Time for challenges

Hi everyone! I am loving having time to play along in some of my favorite challenges. This is how I started stamping and it feels good to get back into it. If you find yourself with some time and/or need inspiration to get started, here are a few of my favorite challenges:

SCS Sketch challenge

SCS Featured Stamper

SCS Clean and Simple Cards

Mojo Monday Sketches

I've been out of the loop for years now, so if you have any other challenges you love, let me know!!

I played in this week's SCS Featured Stamper challenge and for those of you who are new to this challenge, each week a stamper is profiled and the challenge is to go through their gallery and CASE a card changing a few things to make it your own. This week the featured stamper is Kathy Schweinfurth and I chose to CASE this card.

I changed the papers, stamped images and sentiment. I kept the overall feel and layout of the card. My card uses the cup from the Coffee or Tea die set, the roses from Thinking of You Rose and sentiment from Farmhouse Simple Sentiments. 

I colored the roses with Copics using 2 colors for the roses and 2 for the leaves. After watching hours on YouTube with all the fancy copic coloring, I am finding that I am more of a simple colorer. I think it looks amazing using 5 different shades for a flower, but just as pretty using 2!

Other products used:

Patterned paper: Down on the Farm by Doodlebug for background papers; Fleur by Kaisercraft for the paper piecing on the mug

Embellishments: Black/White baker's twine from May Arts; Pink sequins

SCS Featured Stamper challenge -Get Your Kicks

Hi everyone!  Long time no blog.  I've been beyond busy with working on the BRAND NEW FSJ 2017-2018 catalog and then preparing for Convention.  Crazy I tell ya!  But today it's over 100 degrees here in Portland, so I stayed indoors all weekend.  I found some time to play in the SCS Featured Stamper challenge.  For those of you new to SCS FS challenge, each Sunday a new stamper is chosen and we are challenged to peruse their gallery and pick a card to CASE.  Such fun!  This week the stamper is AJ Bodine and she has a lovely gallery.  Details to the challenge can be found here.

Anyway, my card uses the stamp set Hit the Road.  I've only used this cute set one time and it fit perfectly for AJ's Christmas card I chose to CASE which can be found here.

I colored the truck with Pan Pastels (the Mother Nature set).  It was so quick and easy, I'll have to remember to color this way more often.  I will say it is a bit powdery and can smear, but never fear -it cleans up easily with a white eraser.  And if you hit it with a quick shot of hairspray when you're finished, it will be set in place!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great evening!  Here's a close up picture:

All supplies used are Fun Stampers Journey.

White birdcage card

Hi everyone!  I was so inspired by the Splitcoast Stampers Featured Stamper challenge that I played along again!  I described the challenge on my last post.  The Featured Stamper this week is Monia.  She has an amazing gallery I immediately fell in love with this lovely card. 

I was drawn to the white on white.  But it's harder to make than you think -I kept trying to add in some color!  But in the end, kept it all white and I love how it turned out.  I used a birdcage instead of a house and substituted an all white poinsettia flower for the ribbon embellishment.

 This bird cage die is so beautiful and the little door even opens!  Here is what the die set look like:

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!  Here is a close up picture.

Card Deets:  
Spellbinders Dies: S2-029 Bird Cage One Shapeabilities®; S4-293 Lacey Circles, S4-116 Standard Circles SM Nestabilities®
Other Supplies: White cardstock; Best Creation glitter cardstock in white, Kaisercraft pearls in Latte
Adhesive: Tombow USA Mono Multi liquid glue; Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L Foam Squares  
NOTE: You can also find Spellbinders dies at the The Stamp Simply Ribbon Store.

FS404 70th birthday card

Hi everyone!  I have a fun card to share today.  I made time to play in this week's Featured Stamper challenge over on Splitcoast Stampers.  For those of you new to this challenge, each week an active member of SCS is chosen and the challenge is to find a card in their gallery and CASE it.  You must change at least 2 things and give credit to the stamper.  I used to play along every Sunday and stalked the challenge thread Saturday night to see who the Featured Stamper was.  But alas, the kids got older and I got busier and now I just don't have the time.  But this was so much fun I want to try and make this a regular thing now!!

The Featured Stamper this week is Monia.  She has an amazing gallery with so much detail and flowers, I think I was a kid in a candy store picking a card to CASE!  I chose this lovely card.  I changed the color scheme, card shape, main flower type among other things.  But I kept to the card layout.

