Corrosive Challenge #113 – Gone to the Dogs

Happy Easter everyone!

Our Corrosive Challenge this week is to make a card featuring animals. I decided to make two cards using dog images this week. Here we go:

and:

I coloured one dog using copics and the other dog was stamped with chocolate chip craft ink to give it a nice, opaque look. I hope you like them! Have a great day everyone and don’t eat too much turkey today!

Donna

Corrosive Challenge #112 – Home Sweet Home

Hi everyone – I’m still in the Bahamas until later tonight – what a fantastic time we’re having!

For today’s Corrosive Challenge, our theme is “Home Sweet Home”. I knew I didn’t have any “real” house stamps, although I did find a digi image for free on the internet I could have used. I put on my thinking cap and realized I had a fairly new (last winter) stamp set with cardinals and a bird house. Well, I figured that still qualifies, right?! Here’s my card for the week:

So, here is the recipe for the card:

Card Stock: 110 lb. white Strathmore, Poppy Parade & Baja Breeze (SU)
Patterned Paper – Memory Box
Ink: Momento Rich Cocoa, various copic markers
Stamps: Northwoods Rubber Stamps, Sentiment (I don’t know!)
Accessories – flower soft, circle punches (SU), ribbon

Corrosive Challenge #111 Sketch

Good day everyone! I am SOOO excited – I am heading to the Bahamas today with 7 other girls to celebrate my sister’s 50th Birthday! WOOHOO! We are going to have so much fun! We’ve rented a penthouse right on the beach in Freeport. My sister will be there a few days before the rest of us, so will stock the fridge and do a booze run so that we have something frosty ready for us when we arrive! My sister is lucky – her MIL lives there and so she gets to visit her whenever she likes. Four of us went there for my sister’s 40th Birthday, so we thought it was fitting that we doubled the number of gals for this milestone! I’ll post pictures when I get back, but for now, you’ll have to settle for my card made for today’s Corrosive Challenge. I am using a digital image from Bugaboo Stamps

This image is called “EB Tulips”. I think all of the Bugaboo images are just fabulous and can see adding a bunch of these to my collection! We also have a sketch this week at the Corrosive Challenge. Here is my submission for the day:

Here is how my card came together:

Card Stock – 110 lb. White Strathmore, Baja Breeze, Green Galore, Pretty in Pink (SU)
Patterned Paper – “Sweet Nectar” by K & Company
Image – “EB Tulips”, Nestie Friendly sentiment from StampingScrapping
Ink – Momento Tuxedo Black, various copic markers
Accessories – Oval and Scalloped Oval Nestabilities, foam adhesive strip to pop image up

That’s it! Thanks for having a look today! See you next week!

Donna

Card Patterns Sketch #109

Ok, I think this is the last upload for the day. This card was made for the Card Patterns Sketch Challenge #109. Here is the sketch:

and, here is what I came up with:

Here is the simple recipe:

Card Stock – Daffodil Delight, Neenah 80 lb. white
Patterened Paper – Basic Grey
Ink – Momento Tuxedo Black, various copic markers
Stamps – Waltzing Mouse (sentiment), Flourishes flower
Accessories – MS border punch, nesties, SU punches, yellow gingham and yellow grosgrain ribbon, green self-adhesive pearls

That’s all folks! TFL and have a super day!

Donna

Sweet Pastels – Corrosive Challenge #110

Here is my card for today’s Corrosive Challenge #110 to use pastels. I was going to make an Easter card, but thought that since I rarely make baby cards, today would be the day! Besides, we are still a few weeks away from Easter, so I have lots of time, right?

I decided to keep my card fairly simple this week. I am entering this card in the MelJen’s Designs sketch challenge. Here is the sketch:

Here is how the card came together:

Card Stock – 110 lb. White Strathmore, Barely Banana (retired SU), Certainly Celery (SU)
Patterned Paper – “Sweet Nectar” Designer Paper from K & Company (I won this, woohoo!)
Stamps – Baby Tees (SU Jumbo Wheel), Holidays & Wishes sentiment (retired SU)
Ink – Momento Tuxedo Black, various copic markers
Accessories – Swiss Dots CB EF, PTI Vintage Button Collection, foam adhesive to pop onesie up

Thanks for having a look today. I look forward to seeing what you create too!

Donna

Corrosive Challenge #107 – Mwah!

We have a Sketch Challenge today at the Corrosive Challenge blog. I’m also featuring an image from Digis With Attitude, called Tabatha and Tony. These are such adorable little tigers! Here is my card for the week:

I started with 110 lb. white Strathmore card stock. I added a basic black panel and layered on some patterned paper. I stamped Tabatha and Tony with Momento Tuxedo Black ink and coloured them with copics. I smudged a little bit of the red on one of the hearts and it was hard to try to remove – oops! The sentiment is from a Flourishes set (Apple of My Eye). I cut and layered the main image with my circle nesties. I added a few self-adhesive rhinestones. A pretty simple card-just the way I like ’em!

