Happy Little Stampers ATC August Challenge

Hello everyone!

I am back again with the 

Happy Little Stampers ATC challenge.

 Every month Happy Little Stampers has an ATC challenge and the theme for August is Water!  For anyone who isn't familiar with ATC cards, they are mini works of art that measure 2.5" x 3.5" and are traded around the world. Usually they are numbered and signed on the back by the artist.

For my project I created 3 ATC's with faux 

watercolored backgrounds made with Distress Inks.  

Here are the 3 cards I made for this challenge.

I watercolored 3 adorable sea creatures hand drawn by a very talented designer in the UK named Tracey Hey.  

Her website is called Alpaca Pals and she has the cutest stamps with some of the most adorable critters you've ever seen!

Here are closeups of the individual cards.

I hope you'll play along with us this month and enter the ATC challenge at Happy Little Stampers!

The winner for this challenge will receive a $20 coupon to spend at the shop! 

IF YOU USE STAMPS BY HAPPY LITTLE STAMPERS AND YOU ARE OUR RANDOM WINNER, YOUR PRIZE WILL BE DOUBLED!

Have a great day, I already am!

🐳Lisa🐳

Simply Create Too August Challenge 141

Hello crafty friends and welcome to my blog! I am so excited to be joining the design team over at the Simply Create Too challenge blog this month. The August challenge goes from August 3rd to the 31st and the theme is "Make a Bookmark".

I had a great time coming up with a cute bookmark. Usually I'm making cards so this was a nice change and bookmarks are so quick to whip up. I chose to start with a bookmark die from Papertrey Ink and I cut it out of watercolor paper. Next I did some fast and loose watercoloring on the bookmark to give it a colorful whimsical background.

For the focal point of the bookmark I chose to use an adorable stamp from Tracey Hey at Alpaca Pals. I used the French Bulldog image from her "Frenchie" stamp set and I watercolored him and cut him out with my scan n cut machine. I adhered him to the bookmark and stamped a sentiment from Lawn Fawn. I hand drew some black lines around the sentiment to make it stand out.

After I made the bookmark my daughter snatched it up for her planner and my other daughter wanted one but with a blue background and longer so I just had to whip up another one for her. Here are the 2 of them side by side.

I just love that sweet doggie! Tracey has some adorable stamp sets on her website Alpaca Pals, head over and check them out!

Take some time this month to make a bookmark and play along with us at the Simply Create Too challenge blog!

Official challenge rules on website.

Have a great day, I already am!

🐶Lisa🐶

Elephant Baby Card

I'm so excited because my new stamps came today from Tracey Hey.  Her line of stamps are called Alpaca Pals and they are adorable! On today's card I colored one of the cute elephants from the Never Forget stamp set.  

Tracey has the most adorable hand drawn animals in her stamp sets and they are perfect for all different kinds of cards. I needed a baby card for a shower and I thought this little guy would go well with the theme.

I just love how he looks popped up over the cutout hearts.  I watercolored a panel behind them with zig markers to match the colors in his hat and embellishments.  I finished the card off with a sentiment from Reverse Confetti and some Fabrika Decoru enamel dots in the color "Heavenly".  They are available with many other colors at Kat Scrappiness. 

I am also going to enter this card in the 

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge 

since the theme is anything goes.

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Have a great day, I already am!

🐘Lisa 🐘

SSS Wednesday Challenge and a new Stamp company

It's nice to know that my favorite challenges are here every week even when I can't be.  They are always there when I have time to play.  Oh how I wish I had time to play every day but "adulting" always seems to get in the way!

Yesterday was a crafty day however and I had time to play so I headed over to the Simon Says Stamp blog to see what the Wednesday challenge was for this week.  I was happy to see that the theme is to use a die or punch.  I just love my dies and punches and it's rare that I make a card without one.  For today's card I used several dies and an adorable stamp set I recently purchased that I have fallen in love with! There is a new stamp company located in the U.K. called Alpaca Pals.  The artist's name is Tracey Hey and she is so very talented.  Her stamp sets feature the most adorable hand drawn animals and if you haven't see her work yet, I highly recommend checking it out here. Take a look at the super cute Koala on my card today.  It's from her stamp set called "Koality".

How could you not fall in love with that sweet Koala, not to mention the adorable baby in his backpack!❤️🐨❤️

For my card today I made a scene using this sweet Koala.  Since I don't own any Eucalyptus stamps or dies I had to attach my sweet Koala to a palm tree.  I don't think he minds and he looks so cute hanging from that tree! That cute tree is a die from Paper Smooches and the grass die is from Lawn Fawn. Here is the card for today.

The sentiment is from the "Koality" stamp set and it is stamped on another die from Kat Scrappiness called the Distressed Edge Rectangle dies. I cut my Koala out using my 

Scan n Cut machine so I guess he is a die cut as well.  Lots of dies on this card to it's perfect for the SSS challenge this week!

Thanks so much for stopping by today and don't forget to check out Tracey's stamps, you won't be sorry!

Have a great day everyone!

I already am!

🐨Lisa🐨