My mom turned 70 last week (I didn't send her a card yet, I know, I know!), and she loves my cards that have more layers and flowers, so this one was perfect for her.  Her favorite color is purple, so I chose to work with Bazzill's Sour Grape cardstock for my main color.

My flower is from Spellbinders Create-a-Rose set.  I went a little crazy and added a few more layers than normal.  You can see a step out tutorial on how I made the rose on this blog post.  There are also complete PDF instructions on Spellbinders web page on the Create-a-Rose page.  The card shape is from Labels 42 and coordinating accent layers are from the Labels 42 Decorative Elements set.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!  Here is a close up picture.  You can even see the subtle glitter I added to the flower!

Card Deets:  
Spellbinders Dies: S2-067 Create-a-Rose Shapeabilities®; S4-471 Labels 42, S4-473 Labels 42 Decorative Elements Nestabilities®
Other Supplies: Purple,White and green cardstock; Silver metallic string; Glitter stickers, Wink of Stella clear glitter pen, silver glitter accent baubles, branch punch
Adhesive: Tombow USA Mono Multi liquid glue; Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L Foam Squares 

NOTE: You can also find Spellbinders dies at the The Stamp Simply Ribbon Store.

Stamp Simply sale and a Featured Stamper card

Hi everyone!  Just a quick post to let you all know of a 3 Day Sale going on over at The Stamp Simply Ribbon Store through the end of tomorrow (Wednesday).  In lieu of a Black Friday sale, Sharon is putting some of her favorite products on sale: 

All Prima product in stock (paper, flowers and all trims and embellishments) 
All Webster’s Pages product in stock (paper, trim cards, cameos and all embellishments) 

All May Art’s Silk SPOOLS in stock 

As always you can see ALL marked down items listed under SPECIALS.

And don’t forget to check out the Sale Bins.

I also have a SCS Featured Stamper card to share today.  This week's stamper is Tenia Sanders-Nelson.  I had fun looking through her gallery and chose this card to CASE. 

My card uses some of the fabulous Silver Mirror cardstock.  P.S. I love this cardstock.  It is very shiny (like a mirror) and is very sturdy (like Gina K Designs or PTIs).  Perfect to die cut and emboss!  The snowflake die is from 2011 Snowflake Pendant set.  So pretty!  Once again, I used the "negative" pieces as accents.  The paper is from KaiserCraft's Silly Season Christmas pad and I love that it has silver throughout the designs. 

The ribbon is the white tinsel edged sheer ribbon and I accented it with some silver cord.  Can I just say how happy this silvery matchy matchy stuff makes me???  Yep, pretty darn happy!

Thanks for stopping by, I'll leave you with a close up picture:

Card Deets: 
Stamps -  Deck the Halls -for sentiment (JustRite Stampers) 

Paper -Silver and white cardstock, Silly Season 6x6 pad (Kaisercraft) 
Accessories -Spellbinders™ S5-029 Nested Lacey Pennants, S5-054 2011 Snowflake Pendant, white tinsel edged sheer ribbon and silver cord (May Arts), Lippy Red rhinestones (KaiserCraft), corner rounder 
Tools - Spellbinders™ Grand Calibur® die cutting machine

CASEing Lydia with Moxie fab felt

Hi everyone!  I have a double challenge card to share today.  I had a chance to play in this week's Featured Stamper challenge to case Lydia (Understandblue)!! I chose this cutie card to case.

I changed the border punch (mine was created with Spellbinders Edgeabilities die templates), sentiment, added a butterfly and made a felt blossom instead of a button.  I chose felt to play along with the Moxie Fab challenge -Fabulous Felt!  I saw the tutorial Julie posted yesterday and had to try it.  It was easy peasy!!  The stamp set I used was Happy Everything from Unity.  Another fabulous set that was begging for some ink.

 I bought my felt from this Etsy store.  The quality is fabulous and she has amazing colors.  So, I am bummed that I stamped my sentiment crooked, but oh well -Lydia, I hope you still like it!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Card Deets:

Stamps - Happy Everything
Ink - Chocolate chip, Sage (AMuse)
Paper - Kraft and Ivory cardstock
Accessories - Peacock felt (Benzie Bazaar), brown twine, 2mm turquoise rhinestones (Pizzazz Aplenty), Spellbinders Edgeabilities Classic Triple Scallop and Classic Postage Stamp decorative insert

Featured Stamper card and some new goodies at Stamp Simply Ribbon Store

Hi everyone!  Don't forget to enter for my blog candy here if you can make a good home for some crafty goodies.  I'm adding even more ribbon to the pile!

