Circles and Magnolias

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The Flower Challenge is celebrating their 100th Challenge .  

Congratulations ladies! Keep up the good work!

It's taken me a while to get to this and the challenge is about to end.

Time goes by faster and evidently I go slower!

The Tulip Trees or Jane Magnolias are blooming in our area and they inspired

this card.  They are so pretty!  My flowers don't come close to the real thing.

A sweet friend gave me the Bubblin' die for Christmas and it was the perfect

way to add circles with my flowers.  I cut them from white cardstock. I

cut the flowers from watercolor paper and watercolored using Distress re-inkers.. 

The circles didn't show up as well as I wanted on the white card so I did a bit

of acetate smooshing on another piece of watercolor paper using the same colors

of re-inkers and lots of water.

Challenges:

The Flower Challenge #100 - Add Circles

Four Seasons - Spring

Memory Box Outside the Box #117 - Petal Power

Darnell's I.D.E.A.S. - 4th Monday Anything Goes

 

 

Card Recipe

Stamps:  

Ink:   

Paper:   Watercolor (Arches Hot & Cold Press), Natural (ret MFT), Neenah Solar White

Other:  Magnolia Blossom Trio, Magnolia Leaf Branch dies (MB), Distress Re-inkers (Picked Raspberry, Fired Brick, Rustic Wilderness, Mustard Seed, Brushed Corduroy), Bubblin' Die (CP), Acetate, Wonderful Script Die (SB)

Enjoy!

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What Fun

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I'm not sure how this is happening, but the clock and calendar seem to be

turning faster and faster!

This fun guy has been sitting off stage waiting for his time to take the spotlight.

I've stamped and colored with alcohol markers.  Then the image was die cut and

placed on an embossed piece.

Challenges:

Color Throwdown #829 - Lime Green, Green, Blue

Double D - Birds

Triple B - Birds, Blooms and/or Butterflies (I think this is a bird?)

 

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Flock Talk (Unity), Crazy Talk (TH)

Ink:   Memento Tuxedo Black, Night of Navy

Paper:   Night of Navy, Betterpress (SB)

Other:  Ohuhu Markers (G1, G3, G44, G45), Checkered Scallops EF (SB), Scallop Borders Die (PPP)

Enjoy!

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Critter Fun

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Classes are over and I'm using up leftover pieces.

This one is already on the way to a friend and her pooch.

I stamped this pup and the friendly butterflies with Memento ink and

colored with Copics.

He makes me smile.  I hope he makes my friend smile too.

Challenges:

Color Throwdown #828- Light Brown, Dark Brown, Blue

Penny Black Saturday - Use PB with option of On the Farm 

Darnell's I.D.E.A.S. - Week 3 Embossing Folders

Oh, and Happy St. Patrick's Day too!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Critter Party (PB), Banner Sentiments (PTI)

Ink:   Memento Tuxedo Black

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Marina Mist

Other:  Copics (E11, E25, B21, B23), Macrame EF (SU), Nestled Wacky Stitched Square (Cottage Cutz)

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Tulip Blooms for Color Hues

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It's time for another challenge from Color Hues and Julie has

chosen perfect colors to remind us that spring is around the corner.

The colors she chose are....

I've had a lot of fun playing with my Waffle Flower tulips lately and since I love

yellow tulips, it was an easy choice of what stamp to use.  Luckily I got the dies too.

I stamped on mixed media paper with Versafine Onyx Black ink and after waiting for

it to dry, I laid the die cut flowers on another piece of mixed media paper and messily 

watercolored with Distress Re-inkers 

My messy watercoloring adds some of the color to the background for the 

tulips to rest against.

The very talented Design Team and our Guest Designer, my dear friend Michele, have some 

beautiful cards to inspire you.  I can't wait to see what you can do with these colors!

Please join us at Color Hues

This challenge is open until March 29th at 9:00 AM EDT.

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Tulips (WF), Encouragement Phrases (Rubbernecker)

Ink:   Versafine Onyx Black, Twisted Citron

Paper:   Mixed Media (Strathmore), Neenah Natural

Other:  Distress Re-inker (Mustard Seed), Tulip Matching Die (WF)

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Ginkgo Happiness

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Did you know that the Ginkgo tree is believed to be a living fossil and a symbol

of peace, hope and vitality?  According to Google that's the case.

It seemed to me that it was perfect paired with this Irish blessing.

I found this blessing as a digi image at Etsy, since I didn't have a stamp with it.

The ginkgo was die cut from watercolor paper and I used Distress re-inkers and

a waterbrush to color it.  There are two pieces to each leaf so I used a darker color

on the base and lighter color on the top piece.

Since the sentiment was already printed on the cardstock, I let it sit for a day to

make sure the ink was good and dry, then embossed the whole piece.

Challenges:

Can You Handle the Pressure - Use an embossing folder - twist of Lucky or St. Patrick's Day

Just Us Girls #766 - Word Week - Green

Word Power - Make the sentiment the focus of the card

 

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Irish Blessing Digi (Crafty AKel)

Ink:   Rustic Wilderness, Twisted Citron

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Mixed Media (Strathmore)

Other:  Sealed Ginkgo (SB), Burlap EF (HB)

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