Mother's Day Card

Here's a little shot of the card I made for my mom for Mother's Day 2017. I used dies from Mama Elephant to cut window frames, window boxes and shutters. I used punch from Stampin' Up! for my cardinals, flowers and stems. The lacey border is a punch from Martha Stewart. DSP, ink and cardstock are all from Stampin' Up!

To make my cardinals I searched Google for a photograph of a male and female side by side so I could compare colors. My mom loves birds! In her living room she has her chair set up next to a window overlooking her backyard. She can sit for hours watching the birds come and go to her flowers and feeders.

I was fortunate enough to spend this Mother's Day with my mom as well as my dad, my brother and sister in law and my hubs. It was a beautiful day. Hubs cooked brisket, potato salad and green beans. I made a cake and we all enjoyed our meal, our day and our visit!

Hope all Mother's had a blessed day.

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Betty J Schaub

Stampin' Up! Botanical Builder Framelits

Ever since I laid my eyes on this set of framelits from Stampin' Up! I can't get enough of them!!! 

Below are just a few of the cards I have made with this set. 

The first card is for a friend's baby girl. I stuck with the pale pinks and a sort of peach with an accent of pistachio green. The card has since arrived at its destination and Mommy just loved it!

The card below I just made for fun. But it just goes to show you can do sooo much with this set. 

Like monochromatic???

Then give this a try!!!

Add that little pleated curtain effect to the die cut pieces and watch the magic happen!!!

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FM227

Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #227

Loved this sketch! 

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CTD377

Hello,
This week I played again in the Color Throw Down Challenge. I have to admit once again, this color combo was a challenge for me.
Below is the card I made.

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CTD376

My entry for the Color Throw Down Challenge #376. The colors are pale pink, pale blue and tan. My butterflies are from Inkadinkadoo. I colored with color pencils and added a bit of Wink of Stella to them for some sparkle. I used Spellbinders Shapeabilities Ornate Squares. I daubed the Close To My Heart - blush and sky on to my die cut. Then using a color pencil I scribbled hash marks on the center. I used a Martha Stewart border punch on a piece of dsp from Glitz paper pack called Love you madly. It's all mounted on dimensional adhesives onto Stampin' Up! Pink Pirouette cs. The little Pastel Flowers are from The Paper Studio.

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4CC

4 Crafty Chicks Challenge #281 Chevrons -- I've used two different DSP with the Chevron pattern. I added a beautiful hand stamped and colored flower with branches. There are several stamps sets used to create this entry. Hope you like my use of Chevrons.

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FMS211

Freshly Made Sketch #211

Boy have I felt like creating today! 

Recently on my FaceBook page I let it be known that I was looking for old sheet music. Fortunately I have a friend back home in Lousiana, Kathy Grimball Primeaux. She's a sweetie and has been very generous to me. She packed up a load of old sheet music with some old newspapers from the 60s and shipped them to me. It was HEAVY yall! Shipping was $11.30! But I've had fun looking through it all. Some music I recognized. Most I did not. But all in all I found some treasures. This music, from a church music book, was one of them.

It was already torn and brown on the edges. So I just took it a little bit further with some Tim Holtz distress inks. The embellies are from Maggie Holmes. I so felt the sentiment went with the song title.

I hope this day is a blessing to all reading.

Here's the sketch from Freshly Made and the link is HERE.

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MMCC12

Here's my entry to the Mixed Media Card Challenge #12. This is a new challenge blog, to me.

I have recently gotten into art journaling so I have a few supplies lying about that I could work into the challenge. 

1. Burlap Paper from DCWV 

2. Old Book pages

3. Ephmera

4. Fabric flowers

5. Lace ribbon

I'm quite pleased with this production. :-)

Below is the inspiration piece for the challnge.

