Masculine Thankful for You

Greetings!  

I thought I'd put together a masculine card today. I ordered the stamp & die set originally for my husband, but it actually suits many friends and family members. 

Thanks for stopping by. Blessings and inky hugs. 

-§hawnie 

Holiday Deer

Masculine attributes of this card will hopefuly be appreciated by a male recipient. 

The trees and deer are from Life is Good from Gina K. Designs.   The snowflakes and sentiment are from Stampin' Up!s Short and Sweet stamp set. 

 

 Thanks for stopping by!

~Shawnie B.

Doilies w/ a Secret Message

Greetings!  This card is a CASE but for the life of me, I cannot remember who it came from.  I hate it when that happens!
Anyway, I thought the card was very beautiful and I just had to CASE it. 

The inside of the secret tag reveals a sentiment.

Thanks for stopping by!
Blessings and Inky Hugs;
~Shawnie B.

Lariat Birthday–Seize the Birthday Challenge

Greetings!
This particular card is from Seize the Birthday.  This particular challenge is for a Masculine card.  I dusted off my old copy of Bareback stamp set from Stampin’ Up!.  Items used to create the card are below under “Labels”. 


Here’s the sketch challenge:


Blessings & Inky Hugs!
~Shawnie B.

Ribbon of Hope

If you are wandering why I'm using this set so often here lately, it's because my adopted Brother ordered 2 bundles of cards to use for a fund raising even to fight Cancer.  (of course I gave him a discount to help further his cause).  Anyway, this particular stamp set, Strength & Hope was a special stamp set that Stampin' Up! made available for a very short time.  The proceeds from purchasing the stamp set were donated for Breast Cancer research.If you'll notice words in the background are:  Courage, Hope, Believe, Unity, Survivor, Caring, Together, Love, Kindness, Support, Strength, Blessed, and Thank You.

Be on the look-out for cards of different varieties.  ")

Thanks for stopping by!

Blessings & Inky Hugs;

~Shawnie B.

Deer Dad

Here I am, making more Fathers Day cards.  I just can't keep enough of them around.  Most of the cards I make for Dad's, however, can be given to them any time of year.  It doesn't have to be just Fathers Day that these cards are given.

Dad's need to know they are appreciated all year long, don't they?!

This card was created with the following Stampin' Up! Supplies:

• Stamps:
• Noble Deer
• Just so Sayings
• Punchs:
• Square Punches
• Word Window
• Modern Label
• Big Shot:
• Fiscars Wood Impression Plates
• Misc:
• Brads
• Dimensionals
• Hemp Twine
• Colors Used:
• Whisper White
• Chocolate Chip
• Dusty Durango
• Early Espresso ink

Don't forget, Fathers Day is the 17th of this month!  This is a great day to also recognize those whose family lives far from them and they won't be able to spend time with their families.  Even if he's not your Dad, more than likely he's somebody's Dad.

Take care & God Bless!

Blessings and Inky Hugs
~Shawnie B.

Nautical Birthday - Masculine - Sketch Challenge

Here is another sketch challenge from Sunny Challenges & Creations.

I'm keeping up with my challenge of creating Masculine cards to replenish my stock.  Here is the sketch...

And here is my interpretation of the sketch:

I did something a bit different around the sentiment.  Instead of rolling out a framelits shape and stamp the sentiment on that, I took a Framelits shape, adhered temporary snail to the back, positioned it where I wanted it on Very Vanilla cardstock and with my dauber shaded Crumb Cake all over and then Soft Suede just around the edges.  I then stamped images from The Open Sea stamp set all over.  Once I figured I had done enough, I removed the Framelits shape, which left the shape, but all clean of any ink, but you can still see the impression.  I stamped the Happy Birthday sentiment and called it good.  I'm not sure what the technique is called, I guess it would be a reverse mask? 

This card was created with the following Stampin' Up! Supplies:  

• Stamps:
• The Open Sea
• Elementary Elegance
• Punches:
• Circle Punch (for Build a Brad cntr)
• Big Shot:
• Framelits Labels Collection Die
• Misc:
• Build-a-Brad
• Dimensionals
• Hemp Twine
• Colors:
• Very Vanilla
• Soft Suede ink
• Not Quite Navy
• Riding Hood Red
• Crumb Cake

 Thank you for stopping by!

Blessings & Inky Hugs;

~Shawnie B.

Sunny Challenges Sketch Challenge SC 34/12 - Dreams

Good evening stampers!

