Enjoy life!

Happy New Year! Now that it's the beginning of the year, our CCEE group is doing our weekly challenges each Monday again.

For this week, we're using H&M stamps that were sent to us. Well, most of us anyway. The ones I picked got lost somewhere in the mail. But I had these darling images from the Lil' Behind set. I chose this cute little chick to use, but there are many, many other cute images in this set too.

Now, H & M Stamps is having a HUGE garage sale Jan. 6-7. Their sets will be as little as $5 a piece. So go check out their store. We all love a bargain!!

Now for the card details: I stamped this lil chick with Smokey Gray (Versafine) onto Neenah Natural White CS, colored it with copics, and added some fun-flock. I mixed the yellow and white together to soften the brightness of the yellow. The circles were cut with my Nestabilties, and the borders are Martha Stewart Punches, as well as the butterflies.

To see what the others have done with their sets, click HERE. We'd love to have you play along too if you have one of the H&M sets.


Supplies:
Stamps - A Lil' Behind (H&M Stamps), Stampscapes (grass)
Paper - Prism
Ink - Smokey Gray (Versafine), Frayed Burlap (Ranger)
Accessories - Nestabilties (Spellbinders), Copics, Flock, Adornit stickers, K&Company Rhinestone stickers, Piercing tool, Cuttlebug folders, ribbon, dimensional tape, Martha Stewart border and butterfly punches, ribbon

I hope you have a fantastic week!!
Happy Stamping!
Tosh

For Cindy...

I can't believe it's time for another CCEE challenge already. Is the weekend really over? *sigh*

Well, this week we were challenged by Dawn Lusk to create a card with this A Lil' Behind set by H&M Stamps. Heather was kind enough to send Cindy Motherway enough sets for all of us CCEEers. Thanks Heather!! This set is a lot of fun.

Dawn added another element to this challenge though, and that was to add some type of chipboard. Mine is the sentiment.

Now, I realize I'm not Michelle Zindorf. Far from it. This is my first time trying to make a scene using her brayer technique...well other than the time she was featured on SCS, but I did something completely different than this at that time. My moon/sun is too bright for the bg, but I didn't want to mess it up anymore, so, this is it. The tree branch is from Stampscapes, and I hand drew the fence. For awesome tutorials on how to create a "Zindorf" card (please don't be afraid after seeing my humble attempt, I've seen many others do beautifully) click HERE.

Check out what the other CCEEers have created HERE.

I hope you all had a relaxing weekend and are refreshed to start anew!!
Happy Stamping!!
Tosh

Supplies:
Stamps - A lil' Behind (H&M Stamps) Stampscapes
Paper - Island Mist Light, Birchtone Light, Medium and Dark (Prismatics), Neenah Solar White
Ink - Wild Wasabi, Bashful Blue, Brilliant Blue, Pumpkin Pie (Stampin' Up), Butterscotch and Slate (Adirondack Dye Ink), Frayed Burlap (Ranger Distress Ink)
Accessories - Word Window Punch (Stampin' Up), Crop-a-dile, Eyelets, Hemp, sponges, 1 3/8" Circle punch (Stampin' Up), Perfect Medium Brush (Ranger), Detail Clear ep (JudiKins)

Oh, you're probably wondering about the title....well, it was Cindy Motherway's birthday a week ago. I'm a bit late, but I wanted to make her a card with this image since it was inspired by her. She was quite the horseback rider in her younger days too I hear! So, this butt's for you Cindy....*grin*

Never look back...

A dear friend of mine, Cindy Motherway (Mothermark on SCS) collaborated with H&M Stamps to come up with a fun stamp set. Now, Cindy is a goofball!! (That's why I love her so much.) So, that's why all of the images in this set are back-ends of animals with clever sayings to go with them. The set is called "A Lil' Behind". There are 23 fabulous images and sentiments in this set. Too, too fun!!

Now, SCS's Ways to use it challenge today, is to get creative with a white gel pen. I love my Inkssentials pen, so I stamped this fun cow on Kraft cardstock with Tuxedo Black (Memento) ink. I then colored it with my gel pen and copics. I was actually able to shade the white edges with my C-3 Cool gray copic. It colored right over the gel pen. The dots on the side are just punched Suede Dark Brown cs circles ink distressed with Brushed Corduroy (Ranger Distress Ink) to give them a bit of depth. Each panel is inked distressed with the Brushed Corduroy also.

Supplies:
Stamps - A Lil' Behind (H&M stamps)
Paper - Tawny Medium, Herbal Garden Medium (Prismatics), Going Gray, Kraft and Black (Stampin' Up)
Ink - Tuxedo Black (Memento), Brushed Corduroy (Ranger Distress Ink)
Accessories - Tag corner (Stampin' Up), Hole punch, Copics, White gel pen (Inkssentials), sponge