Loonie Stamper's Challenge - Past Due!

That's right, this card was based on a Loonie Stamper's Challenge from a loooooong time ago!!  You know me, making cards but never getting them posted!! 

The actual challenge was to use animals on your card.  I knew I had a package of animal chipboards from Martha Stewart so I pulled them out and looked to see what I had left.  There were 3 cows and they matched.  So, I decided to pull them together on this card.  I couldn't find a plade where I liked the sentiment so I put it inside.  It says ........

                                  udderly cool

hehehehehe!!  I don't generally like those play on words but I think it fits (even thought I'm pretty sure all those cows on the front might not necessarily have udders!)

Thanks for joining me again this week!  I hope you find time to stamp a little today!
Donelda

Loonie Stamper's Challenge - #107 - Rainbow

{Edited - not sure why this didn't post yesterday}

This week's Loonie challenge is by Dee and she challenged everyone to use rainbows!!  Here is my take on the challenge ... a card for my wonderful hubby!!

Stamp set used is Around & About Sentiments (Papertrey Ink).

Pretty clean and simple!!  Let's go see what the Loonie girls did:

Dee, Char, Wendy, Regan, Maria, Jewels

Thanks for dropping in!
Donelda

Loonie Stamper's Challenge - #106 - Fabric

The latest Loonie Challenge is to use fabric.  Well, I just happen to have acquired a ton of great fabric scraps and also recently purchased a package of K&Co. fabric so this is a perfect excuse to get off my duff and actually use it! 

I started out with the flower.  A few days ago I had made THIS card using pink and green reinker inks.  Not wanting to waste anything, I took the left over pink and green ink and brushed it onto a piece of scrap cardstock.  I used this scrap today (see me trying to be better at using my scraps!) by stamping this lovely flower (smARTworks), a waterlily I would say, onto the paper.  I mostly got the pink part of the paper but the tips of the middle petals have a bit of green on them.  Then, I picked this green and white fabric (K&Co.) to combine with the pink color.  I adore pink and green together (as you can see on the card that I posted where these colors of ink originated).  The little strip of pink at the bottom is also the painted reinker scrap and I stamped this swirl border (Stampology) on it.  The black under the flower is some True Black twill (Papertrey Ink) and the sentiment is from the Birthday Basics set (Papertrey Ink). 

Okay, now what did those loonie ladies do with fabric ... I can't wait to find out:

Dee, Wendy, Char, Regan, Jewels, Maria

Hope you have a good and stampy weekend!!

Donelda

Loonie Stamper's Challenge - #93 - Felt - Teacher Apple

It's that time of year, when school is winding down and time to think about thanking our teachers for all the work they did with our children. So, when I saw that the Loonie Challenge this week was to use felt I decided to try punching a piece of red felt.

I heat embossed the apple outline onto black paper. Then I added the blue strip of paper that was punched with my Bind It All (Zutter). I punched a circle out of some grid paper (no name on the paper, sorry) to hold my focal. The apple was punched (Martha Stewart) out of some red felt. The little button came from a set of square buttons (Making Memories I think). Finally, the sentiment - simple and straight forward!!

Stamps Used: Teacher's Apple (Papertrey Ink).

I can't wait to see what the Loonie Girls did with their felt ...

Jewels, Dee, Char, Regan, Wendy, Maria

Thanks for dropping in ... again!!

Donelda

Loonie Stamper's Challenge - # 91 - Butterflies and Ribbon

I know I'm very very late with this. This is the Loonie Stamper's Challenge from a few weeks ago (obviously, it was to make a mother's day card). And honestly, it was actually done in time but I never got a chance to photograph and upload it on time. And, no, I didn't make a mother's day card because at the time the challenge was issued I had already made all the mother's day cards that I needed.

Simple card, stamped butterflies and sentiment. Colored butterflies with 1 Copic marker doubling up on the color near the inside (more obvious IRL). Added a strip of cardstock and this yummy satin Kraft ribbon.

Supplies: Stamps - Butterflies (smARTworks), sentiment from Garden of Life (Papertrey Ink); Paper - Very Vanilla (Stampin' Up!), Ripe Avacado (Papertrey Ink); Other - satin Kraft ribbon (Stampin' Up!).

