Tag: Miscellaneous Stamps

S.S. Hoppity

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Welcome to the first challenge of the year at Lollipop Crafts! Today we have a fun sketch for you and I used our sponsor’s image S.S. Hoppity by Robyn’s Fetish. I’m seriously lacking in guy cards but I’m not sure this one qualifies with the stitching and cute rabbit but it will have to do! 😀


One thing I try to do is keep it simple without over embellishing the cards – although that is hard to do sometimes. On this card, I used a decorative bottle cap but needed something to put in it. After hopelessly searching my stash for a suitable trinket, I ended up drawing a fish instead.


DT Challenge: Lollipop Crafts – Challenge #22 (Sketch)
Challenge: Moving Along with the Times – Challenge #81 (Dreams – gonna catch that fish!)
Challenge: Crafty Ann’s – Challenge #32 (New die, stamp and fish, old paper and twill)
Challenge: Stamping For the Weekend – Challenge #1 for 2011 (New stamp and Blue paper, water) Challenge: Totally Papercrafts – Challenge #49 (Birthday) Challenge: AiFactory Challenge #64 (Anything Goes) Main Stamp: S.S. Hoppity (Robyn’s Fetish)
Patterned Paper: Vintage (Creative Memories)
Metal Die: Tim Holtz Alterations Mini Baroque
Copic Colors:
-rabbit: E41, E42, E43, E44
-clothes: E08, E18, E19, B91, B93, B95, B97, B99
-other: YG91, YG93, YG95, Y23, Y26, W0, W1

Did you know? The Founding Fathers of the United States were political leaders and statesmen who participated in establishing the American Independence by signing the Declaration of Independence, taking part in the American War for Independence, establishing the United States Constitution, or by some other key contribution. Within the large group known as the “Founding Fathers”, there are two key subsets: the “Signers of the Declaration of Independence” and the “Framers of the Constitution”.
[Founding Fathers of the United States, Wikipedia.org]

Peppermint Patti

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The challenge this week at Lollipop Crafts is to make gift tags and what better time to do it. This is one that I made using Peppermint Patti from Fairy Knoll for a Christmas gift. I removed her fairy wings and colored her up in the traditional reds and greens of the season.



DT Challenge: Lollipop Crafts – Challenge #20

Main Stamp: [altered images of] Peppermint Patti (Fairy Knoll)

Copic Colors:

-skin/hair: E00, E11, E13, R22, E25, E29

-other: G20, G21, G24, G28, R22, R24, R29, R89

Did you know? Peppermint is the oldest and most popular flavor of mint-flavored confectionery. The plant is a hybrid mint, a cross between the watermint and spearmint, is widespread in cultivation throughout all regions of the world. Peppermint has a long tradition of medicinal use, with archaeological evidence placing its use at least as far back as ten thousand years ago. It is said that the aroma of peppermint has been found to enhance memory.

[Peppermint, Wikipedia.org]

Tori & Adam

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I made this card using both Tori and Adam from Simply Betty Stamps for the 4th Day of Christmas Challenge. The challenge is to create a card or project based on the theme “Sugar & Spice and everything Scary!” I used Lonely Tree in the background and added snowflakes to look like the first snowfall of the year. The scary part is knowing your little daughter is growing up!


Challenge: Simply Betty Stamps – 12 Days of Christmas
Main Stamp: Kat Mandu and Friends Tori & Adam (SBS) and Lonely Tree (My Grafico)
Patterned Paper: The Christmas Combo (DCWV)
Copic Colors:
– backdrop: E40, E41, E42, E43, E44, E47, E49, BG93, BG96, BG99, W6, W8
-her: E00, E11, R20, R21, R22, E08, E19, B95, B99
-him: E00, E11, R20, R21, R22, E55, E59
-clothes: B91, B93, B95, B97, B99, T2, C3, C5, YR12, YR14, W6, W8, YR20, YR23, G21, G24, G28, G29
-other: C1, C3, C5, R24, R29, YR12, YR14, YR21

Did you know? Drinking water or potable water is water of sufficiently high quality that can be consumed or used without risk of immediate or long term harm. Water is necessary for most life on Earth. Humans can survive for several weeks without food, but for only a few days without water. Non-potable water is the term used for water which is unsafe to drink.
[Drinking Water, Wikipedia.org]
On the 4th Day of Christmas my Ghoul Love gave to me… the first snow.

