Button Bear Celebrates

This card could be used for a few different things. Get Well Wishes, Birthday, Congrats for Baby. I really like how this one turned out. I used Julee's sketch from Poetic Artistry. What a neat sketch this one is. Julee is having a contest on her sketch, you might want to check it out. I have included Julee's sketch here.

I am also doing this one for the Ways to use it Challenge WT161 on SCS. I used eyelets and brads on this one and the challenge is for eyelets. The white dots on the black strip really made the card to add more dimension.

So on with the card you will need the following supplies:

Whisper White, Basic Black card stock

Scrap of designer paper

Button Bear Stamp set or your choice of stamp set

Dotted Swiss Embossing Folder

White Gel Pen

3 white eyelets and 3 balloon brads

gamsol and colored pencils

crop-a-dile

Directions:

Cut a sheet of Whisper white in half so you have a 2 pieces at 5 1/2 x 8 1/2. Fold one in half to get your main card at 4 1/4 x 5 1/2. Cut the other piece in half at 4 x 5 1/4 this will be run though with your embossing folder. Last white piece cut at 2 3/4 x 2 7/8. Stamp image on this piece and color in with gamsol and colored pencils. With crop-a-dile punch 3 holes on upper right hand side for balloon brads. Add your brads.

Cut basic black at 3 x 3 1/8 and mount image to this and set aside. Cut one piece at 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 and add to main card front. With your embossed white piece add to the black.

Cut a piece of designer paper at 3 1/2 x 3. Mount this to a black piece of card stock that measures 3 3/4 x 3 1/4. Add this to you card on top the white. Now cut another black piece at 1 1/2 x 4 1/4. Add dots with white gel pen around edges. Next take your crop-a-dile and punch 3 holes evenly spaced on the left side. Add white eyelets. Mount to the card. Then add your stamped image and your done. See sample for placement of these pieces if you don't understand my directions.

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April Showers

Wish it was showers we was getting but like earlier in the week we are getting more snow starting tomorrow according to the weatherbug news. I'll take the April Showers.

This is another creation for two reasons. 1. Chrissy's Belli Challenge #12. 2. A sketch challenge from Jen del Muro from iheart2stamp.com. Please take some time and check out Chrissy's blog and Jen's blog. Both are very talented lady's. And go ahead and take the challenges they both have going.

I used some of my scraps and a image I had stamped and colored in already but didn't know what to do with yet. Well both of these challenges made this card come to life.

Supplies used:

Read Red, Whisper White, Basic black card stock

Gamsol and colored Pencils

3 Black eyelets

crop-a-dile

Dotted Swiss Embossing Folder

Black Ribbon with white lines

Black Stazon Ink Pad

Stamp set of choice

Directions:

Cut main card with Whisper White at 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 fold in half to get your card at 4 1/4 x 5 1/2. Cut Real Red card stock at 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 add to main card front.

Cut Whisper White card stock at 4 x 5 1/4 and run though with embossing folder. Use punch for corners and mount to front of card on the Real Red.

Stamp image on Whisper White with Stazon Black ink. Color in with Gamsol and colored pencils (Gamsol Magic). Trim down to 2 1/2 x 3 1/8. Cut Real Red at 2 3/4 x 4 1/8. Add image to upper half. Measure and put in eyelets with the crop-a-dile, just under image. Then add ribbon to the bottom. Layer this on a piece of black card stock that measures 2 7/8 x 4 4/8. Mount this in the center of the card and your finished. Very simple but cute card.

Hope you enjoy today's project and be sure to take the challenges on both Chrissy's and Jen's blogs.

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Button Bear is Back

I love this set and finally dug it out again as I had a bunch of scraps to use up and wanted something that would be easy to work with for my scrap papers. Be sure to check out Chrissy's blog for a Scrap Challenge. Her Challenges is posted on Wed. check them out and join in on the fun of the challenge.

So for this project I used a sketch from Poetic Artistry. MojoMonday22 Sketch Challenges. I love her sketches.

