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Blog hop and Jennifer and Lucy’s trio challenge

Welcome to SRM’s BLOG HOP.  IF you are coming from the talented Nina Bracket’s blog read on. If you are just beginning head on over to  SRM’s blog to start the hop.


If you are stopping by for Jennifer’s, Lucy’s and my “Trio Challenge” Please scroll down. I hope you will join in the SRM hop too. 


Here is my blog hop card. Who wouldn’t love this Penny Black image?

Just say Boo

 This grey background happened by accident. 
Just say Boo

See how I wrapped the hat? I wanted to use a ribbon but, then you would see the lines.
Just say Boo

I will have more details at the bottom of my post on this card.

Now you want to hop over to to Jen Martakis (a Two Peas Digital Designer!) who I so admire. Here is Jen’s blog to visit next in the hop.


Here is my card for our “Trio Challenge” I can’t wait to see Jennifer’s card here and Lucy’s card here. Thanks for your sweet comments on the three of us teaming up. It’s just as exciting for me šŸ™‚

I have such a difficult time adding sentiments  and  I just couldn’t find the right spot on this card. Maybe because I went nuts with the dots on this one. I wanted for it to look like water splashes.

Here is a close up of the images and the moon. I flipped the whale (see the one on the right) and the same whale has two smudges on it. I decided to keep it because whales always have markings on them. Notice the textured look on the whales…that is done with a rag and Copic’s blending solution.


I will post details at the end of this post. Now for this next card there is a short story. I made my card for the challenge and thought I was finished. A few days later checked the details of our challenge and realized I needed to design a card with the WHALE …not the dolphins so back to the ink pad.

This was the first but, wrong card. By the way these images you can find here by “Lawn Fawn” I just love them and they are so easy to color.

Just Wavin" Hello

This is where I discovered how I love the dots on this dry embossing

This will be very basic. Email me if you have questions. Thanks šŸ™‚

ā€œJust say Booā€ card
Distress your shape with stormy sky then a little on the edges with black soot. Stamp with stars in black ink. The splatter dots were created by accident when I cleaned up my craft mat with a wet wipe and laid my background on top. It picked up the liquid and ink…I liked the look so I recreated it to fill in the background. Add white dots to accent the stars. Stamp image with and color with copics. Paper is from Pink Paisley.

Whale card
To flip the whale all you do is stamp on the white paper, cut the image out and turn the image over. On the “back” trace the outline so it now looks like a stamped image. You can hold it to the light to see where the eyes and mouth should be traced. 
I started with baby blue paper for the bottom panel. I inked up the embossing folder with
faded jeans  THEN I placed my paper inside the folder and put it through my cuttlebug. After the ink dried on the paper I added white dots. For the purple strip I used labels five and colored with copic makers (V04, V06) after cutting the waves with fiskars punch I used a heavy hand and distressed it with faded jeans.

Dolphin card
For the background … I distressed it first with tumbled glass then with broken china. I start out in the corners making swirl motions and keep adding color the same way. Try to keep a spot in the middle that doesnā€™t get inked as much. Then add the darker distress ink to give the background more depth. Once dry put in your embossing folder add white dots to your hearts content. Images are stamped with memento tuxedo black ink then colored with copic makers.
See you tomorrow. Thanks so much for stopping by. Hugs,Kathy

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Comments

  1. Joy says

    Loving every single card Kathy, my head is just shaking from the talent that is before me, you make my jaw drop each time I visit, hugs!

  7. Barb says

    Love when you fill your posts with more than one card! So many wonderful details and colors to feast my eyes on! Love each card, Kathy! Hugs to you! šŸ™‚

  9. Arlene says

    Love them all, but especially the cute “Boo” card. I love the look of waves you have on the whales card. I can do without sentiments on fronts of cards. I’m into the scenes that are created.

  22. Amy Heller says

    Wow – look at you, a double hop! Your hedgehog is adorable, Kathy!! You’d be proud of me, I have inherited a set of Copics and a certification manual for practicing! LOL – We’ll see how it goes.

  29. Ida says

    What a treat these cards are to the eye. So fun and adorable. Wow you have patience to create all those wonderful dots.

  30. kath says

    lots of gorgeousness and loved your whale/dolphin story….this is the story of my life..if only I would stop and read the instructions…hope you have a great weekend…big hugs kath xxx

  31. Shirley N says

    All 3 cards are wonderful but I especially love your boo card–it is a wowzer! Love how your accidental grey background turned out! You are such an inspiration!

  32. deana says

    You outdo yourself every single time! I’m always in AWE of your stunning creations, Kathy! You work magic!

    Hope you have a GREAT weekend, my friend! šŸ™‚

  34. Disp6194 says

    So I started this blog hop because of you and it has been really great! I love all the white detail on your cards, really beautiful!

  35. Dawn says

    All your cards are so adorable Kathy. Love your hedgehog with this funky wizards hat,… and all those dots… I bet you have a sore hand after all of these!!!

  41. Manhattan Mandie says

    WOW! You are one talented woman! I am now following you and hope that you will come check out my blog also! I’m having a HUGE blog candy giveaway right now….

  42. Kathyc on SCS says

    Om my goodness, all of these are just adorable! Great job on the challenge; and who needs a sentiment when you can see the love on that whale card??? Love it!

  47. Jess says

    I love all of these, but I especially love the dolphin card. That is seriously cute! I am in such awe of your talent!!

  49. nichol magouirk says

    Kathy, YOU are amazing! I can’t tell you how inspiring you are to me. Every card is a masterpiece! Jennifer speaks so highly of you. I hope we get the chance to meet in person one day! Have a fabulous weekend!

  50. Wendy ten Hove says

    Hi Kathy,

    Oeh, love those two ‘water-cards’! The whales are soooooo pretty!! And those funhaving splashy dolphins! So wonderful! Perfect! And how amazing how you created the underwater feeling!!! It’s truly gorgeous! Do you have someone to send it to? šŸ˜‰

    Hope you’re enjoying the weekend!
    Hugs, Wendy

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