June Outlawz Progressive Freebie Challenge

I was close but I manged to finsh just in time! Here's this months progressive freebie challenge form outlawz this months image was from Beecy's Place.

Paper: Stash and Gina K Wild Dandilion
Stamp: Beecy's Place
Ink: Chamelon YL2, PK3 and Copic E35, E23, G07

Cherry Summer

Hi Everyone!

Today I have a bright sunny card for you guys! I didn't put a greeting on it because I wasn't quite sure what I wanted it to say.

Paper: Stash
Stamp: httpcraftingbellalockwood.blogspot.co.uk
Accessories: Faber Castell Pencils, Lyra Pencils, Cuttlebug
Challenges:
World Wide Open Design Team Challenge
Lemon Shortbread
Crafty Creations

Craft Space Tuesday: I'm Moving!

So today is my Birthday and I didn't want to do a crazy detailed post here so I thought I'd tackle this topic instead!

I'm Moving!

Well not houses or anything like that. But I'm moving Websites!

Say good bye to My Crafty Place and Welcome to....

Sam's Crafty Castle

Well the official move won't happen until July 1st and it will be a super soft opening but I thought I would give you all a heads up and a chance to get subscribed!  So go check out the new website here!

There's a reason this will be a soft opening. We're heading into the first few weeks of July which is always a whole lot of crazy for me I should be back in action to a normal level about the middle of July after a really short vacation. The goal for the blog and posting in the next 2 or 3 weeks is to simply get done what I can.

As always, Feel free to comment down below, use the new contact form on the side, or Like the My Crafty Place Facebook page to leave suggestions for upcoming Craft Space Tuesday Posts! Any Craft related topic is up for grabs!

Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge 166

Hi Everyone! Time for a new Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge!

Paper: Multi-craft Polka Dot paper pack and Gina K Designs Wild Dandelion
Ink: Memento Pear Tart and Memento RoseBud
Stamps (and Die Cut) Crafter's Companion
Accessories: Naturals
Challenges:
Classic Design Team Challenge
Art By Mi Ran
Inspiration Destination

Pizza My Heart With Lawn Fawn

Hi everyone! Today I have a cute card featuring the Pizza My Heart Set from Lawn Fawn! I'm not super happy with how this card came out but it's still cute!

Stamps: Pizza My Heart from Lawn Fawn

Ink: Distress and My Favorite Things, Tombow Duel Brush Pen

Paper: The Stash

Craft Space Tuesday: Favorite Color Combinations

So I actually was one of the random winners from Digi Designs Challenge last week for the Favorite Color Combination Challenge! This wasn't the topic I was planning for this week but I wasn't quite ready for the watercolor post yet! Maybe next week! So I thought a fun topic for today might be favorite color combinations! My favorite is pink and orange. But I always really like Pink and Green, Purple and yellow, purple and blue, and really bright colors together when I'm doing kids cards!


What about you? What are you favorite color combinations?


As always, Feel free to comment down below, use the new contact form on the side, or Like the My Crafty Place Facebook page to leave suggestions for upcoming Craft Space Tuesday Posts! Any Craft related topic is up for grabs!

Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge 165 with Gina K Desgins

Happy Monday! Time for another sketch challenge!

I'm sorry this post will be short.... I'm fighting with my internet again I'm going to try and remember to come back and add more info to this post later....

Firefighter Card

HI! I have a really fun boy card for you today!

I have a little boy who is a family friend I originally picked this image out for him but then never got a card finished and I don't know if he's still into firefighters and I probably won't send it off but I still made something anyway.

Purple and Yellow Graduation Card

So you ever make a card that feels like the ending to a story?

Well I did.

4 years ago I made this card to give to my little cousin for her first day fo highschool.

Today I'm posting her graduation card.

I can't believe it's been 4 years. I can't believe I've been bloging this long. I can't believe how far I've come in my cardmaking skills. Keep reading to the end for a nice big anouncement.

Are you ready for the big anouncement? I'm moving to a new site! I was ready for an upgrade and have decided to move to a WIX site! Don't worry I'll share more when it's time to move!

Workstation Tour

Little Girl Birthday Card Featuring Genevieve Giraffe by Gina K Designs

Ok well nothing says this has to be for a little girls birthday but that's what it made me think of!

So this is created with paper from the Stash and Multicraft The stamps are both from Gina K Designs, Genevieve Giraffe and Massive Messages I colored Genevieve with tombow markers and add some white gel pen spots to the background. The Birthday Wishes is stamped with MFT Hybrid Ink!

Disney Castle Card

Ever have a card that's meant to turn out one way and then comes out completely different?

That's how this card turned out... I had some challenges picked out for this card and I ended up going in a completely different direction!

I had to go with a Disney theme because I'm gearing up to start planning my next trip and I'm just so excited!

Craft Space Tuesday: Strech Your Stamps

Hello and welcome to another Craft Space Tuesday! This week we're talking about different ways to use your stamps. I went through my technique binder and pulled out some of the samples I've made using stamps in a different way! Before we get started I just wanted to say that these are all samples meant to just be references for me so they are far from my best work.

 This is probably the easiest technique that any one can do! If you have clear photo-polymer stamps they're pretty bendy All you have to do is bend them into a different shape!

This one's a little different and didn't photograph well at all so I'm going to include the video for this one from Stamp TV.

