A Bashful Hooray

Here's another entry for the June

Penny Black Saturday Challenge 

'White on White'

(Colour on your image only)

I die cut this sweet flower with the Penny Black Bashful die and

lightly colored it with my Koi Watercolors.

After scoring the card base, I glued the flower on the card front.

The sentiment was die cut 3 times and all 3 stacked together. 

I hope this card will make someone smile.

It makes me smile when you stop by.

Enjoy!

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Card Recipe

Paper: Whisper White Textured (SU retired), Solar White (Neena)

Other:  Bashful die, Hooray Dies (both Penny Black), Koi Watercolors, Simple Scored (SU) 

Christmas Candles

Good Merry Monday morning.

Did you realize that we're more than halfway to Christmas?

How are you coming on your Christmas card stash?

This week's challenge is brought to us by

super talented Sue (Cat's Ink.Corporated)

Here is what she brought us.....

Not long ago a friend of mine gave me a lot of stamps

and this stamp was in the bunch.

The image was stamped on vellum with Memento Ink

and colored on the reverse side with Copic Markers.

I should have embossed the image, but I thought of that too late.

Oh, well.

After coloring the image, I die cut some little poinsettias, 

sponged ink on the edges and layered up.

A few sprigs of punched pine finished it up.

The vellum and the paper for the poinsettia were from the snippets bag

so I'm off to Pixies Snippet Playground.

June Rudolph Days

is open until the end of the month.

I hope you'll stamp, punch or die cut some candles,

add them to your Christmas card

and join us at

Merry Monday.

Thanks for the visit.

Enjoy!

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Card Recipe

Stamps: Christmas Candles (Raindrops on Roses retired)

Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black

Paper:  Solar White (Neena), Cardstock Vellum (SU)

Other:  Copic Markers, Poinsettia Parade Die (SSS), Pine Sprig Punch (MS)

Memory Box Butterfly Congrats

I was excited to see that Memory Box has started a Challenge.

Memory Box Outside the Box

and guess what their first challenge is?

It just so happens that I have a Memory Box Butterfly die.

LOL, bet you would've never guessed that!

Actually, I have this set of dies.

I used Isabella Butterfly die to cut out of a snippet of gold foil.

Then I embossed the gold and adhered it to a card base.

Next I die cut the matching Pippi Butterfly

and popped it in the negative space.

A die cut sentiment and a few sequins were all that were needed to finish up.

Thanks to Greta for finding this challenge!

Other challenges

Pixies Snippet Playground

with my snippet of gold foil and black.

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge

ANYTHING GOES

Butterfly Challenge

F is for Flowers

And thank you for stopping by.

Enjoy!

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Card Recipe

Paper: Watercolor (Strathmore), Gold Foil, Basic Black (SU)

Other: Isabella Butterfly, Pippi Butterfly (both Memory Box), Congrats die (PB), Trelliage EF (Cuttlebug), Sequins (SSS)

The Sweetest Sound

I'll give you a break from butterflies.

Another of my favorite themes for cards is birds.

Bird songs are some of the sweetest sounds.

I inked the stamp with SU Markers, huffed and stamped.

Using a damp Aqua Painter, I blended the colors just a bit.

I also swiped markers on a plastic lid and picked up with the Aqua Painter

to fill in some blank spots.

After doing the main image, I inked the smaller branch,

again with markers, stamped off and did 

second and third generation stamping.

I bought this stamp thinking it would be perfect for anniversary cards.
Other occasions too.

Penny Black and More Challenge

 ****WINGS****

I hope you've heard some bird songs today.

Enjoy!

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Card Recipe

Stamps:  Sweetest Sound, Special Wishes (both Penny Black)

Ink: SU Markers (Soft Suede, Garden Green, Lost Lagoon, Crisp Cantaloupe, Peach Parfait, Delightful Dijon)

Paper:  Soft Suede, Whisper White, Marina Mist (All SU)

Other:  Stitched Mats Rectangles (Lil' Inker), Aqua Painter

Things we Love and Seeing Stars

The Featured Stamper at Splitcoaststampers this week is

Lisa Kubica.

I hadn't "met" her before and so enjoyed her gallery.

I chose this card to CASE.

I loved this triangular piece with the flowers so I shamelessly CASEd her card.

I did use different flower stamps and embossing instead of stitching.

I used the Lil' Inker Stitched Square die and cut the square in half.

Sticky notes masked off the edges so I could stamp the flowers up to but not over the edge.

After stamping the flowers and leaves, I used a damp  Aqua Painter to spread the colors.

