Loves Rubberstamps Saturday Inspiration: Happy 4th of July!

Hello and Happy Saturday! Not only am I happy that the weekend is here but I'm also excited that today is the 4th of July holiday!  I look forward to spending a great day with family and friends.  I also really love watching the fireworks at night which is always a ton of fun!  In honor of today's special occasion, I've made a patriotic card for my share today!

Here it is...

I've had this cutie from The Greeting Farm for quite some time but it's actually the first time I've created with her!  This sweet Cheeky Mate was perfect for my patriotic card so I was so excited to finally color her up with my copics!  I also added Wink of Stella all over her outfit and you can't really tell in the pic but she has lots of sparkle!  The festive papers I used are from a collection called "Liberty" by Bo Bunny and all the designs are fantastic!  For added embellishment, I found some cute tiny star sequins which I scattered throughout the card for a fun look.  I also added some thin red ribbon from my stash!

Here is the full supply list for my card:

Cheeky Mate - The Greeting Farm

Copic Markers

Faded Jeans - Tim Holtz Distress Ink

Steel Grey Hybrid Ink - My Favorite Things

Liberty - Bo Bunny

Mono Multi Liquid Glue - Tombow

Wink of Stella Glitter Clear

For those of you celebrating this 4th of July Holiday, stay safe and have fun!!!

Hugs,

Marcy

Loves Rubberstamps Tuesday Challenge: Celebrate You!

Happy Tuesday all!  This week's Loves Rubberstamps Challenge is always a favorite of mine and that's because the theme is "Celebrations"!!!  This could be a celebration of birthdays, new babies, weddings, holidays etc....sooooo many to choose from and you can always use one of these cards in your stash ready to give, right?!! Our sponsor for this week  is Scrapper's Delight!

Here's my card...

So with my son, Ethan's 6th birthday coming up next month, I thought this would the perfect opportunity to make him a card!  I've had this adorable stamp from TGF called 

Birthday Ian

 for some time and I was so excited to finally take him out to create with!  I colored him up with my 

Copic Markers

 in some fun  bright colors.  Ethan loves robots and also the color green so I thought this cute paper collection called "Hip Hip Hooray" from 

Doodlebug Designs

 was perfect for my celebration theme!  I really love The Greeting Farm images and I knew I wanted to keep my card simple to focus on this super cute image!

Here is my full supply list:

Birthday Ian - The Greeting Farm

Hip Hip Hooray - Doodlebug Designs

Peacock Feathers - Tim Holtz Distress Ink

Steel Grey Hybrid Ink - My Favorite Things

Copic Markers

Hope you like my card and that you will have a chance to take part in this fun challenge! Please check out the Loves Rubberstamps Challenge blog for more details and more inspiration from the DT.

  Have a wonderful week and thanks for stopping by!

Hugs,

Marcy

Loves Rubberstamps Saturday Inspiration: Hello, Friend!

Happy Saturday Friends!  Today, I have a fun card share for you.  Hope you like it!

And here it is...

I love the Cheeky Cherry Collection from The Greeting Farm and this is one image I don't feel I use enough!  But she is really so adorable and caught my eye when I was looking for images to use for today!  This is Cheeky Chat!  With the life being so busy these days,  I think many of us rely on technology like emails or texting. What would I do without texting every day?!!! LOL  But that's why this image really makes me remember the good ol' days when I used to actually love to pick up the phone and talk for hours...especially with my BFF! :)  I  know I need to do more of that and this image really did make me smile!  After coloring up this cutie with my copic markers, I then added  Wink of Stella over parts of her outfit to give her some shimmer.   The fun papers I used are called Hey Kid by Pink Paislee.  I think the cheerful bright colors and cool design went well as a background for her. To finish off my card, I used an older MFT stamp set called "Ring Me" for my sentiment.  I also added some sequins and twine.

Here is the full supply list for my card:

Cheeky Chat - The Greeting Farm

Copic Markers

Mustard Seed - Tim Holtz Distress Ink

Steel Grey Hybrid Ink - My Favorite Things

Ring Me Stamp Set - My Favorite Things

Hey Kid - Pink Paislee

Mono Multi Liquid Glue - Tombow

Wink of Stella Glitter Clear

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a great weekend!

Hugs,

Marcy

Loves Rubberstamps Saturday Inspiration: Happy Father's Day!

Hello Friends!  Hope you're all having a wonderful weekend!  In preparation of the Father's Day Holiday coming up, I thought I'd create a Father's Day card for my share today!

And here it is...

I had so much fun water coloring with my distress markers for the last card that I couldn't resist making another card with a water colored background!  For this one, I used a background stamp I have in my stash and stamped it onto some Tim Holtz water color paper using my Versamark Watermark Stamp Pad.  I then added some white embossing powder from Recollections and heat set it.  Over this cool design, I water colored over it with my distress inks and water using some colors I thought would make a good background for a masculine card.  The colors I used were Pumice Stone, Faded Jeans and Black Soot.  I really love the way they blended together so well!  I added some splattered ink to parts of it for a fun effect!  The sentiment came from a Winnie & Walter Set called "The Big, the Bold & You".   I also embossed this sentiment and used some Sparkle Black Ranger embossing powder for this.  The die cut used for the background is from MFT called Warm Wishes Die-Namics.  To finish off my card, I added some enamel dots and twine.