Pixie Dust Fairy

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The challenge this week at Lollipop Crafts is themed Christmas which is to create a card or project with a winter theme. I made this card using Pixie Dust Fairy from Meljen’s Designs and Mushroom #2 from Limited Runs. This fairy is flying around sprinkling the first winter’s snow!


Other challenge themes for this card is “Winter means…” (freezing cold days and frosty windshields), Snow or Snowflakes, “Let it Snow”, Winter Wood Land (woodsy Christmas scenes) and Sparkle & Shine (glitter on wings and sparkly snow).

DT Challenge: Lollipop Crafts – Challenge #17
Challenge: Pile It On – Challenge #46
Challenge: Totally Papercrafts – Challenge #43
Challenge: PaperPlay Challenges #46
Challenge: Creative Inspirations – Challenge #87
Challenge: Meljens Design Team Challenge #34
Main Stamp: Pixie Dust Fairy (MD) and Mushroom #2 (Limited Runs)
Patterned Paper: A Heartwarming Holiday (TPS)
Dry Embossing: Sizzix Tim Holtz Embossing Folders Checkerboard
Copic Colors:
-fairy: E000, E00, E11, R20, R22, R24, R29, R89, G21, G24, G28, E55, E57, E59
-mushrooms: E40, E41, E42, E43, E44, YG91, YG93, YG95, YG99

Did you know? Millipedes’ primary defense mechanism is to curl into a tight coil protecting their delicate legs inside an armored body exterior. Many species also emit poisonous liquid secretions or hydrogen cyanide gas through microscopic pores as a secondary defense. Animals such as Capuchin monkeys have been observed intentionally irritating millipedes in order to rub the chemicals on themselves to repel mosquitoes.
[Millipede, Wikipedia.org]

Update: I was selected as a top 5 at Meljen’s Designs for this challenge!

Beach Ball Betty

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The challenge this week at Lollipop Crafts is to create a card or project for a Girlie Girl. Our sponsor this week is Fairy Knoll and I used Beach Ball Betty for this card. I used the image without the beach ball and tilted it so she looked like she was flying.


DT Challenge: Lollipop Crafts – Challenge #16
Main Stamp: [altered images of] Beach Ball Betty (Fairy Knoll)
Patterned Paper: Flying High – Tweet (My Little Shoebox)
Metal Die: Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels Seventeen
Copic Colors:
-skin: E00, E11, R20, R22, E04
-hair: R81, R83, R85, R89
-clothes: R22, R24, R29
-wings/eyes: G20, G21
-other: C1

Did you know? The Burgundy snail (Roman snail, edible snail or escargot), is a species of large, edible, air-breathing land snail. It’s preferred habitat has high humidity and lower temperatures, with loose soil which allows it to burrow in order to hibernate and lay its eggs. During hibernation this species creates a calcareous epiphragm in order to seal the opening of the shell.
[Helix Pomatia, Wikipedia.org]

Sandstone Citadel

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I made this card using Sandstone Citadel from Make it Crafty and combined it with this month’s free image, Holla Back Girl, from Kenny K Downloads. We’ve come up with all sorts of one-liners for this princess, but my favorite is simply “Yo, Prince!”


Here’s the background before it was cropped and covered – isn’t that image dreamy! I colored it in the style of the Neuschwanstein Castle in Germany.


Main Stamp: Sandstone Citadel (MiC) and Holla Back Girl (KKD)
Patterned Paper: Signature Christmas (MME) and scraps
Copic Colors:
-skin/hair/eyes: E000, E00, E11, E04, R21, R24, B91, B95, YR21, YR24, YR27
-clothes: R21, R24, R27, YR20, YR21, YR23, E55, E57, E59
-castle: E40, E41, E42, E43, R22, R27, E07, E19, G21, G24, G28, E55, E57, E59
-foliage: T1, T3, YG91, YG95, YG63, YG67, YG13, YG17, E57
-sky/water: B91, B95, BG0000, BG000

Did you know? Neuschwanstein Castle is a 19th-century Romanesque Revival palace commissioned by Ludwig II and overlooks Schwanstein Castle, his father’s summer residence. It was built as an homage to Richard Wagner and was intended as a personal refuge for the reclusive king, but it was opened to the paying public immediately after his death in 1886. The palace has appeared prominently in several movies and was the inspiration for Disneyland’s Sleeping Beauty Castle.
[Neuschwanstein Castle, Wikipedia.org]