This was a fun technique I got from a Jennifer McGuire video! All I did was paint with watercolor the background stamp and emboss over and rub a baby wipe to lift off some of the color! I'll be showing this one again in a couple weeks!

This one is of my favorites and also inspired by a stamp tv video. It makes a great background! All you need to do is take a stamp. Stamp with Versamark and emboss!

Here's another cool background idea! You can stamp any stamp repeatedly then take a white pigment ink and brush it over the center. This lights part of your image and lets you stamp something in the middle.

This was the technique behind yesterday's card. It's simple a bunch of stamps stamped in random order in a lot of different orange colors! You can do it this with any stamp or any colors!

For this one you cut a shape and stamp inside. Now I hand cut this shape but you could easily use a die cut!

This is similar to the last one. Take a shape and trace it then stamp around the outside.

This was probably the easies of them all . I simply staped with versamark and then put chalk over the top!

I hope I could give you some new ideas to try!

As always, Feel free to comment down below, use the new contact form on the side, or Like the My Crafty Place Facebook page to leave suggestions for upcoming Craft Space Tuesday Posts! Any Craft related topic is up for grabs!

Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge 164

Happy Monday! Time for a new Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge!

So here's a story about today's card. I was getting challenges for the week set up and found a monochrome and inspired by a film challenge. I knew I had some newsie stamps from melonheadz and thought this is perfect because Newsies is my favorite movie! (And yes it's a Disney movie) So I went through my stash and started digging around and thinking about colors. I thought a brown monochromatic would be cool because it sort of matched the Newsies theme since I like to do vintagey dark jewel tone type colors on the newsies cards well I ended up pulling out this stack of newspaper and instead of changing the plan to the black and white of this image I had planned to do for some reason I still made it brown It's not exactly what I pictured it still came out pretty well.

stamps: melonheadz and stamps by Judith (small stick stamp to create the pattern along the bottom)
Paper: Stash
Ink: Copic, Versamark
Challenges:
Outlawz Color Combination
Mod Squad Challenge C.R.A.F.T. Challenge

Crafting When We Can with Sasayaki Glitter

First off let me just say the images from this sponser are just so super cute!

But anyway our challenge this week is a sketch!

And I made this super cute shaker card!

New Release at Digistamps4Joy

Is it just me or dosen't it feel like time is just going really fast! But at least it's time for a new release at Digistamps4Joy!

I used Ain't She Sweet! It's such a cute image! I used paper and ribbon from stash the bling is from Want 2 Scrap and she is colored with copics!

Challenges:
Classic Desgin Team Open Challenge
World Wide Open Design Team Challenge
2 Creative Chicks

Foiling Tips and Tricks featuring MINC and Deco Foil

Pink and Orange Happy Birthday!

Hi Everyone!

I'm doing pretty good with getting back in the habit of daily blogging! Today I have a birthday card for you!

I found a challenge to use your favorite color combination and of course I couldn't pass this up! My absolute favorite color combination is pink and orange!


Stamp: Just4fun
Paper:  Cricut and Multicraft
Ink: Wink of Stella Gold, Chameleon Orange, Chameleon Bubblegum Pink, Copic RV23 (I just realized how nicely that matches the multicraft polka dot paper) and Wink of Stella Clear
Accessories: Want 2 Scrap Pink Bling

Challenges:
Digi Desgins Challenge: Favorite Color Combination
Art by Mi Ran Challenge 59 Anything Goes

Purple Flowers Happy Birthday with Digistamps4Joy

Hello!

I'm working on getting back to everyday posts and I'm defiantly heading in the right direction! I've got some great stuff planned for the next couple weeks!

Alright onto to today's card!

OK so this one is nice and simple the paper is from The Stash. The digistamp is from Digistamps4joy and called Clivia it's one of my favorites! I colored it with a violet chamelon pen and added in the details with a white gel pen (signo uniball is my favorite) the sentiment is stamped in Memento Grape Jelly and I'm not sure the manufacturer. Then I felt like it wasn't quite finshed so I added to small purple perls from the eyelet outlet!

Craft Space Tuesday: Supplies you don't use

Hello! Time for another Craft Space Tuesday! This week we're going to talk about all the supplies we don't use!

I know we all have them.... The supplies that look awesome so we buy them and then they sit in our stash forever...

For me it's embellishments of any kind.... I have soo many and never use them!!! I find that I use them a little more if I enter challenges and use sketches but I still have so many!


What about you?

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Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge 163

Hi guys!

Late post today but it is monday and time for a new Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge!

and here's my card!

Digistamps4joy June Progressive Freebie Challenge

Hi everyone!

It's time for a new progressive freebie challenge!


It's a great June challenge! This card will be on its way next week to a friend of mine!

Friday Video: Spring Flower Card

Look! I'm only a day late! Enjoy this weeks video!

Cricut Exploers May Challenge!

One more May challenge to wrap up quick guys!

Here's my google eyes challenge for Cricut Explorers! I don't make a complete project but I did cut out this cute little create a critter bear and put some google eyes on him. I actually bought a few packs of google eyes just to do this so I had the perfect excuse to do it!

Outlawz May Progressive Freebie Challenge

But Sam... It's June... Not May....

I know.... I'm super behind this month.... May went somewhere and I'm not sure where that was.... But if it wanted to come back for a day or two that'd be nice...


This months Freebie is from ppinkydolls!

New Challenge at DS4J!

Happy June! A new month means a new challenge at DS4J!

This month our theme is Faries! Here's my card featuring Spring Fairy!