Happy Birthday Kaley

Recently my cousin, Pat asked me to create a card for her granddaughter Kaley. Pat told me Kaley likes horses and the color green. She also stated that Kaley was turning 17. So, as I pondered what I would create for Kaley's 17th birthday card, the wheels began to turn. I knew I wanted to wow both Pat and Kaley. So I immediately decided to stamp a scene. So I pulled out my mountain scene stamp from Stampscapes and stamped onto glossy cardstock (photo paper) with Memento Black. Then I added some trees from Stampscapes and Stampin' Up! The Mare and colt from Stampabilities was stamped onto a separate piece of glossy cardstock then cut out. Using the Top Note Die from Stampin' Up! I created a window. I colored the images with my Stampin' Up! markers and a dauber. Added highlights with a white gel pen. The dotted Ranger Liquid Pearls to make the flowers. The sentiment is from Stampin' Up! The flowers are Petaloo. The card is interactive in that when you pull and push the side tabs the mare and the colt come together and the mare kisses the colts head.

This card was great fun creating. A labor of love.

TFL
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Betty J Schaub 

Best Dad Ever

This is my dad's Father's Day card. I can show it here and on FB because Dad doesn't do the Internet. At 84 soon to be 85 in August, we are so lucky to still have him with us. He went through by pass surgery about his 80th birthday. They said he had 5 blockages then. He's over come that medical issue. Dad is originally from Louisiana, that's why I chose to make this scene scape card for this Father's Day. He and Mom live in Texas now with my sis. So this card will bring Dad back to his roots so to speak.
Regardless, we hope Dad has a very Happy Father's Day!

Happy Father's Day 2013 to ALL the Dads out there!!!

Betty J Schaub

Stampscapes Barn Revisited

I just love this barn! I enjoy coloring it and adding the trees and the shrubs with little dots of color for the flowers. I see it differently every time I take it out to play. Hope you enjoy it!

TFL
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Betty J Schaub

Stampscapes

     

Swamp Cabin

Old Barn

Just sharing. Love coloring these images.

TFL

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Betty J Schaub

NEW TOYS

Hello my blogging friends. I hope you are enjoying your weekend. I am having a nice time today playing with my NEW TOYS! Recently, I made a purchase from the UK of Paula Walters Designs at Which Craft? One of the items I purchased was a kit of a Fabulous Die Cut and Scored Bespoke VINTAGE Step Card. In the kit are 6 Vintage Step Cards, 4 Plain Bespoke Vintage Frames, 4 Frilled aperture Bespoke Frames, 4 Plain aperture Frames, 6 Bespoke base & side edge plates, 6 x 2 Mirror mage Decorative Flourishes and Envelopes. All you have to do is stamp your images and cut and mount them.

For my creation i chose StampScapes Stamps. I stamped my images in SU Soft Suede ink. Then using my SU markers and ink pads with daubers I colored my scene. I added a little white gel pen for highlights. I distressed with edges of my frames with SU Soft Suede and a dauber. I embossed with the SU Woodgrain ef. then added some distressing with SU Soft Suede and Old Olive with a dauber.

So are you ready now???

TA DA!!!

 

 

If you've got anything good or bad to say about this I'd love to hear it! Any suggestions on how to improve it would be welcome as well.

 

 

TFL

T%dles Peeps!

Betty J Schaub

www.bettystampstx.stampinup.net

 

 

A Very Productive 2 Days

A Very Productive Week with my group of friends The Bodacious YaYa Stampers!

First up is Frosty - colored with ink pads and water with paint brush.

#2 Yall Texas! - stamped

#3 Pine bough with holly and berries (stickles)

#4 Reindeer in Flight with pine boughs and stickles.

#5 Non-conventional Christmas - black, silver and red



#6 Wreaths and horses (stickles)

#7 work in progress - silver, black and red. Telescoping.

#8 Flip Front

#9 Flip Flop

#10 Abstract Tree with stickles

#11 Charles Dickens Christmas

#12 Abstract Christmas Tree

#13 Happy Fall Yall

#14 I call this my Dr. Seuss stocking. Markers and stickles.

#15 Black and white telescoping

#16 Little church in the wild wood. Scenescapes colored with markers

#17 Texas ornaments with pine boughs and stickles

#18 More of the little church in the wildwood.

#19 Cardinal & Finch telescoping.

#20 Basket weave (work in progress).

Special Thanks to my Ya Yas - Debbie Segler, Nancy Cook, Lorna Thornton and Mary Stewart for all the inspiration and hours of love, creativity and laughter!!!


TFL
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Betty J Schaub
www.bettystampstx.stampinup.net

Christmas in July

Christmas Card Challenge #34 WINDOW. I know it's hard to see it but there are Stickles all over this card, from the roof to the snow covered ground. Why, even the little birdies have some red Stickles on them! This complete scene was created using Stampin' Up! stamps, inks and chalk. This is a really fun challenge at Christmas Card Challenges blog this week. If you've got a hankering for some cool weather (cause in Texas it is too danged HOT) hop on over to the CCC blog and play along! Everybody loves a little Chirstmas in July!!!

TFL
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Betty J Schaub
www.bettystampstx.stampinup.net

Stamping Scenes and Coloring them

Recently my gal pals and I gave our group a name. We're calling ourselves Bodacious YaYa Stampers!

For over a month now the 5 of us have been getting together and creating some beautiful art work for our greeting cards. We stamp scenes and color with ink pads, markers, chalks, watercolor metalics, Q-tips, daubers, and cosmetic sponges. Below are just a few samples that I myself, painted. Enjoy!!!

Little Church in the Wild Wood - Stamped in Archivers. Sponge, dauber and marker added the color.

 Sing like no one's listening: painted with watercolor metalics, water and a small brush.

 Ice Cream Sunday: painted with watercolor metalics.

 Weeping Willow: stamped in Handsome Hunter Stampin' Up! ink.

 Forest stream: stamped in Archivers Sepia and daubed with ink from a pad.

 Majestic Mount: Brayered completely with Soft Sky (SU) ink from pad. Stamped the image in Handsome Sunter (SU) ink pad. Rubbed some Handsome Sunter ink ink at the bottom with a cosmetic sponge. Then use a white Signo Gel Pen to highlight the mountains.

 Watermill in Winter : the scene was stamped in Archivers Black. The color was added with Q-tips, cosmetic sponges, paint brushes and ink pads anf markers.

 Springtime Blossoms: stamped with Archivers. Colored with Q-tips, cosmetic sponges and markers.

 A Rose Song: stamped with Archivers. Colored with markers and cosmetic sponges.

 Fresh Delivery: stamped in Archivers. Colored with paint brush and ink pad, cosmetic sponges and brayer.

 Stamped in Basic Black, Daffodil Delight, Dusty Durango and Old Olive (SU) ink. Sponged various shades of the yellow/orange family in the sky and water. Stamped some trees over top and heat embossed with black embossing powder for dimension.

 Bambi : stamped in Basic Black. Colored with sponges, daubers and markers.

My Ranier: stamped in Archivers black. Sponged on Sky Blue in a dragging motion over the sky. Then pounced with a sponge on the lower portion in Handsome Hunter varying the touch. Same thing with Violet and Lavender. Went over the high spots with white Signo Gel Pen.

This has been great fun and we intend to continue getting together once or twice a week just to play like this. It has brought my great joy to be able to have this time to sit and enjoy my friends.

Thanks for looking. Hope you've enjoyed what you've seen.



T%dles Peeps!
Betty J Schaub
www.bettystampstx.stampinup.net