5minute gift card holder

I got an email tonight from StampTV and it was for a video tutorial on a gift card holder so I decided to take a look.  I need about 5 gift card holders and now that we are getting sleet and are expecting the snowstorm from .....heaven :) I decided to try it.   Here is what I came up with from watching the video...Thanks GinaK.

Aren't these cute.  The one at the bottom was made using the video instructions but I decided that I wanted to make quick ones without having to take all the time to cut the contrasting paper pieces (lazy aren't I).

I decided that I would use double sided paper, which of course I way over bought this year, not that  I don't overbuy every year, but that is a whole new issue LOL, 

The measurements of the base is 4 1/4 X 10 inches.  Score at 8, 5,4,3 to make your flap and card holder, fold, glue the card holder to the inside, cut the very edge off of the card holder top and tie a pretty coordinating ribbon around it and you are done.

I made all five of these in a half hour with 20 minutes going to the more detailed one.

These can be made for Birthday, Anniversaries, Graduation, Valentines gift card or anything you want to give a gift card for.

Let me know if you want additional pictures.  You can watch the video on how to make this card and all the measurements for the paper insets.

See you all later.

Cathy

Welcome Cottage-KLM Digital Designs

Sue, illustrator at KLM Digital Designs, creates the most awesome images to color! I love this design but every time I see this image I think of the song my kids sang that goes: "Little Cottage in the woods, little man by the window stood, saw a stranger passing by......... you know the one. Don't you hate it when you get something in your head like that. Oh well, I love the image.
Colored with copic markers and lightly sponged around the outside edge with Tim Holtz Weathered Wood distress ink.
I wanted a more vintage or aged look to this so I used my crackle background stamp from the StampTV kit that I won several months ago. I added the Welcome tiles and the paper prima flower from the Cloe collection at Michaels. I punched the corner scrolls and I am sure I put them on backwards but I wanted them to highlight the corner and not hide it.
Be sure to check out the rest of the new images from KLM Digital Designs as more images are added all the time and they just keep getting better and better. Not only are the images wonderful each image comes with 2 or 3 sentiments that you can print out as well which a lot of the digital stamp companies don't have. Added bonus if you ask me!!!
If you haven't tried Digital images yet, now would be a perfect time, Katy and Sue have all different types of images so there are numerous that are perfect for every occasion you can think of. Right now on the homepage you can download a FREE Back to school image that is just darling, and it doesn't get better than free :)

You all be good and I will see you tomorrow.

Cathy

Weekly StampTV Color Challenge Card

My fellow DT member on KLM Digital Designs , Sue Morris, is also a member of StampTV and this month was chosen as a Center Stage Design Team Member. She got to host the Color Challenge this week and she chose that the cards should be Red, White, and Black. Here is the card that I created today in 30 min for the challenge:

I know that I always take a long time to create cards usually a couple of hours minimum, so I was amazed that I started this card at 3:00 knowing full well that I had to go to work at 4:15 :) Hey, when you have a thought sometimes you just have to roll with it.

I wanted to do Susan's challenge for two reasons, I know Susan as a DT buddy and I love color challenges. I wanted to do a silhouette type card with the new Many Wishes and this was the perfect opportunity to do it.

I cut all of my papers knowing that I wanted to use the red polka dot paper for my red. I sponged the Tim Holtz firebrick red distress ink around the edge of my main image cs leaving the center to reflect around the dandelion heads. I sponged just a little black soot Tim Holtz distress ink along the bottom and very lightly along the sides and top.

I stamped the dandelion heads and stems from Many Wishes and the small leave branch from Tropical Flowers with Momento Tuxedo Black ink and added the stray dandelion fluff flying away. I mounted all the pieces together and added a piece of wonderful GinaK red with white stitched ribbon (that was included in the Eclectic Summer StampTV kit that is availble now), and tied a bow knot in the upper left corner.