Here is the full supply list for my card:

Faded Jeans - Tim Holtz Distress Ink

Black Soot - Tim Holtz Distress Ink

Pumice Stone -Tim Holtz Distress Ink

Versamark Water Mark Stamp Pad - Tsukineko

Warm Wishes Die-Namics - My Favorite Things

Water Color Paper - Tim Holtz

Black Sparkle Embossing Powder -Ranger

Mono Multi Liquid Glue - Tombow

The Big, the Bold & You - Winnie & Walter

For those of you celebrating Father's Day, I hope the "Dads" in your family have a special day and that you all have a wonderful celebration!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Hugs,

Marcy

Loves Rubberstamps Tuesday Challenge: I Thank My Lucky Stars for You

Hello and Happy Tuesday!!!  We have a new Loves Rubberstamps Challenge this week for you!  Our theme is "Masculine"!  Our fantastic sponsor  is Bugaboo Stamps !!!

Here's my card...

With my household full of boys, it's a wonder that masculine cards are still always a challenge for me!  But with Father's Day coming up, I thought this was the perfect opportunity to make a Father's Day card!  I thought this one would be fun to make for my hubby.  Plus, I wanted to do a lot with my background and I knew he would forgive any of my mistakes! LOL   I have been wanting to use this fun stamp set by W9 called "Lucky Stars" for some time so I was happy to finally take it out to create.  I stamped using my Versamark Water Stamp and embossed my stars and sentiment using some Pale Gold embossing powder by Hero Arts.  I then water colored my background using various Tim Holtz distress inks.  This is always so much fun to do! I used the resist technique with some water droplets for a cool effect.  I also took some of the leftover water color to splatter small droplets in various sections. I really like the way the background came out!  To finish off my card, I added some black and white twine and also some small platinum heart sequins from Pretty Posh.  

Here is my full supply list:

Seedless Preserves - Tim Holtz Distress Ink

Black Soot - Tim Holtz Distress Ink

Faded Jeans- Tim Holtz Distress Ink

Salty Ocean- Tim Holtz Distress Ink

Versamark Water Stamp  - Tsukineko

Mono Multi-Liquid Glue - Tombow

Lucky Stars - W9

Pale Gold Embossing Powder - Hero Arts

Hope you enjoyed my card!  Have a wonderful week and thanks for stopping by!

Hugs,

Marcy

Loves Rubberstamps Saturday Inspiration: Happy Graduation cards

Happy Saturday Friends!  Hope you've had a wonderful week and are starting a great weekend!  For my kids, it is the last week of school so we've been so busy with school events and graduations.  2 of my sons graduated the last few days from middle school and elementary school.  The schools over here have promotion ceremonies for this which are so so special and fun to watch!

So my share today are a few very simple graduation cards I created for my kids in celebration of their milestone events!

Here they are...

The 2 adorable graduate images are Graduation Luka from La La Land Crafts and Grad Ian (digi) from The Greeting Farm.  Both are so perfect for these celebration cards!  I colored both images up with my copics and kept the cards very CAS to really just focus in on the fun images and the special graduation theme.

Here is the full supply list for my card:

Graduation Luka - La La Land Crafts

Grad Ian - The Greeting Farm

Copic Markers

Memento  Tuxedo Black - Tsukineko

Mono Multi Liquid Glue - Tombow

I always have mixed emotions when it comes to these events.  I'm sad knowing that my kids are leaving the schools they love and where have established so many special memories at.  However, I'm excited for their new journeys to begin at new schools!

For all of you celebrating 2015 graduations,  a big congratulations to your celebrants and to your families! 

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Hugs,

Marcy

Loves Rubberstamps Saturday Inspiration: Celebrate!

Hello and Happy Saturday!  I have quite a few birthdays coming up in the next few months so I thought I'd start getting some cards created!  

Here's my b-day card share....

This adorable Dollie with Cupcake is always a perfect image for fun, girly birthday cards!  Dollie is so super cute and who doesn't love cupcakes too, right?!!  I colored her up with my copics and then added Wink of Stella all over her dress and cupcake for some fun sparkle!  I also added some polka dots to parts of her dress with my white gel pen.   I love to do that!  For the background, I used one of my favorite Doodlebug Designs papers called "Sweetheart"and I thought it matched so well with her outfit!  I also sprinkled some sequins on the background which always seems to complete my card! :)

Here is the full supply list for my card:

Dollie with Cupcake - The Greeting Farm

Sweetheart - Doodlebug Designs

Copic Markers

Picked Raspberry - Tim Holtz Distress Ink

Clear Glitter Brush Marker - Wink of Stella

Memento  Tuxedo Black - Tsukineko

Mono Multi Liquid Glue - Tombow

Enjoy your weekend!

Hugs,

Marcy

Loves Rubberstamps Tuesday Challenge: Make a Splash!

Happy Tuesday Friends! We have a new Loves Rubberstamps challenge this week and the theme is the very popular "Anything Goes"!  Our fantastic sponsor is Ching-Chou Kuik!!!

Here's my card...

Yes, another Summer card created for this week's inspiration! :)  I just couldn't resist and this addorable cutie was perfect for my card.  She is from the Summer Fun set from The Greeting Farm and now one of my favorite Summer images! I colored her up with my copics and then added some Wink of Stella to make her outfit sparkle! I kept my card background simple just adding some Washi Tape to my Kraft card stock.  I thought it came out pretty cool!  To finish off my card, I broke out with my enamel dots and some twine!  

Here are the additional supplies used on my card...

Mustard Seed - Tim Holtz Distress Ink

Mono Multi-Liquid Glue - Tombow

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink - Tsukineko

Hope you are inspired to join in this week!  Make sure to check out the Loves Rubberstamps Challenge blog to get the challenge details and see what other projects the DT came up with!

Have a wonderful Tuesday and thanks for stopping by!

Hugs,

Marcy