Serendipity Stamps Guest Design Take Two

I am back again with another project for my guest design with Serendipity Stamps. This time I used the Lighthouse die along with the "Do Not Go" quote for a masculine card that would be perfect for a graduation. The quote is by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

I was inspired by Peggy's Point Lighthouse which my family visited when we traveled to Peggy's Cove Nova Scotia in 2003.

The tiny little lighthouse in the photo below was mimicked after Peggy's, I can't remember the name of it or where we saw it but I remember being there like it was yesterday.

The sky background was sponged with Tumbled Glass Distress Ink I die cut the lighthouse in white, red and gold. I cut the cap off of the red lighthouse and glued it to the top of the white. The rest of the pieces were inlaid into the white lighthouse. I used a grey snowdrift die to mimic the rocky base Peggy`s lighhouse stands on.

I hope that you come over and play along at the Serendipity Stamps Challenge Blog this month. There is a chance to win a $20 Gift Certificate for Serendipity Stamps. Thank you Mary and the Design Team for having me play along with you this month.

Serendipity Stamps Guest Design & 30 Day Coloring Challenge

I am happy to share with you today that I am Guest Designing this month with Serendipity Stamps on the Serendipity Stamps Challenge Blog for Challenge #44 "My Guy". Serendipity makes stamps and dies with some of the most beautiful images and designs.  For today's post I have two cards to share with you that would be perfect for a birthday or even more appropriately this month as Father's Day cards.  For these I worked with the Golf Bag Cling Stamp set.

For my first card I stamped the golf bag image on a white panel with Memento Tuxedo Black and coloured the image in with Copic markers--YG23, YG25, T1, 2, 4, 6. The sentiment was stamped with VersaFine Onyx Black.

For the second card I stamped the image with Memento Tuxedo Black and then coloured over the grass with YG23 and coloured the tee in with R05.  The sentiment was stamped with VersaFine Onyx Black.

I hope that you come over and play along at the Serendipity Stamps Challenge Blog this month. There is a chance to win a $20 Gift Certificate for Serendipity Stamps. Thank you Mary and the Design Team for having me play along with you this month--I will see you again on the 17th!

These projects are part of Kathy Racoosin's 30 Day Coloring Challenge 2.

Anyone can join in at any time over the 30 days.

I am also submitting both of these to the Simon Says Stamps Wednesday Challenge - Make It Masculine!

colourQ #193 and CFC104 and Simon Says Stamps Masculine/Father's Day and Die Cut Divas

Happy Tuesday and time for this week's colourQ challenge.

I just love this week's colours inspired by a fun and funky hula shirt.

I stamped my sentiment in three parts.  I masked off the bottom portion to stamp the top in black, then I masked the top to stamp the bottom 'Hero' with Hawaiian Shores and then I stamped the mid portion on a piece of cardstock and fussy cut the banner out of it.  The whole sentiment was die cut with a sitched mat and then double matted with Island Indigo and Certainly Celery.  I was really pleased how these colours popped off the white card base.

I am also submiting this card to CAS-ual Friday's Banners & Flags, Simon Says Stamps Masculine/Father's Day and Die Cut Diva's challenges.

We hope that you come a play with us this week at the colourQ and while you are there make sure to visit the blogs of the rest of the Design Team to see their fabulous creations. 

Don't you love it when your kids use your toys for school projects?

Brooklyn used PTI Stars, Just the Ticket stamps and dies, Lil' Inkers Polaroid frame, and my Silhouette to do her History ISU. This is how I justify the money I spend.  LOL

Cardstock:  White (Papertrey Ink) Island Indigo, Certainly Celery (Stampin' Up)

Stamps: Man of the Hour (Waltzingmouse)

Ink: Real Red (Stampin' Up) Hawaiian Shores (Papertrey Ink) Memento Tuxedo Black (Tsukineko)

Dies: Stitched Mats, Sentiment Flag (Lil' Inkers)

CCC #47 and CFC103 and Addicted to CAS #14

Welcome back for this week's CASology challenge.

You will notice at the CASology blog that we have had a makeover, a new Clean & Simple look. 

You definitely need to drop in to see it.

