C4C542 - Summer Activities

Frances Byrne asked me to do a fill-in stint with the Crazy 4 Challenges team for the next couple of months.  Today's challenge was to make a card or project inspired by a favorite summer activity -- beach, pool, travel, picnics, etc., etc., etc.  I live in Florida and summer (actually year-round) recreation usually involves water.

As you may have noticed, I've been obsessed with slimline cards lately, so my card today was made with a couple of Trinity Stamps slimline dies.  I used two of their landscape dies to make stencils for the beach/ocean line and the clouds.  The stamp was in a free stamp set from one of those British cardmaking magazines.  Coloring of the background was done with distress oxide inks.

I want to thank the C4C team for allowing me to play with them for a while.  Be sure to check out their blog.

CCEE2027 UFO Day

I am hostess for the CCEE Stampers during the month of July.  My first challenge is in honor of World UFO Day, which is today.   I asked the team to make a card with something from space -- the sun, the moon, a planet, a UFO, a rocket ship.  Or, create a galaxy background for their card.  Here is a link to a tutorial for a galaxy background.

Here is my card, which uses a couple of stamped images from Honey Bee Stamps Far Out Friends set and that cute alien & flying saucer from Karen Burniston's Space Charms.

Check out the CCEE Stampers blog for more space fun!

Scor-Pal "More Than One Score" Challenge -- Patriotic/Summer

The Scor-Pal "More Than One Score" challenge for July is to make a patriotic or summer card.  As the 4th of July is right around the corner (Saturday), I chose patriotic for my theme.  I haven't made a wiper card in a very long time, so that's what I have for you today.

I have recently purchased my first set of Distress Oxide inks and was quite impressed.  They really blend so nicely.    My background was created with Seedless Preserves, Abandoned Coral, Worn Lipstick, and Frayed Burlap.  I used some old Flourishes and MFP Stamp Shop stamps for my silhouette.

The flag on the "wiper" is a piece of free clipart I found on the internet.

To show you how the wiper mechanism works, I have a very short video.

As I am the hostess for this month, I will have a tutorial on my blog on July 15th, showing how I made this card.  I hope you stop back to see it.

CCEE2026 - National Bald Eagle Day

Vicky ends her month as hostess for the CCEE Stampers by telling us that today we celebrate the Bald Eagle.  She asked us to make a card with a bird on it . . . extra points if it's a Bald Eagle.

I'm always in for the extra points!  I have a couple of bald eagle stamps  The one on the front of my card is from an old MFP Stamp Shop set.  The background for my card is one of Karen Burniston's new Pattern Plates -- this one is Tiles.  Before adhering the Tiles cover plate on the front of my card, I sponged on some red and blue Distress Oxide ink and then glued down the die cut.

The inside of my card has another bald eagle as well as some fireworks and an American Flag mounted on the Karen Burniston Paper Frames die cut.  I added the two banners at the top.  Those little "pennants" are part of the die set as well.

Check out the CCEE Stampers blog for some more birds (eagles or otherwise).

Karen Burniston & Dare2BArtzy Blog Hop

Welcome to the KB Riley - Karen Burniston Dies and Dare 2B Artzy Collaboration Blog Hop! Our Design Team members are excited to share their inspiring creations using some of the fabulous products from both these companies.

To celebrate our blog hop we have four great prizes to give away. You will have the chance to win one of two $25 Gift Certificates to use on the KB Riley - Karen Burniston Dies website or one of two $25 Gift Certificates to use on Dare 2B Artzy website.

For my card I chose the Dare2BArtzy BEE-utiful stamp set and two Karen Burniston dies, the Pattern Plates - Tiles and the Rockin' Rectangle.

I love the way sponged backgrounds look behind this Tiles die cut.    Using several distress inks, I created the background and then adhered the white die cut on top.  I placed the sentiment panel in the center and popped up the cute little bee from the stamp set at the corner.  The curly flight path is stamped in gray.

The inside of my card has the flower image from the Dare2BArtzy set, stamped on the pop-out panel from the Karen Burniston Rockin' Rectangle, with the small sentiment on the cross piece.  You can see that I used the same colors from the front on the flower.  I added some blue sequins to both the front and the inside of the card.

Make sure you join the hop and comment on everyone's blog post for your chance to win one of these prizes. Winners will be randomly chosen from the comments left on ALL THE POSTS
received by Friday 26th June 2020. Here is the line-up for the hop:

Dare 2B Artzy

Lois Bak (you are here)

Kendra Sand

Frances Byrne

Melody Blake

Karen Aicken

Karen Ostergard

Fran Sabad

Avra Williams

Kelly Booth

Chris Pozzi

Sandy Diller

Tasha Jorgensen

KB Riley - Karen Burniston Dies

CCEE2025 - Youth Day

This week Vicky asked the CCEE Stampers to make a card for a kid of any age!  We all have little kids in our life, but we also have those "big" kids who never seem to age.  Your choice, a young person . . . or a person who never ages!

My late husband was a model railroad enthusiast, so I made this card for all those "kids at heart" who still love to play with trains.  I used the train from the Karen Burniston Train Pivot Panels die set (minus the pivot panels) and dies from her Train Elements set on my card.

Check out the CCEE Stampers blog for some more "kid cards."

CCEE2024 - Father's Day

Vicky continues her month as hostess for the CCEE Stampers by telling us that Father's Day falls on June 11th this year and asking us to make a Father's Day card.  If, like her, your father has gone to his heavenly reward, make a masculine card of any type for any man in your life.

Like Vicky, my father is no longer with us; so I made a card for my son -- who is a father to an 11-year old.  He has just gotten back into scuba diving after many years, so I pulled out my Scuba Changito stamp and the Karen Burniston Spinner Square Pop-Up die and made a card for him.

As you can see, Changito may have bit off more than he can handle with that shark swimming around.

To get an idea of the movement in this card, I've got a little video.

Be sure to check out the CCEE Stampers blog for some more guy cards!