Hoppy Easter, Grandson

Over at Simon Says Stamp this week the Wednesday Challenge is 'Cute and Cuddly'...just in time for an Easter card for the three year old.  You can see the chocolate bunny's ears are bitten off...so he says 'what?' The original stamp set from Skipping Stones Design has a fellow chocolate bunny that says 'my butt hurts'...'what'?

I stamped the other bunny on white felt to make him a little more cuddly.

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Cute and Cuddly

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Happy St. Patrick's Day

This St. Patrick's Day card for my new little 3 year old grandson fit into two challenges today...just in time to get it in the mail for Thursday. I picked up the 'Happy St. Patrick's Day' pin from the dollar bin a couple years ago and thought he might be able to wear it to his new preschool.  The 'lucky stars' sentiment is from a Hero Arts set, and the 'stars' are from Skipping Stones Design.

Normally I wouldn't add a card like this to the Monday Challenge since their focus is 'Vintage Artistic' style, but the 'lucky stars' was too much inspiration for me to pass up!

Challenges:
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Bit O' Green
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Use Some Lucky Stars
 

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Bit O' Green...

Simon Says 'Use a Bit O' Green'.

I like purple hydrangeas, but I also like the green ones.  I love this background paper, some of my hoarded stash from way back...wish I could find more of it, but I'd probably just hoard it too!

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A day without laughter

I made this tag for my old boss.  I retired recently and he changed jobs due to a relocation of our office.  We had a group lunch recently so I wanted to show him how much I appreciated his humor and the way he dealt with his employees.

I was inspired to create this tag for the Simon Says Stamp-Make Your Own Background

The blue and green shading faded out a bit after I added the yellow in the stencil, but I was in a hurry to give the tag away so I didn't go back in to make it darker.  Fun challenge!
 

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Spring Flowers - 12 Tags of 2016 - March

This is my take on the Tim Holtz 12 Tags of 2016-March.  There are some products I don't yet have in my craft hoarding stash, but to learn a new technique you can always improvise.

I'm also entering this tag in the Simon Says Stamp-Monday Challenge to Take a Leap into the Unknown. Every Tim Holtz monthly challenge offers me a chance to try something new; I haven't tried layering a stencil and coloring with Watercolor Crayons in this way. I also used alcohol ink to color the metal flowers...the ink colors were a little darker than I anticipated but when I added some distress paint dauber in blue, I think the overall effect turned out okay.

While I'm at it, I think I will also enter into the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday  Challenge...create something Touchy Feely...the corrugated cardboard has a lot of added texture as well as the metal flowers, and the texture created by the stencil layers.

Someone to watch over me

This is my tag for Tim Holtz 12 Tags of 2016-February .  I wanted to use this sweet picture of my new grandaughter and her big brother, and when I saw the challenge on the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge-Inspired by a song I immediately thought of the old song Someone to Watch Over Me.
Also adding to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge-Anything Goes.

I am enjoying the technique challenges for the Tags of 2016, this is the first year I've played along. I haven't used the Texture Paste before and I didn't have any of the Valentine stencil words so I pulled out a metal dragonfly stencil from Dreamweavers.  The metal stencil makes the image a little thicker so I was careful to let it dry for a couple of hours before I heated the embossing powder.  I also didn't have any word strips with the sentiment so I created them in Excel with a black background and white font and printed it on cardstock.  I may use that again, I like the way it turned out!

Challenges:
http://timholtz.com/category/12-tags-of-2016/
http://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/mondaychallenge/?p=4167 
http://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/simon-says-anything-goes-24/

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Love-Spritz

I was inspired by a card on the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge-Spritz and Spray, you can see the awesome card here: 'Made by Sannie'

Unfortunately I don't have a lot of the awesome supplies Sannie used so I had to improvise.  My card doesn't look as 'edgy' as hers does, but it's a start. I'm also pretty new at spritzing...my nozzle kept spraying in the wrong direction so I was nervous to spray like you're supposed to, next time I'll give myself a little more room to work with!  I even spritzed the paper flower but it looks solid, lol.  I've always loved children silhouettes but I didn't have the Andy Skinner Stencil  that Sannie used so I pulled out an old stamp and heat embossed it in black. (I'm going to have to put that on my wish list since it's currently sold out) The image I used reminds me of a little girl mailing a Valentine, so I added a couple of hearts.

Challenges:
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge-Spritz and Spray
Frilly and Funkie-Love is in the air

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