Don't Mess With Dad

Today's Wacky Wednesday challenge on the Rubbernecker Blog was to create a Father's Day card. Of course, being more like Erma Bombeck vs Martha Stewart, I have not even started on ANY of the cards that I need to make for this upcoming holiday. I decided to combine this with the sketch challenge on SCS and get a double bang for my buck.

This is a funky card. Originally, I had the 5x5 piece of creamy caramel as my base. Got everything laid out and something just didn't mesh. By chance, I plopped down the base on a scrap piece of Really Rust! AHHHHH!!! It needed that extra pop. Sooooo, since the DP was already adhered to the base, I just cut a piece of Really Rust 1/4" larger than my base and adhered THAT to the creamy caramel. Makes taking decent photos rather challenging...but IRL it's ok! hehe...(that would be Erma being too cheap to cut another piece of DP to do the card "correctly").

The center panel (the brown with the silver brads) is actually grunge paper that I painted with Vintage Photo crackle paint. I then sponged some chocolate chip ink and vintage photo ink over it to highlight the cracks more. In real life, it looks like old, cracked leather (and smells like it too!! The grunge paper has a "leather" scent!! PERFECT!! hehe). It is adhered with dimensionals so that the brads lie flat.

The image is from Stamp Oasis and is stamped with chocolate chip craft ink and clear embossed. Thank goodness for SU paper snips to cut around it. I did direct to paper with my ink pad in really rust on the rust panels. Added the brads from the SU silver hardware kit.

This is going to be my FIL's card for father's day. He loves things western (do you think that has anything to do with being born/raised in Nebraska? Running a feed lot?!! LOL!).

Thanks for stopping by again today!!

Pop of Red

Today's color challenge on SCS was to use white as our main color. The catch? Make it a one layer card!!

Now, I personally love this look and definitely wanted to play along. Got a light bulb idea and went to whip out my card. Easy peasy, right? NOPE! Go figure that I'd slip and totally mess up the sentiment when I stamped!! But, mistakes are just a another chance! So I ended up changing the sentiment and the color and rather like the outcome:

I used my Cuttlebug Swiss dots embossing folder along the top and my Scor-Pal for the other embossed lines. The flowers are from SU's Pretties kit and colored with my copic markers. I think that this would be a great card to mass produce and leave the sentiment blank for those last minute "need now" cards. Supplies: Paper: Gina K's 120# pure luxury. Stamps: SU's Warmest Regards. Ink: SU Real Red, copic ciaos. Accessories: Pretties Kit, decorative brad (unknown), Scor-Pal, Cuttlebug, Swiss Dots embossing folder

Thanks for dropping by today!! I'm off to continue my quest to get my house CLEAN!

Wacky Wednesday on Monday

YIKES!! Talk about cutting a deadline close!! I had wanted to do the Wacky Wednesday Challenge from Rubbernecker last week, but never got the time. Decided to try and "whip" out a card for the challenge (hoping that it will still be accepted......if not, oh well!! I still made a card, right?!). This week's challenge was to use Prism papers in Spring Willow, Intense Orange and Intense Yellow. Guess what?! I don't have any Prism papers!! But!! Luckily, the wonderful hostess Broni gave SU color substitutions in Old Olive, Summer Sun and Pumpkin Pie. SU I have!! Yippee!! I get to play! Here is what I came up with:

These colors seemed like sunset colors. And with a sunset, you need silhouettes. And probably my favorite set from Rubbernecker is Floral Silhouette. I first took a piece of Gina K's 120# pure luxury paper and using my favorite LARGE stencil brush, layed down a layer of Summer Sun. I then went over some of the area using Pumpkin Pie. Then, because I wanted the bottom corner still darker, I added some Ruby Red to the mix. I cut out the 1/2 circle using my old Creative Memories circle cutter. I then layered that over a small piece of black. The old olive piece is textured and the scallops made with my SU scallop punch. The Summer Sun layer has the new Flourish background stamped in summer yellow. The sentiment is also from the Floral Silhouette set and I masked it and used my stampamajig to stamp on the different layers. The layout was inspired by the FTL45A that can be found on the Clean and Simple Blog. My card measures 4 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches instead of the 3x3 that the sketch called for. But inspiration is inspiration!! Supplies: Paper: SU's Pumpkin Pie, Summer Sun, Old Olive (textured), Basic Black and Gina K's 120# pure luxury. Inks: Summer Sun and Ranger Archival Jet Black. Stamps: Floral Silhouette, Floral Background from Rubbernecker. Accessories: Black ribbon from Target, Circle Cutter from Creative Memories, scallop edge punch and stampamajig.

Thanks for stopping by again today!! I'm off to do some more cleaning that has been put off for waaaaay too long!

I'm glad for Quickies

Hold on to your hats~~I've got ANOTHER card for you today!! Last night while I was skimming through some of my favorite blogs I came across this great card by Jenn Balcer. Immediately I knew that I had to do this easy sketch and which paper I wanted to highlight.

I made my card a 5x5 square as I wanted to show off more of the designer paper by Me and My Big Ideas. The black swirls on this paper are FLOCKED!! OOOOOOO!!! I just LOVE it!! Can't keep my grimy little fingers from touching it!! This is the paper that made me buy this pack!!

