30 Days of Coloring - Day 28

This is the twenty-seventh day of the Daily Marker's 30-Day Coloring Challenge. I've committed to coloring a stamped image from one of my many Unity stamp sets each day this month.

Today's image is from the Tricia Girl stamp set.

I added some designer paper 

to the inside of my card:

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Stamp Set: Unity Tricia Girl stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink and colored with Copic Markers

Papers: Recollections 110# White and SU Cameo Coral and Chocolate Chip CS and DP from my scrap file

Embellishments: American Crafts Ribbon and Cloud 9 Rain Drops

Beelated Birthday Wishes

NOTE: This is my second blog post of the day. If you're here to see my Challenge Your Stash card, it is the one following this one so keep scrolling or go HERE.

On Thursdays, i have the honor of posting cards I've made using The Project Bin stamps. Recently (the past three weeks), I've featured a new stamp set from The Project Bin - The Gratest. Today's card is also made using that stamp set, which tells you how versatile this set is. I've used a different image from the set each of these four weeks (along with a coordinating sentiment) and I still have two more images to use.

If you're like me, you'll get a lot of use out of the "beelated" sentiment, but just in case you're always on time, there are two other birthday sentiments in the set, too. 

Oh, and in case you're wondering which two images I haven't used yet - it's the Grater and the Fire Extinguisher. So I'm thinking you will be seeing those two featured here on my blog in the next couple of weeks.

But I digress.

I added three mini bee brads from Eyelet Outlet to my card. The beehive is a Stampin' UP! embossing folder called Honeycomb. I cut just a section of it for use on this card.

Here's the inside of my card:

I just had to include a bee on the inside, too.

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Stamp Set: The Project Bin The Gratest stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink and colored with Copic Markers

Papers: Recollections Black and 110# White and SU Summer Sun CS and DP from the Pebbles Garden Party Paper Pad

Embossing Folder: Stampin' UP! Honeycomb

Embellishments:  Eyelet Outlet Mini Bee Brads

Love Keeps Us Warm

My friend Barb came up with the idea for a group of stampers to have a monthly challenge where they had to use what they owned (no shopping allowed)... and Challenge Your Stash was born. It's a great idea and I have been a member since its beginning over two years ago.

The members take turns coming up with the monthly theme and we all post our cards on the 28th of the month. This month it was Shelly's turn to choose the theme. She asked us to make cards that included the word "Love" and a heart.

What a SWEET challenge, Shelly - THANK YOU!

The heart I added to the snowball the snowman couple is rolling is an Enamel Heart from Eyelet Outlet. And the word "Love" is included in the sentiment I used.

I hope Shelly and the other Challenge Your Stash ladies like my card.

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Image: Whipper Snapper Designs Snowball Snowman stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink and colored with Copic Markers

Sentiment: Paper Smooches Warm Heart stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink

Papers: Fun Stampers Journey Green Olive and Recollections Black and 110# White CS and DP from my scrap file

Embellishment: Eyelet Outlet Enamel Heart

30 Days of Coloring - Day 27

This is the twenty-seventh day of the Daily Marker's 30-Day Coloring Challenge. I've committed to coloring a stamped image from one of my many Unity stamp sets each day this month.

Today's image is from the Grey Skies Ahead stamp set.

Just look at the detail on the adorable stamp:

I added some designer paper 

to the inside of my card:

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Stamp Set: Unity Grey Skies Ahead stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink and colored with Copic Markers

Papers: Recollections Black and 110# White and SU Bashful Blue CS and DP from my scrap file

Die: AMuse Studio Clouds Duo

Embellishments: Brads from an unknown vendor

Gallery Gazers CASE #8

As a member of the Gallery Gazers blog group, once each month I find a card in the SCS Gallery to CASE. This month I chose a CAS card created by Denise (card crazy). I loved the simplicity of her design and the fact that she only used white cardstock. You can see her card HERE.

I replicated her design is several ways - but also changed it up some, too. For instance, I chose to use much larger flowers than she used on her design and to balance that I used a smaller sentiment on my card.

While her card was free of any embellishments, I added three small rhinestones to my card.

Just a peek of the inside of my card shows that I also stamped one single outline image of the flower that I used.

