Stinkin Cute Birthday

I borrowed this stamp set from a friend - it’s not really my style but I thought it was the perfect image for a friend’s Birthday. Happy Birthday Annette!!!

Stinkin Cute:

The inside of the card says: You May be a Year Older BUT You’re Still Marvelous Darling! Happy Birthday!

One thing that I was excited about is that I could use my Fun Flock on the skunk - look at her tail, tummy and head.

Flock Close Up:

Purple is Annette’s favorite color and, well, I think it’s my least favorite color - but I’ve been saving this designer paper for her. To tie the entire card together I doodled in black onto the paper - I think the black pulls your eyes around the card - or maybe I’m just nuts and trying to make the purple work for me???

Have a Stinkin Fabulous Day and thanks for the visit!
KAT

The Stuff:
Stamps - Stinkin Cute (SU)
Paper - Vineyard (Heidi Grace), black, certainly celery
Ink - VersaMark, black, perfect plum, certainly celery
Other - black EP, black Micron Pen (Sakura), Oval Nestabilities (Spellbinders), Prima flower, Fun Flock (Stampendous), Cuttlebug embossing folder

Hello Tami...

I received your questions but I don't know how to get in contact with you.... Send me an email at rktucker@alltel.net.

I'd be happy to help!!!

KAT

Time Triptych

Time… Moments of Joy… Unlocked


I thought I would look up the definition of Triptych to make sure that it fits this piece….

Triptych - n. A work of art composed of 3 hinged or folding panels.



Time Triptych:


I made this for the Bandanna challenge on the Ranger Yahoo Group for September. I’ve been wanting to try this technique for a while and the challenge was enough to kick my butt into gear!

You can pretty much call this technique Sponge-n-Doodle. The first time I noticed this technique was in the August Technique Junky Newsletter.

Since Tim Holtz (yes I still want to be as creative as he is when I grow up) is the Sr Designer for Ranger and I love his Idea-ology line I thought I would incorporate lots of his hardware and even a piece of his Grungeboard.


So - some close ups:


Sprockets/Gears:



I don’t really know which is a sprocket and which is a gear but these are my favorite do-dads in his Idea-ology line!

Philosophy Tag (yes I even doodled on this):


Grungeboard (perfect compliment to the Keys):



A few other details - each clock face has Glossy Accents, the hinges were made from a stamped image (Minibook Series) that I crumpled and rubbed with Gold rub-on paste, grunge is covered with black ink and rubbed with the gold paste.

Looks like this post was long winded - if you stuck with me Thanks for the Visit!!!
KAT


The Stuff:
Stamps (all Innovative Stamp Creations) Artsy, Art 4 Frames II, ATC Elements, Majestic Women, About Me, Assemblage, Maple Tree Paintings, Artsy MiniBook Shape Series, Butterflies, Nature Silhouettes I
Paper - Office Tags, Very Vanilla scraps (used for Hinges)
Ink - (all Ranger) Rust Adirondack; Peeled Paint, Brushed Corduroy (Distress Ink), Archival Ink Jet Black
Other - Sprocket Gears, Game Spinners, Long Fasteners, Philosophy Tags, Trinket Pins, Jump Rings, Grungeboard (all from Tim Holtz Idea-ology); Metallic Rub on Paste (Craf-T) Gloss Accents (Ranger) Inkssentials Opaque Pen, Metal Key (unknown)

Winter Woods

I wanted to show you the versatility of the Walk in the Woods stamp - it’s not just for fall scenes…

Winter Woods:

The scene was stamped on glossy paper and sponged with shades of blue to create the sky. The chipboard snowflake was painted with white acrylic paint and then covered with Iridescent Ice embossing powder (I know you can’t see the shimmer in the picture - but it’s there!).

Let’s hope scenes like this winter one (brrrr) are a LOOOOONNNNNGGGG way off! Enjoy the Sunshine!

Happy Stamping!

KAT

The Stuff:
Stamps - (all Innovative Stamp Creations) Walk in the Woods, Artsy Minibook Shapes Series
Paper - Glossy White, Soft Sky, black, white
Ink - India Ink Black, Soft Sky, Bashful Blue, VersaMark
Other - Chipboard Snowflake, White Acrylic Paint (Delta), Iridescent Ice EB (SU), button, thread

Today

…is the day for all of the Nature image releases over at Innovative Stamp Creations - check out the blog for more information (and maybe a little special???).


I have another sample to share with you today using the Maple Tree Paintings images. This was actually the first card that I created from the new stamps.


Maple Tree:

In six weeks or so our yard will begin to look just like this tree. Our house is surrounded my 25 acres of woods and soon it will be full of the colors of fall - my favorite!


Some of the details - the image panels with the Maple and the leaves started as White CS. The tree and the leaves were embossed and all the colors were added by sponging. I love sponging because it give you a soft, muted effect.


TIP - to keep from getting a hard edge when you sponge rub your sponge on a piece of scrap paper first - work just a little of the ink off.


Enjoy Summer while it lasts!