This card measures 3 1/4" x 6 1/4".

While I was at it, I thought I'd play with the 

CAS and Color Challenges at SCS too.

This is the card I did for both of these challenges.

The CAS challenge is to use stars and 

the Color Challenge is Real Red, Marina Mist and Night of Navy.

I pulled out the Starry Die from Verve for the base of this card.

I die cut the stars from a piece of white and snippets of

red, navy and Marina Mist.

The stars fit back into the negative spaces of the white piece and 

the extras were scattered around.

It was really quick and fun.

I'm entering into the 

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge

ANYTHING GOES

 I'm glad you stopped by.

Enjoy!

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Card Recipe (card 1)

Stamps:  Things We Love (Hero Arts), Kind Words (Verve)

Ink:  SU Markers (Watermelon Wonder, Gumball Green, Elegant Eggplant)

Paper:  Solar White (Neena), Whisper White (SU)

Other: Stitched Square (Lil' Inker), Needlepoint Border EF (retired SU), Aqua Painter

Card Recipe (card 2)

Stamps:  Friendship Messages (SSS)

Ink:  Night of Navy

Paper:  Solar White (Neena), Real Red, Night of Navy, Marina Mist, Whisper White

Other: Starry Die (Verve)

Marigolds

Papertrey Ink (capture the moment) 

has a Blog Hop every month.

I don't think I've ever participated.

When I saw the inspiration photo for this one, I couldn't resist.

Take a peek....

I inked the marigolds from the PTI Year of Flowers Collection with markers,

stamped and used the Aqua Painter to spread the color.

The stripes are stamped and the organdy ribbon represents the white flower.

I'm also going to enter at

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge

ANYTHING GOES

Thanks for stopping by.

Enjoy!

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Card Recipe

Stamps:  Year of Flowers (PTI), Butterfly Basics (SU)

Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, SU Markers (Tangerine Tango, Gumball Green)

Paper:  Watercolor (Strathmore 90 lb. cold press)

Other:  Stitched Mats Rectangles (Lil' Inker), Organdy Ribbon (JoAnn)

Delicate Wings in White

These days it seems that I can't get enough of butterflies!

I die cut the solid butterfly from vellum and the 

openwork butterfly from a piece of textured white cardstock.

Since we were allowed some color on our white on white card,

I cut the body from a snippet of a piece of watercolor.

The background was stamped with a filigree background stamp

with Whisper White ink on Whisper White cardstock and embossed.

It gave a little pattern to the white on white theme.

Some clear Wink of Stella added a nice sparkle to the butterfly.

It's just enough to five her a silky look.

Penny Black Saturday Challenge for June

'White on White'

(Colour on your image only)

Addicted to Stamps

is celebrating their 3rd Birthday!

Happy, Happy Birthday!

and their challenge this week is

CAS

Time Out Challenge

Inspired by the words

Happy is the Bride that the Sun Shines on

All that white looks bridal to me with a little bridesmaid thrown in.

Thanks for the visit.

Enjoy!

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Card Recipe

Stamps:  Filigree (SU retired)

Ink:  Whisper White

Paper:  Solar White (Neena), Whisper White, Whisper White Textured, Watercolor, Cardstock Vellum

Other:  Delicate Wings Die (PB), White EP (SU), Clear Wink of Stella

Funky Snowman

It's Merry Monday time.

This week, the talented Nina chose our challenge.

Don't ya just love those hats?

Well, as much as I love them, I don't have any funky hats.

So I did some punch art.

Since I used some snippets from the Christmas paper bag,

I'll go to Pixies Snippet Playground.

I hope you can find a funky hat to put on a Christmas card and join us at

Merry Monday.

(Or just pull out your punches and make one!)

Thanks for the visit.

Enjoy!

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Card Recipe

Stamps:  Woodgrain, Yuletide Collection (Kaisercraft)

Ink:  Real Red, Baked Brown Sugar

Paper:  Solar White (Neena), "Smooshed" Whisper White, Baked Brown Sugar, Whisper White, Christmas DSP (retired)

Other: Decorative Label Punch, Oval Nestabilities (Spellbinders), 3/4" Circle Punch, Corner Rounder Punch, Candy Dots, Pom Poms (stash)

All supplies are Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted

Dressing up the Home

You may remember that I met up with my blogging friends,

Darnell & Mary last month.

They were both so generous bestowing wonderful stamping gifts on me.

Darnell gave me some K and Company vellum adornments

and I've had a good time with them.

Have a look....

As I told Darnell, I'd never figured out what I wanted to put on the walls in my dining room.