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Stamp Sets: Technique Tuesday Two Steppin' and SU Work of Art stamped with Memento Cottage Ivy, Desert Sand, Lady Bug, Rhubarb Stalk and Tuxedo Black Ink

Paper: Recollections 110# White CS

Embellishments: Recollections Rhinestones

30 Days of Coloring - Day 26

This is the twenty-sixth day of the Daily Marker's 30-Day Coloring Challenge. I've committed to coloring a stamped image from one of my many Unity stamp sets each day this month.

Today's image is from the Tulips and Daisies stamp set.

Tulips are my favorite Spring flower (and I'm ready for Spring!!!) so this image was such fun to color!

I colored the Daisies from this set and made a card out of them on Day 7 of the Coloring Challenge. You can see that card HERE.

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Stamp Set: Unity Tulips & Daisies stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink and colored with Copic Markers

Papers: Recollections Black and 110# White and SU Wild Wasabi CS and DP from the DCWV Girlhood Paper Stack

Embellishments: Paper Studio Mini Brads

Travel the World - Week 8

This is the eighth week in my Travel the World personal challenge. Each week I am randomly choosing one country (there are 195 countries in the world) and doing a little research on that country. I then select one tidbit of information about the country as inspiration for the card I make.

This week's country is...

Myanmar

Myanmar (pronounced MEE’-an-mar) is a country in southeast Asia that shares borders with China, India, Laos, Bangladesh and Thailand. It was formerly known as Burma.

With a total area of 261,970 square miles, Myanmar is the largest country in mainland Southeast Asia, and the 40th-largest in the world. It is somewhat smaller than Texas and slightly larger than Afghanistan.

Myanmar is one of the few countries in the world that has a half-hour time zone. The time in Myanmar is 30 minutes different than neighboring Thailand.

The country’s literacy rate is 83 percent, the median age is 27.9 years and the average life expectancy is 57 years.

Myanmar is one of only three countries in the world that has not adopted the metric system of measurement.  The other two holdouts are Liberia and the United States. 

Temples and pagodas found throughout Myanmar were built during the 12th and 13th centuries.

Major credit cards are not always accepted in Myanmar, and there are few ATMs, so visitors need to bring plenty of U.S. dollars. The higher the denomination, the better the exchange rate. 

There are no coins in the Myanmar currency.

Both men and women in Myanmar use a yellow paste from the bark of the Thanakha tree as a cosmetic. Applied to the face, it is an effective sunscreen that also tightens the skin and prevents oiliness.

Rice is the major agricultural product in Myanmar.

A typical meal in Myanmar includes steamed rice, fish, meat, vegetables and soup served at the same time.  Locals use their fingertips to mold rice into a small ball and then mix it with various dishes.

Chewing betel nut is a national pastime. Small street stalls sell the palm-sized green leaves filled with betel nut, spices and sometimes a pinch of tobacco, then folded and popped in the mouth and chewed.

A Buddhist monastery sits atop a volcanic plug rising 558 feet above the slope of Mount Popa, the volcano on which it stands. 

Small children often wear holy thread around their neck or wrist for protection from bad spirits or spells.

Chinlone — a combination of sport and dance team sport with no opposing team  — is the traditional sport of Myanmar. The focus is on how beautifully one plays the game. Any number of players form a circle and keep the chinlone as long as possible in the air by kicking it soccer-style from player to player, using any body part except the hands.

The traditional Burmese dress is the longyi, a wraparound skirt worn by men and women. Men tie theirs in the front and women fold the cloth over and secure it at the side.

Myanmar is comprised of many different ethnic groups or tribes, each with their own unique traditions and practices. One particular practice is to "ugly-fy" their women to make them less appealing in order to prevent the neighboring tribesmen from stealing them! For example, in the Northern Chin states, women used to have their faces tattooed, but this practice became illegal and was banned in the 1960s. The women of the Kayan tribe in East Myanmar wear brass neck coils around their necks from a young age to elongate their necks. Over the years, the weight of the brass pushes their collar bone down, compressing their rib cage, thus becoming "long necked women."

When the locals in Myanmar want to get a waiter’s attention, they make a kissing sound, usually two or three short kisses. It’s the sort of sound you might make if calling a cat.

