Watercolour Seasons

 Digging through my stash of stamps and coloured the card with my watercolour pencils, for a four-season card.

Celebrating a Baby boy

I made this card recently for the arrival of my grandson. 

I went stash diving for all of the supplies. I really liked the designer paper and wanted to showcase it so I have just put a few small embellishments on the front.

One the inside I made a pop up platform for all the baby images. I stamped and coloured all the babies and cut them to fit into one inch squares. 

Thanks for looking.

 

I will bring you strength

Hi crafting friends

Today it is challenge day with my friends on the CCEE Stampers challenge blog. Lynn is our hostess for the month.

 In the United States, today is National Bring Your Bible to School Day. For that reason, our challenge for this week is quite simple: use a Bible scripture as the sentiment on the front of your card design.

I didn't have many religious stamp sets for this challenge but I picked up this set from a craft sale. I die cut the rose 3 times with different colours and I then used the inlay technique for the flower.

Don't forget to check out the CCEE Stampers blog to see the rest of the creations the CCEE Stampers have created this week. You can also see more details of their creations on their individual blogs.

Liz Williams

Lois Bak

Lynn McAuley

Frances Byrne

Kelly Santi

Maryann Einam- You are here

Thanks for stopping by....

Roses and Pearls

 Good Morning Crafting Friends,

The card I am sharing is for today's CCEE Stampers challenge.

The rose is the national flower for the month of June while the pearl is June’s gemstone. 

I made this card using the Altenew Layered Blossom cover die A & B. I cut the first layer into card stock and the 2nd layer into designer paper. I then added the sentiment that was heat embossed and die cut.

Don't forget to check out the CCEE Stampers blog to see the rest of the creations the CCEE Stampers have created this week. You can also see more details of their creations on their individual blogs.

Liz Williams

Lois Bak

Lynn McAuley

Frances Byrne

Kelly Santi

Maryann Einam- You are here

Thanks for stopping by....

Ink Thumping

Hi Crafting friends,

 I made this card for a recent swap challenge it was called ink thumping. Although I have been a card maker for over 20 years I have never tried this technique.

Thank goodness for google search, obviously it is an old technique as it uses water based ink pens, which I used to have for colouring but now have alcohol makers for my colouring. 

I actually have used distress inks for my thumping, I thumped or more the lighter coloured ink onto the stamp and while it was still wet I added the darker colour before stamping it onto my card. You can notice it more of the green stem that the flower. It was a fun way to add layers of colour to your stamped images.

Thanks for stopping by today.
 

Black Ice Technique

Hi everyone and Happy New Year.

I am back today with the first challenge with the CCEE Stampers team. 2019 will be another year of fun challenges.

Liz, our hostess this month, lives in a place where winters are relatively mild, but her greatest fear is driving in icy conditions. “Black Ice” is a very hazardous condition she has heard others mention. And she discovered in the tutorials on SCS ,a technique called “Black Ice” technique in stamping. So even without much experience at the icy driving or this technique, she is challenging us to give that technique a try. 

I have never seen the black ice technique before, so I headed over to watch the tutorial. Foil card, stazon ink, and heat embossing sounded simple, but sadly my stazon ink had gone dry so I was off to buy some more before I could play.

The hardest thing about this technique was choosing what stamp set to use in the end I used some older supplies, I am not sure if they are still sold as current supplies or are retired.

Supplies:
Stamps: Petal prints - Stampin up - 2004
Mft - leaf flourish
Karen Burniston - celebrate die
hand cut fringed flower, clear embossing ink, black ink, black felt brad.

Don't forget to check out the CCEE Stampers blog to see the rest of the creations the CCEE Stampers have created this week. You can also see more details of their creations on their individual blogs.

Anne Harmon

Joanne Grzelak

Liz Williams

Lois Bak

Lynn McAuley

Frances Byrne

Vicky Gould

Kelly Santi
Maryann Einam- You are here

Thanks for stopping by....

Floral Happy Birthday

Today's challenge on CCEE Stampers is to create a feminine birthday card with flowers.

I started with the floral background, it was made with a hydrangea stamp set and distress inks. The die cut Happy Birthday, was cut twice out of card and the top layer out of shimmer sheet with double sided tape on the back to make stickers and then just joined them together to make the layers. I finished the card with some spots of liquid pearls.

Supplies:

Elizabeth Craft Designs dies, Stampin up - Blossoms Abound, distress inks, liquid pearls.

Don't forget to check out the CCEE Stampers blog to see the rest of the creations the CCEE Stampers have created this week. You can also see more details of their creations on their individual blogs.

Anne Harmon
Joanne Grzelak
Liz Williams
Lois Bak
Lynn McAuley
Frances Byrne
Vicky Gould
Kelly Santi

Maryann Einam- Thats me

Thanks for stopping by....