I started with a base of Baja Breeze, and then a slightly smaller square of black. Cut my three panels and layered. Customed dyed the large Pretties Kit flower with Baja Breeze reinker and colored the smaller black flower with my black copic marker. Added the ivory pearl......then dug out my Cherished Memories rub ons (that I just had to have and had yet to ever use! (insert rolling eyes here_____)). All in all, I think this card took me about 10-15 minutes to complete (which for me~~ is a record!!) Supplies: Paper: SU Baja Breeze, Prism black, M&M Big Ideas Specialty Paper pack. Inks: Baja Breeze reinker. Accessories: Pretties kit, SU Cherished Memories rub ons.

The weather is cold, wet and gloomy. Which means that DH is not going to be working outside today. He mentioned something about cleaning the house (sigh.....) Guess I should be happy that he'll help ruin my Sunday, BWHAHAAAA!!

Double the Inspiration

Hope everyone is having a WONDERFUL weekend!! I've just been putzin' around today and came up with a double challenge card!!

I just love all the unique sites that Steph comes up with for the inspiration challenges on SCS. This weeks was from Design Dazzle. I spent waaaaayyyy too much time just cruising the site and the blog before getting serious and picking this nursery as my inspiration. I really liked the CAS pop that this room has. I over thought the layout and after messing around with several ideas~~this is what I came up with:

This also worked for this weeks Ways to Use it Challenge which was to make our own images to fit a design need. I pulled out my SU sponge daubers and inked it in Only Orange. Using my copics cias I added a bit a shading. Interesting effect, IRL. The alcohol inks on the water based inks doesn't blend the same way as alcohol on alcohol. But I rather liked the look so kept with it! I hand drew the "stems" and cut out the leaves free hand from an old SU 6x6 print pack. I used my Versamarker on the leaves to add some shadow. Cut a strip from the same DP and used my scallop punch for the border along the side. I decided against adding a sentiment. This card just seemed like the type of card one would grab for a quick note. Supplies: Paper: Gina K's 120# pure luxury, SU 6x6 designer pack. Inks: Only Orange, copic ciaos, versamarker and chocolate chip marker. Accessories: Scallop punch, sponge daubers

Finish Line in Site

Whew!! Today is the last day of school. All I can say is.....5 am....making coffee cake and fruit salad. Getting party game supplies together. Getting the teacher gifts in undecorated bags (sigh). Only 1/2 day to go.

The finish line is scheduled for 12:30pm. Then~maybe then~ I can make something for ME!!

Guitar Hero Turns 12

I'm sure all of you have been sitting on the edge of your seats just wondering if SuperMom was able to finish all her projects in time or did the kryptonite get her?

SuperMom DID finish her projects. BUT only because she married SuperDad, who took over the every day chores of feeding the kids, cleaning up the kitchen and running out to buy more tape and pick up white cardstock from SuperMom's sidekick~Ultimate Upline Kerney!!

Ok.....First things first. Oldest DS turned 12 on Saturday and his biggest birthday wish was to get Guitar Hero and Guitar Hero/Metallica (he makes his daddy so proud!!). Here is the ever enthusiastic birthday boy (at Grandma's house for the "family" celebration). Got that 80's "hair band" going for him!

And here is the lead guitarist with the rest of his band (youngest DS and dad) putting on a concert at home.

(who knew that it took such concentration to play? I'm tellin' you tho....this stupid game is harder than it should be!! Maybe "air guitar" is a guy thing...I STINK at it!!)

With this "theme" in mind~I created this card for the kiddo:

I was inspired by these two cards that I found on SCS. The first one is by Diamondanglefish, which was inspired by Michelle Zindorf's card.

I dug out my Me & My Big Ideas specialty card stock and chose one that had the most "boyish" colors/feel to it (you can't tell in the photo, but it has some diag "clear embossing" along each of the "stripes". Still being on my "wrinkle free distress kick", I first masked off the bottom portion of the image area and then stamped the guitar image using Black stazon and clear embossed. I then swiped my distress inks on my craft sheet and misted with water. Layed down my image in the wet ink and dried with my heat gun. Repeated until I got the look that I wanted. The embossing resisted most of the ink....there are a few flecks on the "white" but it actually looks pretty cool IRL. I then used sponge daubers to add vintage photo distress ink for more detailed shading on the one side of the guitar and across the bottom. Highlighted the guitar with my white gel pen. Distressed the edges and added some more vintage photo ink along the edges. Found some green and blue wire and twisted to mimic the guitar wire. Added a couple of brads and wah-lah!! DS even gave it a "this is really cool, mom" vote! (hey!! That's more than the usual "glance at the card and toss it aside response" that is more the norm!!)Supplies: Paper: Me & My Big Ideas specialty cardstock, SU's wild wasabi, basic black and Gina K's 120# pure luxury in white. Stamps: Inkadinkado's Rock Star. Ink: Stazon Black, Ranger Distress inks in Peeled Paint, faded jeans, vintage photo. Accessories: Sponge daubers, brads, wire, heat gun, mister, craft sheet.

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I also got the 12x12 scrapbook done for the Principal's 50th birthday. The front cover has a picture of the principal with 50! in the corner. The first two pages are pictures of the principal in various activities at the school (a great shot of him catching a snooze in a wheelbarrow during a work bee!). The rest of the layouts are two pages: one side has a class picture and the other side has birthday wishes that each grade wrote up for the principal. This was done from K-12. All of this was done using the school colors of black and red with some wonderful Cardinal designer paper that the Ultimate Upline Kerney let me use!! I'm not going to post this project since I have not gotten permission from ANYONE of the 300+ people/kids that are shown. Just trust me that it turned out good!! hehe

Thanks for stopping by again!! I enjoy sharing my projects and hope that you find some inspiration from them!