Fishermen in Myanmar are famous for fishing on one leg. The local Intha people developed the unusual technique over centuries to enable fishing and rowing at the same time. Standing allows the fishermen to see through the reeds that lie just beneath the surface in the shallow waters of the lake. 

I decided to let this Myanmar fact be the inspiration for this week's card... Myanmar is home of the biggest book in the world. The book has 1460 pages, measuring 3.51 feet wide, 5.1 inches thick, and 5.01 feet tall!

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Stamp Set: Unity Part of the Story stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink and colored with Copic Markers

Papers: Recollections Tan and 110# White and SU Chocolate Chip CS, AMuse Studio Polka Dot DP and other DP from my scrap file

Embellishments: Brads and Crocheted Flower from unknown vendors

30 Days of Coloring - Day 25

This is the twenty-fifth day of the Daily Marker's 30-Day Coloring Challenge. I've committed to coloring a stamped image from one of my many Unity stamp sets each day this month.

Today's image is from the Be Joyful stamp set.

Aren't the flowers pretty?

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Stamp Set: Unity Be Joyful stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink and colored with Copic Markers

Papers: Recollections Black and 110# White and SU Groovy Guava CS

Die: MFT Stitched Mod Rectangle

Embellishments: SU Ribbon and Your Next Stamp Gum Drops

Christmas Crazy in 2019

I'm part of the Christmas CraZy group on SCS. The leader pairs us up with a partner and partners send each other a stamped image and designer papers. Then we create. We have two months - so it's a bimonthly sort of swap.

Now I have to say - my partner this round caused me a problem - or should I say she's caused my wallet a problem. She introduced me to a stamp company I'd never heard of before - by sending me the darling image/sentiment for this card. Now I have a very long wish list. 

Let me enable you, just in case you've never heard of them either. The company is Studio Katia - check them out HERE.

Tammy's goodies included images from the Friends of Winter set and Simple Stories "Snow Fun" designer papers.

I hope Tammy likes my card:

Isn't the reindeer adorable?

I colored him with Copic Markers.

Here's the inside of my card:

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In addition to the items I received, I used the following things to make my card:

Papers: Fun Stampers Journey Green Olive and SU Night of Navy CS

Embellishments: EK Success Ribbon and Glitter Brads from an unknown vendor

30 Days of Coloring - Day 24

This is the twenty-fourth day of the Daily Marker's 30-Day Coloring Challenge. I've committed to coloring a stamped image from one of my many Unity stamp sets each day this month.

Today's image is from the Thanks, Thanks and Thanks stamp set.

I love those pumpkins!

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Stamp Set: Unity Thanks, Thanks and Thanks stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink and colored with Copic Markers

Papers: Recollections 110# White and SU Apricot Appeal and Cajun Craze CS and DP from my scrap file

Die: Spellbinders Circle

Embellishments: Paper Studio Enamel Dots

Chasse' Your Dreams

One of my favorite colors is pink so for today's card that's the main color - with a bit of black and white thrown in for contrast. I used the SumMore Fun On Pointe stamp set. It features three different ballerina images, a pair of ballet shoes and some great sentiments. There's so much to choose from that I had a difficult time deciding exactly which image/sentiment to use.

Isn't she pretty?

Here's a peek of the inside:

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Stamp Set: SumMore Fun On Pointe stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink and colored with Copic Markers

Papers: Recollections Black and 110# White and SU Pink Passion CS and Paper Studio Big Stripes Black/White and Soft Swirl Pink DP plus Polka Dot DP from my scrap file

Embellishments: Recollections Enamel Dots/Heart

30 Days of Coloring - Day 23

This is the twenty-third day of the Daily Marker's 30-Day Coloring Challenge. I've committed to coloring a stamped image from one of my many Unity stamp sets each day this month.

Today's image is from the Brystl Girl stamp set.

This closeup shows the beauty of this stamp:

Here's a wee peek at the inside:

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Stamp Set: Unity Brystl Girl stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink and colored with Copic Markers

Papers: Recollections Black, Tan, and 110# White CS and DP from my scrap file

Embellishments: Brads from an unknown vendor