As always, thanks for the visit!
KAT


The Stuff:
Stamps - (all Innovative Stamp Creations) Maple Tree Paintings, Oriental Nature Elements
Paper - White, choc chip, really rust
Ink - (all SU) Choc Chip Crafts, Soft Sky , Choc Chip, Really Rust, More Mustard, Old Olive
Other - Tag Trio (Spellbinders), button, ribbon, Clear EB, brads

Just for You

Today’s preview is another card featuring Ms. Bird. When I first looked at this image it screamed to be embossed on some beautiful designer paper!

Just for You:

Close up of flower and charm:

The background was embossed, water colored with the blue and then I used my VersaMark pen to emboss the leaves. Then I sponged the bottom of the panel with brown and added sewing at the top.

The bird was embossed and then sponged with brown ink to make her beautiful swirls pop!

Hope you are having a great start to your Labor Day weekend!

Thanks for the visit!
KAT

The Stuff:
Stamps - (all Innovative Stamp Creations) Marvels of Nature II, Women Around the World II
Paper - Congratulations (Karen Foster Designs), Kraft, Choc Chip
Ink - Choc Chip Craft, Choc Chip
Other - Rectangle Megabilities, Double Ended Tags (Spellbinders), Flower Cuttlebug, VersaMark Pen, Bird Charm (Fresh - Plaid Enterprises), button, ribbon, thread, water color crayons (Lyra), Clear EB

Card of the Week!!!

I’d like the thank the academy, my husband, my friends and family for this magnificent award! I could not have….

We interrupt this sappy speech to let you know that I was featured on the Card of the Week Blog…. I almost fell off my chair when I receive an email that my Open the Gate card was featured this week… blushing!!!

If you are not familiar with this blog - quickly let your fingers do the running and CHECK IT OUT! Susanna does a wonderful job looking out in the blogspere and pulling together all kinds of fabulous projects. She features not only cards but paper crafts, tutorials and scrap booking -you never know - you could see one of your projects there some day!!!

One more thing…. HEATHER leave me a comment with the name of your blog - I’d love to check it out!

Now I need to go and get my husband all excited about my award... I can hear him now - Oh, um, that's nice honey - while clicking the volume up on his Speed channel.... Hmmm maybe an excuse to buy more crafty stuff...

Thanks for the visit!!!

KAT

Flowers & Linen

Another sample of the beautiful Harlequin flower today.

Flowers & Linen

All of the flower panels on this card are glossy paper. The background panel was as bright at the focal flower until I sanded it - I used the faux linen technique to create this effect on background. The faux linen technique is simply standing your background image horizontally and vertically. If you could see the card close up you would notice that it looks like threads running through the background. This was my first try at this technique and I really like how this turned out.

From my previous post - Hunter was bur free today - it’s going to be a good day!

I hope your day is filled with flowers!

Thanks for the visit!
KAT

The Stuff:
Stamps - Harlequin Flowers 2 (Innovative Stamp Creations)
Paper - Glossy White, Old Olive, Black
Ink - (all Ranger) Jet Black Archival; Peeled Paint, Fired Brick, Antique Linen, Weathered Wood Distressed Ink
Other - Long Rectangle Megabilities (Spellbinders), ribbon, button, brads, Black Diamond Stickles (Ranger), sanding block

My Mess!

I mentioned in my earlier post today that I had a mess to clean up - Well this is what I woke up to this morning…


This is Hunter my oldest Fur Baby - he’s my 11 lb Yorkie (yes - he’s a bit big for a Yorkie but he thinks he’s at least 100 lbs). When my Husband took him out for his morning duty Hunter thought he would explore in the woods a little… He likes to check out leaves, birds and bunnies. He ended up being a mess full of those little green bur things - all over his body! When I first looked at him one of his ears was stuck to the side of his poor little face.

Here’s what he looked like an hour later after Mommy cleaned him up:

Isn’t he handsome!

He’s one of my four Fur babies… I have three Yorkies - yes I love them and they are like potato chips - you can’t have just one! And a have a Persian kitty that looks like the fancy feast cat.

I hope yout day was filled with unconditional love (and no burs)!

KAT

Beauty in Nature

Let’s see - so far with the previews from Innovative Stamp Creations I’ve shown you flowers, birds and a wooded scene… Well a release of nature images would not be complete without a beautiful Mighty Maple image.

Beauty in Nature:

This image sheets comes with the Maple Tree in three sizes. On this card I used the large and the medium trees.

A little about this card - the background was created first by clear embossing the tree image on vanilla card stock, misting, allow to dry, wipe the mist off of the embossed tree with paper towel. Then sponge green on the tree and brown around the edges. The smaller tree was marker water colored. Sewing, some hardware and distressing and ta-da…..

TIP - when I use mists I always start with the lightest color first and then work into the darker values.

Well I have a bit of a mess to clean up today - I’ll be back with more on that later…

Thanks for the visit!
KAT

The Stuff:
Stamps - (Innovative Stamp Creations) Maple Tree Paintings
Paper - (all SU) Very Vanilla, Choc Chip, Old Olive
Ink - Versamark, Timber Brown Stazon, choc chip, old olive, mellow moss
Other - Mists: Mango Lemondade (Memories Mists), Willow (Tsukinek) Fire Opal (Zia); Aged Copper Hardware (SU), Tombow and SU Markers, Edge Distresser (Heidi Swapp), brown thread