Supplies needed:

Remember now this is a good one for scraps

Designer paper scraps

Whisper White Scraps

Choc Chip card stock

Ribbon Scraps ( this piece was only 6 inches long)

White Gel Pen and Brown Gel Pen

Small Scallop circle punch

Gamsol and colored pencils

Stamp set of choice ( I used Button Bear SU Retired)

Pop dots

Crystal Effects

Directions:

Stamp image on White card stock and color in with gamsol. Trim to 2 3/4 x 2 3/4". Add brown gel pen dots around the corners. Mount to a piece of choc chip card stock that is 3 x 3.

Stamp the honey pot on small scrap of white. Color in and add Crystal Effects to the honey and then on the bear on his paw pads. Set these aside to dry while you work on the rest of your project.

Punch the small scallop and add white dots with the white gel pen to each scallop. You will mount your honey pot on this when dry with pot dots.

4 1/4 x 5 1/2" card will be use to mount the choc chip to, this is cut to card size of the front of the card. Next you will cut your designer papers at 1", 1 1/8", 1 3/8' and 1 5/8" wide and they are all 4 1/4" long. Mount in any order on your choc. chip piece. Add ribbon across middle and add to the basic card front.

Next make sure your Crystal effects is dry once dry you can mount to you card. The bear goes to the right of the card centered on the right edge in the middle. The honey pot is mounted to the small scalloped circle with pot dots and then pot dot the back and mount to left of bear upper area of image.

Your card is now complete and ready to send. Hope you enjoyed today's project and got some of those scraps used up.

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Tagged by an Angel

Okay, here are the rules, my dears.
1. Link to the person that tagged you and leave a comment on their Blog.
2. Post the rules on your Blog.
3. Share 7 random facts about yourself on your Blog
4. Tag 7 random people, linking to their Blog.
Kelly my sweet friend tagged me, I am so honored! Gosh I get to pick 7 bloggers! So I will pick for this time, this is so hard to do. I don't want to miss anyone but can only pick so many.
Karen Gibson
Amber Porter
Holly
Chrissy
Teri
Carol M
Corie

Fact 1: In case you haven't guessed I love angels. And have one that watches over me daily from heaven.
Fact 2: I am a Disney movie junkie. I love most the movies that Disney has put out. I also have a large collection of Disney movies either on VHS or DVD.
Fact 3: I have nieces and nephews older than me, which is strange when you come from a small family and marry into a large family.
Fact 4: I am disabled.
Fact 5: I love to shop and have no self control. Gets me in a lot of trouble at times. ;)
Fact 6: I am allergic to chemicals so am unable to dye my hair, wear make up, perfume or anything like that. Can't have no fabric softener, bleach, in my clothes. Can only use hypoallergenic shampoo's and soaps. Its a real pain!
Fact 7: My best friend lives in the Osseo and we chat on the net almost every night. She is a real sweetheart an so dear to my heart.
Now that you know 7 facts about me girls it's time for you to do your 7 facts. I look forward to hearing about you.
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Question Answered about Gamsol

I hope I can answer this good enough for those wondering about the gamsol and colored pencils. The gamsol is a medium that blends the colored pencils.
Here is two tutorials on it. One on SCS and the other is Heartprints. I love the Heartprints one as she has a video on it and really shows you how to use it.
I hope this answers your questions about this product and how to use it.
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Friends Forever

Boy I totally missed yesterday, things got busy around here and I totally forgot. Plus I never got to stamp at all yesterday. Well today the weather in Central MN has been awful. Snow, then rain, then back to snow, rain. ISHY day for-sure here, so I stuck close to home and did some stamping. Roads are really bad, we had lots of roll overs in the area, the police scanner was just buzzing all day with accidents, roll overs, ones going in the ditch. We get nice weather and clear roads for a few days and everyone forgets how to drive in this stuff.

Anyway, I designed my own sketch today, don't have it drawn up yet but this is how my sketch turned out. If I can figure out my program I will do up a sketch for you all to see and hopefully some of you will try it and share with me.

Supplies needed:

Bashful blue, Basic Black and White card stock

Black Stazon ink pad

Bashful blue ink pad

Gamsol

Colored Pencils & Q-tips

Black Gel Pen for going around the card

Stamp of choice

black ribbon

Directions:

Cut White card stock at 8 x 9" fold in half so you have a card that is 4 x 9". Cut a black piece at 4 x 9" and add to the front of the card. Cut bashful blue at 3 6/8 x 8 6/8". With bashful blue ink stamp dots or a background on the bashful blue piece and mount to the black.

