613 Avenue Create -JULY 2023 - ANYTHING GOES w/Optional Twist: Nautical

 Time for another  great challenge at 613 Avenue Create. As always the theme of the challenge is anything goes and the optional twist is Nautical (boats, sand, water, beach houses, etc) Perfect challenge for this summer season.

I have used a stamp and die set by Stampenous called Sailboats to create my scene. I used a combination of water colours, copics, trees by Tim Holtz. The birds are part of an unmounted stamps that at this time I do not remember the companies name who made it. 

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative week.  Hope you will join us  in this challenge.  Remember to pop  ove to  our challenge blog to be inspired by our talented design team. 

Sail Away

 

Time for another great challenge at 613 Avenue Create.  The theme is anything goes with an optional twist of paper piecing. 

For my card I used the following ingredients

Alcohol inks Pentart and Airondack

Tim Holtz Tree Stamps

Stampendous Sailboats and Die Set

Copic Markers 

Bird Rubber Stamp

I created my background for the card with Alcohol Inks and a few rubber stamps then I paper pieced my Sailboats on to the card. 

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative week. Remember to pop by our challenge blog to be inspired by our talented design team and join in this challenge.

Love to Craft - Anything Goes

Crafts Galore - Anything Goes

A Perfect Time to Craft - Anything Goes

Mix It Up Challenge Blog - Anything Goes/Optional Stamping

A Bit More Time to Craft - Anything Goes

Classic Design Challenge - Anything Goes

Things that go Bump in the Night

Craft CardMakers challenge this week is things that go bump in the night.  Fitting theme for a challenge in October with Halloween just around the corner.  We are delighted to be sponsored by Woodware Craft Collection. 

This card was made with a Stampendous rubber stamp called Raven  Skull. I used Distressed Inks and glitter to colour my image and pattern paper then added a sentiment and a die cut bat.  

Pop over to our challenge blog to see the projects that our design team have create to inspire you.  Hope you will join in this challenge. Thank you for stopping by and have a creative day.  

It's a Man Thing

Time for another challenge at Eclectic Ellapu. Eclectic Ellapu has two challenges on the first of every month. The two themes this month are Anything Goes and It's a Man Thing (something for a male, colours, prints and textures).  

My card is for the It's a Man Thing Challenge as you can see with the images and colours I chose for my collage.  My collage uses stamps from Tim Holtz and Stampenous. It was fun mixing and matching my images and colours. 

Hope you will join us in one of our challenges this month over at Eclectic Ellapu.  Remember to pop over to our challenge board to view the projects of the talented design team, they are very inspiring. 

Remember my favourite quote by Maya Angelou, "You can not use up creativity, the more you do the more you have". 

I am entering this card in the following challenges: 
Artistic Inspiration - Anything Goes
Colouring in Scrapland - Anything Goes
Crafty Boots Challenge - Use a Stamp
Crafting from the Heart- Anything Goes
Incy Wincy Designs - Anything Goes
Not Just Cards - Anything Goes

Rubber Stamp Challenge

I made this card for my friend's birthday and thought I would enter it in a challenge over at Retro Rubber Challenge blog  RRCB30.  They were having a sketch challenge and this card is my interpretation of the sketch.   

This is the sketch I was work from

To make my card I added Distress Ink to an acrylic block and stamped it on watercolour paper the added a Italian poem stamp to the water coloured area.  . 

My Italian stamp is from Hero Arts and was made in 2006.  The flower stamp I used was by Stampendous and was made in 2006. The sentiment is a die cut from Tim Holtz and  the flowers were coloured with Distress Inks also. A ribbons was added to complete the card. 

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative week. 

Outdoor Fun

Creative Knockout has a challenge this week called "outdoor fun" and this is my card I made for the challenge.  Dr. Digi is the sponsor of the challenge and I used one of their images called  BBQ Bill.

The sentiment stamp is by Stampendous.  I thought it was a fun little summer card and great for a BBQ invitation.

Join us at Creative Knockout and show us your favourite outdoor activity. Thank you for stopping by and have a creative day.

Birthday Card for My Husband

I just finished this birthday card for my husband's birthday this week.  I am sure he will not see it since he never looks at my blog.   I had fun making the card.  The background was made by putting distressed inks in the embossing folder and spritzing it with water and the putting the folder with the paper in it through the Sizzix. 

The owl image is a stamp from Stampendous that I just love. He was coloured with Copics and I added diamond glaze to his watch.   The sentiment was a saying I found on the internet at Barb's World of Whimcees. She has a get list of sentiments for Owl cards. 