Finally I added a few 3 dot high lights randomly on the card and added a small white dot in each corner. I thought a brad or eyelet would be too large for the effect I wanted so used my handy dandy white gel pen for the corner dots.

I finished my card at approximately 3:30, photographed it, posted it to StampTV and I was upstairs getting ready for work at 3:50. I think that is a speed record for me. I see a couple more StampTV challenges that I am going to try to complete this week. My favorites are of course the color challenges and the sketch challenges. I'm going to check the out more as soon as I finish this post.

Tomorrow is Friday and you know what that means...the Hanna Stamps Friday challenge. I am going to sneak a peak over there too because sometimes if I am very lucky, it is Francis turn and since she lives in Australia she posts late here but daytime for her. Great for night owls like me because even though I don't usually do the challenge until the next day I don't have to wait to see what the challenge is. More info than you probably wanted to know about me, but...

Off to see what Challenge world has in store for me the next couple of days.

See you all later.

Cathy

Look Ma no Copics!!!

I know, what is up with that? I wanted to do an old favorite watercolor technique to create a card for Theresa's color challenge on StampTV this week. The challenge was to use purple/lavendar flowers on your card.

The way I do this technique is that I swipe a damp paper towel over my stamp that I want to use and color in with my SU watercolor crayons. I wet the paper GP white lightly and dab off the excess water. I stamp immediately with the colored stamp and wallaah you have a stamped image that looks watercolored. After I have several images stamped on I then just use a damp paper towel to wet the area that I am going to stamp so that I don't get any bleeding.

I know this isn't the technical way to do this technique but it has worked for me for a long time and I don't have any watercolor paper so do the best I can with what I have.

The stamp set I used was GinaK Designs Tropical Flowers. They are perfect for this technique.

I just punched the top and bottom of the watercolored image with my MS border punch, mounted on a pretty purple cs I got at WalMart. It is recycled paper that is produced by K & Company. It is a 5/7 matt pack and there are 3 or 4 color choices.

Hope you like the card today. Tomorrow I will have the weekly Friday challenge card for Hanna Stamps.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day.

Cathy

Patriotic Girl--What a cutie!

I fell in love with this little Patriotic Girl from KLM Digital Designs the second I laid eyes on her. I couldn't wait to print her off and start coloring her. I spent all day coloring today, yeah I know it's a tough job but somebody's got to do it :).
The card is pretty self explanatory, the striped paper is digital paper from GinaK Designs StampTV and it is a freebie as was the blue cross hatch paper. The rest of the cardstock is miscellaneous except the solid red is SU Red Riding Hood.
Hope you like the card, tomorrow I have this little darlings little brother , Patriotic boy, with a watermelon.

Sorry for the short post but it has been a long day and I am still doing laundry.

See you tomorrow.

Cathy

Take me Away!!!

I am really having a ball with my new StampTV kit called Eclectic Summer. I have finally had a little time this week to just "play".

Today I was working on a challenge card and wanted to use my GinaK Designs Eclectic Summer StampTV Kit, boy say that three times fast, and I wanted to use the hot air balloon. I stamped the one single hot air baloon in the middle and colored it with copic markers, big shock I know :)I decided that it was missing something so I thought that it would be so pretty with a field of pretty flowers like you were looking at the hot air balloons in the distance from a field of flowers.

I stamped the flowers from the flower barrell on a strip of white cardstock and colored them in with copic markers to match the colors I had used in the balloon. I cut the row of flowers out to be glued to the bottom after I sponged around the edges.

Still missing something so I stamped another hot air balloon on either side of the first balloon and left them uncolored. The edges were sponged with Tim Holtz Faded denim distress ink and Adirondak Juniper ink.

The layering of the card is pretty basic, nothing too elaborate as I wanted the balloons to be the main focus of the card. Tied a black and white check ribbon around the main card base and my card was complete.