Here is the challenge sketch from Sunny Challenges & Creations





And here are the supplies that were used to create my card:

• Stamps:
• Fresh Vintage (new Sale-a-Bration stamp set that was free with a 50.00 purchase)
• Loving Thoughts (sentiments in the new Occasions Mini)
• Big Shot:
• Petals-a-Plenty Embossing Folder
• Punches:
• Eyelet Border
• Postage Stamp
• Square
• Colors Used:
• Poppy Parade
• Lucky Limeade
• Pool Party
• Peach Parfait
• Very Vanilla
• Misc Items Used:
• Ribbon
• Hemp Twine
• Dimensionals
• Stampin' Write Markers (coloring the stamped image)

Thank you very much for stopping by.  I hope you've enjoyed your visit!

There are so many talented stampers who contribute their take of the sketch challenge.  If your looking for ideas, here is a really good place to visit!  Sunny Challenges & Creations

Blessings & Inky Hugs!
~Shawnie B.

Birthday Sails

Greetings Stampers!

I hope your weekend went well!  It's too bad it had to draw to a close, but all good things must end, right?!

To get an aged / vintage feel, I took the top stamped layer, wadded it up in a ball several times, straightened it out flat with a bone folder, and lightly ran my Crumb Cake ink pad across so only the raised part of the paper would pick up the ink.  (this can be easy to over-do so be careful when doing this).  

The anchors on the base layer was stamped with Craft Whisper White.  If you don't have Whisper White to stand out from the dark background, you can always emboss with white embossing powder.

This card was made with the following Supplies:

• Stamp Set/s-
• The Open Sea
• Messages for Mom
• Punch/s-
• Scallop Trim Border Punch
• Spiral Notebook Punch
• Misc-
• Crop-A-Dial
• Large Eyelets
• Dauber
• Dimensionals
• Hemp Twine

Thank you so much for stopping by.

Blessings & Inky Hugs!
~Shawnie B.

Always Cherish You

Greetings Stampers!     

The following items were used to make this card:

• Big Shot
• Bigz Beautiful Butterflies
• Sizzlits Lots of Tags Label 3
• Stamp Set
• Creative Elements
• Floral Background
• Weathered Background
• Misc unknown postage stamp
• Punch
• Heart
• Misc
• Button
• Handmade Shimmer Spritz
• Hemp Twine
• Ribbon
• Dimentionals
• Q-Tip (for distressing outer edges of Butterfly)
• SU Designer Paper

 The card didn't quite turn out as I had expected.  I'm not sure what I was going for at the time, but figured I would post the card anyway.  The main reason I'm posting it is to show the handmade shimmer spritz I made.  The recipe is really simple.  All you need to do is mix Rubbing Alcohol and drops of Shimmer Paint (available through Stampin' Up!).  When it comes to the shimmer paint, a little bit goes a LONG way.  Add a few drops at a time until you achieve the desired shimmer.  I use little Mini Misters that I found at my local craft store.  you can use any spray bottle as long as the nozzle will spritz.  (for quite a while I used an old Stampin' Mist bottle that worked just fine)  Once you have the desired shimmer you can then add drops of your favorite Stampin' Up! re-inker if you want to add some color.  Make sure to shake really well before spraying. 

Shimmer paint can be purchased through Stampin' Up! for $5.95 a bottle that goes a long way.  3 color selections are:  Champagne Mist, Frost White, & Platinum.

Here is a close-up of the shimmer mist in action.

Please let me know if you have any questions!

Thanks for stopping by!

Blessings & Inky Hugs;

~Shawnie B.

Here's to You!

Greetings Stampers!

Thought I would share what I have so far.  My grand son is going to be coming over for a few days and since I try to avoid going into my craft room when he's here (too much temptation for a 3 year old), I figured I would share some of the projects I've worked on this past week & a half.

Here's to You

Items used on this card:

• Big Shot
• Square Lattice embossing folder
• Sizzlits Scribbles Swirls
• Stamp Set's
• Field Flowers
• Friendly Phrases
• Stamp-a-ma-jig for 2 step stamping
• Dauber
• Hemp Twine
• Paper Flowers
• Stampin' Up! Specialty Ribbon
• Bling gem

Thanks for stopping by!  And as always, I appreciate any feedback you offer. ")

Blessings & Inky Hugs!

~Shawnie B.

Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge

Good evening folks!  This evening I'm bringing you another Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge entry.  If you participate in this or any other sketch challenges, please let me know so I can check out your projects!

The sketch for this week is pretty basic so I decided to stir mine up a bit while still staying within the sketch parameters. 

Here is the sketch:
 

 And here is the project I put together:

 The following items were used to create this card:

• Greeting Card Kids stamp set (image)
• Short & Sweet stamp set (sentiment)
• Watercolor Wander Crayons
• Aqua Painter
• Big Shot
• Bigz Perfect Pennants die
• Square Lattice embossing folder
• Stripes embossing folder
• Designer Buttons
• Dimensionals
• Hemp Twine
• Paper Piercing Tool
• Modern Label punch
• Sponge Dauber

 Thank you for stopping by.  I look forward to hearing your feedback!

Blessings & Inky Hugs!
~Shawnie Bartron