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative day.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

• Cards Galore Encore - Use a Digi or Rubber Stamp 
• Fan-Tastic Tuesday - Anything Goes
• Through The Craft Room Door  - Always Anything Goes
• Tuesday Throwdown - Anything Goes
• Crafting from the Heart - Always Anything Goes
• The Pink Elephant Monday Card Challenge -  Anything Goes
• Perfectly Rustics - Clocks

CAS Challenge

Ir is a clean and simple card challenge this week at Come and Get It Challenges.  This is a hard challenge for me because I like to pile it on.  To make my card I used this Stampenous stamp called Agapanthus Cluster Flower Floral that I have had in my stash for a very long time along with a sentiment stamp from Stampin Up. The flower and card stock are from Stampin Up and the colour is called Bermuda Bay.   I think it is such a pretty colour. 

To complete my card I just added a couple of coordinating strips of  paper , pearls and a vellum butterfly.  Thank you for stopping by and I hope you will join us at Come and Get It this week.  

Judy

I would lie to enter this card in the following challenges:

Treasured Times Rubber Stamps & Scrapbooking - Anything Goes with Layering

Drunken Stampers - Anything Goes

Paper Creator's Crafts Anything goes

The Hobby House - Anything Goes

Crafty Catz  Anything Goes

Sister Act Card Challenge  Anything Goes

Totally Paper Crafts - Clean and Simple

Word art Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

Lets Go Shopping Challenge

Lets go shopping  is the theme of Come and Get It's challenge this week.  I do not know anyone of my girlfriends that does not like going shopping, especially for shoes and purses.  You can never have enough.  

I used a digital image by A Day for Daisies, our sponsor this week called Peacock Clutch.  I really like the design of the purse and thought I had the perfect rubber stamps to accompany it.  

I also used for this card a peacock stamp by Rubber Stampede for the background and a sentimentstamp called Purse-nally by Stampendous.  I love the sentiment, it is so cute. My purse was coloured with Copic Markers and the glitter ribbon is by American Craft. 

Come and join us at Come and Get It this week, just pop over to the challenge blog and see the other cards our design team had made to inspire you. 

Thanks for stopping by and have a creative week.  

Judy

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Polka Doodle Challenge - Anything Goes/Shop till you Drop
My Sheri Crafts  - Use a Digi
Paper Creator's Crafts - Anything goes
Sister Act Card Challenge - Anything Goes
The Crafting Cafe -Anything Goes
Divas by Design Challenge - Anything Goes

Raspberry, Chocolate and Cream

I found this old Stampendous stamp in my collection today and I do not remember buying it but whats new!  I loved it's collage design and thought it was a great stamp for a vintage looking card.  I distressed the edges of the card, antiqued the lace and pearls. 

The products I used for this card were

Copic Markers
Designer paper from my stash
Lace that I coloured a chocolate brown colour
Pearls that I added chocolate colour ink to
Happy Love Day sentiment stamp by Saavy stamps
Martha Stewart Hydrangea Punch  

Thank you for stopping to take a look and I hope you have a very creative 2014.  

Judy

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Fashionable Stamping Challenges - Raspberry, Chocolate and Cream 

Party Time Tuesday - Anything goes

Hiding in my Craft Room -  Anything but Holiday
Pumpkin spice - Anything Goes
Docerela Creations- Anything Goes
Creative Fingers Challenge - Anything Goes

Owl Time

I made this card for a friend to say hello.  I had gone through my stash to use up some scrap paper to make the different layers of the card.   The owl is a rubber stamp from Stampendous .  Both the sentiment and clock are from by stash of unmounted stamps that I have no idea who made them. 

Thank you for stopping by.

Judy

 

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

 

Crazy 4 Challenges -  Card using Absolute Favorite Stamp Set (Steampunk Owl)

Docerela Creations- Anything Goes

Paper Crafting Journey - Anything Goes

Keep It Simple! - (Clean and Simple) -- Be Inspired

 

 

Distressed Stains

I made this Steampunk card for a card swap  at Technique Junkies and I just mailed it off to my partner.  This was a fun technique (June/July issue) where you add three colours of Distress Stains to an embossing folder and then add wet paper and emboss.  I love how the stains react to the water and the card stock.  It is such as soft looking background.  

The rubber stamp is by Stampendous and the wheel clogs at by Tim Holtz. 

Thank you for stopping by to take a look.