This week our cue card is:

Are the wheels turning already??

I can think of a certain young man that will be getting this card is a couple of weeks.  Hoping the colours are not too girly for him.  I also hope he doesn't think he is getting a car.  LOL

Tilting your design adds more interest to a smaller image and adding some stamping behind the focal image creates movement. I am also submitting this card to CAS-ual Fridays congratulations challenge and Addicted to CAS #14.

Head on over to CASology today to learn what the 'cue card' means to you, how you can play along and see the all the cards created by the Design Team to inspire you.

Melissa Chipperfield

Rosemary Dennis

Tracey McNeely (that's me)

Jen Wills

Ardyth Percy-Robb

Judy Marino

Maureen Merritt

Meghan McMillan

Guest Designer:  Mary

I can't wait to see what WHEELS mean to you!

All supplies are from Papertrey Ink unless otherwise mentioned.

Cardstock:  White, True Black (Papertrey Ink)

Stamps: Enjoy the Ride, Bountiful Banners, Sketched Shapes

Ink: Hawaiian Shores, Aqua Mist,Soft Grey (PTI) Memento Tuxedo Black (Tsukineko)

Dies: Enjoy the Ride, Bountiful Banners (PTI) Stitched Mats (Lil' Inkers)

other: foam tape

Masculine Birthday Card

Today is my husbands birthday!

This is the card he will not see in person until he comes home in three weeks.

I can tell you that 3 500 kilometers is a lot farther away than it sounds. The kids have been making plans of what we will do when he comes home on the May 24th long weekend, just for the weekend.  

I hope we can cram it all in. 

If he sees this post, Happy Birthday Sweetheart, we love you. ♥

I used this card created by Heather Nichols as inspiration for my design.

All supplies are from Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.

Cardstock:  Kraft, Enchanted Evening

Stamps: Background Basics: Herringbone, Background Basics: Medallions, Stylish Sentiments Birthday

Ink:  Kraft, Enchanted Evening, Dark Chocolate

Dies: Stitched Mats (Lil' Inkers)

other: jute twine, kraft button, foam tape

STB #13 - Masculine

Sharing a card for this week's Seize the Birthday!  This week, same sketch, but for a masculine card. Four male birthdays in my family during the month of May and I think this one will be suitable for my hubby! LOL I couldn't wait to use my new Bow Ties patterned paper I picked on the weekend at Scrapfest in Kitchener. When I was there I had the pleasure of finally meeting up with Virginia Lu, she is as sweet as can be.  We kept each other in check with our shopping--not even. 

I think we just enabled each other. LOL

Here is the sketch:

and here is my card:

All supplies are from Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.

Cardstock:  Kraft

Patterned Paper: Bow Ties (Basic Grey)

Stamps: Enjoy the Ride, Birthday Tags 2011 (PTI)

Ink:  New Leaf, True Black

Dies: Enjoy the Ride

other: herringbone embossing folder (Cuttlebug), foam tape

Seize the Birthday #10

I finally created a masculine card for the Seize the Birthday challenge.  I have the same difficulties I read about all the time with creating masculine cards.  I think it is because there are so many cute girlie stamps out there that it just makes it easier.  I am using a cute free digi image from The Alley Ways Stamps for my card today, the puppy is just adorable.  Here is the sketch for this week:

All supplies are from Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.

Cardstock:  Blueberry Sky, White

Patterned Papers: gold dot (Lily Bee Designs)

Stamps: Birthday Basics

Digital Image: The Alley Ways Stamps

Ink:  True Black

Dies: Stitched Mats (Lil' Inkers)

other: browns twine (The Twinery), foam tape, assorted Copics

Clean and Simple Card Making 2 - Day 6

Day 6 of Clean & Simple Card Making 2 was another sketch day and the techniques covered were tone-on-tone and Patchwork stamping.  For my card I used Kristina's sketch and technique and created a tone-on-tone masculine birthday card.  In her sample she used an Impression-Obsession cling back red rubber stamp.  I was in a store on the weekend and looked as those stamps but once I saw the results in her video i headed back and picked one up.