And I am totally behind on all the other Loonie Challenges as well. Maybe I'll play a bit today!!!

Thanks for dropping in.

Donelda

Loonie Stamper's Challenge - #87 and 88

The Loonie girls made challenge 88 a casing challenge. You were supposed to pick one Loonie girl and case one of her cards. Well, I couldn't decide who I wanted to case so I just did one from each of the girls!!

I really liked Jewel's awesome card HERE for LSC 71 and used a piece of journalling paper from my Creative Imaginations Journaler's Notebook. This also meets the color challenge for Loonie Stamper's Challenge #87 as well!!

Supplies: stamps-Birthday Basics (Papertrey Ink); Ink - Brilliance Jet Black; Paper - Whisper White (SU!), scrap black; Other - black satin ribbon (Papertrey Ink), page from Journaler's Notebook (Creative Imaginations), blue marker (Crayola), corner rounder (We R Memory Keeper), Bind It All (Zutter), dimensionals. Dee's little cards HERE for LSC 83 were so wonderful that I had to case them!! I didn't have the same stamps so I improvised!

Supplies: stamps - Giga Guide Lines, Demask Designs (Papertrey Ink); Ink - Raspberry Fizz, Orange Zest, New Leaf (Papertrey Ink), Brilliance Jet Black; Paper- white and black scraps, Kraft (SU!); Other - dimensionals.

Marie's card HERE for LSC 49 was so sweet and simple that I had to use it as inspiration. As you will see I did make a few changes. Now that I see it here on my blog, I think I'll go back and add faux stitching around the edge of the card.

Supplies - Stamps - Turning a New Leaf, Simple Little Things (Papertrey Ink); Ink - Chocolate Chip (SU!); Paper - Very Vanilla, Kraft (SU!); Other - oval nestabilities (Spellbinders), flower (Prima), half pearl (K&Co.), dimensionals.

HERE is the card that I cased from Wendy from LSC 47. I loved the three big flowers in a row and I've had these wonderful raspberry fizz colored flowers and haven't used them.

Supplies: Stamps - Friends Til the End, Around and About (Papertrey Ink); Ink - Chocolate Chip (SU!); Paper - Whisper White, Chocolate Chip, Soft Sky (SU!); Other - flowers (unknown).

I liked Char's card HERE which she made for LSC 84 so much that I made 2!! In fact, I liked that jean star so much a made a bunch of them so you will see more in the future!!

Supplies: Stamps - Around and About (Papertrey Ink); Ink - Chocolate Chip (SU!); Paper- Very Vanilla, Whisper white (SU!) and various scraps; Other - old jeans, sewing machine and white thread, buttons (Hero Arts), white and beige crochet yarn.

I can't forget my card cased from THIS card by Regan that she made for LSC 76. I love the spotlight technique but haven't done if for a while so I really enjoyed this! The grapes and leaves are colored using my limited supply of Copic markers.

Supplies: Stamps - Fruit Stand (Stampin' Up! -maybe retired), Birthday Basics (Papertrey Ink); Ink - Brilliance Jet Black; Paper - Whisper White (SU!); Other - markers (Copics), sponge.

Well, I hope you enjoy all my Loonie cards! Arn't those Loonie girls talented!!! Why don't you case a card or two!!!

