Tag, You're It! #43, Sincere Thanks

Today we begin a new challenge over at Tag, You're It! and Donna is the creative designer to CASE!  Before we begin, I want to say thank you for all the well wishes and prayers.  My shoulder is healing nicely from the surgery, and I should be back blogging in full-swing soon.

Donna gives us beautiful inspiration from nature, and here is my card:

 Here is Donna's wonderful creation, but you should check it out fully on her blog.

I love how Donna framed her sentiment, so I framed mine with the tag itself.  My flowers imitate her wheat, and I added a butterfly in yellow, but wanted to capture the red from her butterflies with a bit of splatter. 

The stamps are from PTI Flower Favorites, and Thank You Kindly, and the tag die is MFT Tag Builder Blue Prints 4.  I used the MISTI to stamp Distress Inks to create the flowers.  I used Mowed Lawn, Peeled Paint, Wilted Violet, Dusty Concord, Seedless Preserves, and Milled Lavender.  The butterfly is Mustard Seed and Squeezed Lemonade, and the splatters are Fired Brick.  I created a bit of a wash around the flowers with Peeled Paint and Squeezed Lemonade.  The water color paper is from Tim Holtz, and the cardstock is PTI.  Baker's Twine is Recollections.

I hope you will join us over at Tag, You're It! this week.  I would love to see how you are inspired!
Thanks for coming over to visit, I hope you're having a great day!

Kara Lynne

Tag, You're It! Challenge #41

I am so honored to be the hostess today for a new challenge over at Tag, You're It!  I hope you will be inspired to play along. 

I water colored this sweet duo from Penny Black's stamp set, Smile All Day using Zig Clean Color Real Brush pens and some Tim Holtz watercolor paper.  Those Zigs are a little out of my comfort zone.  It helped when I stopped trying to use them like Copics, and let them be themselves.  I partial die cut the image by cutting the fox's tail and pulling it to the top side of the die cut as I sent it through the Big Shot.

Supplies I used:
Penny Black, Smile All Day
Memento Ink, Desert Sand to stamp the image
Poppy Stamps Pinpoint Main Street Tag die
Zig Clean Color Brushes 45,28,23,60,65,24,10,50
Distress Ink Twisted Citron and Mermaid Lagoon in the background
Tim Holtz water color paper
Mama Elephant Hello diecut
PTI Summer Sunrise cs
Archiver's Promotional pattern paper from years ago (not sure what company made it)
Making Memories fibers Sherbet (2005)
Button from my stash

Thanks so much for coming over to visit!  I hope you will check out the amazing design team's creations over at Tag, You're It! and join in on the fun! 

Just a quick update: surgery on my right shoulder went well and I start physical therapy today.  I hope to be back to commenting more soon.  Have a wonderful day!

Kara Lynne

Valentine Balloons

In my last post I said I was back from the Christmas break, but here I am again without a post or comment for well over two weeks! Ugh!  The nice part was, Our family just got back from a week long break from the cold and snow.  We went on a cruise!  It was so much fun and great weather too.  Now, getting back to normal life, I have to let you know that I won't be around much for a while.  I am scheduled for surgery to repair a rotator cuff tear in my right shoulder.  Apparently I won't be using my right hand even to type.  No crafting either!  So I thought I'd leave you with a Valentine message given by all five friends from the W+9 Going Places stamp set.  Thanks so much for your patience, and I will be back as soon as possible.

 

Supplies used:

W+9 Going Places

Copics

Memento Tuxedo Black ink

PTI Pure Poppy cs

Doodle Bug pp

Simon Says Stamp Stitched Rectangles die

Doodlebug sequins

Scraps of red cs

Paper Studio card base

 

Thank you so much for coming over to visit!  I hope you are having a wonderful day!

Kara Lynne

 

 

Tag, You're It! #39 with Erin

I'm back from a long Holiday break, and so happy to be back!  I find that I'm either all in, or not at all when it comes to blogging.  There's got to be a middle ground during the busier seasons in life.  I've missed you all, and can't wait to see what you're up to, especially with all of the crafty supplies you got for Christmas!  This year I just ordered, and gave my husband the box to wrap.  He was not impressed.  Most husbands would love that strategy, but he's not most husbands, I guess.

