Succulents

This one is for the current color challenge at My Favorite Things. Love the color combo here! In my head, the new MFT colors, prickly pear, moroccan spice, candied yam, and jalapeno popper, went straight to succulents and plant pots. This set is by Julie Ebersole for Ellen Hutson called Modern Succulents. Love it. (full product list below)

Sentiment from the My Favorite Things, Let's Stick Together cactus stamp set.

Foam tape for fun dimension.

Copic colors used to match the MFT colors. 

Aren't these new colors yummy? Keep watch in the MFT store for more new colors coming over the next couple of months.

Product List:

Ellen Hutson, Modern Succulents by Julie

My Favorite Things, Let's Stick Together (sentiment)

My Favorite Things, Large Chevron stencil ST05 *retired

My Favorite Things, Fishtail Foundations (sentiment strip)

My Favorite Things, Smooth White cardstock
My Favorite Things, Prickly Pear ink cube (background)

Copic, Xpress it blending card

Copic, Sketch markers

Foam tape, blending brush

Boy card

Of all the hundreds (um, more like thousands) of stamps in my crafting inventory, I have only a few masculine-type sets. In particular, boys. I can come up with man cards, but boy cards are an even bigger challenge. This set though seems to fit the bill. Ninja-mazing from My Favorite Things seemed just right. I used it for this week's sketch challenge, #541. I'm sorry to say though, after typing up the products list that nearly everything I used for this one has been retired!! 

Missing the kids extra much these days, having missed our regularly scheduled winter in San Diego this past year. We're getting antsy to head south, so maybe this summer we'll get to visit for a while. Keeping our fingers crossed everyone's schedule works out. This one is for Anthony aka Buddy aka Hollywood. 

Inside message:

Ninja-mazing stamp set has been retired, sorry. Also, I colored the images some time ago, and I don't have a list of copic colors I used for them. Pretty straight forward, however - reds and grays. 

Sketch for this week

Product List:
My Favorite Things, Ninja-mazing stamps and dies *retired

My Favorite Things, Sushi Date (bamboo in the background) *retired

My Favorite Things, Stitched Circle shaker window die

My Favorite Things, Outside the Box, Level Up dies (stitched sentiment strip)

My Favorite Things, Smooth White cardstock

My Favorite Things, Poppy ink cube *retired 

My Favorite Things, Grout Gray ink cube *retired

Copic, Xpress it blending card

Copic, Sketch markers

Foam tape, blending brush

Guess what...

...chicken butt! What kid doesn't know this joke?? It's Brielle's favorite! Made this for her today using pieces I had left from other projects. LOL

Product List:
Ellen Hutson, Good Egg stamps and dies

The Crafters Workshop, stencil TCW259S (chicken wire reversed)

Offray red gingham check 1/4" ribbon

My Favorite Things, Cement Gray mini ink cube

My Favorite Things, Smooth White cardstock

My Favorite Things, Interactive Labels stamps (arrow)

My Favorite Things, Little Notes sentiment strips dies

Copic Xpress it blending card

Copic Xpress it sketch markers

Foam tape, computer generated text 

There you go. Super quick card - nevermind the product list! - Fun project for anyone who has chickens!

Fruity Card Set

I had such fun putting together the set of penguin cards, I decided to make more sets. This time I've used fruits and I think they came out pretty cute. Products listed below for each card. Hope you like! Feel free to email me (link in sidebar) if you have any questions. 

The first one I created last week for the Honey Bee Challenge, (you may have seen the post) and it was the inspiration for the remaining three. 

Pear and peach, Freshly Picked stamps and dies by Honey Bee Stamps. 

Lemons, Freshly Picked stamps and dies by Honey Bee Stamps

Strawberries, Freshly Picked stamps and dies by Honey Bee Stamps

Pineapple, Pineapple Crush stamps and dies by Paper Smooches

Product List:

All cards made with My Favorite Things, Smooth White Cardstock

All cards made with Copic Xpress it blending card and Copic markers

All cards made with foam tape for dimension

Card 1:

Honey Bee Stamps and dies, Freshly Picked (pear, peach, leaf)

Honey Bee Stamps and dies, Sip Sip Hooray (sentiment)

My Favorite Things, Basket weave stencil

My Favorite Things, Coral Crush ink

Card 2:

Honey Bee Stamps and dies, Freshly Picked (lemons)

My Favorite Things, Main Squeeze (lemon leaf)

My Favorite Things, Full of Heart stencil

My Favorite Things, Lemon Drop ink 

My Favorite Things, You Bake me Happy (sentiment)

Card 3:

Honey Bee Stamps and dies, Freshly Picked (strawberry)

My Favorite Things, Piles of Fun (basket)

My Favorite Things, Small Brick Wall stencil

My Favorite Things, Kraft ink

My Favorite Things, Harvest Mouse (sentiment)

Sunny Studio, Breakfast Puns (tiny strawberries)

Card 4:

Paper Smooches, Pineapple Crush stamps and dies (pineapple; triangle background)

Paper Smooches, Incognito (glasses)

Simon Says Stamp, One Cool Pineapple stamp set (sentiment)

Tim Holtz Distress Ink, Fossilized Amber

Ranger, glossy Accents (glasses)

Gerda Steiner Designs on the blog today!

Sharing a set of cards I made this weekend using another product that's fairly new to my collection. Gerda Steiner Designs makes the cutest little creatures!! I fell in love with these penguins and after coloring them decided I couldn't pick just one to make a card. So I made a set of four cards, each with a different penguin and a different message. I've linked all of the companies below for the products I used.

Here we go

Card 1: Simple Love you card for any occasion. 

Card 2: Special Delivery can be a birthday, mother's day, valentine, or whatever you want it to be!

Card 3: We make the perfect pair can be for any reason, anniversary for example. 

Card 4: Happy birthday card for any age. 

I hope you enjoyed today's cards and have been inspired to create something yourself. I'd love to see your creations! Join us in the Scrapendipity Studio Crafts Facebook group and share what you've been inspired to make. Hope to see you there. ~Shar

Product List:

All penguins are Gerda Steiner Designs, Valentine Penguins stamps and dies

All cards made using My Favorite Things, Smooth White cardstock (card base)

All cards made using My Favorite Things, Rectangle STAX-2 (front panel)

All cards made using foam tape, Copic markers, Copic Xpress it blending card

Card 1:

My Favorite Things, Lots of Heart Stencil ST-116

My Favorite Things, Wonky Stitched Rectangles

My Favorite, Things, Armena Cherry ink

Concord & 9th, All the Love stamp set

Card 2:

Paper Smooches, Bee Mine, mailbox (no longer in biz)

Honey Bee Stamps, Big Pickup Cab (sentiments)

NATBG001, Lots of Love background cling stamp

My Favorite Things, Electric Red ink

Card 3:

Echo Park, background stencil (no name indicated; fish scales or mermaid design)

WPlus9, banner love stamp

My Favorite Things, Berrylicious ink

My Favorite Things, Tweet Memories stamp set (sentiment)

Card 4:

My Favorite Things, cloud stencil ST-99

My Favorite Things, Berrylicious ink

Concord & 9th, All the Birthdays stamp set