Cardstock:  Blueberry Sky, Simply Chartreuse (Papertrey Ink)
Patterned Paper: Hello Summer (Echo Park)
Stamps: Heart-2-Heart #2, Up, Up & Away (Papertrey Ink) Chevrons (Impression-Obsession)
Ink:  Fresh Snow (Papertrey Ink) VersaMark (Tsukineko)
Dies: Up, Up & Away (Papertrey Ink)
other: foam tape, clear & white embossing powder

PDCC156 & CFC77

The colours for this week's Play Date Cafe Challenge were a warm autumn blend of  cinnamon, squash, vanilla and sage.  I find that when my 'real' life is crazy busy my creativity seems to go on stand by.  The past couple of weeks have been busier than usual and trying to fit it all in has proven challenging.  I pulled out my cardstock and inks and started working on a plan.  I felt that the this weeks colours would work for a masculine card so I combined it with CASual Friday's Snips, Snails and Puppy Dog Tails Challenge to create a card that is perfect for a young boy, a young man or a big kid.

Chari Moss created an amazing masculine card using Neat & Tangled's Elves at Work stamp the other day on the Neat & Tangled blog.  She created a great panel using some of the small toy images and then coloured then in with Copic markers.  I used her card as inspiration to create a larger panel stamping the images using different colours of ink.

All Supplies are from Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted:

Cardstock:  Vintage Cream, Dark Chocolate
Stamps: Think Big Favorites #12 (PTI) Elves at Work (Neat & Tangled)
Ink:  Dark Chocolate, Ripe Avocado, Canyon Clay
other: foam tape

CCC #5 - Pond

Time for Week #5 at CASology!  This week our cue card is:

It so exciting to see how many people are coming out each week for our challenges.  We now have 211 members on the site and are averaging over 80 submissions each week.  I hope that keeps growing you really should give us a try if you haven`t already.

For this challenge I dug out a stamp that has been siting unloved in my stash for a few years now.  Out with my Copics, a little fussy cutting and a blue cloud and my pond was born.

I stamped my frog on a piece of white cardstock then used some Copics to colour and shade my froggie.  I fussy cut my frog so that I could put him in my pond.  When I don't have the right sentiment stamp I turn to my computer for help.  I typed my sentiment and printed it, then I used repositionable tape to adhere my white focal panel on the printout so that my sentiment would stamp exactly where I wanted it. 

Head on over to CASology today to learn what the `cue card`means to you, how you can play along and see the all the cards created by the Design Team to inspire you.

Don`t forget to visit the blogs of the other members of the Design Team:

Ardyth Percy-Robb

Jen Wills

Melissa Chipperfield

Rosemary Dennis

Tracey McNeely (that`s me)

and this week's Guest Designer Joyce (winner of CCC #3 - Fruit )

I can't wait to see what POND means to you!

All Supplies are from Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted:

Cardstock: White, Spring Rain, Blueberry Sky

Stamps: Frog - Fairest of Them All (Imaginisce)

Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black (Tsukineko)

Dies:  Up Up & Away

Other: Copic markers (YG23, YG25, YG95), green (Stickles)

RS #15 & colourQ #141 - card 2

My Dad loves to fish at the cottage.  Now of course anything he catches goes right back into the lake. Sometimes I think he just puts his line in the water without a lure.  He taught both my kids how to fish, these photos were taken in 2004.

This is my last Father's Day card done.  I have to say that Melissa Bickford's World's Greatest Stamp set has gotten lots of use this spring.  Doesn't it make you happy when you get a stamp set and then actually get your money's worth out of it.  I snapped the photo just as the sun was setting, there really is not a glare on the stickers.  This card is being posted for RetroSketches this week and using the colours from colourQ one more time.

All Supplies are from Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted:

Cardstock: White, Blueberry Sky, Enchanted Evening, Spring Rain, Simply Chartreuse

Stamps: World's Greatest

Ink: Blueberry Sky, Simply Chartreuse

Dies: World's Greatest, Matt Stack 4. Matt Stack Layers 4

Impression Plates:  Simple Stripes, Woodgrain, Pinking

Other:  Mini Market alpha (October Afternoon), safety pin