Now I have to go to work because GinaK Designs has a release party tomorrow night on the GinaK Designs forum on SplitCoastStampers. I will be at work but you know that I will be at the store as soon as I get home from work. If you haven't already, check out the DT previews that have been going on this week. I have been coming home from work, grabbing a bowl of ice cream, and checking out all the previews because most of them post at midnight. Pays to be a night-owl :)

See you later, hope you liked the card.

Cathy

My Sunday StampTV challenge card and some exciting news too!

After being out of town last week-end, having to work all week, and then having my husband's Birthday Friday and Father's Day today I have been a little busy trying to catch up on home and more importantly stamping!!! I finally got a change to do the StampTV challenge's I always try to do on Sunday. I combined the Color Challenge hosted by Jennie and the sketch challenge hosted by Jessica. Both were great challenges ladies. Here is my card:

I wanted to play with my new StampTV Kit stamps so this flower bucket was my choice to go with the colors I picked from the Vera Bradley bag and I think I followed the sketch challenge pretty close. It 's a good thing that there are no sketch police on StampTV :)

I used the super Bright Summer Grunge digital paper that I ordered when I ordered my StampTV Kit. I picked three coordinating papers for my challenge. I chose the blue polka dot for my main background dp and then chose the orange and blue for my corner piece. The brown and orange was my choice for the strip at the bottom. I colored my main image with copic markers and sponged with Adirondak Sunset Orange ink and Tim Holtz Broken China distress ink.

I mounted all of my dp on black for contrast and mounted my main image on black just 1/8 in larger than the image, mounted that on white making the bottom an inch longer than the main image and mounted that all on black. I tied a knot in my medium wide turquoise satin ribbon and adhered it to the white panel below my main image.

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Now for my exciting news! For those of you who follow my blog, you know that I have been creating projects for a Guest DT call at Hanna Stamps. Hanna Stamps decided to try having people audition for the guest designer positions for the next six months, starting in September. The first round of auditions was to create cards and post them to SCS and your blog linking back to the DT call. This round ended yesterday June 20th. From this round there were supposed to be 8-10 people chosen to continue to the second round. From what I saw and the judges stated there were so many great projects that they ended up choosing 15 ladies to continue to the next round and ......I WAS ONE OF THE LUCKY ONES!!!!!!!

I am so excited to get to go to the second round. Now we will be sent a never before released stamp set and we have to create 3 projects, one of which can not be a card. We have a while before the projects have to be completed. The final 6 will be chosen from these projects. The 6 will each get a 2 month assignment as guest designer, isn't that cool?! Wish me luck!

Thanks for stopping by, see you tomorrow with a preview of a KLM Digital Design pretty ballerina that is being released June 22.

Cathy

Polished Stone BG with Stained Glass Balloons?

Polished Stone background is the Technique this week on StampTV. I have done this technique many times but not usually this large of a picture. My favorite fixative to get the marble look is Pearl.
I tried to use both tutorials on one picture but the pearl fixative does not work with bleach :(
but I really liked the way the background turned out, cloudy sky looking and wanted to use the hot air balloon in my new StampTV kit, Eclectic Summer, that arrived today.
I followed the tutorial instructions of embossing the hot air balloons with black embossing powder and since the bleach didn't work to make the balloons more white against the cloudy sky I decided to use my alcohol reinkers, (terra cotta and current, the center balloon is pearl), directly applied with a paint brush. It turned out really cool, I think, because they inks are translucent and the polished stone background shows through and gives the appearance of stained glass.
Hope you like my version of PlanB when PlanA doesn't work :)

You'll have to forgive the photography, polished stone is very shiny and rather hard to get a picture without some glare, at least for me.

See you tomorrow!

