Tag your it! SSS Wednesday challenge.

Hi. I have a card I did up for the Wednesday SSS challenge. 

I used the Lawn Fawn wood grain stamp and HA Butter bar ink. The tag die from LF and the stamp set and sequins from the March CKOM form Simon. 

Thanks for stopping by!

Coralynn :)

C&S Day 1 & 2

Hi everyone!

Today I made a card inspired by Debbie's card. 

I used Bassil and Recollections card stocks, Lawn Fawn sequins and some that were included in one of the SSS CKOM.  I used the talk bubbles that go with the pillow talk SSSstamp set and the HI is from Lawn Fawn's Quinn's ABCs. 

Thanks for stopping bt!

Coralynn :)

OLCC C&S3 - Pre-Class Gallery

Hi everyone,

I have a few cards to share for the SSS Online Card Class Pre-class gallery.  Class starts on Monday March 10th...yipppeeee!

For this card I used my new Spellbinders dies that I saw Vicky Papaioannou over at Clips & Cuts and she uses these often and I just love them.  I used Recollections card stock as well as the SSS Pillow Talk and the matching talk bubble dies. 

For this one I used the SSS Stinkn' Cute stamp set and coloured him in with my copics ( I am no expert but I'm having fun practicing).  I used the happy birthday from the Hats off to you set from Lawn Fawn and the talk bubble die is the same as the card above and finally some micro sequins from one of the SSS CKOM.  Then I used my Uni-ball white gel pen to make the lines around the card

This card I used the Hero Arts triangle background stamp along with HA Fresh Peach dye ink.  I used my other set of Spellbinders dies and the On the Mend set from Lawn Fawn. 

And this one I used the Pillow Talk stamp set (again! I just love this one) and coloured it with my copics again.  I used the Wink of Stella clear glitter pen on the pillow and I used my new translucent embossing paste from Wendy Vecchi (Dreamweaver) and a stencil from Heidy Swap with the hearts, stars and snow all on the same 6x6 stencil ( I love that there are three in one).  I used distress ink for the sky and mounted that up on foam squares on to an A2 size card base.

(Update - All the stamps, embossing paste and ink I got through  Simon Says Stamp and the Recollections cards stock and Spellbinders dies are from Michaels.

Thanks for stopping by!

Coralynn  :)

Clean & Simple 3 - SSS Online Card Classes' Latest!

Hello everyone,

I am excited to share with you that I will be participating in the latest SSS Online Card classes - Clean & Simple 3.

I wasn't aware of the first two classes but I can't wait to start the third one.  

Drop by to see what we are working on, we start March 10, 2014.

Thanks for stopping by!

Coralynn :)

Lawn Fawn card

Hello everyone. 

I have a card that created with some of the LF products I have. The paper I've been hordjng as it is such nice paper. :)

         

Everything is LF except the card base which I'd SSS sea glass card stock. The ink is HA Tide Pool and thought it matched well. 

This was the card I was going to submit got the Lawnscaping Challenge but couldn't find my camera cord. Oh well I have it now. 

Thanks for stopping by!  

Coralynn:)

Checking in!

Hi everyone

I hope you are all enjoying the Olympics!  I'm super excited that we are doing pretty darn good :)

I just wanted to let you all know why I haven't been posting any cards lately. I have misplaced the cord to my camera!  It's driving me bonkers as I've created cards for a couple of challenges and have now missed them!  I'm going around the house franticly looking for it but it hasn't shown up yet.

So as soon as I find it there will an avalanche of pics...so please bare with me while I try to find my camera cord!

Hope you all enjoy the rest of the Olympics and hope we win gold!  

Thanks for stopping by, have a great weekend!  

Coralynn :)

SSS Wednesday Challenge

Hi everyone,

I made this card for may daughter's friend for her birthday.

I used Recollections paper, Paper Smooches stamp set and SSS January CKOM for the balloons.  I paper pieced the hippo and used the sentiment from that set.  I used my Cuttlebug embossing folder swiss dots to emboss the white card stock and I used America Crafts twine in blue.

Thanks for stopping by.

Coralynn :)

Stenciled - Day 4 Last day of class

Hi everyone,

Well today is the last day of class and here is my card.  I have to say that this is much nicer in person.  I cut out the leaves on my Silhouette and coloured the green with a copic marker and the other one with Dark Quartz shadow ink and I also used it for the "you".