Donelda

Loonie Stamper's Challenge #84 - Die Cut Apple

So this card has been long in the making. I've had this awesome card saved in my "inspiration" file for over a year now and I've yet to be inspired by it! It is from the very talented Claire Brennan who owns Waltzing Mouse Stamps. I particularly loved the verigated greens stamped on the white and the shamrock popped up on top. So, when I saw that the latest Loonie Challenge was to use Die Cuts I decided to use Claire's card as my inspiration!! The card is pretty straight forward. I decided not to pop up the white panel but rather put a large red panel on a white card base. I also liked how Claire's shamrock had the white around it so after punching out my apple, I adhered it to a piece of scrap white cardstock and cut around it! (I am hoping that this punched out shape will be sufficient for a 'die' as I am low on those. ETA - now that I've gone back and checked the Loonie girls blogs I realize I could have used any of my Nestabilities....who knew!) Supplies: Stamps - Guide Lines, sentiment - Teacher's Apple (Papertrey Ink); Ink - Queue Chalk Inks (ColorBox); Paper - Pure Poppy, Select White (Papertrey Ink); Other - apple punch (Martha Stewart), Memory Chomper (We R Memory Keepers), dimensionals. Now I can go look at what the Loonie girls all did. I often refuse to look before creating my card so I don't subconsciously copy what I've seen but create something original. Char, Dee, Wendy, Regan, Jewels, Maria Thanks for stopping in to my little corner of blogland!!! Have a great evening!! Donelda

Loonie Stamper's Challenge - 83 and Daring Cardmakers Turquoise

The Loonie Stamper's Challenge #83 was to use your favorite set. I actually included two of my all time favorites in here from Papertrey Ink. Beautiful Blooms was one of the first sets ever released by Nichole and it continues to be one of my favorites (but Turning a New Leaf and Beautiful Blooms 2 might give it a run for it's money) and also Background Basics: Retro which I can't seem to stop using!!! I also decided to play along with the Daring Cardmakers challenge - use turquoise (but of course I'm late - sheesh!!) The leaves are stamped on some Linen Vellum from Papertrey Ink which provides such an awesome effect!! Off to see what the Loonie Girls picked as their favorite sets: Dee, Maria, Wendy, Regan, Jewels, Char Supplies: Beautiful Blooms, Background Basics: Retro, Vintage Picnic (all Papertrey Ink); Ink -Tempting Turquoise (Stampin' Up!); Paper - Smokey Shadow, Linen Vellum (Papertrey Ink), Tempting Turquoise (Stampin' Up!); Other - white buttons (Hero Arts), white embossing powder, white crochet thread. I've had so much fun today creating!! I have a few other cards I'll be posting tonight and tomorrow!!! I love weekends! Thanks for dropping in ! Donelda

Loonie Stamper's Challenge #82 - Evening Tea Time

So the Loonie Stamper's Challenge this week was to use background stamps and no patterned paper!! Easy smeasy....this is what I love to do most!!

I used Guide Lines Two (Papertrey Ink) to create this background. It is stamped with Versamark and then heat embossed with white. The white on the Enchanted Evening cardstock (Papertrey Ink) is stunning. I added a tea pot (Tea for Two -Papertrey Ink) with a simple sentiment stamped and also heat embossed with white. This was placed onto a white oval punched shape (thanks for loaning your punch Robin!!). A bit of sponging and an Enchanted Evening ribbon finished off the card!

Off to see what the Loonie girls did:

Char, Dee, Regan, Maria, Jewels, Wendy

Thanks for dropping in. I'm still working on wedding invites. I will share when I get them finished as no one going to this wedding blogs around in blogland :-)

Donelda

Loonie Stamper's Challenge - #81 and a Layout challenge by my son

Look at me getting the latest Loonie Stamper's Challenge completed on a Friday night!!

I watched the Canadian Women's curling team take the silver medal at the Olympics and then got right to work.

Part of the reason I got going tonight is because my son was working on a Scratch project (Scratch is a computer program you can download for free from the internet and allows you to create little computer games - it is really amazing!) and I was really impressed with the layout he created. See how his little "globulus" is off to the side of the medalian at the back. I just kept looking at it and thinking that layout would be great for a card....so I went up to the craft room and created this!! I decided since the LSC81 colors were so great, I'd incorporate them at the same time.

And can you believe I've had this Papertrey Ink set for months and this is the first time I've actually put it to ink!!

Off to see what those Loonie Girls did with these colors:

Dee, Jewels, Char, Wendy, Maria, Regan

Supplies: Stamps - In Bloom, Wedding Day (Papertrey Ink); Paper - Spring Moss, sample designer paper Pretty Pastels (Papertrey Ink), Going Grey (Stampin' Up!); Ink - Basic Black (Ranger), Spring Moss (Papertrey Ink); Other - Coluzzle, Labels 1 Die (Spellbinders), dimensionals.

