The Flowers and the Bees

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Some of my sweet, sweet friends shared their Betterpress images with me.

I love coloring them and it's a good day when I can pull one out.

This time it's an Altenew image colored with Tombow Markers.

After I colored it and die cut it, I realized that the design had way too much on 

the top and not enough on the bottom.

I tried my hummingbird dies but they were either too big or facing the wrong direction.

Then I thought of bees.

After searching my stash, I landed on these bees from the Greetery.

Life IS beautiful with friends like you.

Challenges:

Just Us Girls #823 - Word Week

Inkspirational #367 - Visual Prompt (Flowers)

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Dainty Flower Garden Pressplate (Alt)

Ink:   Betterpress Black

Paper:   Betterpress Porcelain, Neenah Solar White

Other:  Tombow Markers (055, 985, 126, 245, 723, 817), Curved Cap Pinpoint Layers Dies (MB), Curio Summer Findings (Greetery)

Enjoy!

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Butterfly Happy Birthday

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We're back to summer heat so I'll be staying inside as much as possible for

a few days.  I'm glad to have an excuse to take a break on the yard work.

I've been playing with these butterflies a lot lately.  I'm not sure if any of them have

made it to my blog before, but I thought they would work well for the

Freshly Made Sketches #736 by Varina...

and I even used a piece of my hoard of patterned papers.

The butterflies are a die and embossing folder set from Simon Says.

It's my new favorite toy.

Challenges:

Freshly Made Sketches #736

Love those Pretty Papers - Use patterned paper

 

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Cheers to You Pressplate (SB)

Ink:   Marina Mist, Wilted Violet

Paper:  Dyeing Flowers PP (AZ), Neenah Solar White, Gold Foil  

Other:  Butterfly Escapade EF & Die (SSS), Large Words EF (Kwan), Gold Foil

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Lime Green and Violet for Color Hues

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It's time for a new challenge at Color Hues.

This month Tracey picked our colors.  She chose....

I've stamped the flower with Memento Toffee Crunch and colored with Arteza Twimarkers.

The watery background was done by scribbling the markers onto acetate, spritzing

and smooshing onto a piece of Betterpress paper.

Now let's go and see what my talented friends have done to inspire you.

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

Color Hues

Challenge ends at 9:00 AM on May 29th.

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Garden Trio (PB), Banner Sentiments (PB), Scripted Background (W+9)

Ink:  Memento Toffee Crunch, Versafine Onyx Black, Whisper White 

Paper:  BP Porcelain, Neenah Solar White

Other:  Arteza Twimarkers (Violet, Lime Green, Apple Green), Essential Modern Labels die (SB), Garden Trio die (PB), Mistletoe Greetings die (SB), Micron Pen, White EP

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Garden Trio with Butterflies

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I'm excited to be Guest Designing for the Penny Black Saturday Challenge

this month.  Here's my mid-month inspiration.

Penny Black Saturday is always Anything Goes using Penny Black Products.

This month it's optional to use 'Your Favorite Penny Black Stamp'.

I'm not sure whether this was an easy choice or a hard one.  I have a lot of 

favorite Penny Black Stamps, and I really, really love the Garden Trio set.  All three

of the flowers are lovely and so fun to color!

I stamped the flower on mixed media paper with Memento Toffee Crunch ink

and colored with Distress re-inkers used as watercolor.  

It's always a pleasure to Guest Design with the Penny Black Saturday team.

Now lets go see what they've done to inspire us.  Then pull out your favorite

Penny Black stamp and join us at the

Penny Black Saturday Challenge.

 

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Garden Trio (PB)

Ink:   Memento Toffee Crunch, BP Black (SB)

Paper:   Mixed Media (Strathmore), Neenah Solar White

Other:  Garden Trio Die (PB), Texture EF (PB), Hexagon Frames die (PB), Subtle EF (ret SU), Cheers to You BP (SB), Butterfly dies (PB)

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Shortbread Shapes Spring

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It's a Fun Friday with play with the Greetery's Shortbread Shapes Rectangles: Spring series.

I really enjoyed playing with the dies and embossing folders so it's a long post.

After die cutting and embossing a piece of Pool Party cardstock with the

Shortbread Shapes: Rectangles Spring embossing folder, I patted over the top with a 

white pigment ink pad to let all that texture show.

The flowers were die cut from Neenah Solar White and colored with Copics.

The shaped card was made with the Shortbread Shapes: Rectangles die and embossed, 

then the pool party embossing.

Another shaped card.  This time I die cut and embossed some watercolor paper

with the inside die and watercolored all those itty, bitty flowers.

The colored squares were added on top of the matching die cut background.

Since I didn't use all the colored die cuts, I made another card using three of

the leftovers.

I placed them on a piece of textured cardstock that a friend had shared with me.

It's a divine shade of yellow and just right for a spring card.  (I used the same

cardstock for the bow on the card above.)

I had one more colored square and an embossed panel that combined to make

another note card.  Super simple.

I hope you've enjoyed all of these spring cards.

I really enjoyed creating them.

Thank you for hanging out with me today.  I hope you have some fun too!

Card Recipe (card 1)

Stamps:  Fun Birthday Sentiments (HLS OOB)

Ink:   Memento Tuxedo Black, Whisper White

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Pool Party

Other:  Shortbread Shapes: Rectangles die, Shortbread Shapes: Rectangles Spring EF, Bigger Botanicals: Genista, Wax Flowers (all Greetery), Copics (RV55, RV66, Y13, Y15, Y18, G20, G21, G24, G94), Label dies (ret SU)

Card Recipe (card 2)

Stamps:  

Ink:   

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Watercolor (Canson), Textured Yellow (?)

Other: Shortbread Shapes: Rectangles die, Shortbread Shapes: Rectangles Spring EF, Distress re-inkers

Card Recipe (card 3)

Stamps:  (?)

Ink:   Blueberry Bushel

Paper:  Neenah Solar White, Yellow Texture (?), Watercolor (Canson)

Other:  Shortbread Shapes: Rectangles die, Shortbread Shapes: Rectangles Spring EF (Grtry), Distress re-inkers

Card Recipe (card 4)

Stamps:  

Ink:   

Paper:  Neenah Solar White, Bashful Blue (ret SU), Watercolor (Canson)

Other:  Shortbread Shapes: Rectangles die, Shortbread Shapes: Rectangles Spring EF (Grtry), Distress re-inkers, Subtle EF (ret SU)

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