Judy

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

4 Crafty Chicks -  Let's Here it for the Boys 
Squigglefly -  Embossing
Lady Anne's Stamp Challenge -  - Anything goes
 Incy Wincy Designs - Things with Wings
Rhedd & Rosie's Challenge Blog -  Anything goes

Quilt Style Card

I made this card for a upcoming swap I am participating in for the Rubber Inkers.  The theme of the swap is a "quilt style" card.  

I used a pattern paper from my stash that I did not particularly like on it's own.  The paper was yellow with pink writing.  I then with a cube block stamp by Stampendous called Foliate Quad Cube stamped with navy ink the four different patterns of the cube and then cut out my squares.

I arranged my squares on navy paper and punched a scalloped border along the bottom of the card. To complete my card I added a die cut flower by Hero Arts and a ribbon.  Hope my partner in this card swap enjoys her card. Thank you for stopping by and have a creative day. 

Judy

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Clearly Inspired - , Anything Goes
Crafty Ribbons -  Anything Goes with Ribbon
Party Time Tuesdays  PTT #113 Anything Goes

Hello

This card was an exercise in pattern paper with a combination of a sketch for an upcoming card swap. I am still travelling in our RV and my paper supply is getting down.  I searched my scrap pile for some interesting combination of papers for this card. I even found a plaid button to go with the collection of papers. The stamp I chose is by Stampendous and with my Copic Markers I added some stripes to the gentlemen's suit to tie in the colours of my pattern paper. 

Thank you for stopping by today and have a creative day.

Judy

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Sweet Stampin - 2E, must Stamp - For a Man or Boy
Card Crafter's Circle - 3E, C10 – Vintage Flair
Inspire Me Fridays – Anything Goes always


 

Here Comes the North Pole Express

Meighan, one of the Christmas elves at Holly Jolly Christmas Challenges chose a R’s challenge this week. Your card must contain at least three things that start with the letter "R" such as red, reindeer and ribbon.

I had just the right digi image by Just Inklined Digital Stamps called North Pole Express for this challenge. I actual have 4 "R" word on my card: red, railway tracks, reindeer and ribbon. This was a fun card to do. I colored the image with my Copic Markers and added Diamond Glaze on the headlights to give the card some depth. The "Merry & Bright" is a rubber stamp by Stampendous.

I think this is a very colorful card, just right for my youngest grandson for Christmas. He is in love with trains. Thank you for stopping by today and I hope you will join us this week at Holly Jolly Christmas Challenges and have a creative day.

　

Judy

Christmas Stockings

It is my turn to pick the challenge at Holly Jolly Christmas challenges this week.  I decided on a theme of “Christmas stockings”.  I have this favourite Artful Stamper Christmas stocking that I used for the card along with a sentiment stamp from Stampendous.  The Stampendous stamp is part of a set called “ruffled wreath”. 

I used non-traditional Christmas colours for the card and added a little bling to finish of the card. Now I have two cards for this upcoming Christmas and only a couple hundred more to go.  Click here to join us at Holly Jolly Christmas challenges. 

Thanks you stopping by.

Judy

Swapping Fun

My yahoo group Inky Fun Stampers has an upcoming cards swap with a theme of what does “L” stand for.  L is for live, love and laugh of course.  I found this pretty digi image on the web site of Bugaboo digi stamps.  Thought it was a great match for the swap.

 The butterfly is one of my new Hero Arts stamp and die cutters. I coloured the images with a combination of Copics, distressed inks and glitter, then added a couple of layers of co-coordinating paper to finish the card.

This cute pocket tag card was also made for an upcoming Inky Fun Stampers tag  swap with the theme “anything goes”.  The tag fits in this cute matching envelope that is small enough to fit into a size A2 envelope for mailing.  The hummingbird is by Stampendous.

Remember to do something creative for yourself and have a wonderful day.

Judy

Red, Black and White - Come and Get It Challenge

The Come and Get it Challenge with week was to create a card only using the colours red, white and black. To create this simple card I choose to emboss my black card stock with a flower stamp from Stampendous in red. I layered several papers and added some bling to enhance the red flowers.

It has been awhile since I have used my embossing powders and I have been thinking I should use them a little more often.

Be creative.
Judy

Sketch Frenzy Friday - Butterfly

I used Stampendous butterfly stamp and Inkadinkado’s sentiment stamp to create this card for the Sketch Frenz Fridays’ blog challenge. I layered a couple of different pattern papers one which I embossed to give the card more texture. I coated the stamp areas with Radiant Pearls so the paper glistened and added a ribbon and bling to complete the card.

I managed to turn my craft room upside down tonight but think clean up will have to wait until tomorrow.

Have a great time creating everyone.
Judy