Scor-Pal More Than One Score Challenge – Masculine/Father’s Day

Posted on June 1, 2020 by Pets to Go

Hello crafters – happy June!! I hope this summer is going well for all of you. It certainly is little different these days, but we are all hanging in there!

It’s the start of the month, which means a new Scor-Pal challenge with a Masculine/Father’s Day theme

Each month we will have a different theme and you will have a month to create and enter your projects. As well as the theme you will need to make “More Than One Score” and tell us where you used the Scor-Pal on your project. So a single fold card won’t count but an Easel, Gatefold, Stair Step, etc will 🙂 Also we love to see your “Anything But a Card” projects, just as long as you make “More Than One Score”
We have a ton of inspiration on our Projects on the Scor-Pal website and also on our Pinterest Board to get you eager to enter.

I created a Pop Up gift card holder with a masculine flair. I used a Scor-Pal, Scor-Tape and some old stamps from Power Poppy. The image was colored with copics. The Scor-Pal can be found here and Scor-Tape can be found here.

Here is the inside of the card – when you open it up the gift card flips up.

I started with a piece of cardstock measuring 4.25 x 11 and scored it at 4.5, 5.5 and 6.5.

Then fold on the scor lines so you get a valley/mountain/valley fold.

Flip it over and place a narrow strip of scor-tape along the bottom.

Using the edge of a die cut, or a punch, cut the flap for the gift card as shown.

Here is what it will look like once the cut is made – you can just slip the gift card in the slot.

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope to see your entries on the Scor-Pal blog!!

I Brake For….Hooks and Lines!

Posted on April 18, 2018 by Pets to Go

Hello stampers and welcome to Wednesday with I Brake For Stamps! I hope the weather is starting to warm up wherever you are – it’s been a wild winter this year!

I have a cute card for all the fishing fans out there..

The main image is called Hooks and Lines and can be found HERE.

This is such a great stamp and I did something with it that some of you may not have done before – I cut the stamp up! I knew I wanted to use the images in a variety of ways – it started as one stamp and ended up being a group of individual stamps – take a look:

Don’t be afraid to cut up stamps – I have never regretted any that I have taken apart.

I stamped the lures using a stamp positioner and colored them with copics. Once the coloring was complete I cut a generic fish shape using a Silhouette cut file and stamped a birthday sentiment on it.

Then I pulled out another stamp set called Luncheon Meat – fund HERE – and stamped one of the fish images, colored it, cut it out and popped it up on the front.

I used a bunch of prisma pencils to color the lures,,,,,

I hope you hope on over to the IBFS store where there are a nice variety of fishing and lure images. Perfect for Father’s Day , or for anyone who likes fishing! Use code SAVE10NANCY and get 10% off your order.

Thanks for stopping by today!

I Brake For…..Clown Fish!!

Posted on January 31, 2018 by Pets to Go

Hello stampers and welcome to Wednesday with I Brake For Stamps. Do you like shaker cards? They seem to be all the rage these days. It’s been at least 15 years since I made one. Techniques come and go in the crafting world and back then they were all the rage and it is nice to see them popular again. Here is mine!

I’ve used a stamp called Clown Fish, found here on the IBFS store. A nice image that has the fish above a little section of sand and coral. The beads that make up the “shaker part” obscures some of the sand and coral portion – here is a little closer look.

It’s been so long since I did a shaker card I had to go back and review the steps. In my stash of stuff I found a bunch of containers of micro beads – if you’ve been crafting awhile you remember those teeny, tiny beads used to cover pens. Well I have a bunch and when I used them on the card here I may have used just a tad too much! They are so small you don’t realize how much you are putting into the card. And you can’t tell, but they are a very light blue. They look clear in the photo.

I hope you take a stab at creating one of these shaker cards. They are fun to do!

Hop on over to the IBFS store and check out the thousands of stamps available. There are so many styles you are sure to find something to love! USE code SAVE10NANCY and get 10% off your order!

I Brake For…..Bass Fish

Posted on April 26, 2017 by Pets to Go

Hello stampers – it’s Wednesday and time to show you another great stamp from I Brake For Stamps. This one is called Bass Fish, Here is my card.

