ASTM #303 Holiday

Today's card is a Holiday card for Addicted to Stamps and More's holiday theme challenge. To see what the rest of the DT has came up with this time check out the blog here! 

The card was simple I knew I wanted to use some Catherine Pooler's Foundation Box (Retired, but I'll link what I can), but wasn't sure how I wanted to pull it together. I found a sketch I liked and rolled with it. I'm pleased with the way it turned out. Love it when I start getting my Holiday cards going early! 


Don't forget to stop by the blog and play with this weeks Holiday challenge, I can't wait to see what you share with us. Thanks as always for stopping by! Feel free to leave a comment and follow the blog for updates with new posts! 


Monica

Supplies:

Catherine Pooler-  For Everything and Grass Skirt ink

Pierce the darkness with Joy Clair

Today is a card for Joy Clair I will give a look of the card here, but to see the full post please visit the blog here!

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Monica

Supplies:
Joy Clair- Light House and Crackle background
Leisure Arts- Watercolor pencils
Stash items- Pattern paper, cardstock, ink, anchor brad

Christmas in July with Joy Clair- Wise men

This week at Joy Clair we are doing a little Christmas in July theme. The team has been posting some wonderful Christmas creations. Today it's Helen and my turn... here is a look at my card. Please stop by the Joy Clair blog post to see the details on this card.

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Monica

Supplies:

Joy Clair- Christmas Nativity and Fancy Letters

Leisure Arts- 30 pack for $12.99

Distress inks

Embossing powder

ATSM #301- anything goes

Today's card is for the ATSM challenge and uses a new set from Stampin' Up. I got the bundle called Sea of Textures, it comes with both the stamp and coordinating dies. I had to have that octopus!!! ;-)

The front of the card is only half, because I wanted the octopus to hover over the inside, where I have the smaller fish die cut to show the cardstock color.

Don't forget to stop by the blog and play with this weeks anything goes challenge, I can't wait to see what you share with us. Thanks as always for stopping by! Feel free to leave a comment and follow the blog for updates with new posts! 
Monica

Happy Happy Happy...

Hello everyone, today is my first post with Stick it Down! I'm so excited to be apart of the team and to work with the sketches. If you haven't heard of or played with the challenge before they not only have a card sketch, but sketches for scrapping as well. they have a single page and double page sketch as well. Visit the post here to see all the sketches.

Here is this months card sketch by Laura Rumble. 


Here is my take on the sketch!

I picked my colors of cardstock to trim down to size. I adhered them to a piece of copy paper to keep them together. Then used my Misti to stamp the sentiment repeatedly and then heat embossed. 

Thanks for stopping by, please leave a comment or follow me for blog updates! Hope to see you play along with Stick It Down. Have a great day!
Monica

Supplies:

Stampin' up- Sentiment

White embossing powder

VersaMark ink

cardstock

The Bread of Life with Joy Clair

Today I made an art journal page for Joy Clair, visit the blog here to see all the details and how the page came together!

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Monica

Supplies:

Joy Clair- Manna From Heaven

                Inspirational Arrows

                Many Names 
Leisure Arts colored pencils
Distress stain 
Memento ink 

ATSM #299- CAS

Today's card is for Addicted to Stamps and More, we are working on Clean and Simple. My card is a little more busy than my usual clean and simple, but I included it for this challenge since it was pretty simple to make. I used my MISTI to stamp everything, except for the image (it's a wood stamp). I made 10 of these... you can see some of the others peeking out from the bottom of the top card.  They are a going away gift for my folks who are moving back to Texas, I thought they could use them to send their new address.Before adhering the panels to the cardbase, I added some color with Copics keeping the coloring simple.

Don't forget to stop by the blog and play with this weeks CAS challenge, I can't wait to see what you share with us. Thanks as always for stopping by! Feel free to leave a comment and follow the blog for updates with new posts! 

Monica

Supplies:

Hero Arts- Destination Texas and Kelly's Texas

Close To My Heart- Framework Alphabet

Stampin'Up- Script alpha

Copics

Guide me with Joy Clair

Today's card is my take on the challenge over at Joy Clair blog for the month of July, please stop by the blog to play along and see the DT's inspired projects!

Here is a look at the inspiration photo...

I started my card by adding some glitter in shades of blue and white to create my background. I then stamped, colored and fussy cut the ship from Light House. I die cut a circle to create a window and laid it over the glitter background. After I adhered the boat, I stamped the sentiment and added some white stars on the glitter background and sentiment areas.

Thanks for stopping by, please leave a comment or follow me for blog updates! Have a great day!

Monica