Another Magnolia

Hi there-

I so love coloring this Magnolia from Hero Arts. I don't like just flat white card bases, it is so hard for me to just leave them alone - so I often deboss, emboss or add a white on white layer to them for some texture.  The diecut layer is added as a foam tape raised layer, the magnolia is adhered flat to that panel.

I am adding this card to Shopping our Stash - April Showers bring May flowers challenge.

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Hero Arts Magnolia

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I have several posts going up today.  After I cleaned and reorganized my crafty space it was so hard for me to craft...all my mojo was gone. I had no ideas.  So a week later I grabbed some flowers and hoped that would get me back to my happy place.  And it did.  I have several posts coming up - maybe even today.

First up, a visit to AAA Cards to play with inspired by nature as their theme; and I am adding this to Always Fun Challenges - anything goes as well.

My Card Chain Challenge swap friend Arlene from A bit of this and that sent me a couple of Hero Arts Magnolia blooms along with a swap card.  I colored them and mailed them out.  I missed that flower so when I saw it at Ellen H's in clear format I grabbed it along the matching die.  In this usage, I did trim up the image much closer than the die cut it.




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Muse and Addicted to Stamps and More

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Tracey's darling card at Muse this week got me working on a card for a friend recovering from surgery.  I was inspired by the cute critter, the center placement and the popped up panel on Tracey's card.

Images are from Newton's Nook and I used simple copic coloring. The outer die is from MFT.

Since I used markers  I am also submitting to Addicted to Stamps and More, Make your Mark.

  

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Inspired by

Hi there!

Today's card was inspired by the fabulous image at Inspired by all the little things.

I love that wood with a bit of peeling paint, and those big blooms with the black centers in the inspiration image below.

 
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May Bizarre Day

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May's bizarre day is May 16th - Love a  Tree day.  I do love trees. I love them all year round - when its stark and cold in winter, when they are full  of color in fall, when they are lush and green in summer and mostly in the spring when some of them bloom.

I love both the cherry blossoms and the magnolias - my two favorite springtime flowering trees.  This card is was inspired by them.  I followed the AI Watercolor Wednesday video for placement. 


After about 5 years, my crafty space is finally set up and organized in a way that makes it feel open and friendly for crafting.  I've been putting it together piecemeal deciding what I do like and what I don't.  This space also holds my "office" where I help out hubs.  This final push included doubling plus my shelving, purging things I had stuffed away in every nook and cranny, and organizing so I can just look and know what is where.  I thought I would share a photo.  Its a panoramic shot and has a bit of distortion on the right side.

My window is west facing, and gives me light most of the day. I am on the second floor - outside that window is a stand of trees - a small woods and a bird feeder.  I often get side tracked by the squirrel antics, the birds, and the hopeful yet unsuccessful cats stalking both the birds and squirrels. 

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Mothers Day

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This card is for my fabulous MIL. If you have been following me for any length of time, you know she is the absolute best, and her favorite color is pink.

This is the first card I made with the main image from Avery Elle's Floral Bunch, and after playing with it, I had to make more cards.  Those were posted earlier this last week. I've saved my favorite for last.

I am entering this to Double D Challenges. I loved the soft pink flowers with pale yellow centers in the mood board, they inspired my coloring.  Had to hold post publishing, so my MIL got the card before seeing it on the blog.

Just Because

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I've been MIA for a few days, my last week's posts were pre-done. I've been reorganizing my crafty space, and as my projects usually go it was FAR more work and time intensive than I thought it would be.

Now that my crafting table is clear, it is time to create.

I am playing along with two challenges -  The Card Concept - Bold Bloom, and Where Creativity meets C9 - Floral.

From the Card Concept I was inspired by the red and the white blinds, and I love this bold lily from Concord and 9th.  In addition, I used a cover plate from Avery Elle and a sentiment from PTI to complete my card.  The image was white embossed and colored with Arteza brush tip watercolor markers.

I'm calling this one clean and layered for the card concept.

I stamped the image on bristol, heat embossed in white, colored it and then die cut that whole panel with the coverplate. I mounted it on black for drama and added a black inked sentiment.  This is my wedding anniversary month - 10 years on the 30th.  Red, Black and white were my wedding colors so I am often drawn to this combination.

                             

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More Floral Bouquet

Hello -

As promised  I am back with more Floral  Bouquet cards.  I'll warn you now, these are unusual color choices.

Both were heat embossed - the orange in white and the gray in silver pearl on gray cardstock.  The orange was colored with Zig CCRBT pens and the other was colored with Faber Castell poly chromos.

These cards are not my usual colors...well maybe the orange is, but the gray is not.  I am happy with how they turned out.  I have one more post coming soon with this image and then on to another stamp set.

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Floral Bouquet

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Lately, I've been making multiple cards with the same main image.  I figure at 3 bucks a card I need to make at least 5 maybe 6 cards for each $15.00 stamp set to make it a cost effective purchase.  With flower stamps that is an easy task - they can be colored in many colors.  Especially non-specific flowers like these beauties in Avery Elle's Flower Bouquet. They are clustered like a hydrangea, but have 5 petals.  I made two cards using the non-main images in this post.

Tuesday, I used the main image in this post.

Today, I am sharing 2 cards with classic colors.  The flowers were heat embossed on bristol then colored with Zig CCRBT markers. The image was die cut and mounted on prepared card panels. The pink used another cover die from Avery Elle, the blue uses a die from Little Inkers.  Sentiments were from Stamping Up and PTI.

 Thursday, I'll have this set again with some unusual colors.

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a little tic tac toe

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I'm playing at AAA cards today, they have a tic tac toe board up.  I went with the first vertical line -  Gold Watercolors Flowers.

 

My flowers are from Avery Elle - Floral Bouquet. The were watercolored with zig markers after having been gold heat embossed, I also gold embossed the sentiment.

I have a few more cards made with this stamp -  I'll be showing them this week.  Stay tuned.

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