Hello My Friend

Hello my friends....hope all is well with you today.  I am playing along with the challenge at Splitcoast today called 'Pay it Forward'.  As cardmakers, we so often make wonderful cards but don't remember to send them out to let others know we are thinking of them or just for encouragement.

My special friend Gabby from Splitcoast, sent me this cute vintage phone and hello stamp.  

I began by stamping the phone image across the bottom of my card, then added scoring lines under that to ground them.  I stamped the word bubble then cut it out and pop dotted it over the phones for interest.

I am also adding my card to these challenges:

Little Red Wagon- all purpose cards

Keep it Simple- text

Have a good one and thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Supplies: stamps; phone and text??/ Scorebug/ black Memento ink/ Versamark/ pop dots/ twine

Flurries in the Air

Morning.  We have just been blasted with a big dose of cold and winter here in Southern Ontario so I have had snow and snowflakes on my mind.  Two of the challenges at Splitcoast this week are 'snowflake' themed so I set out to create a card.

I started by using the snowflake stencil from Simon Says Stamps and randomly stamped circles over the stencil using Distress inks in Broken China, Salty Ocean, Tumbled Glass, Peacock Feathers.  They look like little snow bubbles.  After stamping the circles, I went back in and rubbed more ink over the top.  I stamped the sentiment and cut it into a tag.

Also adding my card to these challenges:

Addicted to CAS- die cut

Little Red Wagon- all purpose card

CASology- bubbly
Simon Says Stamp- ice inspiration

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.  Hope you are staying warm and cozy in your neck of the woods.

Supplies:  stamps; Daisy Bucket, circles (made the largest from foam, middle size-??, smallest from the eraser on the end of a pencil/ Distress inks/ Stencil- SSS/ Die-namics die/ twine

One Layer Thanks

Happy Saturday!  Let the crafting time begin.  Today I am playing along with the Inspiration Challenge  at Splitcoast based on a Pinterest board.  Pinterest has so many inspiring and wonderfully done boards; I don't know why I don't have one?  (inspiration photo below)  I also wanted to add a card to our 
NEW OLW (one layer card) blog.  

This card came together easily by first masking the main area so I could sponge it with Distress inks in Ripe Persimmon and Squeezed Lemonade.  I love the warm glow especially on such a cold, wintery day.  While leaving the mask in place, I inked my flower stamp by colouring on it with Memento markers then spraying with water before stamping to give a watercoloured look.  I added the doodled lines then stamped the sentiment.

I so appreciate that you came by for a visit.  Have a great weekend.

If you get a chance, why don't you visit our new blog found here:

One-Layer Simplicity Challenge 

Curly Girl

Here is a simple card I made using my new digital stamps I won from Clearly iStamp.  Isn't this little one so cute?!  I printed her off then printed off the sentiment.  I coloured her with Copics, then added the bow to her hair and used a circle punch to punch her out.

Adding this to these challenges:

Keep it Simple- Anything Goes

Simon Says- New

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Supplies:  stamps; digital from Clearly iStamp/ circle punch/ Copic markers/ ribbon/ pop dots

Welcome 2014

New Year's Resolutions are everywhere.  I tend not to make resolutions but today at Splitcoast, the challenge is to make a crafting resolution for 2014.  I have been thinking about this one for awhile so my resolution is to use more of the dies that I have sitting in a box in my craft area.  I tend not to use them.  Guess I am either too rushed or too lazy to get them out.  

I started my card by stamping the bkg. then coloured my stamp with Memento markers and sprayed with water before stamping onto my card front to give a watercoloured look.  I stamped the sentiment and cut it into a tag using my new die from Die-namics with a pierced edge. 

Also adding this card to these challenges:

Simon Says; New Year and Something New

Little Red Wagon; New

Keep it Simple; Anything Goes

Did you make any crafting resolutions for the New Year?  I guess using what we already have is a good one although I did get gift certificates for Christmas.

Thanks for coming by and taking a look.

Supplies:  stamps; Unity, BoBunny/ Memento markers and ink/ Die-namic tag die/ pop dots

New Year, New OLW Blog!!

Such exciting news.  Instead of the weekly OLW - One Layer Wednesday Challenges we have started a NEW BLOG called the 

One-Layer Simplicity Challenge

Please go check it out!!

Happy New Year 2014!!!