Cathy

New Release KLM Designs and Artful Sentiments Copic Challenge

Hi Everybody,

Sorry I am late but my daughter came over to do some landscaping so I am a little late with my post but I have two projects for you today. First I have a new release image from KLM Designs:

Mailbox Greetings is one of the images that will be released on June 8, I have always liked the mailbox stamps but I have never gotten one until now. The little birds nesting in the mailbox and the tulips are so perfect to say "Miss You", or "Hello", or "Just Because"

I added some little crochet flowers that I made myself. I am still working on them but they are fun and I like the look on cards.

My next project is the weekly copic challenge at Artful Sentiments by KimmBT. This week the copic colors are B97, Y35, and R89. I didn't actually have any of these but in this instance decided that I didn't have anything that dark in my stash so I did buy them. Here is my card:

I colored the cute little Skater boy from KLM Designs to make a cute boy card to say congratulations or you are a super kid or a Birthday card.

Be sure to check out the Artful Sentiments by Kimm BT blog because Kimm has some blog candy this week. While you are at it color an image in any red, yellow and blue copics and leave a comment linking to the blog to win. We would love to have you!

I am off to eat lunch and get some things done before I have to go to work tonight.

Sunday is my StampTV challenge day and I have two planned for tomorrow. I already did the color challenge this week.

See you tomorrow, have a great week-end.

Cathy

StampTV color challenge

Cammie came up with a rather fun but challenging color challenge this week on StampTV. Use Red and Blue but do not make a Patriotic card. Here is what I came up with:

I used a top note die for the main image and stamped the butterfly from GinaK Designs Take Flight, masked it and stamped the two roses from A Year of Flowers also from GinaK Designs.

I love polka dots and this piece just jumped up and wanted to be used. I tried to find something else but I really like the way it looked with the red roses. I mounted to a piece of navy blue cardstock

I sponged the edge just a little (for me) with faded demim Tim Holtz distress ink. Added the navy blue ribbon from Michaels, a white button center colored navy with copic markers for the upper right corner and my card was done.

Red and Blue not patriotic. I did it!!!

Gotta run for now, maybe more later, tomorrow for sure!

Cathy

Another Sneak Peek of Anna Banana

What a cute couple!!! Anna Banana and Carl the Clown from KLM Digital Designs. You can't look at these little cuties without smiling, you know I'm right!!!
Anna Banana is holding her little puppie and Carl the Clown has a flower for his Best Friend behind his back, he's a shy little clown.
Anna Banana is not available to purchase until June 8, however, Carl the Clown can be purchased right now at the KLM Digital Designs website.
Be sure to check out the other design team members blogs for more sneak peeks, they have some really cute stuff to show you.
I almost forgot to mention that I used a new technique for me for the background cardstock, you see the orange and green swirley paper. I used the shave cream technique, what a messy lot of fun that was. It is soooo easy and I love the effect. I had always wanted to know how to do that particular technique but never tried it until GinaK did a video tutorial on her StampTV website a few weeks ago. Gina has a new technique, or two, every week and us old dogs are learning some new tricks :)

See you tomorrow, or uhm, later today with more :)

Cathy

Color Challenge on StampTV

Theresa is the hostess of the Color Challenge this week on StampTV. I get to play during the day when my brain actually functions ha ha. Just kidding. I started working evening shift again and I love it. I get to be home during the day and do the things I want and work from 5 to midnight. It works for me because I get to do all the things all day that I want to do and at night I concentrate on work. During the day I was wishing I was home and less productive at work and play :) Enough of that, Here is my card for the Keep it Cool challenge to use Blues and any other neutral color:

I don't know how many blue butterflies there are in nature but I did it anyway. First I stamped the trees from Tree Silhouettes in the background using Tim Holtz Weathered Wood distressed ink. Then I stamped my butterflies from Take Flight in Momento Tuxedo Black ink.

Of course because I wanted the colors to blend into each other I used the Copic Gradiant technique (one of my favorite techniques). The blues on the butterfly on the left are darker shades. I start with the lightest in the center and work my way out. On these butterflies I used 3 different shades of blue. On the right butterfly I used 3 lighter shades of blue.

