Happy Saturday everyone :)
Happy Friday! I made another watercolor Fifth Avenue Floral card for the StampinB's challenge which is to use a flower on your card. I used 2 flowers so hopefully the challenge police won't come a knockin' on my door! *wink* I love this technique and how the flowers look after coloring them with reinkers. This time I used butterscotch, orange and red reinkers, and believe it or not I used that same pink metallic paper I used on the previous one. If you click on the photo, you'll see a few edges that still show the pink color where the inks didn't penetrate. The leaves were done with mellow moss card stock and the sentiment panel was computer generated with a mellow moss ribbon behind it. A swiss dots cuttlebug ef was used for the white panel and the card base was done in summer sun.
Here's a card I made for a young woman who's graduating from high school this year. I took the school insignia from the invitation and layered it on red and shiny silver metallic cardstock. I scored the Real Red panel on the Scor-Pal. The class of 2009 sticker was carefully removed from the invitation envelope and adhered to the bottom of the card. The tassel was made from crochet thread and wound with silver cording. A few silver brads and I have a very special card to enclose her graduation cash in.
My son and his family are coming for a visit in a few weeks, so I've been working on a scrapbook I plan on sending home with them. This is a picture of their daughter Cory on a recent trip to the Baltimore Aquarium. On a previous vacation she'd seen her Mom and Dad both give rock climbing a try, so when she happened upon some big rocks she hoped to do some rock climbing of her own! When it became evident that she wasn't going to accomplish what she set out to do (she's just 3 yrs. old) her Mommy told her to just pretend she was climbing and she'd take a picture. These are the resulting photos - she's hugging the rocks and pretending to climb :) I just LOVE these pictures and I can't wait to see her face when she sees the scrapbook :)
Todays OCC challenge is to focus on favorite sentiments. I love the sentiment on this card; it's from the SU Echoes of Kindness stamp set. I used all Parisian Breeze dsp along with Baja Breeze and Chocolate Chip cardstocks. I used the EK Fleur de lis border and single image punches, and embossed the sentiment with white embossing powder. Finally a few chocolate Kaiser pearls were added. I had this sketch drawn in a book, and I know I saw it on someone's blog, but I didn't write the designer's name down, so if you see it and recognize it, please let me know so I can give you the proper credit!
Here's a card to meet the Stampin B's challenge today - which is to use the following 4 elements on your card. A punched border, a circle, a leaf or leaves, and at least 3 brads. I stamped the leaves in Versamark on the green panel, and punched it with the EK Fleur de lis border punch. The circles were make with Nesties and I added white dots with a white gel pen. The stamps and sentiment are from the Treasure life set by CTMH. The lime green and black cardstocks are on a PTI white card base. Quick and easy!
Happy Friday Everyone!
I made this card using the Fifth Avenue Floral images and the watercoloring technique found here. I used some beautiful shimmery pink cardstock that Heidi gave me {thanks my friend} and used an assortment of pink reinkers to color the flowers. After the flowers were colored and dried, I cut them out and curled them around a stencil to make them more realistic. I popped them up on foam tape and stuck some leaves underneath them. The leaves were made by punching with an oval on folded cardstock, and then running them through the crimper. I added a touch of stickles to the center and stamens of the smaller flowers. The background was embossed with the Swiss Dots ef, and the sentiment is from SU!
Howdy! Here's my card for the Mojo 87 challenge, located HERE. What a great sketch, I loved making this card, although my images are a little larger than I thought they'd be. The 3 stamps are all from Great Impressions, colored with Tombows and paint brush. The butterfly stamp is a Penny Black, also colored with Tombows and Pearl Ex. The paper is SU...DP is Kraft, cardstock is the blue that came out the same time as Wasabi. Man, I have a horrible time remembering the colors! Silk ribbon is from Joanne Fabrics. Dandelions are dabbed with clear stickle. The "make a wish" is from a Penny Black set too. Also, used my nesties! This card is going to my little Granddaughter, who loves to blow on dandelions, and wish for CANDY! Ha!
Hello everyone.............I hope your Tuesday is going well :)
Good Afternoon! My yard work is completed and only one more big chore to do...paint door trim...ewwww! But that can be done anytime, so it's time to get back to doing challenges and making cards. Had a hard time getting going, forgot how to stamp over the last month! My mojo will come back eventually, but I wanted to do a card for the Kitchen Sink Crew Challenge, located here. It's one of my favorite challenges! This set is the itty bitty tulips, I just LOVE it!
It's a great day today isn't it? For Tony Stewart fans it sure is! He won the all-star race last night, woohoo!! Ok, I know you're thinking I'm probably acting like a fool, but for those NASCAR fans out there, you know exactly how I feel. I absolutely love racing, and Tony Stewart - otherwise known as "Smoke"- is my favorite driver. I use his smoke logo as my avatar over on SCS. His enthusiasm for the sport is unmatched, and I think I might be one of his biggest fans. Ah yes, that's the part of me that's never going to grow up I suppose. I still love fast cars, rock 'n roll music and anything that keeps me young at heart. Last night when Tony climbed out of his car in victory lane, he was showered with confetti, and as they interviewed him there were 2 sparkly pieces of the stuff stuck to his forehead. It reminded me of a comedy movie where everytime the villan smiled, his tooth caused a glare in the camera lens. LOL Anyway, that's why you see little sequin stars all over this card........that's the confetti :) I drew the smoke logo freehanded with a sharpie marker and went around the outside with a red marker. The rest just came together as I was feeling jubilant over Tony's new team finally winning a race this year............and what a race it was! Heidi, I sure hope you stayed up to watch it!!!!
