Sunbonnet Strawberry Big

August 6, 2014 ~ sproatmeyer ~ 8 Comments

Sometimes the project is all about the colors for me and how they work together so I’m pleased at how this project turned out. I liked the combination of baby blue with pinks on this project. 🙂 The stamp I used is Sunbonnet Strawberry Big rubber stamp from Little Miss Muffet Stamps. The big strawberry gave me a chance to try coloring around the seeds giving the strawberry an edge. I was hoping the seeds would look more realistic but I think I reversed the shadow on the edge. LOL Well, I tried and that counts. 😀

I colored this using the Marvy Le Plume markers and used my sewing machine to stitch around the card. The pink drops are those melty plastic craft beads that I placed in the oven to melt into this shape. Thanks to Rosemary who pointed me to a tutorial on how to do it, I was able to create a whole bunch. It was fun and an inexpensive way to get a pile of dew drops to use.

Fancy Sunbonnet Patriotic

July 5, 2014 ~ sproatmeyer ~ 2 Comments

Happy 4th Everyone! I thought it was a perfect day to use Fancy Sunbonnet Patriotic from Little Miss Muffet Stamps and I have a project finished just in time to post it for the weekend. 😀 I stamped it in gray which is the usual color I’m using now days as I like the softer look but haven’t committed to the complete no lines look. Then I colored it with my Copic Markers and placed her on a card… I was even fancy and brought out the diecuts for this project!

The mentionable products on my card are as follows:

Fancy Sunbonnet Patriotic USA from Little Miss Muffet Stamps

Happy Tabs Sentiment from Make it Crafty

(plus chipboard accessories from Make it Crafty)

Thanks for dropping by! I hope everyone has a happy and safe 4th of July!

Skelekinz For You

May 18, 2014 ~ sproatmeyer ~ 7 Comments

This is Skelekinz For You available in rubber from Little Miss Muffet Stamps which I thought would make a great Mother’s day or sweetheart card. I stamped him in black on Kraft cardstock then colored him with my pencils. One of the many reasons I love to use rubber stamps because I can stamp them anywhere and on anything. 🙂

I kept the colors simple and the coloring minimal, trying to use the Kraft part of the light or midtone colors. Then I drew around the edge with my pen to create a border. I actually had something else on the card but really didn’t like it, so I covered it with decorative paper and then stamped a sentiment on top of that. The heart I also colored in using the pencils as well as the chippie dragonfly embellishments. Then I added some swirls and called it done!

Mentionable Products

Skelekinz For You from Little Miss Muffet Stamps

Sweet Sentiments (partial) from Little Miss Muffet Stamps

Dragonfly chippies from Make it Crafty (retired)

Prismacolor Pencils

Oliver Basic Grey decorative paper

Sunbonnet Strawberry Sitting

March 5, 2014 ~ sproatmeyer ~ 8 Comments

While I’ve been working with kraft paper, I thought I would pull out the pencils again and this time I’ve colored Sunbonnet Strawberry Sitting available in rubber at Little Miss Muffet Stamps. I went all out with the colors and really wanted something to pop. So in stead of leaving part of the kraft paper as a color, I used a lot of bright colors and filled it all in. This was so fun to work with red in a non-holiday sense and I love how the strawberry and her dress turned out! 😀 I hope you like it too!

Monster Birthday Balloon

February 21, 2014 ~ sproatmeyer ~ 7 Comments

Yesterday I decided I was going to sit down and color this week before doing any of my daily tasks. I thought if I could get some therapy done that the chores wouldn’t be so bad. Well, turns out, I got lost at my desk and completely skipped out on the have-to’s! LOL So I have some double duty to attend to today but before I get to that, I wanted to share one of the cards I made.

This card uses Monster Birthday Balloon rubber stamp from Little Miss Muffet Stamps. I promised some ideas to do with the balloons last week and this is one of them. I used the Honeycomb paper from Inky Antics and cut circles out for the balloons. I also stamped a couple extra balloons because it was so much fun and three is better than one. 😀

This is also a perfect card to go along the challenge theme at Little Miss Muffet Stamps – there is one more week to create birthday cards or cards with balloons on them. (hint, hint) Thanks so much for coming by and I suppose this means I need to get to my to-do list. Shucks

Monster Rose

February 14, 2014 ~ sproatmeyer ~ 5 Comments

Happy Valentines Day!! No matter where you’re at this year or who you’re with, I hope that it’s a fabulous day for you to spend with your family, friends and loved loved ones. For me? I’ve made Valentine cards for my kids and placed them on the breakfast table for when they wake up. Then I couldn’t resist getting a few extra goodies for them to play with today and an extra hug and kiss on the way out the door. 😀 It’s also a school day which brightens up their day even more since elementary school still does class parties and the whole nine-yards. Bonus!!

The project I made today uses the new Monster Rose in rubber from Little Miss Muffet Stamps. I colored this guy three times and cut out layers so I could pop them up. The first layer is the whole image, of course. Then on top of that I cut out the body, rose and one flower stem. For the third and topmost layer, I cut out the heart and his head. I love how this technique looks and feels!

Also in the spirit of things is a Valentine that my daughter made using Fancy Sunbonnet Love in rubber from Little Miss Muffet Stamps. She used colored pencils to color her in and I love that she also included some greens and blues in with the Valentine colors. I’m so lucky!