So, I haven't had a chance to play along with the SCS Featured Stamper challenge in forEVAH, but when I saw we were honoring the talented Teri Anderson (Teristampsalot) I couldn't resist! I have had the pleasure of meeting Teri a couple times at CHA and she is a sweet lady for sure!

I cased her fabulous button card here. I changed the sentiment, the colors of buttons, added some rhinestone accents.  I used some green/white Baker's twine from The Stamp Simply Ribbon Store to thread the buttons.  I admit, this was kind of a pain.  It took a long time to thread each button and get them in the right spot, but what a fabulous way to use up some buttons.  I think I could easily make about 1000 of these cards -lol!  How about the sentiment?  It's from the Vintage Chic stamp set.

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And speaking of The Stamp Simply Ribbon Store.  Sharon has added some new goodies to the store and has a little sale going on (lots of paper pads)!!  Check out all the new items on the main page.  I am sooo gonna get the new KaiseCraft paper pads Chapter One and Blae and Ivy and that new Sheer Pull Flower Ribbon (how cool is that?).  I can't help myself, I JUST cleared out some room and already filling it up -I am hopelessly addicted to paper and ribbon!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day.  I'll leave you with a close up picture.

CASEing Charlene!

Hi everyone!  I am the guest Challenge Hostess for this week's SCS Featured Stamper challenge -how fun!!  This week we honor my friend and stamper extraordinaire, Charlene!  Her SCS name is Willow01 and her gallery is full of amazing cards, I hope you have a chance to play along!  I cased this cutie card, You are Simply the Best.  I love the little trio of paper flowers on the side.  WHAT! I can't believe I forgot to add those to my card!  lol!

My card uses Technique Tuesday's cutie set, Long Stemmed Sentiments.  The flower blooms and vase are stamped and cut out.  The sentiment is from PTI's Mega Mixed Messages.   I just love the (new to me) Labels 16 and I thought it's shape was the perfect for this card.  The papers are from Graphic 45, their new Once Upon a Springtime collection (you can get these both at the Stamp Simply Ribbon store).  I have to say, G45 isn't always my style, but there are lots of fabulous prints in this 8x8 pad -I really like it!!

Thanks for stopping by and I'll leave you with a close up picture.

Card Deets:

Stamps - Long Stemmed Sentiments (Tech Tuesday), Mega Mixed Messages (PTI) 
Ink - Memento Rich Cocoa
Paper - Chocolate Chip, Crumb Cake, Vintage Cream, Once Upon a Springtime collection (Graphic 45) 
Accessories - Labels 16 Nestabilities die by Spellbinders, Copic markers, ribbon, Scallop trim border punch, Hawaiian Shores grosgrain ribbon (PTI), tiny twinkles rhinestone wheel (Taylored Expressions)

Christmas thank yous and a special Featured Stamper

Hi everyone!  Well, it's the new year, tomorrow starts school for the kiddos and life goes back to normal (whatever that means, ha).  So, now is the time for us to send out all those Christmas Thank you cards!  I just wasn't ready to put away all that gorgeous Christmas paper I barely made a dent in, so I used some on my cards.

These were fast and super easy to make.  I used the SU! 1 1/4" square punch and punched out 4 pattern paper squares and then 2 squares of a solid paper in the pack.  I then cut the 2 solid squares in 1/2 and glued them to the bottom with a little peeking out.  I punched the snowflake with the coordinating solid paper, added the twine and some bling -done! 

These first 2 cards use the Echo Park papers, Merry Christmas.  The sentiment is from GKD, Seeds of Kindness.  (hummm, the picture is awfully dark, sorry)

My next cards use the KaiserCraft, Be Merry 6x6 pad.  These papers were one of my favorites this year because I am a sucker for traditional green and red!  Don't worry, there are also some splashes of brown in this collection too. 

Next I want to share a card I made for the SCS Featured Stamper challenge.  I haven't played along in this challenge in awhile, but since it honors one of the sweetest and supportive online friends I know, Marisa -I HAD to!!   I cased this cutie circle card! I just loves me some circle cards, right Marisa? I used the GKD set, Bug Me Anytime and the sentiment is from Seeds of Kindness. The small piece of PP is from Cosmo Cricket's DeLovely! Such happy colors!