Bon Appetit

Welcome to another week with the girls on the CCEE Stampers Blog.

In honor of Johnny Appleseed and his kindness and generosity,

we're created cards with anything apple related this week!

Well I have exhausted my supply of apple themed stamps, so I pulled out this retired stampin up chef I am certain he would make a yummy fruit pie. LOL

Don't forget to check out the CCEE Stampers blog to see the rest of the creations the CCEE Stampers have created this week. You can also see more details of their creations on their individual blogs.

Anne Harmon
Joanne Grzelak
Liz Williams
Lois Bak
Lynn McAuley
Frances Byrne
Vicky Gould
Kelly Santi

Thanks for stopping by....

CCEE1529 Under the sea

Challenge day on CCEE Stampers blog today our hostess Lynn is in Texas USA is looking for ways to keep cool and has asked us to create an under water themed card.
It was a challenge to make with card with my frosted fingers haha. We are have a bit of a cold snap, although the weather forecasters are calling it a winter vortex. Our usual sunny winter weather is frosty with some snow falls in the lower heights of our southern states. It is very rare for us to have snow except for the highest mountain peaks.

For my card I used the Circle accordion die, designed by Karen Burniston for Elizabeth Craft Designs.

  Here is the card flat out, it is easier to decorate all the panels before joining them. I created the background colours using a solid stamp and chalk ink pads.

 Here is the card all joined together.

The reeds on the bottom edges were create using the All seasons tree die, I have also used pieces from other die sets.

Supplies:

Stamps-  Stampin Up - Whale Wishes

Dies:

Elizabeth Craft Designs- 

Accordion Circle card

All Seasons Tree

Clock & Gears

Props 3

Rocky the Crab

Square with circle frame edges

I hope you have time to join the CCEE Stampers team in this challenge.

Maryann

My Lucky Dress

It is challenge time with my CCEE friends. March's holiday is St. Patrick's Day and Anne has asked us to make a card using the color GREEN.

Yeah my favourite colour and who doesn't think of the luck of the Irish when they see green.
For the front I have used an unmounted rubber Irish script and purchased glitter 4 leaf clover leaves.

Inside I have made an Irish dress with petticoats. I have used the Stampin up Dress form die and Elizabeth Craft Designs Lots of pops both designed by Karen Burniston

 I also added some more clover leaves and a map of Ireland.

Here is a close up of the dress with its petticoats and gems. When my daughter did Irish dancing the dancing school kept their costumes very simple for they displays and Ceilidhs, many of the costumes were sown by the Mothers group.

slàinte mhòr

Maryann

Leopard Stand up

Hi Everyone,

Today's card was a special request card, something with leopard print.

I have used Sizzix Regal Stand up die designed by Stephanie Barnard from Stamps of Life. The flower was made using the MFT die-namics Plentiful Petals and a gem stone brad. The Dies that I have used along the bottom all come in the stand up set this set contains 22 different dies.

 

On the inside I have used MFT die-namics to show case the retired Stampin up verse that I picked up at a market stall.

Maryann

The best things

Hi there, 

We have just celebrated Mother's Day in Australia, which had me thinking about my girls and what we used to do when they were little, walking on the beach and collecting shells was a favourite.

So when I came across this stamp set from Stampin Up in my collection, I felt it was very suitable for the Challenge on CCEE Stampers blog CCEE1419 Barefeet.

The Mother and daughters are two separate stamps but I have placed them so they look a scene. I then cut a piece of beach themed designer paper and mounted it on foam dots. After adding the text I used some liquid glass and micro beads to look like beach sand and some shell beads.

Supplies:
Stamps: Seaside sketches 
Other, Liquid glass, micro beads,shell beads, copic pens, foam tape, nestabilities dies, distressed ink.


Have a great day
Maryann

Have a great day

Today card is clean and simple, some days you just need a quick card. Winter is nearly over but over the past week we have felt the strong windy days and today I just needed some bright colours, roll on spring.

Supplies:
Stamps: Stampin Up - delight in life
Paper: Orange, cream & Pink card
Other: punches martha stewart and stampin up, ribbon, gems,thread, button, adirondack inks red pepper, mountain rose, latte.

Maryann

Shelled napkin fold

Hi there,
I thought I would just share what I have been working on.
I saw this napkin fold card some time ago and knew that I just had to make it some day. We have had quite a few public holidays of late so I finally found time to create.
I saw this idea on stampartic blog the instructions are really great.

I started with my Martha Stewart punches and decided to keep the shell theme. It is the first time I have sucessfully used my border and corners punches together.

After creating all the folds I masked areas, then sponged and stamped them. I also added colour to the edges. I was really thinking of using designer paper, but couldn't find one that really matched the theme at the time.