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Play Date with D & L

The first card you see below is actually the last one I made on our play date. But I am falling hard for Brushos. This card has heavy and light sprinkles of brushos in Turquoise and Purple. The background I sprinkled heavily the Brusho powders and spritzed with water. Then the flowers were done on a separate piece of cs, lightly sprinkled with Brushos then spritzed. The stems and leaves are from my SU Build a Bird punch. I just used Rangers liquid pearls to add the veins.

The next two cards were designed by Lorna on the left and Deb on the right.

Believe it or not, Lorna little patchwork pinwheel is made up of little squares! So cute!

Deb's card was created using dies, papers and stamps from a kit she brought along for us to play with. Love both of these cards!

The next two cards were designed by Lorna on the left and me on the right. Lorna used Stampin' Up! stamps and inks to create this super spring look! We added Wink of Stella to the flower petals and little rhinestones to some of the flower centers.

The card I designed was really quite simple. I used a deep plum colored cs as my base. Then with scraps I started making little pendants in varying sizes and matted them with contrasting colors. I used a piece of white twine to make my string. Added a few rhinestones colored with Sharpies to give a little flash. The sentiment is stamped with Versa Mark and heat embossed in white. The stamp is from SU! stamp set Feel Goods.

I love these gals so much. They pick me up when I'm down. They make me laugh. They inspire me. They love me unconditionally. Life is good! 

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SSC100

Above is my entry for the Challenge at Sunday Stamps #100. I chose purple, pink and orange for my color palette. I am quite pleased. I colored the flower from Chocolate Baroque's Fancy Flowers #UA5SP0422, the Sketched Hummingbird from Stampabilities and the sentiment from Reverse Confetti. The banners are from the Dear lizzy paper stack called Lucky Charm. I added a little shimmer to my hummingbird with Zazzles Blossom and Evergreen.

The sketch for the challenge is below.

Pop on over to Sunday Stamps and try out this sketch challenge. 

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Betty Justilian Schaub

More Bister

Today, I used Bister with a stamped image and at mask.

To begin, I stamped with flower onto cs using Versa Mark. Then heat embossed with white embossing powder. Then I punched a circle from another piece of cs and used it as a mask over my stamped flower. Then I sprinkled Red and Mahogany colored Bister on my piece. Spritzed with a little water and watched the magic happen. When it was dry, I used yellow and pink ink pads and sponges to work in the color on the flower. This one is now ready to make a card.

YouTube has several video tutorials on Bister. You just have to type in Bister into the search.

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Bister N Bleach

Hi There! Yes I am back with another Bister/Bitre piece. This card is 4 x 4 inches. I used Green and Yellow Bister. Then I stamped the bird, leaves and flowers with Staz-On black. Using a fine paint brush and a little bleach, I painted bleach onto the body of the bird, the leaves and the flowers. Then with my white gel pen I went back in and added some white  centers to my flowers and the bird's eye. I need to put a little black in his eye and it will be ready to turn into a greeting card.


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Color Me...! Green with Envy

Color Me...! Striking! Garden Green, Pear Pizzaz plus Neutrals.

Ok, those of you who know me, and know me WELL, know this challenge was created for me! Green is my favorite color. This was sooooo much fun to create!

I made an easel of Pear Pizzaz. Then on Whisper White I stamped the flower and stem from SU! Crazy For You stamp set. The sentiment is from SU! Good Greetings Hostess set. I added some glittered flowers and leaves from Prisma. Some rhinestones from Stampin' Up! and this one is complete!

If you'd like to play along in the challenge at Color Me...! just click HERE.

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Betty Justilian Schaub

Green Monochromatic

Found this beauty created by Marion Vagg on Pinterest. So then I created this.

What a beautifully fun, creative and simple technique. 

Here's how I did it!

I Stamped the lovely Fancy Flower from Chocolate Baroque in Versa Mark. Heat embossed with white embossing powder. Then using Copic marker #G07 Nile Green I flicked in the areas where I thought it would be darker. Then I stamped the butterfly from SU! set Nature Walk and added the dark green. I matted my image on SU! Whisper White cs. Then I mounted a piece of the same lime green cs to a matte of SU! Whisper White and ran it through my Big Shot inside the Spring Flowers ef from SU! A little bit of ribbon and bling from Making Memories and all that's left is to stamp Happy Birthday inside and this one is D-O-N-E!