This card is also for the CopicOZ challenge (hosted by my Aussie BFF, Kathy), to make a summertime card that use yellow and green copic markers!  I used Y11, Y15, Y17, G40 and G82.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!!

House is a Home to the rescue

Hi everyone!  I have a couple challenge cards to share today.  First up, my real estate agent has asked me to make 20 Welcome Home cards for him!  I don't do many custom orders, but he is such a great agent AND Ippity just released the set, House is a Home - it seemed destined - how could I say no??  So be prepared to see lots of Welcome Home cards -LOL!

This cutie card not only uses Ippity's  House is a Home set, but also uses the dotted background stamp from the Love in Return set.  I stamped the houses, colored them with copic markers, and cut them out.  The strip of pattern paper is from Bella Blvd.  I love the colors of their lines.  The tone is earthy and no so girlie, perfect for Home cards.

I used today's Taylored Expressions sketch #124 for my layout.  Perfect sketch for little houses, huh?!?  The small brown bling is from the Round Wheel by Zva Creative and the brown twill ribbon is from Stamp Simply Ribbon Store.

Next up is my card from last weekend for the Featured Stamper challenge on SCS.  This week we are celebrating vdutchr. I cased this cute card here. I kept the size of the card, layout and use of circles. But I changed up almost everything else.

This is also for the last Technique Tuesday challenge, TTSC1, to use TT stamps. I used the Thanks for Everything and Wise Guys sets. I also used some of the Technique Tiles -the FUNdamental Rings. LOVE these!  This was also for the Embellish Magazine challenge, to use the colors: pink, brown and green AND use a bird of some kind.  But, I didn't complete it in time to enter it!  OOPS!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend!

Card Deets:

Stamps: House a Home, Love in Return (Ippity)

Paper: kraft, white, Soft Sky
Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa
Accessories: brown twill ribbon, circle nesties, copic markers, scallop trim border punch, button from the Gentle Times collection

Card Deets:

Stamps: Thanks for Everything, Wise Guys (Technique Tuesday)
Paper: kraft, white, hibiscus burst, dark chocolate 
Ink: early espresso (su!)
Accessories: satin edged grosgrain ribbon (Stamp Simply Ribbon Store), technique tiles, copic markers, border punch, Oregon Rain drops in Kiwi, felt flowers   

Special birthday, some demo and a Featured Stamper

Hi everyone!  Long tome no post!  I survived Bill's family reunion, or I should say I survived the SPIDERS and BUGS -LOL!  For those of you in the Pacific Northwest, we stayed at the Anderson Lodge in Ariel Washington, just outside of nowhere... uh, I mean Woodland, WA.  It is a wonderful little place with plenty of fun stuff to do both at the lodge and nearby.

ANNNNNDDDDDD, I am in day 2 of my kitchen remodel!!  I am so excited!  Yesterday the floors came up, light and wall fixtures came out, we planned out the new electrical layout, bought supplies, etc!  TODAY the little wall comes out!  Here is a pic of the wall that is going bye-bye.

Here it is before:

Here it is all striped out, (Bill did this all by himself!!), yep that is forest green paint you see.  The ENTIRE kitchen was that color when we moved it:

Here it is demo'd:

Believe it or not, I do have 2 cards to share.  Tomorrow is my sister's 40th birthday and she wanted a special card.  Being short on time and energy, I case'd a fav card of mine.  This card uses Basic Grey's Cappella papers, the amazing velvet ric-rac and 1.5" silk ribbons.  The sentiment is a combination of PTI's Birthday Basics and JustRite Special Occasions 15 pt font.  I think it turned out pretty good considering I was really finagling the stamps!

This next card is for this week's SCS featured stamper challenge, to case Cookiebaker. What an amazing gallery! I chose this super cute card to case.  I changed the images, ribbon treatment and pattern papers. I used the butterflies from Verve's new set, Blue Skies and the pattern paper is again Basic Grey, Cappella.  The sentiment is from Big Wish and the butterfly trail is from a Zva Creative rhinestone package.

Well, that's all for now.  I will post more remodel pics as things progress.  I won't have many cards to show before the end of the month.  Things are humming right along here at the Woerner house!

