Masculine Card: Going Wild

Took some time, this morning, from packing the Playhouse to make a card for my cousin's birthday next week.  This card was made using a Faux Linen technique on the giraffe. You can check it out here:Faux Linen. I masked the giraffe, then used a Rogue Redhead Designs Behind the Scene reverse dot stamp to make the background..  I have had this giraffe sooo long, I truly do not remember who made him (my apologies).
 I am entering this in these challenges.

Try it Tuesday: On The Wild Side.

Unscripted Sketches # 211

Hiding in My Craftroom challenge #98

Hope your Tuesday is a Great Day
Don't forget WOYWW TOMORROW
Inky Hugs
Krisha

Celebratie Your Birthday Tag

" Monday, Monday, so good to me...." (I will humm this song all day)
I do hope that all our blog friends, that lived through some devastating tornadoes, over the weekend are all safe and sound.  Things are just "stuff" that can be replaced, but our friends are priceless.

Soooo, what a weekend around here.  Saturday morning I started by getting all inky with this tag.  I did a gel resist first, to make the background, then wet the tag and ran inks all down it, spraying more water as I went.  I had some tattered flowers cut out of white cs, so I put a little ink in the centers, and on the leaves.  They looked a little dry, so they got a spritz of H2O and wrinkle.  I found a chip board butterfly and used Inktense pencil and a wet brush to blend in the ink.  I added seed beedz to the center of the flowers and turquoise beedz to the edge of the butterfly.

The sentiments were chosen because it was MY birthday Saturday and I have decided to celebrate being the age I am, along with all the aches and pains that I have earned through the years ( Yes, even the black eye a couple weeks ago) Around noon we headed to the fair grounds for BBQ cook off.....MMMMM good eats for sure, came home and were lazy the rest of the afternoon.

Sunday we were busy getting the extra fuel tank into the truck, so we don't have to fuel every 100 miles while towing the trailer (Grandma's Playhouse) Then to my oldest son's to do a paint touch up on a cabinet in their trailer, and a quick dip in the pool with GDs.  On the way home we pulled the Playhouse out of storage and brought it home.  Memorial Day is next weekend and we are trailering-up with oldest son and family and some friends and heading to the east side of the mountains for Mule Days, leaving Friday morning and coming back Monday!  WHAAAHOOO four days!!  I am so ready to go again.  Which means this week will be a busy one with loading the Playhouse, buying more food that we could possibly eat and getting the truck washed so we can once again see out of the windows!

I haven't entered many challenges lately so I thought I'd enter this tag in the following challenges:

Sugar Creek Hallow: Use It Up
Ecletic Paperis: Gel Medium
Unruly Paper Arts: RAQ #2 Paper Flowers

That's it for Monday, hope everybody has a great week!!
Inky Hugs
Krisha

Spring Flowers are Blooming!!

It's Spring and the flowers are blooming! It is the second week of the "It's Natural" challenge at
Cheerful Stamp Pad blog with the Stitchy Bear Outlet being the sponsor.  There is still time to join us with all your works of nature projects.

For this card I printed out the digi image and stamped over it with a script stamp form
.Rogue Redhead Designs: RRD012 Behind the Scenes, then colored them with bright colored markers.  They were fussy cut and mounted onto an embossed dot paper, then on to a red cs.  I chose a red and white dot ribbon and added it in a wavy pattern. The sentiment is from  the This N That half plate of stamps new release by Rogue Redhead Designs new release.
Just a quick and simple card in bright colors.
Inky
Hugs
Krisha

Floral Tag

I finished the tag that was on my desk Wednesday.  It is a new Hero Arts stamp that I have a love/hate relationship with.  Love the image, hate that it doesn't stamp well.  Has a couple of places that the image is shallow and won't print.  I even pulled it off the wood and added Easy mount too.  Oh well, it is what it is, good thing it was at 50% off!!
I am going to enter this in the Unruly Paper Arts RAQ1: 5 or more flowers 
Hope you can get there and vote for me between May 26 and May 31.

Inky Hugs
Krisha

Grandma's Got a Brand New Bag

Before

Happy Friday!! Well it really isn't a brand new bag, cause I can't seem to find one I really like. (I am very picky when it comes to a new purse) So I was digging about in the hall cupboard and came across an old purse that I really did like, guess that is why I kept it. It had white paint on it here and there, and I had grown tired of it, so into the cupboard t went. I decided to it was rather boring to look at and thought about it. Went back to Betsy and loaded my arms with supplies and came back to the kitchen and began.


before

 

after stamps and rhinestones, I used StaysOn ink for this

Love the way it turned out, and proudly carried it to my GD's, Hannah, school open house last night.  But I do remember the main reason I stopped carrying it.  I holds quite a bit of unnecessary stuff, and if I have room I'll fill it up.  So the challenge is NOT to carry anything that is NOT necessary!  Can I do it?? Well that is still to be seen! LOL



The other side.