I sponged the edges with Tim Holtz Distress inks Denim and Antique Linen. I didn't want to distract from the main image too much so I added a piece of navy blue grosgrain ribbon and 3 navy brads. Super easy 30 minute card ( hey, that is fast for me)!

I forgot to mention that I used the digital paper from GinaK Designs StampTV freebie section called Jersey Shore.

Hope you like my card. I think it would be a really nice Father's Day card as it may have a ribbon but it is pretty masculine other than that.

Have a great day. Thanks for stopping by.

Pattern and Texture Potluck Friday Challenge on StampTV

I had time this week-end to create two challenge cards for StampTV challenges.

I have had these Indian images for a long time. I had ordered them online when I was making rag quilts but quit making the quilts before I used them. I thought that this image might go pretty good with Theresa's Out West stamp set from GinaK Designs.

To use the fabric image which came with a 1/2 inch border of fabric around the printed image I pulled the strings to make the fringe. I decided it looked funny with all four sides fringed so I trimmed the top and bottom leaving only the sides fringed.

The SU Blue Bayou cardstock matched the Indian image colors so I only had to add the Top Note die which I used a cream color die and sponged with Vintage Photo distress ink by Tim Holtz. I used the label die cut from Quikutz for the bottom and mounted my skull, cactur and hat around the Happy Trails sentiment.

The leather strip was tied in a knot and added to the bottom sentiment panel.

I already had fulfilled the pattern challenge with the weatherd beige cs for the card base. I had two pieces of texture already as well in the fabric and the leather strips, but I wanted to add the sterling silver dream catcher to the Indian image, I think it sets it off nicely. I just tied the leather strip onto the jump ring for the dream catcher.

I did another challange card as well but I will wait and show you that one tomorrow. Hope you had a wonderful week-end and thanks for stopping by.

Cathy

StampTV Challenge Card

Here is the card that I made for the Technique Challenge on StampTV. This week Gina showed us how to make the dp with using the shaving cream technique. This is such a fun technique and the outcome is a little different on each piece of paper.

I cut 4 - 4 1/4 by 5 1/2 pieces of white cardstock to place on my shaving cream mixture. For this piece I used Cool Carribean, Kiwi Kiss, and Pretty Pink SU reinkers. I cut my last piece of Cool Carribean to use as the base of this card.

I used my copic markers to color the images from My Cuppa Joe stamp set from GinaK Designs . I sponged around the edge with Tim Holtz Broken China Distress ink and tied a pink ribbon that I had dyed a while back. I love using my SU reinkers to make my custom color ribbons that match the SU cardstock. I don't think that I ever use my reinkers to ink a stamp pad :)

I had so much fun stamping and coloring this past week-end and had time to create 3 StampTV challenge cards and actually got them done before the deadline. Deadlines got a little easier to attain since I got my new laptop computer.

When I got my tax refund I decided that I could use it to buy the stamps that I had been wanting but hadn't had the extra money for, but I decided that since Jim and I need to use the computer at the same time that it would be more beneficial and keep peace in the family if I got a laptop with internet service so we could both work at the same time. It has been a wonderful investment, especially in my temperment. The old saying is true, "If mama isn't happy, nobody is happy :).

Now I don't have to wait until well past midnight most nights to post to my blog or check my email.

I am going to say good night for now. See you tomorrow.

Cathy

Shaving Cream Technique on StampTV

Hi everyone. This week GinaK, of GinaK Designs Stamp TV, showcased the shaving cream technique. Since I started stamping a couple of years ago I have always wanted to try this technique but I never found instructions or I was too lazy to look too hard, I prefer the first scenario. Gina's video explained everything perfectly. The part I couldn't figure out on my own was what you did with the shave cream after you got it on the cardstock. The solution is easy peasy. Gina used a Pampered Chef scraper which I didn't have but I did have a shower squeegie scraper.

