Stargazing with Stargazers

Confused by the title?  Well, here is what happened.....I was doing my first ever art journal page, using my ProArt Sketch Journal.  I started by using Gel Medium on  the pages and adhering Tim Holtz Postale Tissue Wrap.  I applied  Tim Holtz Distress Paint in Mermaid Lagoon and Adirondack Paint in Stream in random areas, smoothing out the color with a damp baby wipe.   I wanted to use a Penny Black Lily stamp called luminous.  I stamped and colored three lilies with gelatos and Wink of Stella.  In the two upper corners I applied embossing paste over a star stencil, and it hit me!  Stargazing and Stargazer Lilies.  So with that in mind, everything just fell in place.

Supplies

Foundations:  ProArt Sketch Journal

Paper:  Neenah Extra Heavy Cardstock, Tim Holtz Tissue Wrap/Postale

Stamps:  Penny Black Luminous, WornText, Penny Black Effulgence ,  Stampendous Small Typewriter Alphabet, Bo Bunny It Is Written

Inks: Ranger Archival Jet Black & Coffee, & Cobolt,  Distress Mermaid Lagoon Paint, Adirondack Stream Paint, White Gel Pen, Gelatos, Wink of Stella/Dark Pink, Wink of Stella/Clear, Big Brush Markers Green, and Blue

Misc:  Flower Soft - Bark

Mixed Media/Adhesives:  Glossy Accents, Faber-Castell Gel Medium, Studio 490 Embossing Paste

Tools:  Echo Park Once Upon a Time Stencil

Blue Happy Birthday

What's better than making a beautiful Birthday Card?

 Making 4 at one time using my Mini Misti.  I really don't know how a stamped all these years without it.  

This is such an easy card.  The flowers and all sentiments except the Happy Birthday, are from Altenew's Beautiful Day Stamp Set.  I also used their ink Cubes Glacier Caves.  The Happy Birthday stamp is from Sweet n Sassy's Birthday Greetings Stamp Set.  And the black ink was my mini Versafine Onyx Black.   I think that the mini ink pads are so much easier to use than the full sized ones.  I always make such a mess.

And to top it off (or should I say, side it off) I used Penny Black's Border Edges Dies.

Hope you like it!

Diane & Shirley's Birthday Cards!

     What's harder than making a birthday card for a friend.  When that friend is Diane (cookiestamper) Zechman.  She is the best cardmaker that I know (or have seen).  She is the one that I talked to when I couldn't mix patterned paper, and looking back on my blog I'm sure you can see what happened there.  She has also tried to help my fellow gigglers and me on how to use Copics.  I'm still working on that little lesson, which is my bad, not hers.  Long story short, she's my inky hero. 

     So last Wednesday we had our monthly giggler birthday dinner for her and another giggler, Shirley.  We have a great dinner, funny gag gifts (presented by Lou Ann and Mary Ann) and TONS of laughs.

  So my card for Diane is sweet little Betsy Bluebell with a paper pieced dress, holding her tissue (SU white waffle paper) wrapped flowers.  I brightened the ladybug and tag with SU Crysal Effects and the flower centers with Crystal Color Lacquer.  I used stickles for the butterflies, but they didn't show up very well in the photo. 

SUPPLIES

Stamps:  Penny Black "Betsy Bluebell"; SU Petite Pairs

Paper:  Recollections White; SU Daffodil Delight; BasicGrey "Picadilly"

Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black; Copics

Accessories:  Spellbinders, SU Crystal Effects;  Crystal Color Lacquer;  Friskers Corner Punch; Pop dots; SU White Waffle Paper

And here is Shirley's card.  She is new to the gigglers, but fits in just fine.  She is the aunt to fellow giggler Mary Ann so she's also known as "Aunt Shirley"  She just got a cricut for Christmas and has recently gotten a cuttlebug and is really going right to town with her cards and for a newbie, she is great!

     For her card, I went for a more vintage look with my pretty flowered paper, lace ribbon, and a hat pin.  This was my first hat pin, but I wanted to make this a little more special and thought this may spruce it up.  I also used one of my most favorite stamp sets, SU Perfectly Penned.

Hope you enjoyed the Birthday Girl's Cards!

SUPPLIES

Stamps:  SU Perfectly Penned

Paper:  Paper Loft; SU Whisper White

Ink:  SU Basic Black; SU Bravo Burgandy

Accessories:  Spellbinders; Hat pin; SU lace ribbon; beads