I am hoping to get some time to do some stamping this weekend ... so you might see more from me.

Donelda

Loonie Stamper's Challenge - #80 - Luck

Wow, it is hard to believe that there have been 80 Loonie Stamper's Challenges!! Cool! This week was Julie's week to pick the colors. I thought they were perfect to make my St. Patrick's Day cards for my boys!!

Supplies: Stamps - Limitless Lables (Papertrey Ink); Ink - Chocolate Chip (Stampin' Up!), New Leaf (Papertrey Ink); Paper - the colors listed above (all Papertrey Ink); Other - 1/2" circle punch, Threading Waters punch (Fiskars), dimensionals.

Gotta check out what those Loonie Girls did with these colors: Jewels, Char, Wendy, Maria, Dee, Regan Enjoy your weekend. Donelda

Loonie Stamper's challenge #75

The Loonie Stamper Girls must think I've forgotten all about them. I haven't, honest. It just seems like I can't get around to getting challenges done despite it being one of my crafting resolutions! But, since my hubby is working all day today and it is cold and snowy outside so no option but to stay inside and craft, I pulled out these awesome colors and got ot work! (Note that this is last weeks' challenge not the current one...sheesh, late again!!)

The card is a mini using the envelope that Lisa Johnson used in THIS post (she shares the template).

I cute the Ripe Avocado cardstock to fit inside the envelope. I don't have Terracotta Tile cardstock yet so I used some scrap paper (Bazzill) that was already ripped like that (using scraps - resolution!!). I stamped the bird from Bird Watching (Papertrey Ink) onto a scrap of white with Spring Moss ink (I see it is not showing up very well in the photo) and cut him out! Then, I stamped the flight dots and the sentiment with Versamark ink and embossed with white! You can see that I decorated the envelope too!!

A great little card to drop on a friends desk at work!!!

Keep dropping in as I have a few other cards to post today. Maybe tomorrow I'll do the current Loonie Stampers Challenge LOL!!

Thanks for dropping in!!

Donelda

Loonie Stamper's Challenge #64 - Copics

So I missed last week's Loonie Stampers Challenge, but I saw that Regan picked Copics so I wanted to jump in on this one! However, I have so very few Copics...only 20 plus the colorless blender. And, very few are shades of each other which is required to do all the great blending that the pros do!! That's because I bought a set ... If you are considering getting into Copics I would NOT recommend that you start with a set!! The problem is the smaller sets come with various colors but the brilliance of Copics is the blendability...but that is only possible if you have colors that are close in hue. Regardless, I do the best I can with what I have.

I decided to pull out Simple Little Things (anniversary set from Papertrey Ink, not available for purchase) and create a border with one of the circle stamps. I love this particular image and since I do have a few greens, figured I could do a little blending with those!! I started out by coloring the leaves Lemon Yellow, then adding about 3/4 of the Yellow Green, and finally justa small amoutn of Forest Green at the base. Then I blended with the Yellow Green and again with the Lemon Yellow. (Note- you can click on the picture to see it larger which will help seeing the blending). Finished off the rest of the image by adding Pink and more Yellow Green and Lemon Yellow.

Of course, I don't have any pink or green cardstock that matches these particular marker colors...but no fear, I just took some white cardstock and used my markers to get the right color!! I love doing that!!

I ended up with a long strip of the border and only used some of it so I cut out a few of the remaining circle images and crated a 3x3 card and a Scrapling card too. The sentiments are from Simple Little Things and Mixed Messages (both Papertrey Ink). I also used the dotted square border from Borders & Corners {square} also from Papertrey Ink.

Off to see what the Loonie Girls did with their Copics:

Dee, Wendy, Maria, Regan, Jewels, Char

Thanks for dropping in!

Donelda

Loonie Stamper's Challenge - #62 - Holiday Elf

So Jewels picked some great colors and requested a Christmas theme project or card. That is great becuase I am in the middle of creation tons of Christmas cards. I haven't shown you any because I am saving them up for the weeks leading up to Christmas.

