GUEST STAMPER - TAMMY MOHR

HEY BLOGGIES,

Welcome to another guest stamper - one of my team members TAMMY MOHR.  She is a very talented artist who also stamps!!  She does water colors, mixed media, designs silhouette patterns and is an all around fun person.   Here are a few of her cards she has recently made.

 Work of Art stamp set and a fine tipped marker for the details

I love how the white areas inside the petals just pop with the Wink of Stella on them.  She has some pretty sequins on it and some nice shading.  AND I love her doodles around the border.  Very nice card, Tammy.

Won't you reply to send Tammy a little blog lovin'?

Thanks for stopping by.

ADDING A BIT MORE TO SOME COMPLETED CARDS

HEY BLOGGIES,

Have you ever done this...think a card if finished and you add it to the finished pile, only to feel like it needs a bit more the next time you see it?  Well, that happened to me recently this weekend.  I was putting all my finished cards into my special "finished" container when I just felt like something was missing on a few of them.

This is what the first card looked like when I blogged about it a week or so ago:

 I used the WORK OF ART stamp set with Blackberry Bliss ink and Mossy Meadow for the leaves, then brushed on a bit of champagne glimmer paint for some light.  I loved it when I made it, but then the next time I looked at it, it seemed it wasn't quite finished.  So here is what I added:

Since it was an ART piece by the name of the stamp, I added some artistic drawing with a black fine tip marker.  I double outlined each of the petals of the flower and leaves, AND I added some special doodling around the edge of the card for added interest.

What do you think?  I got the idea from my friend Tammy.  You have heard about her before.  We are stamping buddies and she is very artistic.  She created a similar card with me and then added the doodles and gave me the idea.  I am trying to download her card from my text messenger but it won't let me.  Once I figure it out, I will post her beautiful cards.

Here are two cards from MY PAPER PUMPKIN SEPTEMBER KIT that I posted before:

   

Here they are now with some added BLING of flower and smiley face charms, some splatters and the sequins that came with the kit.

I would love to know if you have updated some of your cards after you thought they were finished.  And if you did, what did you do to them.

Good to see you - stop back again, won't you?

AUGUST THANK YOU CARDS USING WORK OF ART IN A NEW WAY

HEY BLOGGIES,

Yesterday Tammy and I got together and created some fun flower cards with WORK OF ART stamp set.  This set does NOT have any flowers in it, but we used it in such a way that we created flowers.

 Aren't these cards so fun and colorful??  I used the new incolors Lost Lagoon and Blackberry Bliss as well as Mossy Meadow.  I also used Strawberry Slush and Melon Mambo on the pink card.

 The WORK OF ART stamp set has a round circle  and I first used that for the middle of the flower.  Then Tammy remembered this stamen stamp in a retired set and we added that in two different colors to the middle.  We did petals that were stamped off twice, stamped off once and then full strength.  I also added a bit of champagne shimmer paint from the clearance rack.

I had trouble with this strawberry slush flower.  It seemed like all the petals were the same shade instead of being several different shades from stamping off.  That is why I added one more fussy cut layer and adhered that on top of the flower.

This one is my favorite.  I LOVE this LOST LAGOON color.And the shimmer paint shows up with a lot of fun shimmer in person.

For all orders of $25 or more this month, each customer will get one of these thank you cards as well as a choice of one of my retired gently used stamp sets.

Thanks for stopping by.

LAND THAT I LOVE .... INDEPENDENCE DAY CARDS

HEY BLOGGIES,

Are you getting ready for some baseball, picnics, fireworks and fun with friends and family??  So am I!!

I wanted to share a card I made with my friend and downline, Tammy M.  We used WORK OF ART stamp set and a few special surprises as well:

 We used real red and Night of Navy card stock, also whisper white.  We did something a little bit lagnappe or "unexpected" - we used a star stencil and some moon pearl embossing powder BEFORE we stamped with the navy ink for the star part of the flag.  Isn't it awesome??!!  I LOVE how it turned out.

 If you decide to make one of these cards, make sure you make both a stencil and a mask for the blue part because first you use the stencil part so you just emboss that area, then you stamp it with the navy inked stamp.  then you use the mask part to cover up the navy part so the red won't get there when you stamp the stripes.  I hope I have said that clearly so you can make one of these FUN cards too!!

See anything else that fits LAGNAPPE or "unexpected"?  YES, that is a silver eagle head charm on the sentiment.  AND YES those are mini star sequins on the left of the sentiment.  Just too little special somethings to make you do a double take.  Speaking of a double take, see the boo-boo I did right below the blue stars field?  I tapped my stripe stamp a second time into the wrong ink pad.  I thought I thumped it into the real red but NOOOO, it was the navy pad by mistake.

Well, things happen and life goes on.  But this wonderful country is LAND OF THE FREE AND HOME OF THE BRAVE.  Thanks to all those who serve us by helping to keep our beautiful America FOREVER FREE.

Stamp set:  Work of Art, alphabet set
Ink:  Real Red, Night of Navy
Card stock:  Real Red, Night of Navy
Other:  mini star sequins, silver eagle charm

I would love to hear your comments on our fun and patriotic card.  Won't you take just a moment and leave a comment for me?

Have a wonderful holiday weekend.