distress inks--picked raspberry and spiced marmalade go together well and look like watermelon wonder to me.  The card base is Watermelon Wonder and I stamped the Brushstrokes background stamp diagonally in WW ink. 

You can't see the watercolor detail well in the main photo, so here is a close up of the flower.  I went over the watercolor with a clear wink of stella pen.

Do you hear this card screaming for sequins? :)  I do!  Unfortunately, I don't have a good sequin color in my stash to use on this card so I will have to add some once my sequin order arrives.

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bloom thank you

I colored the flower from Birthday Blooms (so glad I got this set) with copics and added some additional decoration with a white gel pen.  The sentiment is from the set One Big Meaning and I embossed the background with a  SU embossing folder called Stylish Stripes.

Another day of participating the The Daily Marker's 30 day coloring challenge.

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Papertrey Ink's 9th anniversary - Day 1 challenge

I created this clean, simple card for Papertrey Ink's 9th anniversary challenge-Day 1.  Stamp sets used are Turning a New Leaf  w/ coordinating dies, Notched Flower Dies and Funky Florals stamp set.  Funky Florals is a limited edition set PTI offered in 2012.  

I used my MISTI to line up the stamps on the die cut--MISTI makes this process so much easier for me and has made me lift my ban on purchasing stamps with tiny die cuts.

I chose the color combo of lemon tart, simply chartreuse, hibiscus burst and Raspberry Fizz because the colors are lovely.

Have a great day!

More birthday blooms

I used the small flower from Birthday Blooms and Birthday Bouquet pattern paper.  The pattern paper looks more green in my photo but it's mint macaron.

I used the Triple Banner Punch for the banner piece. I colored the bloom with copic markers R20, R00 and G21,G24. Layout is from this sketch.

I'm participating as much as I can with The Daily Marker's 30 day coloring challenge.  

Have a great day!

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Birthday Blooms

I was on the fence about this stamp set  (I'm not a good colorist and i'm impatient) but couldn't stop thinking about that big, gorgeous flower. 

I used my MISTI --save all your pennies and GET A MISTI-- to stamp the flower in black ink, color it with copics and re-stamp in Versamark ink and emboss it in white.  You can see a little bit of the black under the white embossing which gives a nice shadow effect.  

I am participating today in The Daily Marker 30 day coloring challenge.  

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Christmas Card 2015

This year's card is as simple as my usual Christmas cards turn out, but this year, I cranked them out even faster.  My secret...Silhouette Cameo and MISTI.  

I used the tree and star from this cut file and created a card front in my Cameo software and was able to cut out 5 at a time from 8.5 x 11 card stock. I rounded the bottom corners and adhered a piece of glitter paper on the back. The MISTI allowed me to assembly line stamp each card front perfectly-I still ask myself how I lived without the MISTI. The background stamp is a large newsprint background (Impression Obsession, maybe?) that I stamped tone on tone.  

Thank you for stopping by!

A little Thanks...

Hold the phones, I actually finished a card. Woot!  I'm sure there are others out there like me, working full time to feed kids and support a craft habit.  Too bad the job gets in the way of craft time. 

I loved all the cards I saw with this gorgeous flower stamp from SU called You've Got This and had to get it.  The inspiration for the coloring came from * i think * Simon Says Stamp.  I saw a coloring page (?) and a sample already colored and it was such a gorgeous blue.  If I find it, I will link it.

I made the plaid background with an image from a set called Stamp a Bag.  Turned out cute to me.

Thank you for stopping by my blog!

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Smartphone Shaker Card

I made this smartphone shaker birthday card for my niece. I pulled a selfie of her from her Facebook page and sized it in Photoshop to fit the inside of the phone die (smart phone die set is from My Favorite Things). It took me awhile to make the shaker portion due to the sides of the smartphone die being thin, but it worked out in the end.  What you can't see in the photo is that the Cool speech bubble is glittery--I used my clear wink of stella pen on it. 

I stamped the inside with a sentiment from Hero Arts. It's a bright, fun, personalized card for a teen.

Thank you for stopping by!

Watercolor Wings

I recently purchased this gorgeous set called Watercolor Wings from Stampin' Up! and I'm becoming slightly obsessed with it. So many color combinations for this stamp set!  I used Crumb Cake card stock and stamped the image in Baked Brown Sugar ink (retired).  You can substitute Crumb Cake ink for Baked Brown Sugar. 

I went with Calypso Coral ink (stamped off for the base and stamped full color for the inside details) and gold, which is a lovely combination.

Thank you for stopping by!

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Simple party favor bags

My daughter had a sleepover for her 14th birthday party and I made these super simple and quick party favors for her friends to take home.  I'm all about simple and quick these days.  I cut the handle out of chevron embossed cardstock with my Silhouette Cameo.

 I found the cardstock at Michaels and  love it so much I bought it in several colors and designs.