So, these are great colors: Dark Chocolate, Aqua Mist and I picked White to go with it.

I decided to go a bit of a different route and printed off one of Dustin Pike's Freebies - this cute little elf. Then I did some paper piecing with Aqua Mist paper and colored his shoes and face with Copic markers. For the white edging on his had and sleeves I used some dimensional fabric paint. Then I was stuck as to what to do for his big moustache and eyebrows. In the end, I used a light grey Prismacolor marker and also outlined him with the same.

For the rest of hte card I added some Dark Chocolate Bitty Dots paper, a bit of Aqua Mist twill (I am loving the PTI twill as it cuts so clean!!) and a holiday sentiment (from Everyday Classics, PTI).

Check out the Loonie Girl's work:

Jewels, Dee, Char, Regan, Wendy, Maria

How are you doing with your Christmas cards??

Thanks for dropping in this evening and for your comments, they mean a lot to me!!

Donelda

Loonie Stamper's Challenge #56 - Mini Card

You know how I love to create small cards!! Well here is another one. This actually measures 2 1/2 x 2 1/2". I made it this size because I bought some cute little cards with envelopes from Micheals this size...threw away the cards and kept the envelopes so I could use them for my own little cards ( call me crazy!!).

Well, I almost didn't get this posted, I fell ill this afternoon (after making it) and just got around to posting. I am sure the Loonie Girls have done some great stuff. I am going to link you to one of my previous Loonie Stamper Challenges so if you want the direct links to their pages you can go to it and link to them (I always just link to their blog, not a specific LSC link so you will be able to find this most recent challenge quite easily). Go HERE and find the Loonie links. Thanks for understanding.

Supplies: all Papertrey Ink except rhinstone, flower punch, and zig zag scissors.

Donelda

Loonie Stamper's Challenge - Happy Birthday Dee!!

Those Loonie Girls are at it again!! This time it is Dee's birthday and ... you guessed it .... she doesn't know we are all making her Birthday cards!! LOL - what fun!!

This whole card started out with that piece of Kraft cardstock. I used Faux Ribbon to create my own lined paper. I think it is funky and I have more of it that you will see on more cards in the future!!

Then, I created the Raspberry Fizz border. I stamped the Baroque Border on white cardstock with Versamark and then embossed it with clear embossing powder. Then I used a sponge and covered the cardstock with Raspberry Fizz ink!! It is a technique called embossing resist (if you haven't heard of it).

The rest of the card is pretty straight forward!! I hope Dee enjoys it!!

Now off to see what the Loonie Girls and all the other surprise guests created for Dee:

Regan, Jewels, Char, Wendy, Maria, and what did Dee create????

and the others:

Roseanne, Avril, Tracey, Sue, Steph, Stampin Pam, Deb R., and Ashley

Tin Foil Luck

So it is Friday and that means the Loonie girls set another challenge! I like to play along because being Canadian, I consider myself a little Loonie too!! And they are really nice gals!!

So today they truely proved they were as loonie as get out!! It was Maria's turn to pick a challenge and she picked "aluminum foil". That's right... can you believe it!! Now what in the world am I going to do with tin foil?? As soon as I read it, I started to laugh because waaaaay back when I first started visiting Splitcoaststampers there was a thread that was to share your ugliest card. Well, there were a lot of ugly cards but the one that was ultimately the ugliest was this one made with tin foil!! It was UUUUUUGGGGGLLLLYYYYY (I'm not being mean, the creator herself openly admitted that it was an ugly card and we all had a good laugh over it!!).

Anyway, I pulled out my cuttlebug and a small folder and embossed the tinfoil (that was attached to some cardstock). Then I punched it out with a 1" circle punch. I like the look of it, kinda like a medallion. I decided to create this "scrapling" card (You might remember THIS, THIS, THIS, THIS, and THIS scrapling - yes, I enjoy making this size). I added this teeny tiny "luck" sentiment which is actually one word of a sentiment (good luck) in the Mixed Messages (Papertrey Ink) set. I like it with the medallion and the colors...kinda oriental looking.

Now I can hardly wait to go see what all those Loonie girls did with this one!!