I wanted to make a blue and brown shaving cream technique card because I wanted to use it to make the challenge card for Theresa's Color Challenge which was to use Chocolate Kiss cardstock and any other color. I thought blue would be nice. I like blue and chocolate almost as much as chocolate and pink. I used Bayou Blue and Close to Cocoa SU reinkers for my colors.

I colored the Iris from the Elegant Flowers that came with my Floral Frenzy StampTV package in turquoise to try to match the ink colors I had used for the shave cream.

I had the brown stitched ribbon but the stitching was white so I colored the white stitching with my copic markers.

Be sure to check-out Gina's video and you can make a card like this too.

Thanks for stopping by. See you tomorrow!

Cathy

I am a chosen one-StampTV Center Stage for May

I was so excited to see lots of comments coming in on my email this afternoon. I thought it was for some of the cards that I had created over the week-end using Theresa's Out West stamp set. I was at work so I can view the email to the point that it says that you have a comment but when it is for StampTV or any other blog I can't access it. For some strange reason they think that when I am working that I should be earning my pay :), novel concept!

Center Stage is an honor selection for 10 members of GinaK Designs StampTV who submit artwork and tag it GinaK Designs. GinaK and the StampTV crew choose 10 cards to showcase and the "chosen" members get to put the Center Stage Button on their blog sidebar....totally cool!

The card that was chosen was for a GinaK Designs challenge for black and white cards. I used Melanie Muenchinger's Just so Sporty Hoody for the image, I love coloring those hoodies.

If you saw all of the awesome talent that exudes on StampTV every single day you would know what an honor it is to be chosen, especially in the second month of the award.

Not only do I get the Center Stage Button but a 10.00 credit on my next purchase from GinaK Designs, totally cool huh!

I just wanted to share my exciting news, now I have to get busy creating some projects that need to get done this week.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cathy

StampTV Challenge card

Okay, are you tired of seeing horses yet? I have this pretty Paint I did for a challenge card and one more that I am still creating but I think if it turns out the way I plan it will be my favorite.

Cindy Lawrence is hostess of the Color Challenge at StampTV this week and the challenge is to use black, white, and one other color. My colors are black, white, and brown.

The only new set that I bought at the last GinaK Designs release party was Theresa's Out West but that is not the only reason that I am using the heck out of it, I love it! I have one more horse card to make today but depending on what I get accompished today it may be late tonight or possibly even tomorrow.

In case some of you wonder why I am so enthralled with authentic horse images. My kids showed horses in 4H for years and we spent many week-ends at horse shows. They didn't get horses we bought from trainers that already knew everything and the kids just had to sit on their backs, my kids got cheap, broke, but untrained horses and they trained them and all of them loved it and did wonderfully winning more ribbons and trophies than I can house.

In 1990 I decided that I was tired of having all of our spare money going to other trainers for our thoroughbred race horses so I studied and took the Kansas Racing Licence Trainers Test. I passed and was able to train my own horses at the track. I was licensed to race in Kansas, Iowa, and Nebraska I trained race horses for 10 years and still have 5 of my old runners at the farm and they will have a home there as long as they live. We are expecting a new arrival any day and I will post a pic when he/she arrives.

I have always wanted a Paint horse, but it never happened, so I just colored one up instead.

At any rate, I got to do some challenges this week-end and that always makes me happy. Now if I could just win one more new GinaK set I would be very happy, I'll be happy anyway, you will just see more Out West projects :)

See you later.

Cathy

Baby Wipe background technique

The StampTV tutorial last week was making a background using a babywipe. I have done the babywipe technique where you use the babywipe as an ink pad to get a varigated color stamping, but Gina's plaid background was really cool and I wanted to try it. Here is what I came up with:

Isn't that a cool plaid background. Be sure to check out the StampTV tutorial to see how easy this really is.

