Crafted Bliss Studio

Hello! Are you ready for some Piggy Power?

Today I am sharing a card that features a little super hero piggy!

This cute little pig is from Craftin Desert Divas Caped Crusaders stamps. I thought it would be fun to pair my super hero with a night sky and cityscape.

I had a lot of fun ink blending the background with my Distress Oxide Inks. To create the look I used Broken China, Faded Jeans, Seedless Preserves, and Black Soot. I added a little Fossilized Amber and Spiced Marmalade to the moon.

I used Craftin Desert Divas Building Dies and cut my city all in black. I wanted glowing windows so I took a piece of vellum and colored it with some Copic markers then put it behind my die cuts. I sponged a little bit of white chalk ink onto the buildings just so they wouldn't look too flat.

My little super piggy was colored with Copic markers and popped him up in the sky. For a final touch I added a few sequins.

I hope you enjoyed my card for today! 

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Today I am sharing a card I created for the current My Favorite Things Sketch Challenge.

This is the current sketch:

Here is my card:

For my card, I pulled out the MFT Santa's Elves and coordinating dies and got to coloring. 

I used my Copic markers to color my images and added some shimmer with my Nuvo Aqua Shimmer Pen.

I used some Twisted Citron Distress Oxide for my background. I used the MFT Stitched Mini Scallop Rectangle Dies to create a little border strip. I inked it up with Candied Apple Distress Oxide ink and attached it to my card base. I added some ribbon and enamel dots to dress up the card. Lastly, I stamped the sentiment and heat embossed it with clear embossing powder. 

I love the little elves from the MFT Santa's Elves!

Have a fabulous day!!

Did you ever see a stamp set that you just knew you had to have? 

Yep, that happened to me!

I saw these cute kittens from Gerda Steiner Designs and they had to be mine! Aren't they cute!!

They reminded my of my kitties so I had to color them to look like mine. This set is called Christmas Kitten and I Love it! This is a new stamp company for me and if you haven't heard of them before be sure to check them out.

I colored these adorable kittens with Copic markers and added a few embellishments to them. A little Glossy accents for the eyes and Clear Wink of Stella on the Christmas ornaments seemed to be the perfect touch.

I used a few dies from Craftin Desert Divas to frame the scene.  The base is cut from Fancy Frames Dies and the window is from Inside Scalloped Circle Dies.

Here is a picture of the inspiration for the coloring.

The buff tabby is Noel and our black and white is Oreo. They are something!

That's it for me today! See you soon!

Happy Friday!  

It has taken me all week to create this card but I am so glad that I finally made everything work and come together to share it today.

My card is featuring an older Newtons Nook Designs stamped image from the Hello Fall set that was an exclusive set designed for Simon Says Stamp's Stamptember 2016.

To create the scene I began by creating a sky using Milled Lavender Distress ink and My Favorite Things Cloud stencil. It came out very soft and I really like how subtle it is.

I pulled out my Craftin Desert Divas dies for the rest of the scene. I used CDD Outdoor Landscape 2, Garden Border, and Crazy Stitched Frame Dies. More Distress Inks were used to create the ground and grass.

Adding a few leaves and my sentiment from the Newtons Nook Hallo Fall set was just what this card need.

Tomorrow World Card Making Day. Are you planning to do anything?

Hello friends! I hope you had a fabulous weekend!

I got to play with some "new to me" products this weekend and this was the result.

As some of you may know, I took a crafting/blogging break earlier this year I am just now coming back to it.

Although I have been out of the loop a bit I did hear about the Ranger Distress Oxide Inks  and had purchase them months ago. They were just sitting in a box under my craft station waiting patiently to be used. Well, I gotta tell ya! I used them this weekend and I LOVE them!! They blend beautifully and I am excited to use them in future projects!

As you can see, this card is featuring a background that was blend with Distress Oxide Inks. I used Picked Raspberry, Seedless Preserves, Faded Jeans, and Black Soot for the sky. I used a white gel pen to create the stars in the sky. It turned so beautiful!

For the grass, I die cut it from Craftin Desert Divas Outdoor Landscape 2 Dies.  I used Peeled Paint, Lucky Clover, and a little Black Soot on the edges to color it in.

I loved this little image from Sugar Pea Designs "Koalaty Time". It was part of the Stamptember Release from Simon Says Stamp. (Sorry, I believe it is sold out). I colored the image with Copic markers and added them to the simple scene. The sentiment is from this same set and was heat embossed.

I am hoping to share some more with you this week!

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For today's project I used the new Craftin Desert Divas Harvest Wishes stamps and the Treat Bag Dies. This stamp set is so cute!

I colored up this playful mouse with my Copic markers and added him to the scalloped square that is part of the die set. The bow was my finishing touch. Super simple but, oh so cute!

I am adding this to the monthly mood board challenge hosted by Craftin Desert Divas Gallery on Facebook.

Here is the current board:

Hello! I am thrilled to be back blogging and creating!

Today I am sharing a card that I cased! Yes, when I need inspiration I look at what others have done and I case them. It's a great way to try new things or just to get your mojo flowing again.

The card I cased is from my friend Mayra's blog: Mayra's Designs. You can find her card HERE.

For my version of the card I began by inking up a panel using Distress Inks. Once I achieved the blend that I linked I moved on to coloring my images. I used my Zig Clean Color Brush Pens for this step.

This card was designed with many Craftin Desert Divas products.

To create the beach scene I used CDD Island Dies and CDD Ocean Border Dies. The waves were inked up with some more Distress Ink in Peacock Feathers my palm tree was colored my Zig pens.  I added my shark image from CDD Jawsome stamps. I love this image! It's great for guy cards! The sentiment is from that same stamp set and was stamped on a banner from CDD Flag Banner Dies. The card is framed perfectly using the CDD Fancy Frames Dies.

To finish everything off, I added a few sequins but, not too many! After all, this is a guy card and we really shouldn't add sequins but I just couldn't help myself!

I hope you enjoyed my rambling! Have a freakin' jawsome day!

I've had the Simon Says Stamp Spring Flowers stamps in my possession for quite some time and finally stamped them out! I heat embossed them and filled them with color using Distress Inks.

The curved edge and scallops were achieved using dies from Pink & Main called Scallop Wave Dies. 

Did you ever have a project that was just about finished and you were putting the finishing touches on and then something happens and your heart drops! Yes, that is exactly what happened here! As I was adding my sentiment to the front of this card. The stamp fell off my Misti and left a black mark right in the center of the card! Ugh! My heart dropped! I fidgeted with this card, tried to take my flowers off so that I could salvage them but my glue held on too tight. I thought I was going to have to scrap this and move on to another project. With frustration I set it aside for a day. When I came back to it, a solution came to me. I had this birthday wishes banner set aside from another project that I hadn't used. I put it over the inked spot on the card and it covered it perfectly! Yay! Card saved!

The sentiment is from Craftin Desert Divas Wishful Thoughts Stamps and the banner is from the Flag Banner Dies. To really complete the card I added a few Nuvo Drops.

This is the first card I had made in quite some time so I still feel a little rusty but I would count this as a success! 

Craft on, my friends!