Let me tell you that I love the size of this image. Big enough to fill a card and great for coloring. When I first saw this image I thought it would make a great masculine card – and perfect for Father’s Day for those men who love to fish. Then I thought….I know several women who love to fish as well – just as much as the guys. This would make a great card for those women! It made me realize that I have to get past the old traditional “if it’s a fish its masculine, if it’s a flower its feminine” thinking. In fact, I used to work with a guy who had the most amazing flower garden in his backyard. I could definitely send him a floral card and not feel funny about it.

I stamped the image with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored with copics. I sponged some Memento Cantaloupe ink around the edges. On the base card the text “GO FISH” is computer generated.

The Bass Fish stamp can be found here. I hope you hop on over to the IBFS store and take a look at the thousands of stamps available. Use the code SAVE10NANCY and get 10% off your order.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

I Brake For…Luncheon Meat!

Posted on April 5, 2017 by Pets to Go

Lunchoen Meat??? Hi everyone it’s Wednesday and time to show you what I did with the cute and funny stamp from I Brake For Stamps called Luncheon Meat. First let me show you what the stamp looks like:

Cute, right? I love the look on the faces of the fish and the helpless worm! I wanted to go in a different direction with this stamp though. Here is my card:

To get the most use of my stamps I try to think of various ways to use them. My card is an exercise in masking and using a stamp positioning tool (I used the stamp-a-ma-jig). Once everything was stamped I pulled out my copic markers, set up a rainbow palette and went to work. My inspiration for the card was this t-shirt:

Once the fish were all colored I worked on the background. The Watercolored look of the background was created using copic colorless blender in an aqua brush. I then scribbled some very rich blue color (B69) on a craft sheet, picked it up with the aqua brush and simply brushed on the color.

Now, if you don’t have copic colorless blender you can use rubbing alcohol but the color many not be the same. I did a video on this technique a few weeks back and if you are interested you can see it here.

The sentiment on the bottom of the card is computer generated,

The Luncheon Meat stamp can be found on the IBFS store here.

Then I did a second card. Have you ever cut your stamps apart? This is one of those stamps that can be cut apart and used in a variety of ways. In the next card I used the worm an two of the fish. I can see using those fish individually for so many different cards. The worm and fish were colored, cut out and popped up. And it was a bit tricky cutting that little worm!! The waves were created using a couple of curved border dies and I don’t know if you can see it well from the picture but the bottom of the card is embossed with a design that looks like waves.

I hope you have enjoyed these cards. Please take a look at the IBFS store to find all sorts of fish stamps! Use the code SAVE10NANCY to get 10% off your purchase.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Mark’s Finest Papers May release – day 2!

Posted on May 16, 2012 by Pets to Go

Welcome to Mark’s Finest Papers a Heinrich Company’s

May Blog Hop!

This month’s New Stamp Set Releases are

Oopsy Daisy Featured May 15

Get Reel Featured May 16

Scenic Selections Featured May 17

Flamingos on Vacation Featured May 18

Today’s post shows the latest set – Get Reel – a fantastic fishing set!

I really loved working with this set – it contains two silhouette images and a number of sentiments some of which are perfect for Father’s Day.

I sponged a variety of Memento inks to get the sunset and water, then stamped the image and sentiment with black ink. Paper piercing one side and adding some square rhinestones on the lower right seemed just the right touch for this masculine card.

Please hop along with us! You have a chance to win one of the above stamp sets! Just comment on the following blogs (don’t forget this one), each day for more chances to win! (You do NOT have to comment on all the blogs each day! The names are drawn randomly!) All four winners will be announced on May 19, 2012 on the Mark’s Finest Papers blog. You can go back and comment if you missed a day. (HINT: The more you comment, the more chances you have to win and comments on the MFP blog count twice!) The deadline for commenting is 11PM EST on Friday May 18, 2012.

Get Reel – sneak peek!

Posted on May 9, 2012 by Pets to Go

Today’s sneak peek show two images from the new Get Reel set – to be issued next week by Mark’s Finest Papers.

I love the sentiment and the set is perfect for masculine cards – or anyone who likes to fish. The panel behind the sentiment shows just a portion of the image.

To make the scene I masked off the horizon and sponged blue inks on the bottom and shades of pink on top. All inks are from Memento.

Stop by tomorrow for another sneak peek!

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