Did you notice the little crochet flower in the lower right hand corner. I made it. I am so terrible at following crochet directions that once I get the basic idea I make up my own pattern as I go along. It has taken me 3 days but I think I finally have a mental pattern that works. This was one of my beginning ones but I still like it. It is made from crochet thread and a fairly small crochet hook. Maybe tomorrow I will show you how I make the crochet flowers.

I was finally getting caught up on my stamping and my back decided to go out on me. I was home today and may try to go to work for half a day tomorrow. I don't have too many problems once I get standing or sitting it is just the in between movement.

Gotta go, see you tomorrow.

Cathy

StampTVMonochromatic Challenge Card

I am finally feeling better. The grandkids in town spent the night last night because my daughter has a class on Saturday mornings and between the other grandma in town and myself we watch them. I did manage to get a Challenge card made for StampTV and if you can believe it, there is no coloring on this card.

I used one of my favorite sentiment stamps from Melanie Muenchinger's A Charmed Life stamp set and stamped it in white ink on the crackled brown main image. Usually when I don't make a card that I use an image that can be colored I love to make cards of this type. I usually make them a little more elaborate than my norm and with a more vintage look.

I already knew that I wanted to do some GinaK Designs StampTV challenges this week-end. It seems like forever since I have done any so this is the first. I went to Michaels today and I have been wanting some Vintage buttons and they had a huge package that were perfect for what I want to use them for. They also had the scrolled die cut at the bottom of the card. It is a cuttlebug that was normally 20.00 and they had it on clearance for 10.00. There are two different dies in the package.

I also used my cuttlebug to emboss the top note die with the script folder. I sponged the edges with Adirondak Juniper ink and also Tim Holtz Vintage Photo Distress Ink.

I used the Tim Holtz Crackle paint for the sentiment diecut piece. I applied the Vintage Photo crackle paint onto a piece of chipboard and when it was dry and crackled I punched it out with my Marvy Scalloped oval punch. I sponged the edge with Brilliance Moonlight white ink.

I added the brown ribbon to the coordinating narrow panel, behind the top note die piece, and added two bow knots. I added the button to the die cut at the bottom and a double blossom prima flower to the upper right hand corner. The center gold rimmed pearl is holding the flower blosoms together. The flower was attached with pop dots.

I am going to keep working on more challenges and a few more things I have in mind for A Charmed Life.

See you tomorrow!

Cathy

Just call me Old Blu Eyes!

I promised you a sexy giraffe tonight. Dog Gone Stamps has the best giraffe with the sexiest eyes, I can't bring myself to color them any color but Blue.

I really wanted this to be a masculine card, I think I succeeded. I absolutely love this giraffe. Yea I know I say that about all the Dog Gone Stamp images but just look at them!

I colored the giraffe with copic markers and sponged around the edge with Tim Holtz Vintage Photo distress ink. I mounted the main image on brown cardstock. I mounted the piece of green minds eye designer paper on a piece of Marigold cardstock from Stampin Up. The brown stripe is from the Outlaw designer pack from Stampin Up. and that is mounted on a piece of Kraft cardstock. I used a beige diecut Quikutz label that I cut out with my cuttlebug. I sponged all of the edges of all of the panels.

Before I mounted the matted panels together I tied the brown satin ribbon around the left side of the green panel vertically and tied the knot bow. I used my paper piercing tool, more affectionately known as my frog stabber, to punch the holes for my corner brads. I added a large decorative brad to the center hump of the label.

I mounted the green panel on double sided foam pictures tape and did the same to the giraffe image so that it has real defined layers. The sentiment will go on the inside of the card.

Don't you agree that this is one of the coolest images of a giraffe that you have ever seen? If you like this image and the others that I show regularly be sure to check out Dog Gone Stamps because I only have about a dozen at the moment.

Okay, that is it for tonight. Tomorrow I will have more StampTV challenge cards. They are having a different challenge every day.

See you tomorrow.

Cathy