Hello-
As I was putting away stamps, I just had to play with this one again.
Its going to visit the gallery at The Flower Challenge. The theme is add embellishments. My embellishments are various sized SU Pearls colored with Copics.
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Greetings,
It feels so good to be creating again. I made another card this afternoon. This card was inspired by Color Throwdown colors and will be visiting The Flower Challenge as well.
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Stamps |
Penny Black Floral Vines, The Ton Easy Expressions |
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Dies |
Penny Black Floral Vines, The Ton Easy Expressions |
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Inks, Markers |
Memento Tuxedo Black, Copics G9,14; Y15,19; BG45,49 |
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Embossing |
Altenew Flowerbed, hero arts EP |
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Stencils |
none |
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Embellishments |
SU Pearls |
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Papers/Cardstock |
SU stripes & florals mix & match cards & envelopes |
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Hello-
After a week of mid 80's its raining and 56 today. Perfect day for that last pack of stew meat in the freezer. Its been in the crockpot about 9 hours on low and if the aroma is anything to go by hubs and I will have a tasty bowl soon.
The rain is also good for making cards. I have two cards to share for three challenges.
First up Seize the Birthday - Off the Edge
Waffle Flowers mini slimline die finally came out to play with their wild flowers stencil (this is configured for the regular A2 postage collage die, but a bit of futzing around and I got it to work. The round sentiment is from the fall stamp set and the banner is from Pinkfresh.
The size of this card is about half an inch shorter that the coin envelope I mail it in so it was perfect for an off the edge sentiment banner.
My next card was a redo of a panel that got sent to the trash. I don't give up often but there was no saving it. When I shop online I often check the clearance sections. I found a Pinkfresh stencil set that was 4 panels so not so arduous but the stamp set was not available. It looked dooable and it was marked WAY down; I took a chance on it.
The first attempt showed me there were two area of teeny tiny flowers that I could not make look right they needed definition. Outlining didn't help so back to the drawing board. I used a black copic friendly pen to trace along the stencils opening for the vase and the leaves. Then I added the color using Altenew Inks. The final two stencils were all about the flowers and the shading on the leaves. Once that was done I was left with a bouquet floating above the vase. I drew in stems, added stems to the leaves and flowers and used some copics to color them in. As a final touch I outlined the flowers freehand as well. The sentiment got a touch of purple as well as a bit of whimsy.
This will go to the Flower Challenge and Color Hues.
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Hello-
I have a late night card for you that was inspired by We Love Stamping (something from the garden), The Flower Challenge (Pretty Pastels), and Stencil Fun Challenge (option of flowers).
I used the stamp and stencil from Pink Fresh's Miss your Smile suite to make this card.
I stamped the outlines first, then added color with the stencil layers. Fairly easy, this set is meant for a slimline format, but I do love images cut down to A2 size...causes one to wonder what else could be there.
The Happy Birthday is from Stampin Up white embossed on black. I cut the two words apart as I liked the stack better. A trio of pink pearls and the card was finished.
A touch of ink to the envelope with the darker parts of the stencil areas finished up the project.
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Hello--
Today I played with new things.
I splurged on the Distress watercolor crayons, and in a word...LOVE them. Actual watercolor paints and I have a fantasy relationship. I think I can use them to color, but the results always disappoint me. I don't seem to get that translucent feel I'm looking for. So I am going to stick with moveable ink type colors and these lovely crayons.
I have a card for We Love Stamping- Anything Goes and The Flower Challenge add some sparkle.
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Hello ~
Today, this card will be visiting two challenges: The Flower Challenge, and Watercooler Wednesday.
I used Altenew inks in the Pocket Full of Sunshine set for the monochromatic coloring.
The Flower Challenge calls for a monochromatic flower card and Watercooler Wednesday is for all things feminine.
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Hello-
After seeing the reminder for The Flower Challenge's challenge, I decided to make one more card. I'll also be adding it to the Watercooler Wednesday gallery.
I used three WPLUS9 stamp sets, I found it quicker & easier to use just 2 (rose) or three (hellebore) stamps for the multi-step blooms. The sentiment comes from Simon Says Stamp and the panel die is from The Greetery.
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Hi There-
Its Saturday and my day has been filled with laundry, college football, and putting together this card after having spend days stamping and die cutting and fussy cutting the smaller pieces because I ran out of patience. I fell in love with this stamp after seeing Yana Smakula's card. I did use it as a jumping off point for my design.
There are several challenges this will go visit: We Love Stamping, Stamping Sensations and The Flower Challenge.
This new Happy Poinsettia from Simon Says Stamp is a fun flower and has lots of options with the included greenery pieces. I was able to add lots of "leaves". The sentiment also comes from Simon Says Stamp. The die for the panel is Nordic Frames from The Greetery and the jewels are from Pretty Pink Posh. I bought them for summer cards and they never made a good match...until now. YAY.
The theme at We Love Stamping and Stamping Sensations is Christmas.
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