Thanks for having a look. I can’t wait to see what everyone creates! Enjoy the day.

Donna

Corrosive Challenge #106 – Going Green

This week at the Corrosive Challenge blog, we are featuring the digi images of Digis with Attitude. My card using an image from this company will be shown next week. For this week, our challenge is to Go Green. I decided to make 2 cards this week, one with a St. Paddy’s Day theme and the other a Father’s Day card that my 6’2″ son will give my husband.

Here they are:

For this card, I used a stamp that I picked up from Michael’s. It is made by Hampton Art. I inked up the shamrock on its own using Momento Tuxedo Black and stamped it 4 times to make a medallion-type image (masked it off so the leaves wouldn’t overlap). I coloured the leaves with copics (G20, G21, G24). I added a green self-adhesive rhinestone in the centre. I then inked up the sentiment and stamped it below the shamrocks. I used my nestie circle and lacey cirlce dies to cut and frame it. My paper is 110 lb. white (Strathmore), Basic Black (SU) and Basic Grey & We R Memory Keepers (Tiffany’s) patterned paper. I tied some black & white gingham ribbon around the paper before adhering my main image.

and:

I used Karen Giron’s sketch from last week’s Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge for my layout. I started with a 110 lb white (Strathmore) card base. I used some scrap solid green CS and ran it through the Forest Branches CB EF. I adhered that to some Bassill dark brown paper. I also used some Basic Grey patterned paper layered with the same brown for my left-side panel. I stamped the tree from PTI (Father Knows Best) with Certainly Celery & Always Artichoke as well as Close to Cocoa and Early Espresso, since it’s a two-step stamping set. I also stamped the sentiment with Early Espresso and used circle nesties to cut and frame them. I added a strip of Certainly Celery under the sentiment and 3 buttons (PTI) to finish the card.

I hope you like them and I look forward to seeing what you create for this week’s challenge!

Donna

You crack me up!

Karen Giron always gives us a great sketch to work with every Sunday on her blog Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge. This week’s sketch #102 is no different.

I decided to keep my card fairly simple too. I absolutely love the image of this lady who is having her (first?) cup of coffee. This is often how I feel in the morning! My hair is curly and if I don’t put it in a ponytail to sleep, I’d wake up just like this! Here is what I came up with:

Here are the deets:

Card Stock – 110 lb. white Strathmore, Bravo Burgundy
Patterned Paper – MME
Ink – Momento Rich Cocoa, various copic markers
Stamp – Stepping Stones Designs
Accessories – punches, nesties, sewing machine

Thanks for having a peek!

Donna

Hockey Girl – Corrosive Challenge #99

This month, Kenny Kiernan is the sponsor for the Corrosive Challenge #99. The challenge this week is to use lace and pearls. It was my week to use a Kenny K. image and I chose “Hockey Girl”. This is a girl after my own heart! I have been around hockey and figure skating my whole life and I have decided that I am going to join a women’s team next fall. This means I really have to brush up on my skating skills using hockey skates, which is COMPLETELY different than wearing figure skates, let me tell you! Anyway, back to my card:

Here is how it all came together:

Card Stock – 110 lb. white (Strathmore), Mellow Moss (retired SU)
Patterned Paper – Porcelain (Basic Grey)
Ink – Momento Tuxedo Black, various copic markers
Stamp – Kenny K.’s digitial image
Accessories – ribbed ribbon (retired SU), lace ribbon (from A. C. Moore), self-adhesive pearls, Curved Rectangles Mega Nestabilities (Spellbinders), dimensionals

Thanks for having a look – I can’t wait to see what you have come up with too!

Donna

JOY (I made another card)!

Yesterday, as I was recovering from the flu, I was able to be vertical (for the first time in two days) and knew I had to at least made a tiny dent in getting my Christmas cards done. I flipped through a bunch of websites until I found a sketch I thought I could manage and discovered this sketch from Crafty Sentiments Designs:

The name of the challenge is “Lots of Snowflakes and Sketch Challenge”. I am also submitting this card for the first ever challenge at One Crazy Stamper, to create a Christmas or Winter-themed card: Here is what I came up with:

Here is the recipe for my card:

Card Stock: 110 lb. white Stathmore, 80 lb. Neenah solar white, Cherry Cobbler, Old Olive (both SU)
Patterned Paper: “Jolly Happy Christmas” by Dovecraft
Stamps: “Group Hug” from Stamping Bella, “Joy” from Gina K. (“The Magic of Christmas” set)
Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black, copic markers (VG91/93/97, R24/37/59, BG000/01/07,YR07, C1/3, G21/24, B000, Colorless Blender)
Accessories: Die by Marianne design (LR0129), 1″ an d 1 1/4″ circle punches (SU), “Petals-a-Plenty” Textured Impressions embossing folder (SU), dimensionals

Thanks for having a look today!

Donna