Featured Stamper and an Ippity Trio

Hi everyone!  Short post today, got lots to do!!  I have a couple cards to share.  First up is a card I made for the SCS Featured Stamper challenge.  This week, we honor nikkischmaltz. She has a fabulous gallery and I chose this cutie card to case.

I heat embossed the branch image with white EP and added a couple flower sequins for flowers. The PP is Just Chillin' Girl from Making Memories and the sentiment is from Signature Greetings from PTI.

Next up, I have a trio of CAS note cards.  Awhile ago I bought some Hero Hues folded card packages.  I bought them in Reds and Blues.  I rediscovered them when I did my stamping area clean up -BONUS!!  I haven't had much a chance to play with the Ippity set, The Simple Things, so I busted it out! 

Here is my favorite of the trio:

Here is another:

This one uses this week's FTL93 layout:

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!!

Card deets:

Stamps - Signature greetings, turning a new leaf (both PTI)
Ink - black, versamark
Paper - white, Just chillin' girl (MM)
Accessories - white ep, double stitched ribbon (PTI), single embossed curve punch (EK Success), flower cupped sequins, bird punch and corner rounder (SU!)

Card Deets (trio):

Stamps - The Simple things, Everyday Greetings (Clearly Wordsworth, for last sentiment)
Ink - Kiwi Kiss, Pacific Point, black
Paper - White, Sea Folded Cards (Hero Arts)
Accessories - Oregon Raindrops in Aqua and Kiwi, misc rhinestones, ruler, black pen

Embellish hop winner, featured stamper and one just for fun

Hi everyone!  I am happy to let you know that my blog was one of the 4 that were chosen for a winner for the Embellish Magazine Blog hop!!

Congrats Silke!!  Head on over to the Embellish Magazine blog for details on how to claim your Premier Issue Subscription!

I also have some cards to share today.  If you saw my last blog post, you know I have been doing some major cleaning of my stamping area.  Yep, I am still at it and WHEW!  It really feels good to clean things out, have room to move around, and actually SEE what I have. 

I found a couple packs of HOTP Stacked Daisy Silver sticker packs that I got from CHA and never used AND some felt trim packages from Kaisercraft I bought months ago!  I still haven't found my PayPal key card yet, but I'm still looking!

So, I just HAD to try out the stickers, I used them on a couple 3x3 note cards for the SCS Featured Stamper challenge.  This week we honored, Scoopy.  I just love her CAS style and I cased this cute little card. The flowers are the silver stickers. I colored them in with copic markers. The sentiment is from Verve, Accent Notes.

Next up, I made this trio of 3x3 note cards cased from the same cute little card.  This time,  I used the Now and Always set from Ippity Stamps. I colored the flower stamp with my SU markers and used the same sentiment from Accent Notes.

All of these note cards were super easy and fast to make.  I used my square nesties and it went really fast!

My next card was just for fun!  I finally had a chance to bust out the A Little Buggy set by Ippity.  I love this set, but I actually found it a bit challenging to use.  The tall tree-thingy image is pretty tall and it took awhile to figure out how I was gonna use it.  For the sentiment, I used my PTI ink cubes and inked it up with 3 different colors.  Remember those old Kaleidoscope ink pads from SU?  This turned out kind of like that!  The letter stickers are called Tiny Type from Cosmo Cricket -I see them everywhere and just had to get me some.  We stampers are like that, huh?!

Oh and just as I was finishing up my card, I got distracted and matted my Raspberry Fizz panel  CROOKED onto my image panel!  See the top left side?  UGH!  I am such a picky stamper, this kind of thing really drives me crazy.  I almost threw the whole darn thing AWAY!!  Oh well, it truly is handmade, right?

Thanks for stopping by!  Have a great day!

Card Deets (note cards):

Stamps - Accent Notes, Now and Always
Ink - black
Cardstock - white, raspberry fizz, spring rain, brocade blue
Accessories - square nesties, Dazzle stickers, misc pearls and rhinestones, copic markers

Card Deets (happy birthday):

Stamps - A Little Buggy
Ink - raspberry fizz, spring moss, Hawaiian shores, aqua mist, dark chocolate
Cardstock - white, kraft, Hawaiian shores, raspberry fizz
Accessories - Jute string in natural, scallop trim punch and beautiful butterfly embosslit (SU!), aqua rhinestones, tiny letter stickers