Handmade with Love

Hey Everyone! 
Coming to you on a pouring down rainy day, hoping the lights stay on to finish this post. 
Today I have a card for the Newton's Nook Inky Paws Challenge #40 Sketch Challenge!!
I LOVE sketch challenges and I LOVE how this card came out. 
I purchased the MADE FROM SCRATCH  stamp set when it first was released, but I was not sure how I was going to use this set. 
This challenge was the inspiration.  I actually have a second stamp set on this card as well. The scribbles on the card are from the LOVE A' LA CARTE Stamp Set. Because I like to change things up, I flipped the banners sideways. As always, lots of color because I LOVE COLOR!
That's all for now. (because the lights are flickering) Don't forget to check all the other amazing cards on the link below.   


             Thanks for stopping by
                          Diane
                                                                             

                                                             
                                                

Free Styling a crazy cool card.

                                                                       Hello everyone, 

One of my crafty resolutions for the New Year was to stretch my crafty muscle and to learn new techniques. 

For this card I tried free styling. From my understanding free styling is not a new technique to card making. Many designers just grab their stamps and start stamping and voila! a card is done. Not this girl! I usually come up with an idea and a plan for a card, down to the details, and follow that to the end. For this card I switched it up. I stared by making stencil for the background heart. Something simple just cut from a die cut and taped down to the paper. Then I stared spraying with my new obsession Dylusion Ink Spray. 

After the spray was was dry, I used the I SEE YOU stamp set from Simon Says stamp  I started stamping and embossing. I had no plan. I just stamped how I felt the card needed it. The results, dare I say, came out amazing. I was shocked that I made this card because it is soooo far away from what my normal style of card making. I even love the accidental over spray that happened. 

I highly encourage you to  come out of your crafty box. 

Try something new. Stretch those muscles and have a little fun.

That's all for now.

Diane                                                                                                                                     

                                                                                

                                                                                          

                                                                                   

                                                                           

                                                                     

Hearts and Flowers

Hello all you crafty people! 
I'm back with the first post of 2017. 

For this post I have a card for the Inky Paws Challenge over at Newtons Nook Designs.
I LOVE the way this card came out, and the best part is it was a happy accident. I intended for this card to be a completely different design. Then the ADD kicked in and I started messing around with a shading technique(that is the background heart) and it totally flipped my idea for the card. 
The flowers and sentiment on the card are from Versatile Vases stamp set, colored in with Distress Ink and embossed with clear to make them pop. 
The printed paper and extras are from my stash. 
Hope you enjoyed my card and don't forget to check out all the other amazing card in the link below.
Bye for now
DIANE


                                                    
                                                        http://www.inkypawschallenge.com/

My Mug Tree

Today we are playing along with the Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop.

For my card, I chose stamps from Newton's Nook Stamps, Including one of favorite stamp sets 

"Newton Loves Coffee".

"Newton Loves Coffee" is the first stamp set that I purchased from Newton's nook, and this set has been a "go to" stamp set in my stash ever since. 

Snowflake's

Hello to everyone!                                  

Hope that the holidays are treating you well. 

Today we have a card for the Inky Paws Challenge.

Since it is the holiday time, a quick and easy card comes in handy. 

I used three images from the Serene Silhouettes Stamp set and the colors in the Challenge (see below).

First, I stamped the sentiment, then I randomly stamped the snow flakes around the sentiment. 
For a little bit of texture, I added White Nuvo Drops around the snow flakes. Bit of a plug, if you have not purchased Nuvo Drops, GET SOME! I am in LOVE with how easy they are to use and CUTE they look.

Back to the card, finishing the card was easy with a simple black boarder on a white card. 

A quick and simple card that could be mass produced if necessary.

That's all for now. Make sure that you check out all the other amazing cards on the link below.

Thanks for stopping by.

Have an amazing holiday!

Diane

  

Tag your it!

Hello everyone!                                                                            

I hope that everyone had a lovely Thanksgiving. 

Now that the turkey is done, this means the Holidays are upon us.

 During the holiday, there is so much going on that I decided to come up with a simple idea for Lawnscaping Challenge # 142  " Give Thanks". 

Tags have always been my "go to" item for the holiday. They are quick, simple and add that personal touch to any gift.

 For this challenge, I came up with 3 tags. I kept it simple by die-cutting the top part of the tag, and single layer stamping.  A quick swish of the paint brush with distress ink to add color to the images.  Finishing them out with cute printed paper and a tassel. All told, it took about 30 minutes to produce these 3 tags.
 (most of that time deciding on what color to make them).😊

And there we have IT.

I hope you enjoyed my tags, and don't forget to check out all the other amazing projects that are posted in the challenge. (link below)

That's all for now. Thanks for stopping by

Diane

                                                                       

http://lawnscaping.blogspot.com/2016/11/challenge-142-give-thanks-sponsored-by.html

                                                                      

Clean and Simple. Friend or Foe?

Hello crafty people!
Coming to you today with a card for the Lawnscaping Challenge #141 Clean and Simple. For some of us, clean and simple can be a bit challenging. It requires a bit of finesse' with card making, because you can take the card too far REAL fast. 
I found that it is best to layout the items that you are intending to use for the card and nothing else. 
For this card I have done just that.  Craft paper card stock, white Sakura gel pen, black Micron pen, and my winter penguin stamp set from Lawn Fawn.





The hardest part about making  this card was to decide how everything was going play together, and where to add the accents. Once I started stamping, everything seemed to come together. 
 In the end, this card turned out to be cute, easyand a lot of fun.  I know that I will be playing around with the clean and simple concept and see what else develops. That's all for now.   Diane

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