Life Is Better

Hello, Friends!  It's time to share a card that makes me smile.  I love to see bears in the mountains...at a distance.  However, I really enjoy making cards with bears on them.  So how about mama bear and her cubs taking a hike in the mountains?

  I will share this project with some of my friends at these challenges:

Mod Squad Challenge

Word Art Wednesday

Life in the Mountains

Hello, Friends! It's Monday and it's time for an anything goes challenge.

It's time for a new challenge at Pammie's Inky Pinkies Challenges @

http://pammiesinkypinkieschallenges.blogspot.com/

so you can see what fun team A had.
Our theme this week is Animals and I chose bears.
I love all Blue Knight Rubber Stamps with mountains and
here is one of my favorites that reminds me of North Carolina.
Join us for our challenge, won't you?

Five Pines Shimmer and Shine

Hello, my dear friends! It's time to share a project for Blue Knight Rubber Stamps.  The DT has been challenged to create two cards with each stamp.  This week it's all about shimmer so I took out all the media I have that sparkles and shimmers. 

The second card turns to autumn colors.  I used a napkin for the background, stamped the image on the back of an acetate, and added fall colored sequins for the bling.

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Trees, Fence, Clouds Twice

Hello, my dear friends! It's time to share a project for Blue Knight Rubber Stamps.  The DT challenge this month is to create two cards with each set of stamps.  Using Trees, Fence, and Clouds, I created a winter tag card and a fall card.

Silver embossing the large image created a holiday feel.  Then painting the sky and clouds with shimmer paint in blue and lavender and the grass in shimmer green added more shine to the card.   The sentiment was cut out of silver card stock to finish up the card and several layers of metallic card stock created the tag card.

For the second card, I chose fall colors.  Pan Pastels were used for the sky and foreground;  Distress Inks for the foliage.

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Silhouette Grazing Horse Twofer

Hello, my dear friends! It's time to share a project for Blue Knight Rubber Stamps.  The DT has been challenged to use each of our stamps this month for two seasons, one for a holiday and one for another season.  I used the Silhouette Grazing Horse set for this pair of cards.

The first card is a monochromatic Winter scene.  I painted the background with shimmer paint and created a hill behind the horse, then used the cloud template and distress ink to create clouds.  I added white ink to the branches and to the top of the horse and groundto create a dusting of snow.  Two layers of a die cut sentiment completed the winter card.

The second card ushers in Fall in all its glory.  Using the leaf cluster stamp that is included in the set in different colors created the multi-colored foliage against the Distress Ink background.  A die cut sentiment finishes it off.

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Five Pines

Hello, my dear friends! It's time to share a project for Blue Knight Rubber Stamps.  I have the perfect all occasion stamp image for you!  It is timeless and so versatile!  It's called Five Pines and it's from Blue Knight Rubber Stamps.

The DT has been challenged to use each of our stamps this month for two seasons, one for a holiday and one for another season.  Here is my winter card using a Pan Pastel northern lights sky.

My second features a Pan Pastel spring sky.

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Dandelion Notepad

Hello, my dear friends! 

It's time to share a project for Blue Knight Rubber Stamps.

The design team was challenged to mix and match two or more sets of BKRS stamps

for our projects this month.
This part of the challenge is "anything but a card."
I decorated a notepad cover.

Delightful Dandelions
Galloping Horses
Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly

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Galloping Birthday Wishes

Hello, my dear friends! 

It's time to share a project for Blue Knight Rubber Stamps.

The design team was challenged to mix and match two or more sets of BKRS stamps

for our projects this month.

Galloping Horses
Bonus Birds
Best Wishes
Cloud Stencil

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Barnyard Scene

Hello, my dear friends! 
It's time to share a project for Blue Knight Rubber Stamps.
The design team was challenged to mix and match two or more sets of BKRS stamps
for our projects this month.

Barnyard Gate
Good Morning Rooster
 Bonus Birds

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Delightful Scene

Hello, my dear friends! 

It's time to share a project for Blue Knight Rubber Stamps.

The design team was challenged to mix and match two or more sets of BKRS stamps

for our projects this month.
I created the background with Brushes and Bisters, 
watercolor crystals and black heat embossed
the images and sentiment.

Delightful Dandelion
Prayer Flower
Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly
Galloping Horses

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Creating a Scene

Hello, my dear friends! 
It's time to share a project for Blue Knight Rubber Stamps.
The design team was challenged to mix and match two or more sets of BKRS stamps
for our projects this month.

I combined Seasonal Woodlands with the Cowgirl Cowboy and Bonus Birds.

Seasonal Woodlands 

Cowgirl and Cowboy

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Starry Walk in the Woods

Hello, crafty friends!  Mama Bear and her cubs are taking a walk in the woods on a starry night for my post for Blue Knight Stamps today.  I heat embossed in black against a watercolor galaxy sky.

