Feeling a Breath of Spring…

Donna has been “blurfing” her little heart out, discovering all kinds of wonderful challenges for us to play. I really like this challege from Our Creative Corner. I knew immediately that I wanted to so something with a soft spring feel to match the sunny day outside my window today!

I’ve had this stamp from Club Scrap for a few years and I thought it would fit my vision perfectly!

It’s been a while since I indulged my love of Asian images and I really enjoyed making this card. The image is stamped with Black Dye Ink, but I used a red marker to pick out the Japanese characters. I coloured the whole lightly with art pencils and used a bit of gamsol to blend just the background. Although you can’t really see it in the picture, I used several shades of Art Institute Glitter to highlight the bird, the flowers, and the top edge of the largest leaves. It really added a pretty shimmer to the card!

I cut the circle with my nesties then embossed it with my favourite Cuttlebug floral embossing folder for texture. A prima flower, a pearlized brad and a sentiment panel and it was done! I particularly like this colour combo – you might see it again (and again) from me!

Feeling a Breath of Spring…

Donna has been “blurfing” her little heart out, discovering all kinds of wonderful challenges for us to play. I really like this challege from Our Creative Corner. I knew immediately that I wanted to so something with a soft spring feel to match the sunny day outside my window today!

I’ve had this stamp from Club Scrap for a few years and I thought it would fit my vision perfectly!

It’s been a while since I indulged my love of Asian images and I really enjoyed making this card. The image is stamped with Black Dye Ink, but I used a red marker to pick out the Japanese characters. I coloured the whole lightly with art pencils and used a bit of gamsol to blend just the background. Although you can’t really see it in the picture, I used several shades of Art Institute Glitter to highlight the bird, the flowers, and the top edge of the largest leaves. It really added a pretty shimmer to the card!

I cut the circle with my nesties then embossed it with my favourite Cuttlebug floral embossing folder for texture. A prima flower, a pearlized brad and a sentiment panel and it was done! I particularly like this colour combo – you might see it again (and again) from me!

Celebrating Sloth

One last post for today (for me anyway). There’s a great sketch over at Taylored Expressions for today’s Cupcake Sketch Challenge and I wanted to play!

It’s a pretty simple card. I whipped up a quick page of fun text using Microsoft Word and phrases like “living in yoga pants” and “potato chips are a vegetable” to provide a background for PMSabella. (Looks like me all the time)! She is coloured using pencil crayons and gamsol, then trimmed into an oval and matted. I layered the oval onto some glossy black cardstock for contrast, then onto a patterned paper which I turned into a scallop with the Fiskars Threading Water Border Punch. I love that thing! A ribbon, a flower and rhinestone and that’s all folks!

Celebrating Sloth

One last post for today (for me anyway). There’s a great sketch over at Taylored Expressions for today’s Cupcake Sketch Challenge and I wanted to play!

It’s a pretty simple card. I whipped up a quick page of fun text using Microsoft Word and phrases like “living in yoga pants” and “potato chips are a vegetable” to provide a background for PMSabella. (Looks like me all the time)! She is coloured using pencil crayons and gamsol, then trimmed into an oval and matted. I layered the oval onto some glossy black cardstock for contrast, then onto a patterned paper which I turned into a scallop with the Fiskars Threading Water Border Punch. I love that thing! A ribbon, a flower and rhinestone and that’s all folks!

Weekend Sketch Challenge # 72

I LOVED this sketch! The minute I saw it, over at Jen Balcer’s blog, I knew I had to play. I just love that label shape. Of course, first I had to walk down to Donna’s house to cut one using her Big Shot and the SU top note die. But we’ll just consider that my daily exercise!

I stamped the lable with a teeny alphabet background stamp from Stamp Camp and then coloured around the edges a bit with my prisma pencils for contrast and to pull in the colours from the stamped flower (also from Stamp Camp). The background paper is an old sheet from Lasting Impressions that I have been hoarding for a few years (‘cuz I don’t know where to get it anymore and I really like these polka dots). I didn’t have a lot of flowers in my stash, so I decided to cut a bunch using my QuicKutz Silhouette.

I played around with the positioning on this card a lot. I kept pulling it apart and trying again but I think I finally got it right! As a final touch, I added some clear dew drops to the centres of some of the flowers. I love the way you can change the colour of these little guys by colouring a small circle on the paper before you adhere them. Fun!

Weekend Sketch Challenge # 72

I LOVED this sketch! The minute I saw it, over at Jen Balcer’s blog, I knew I had to play. I just love that label shape. Of course, first I had to walk down to Donna’s house to cut one using her Big Shot and the SU top note die. But we’ll just consider that my daily exercise!

I stamped the lable with a teeny alphabet background stamp from Stamp Camp and then coloured around the edges a bit with my prisma pencils for contrast and to pull in the colours from the stamped flower (also from Stamp Camp). The background paper is an old sheet from Lasting Impressions that I have been hoarding for a few years (‘cuz I don’t know where to get it anymore and I really like these polka dots). I didn’t have a lot of flowers in my stash, so I decided to cut a bunch using my QuicKutz Silhouette.

I played around with the positioning on this card a lot. I kept pulling it apart and trying again but I think I finally got it right! As a final touch, I added some clear dew drops to the centres of some of the flowers. I love the way you can change the colour of these little guys by colouring a small circle on the paper before you adhere them. Fun!

Need Help with a Sentiment!

I love, love, love these images from Eat Cake Graphics! I had a ball creating this magical garden scene, complete with flying hippo. I purchased this little girl because I could imagine so many great expressions coming out of her mouth….but now I can’t think of any! So please, help a fellow card maker out – leave me a comment with your funniest ideas for what she might be saying because I want to make lots and lots of cards with her!

The card itself was quite simple – just lots of colouring with watercolour pencils and some blending with a blender pen. I finished the card off with lots of stickles ‘cuz it’s a magic garden!

Need Help with a Sentiment!

I love, love, love these images from Eat Cake Graphics! I had a ball creating this magical garden scene, complete with flying hippo. I purchased this little girl because I could imagine so many great expressions coming out of her mouth….but now I can’t think of any! So please, help a fellow card maker out – leave me a comment with your funniest ideas for what she might be saying because I want to make lots and lots of cards with her!

The card itself was quite simple – just lots of colouring with watercolour pencils and some blending with a blender pen. I finished the card off with lots of stickles ‘cuz it’s a magic garden!