Stamping Bella 2018 Calendar

Hello, hello!

Today’s whim is to show you this cute calendar I made for my Neuro-immune doc. She just beat cancer herself, but still gets fatigued. She also tends to many patients with ME/CFS and FM, so I thought this calendar would be fun and encouraging for her and her paitents…

Didja notice she’s got an uphill climb?! Here’s a close-up of some of the bling…

I like the dotty ‘sky’… it’s easy — just let your pen go spastic. lol!

Right now, with these headaches, I’m the chic that’s hit the wall…  if I were able to catch a ride on a giant snail, I’d probably throw up my arms and shout ‘wheee!!’ and feel like I was riding a super fast rollercoaster! Lol!

Materials used:

• Stamping Bella stamp sets:
  • Cool Chicks – The Chicks Who Couldn’t Even
  • Tiny Townie – Sally and Her Snail (new!)
• (I printed out the rest of the sentiments on the computer)
• Kaiser Craft Bracket Album
• Docrafts 2018 calendar tabs
• Plaid/Martha Stewart Crafts Metallic acrylic paint – Yellow Gold
• Core’dinations white cardstock
• Tsukineko Memento dye ink: Tuxedo Black
• Copic markers: B21; C3,5; E11,13,31,33; G09,21; Y13,15,17,35,38; YG17,61,63; YR02,04,07,21,24
• Ranger Stickles: Blue Bayou, Joyful, Seafoam, Tropical Tangerine
• Tonic Studios Nuvo Crystal Drops – Gloss – Dandelion Yellow & Ripened Pumpkin
• Papertrey Ink Top Notch Twill Ribbon – Pure Poppy
• Aleene’s Original Tacky Glue
• Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L – 3d Foam Squares

I’m playing along with the following hops and challenges… click on any one of them to find out how you can join the fun!

• Stamping Bella Sistahood 2018 – January challenge – Anything Goes!
• Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge – Birds of a Feather
• Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge – Add a Sentiment
• Simon Says Stamp Work-It-Wednesday – Something New (Sally & Her Snail stamp set)
• Repeat Impressions DCC#13 – Things With Wings
• CropStop Challenge Linky Party #36 – Anything Goes (Aleene’s, Core’dinatons, Martha Stewart/Plaid, Ranger, Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L, Tsukineko)

Thank you for stopping by. I always enjoy reading your sweet comments!

~D.Ann

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Just. Can’t. Even.? – A Little Coffee Makes Everything Better Card

Welcome back to my second post for the Fall Coffee Lovers Hop.

I thought I’d start by sharing with you something cool that came my way recently. Knowing I love tea and tea parties, my cousins surprised me this fabulously beautiful and unique Burton + Burton teapot/cup for one, and a terrific loose-leaf brewer/strainer with a bunch of wonderful Teavana teas, including a DIVINE chocolate decadence oolong. What a bunch of sweeties they are!! The teapot came from an amazing tea house called Batar, near Seymour, Indiana. Check out their website to see their amazing edible cookie gift boxes and other fun stuff. Worth stopping by if you’re travelling through!! (They serve regular tea-bag teas, but their food was delish and the shopping delightful for any tea/coffee lover!!)

  

Now, on to today’s card. I have a fun shaker tag on it with a concealed gift card for a coffee drinking friend:

I think most gals with CFS feel that chick most days – talk about hitting the wall! lol! If I were making this for me, I’d’ve put ‘chocolate’ instead of coffee. : )

Among other things that inspired this card were the Bellarific Friday {Mojo}Bella Card Sketch (#19) and color inspiration photo:

         

A quick note on how the leaves were made: I love how the Color Burst pigment powders do just what their name says… you sprinkle just a little on your paper, then spritz with water and the colors really do burst on the scene!

     

Now, I could’ve added more color and spritzed again, but I wanted that just for some natural variation in the fall leaves. I then cut them out and colored the rest in with Copics and distressed them, folding in the veins. In real life, they look pretty realistic!

Oh, one other quick note… I had a brand new Hero Arts ombre pad that came unglued from the base. A while back another manufacturer’s petal point ink pad did the same and they told me just to glue it back on. I wrote Hero Arts asking the best way to glue theirs back on and they quickly wrote back saying that they stand by their product and would replace it for me. It was in the mail the very next day. THAT is customer service, folks!! This pad has worked fine ever since. Now I love Hero Arts all the more!

Supplies:

• Hero Arts – A Little stamp set
• Stamping Bella – the chicks who “couldn’t even” stamp set
• CAS-ual Fridays – Scallop Tag and Acorn Fri-dies
• Hero Arts ombre Butter Bar to Orange Soda dye ink pad
• Color Box Cocoa pigment ink (for COFFEE)
• Ranger clear embossing powder (over the cocoa ink)
• Memento Rich cocoa ink (bird and sentiment)
• Ken Oliver’s Color Bursts:  Sepia, Burnt Orange, Yellow Ochre
• Copic Markers:
  • Bird & wall: C1, 3, 5; Y13, 15, 17; YR04, 07; R29, 89; W1, 3
  • Leaves: E29, YR02, 04, 07; R29, 39
• Pebbles, Inc. Basic Brights Chalks
• Dreamweaver Picasso tool (for clouds)
• Martha Stewart Crafts Vintage Leaf Glitter – Brownstone
• Core-dinations cardstock – white & orange
• Tombow: Xtreme permanent adhesive and foam tape
• Misc. seed beads
• Starbucks gift card

I’m playing along with the following hops and challenges – just click on any one for more information:

• 2016 Fall Coffee Lovers Hop (with 63 sponsors and nearly 90 prizes, you’re going to want to join the fun!)
• a2z Scrapbooking September 2016 Challenge – Make it a Tag
• Bellarific Friday {Mojo}Bella Card Sketch (#19)
• CAS-ual Fridays CFC157 – Shaker Cards
• Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge – Powder Powder (Color Bursts & embossing powder (and chalks))
• Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge – Gift It
• Simon Says Stamp Work It Wednesday August 2016 – Use Stamps
• Crop Stop Linky Party #20 – Anything Goes (Color Burst, Hero Arts, Memento, Pebbles & Ranger products)

Thanks for stopping by today and for all of your kind comments!

~D.Ann

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