I bought the small sacks at Hobby Lobby and cut the length down to 5" so the bags end up being roughly 3.5 x 5. which is a great size for party favor bags--not too big and not too small.

Bag Handle cut file:  Treat Topper 2

Life is Beautiful Butterfly Die: Papertrey Ink

Pattern Paper is from Michaels craft store

Many Thanks stamp: from a Label Frames stamp set by Papertrey Ink

Thanks for stopping by!

Freshly Made Sketches #174

I made a card.  It's hard to believe, I know. :)  It's been so long I had to reset my password to access my blog. ha ha

 

I've been digging around challenge blogs trying to find something to spark some creativity of any kind and decided to try the new sketch at Freshly Made Sketches.

 

 

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

 

 

Stamps:  Life is Beautiful + coordinating die  (Papertrey Ink)
Cardstock: Wplus 9 and Papertry Ink
Ink: Melon Berry and Kraft (Papertrey Ink)

Digi scrapbooking template and Project Life app

I haven't been stamping much the last few months, sort of took a break from it.  I've had the urge to scrapbook for awhile and have been focusing on that.  I have several 12x12 albums that I filled a few years ago when my kids were smaller and basically abandoned it when I discovered stamping.  We love pulling out those albums occasionally and looking through them and it makes me sad that I stopped adding to the collection. 

 

So, while I can't go back to traditional scrapbooking like the old days, I can scrapbook digitally with Photoshop and on my iphone.  If you follow me on Instagram, you may have noticed I have been posting my digital Project Life pages and am slightly obsessed with scrapbooking on my phone! 

Made with Project Life App and Rhonna Designs App

Printed layout from Persnickety Prints

The Project Life App is the perfect way for me to scrapbook my camera roll photos on my phone and capture those everyday moments.  I uploaded my 12x12 pages to Persnickety Prints--you can also do this on your phone with the Persnickety Prints app--and had them printed. 

 

 I also do Project Life digitally in Photosop for pictures I take with my camera.  You can purchase templates and digital kits that make it super quick and easy to pull a page together.

 

Below is a template I created based on an old scrapbook page I made years ago.  You can place your picture over a square and create a clipping mask and it will pop your picture into the shape. This is for Photoshop or PSE.

 

12x12 Scrapbook Template for PS or PSE

 

 

This is a layout I created with the template:

 

 

Have a wonderful day!

Beautiful Butterfly

 Poor lighting this evening (I've got to get another lamp!), but I was able to capture some of the gold shimmer on the butterfly.  I die cut a white butterfly and sprayed it with gold shimmer spray- it's a lovely look in person.

This Beautiful Butterflies (Papertrey Ink) stamp set and coordinating die set is, for lack of a better word, beautiful! 

 

Have a wonderful evening!

Aqua & Melon PTI Blog Hop: May 2014

 

 

 

My card looks orange but it's really more melon in person--terrible lighting today!  I used 2 shades of melon...stamped in a lighter melon and the card base is a darker papaya color.

 

 

 

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Have a great weekend!

Seize the Sketch # 20 ...brightly!

 

 

 

Is this a bright card or what? :)  I love this Mama Elephant set called We Click.

 

  Pulled out my neglected Copics to color the camera.  I'm in such a watercolor frenzy right now I tried to watercolor it on regular cardstock--I laid down some ink with my copic marker and promptly grab a water color brush and tried to move that ink around...it did not work out so I had to start over. :)

 

 

 

I took some liberties with the sketch but I still think you can see the sketch in there.

 

Have a great day!

CAS(e) this sketch # 76

Trying to knock the dust off my mojo with a sketch challenge. Wish I'd brought the ROCK sentiment down lower but hindsight is 20/20. 

 

Used the awesome So 80's stamp set from Wplus9.

Thanks for stopping by!

 

 

Watercolor homework [days 3 and 4]

Actually, this homework should be for days 3 and 4 and the work I posted previously for days 3 and 4 should go in days 5 and 6.  Sigh.  I goofed, but I'm going to straighten it out.

 I made this super simple thank you card for my daughter to give to a friend and used my go to layout.  I stamped the images from Fresh Cut Florals (Wplus9) in Distress Inks/markers and softened them with a small round watercolor brush and water (of course!) 

 

Have a great day!

Watercolor class homework days 5 and 6 and Virginia's View Challenge #3

Here's my homework for class days 3 and 4   5 and 6. Actually, this work fits days 5 and 6 and I re-did my work for days 3 and 4.  Pretty messy attempt and I totally used a butterfly painting I found on Pinterest as inspiration for this card.  Practice makes perfect and this was fun so I'll be practicing. :) **Let me add that I wanted the coloring to be a bit messy, I just wanted a more controlled mess. LOL**

 

 

I added a tiny amount of faux stitching to the sentiment panel because I thought it needed a little something added and as a bonus, I get to enter this card in the current Virginia's View Challenge: Stitching. 

 

 

Have a great day!