Daisy Chain

Hi there.  I'm so glad you stopped by!

I love daisies and remember that there was a meadow full of them behind

our house when I was a child.  We would pick the daisies and try to make

a chain from them...or a crown.

When I saw Karren's sketch at Freshly Made Sketches, those circles spoke daisies to me.

The daisy dies are unmarked in my collection so I don't know who to credit

them with.  I only used the two largest dies for this card.  They were cut from

Neenah Solar white and colored with Copic Sketch Markers.

I tried several colors for the background and settled on MFT's Natural.

(I am going to hate it when I run out of this cardstock!)

Looks like we have a ladybug infestation!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Handwritten Borders (SSS)

Ink:   Versafine Onyx Black

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Natural (MFT)

Other:  Daisies (?), Copics (Y15, Y17, Y18, C00), Burlap EF (HB)

Enjoy!

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Bee Sweet

Hi there.  I'm so glad you stopped by!

My flowers are blooming and I'm still waiting for the bees.

But the  bees are plentiful in the studio.

I had die cut the honeycomb for an earlier bee card and decided not to use it.

I stamped over top with an old wood mount stamp and placed a piece of

yellow smoosh from my backgrounds.

Every now and then I die cut and assemble bees and butterflies to have at

the ready for embellishments. I die cut the bees from Daffodil Delight cardstock 

and color the stripes with a black Sharpie.  I love that the wings are 

separate and add extra dimension.

Hope you have a sweet weekend!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Sanded (ret SU)

Ink:   So Saffron, Whisper White, Mustard See (for sentiment(

Paper:  Neenah Solar White, Daffodil Delight

Other:  Hexagon Element die (SSS), Buzzing Bumblebees (MB), Black Sharpie, Sweet die (SSS)

Enjoy!

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Fun Friday Bees

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It's time for fun on Friday.  No challenges, just fun.

I am on a committee to support staff at a local elementary school.

I thought it would be fun to send them a card with a bookmark, hoping they

will have a chance to read for fun during the summer.

The image was stamped on a piece of cardstock with a punched top.

I heat embossed the stamping to get an nice shine.

A yellow Sharpie was handy so I colored the bee with that and blended

a bit of blue around him.  My ink blending is always splotchy so I stamped 

some splatters to kind of cover that up.

Without the bookmark.

A little band holds the bookmark to the front of the card which had been

embossed with a new to me (on clearance) embossing folder.  I used my favorite 

trick of patting with a white inkpad to highlight the raised design.

The message inside.

Our team supports four of the support staff that counsels, teaching remedial reading,

STEM & Speech therapy.  Each card is a bit different.

I patted the natural embossing with a pale yellow inkpad and it was too dark

and splotchy.  So I patted with the white inkpad over top and that toned it 

down perfectly.

I hope you have some crafty fun today!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Peeking Bee (Unity)

Ink:   Nocturne (VC), Whisper White, Soft Sky

Paper:  Neenah Solar White, Daffodil Delight

Other:  Clear EP, Yellow Sharpie, Bee-cause 3D EF (SB), Ornate Tag Topper Punch (ret SU)

Enjoy!

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Fuchsia Note

Hi there.  I'm so glad you stopped by!

What a glorious spring day as I write this!

This is not a flower that I'm very familiar with, but when I saw this 

embossing folder, stencil combination, I was intrigued.

Then it was on sale and it caught me.

This was not my first try.  

My first try almost convinced me to say no to

any more stencils!  I seem to have an issue lining them up whether I emboss

first of after coloring.

So I stood up to line the stencil on the embossed image.  It's still hard for me to 

see, but it did line up better.

Will I be buying more embossing folder, stencil sets?  Maybe.

Will I be comfortable using stencils eventually?  Hopefully.

I used blending brushes and Distress inks for all the coloring.

I used the finer point of an Arteza Twi-marker for the stamens.

Challenges:

Just Us Girls #825 - ATG using a stencil

NBUS #87 - Never Before Used Schtuff

Stencil Fun - ATG using a stencil

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Wildflowers (W+9)

Ink:   Spun Sugar, Wilted Violet, Seedless Preserves, Shabby Shutters, Rustic Wilderness (DI), Soft Sky,  Blackberry Bliss

Paper:   BP Porcelain (SB), Neenah Solar White, Pink Pirouette

Other:  Layered Magical Fuchsia EF & Stencil (Alex Syberia/SB), Graceful Butterfly Die & EF (SSS), Ruffles & Dashes dies (CP), Arteza Twi-marker

Enjoy!

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Pink & Turquoise for Color Hues

Hi there.  I'm so glad you stopped by!

It's time for another Color Hues challenge.

This month it was my turn to choose our colors.  I chose....

I was thinking flamingos when I chose these colors.

I die cut this flamingo from watercolor paper and colored with Distress Re-inkers.

For the background, I embossed a piece of Turquoise cardstock and patted

with a white pigment ink to bring out the raised feathers.

It was really fine with that, but I added die cut palm leaves for even more

dimension.  There's more layers than I usually have, but I'm happy with it.

Now let's go and see what my talented friends and our

fantastic Guest Designer Kim Miller have done to inspire you.

I hope you'll create a card using Pink & Turquoise and add it to the gallery at

Color Hues.

Challenge ends at 9:00 AM on June 14th.

The winners will be posted an hour before our next challenge and the overall

 winner will have the opportunity to be a future Guest Designer.

Most importantly, just have fun!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  

Ink:  Whisper White, BP Black 

Paper:  Tempting Turquoise, Neenah Solar White, Watercolor (Canson)

Other: Distress Re-inkers (Spun Sugar, Worn Lipstick), Feather Spiral EF (SSS), Feathered Friends 12 (PTI), Curved Cap Pinpoint Layers (MB), Palm Fancy die (HA), A little Message PP & die (SB)

Enjoy!

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