Blue Knight Stamps is doing a September New Release giveaway! Head over to the FANS OF BLUE KNIGHT RUBBER STAMPS Facebook group HERE, to enter!

It's easy to make a watercolor galaxy sky.  Take watercolor paper and add swirling strokes of dark blue, dark red, dark aqua, and purple to the paper.  Spritz with water if you would like for the colors to blend. After it dries, create a black wash and add to some parts of the card. Add white gesso flicks or silver dots for the stars.  There are many tutorials out there on the Galaxy Technique.  Each one will be unique and fun to create.

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kReN@afourthlife

Western Sunset

Hello, my dear friends! It's time to share a project for Blue Knight Rubber Stamps using a new release image called Ranch Fence.  It reminds me of the trips we made out west in our motor home.  I loved the western sunsets! I used alcohol markers for most of the scene and the sunrise and sunset Pan Pastels for the sunset.

 And Blue Knight Stamps is doing a September New Release giveaway!

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Heading Out to the Barn

I am waiting for fall and each day that we have just a small dip in the temperatures, I am assured that it is coming.  Today, I am featuring a Blue Knight Rubber Stamp image called Path to the Barn.  I pulled out my Zig Real Brush markers and did an impressionist technique for watercoloring.  Hope you like it.

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BKRS Glittery Snowy Village

Hello, my dear friends! 
It's time to share a project for Blue Knight Rubber Stamps.
This month, we are focusing on the winter holidays.

For my projects this month, I will be using
Heidi's Tree, Snowy Village, and Come Let Us Adore Him.

Today I am using Snowy Village.
along with card stock and papers from LCI Paper.

This card uses an interesting technique called the Dryer Sheet Technique.
Color your image with vivid colors. I used Chameleon Color Tone Pens for this one. 
Run your image, face down, through a Xyron machine so the image side will be sticky.
Place a used dryer sheet on top and flatten down.
Sprinkle with fine glitter and rub it into the dryer sheet.
Tap off excess glitter and complete the card.

So sparkly!

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BKRS Christmas Colors for You

Hello, my dear friends! 
It's time to share a project for Blue Knight Rubber Stamps.
This month, we are focusing on the winter holidays.
No matter what you celebrate or call your winter holidays, 

we have inspiration for you.

For my projects this month, I will be using
Heidi's Tree, Snowy Village, and Come Let Us Adore Him.

Today I am using Heidi's Tree 
and card stock and papers from LCI Paper, white heat embossing,
Pan Pastels, die cut shape, and ribbon.

  

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BKRS Memories of the Prairie

Hello, my dear friends! 
It's time to share a project for Blue Knight Rubber Stamps.
This month, we are focusing on the winter holidays.
No matter what you celebrate or call your winter holidays, 

we have inspiration for you.

For my projects this month, I will be using
Heidi's Tree, Snowy Village, and Come Let Us Adore Him.
Here's a card using Heidi's Tree and Come Let Us Adore Him
and card stock and papers from LCI Paper.

Florida doesn't have any snow but we have days that look like this card.
You may have days like this before your first snowfall.
This card reminds me of Kanapaha Prairie in Gainesville
where we lived for 19 years

I am happy to share this project at the following challenges:  Craft Rocket Challenges #62 August - Anything Goes; Crafting With An Attitude  Always Anything Goes;   Crimbo Crackers Must Be Christmas Related #190 Anything Goes;  Imagine That Creative Playground  Aug - Anything Goes

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Half Bouquet

Hello, my dear friends! 
It's time to share a project for Blue Knight Rubber Stamps.
I used a stamp set from the new release called Half Bouquet.
I colored the image using Chameleon Color Tone Pens, and fussy cut the image to mount on an embossed layer.  I added the sentiment from Good Morning Rooster.
I love the simplicity and bold colors of this card.
Hope you like it too!

Thanks for taking a peek!
kReN@afourthlife

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Prayer Flower

Hello, my dear friends! 

It's time to share a project for Blue Knight Rubber Stamps and 
it's a new release month.  There are seven new sets to choose from and you can see them by clicking the links below.

I am spotlighting Prayer Flower and ribbon from The Ribbon Place.
I white embossed the image and used Peerless Watercolors. 
Then I used a stitched die frame and an embossing folder.
I love blue-green and pink together, don't you?

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Chickadee

Hello, my dear friends! 
It's time to share a project for Blue Knight Rubber Stamps.  

I've been playing with Pan Pastels purchased at the BKRS store linked below.

It is so easy to create a background and that's how this card started.
After stamping the Chicadee image and the Good Morning Rooster sentiment,
I die cut a deckle frame, added a ribbon corner, and a rectangular frame.
The ribbon was provided by The Ribbon Place.

Thanks for taking a peek!
kReN@afourthlife

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