My First Peachy Keen Card!

Happy weekend everyone!  I recently purchased my first stamp sets from Peachy Keen Stamps (dog themed of course, really, any surprise there?  Did you know that the Peachy Keen stamps are actually peach colored?!!  So cool!  Really nice quality too!) and was happy to break them in when I saw the Peachy Keen Challenge 14-11 sketch:

I used my PK-1333 Faceless Puppy outline alone with the PK-442 Happy Go Lucky Dog Face Assortment (largest face) with this sketch to create this card:

I had so much fun coloring this little puppy with my Copic markers (I like that you can change the faces and their expressions, so cool!).  The patterned paper is by Imaginisce that I found recently at Tuesday Morning and I just matched the colors in them (Hello Honey, Tangelo, Chocolate Chip, Ridinghood Red, Night of navy and Pear Pizzazz by Stampin Up!).  The rhinestones are by the paper studio.  Creating that array was a little tricky, used some blue painter's tape on the back side to hold it in place.

Additional Challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - 'In the Family' (anyone who knows me knows that my furbaby Ty IS family, not 'just a dog'), 

Two Cute Ink Challenge 112: Animals, and

Crafting for All Seasons Challenge 83: Feature a Creature, 

in addition to one of the DTGD challenges over at Splitcoaststampers.com.  

Hope to have more for you later this weekend, until then, hope you are out there enjoying it!

~ Crafty Math Chick

Paper Smooches Sparks Challenge

Hello!  Here is a card I made for one of the DTGD challenges at Splitcoaststampers.com and Paper Smooches' Anything Goes Sparks Challenge using some fun stamps from Paper Smooches' 'I Heart Art' set:

I punched out a circle from a Post It note and put it in the center of the card to make sure the colored pencils were centered around it evenly (I am not good enough to eye ball it without a guide).  Figured this would be perfect for popping into a RAK I send one of my crafty friends sometime.

Well, that is it for me for the evening, hoping to have a few more to post for you tomorrow or Sunday.  Until then, have a terrific weekend!

~ Crafty Math Chick

Hope this isn't too 'Cheesy'...

Welcome back!  That's right, two posts from me today!  At least, so far...  ;)

I wanted to share a fun card I made for another DTGD challenge on Splitcoaststampers.com using 'Just Say Cheese!' by Newton's Nook Designs:

SQUEEE!  Isn't it cute? (if I do say so myself).  I used different sized circle punches and the EK Success Swiss Cheese border punches to create the 'Swiss Cheese' top layer.  Here is a close up on the little mousie who was stamped twice - once on the yellow cheese slice and once on white paper to be cut out and colored (preserves the tail that way), then masked to stamp the cheese wedge over him so it looked like he was sitting on top, then colored with Copic markers, cut out and paper pieced back onto the yellow cheese slice.  

Isn't he just darling?  LOL, oh I love him!

Challenges:

Tuesday Throwdown #207: Mellow Yellow (yellow is the predominant color used),

Seize the Birthday: birthday card where yellow is prominent,

Great Impressions August Challenge: birthday bash, and 

Inky Impressions Challenge #171: shaped cards,

Thanks so much for stopping by and looking at my card.  I hope you like it as much as I do and have a great day!  Off to stamp some more!

~ Crafty Math Chick

My First Sweet Stamp Shop card

... I don't know how that can be - I have several of their adorable stamp sets... how is it that I have only been admiring them rather than using them?!!  Well, corrected that today!  I made this card for one of the DTGD challenges over at SCS using SSS's 'Artsy Fartsy' set, watercolor pencils, regular markers (didn't know how much ink the WC paper would suck up, so I didn't use my Copics), some sequins & homemade enamel dots made from melted pony beads:

My watercoloring technique definitely could use some practice, but I had fun with this card.  Since I was using watercolor pencils, I heat embossed the crayon box & sentiment so they wouldn't run when I dragged my wet paintbrush through them (wasn't sure how embossing powder would do on watercolor paper, did just fine!).