Happy Saturday everyone:)
I'm on a double-post roll today! LOL
Happy Friday everyone!
I was on the run for most of the day, but I finally found time to catch my breath and do the CTD #42 . This week the colors are turquoise, black and saffron. I'm out of saffron so I used the closest yellow I had. I needed to make a masculine birthday card so I pulled out my favorite "guy" set - Happiness is a Journey. I used a turquoise cardbase and matted all the yellows with black. The vertical panel was embossed with a Cuttlebug argyle embossing folder. The main panel was stamped with Versafine Onyx Black ink, and embossed with black ep. A few gold brads were added for accents on the smaller wheels. I originally stamped the sentiment on the turquoise, but I smeared it *sigh*. Ok, I've always been told there are no mistakes in stamping, so I went to my ticket punch and did the sentiment again. One ticket didn't cover the smear and it didn't look right without some black behind it, so I punched another and layered them at an angle. I was happier with this sentiment than the original one I accidentally smeared. Think about it for a minute........who rides a train without a ticket?? I think sometimes those accidents are just meant to be :)
Good Morning Everyone :) This card was made for the Flourishes Timeless Tuesday challenge found here. Today is Dee Jackson's birthday (get well soon Dee) so Flourishes is celebrating by challenging us to make a birthday card. I pulled out my Cuttlebug Birthday embossing folder and made the background on PTI white cardstock. I used the PTI Spring Moss cardstock and ribbon for the Nesties frame and sentiment panel. So Many Sayings was used for the "make a wish" sentiment. The Sweet Peas were stamped on wc paper with Versamark, then embossed with clear detail ep. I colored them with Tombow and CTMH markers and a wet paintbrush. The final touch was to add some Kaiser pink rhinestones.
Happy Saturday Everyone! I made this for the sketch challenge over at OCC this week. It's a great sketch, but I struggled to find balance with this card once I started it. I used all 3 shades of the Azalea prismatic papers and the Sweet Pea stamp set by Flourishes. I embossed the cardstock base with white ep and the Stitched background stamp. The two smaller panels were embossed with clear ep using the tiny flourishes included with the Sweet Pea stamp set. I punched the borders with an EK scalloped dotted punch, and added some sheer SU ribbon. The sentiment is from So Many Sayings by SU and I used the word window punch for that. The 3mm pearls are from Hero Arts. I used Nestie Petite Ovals for the focal panel which was colored with Tombows and a damp paintbrush.
I made this card for the Viva La Verve sketch challenge with a twist {May, week 2} found here. This week's twist is to use the color combo of blue and green. I love blues and greens together, especially royal blue and lime green, but of course I don't have any cardstock in those colors! LOL I chose Ballet Blue and Certainly Celery for this card, and I used white as my neutral. I colored the image with blended reinkers and a blender pen and touched it up with markers. I tried real hard to add the brads on the left side as the sketch shows, but with those punched borders, they got lost on the card so I eliminated them and used a single flower with a tiny button instead. I took a negative piece from the punched borders and stuck it on the bottom corner for balance.stamps - Verve (sentiment) Echoes of Kindness; paper - Ballet Blue, Certainly Celery, White; inks - Ballet Blue, Certainly Celery, Versafine Onyx Black; accessories - clear EP, EK Fleur de Lis punch, soft sky and bashful blue reinkers, blender pen, celery and bashful blue markers, flower, button, dimensionals.
I made this card for the VivaLaVerveMay01 sketch challenge with a twist. The twist was to use something from your home for inspiration. The rag quilt photographed behind this card is what inspired me. I made this quilt several years ago, and as the sentiment indicates, it's brought me comfort many times on chilly evenings. I know the colors aren't for everyone, but for me they're perfect........I'm a purple girl from the getgo! I used scraps of paper to make this and stamped the squares with white pigment ink and coordinating color inks to resemble the flannel patterns. I distressed all the edges to look like the ragged edges of the quilt. I cut a heart from purple cardstock and distressed that before adding to the square. There are random hearts sewn onto the quilt too. I suppose I actually recreated my own ragquilt onto cardstock didn't I?
Good Afternoon! My name is Ima Nutts, and I have decided to do the Kitchen Sink Crew Challenge, located HERE, for my favorite person, whom I let live on the property, because she feeds me year in and year out. That poor woman has been working outside, to make everything nice for summer, for 2 weeks now. She hasn't had time to stamp, so I thought I'd help her out.
I was playing around with my Manhattan Flower embossed image after reading this post on Patty Bennett's blog "Pattys Stamping Spot." I started by embosssing a piece of pink metallic cardstock with the roses. {Thanks Heidi, I still have a couple pieces of that gorgeous cardstock left} I sponged the NEGATIVE side of the rose image with regal rose and rose red instead of brayering them with 3 colors, but I was happy with the look. I have a brayer but I hate to use it??? LOL After cutting the image out, I matted it with some gorgeous satiny dsp from SU! called Rockabilly. I tilted the card to photograph it so you could see the shiny stripes and how fancy the paper is. I had no intentions of using black on a Mother's day card, but once I got the roses colored and chose Garden Green cardstock for the leaves, I knew black was the only color that would work to make this floral image pop. The sentiment panel & bottlecap mat were diecut with my Quickutz and stamped with $1 stamps. I added some ivory taffeta ribbon and a little clip to adhere it to the card. It's all on a 5x51/2" square base of Rose Red. The leaf branch was made with a sizzlet diecut, and the single leaves were made by folding a piece of cardstock, punching with oval punches on the fold, and run through a crimper.