Hope you enjoyed this card. I thank Marion Vagg for her inspiration on Pinterest.

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Play Day

Just another play day with my gal pals; Deb and Lorna. 

We all take turns designing a card. The first card is designed by Deb. We LOVE birds!!!

I had some issues with this one as I tip toed over the stamp with markers and I didn't get very good coverage. My stamped image was spotty at best. So I then had to go in and add color and lines. 

In the end I was pleased with the way it turned out.

This card is a CAS I CASED from Leah's Cards. I watched her video and copied her card.

 This one is another card designed by Deb. I love this new stamp from Stampin' Up! Right now the name escapes me. But I really enjoyed coloring the flowers. If you have any questions about this stamp you can contact Deb at debsegler@gmail.com . Deb is my Stampin' Up! demonstrator.

We had a really fun day. I am truly blessed to have these two ladies in my life. I love them so much.

Have a great day.

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Betty Justilian Schaub

Using my Christmas Presents

Hi! Happy New Year's Eve!!!

I hope everyone has a safe and happy new year.

Now to my Christmas presents. 

Below is a card I made using a book my hubs gave me for Christmas. The book is titled Paper Pop Up by Dorothy Wood. There are 40 dynamic designs in this book. I chose to make the Mother's Day Magic card. Simply because it was something new to me. Outside sort of plane and simple (not the design in the book).

Inside a POP OUT vase for some pretty little paper flowers!

Following the pattern in the book, I traced and cut out the vase for the flowers, away from the green decorative cs. I cut the vase into the light pink cs and pushed it through the opening in the green cs. (You can see a little shadow from the flowers I glued into the vase.) I added Ranger liquid pearls to the vase to dress it up a little. 

Hope you like it.

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Betty Justilian Schaub 

Rachel

Meet Rachel. She's a Sugar Nellies digital image I purchased at FunkyKits.co.uk

Rachel has been printed on XpressIt paper and colored with Copic markers. I think her face and clothes turned out pretty good but I still need some practice with hair.

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Betty J Schaub

Play Date with Deb 6-12

I recently had another play date with my gal pal Deb and below are the cards we made. The 1st one below is a stamp set from Art Impressions of an English Cottage - L3496. Deb used my stamps to stamp the scenes. Then we each colored them differently using the same color palette. This one is mine.

The card below was stamped using the Stampin' Up! Retired Hostess set Simply Sketched . I stamped in Ranger Archival Black then colored with Copic markers. Using framelits from Stampin' Up! cut the image and then a matte from dsp. Added from ribbon and glittery chipboard.

For the card below, Deb had some dsp and a die cut swirly corner. I stamps more swirls with versa mark and used some embossing powder in purple to match. Stamped the little dragonfly and popped him up with dimensionals. Added some rhinestones. 

We always have great fun on our play dates. Looking forwatd to our next time together. 

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Betty J Schaub

Curtain Call Pajama Party

Curtain Call Pajama Party - I started out with a set of stamps and just rolled with them. I used a punch for the banners and colored my images with markers. I hope Stacey's crew and the Cat's Pajamas Gang like it.

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Betty J Schaub

MoJo 341 - CurtainCallInspirationChallenge

This card was creating for 2 challenges MOJO MONDAY with Verve and Stacey's Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge -- Confetti Crush. I used very old stamp from Conners Collections to make the flowers. I stamped them in Versa Mark then heat embossed with white embossing powder. Then I used my Copics in 3 shades each of pink, blue and yellow. The leaves are punched from the Build a Bird punch from Stampin' Up! I colored them with 2 shades of green Copics. The polka dotted velum is from Stampin' Up! The sentiment is from Sweet & Sassy Stamps #1074 Easter Lily.

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Betty J Schaub