Inside I stamped the verse and sponged and stamped the edges and layered onto another panel with border made with punches. The belly band was sponged and stamped also and the main image was coloured with watercolour pencils.

Supplies:

Stamps: stampin up, stamp world, stamp it.

Paper: white and mahogany card

Other: Distress ink - antique linen, scattered straw, aged mahogany, watercolour pencils, Ms shell punch, sponge, masking paper, ds tape.

Have a great day

Maryann

More Christmas cheer

Don't you just love it when you find some nice designer paper and only show one side on your cards. Well I couldn't resist this paper and since it was on the table from the other day, I made this simple card using both sides.



Stamps: Papermania - joyeux noel
Paper: stampin up - Ridindghood red and very vanilla, DP dashing
Other: Brilliance - Rocket red gold & starlite black ink, nestabilities, foam dots, ribbon

TFL
Maryann

Pink Baby Shower

This weekend my Niece is having a baby shower, as you may have guess she will be welcoming a little girl to her family.
I have used the september sketch supplied by boomerang stampers list, I love this stampin up set although I never thought I would use this particular image as much as I have. I also like this flourish set, it is so easy to add some bling to it which is Crazy 4 Challenges C4C56 a few weeks ago.

I was looking at some card tutorials on you tube and came across a few on nappy/diaper cakes, they looked like so much fun, this is the the one that I made.

I have hidden several surprises in the cake. Two Baby bottles filled with milk bottle lollies( treats for the siblings and maybe Mum), socks rolled into rose flowers, two outfits, 2 bibs, a rubber duckie and a balloon. All these items are held together with rubbers bands, ribbon and curling ribbon to look like frosting.
Card supplies:

Stamps: Stampin up - She's all that, Autumn leaves - flourishes elegant

Paper: cream & pink card

Other: Adirondack - watermelon ink, paper flowers, brads, rhinestones, nestibilities circle die

TFL

Maryann

T Slider sample

For club this month we had planned to make a t slider card, but it had been months since we had all gotten together that we just chatted and made a quick shopping trip to the craft store, that ran out of time so the challenge was to make one for homework. This is my sample, you can find a tutorial on splitcoast stampers, I found this very useful and watched it several times as I had some trouble converting the inch instruction to centimeters.
I made the card to match the image and had no idea on what size my slider pieces should have measured so it took a lot of fiddling to get it right. I coloured the house mouse image with watercolour crayons and layered it onto a nestabilities die cut frame. The verse was punched out with the stampin up scallop punch.

Some nice examples can been seen on Frances's blog Stampowl's studio.
Supplies:
Stamps: Housemouse, Stampin up
Paper: Kaiser paper, red and white cs
Other: Tab punch, scallop punch, nestabilities die,water colour crayons,ds tape, adirondack watermelon ink.
TFL

Maryann

Sharing in your sorrow

Today I attended a family funeral this is the card I made, I used sketch OCCSC29 from our creative corner weekly sketch challenge. I inked up the tree with oregano ink and the over stamped the leaves with meadow, this gave the tree a two toned look. I am not over impressed with my stamp positioning of the verse, I think I will cut the image out before stamping in the text if I happen to use this stamp again.
Supplies:
Stamps: Thoughts & Prayers
Paper: white, always artichoke, dp- wintergreen
Other: nestabilities labels 5, ribbon, flower, adirondack ink oregano & meadow, black ink , ds tape, foam tape.

TFLMaryann

Born to shop

Welcome,
I have had a busy week but I managed to make this card, which is a bonus for me to get into the craft room.
Today's card is made using Sweet Sunday Sketch SSSC81. I actually made this card on a sunday, yeahh.
I started with stamping the heart in the light coloured ink and over stamped it with the coffee bean, then black for the verse.
I very rarely do the inside of the card as I like to put a printed sentiment inside, but this verse came free with the current Creativity Magazine.

Supplies:

Stamps: Grace Taylor; docrafts bubbles - born to shop

Paper: Chocolate chip, very vanilla,old olive, DP - afternoon tea

Other: flowers, brads,ribbon,brillance pearlescent orange and coffee bean, Memento black
TFLMaryann

Baby you look fabulous

Yesterday I went to a baby shower for my niece, she is 25 weeks pregnant and is having identical twins so I made this card just for her, the twin card will follow later.
I used Nana's nursery baby boy designer paper and colorbox chalk ice jade for the ink. I stamped the image and cut it out with nestabilities oval and oval scallop in co-ordinating colours.

Stamps: Stampin up She's all that
Paper: Nana's nursery baby boy, chocolate chip,blue, white
Other: Button brads,chocolate chip ribbon,MS Punch, colorbox ink, nestabilities.

TFL
Maryann