This Week in Cards - Welcome August!

August is roaring in like a lion!  It's heating up outside and the only place I really want to be is inside.   Inside my craft room with the air cranked up and an ice cold wine cooler near by.  I have a big birthday coming up this week so of course I've been celebrating for oh....about a month.  ;)   So This Week in Cards I had lots of new stuff to play with.

First up I used a Lil" Inker Border Builders die to create this cloud stencil.  Awesome fun technique and a great background for this adorable Art Impressions airplane stamp.  Any of my friends know that this "happy mail"  fits my husband and I to a T!

Another Art Impressions stamp that I absolutely love are these giggly friends. So cute!   I find that I can't stamp these images without altering them in some way.  This little blonde received a long pony tail.  For the animal print background I actually used an old wall stencil that I had laying around. I stenciled in black and then sprayed a light spray of black over it to add texture.

Using a watercolored background and some large dies and stamped letters for this playful little birthday card.  I'm always looking for a chance to use those adorable, Unforgettable elephants by WPlus9.

This card was one of a few different challenges I did for Stamp Nation.  This challenge was to make a card depicting your favorite drink.  Mine is Diet Coke.  Can you see it?? 

I CASE'd an awesome card by Catherine Pooler this week and came up with this one.  I loved the striking contrast between the black and white image and the bright colored title strip.  I also added some bright ink splotches to mine.

Another Stamp Nation challenge was to make a glamorous Hollywood style card. What's more glam that sparkly chandeliers?  I was excited to use this chandelier stamp that I haven't used in ages.  See, it pays to hoard every one of those stamps.  You never know when you might need them.  ;) 

And finally, another beauty using my Altenew layered rose stamp set.  This time using a Hero Arts wreath stamp as a foundation of leafy greens.   The sentiment is another oldie I dug out of my Stampin Up' drawer.  And an honorable mention to those fabulous black and white stripes that I'm still so enamored with and can't get enough of. 

Thanks so much for stopping by.  Have a great week my friends!