Stamp image on white card stock and color in with gamsol and colored pencils. My image piece is cut at 5 1/4 x 3 7/8". Layer on a black piece of card stock cut at 5 1/2 x 4 1/8". Layer this on your dotted bashful blue piece on the card.

Next with bashful blue card stock and bashful blue ink, stamp dots like you did for the other piece. This piece is cut at 1 1/2 x 3 6/8". Mount this to black cut at 1 3/4 x 3 6/8". Tie black ribbon around this piece and add to card on the left hand side. With black gel pen and a ruler draw a line around edge of card. You can see how to add your pieces by my sample.

Hope you all had good weather and a nice day. Happy Monday!

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Accordion Fold Mini Scrapbook

I thought this was an excellent video. Hope some of you can use this.
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Hummingbird Morning Glory

I know I have done this one before but the other one I did I made it so that the background was all a yellow color to make it look like sunlight. This one I just highlighted around the edges of the image. What do you all think of this one? Should I add it to a Base card, maybe a black or Lovely Lilac? Or would you just leave it on the way it is on the Whisper White?

If you haven't tried the Gamsol Magic yet you really need to try it. I love how this works and it makes the images pop! Blending is done like magic as it takes your colored pencils markings and blends them so none of the lines show. It is like it shades it for you to at the same time. As you work with this medium, you find that as your doing your circle motions it blends the colors out so it shades and blends all at the same time. I just love this stuff.

Was a beautiful day today in Central MN, so I spent sometime enjoying the weather. I walked Rascal our dog around the house a few times as our roads are so muddy. Can't wait for it to dry up some so we can start walking and enjoying these nice temps. Hopefully they continue and Mother Nature is done surprising us with snow. Was so nice to be able to open a window or two and a door and air out the house from being all closed up for the winter months.

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Udderly Exhausted

Love how this card turned out and hoping my cousin that had heart surgery last week will too. He had to have several stents put in his valves to his heart. He must be doing pretty good cause he has been seen out and about since the surgery.

Supplies needed:

Whisper White, Basic Black and Pretty in Pink Card stock

Stazon Black Ink Pad

Craft White Ink Pad

3 white eyelets

White and black gel pens

Coluzzle

Crop-a-dile

Gamsol and Colored Pencils

Stamp sets used was Harlequin Background stamp (retired) and Farm Fever.

Directions:

Cut card stock at 4 1/4 x 11, fold in half to make your card. This card also opens from the top.

Cut Pretty in Pink at 3 1/8 x 3 3/4 layer on card as shown in sample

Cut Basic black at 2 3/4 x 3 1/3, stamp with White Craft Ink Pad with the Harlequin stamp. Take white gel pen and put dashed lines around the diamonds. Punch 3 evenly spaced holes for eyelets with the crop-a-dile. Add eyelets. Layer this on the Pretty in Pink.

Add black dots on the Whisper White card stock (main card) with black gel pen.

On Whisper White stamp cow image on and color in with choice of coloring. I did the gamsol and colored pencils for this one too. Cut out with an oval from the coluzzle. Next do the same with the black card stock only one size larger for the oval.

With white gel pen make squiggles and dots around the edge of the black.

Mount to card.

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An Award

There are 5 rules attached to this and they are:
1) You have to pick 5 blogs that you consider deserve this award for their creativity, design, interesting material, and also contributes to the blogging community, no matter what language.
2)Each award has to have the name of the author and also a link to his or her blog to be visited by everyone. Monica's Blog can be found here
3)Each award winner has to show the award and put the name and the link to the blog that has given her or him the award itself Chrissy's Blog.
4) Award-winner and the one who has given the prize have to show the link of "Arte y Pico" blog , so everyone will know the origin of this award. http://arteypico.blogspot.com/
5) To show these rules.The 5 blogs that I choose are:

Mary Jo Price

Gwen

Wanda

Julee

Frances

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