I want to thank all of you who took the time to have a look at my blog and I also want to say what a great job all the participants have done.  You should all be proud of your creations as they are wonderful.  

I also want to say Thank you for all the hard work the folks at SSS for organizing these classes and the wonderful, talented designers who come up with all the challenges for us.

With that said there is another class starting in March and I can't wait to start another class.

Have a wonderful day!

Thanks for stopping by!

Coralynn :)

Stenciled - Day 2

Hi everyone,

Today (really yesterday) in class we are using stencils in a bit of a different way.   We used it by scribbling inside the stencil as a different technique.  Here is the card I did using the technique.


I used on of SSS striped stencils and I took a few pinks and reds and I did lines as the background.  I cut out a heart with my Silhouette and popped it up.  I stamped the sentiment directly on the card as well as on the heart so that I would have the full image showing.  Then to tie in the heart I did the dash lines.  Unfortunately I didn't think of it until after I put it on the card!

Thanks for stopping by, see you tomorrow!

Coralynn :)

Stenciled - Day 3

Hi everyone,

Today in class we are using dimension by using embossing pastes.  I only have the white but would love to get the clear.

Here is my card for today.

I used dies from SSS as well as a stamp set from Ali Edwards.  I stamped the sentiment in Hero Arts Charcoal Shadow ink an I cut the hearts out of basil card stock that came in one of my SSS CKOM (sorry I don't have the name)  The patterned paper is from MME Lost & Found from a few years ago but you can still get it.

Thanks for stopping by, see you tomorrow!

Coralynn :)

SSS OLCC - Stenciled Day 1

Hi everyone!

I am participating in the Stenciled online card class.

This is my card for today I was inspired by Debbie's card.

I used card stock, stencil, tiny sequins and stamp set are from different SSS card kits. The velum is from Michaels (Recollections) and the twine is American Crafts and I got that from Michaels as well.  I used Hero Arts Fresh Peach shadow ink.

Thanks for stopping by, see you tomorrow for another card.

Coralynn :)

A few cards

Hello everyone!

I finally got some pictures uploaded from the holidays.  I didn't get as much time as I would have liked to but I did get to do a few things.  

The first card is the latest one I did for a co-worker as her birthday is tomorrow.  I used CTMH and Paper Smooches stamp sets and for the ink, I used Hero Arts shadow inks and some of the new SSS dye inks as well.  I have to say I love the SSS inks and can't wait to get the chance to collect more of them.

For this card I used the SSS January CKOM.  I love the little alien.  I am no expert with the colouring and I wish it was better at it.  I used a TH distress marker "fire brick" and I tried using a water brush with it and it was an epic fail, but I was able to just colour over it with the marker and it hid a multitude of mistakes.

This card I used the curved die from SSS that I got in my Christmas Stocking and an Ali Edwards stamp set.  The sequins were actually acquired from my daughters bag of sequins from Michaels that has a ton of different shapes and thought these would make a nice a addition.

Last but not least I finally got the "Yeti" stamp set from Lawn Fawn and did up this card.  I saw something similar done and unfortunately it was too long ago and I can't find the sit anymore.

I will be starting the latest Online Card Class January 24th and I can't wait.  It is a short class but it will be fun.

Thanks for stopping by.  See you soon!

Coralynn :)

Hello everyone!  Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

I know I have been absent for a long time but with the holidays and lots of changes happening my blog unfortunately was neglected.

I hope to post more as things settle down.  I will be taking the "STENCILED" class from the Online Card Classes with Simon Says Stamp starting January 24th and I am excited to get crafting.  So you will be seeing more of my cards starting soon.

I hope to post some of the cards that I did get some time to do the past month soon, so stayed tuned.

For now I hope you all have a safe and happy holiday season.

Thanks for stoping by,  see you soon.

Coralynn :)

HCW Day 5

Hi everyone!

Here are my His and Hers cards for Day 5 of the Holiday Card Workshop.


I LOVE Laura Bassen, she is very talented and she just cracks me up!

So for my "Hers" card I took inspiration from Laura and found a stamp set (SSS CKOM) and found some stripe stamps.  She was right, this is a bit time consuming but a whole lot of fun!

I used the Hero Arts Red Royal and Pale Tomato shadow inks and used Versafine Onyx Black ink for the sentiment, whis is from the "Christmas" 3x4 stamp set from SSS.  I used the Jillibean twine that came in the Elegant Dec card kit from SSS, the special one and made a bow to use up some on the white space.