So I'm off to get ready to do a little retail therapy with my DIL.  We have a Memorial day trip all planned, only a week away.  We're going to trailer-up and head for a RV park, that has a great swimming pool, near Bishop, where Mule Days will take place.  Plans are for a lot of fishing creek side, attending the festivities and of course more food than we can possibly eat!! (Hmm bettr go up a size if I find a new swim suit)
BUT new swim suits seam to be a requirement this year......or so says my DIL.....oh I do agree, until I go to trying them on..... LOL

Hope your weekend is super crafty!!
Inky Hugs
Krisha

Masculine Birthday Card and the rest of the story!

Yep! This is the card that was laying on my desk yesterday.  TH makes it so much easier to make masculine cards these days, just love it since I have 2 sons.  As you know I found some great sales last week and one of them was this die.  I cut it using a cream cs, then splattered it with distressed inks.  The center of the clock is stamped with a Hero Arts happy birthday sentiment, distressed with a little ink then the clock was put back together, using a brad for clock hands.  Celebrate was stamped onto a thin sheet of cork, then mounted on an embossed snippet from my stash.  It all sits on a very dark brown cs and then onto the card base that had been grunged up with blue and brown ink.  A few clock gears for embellishment and I was done.
It is a birthday card for my oldest son, who's birthday isn't until August. No, I am not THAT organised, let's get that one straight right now!! So why is it finished so early?  (Story below, or you can stop here and  have a great day)


 Well grab a cuppa and have a seat.  While in San Diego for the birth of our grandson Taylor I had taken about 1//3 of my stamping supplies. (If your a follower you will remember that story) Well, the trip was coming to an end and I had packed up all my supplies and ready the Playhouse for the trip home on Sunday. It dawns on me that my youngest son's (Taylor's Daddy) had a birthday on Monday.  Now I'm not a BAD Mom, just an excited Grandma!!  So I ..............................................
BOUGHT him a card, in fact they were 2 for $1.00 at the dollar store, so I found a very nice one for him and for my GD who turned 3 the end of April.  Bases covered!!  Family never says much about the hand made cards anyway.......WRONG!!  Tony (my son) gets this look on his face and then starts laughing and says "A store bought card? Really?  How much did that hurt?" Okay so HE does like the hand made cards.  Megan's birthday rolls around ( I am still unpacking the Playhouse and no time for crafting, but I'm thinking I already have a great card and gift......good to go) WELLLLLL, let me tell you about that! My DIL always reads the cards to her girls while they open their gifts.  SHE throws a fit when she sees the card "What is this? You BOUGHT a card, where is the beautiful handmade card you ALWAYS make? Don't do this again, we WANT the pretty cards!"
So now you have the whole story!
Well, if you made it to here, you must be either shaking your head with disgust or laughing your butts off!  Either way I have learned MY lesson, and thanks for hanging in there for the whole story.
Off to make more BD cards, also have a GD birthday in August.....better hurry on that one!!! LOL
Inky Hugs
Krisha

WOYWW 206

 

So it's Tuesday night here is California, but it's Wednesday for the hostess Julia Dunnit so it is time for some blog jumping.  What is this all about? Click the link and get the details, then play along with the rest of Blogland
What is WOYWW?

Here is Betsy tonight, just as I left her to go take a shower and get my jammies on.  I have been playing around off and on all day and all I accomplished is one card!! LOL So what are ya looking at?? My nasty, inky rag, a pretty container with a jar of pens and pencils, my new Stampendous stamp, stamps with sentiments, black in pad, a card for my son's birthday (in August), a tag I'm still puttering about with, A New Hero Arts stamp in the back, water pot in front of that, pot with glue bottles up side down, scissors, glasses, clip, paper towels and the standard stuff around the edges.  Behind the right light there are a couple of DT pieces I did have to push out of view, they will be coming up later.

Last Friday I did some pre-birthday shopping and brought home a haul of stash.  Michael's had their wood mounted stamps on sale for 50%, then I went to Beverly's Fabrics and they had their stencils for 30% off, Jo Ann's had dies at 40% off, so picked up the clock die you see on the card.  Then I went across the street to the mall and picked up my FREE pearl earrings, then to JCP and got a top that was on sale for $11.95, BUT I had a $10.00 off purchase so with tax and an 80 cent donation cost me $3.00!! Also went to Macy's and picked up a new bottle of perfume and lotion, but DH paid for those for Mother's Day.

Okay enough  of the bla, bla, bla and onto to blog hopping!!
Leave a comment and I will definately get back to you, if I was there first.....LOL
Inky Hugs
Krisha