For this challenge, Erin is taking us outdoors on a camping trip!  I would love to visit Erin at her campground in California some day.  Meanwhile, I CASEd the nature of her tag with trees and clouds, and made a masculine birthday card:

Here's Erin's wonderful tag:

I began with some Tim Holtz watercolor cardstock and smooshed PTI Tropical Teal, Blueberry Sky, and Limeade Ice.  The watercolor paper was then cut into a tag.  I die cut Poppystamps Evergreen Trees from four shades of green cardstock scraps and distressed them with DI Gathered Twigs.  The trees were arranged and adhered with glue at the bottom.  The clouds and birthday die and stamp are from PTI.  One cloud was popped up on foam.  The ribbon was a buy from the Target $1 bins a long time ago.  The background paper is from Momenta.

 

I hope you will play along with us over at Tag, You're It.  I love seeing how everyone interprets the tags, and this whimsical tag from Erin is fantastic!

 

Thanks for coming over to visit.  Indoors or out, I hope you're having a wonderful day!

 

Kara Lynne

Sparkling Clear with Tag, You're It!

This time of year is busy for all of us with the holidays, but both of our daughters have their birthdays in November, so that makes life extra crazy around here.  It's so nice to take a little time out for some crafting therapy, and today is the start of another wonderful Tag, You're It Challenge!

When I first saw Donna's tag, it just took my breath away!  It is so elegant!  I was excited and determined to make my tag out of acetate.  Here it is:

And here is Susan's amazing tag:

I have to confess, this was a difficult tag to photograph.  That little tag received an all-afternoon photo shoot!  I wish you could see its sparkly appearance IRL.  Here are a few of my photo attempts; feel free to click on a photo to see it enlarged. 

The acetate is recycled packaging.  I put some water in a plastic cup and added several drops of pearlized white nail polish.  Then I swirled it around and dipped in the end of the tag.  I tried with glittery gold and turquoise too, but they just dropped to the bottom of the cup, so I painted them on the edge.  The PTI "sparkle" die cut was cut from Recollections glitter paper and then painted again with the glittery gold and turquoise nail polish.  I adhered that to the tag with Glossy Accents.  The word banners are from the same paper, heat embossed in Ranger Princess Gold, adhered on the front with a Xyron sticker maker, and then adhered to the back of the tag.  The ribbon and gold elastic were in my scraps.  The sequins are from PTI Shakers + Sprinkles, and Hobby Lobby brand.  The nail polishes are: MK Signature Cloud Nine, Nina Ultra Pro Metal Flakes, and Maybelline Color Show Emerald City.

I hope you will play along with Tag, You're It by CASEing Donna's tag.  I'd love to see what you make!

This tag is also going over to play in Virginia's View Challenge #21 where the theme is, All About Glitter!  Did you know this is Virginia's last challenge?!  At least for a while.  I can't imagine how she and her family did this all on their own, but hopefully it will return some day.  She extended the deadline to December 24th, so there is still time to play along!

As always, thanks for coming over to visit!  I hope you have a wonderful day!

Kara Lynne

A Latte Thanks

I'm quickly popping in here to share a gift card holder design I made for the coffee lovers in my life, and to play along with the Holiday Coffee Lover's Bloghop!

These were a lot of fun to make!  I used acetate for the entire cup from MFT's LLD Cool Cup, and attached a second "cup" that was distressed with DI Vintage Photo and then flicked with Vintage Photo and water from a paintbrush.  I attached it and the whipped cream to the acetate by running them through the Xyron so that the sticky side was on the front.  The tag and the circle are both from MFT Tag Builder Blueprints 4, the heat embossed sentiment is from MFT's LLD Stay Cool, and the Thanks die cut is from PTI's Wet Paint Cuts.  The sequins are beech wood from Serendipity Stamps, and the twine is from Michaels.  All of the papers were from my scraps.  I tri-folded the base paper to make a flap inside and adhered those sides to create a pocket for the gift card. 

 I hope you are playing along and enjoying the Holiday Coffee Lover's Boghop!

Thanks for coming over to visit.  Have a great day!

Kara Lynne

Playing with Brusho!

It seems like forever since I've been able to enjoy our papercrafting community.  I just wanted to quick share a card so you know I'm still alive:

I had a chance to play with my new Brusho Crystal Colours.  They are so much fun!  This is a combination of purple and turquoise on Strathmore cold press watercolor paper.  I heat embossed the sentiment from Mama Elephant's Believe In Magic, and the ornament is a cut file from Silhouette Studio called Nativity Ornament.  I slipped in a little white ribbon and popped the whole thing up on foam and then a white card base. 

 

I'm going to pop this into the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge where the theme is Christmas.



Thanks for coming over to visit, I hope you're having a wonderful day!

Kara Lynne