Maria, Dee, Char, Regan, Wendy, Jewels

Have a great evening!

Donelda

Obsesssed with Clean and Simple - Take 1

Okay, so Jen over at the Splitcoaststampers is looking for a Design Team for the Clean and Simple challenges. - Fall session. Well, I totally doubt that I'll be picked but you all know how much I love that Clean and Simple style and the challenges set by Jen were so much fun!

So, I started...and like usual, I just couldn't stop!! I will be displaying all of my cards this week but if you can't wait, you can see them all on my Splitcoaststamper's gallery (see the link on the right).

So, here is my first entry based on the layout shown HERE by girlydecou. What a great layout!!

I really like how this card turned out. I don't usually use vellum because I hate trying to attach it! But I think it was a great alternative than ribbon for this card. I might even make a few others to send out for Christmas cards.

Supplies: Stamps-Snowflakes (Stampin' Up! - retired), Believe (Papertrey Ink); Ink - Vintage Cream (Papertrey Ink), Versamark; Paper - Night Sky Shimmer cardstock (Papertrey); Other - white embossing powder, pearls (K&Co.)

Oh yeah, and I'm also making this my Loonie Stamper's card #53. The challenge this week was to make a man card using the newest blue from Papertrey Ink. Well, I don't have any so I am substituting this blue from PTI instead :D (smart hey!!) and it kinda looks like a man card...maybe??!! Check out the Loonie ladies cards: Dee, Jewels, Maria, Wendy, Char, Regan.

Stay tuned tomorrow for another card I made for the Design Team call.

Thanks for dropping in!

Donelda

Loonie Stamper's Challenge #52 - Thinking Flowers

It's Friday and that means another Loonie Challenge. This time it is an inspiration picture (ooooh, you must check back here tomorrow to find out more about "inspirations"!! *wink*). Although there are colors along the side the instructions said to simple do whatever you want with this awesome inspiration piece. Well, at first I totally wanted to do something with the swirls in there but my eye kept going to that cluster of blue, yellow, and red lower in the top left corner of the pillow....so that is what I did!! Using the sentiment circle from the Borders & Corners {circles} set, I created my flowers. A stem, polka dots, ribbon and a card base....and a card was born!! I bet the Loonie girls did some great stuff with this inspiration piece...go check them out: Wendy, Maria, Dee, Char, Regan, Jewels Like I said above, you need to come back and see my blog tomorrow. I have a new feature on Saturdays that I think will be a lot of fun :D Thanks for dropping in!! Donelda Supplies: Stamps-Borders & Corners {circles}, Polka Dot Basics, Spiral Bouquet (all Papertrey Ink); Ink - Bravo Burgundy, Brocade Blue, So Saffron, Always Artichoke (all Stampin' Up!); Paper - Whisper White, Brocade Blue, So Saffron (Stampin' Up!); Other - white ribbon (colored Bravo Burgundy by using a sponge dauber), clear embossing powder (covering the polka dots), dimensionals, corner rounder.

Loonie Stamper's Challenge - Happy Birthday Regan!

I was contacted by one of the Loonie girls earlier this week. In confidence, she asked if Iwanted to participate in the Loonie Stamper's Challenge this week because they were going to create surprise birthday cards for Regan - since it is her birthday!! Of course I wanted to participate and created this card.

I started out with a piece of white cardstock and used my new Tim Holtz mini mask on the corner (I love that he brought out smaller sizes for us card makers!!). Then I sponged some Sweet Blush ink over the mask. I cut and embossed it using my Labels 1 die. Then, I used Demask Designs and white craft ink to create a background on Sweet Blush card stock. Finished it off with a little black mat, some black satin ribbon and a few rhinstones for some bling!!

Happy Birthday Regs!!!

For all of the Loonie girl birthday cards go to here (can't wait to see what Regan created, heehehe):

Char, Dee, Maria, Wendy, Jewels, and Regan, of course!!

Supplies: all supplies are Papertrey Ink except mask (Ranger), rhinstones (various), die (Spellbinders), and dimensionals.

Have a great day everyone!!

Donelda