This is my "His" card which I took inspiration from Debbie (love her too!).  I used the Paper Smooches snowflakes dies and heat embossed them with the Martha Steward silver embossing powder.  I used the "Holiday Hellos" 3x4 stamp set from SSS and heat embossed it as well with Hero Art white embossing power (this is what happens when you only think to use your embossing buddy after you've turned on your hear tool!)  

Thanks for stopping by!

See you soon.

Coralynn :)

HCW Day 3 & 4

Hello everyone,

I have two days put together for the Holiday Card Workshop.  Life has been SUPER crazy and I am not crafting as much as I would like but I did manage to get something done for day 3 & 4.

Day 3

Day 4 - I used Kristina's one layer card.  I used Hero Arts shadow inks in charcoal, pale tomato and butter bar ( I love that name!)   I used the back of some CTMH border stamps 

Thanks for stopping by!

See you soon.

Coralynn :)

HCW13 Day 2

Hello everyone,

It's day 2 of the Holiday Card Workshop 13 and I took inspiration from Debbie's card.  I received my SSS extra card hit for December (so excited!) and I used the snowflake die that came with that kit.

I used glitter on the blue snowflake, stickles on the other and liquid glass on the third.

I also used the stickles to line the white snowbank.  

I used the sentiment that came in the same kit and used Outdoor Denim ink from CTMH.

Thanks for stopping by!

See you soon.

Coralynn :)

Holiday Card Workshop Day 1 - Card #2

Hi everyone,

I found the time to do up another card and this time I used Jennifer McGuire's card.

I didn't have a background stamp so I used patterned paper.  I heat embossed the star and coloured it with a yellow copic marker.  I used May Arts twine that came in one of the SSS CKOM and the card base has red glitter!

Thanks for stopping by!

Coralynn :)

Simon Says Stamp Holiday Card Workshop 2013 Day 1

Hello everyone!

I have joined the Holiday Card Workshop and this is day 1 and I am super excited!

Here is my card for Day 1.  I've used Kristina's card as inspiration.  Since I only have three rolls of wash tape in my stash (Yes, you read that right!) I used red baker's twine instead and,  here is another shocker, I don't have a penguin stamp either!  So I used this stamp from SSS Purry Christmas instead.  I also thought it would be cute to wrap the twine around it's tail and ear as this is what my cat would do.

I used kraft card stock from one of my SSS CKOM kits and used the Swiss Dots embossing folder by Cuttlebug.  I heat embossed the sentiment from the Purry Christmas stamp set with Hero Arts white embossing powder.  I love it because it is actually a nice crisp white.

Finally I coloured in the image with copics and you may not be able to see it well but I used stickler on the ribbon part of the gift box.

Thanks for stopping by and what for another card tomorrow!!

Coralynn :)

More Christmas cards

Hi Everyone!

I have two more Christmas cards for you.   I am also submitting these for the Paper Smooches DT call.  

The first one is one that you could reproduce quite easily as it's mostly stamping and one die cut.

I used the SSS Merry Christmas die and the November CKOM stamp set that came with the kit.

I used Momento due drop ink in red and galaxy gold.

The Merry Christmas was cut out of red card stock from Recollections.

My next card is done with a Paper Smooches free digi stamp (so cute!) This is for the PS Sparks challenge "STRIPES" 

 I printed it out on some card stock and use copics to colour it in.  I

I used white pigment in from CTMH to stamp the sentiment from SSS as well as my while gel pen to make the dash lines.

I also use the Copic glitter pen in clear  and gold to colour in the ribbon on the golf boxes.

Thanks for stopping by!

Coralynn :)

Holiday Wishes Card

Hello everyone,

Today I did up a card using the Hero Arts tree cutting file from Silhouette and a few snow flakes.

I used Recollections cards stock kraft, white and a deep red.  

I stamped the sentiment on SSS velum with Versamark and the heat embossed it with Hero Art white embossing powder.  This is a very white embossing powder and I love it.

I used a topic to colour in the start, then a glitter pen from Sepia in gold then I used liquid glass (CTMH) to finish it off.  I used diamond stickles on the snowflakes to give them some sparkle as well.

Then to finish the card completely I used a white gel pen to add in the lines to bring it all together.

Thanks for stopping by!

See you soon with another card.

Coralynn :)