Mask-erade Day 5

 

 

This is Birdbrain. He's wishing you a Happy Birthday!

 

 

Hard to believe, but I think I just made a one layer card that I like!

Of course I couldn't resist adding the thin black line on the sides, so it has the look of being matted.

 

Today is day 5 of the Mask-erade online card classes.

Jennifer McGuire's  lesson was on using clear embossing as a mask.

 

Since I used a digi stamp ( you can find him HERE ),

I did heat seal it with my heat gun as it came out of the printer...

but since he wasn't a stamp I had to use my Zig Embossing pen.

It worked fine with the clear embossing powder, but using

 a stamp and Versafine embossing ink pad would have been easier.

 

 

Thanks for Looking.

 

'till next time,

Doni

Black and white

 

 

I love bright bold colors.

But sometimes black and white works better

as is the case with todays card.

 

 

    The stamp set is from Sweet & Sassy Stamps .

The cat is from a Impression Obsession die and

instead of chevrons I used dots

which I made with the fat end of a black zig marker.

 I followed this sketch only I made mine horizontal.

This was fun to do. You can see lots more cards over at CAS(E) this Sketch

 

I think I'll send this to my daughter, Jennifer...they have eight cats!

 

 

Have a great day!

 

 

'till next time,

Doni

Pretty Butterfiles

 

 

 

The card I have to share with you today is

the one I made for lesson three in the

Mask-erade online class.

 

 

I started out with Shari's lesson in mind.

However, I didn't stamp my butterflies on watercolor paper

-duh, don't know what I was thinking-

So I used the ink blended background technique from Jennifer's lesson.

Then, because I hadn't colored a large enough area, it did not look good as a card front.

So, I used the tag idea from Debby's video. Still couldn't leave well enough alone, so I added Glossy Accents to the butterflies....hey, at least I remembered to remove the liquid mask first!

 

Here's what I used:

butterfly stamps from Inkadinkado

hello stamp from Technique Tuesday

Grid stamp from Kaisercraft

Tag shape from MFT Blueprints #13

 

Distress Inks, pickled raspberry and mustard seed

Memento Tuxedo Black

Versafine Smokey Grey

 

Thanks for looking.

 

'till next time,

Doni

Mask-erade Card class

 

 

This is the card  I made  on day two

of the Mask-erade Online Card Class.

 

 

This class was taught by Jennifer McGuire.

Her video's are so easy to understand. Today

we used a large mask and small stamps.

 

I love the red, white, and black color scheme and to get the colors to pop

I used candy red embossing powder and detail white embossing powder.

 

Since I used Simon Says Stamp stamps ,I'll enter this in today's

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge- anything goes

 

 

Thanks for stopping by.

 

'till next time,

Doni

Animals

 

 

Today is Saturday and that means a new

Addicted to CAS Challenge.

 

 

The animals I love most are my two kitties Gracie and Bitsy.

 

Here's the card I made with them in mind:

 

I used a stamp from Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps

and a die from Impression Obsession

 

Quick, easy , clean and simple...my favorite kind of card!

 

Thanks for looking.

 

'till next time,

Doni



Tiddly Inks Challenge #157

 

 

 

 

This is Emma.

She's a sweet digi stamp I just got from Tiddly Inks.

You can check out their challenge HERE

 

Here's the copics I used:

Dress -B18, B21, B24

Hair - E18, E23, E29, E31

Skin - E00, E11, R20

Shoes - C2, C3, C5, C7< C9

 

You can't tell from the photo , but the orange flower centers have

a sprinkling of orange glitter on them.  I think it adds just the right touch of bling!

 

Here's what I did on the inside:

 

Glad you could stop by today.

 

 

Oh, before I go I've one more thing to show you:

 

 

This was made for the challenge over at Splitcoast Stampers

 to use only red and white.

Looks kinda cute in a bottle of red wine!

 

'till next time,

Doni



sending you sunshine

 

 

Hello!

 

This is the card I made this morning:

 

I made this to link up with both the

"Less is More"

and

"cas(e) this sketch"

challenges .

 

April showers brings May flowers and all that, but nothing would happen without

the sunshine!

 

The daisy is from a My Favorite Things Die-namic and the

sentiment is from Your Next Stamp .

 

 

Glad you could stop by today.

 

'till next time,

Doni

color throwdown the Ai way

 

 

Todays colors for the throwdown challenge:

 

 

These colors are so bright and happy!

 

I immediately thought of birthdays,

and I remembered this Ai stamp That hasn't seen ink yet.

So I made this card to link up with both the color throwdown challenge

and the Ai Challenge # 159  "Lovely Ladies"

 

 

 

and I used another Ai stamp on the inside:

 

 

 

Thanks for visiting my blog today.

I would really love it if you left a comment!

 

'till next time,

Doni



addicted

 

 

Yep, I'm addicted! 

Addicted to clean and simple cards.

 

 

Along with this weeks challenge they are having a design team call.

 

I would LOVE to be on their design team, so wish me luck!

 

Here's the card I made:

 

 

I just love these bird stamps from Tim Holtz and this guy

looks just befuddled enough to match the sentiment.

I SO can relate to not knowing what day it is!!

I found that cute saying at the stamp convention I went to a couple of weeks ago.

It's made by Rubbernecker stamps.

 

Thanks for stopping by today.

 

'till next time,

Doni



Addicted to CAS

 

 

 

 

Here's what I made:

 

 

 

The Flower design was a hero arts stamp embossed with gold on black paper, then cut out,

adhered to the patterned paper and embellished with a pearl.

 

The bottle tag shape and the word Cheers are both Papertrey Dies.

 

Thanks for looking.

'till next time,

Doni



Simon Says

 

 

I made a card yesterday that I uploaded to Splitcoast Stampers for the

Try a New Technique challenge to use a positive and a negative from two different dies.

Since I'm just getting around to it, I'm entering it in the

  "anything goes" Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge from last week.

Check THIS out, I think I'm going to be entry # 800!

Wowza, that's some serious competition!

 

 

Anyhow, it was a fun card to make.

 

'till next time,

Doni



Sketch

 

 

 

 

This is this week's sketch. You can check out their blog HERE.

 

 

I borrowed this Art Impressions Giraffe stamp from my friend Lynn, so I plan

on getting lots of use from it before I have to give it back!

Here's what I did with it today:

 

 

I embossed the giraffe and the word hello with black embossing powder on a

tag that I cut from background paper ( made a bunch of background papers awhile back

 using distress ink stamped on  a Teflon mat spritzed with water ).

 

Here's the inside:

Love the Ai sense of humor on their stamps!

 

Thanks for stopping by today.

 

'till next time,

Doni