Challenges:

AAA Cards Challenge #14 - create a card with watercolor techniques, 

Art Impressions Challenge #141: Like an EM-BOSS (use embossing),

Gem of a Challenge #125 - embossing, 

Shopping our Stash Challenge #163: Splish Splash (use a water medium), and 

Little Red Wagon Challenge #249: embossing.  

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Hope you will check out my other post today too!

~ Crafty Math Chick

Lawnscaping Challenge 87

Hello everyone!  I am so excited to show you the card I made today for the Lawnscaping Challenge 87: Back to School (get it?  'School'?  As in 'of fish'?  BWHAHAHA... I crack myself up!), I feel like I should have 'Beyond the Sea' by Bobby Darin playing in the background...  I must say, I am not always thrilled with every single card I make, but I am very proud of this one.

Do you like it as much as I do?  Not only did I use SIX (YES!  SIX!!) Lawn Fawn sets to create this Underwater 'Back to School' scene but I used purple - this is HUGE for me!  I hardly EVER use purple!  LOL!  I figured it was a nice way to make the octopus 'teacher' stand out.  One of the little fishies is popped up with dimensionals and is dragging a calculator (which was really difficult for me as a math teacher to add) which is also popped up with a teenie piece of twine, can you see it?  Maybe I will post a close up of that later.  The fishies are not only colored with Copic markers but have Shimmerz Marigold paint on them and the book has some gold Stickles on the bottom edge (you know how some books have gold leaf on the edges of their pages?).  Since I didn't have one of Lawn Fawn alphabets with a smaller font (adding that to my looooong Lawn Fawn wishlist now, LOL!) the 'Back To' blocks at the top are actually from one of those $1 wooden Studio G alphabet sets from Walmart, they fit perfectly inside a 1/4" square punch and I love the varsity look that font has, very collegiate.  I tried to pick primary colors ('school' as a theme always makes me think 'primary colors') that matched the ones used elsewhere in the card.

I am also entering this card in Whimsy Stamps' Inspirations Challenge #74: Back to School.

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog to look at my card.  I hope you have a terrific day!

~ Crafty Math Chick

Life's a Beach with Newton's Nook Designs

Welcome back!  Today I have a fun beachy scene that I created for you using not one, not two, but three Newton's Nook Designs sets: Newton's Summer Vacation, Beach Party and Newton's Day Dream to play along with the current Inky Paws Challenge #13: to create a beach scene ).  

A whole lotta masking went into this one I tell you!  And I haven't reverse-stamped in ages (see the alligators playing volleyball with the beach ball?).  I colored everything with Copics and then sponged some Crumb Cake ink over the sand to give it the appearance of some texture.  I was psyched when I unpacked those little shells too, knew they'd be perfect for the current Inky Paws Challenge.  Hope you will play along too - there is still time left for you to join us!  You could win a gift certificate to NND!!

Thanks so much for looking at my card!  Have a great day!

~ Crafty Math Chick

Dare to Get Dirty 2014 Begins!

Hello everyone!  Still not completely unpacked or settled in here, but DTGD (Dare to Get Dirty) - a fun week of challenges hostessed by the past & present design team of Splitcoaststampers.com specifically for members of their fan club - has begun so I paused the unpacking process (isn't like the stuff is going anywhere or anything, right?) to participate and try to complete all of the challenges.  Last year I was successful in completing them all, but I combined several and didn't make separate cards for each one; I am trying to this year, but it might be a little too ambitious considering I do still have a lot of crafty things in boxes.

The first one is for Angie's challenge (we aren't supposed to disclose the details of the challenges, since they are for Fan Club Members only) and I used a sketch from this week's Tuesday Morning Sketches Challenge 261:

My card based on this sketch:

I am pretty happy with how is came out!  I used MFT's 'Have Hope' stamp set and 'Support Hope' dienamics for the pretty bra and some pink ribbon themed Mambi papers.  It felt weird that the only thing I stamped on this card was the sentiment, but I have so many cool dies, I really do need to make apoint to use them more.

Thanks so much for stopping by!  You should be seeing a lot of cards from me this week as I crank out some more DTGD challenges - wish me luck!!

~ Crafty Math Chick