Recently I found these frames and 2 of the vellum adornments fit perfectly.

I've adhered them to some Naturals Ivory (SU) cardstock and place them in the frames.

The cardstock is an almost perfect match for the walls so they look like

flowers pressed between glass.

I love the more finished look to my dining room.

Most of all, I love remembering the good time we had together.

 and now I have a reminder every time I walk through my dining room.

Thanks for the visit,

Enjoy!

Making a Splash

Nothing like enjoying a bubble bath with a glass of the bubbly!

There's a new challenge at 
Addicted to CAS

The fantastic Rebecca (Molly Moo) has chosen this challenge for us.

Our sponsor is

the prize is 7 Digis

Wow, that's a great prize!

The rest of the Design Team has some awesome inspiration

so be sure to check them out.

Flo is our fantastic Guest Designer this month.

Sadly, this is my last challenge on the ATCAS Design Team.

I decided to step down so I could jump feet first into the 

Happy Little Stampers CAS Design Team.

I'll miss these lovely ladies at ATCAS!

I'll be seeing you in the gallery.

Thanks for the visit.

Enjoy!

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Card Recipe

Stamps:  Bubbly (PB)

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Paper:  Solar White (Neena), Bashful Blue (retired), Whisper White 

Other:  Copic Markers, Stitched Mats Rectangles (Lil' Inker), Decorative Dots EF, Crystal Effects

All supplies are Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted

You've Got This

I finally got some time to play and tried a new technique.

I tried the Ghosting Technique by Dyan Reaveley

It's one of the techniques that Loll linked to at the

Happy Little Stampers CAS June Challenge

I mixed some re-inker with water in some Stampin' Spritzers

(Daffodil Delight and Calypso Coral) and sprayed on a piece of

140 lb. cold press watercolor paper.

When is was dry, I placed a NBUS stencil on top and spritzed with water 

I immediately lifted up the stencil and let the water work for about 15 seconds.

I blotted it with a paper towel and presto, a lovely, subtle, ghosted image!

All that was left was to stamp an image and dress it up and it was done.

The Misti came in really handy for stamping.

I had to stamp several times to get a good image.

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge

is  USE YOUR FAVORITE TECHNIQUE AND/OR PRODUCT

Right now I'm enjoying spraying/misting techniques.

My favorite product and technique is Stamping.

I love the variety I can get with stamps and ink.

I'm glad you could stop by.

Enjoy!

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Card Recipe

Stamps: You've Got This (SU), Kind Words (Verve)

Ink: Jet Black Archival (Ranger), Crushed Curry SU Marker (for center of flower)

Paper:  Solar White (Neena), 140 lb. Cold Press Watercolor (Arches), Basic Black (SU)

Other:  SU Re-inker (Daffodil  Delight, Calypso Coral), Stampin' Spritzers, Flourish Stencil (Tim Holtz), Sequins (stash)

Happy Anniversary

When I saw this sketch at

Happy Little Stampers,

I kinda scratched my head.

Have a look...

But I kept thinking, and thinking,

and thinking....

And I did come up with something!

I used some of Jack's watercolor designs.

He does love to watercolor!

The sun element is a stitched circle embossed with Lil' Inker's Stitched Circle Die.

The hammock is the twig.

The trees are the birds.

And I threw a little heart in there for good measure.

I'll give this to DH for our anniversary.

He'll love that Jack's artwork is on it!

And we've been watching a family of bluebirds in our yard.

Here's my sidekick at work.

He really gets into it!

Thanks for stopping by.

Enjoy!

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Card Recipe

Stamps:  Something to Celebrate (retired)

Ink:  Soft Suede

Paper:  Watercolor (Strathmore)

Other:  Stitched Circle Die (Lil' Inker), Fashionable Hearts Embosslit (retired), Bird Die (IO), Woodland Branch Die (MB)

All supplies are Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted

A Christmas Star for Merry Monday

It's Merry Monday time again.

Let's see what we have for a challenge this week......

Brought to us by the lovely Lori (Inkingly Yours),

I LOVE red and white, especially on a Christmas card!

I stamped this big star with Real Red Craft ink

and embossed it with Clear Embossing Powder.

By scoring the line, I could get a little fold for dimension.

(That was after I fussy cut it out.)

Popped it on a  piece embossed with Christmas words.

Just wait til you see what the rest of the Design Team has come up with.

I hope you'll pull out your red and white inks and papers and join us at

Merry Monday.

So glad you stopped by.

Enjoy!

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Card Recipe

Stamps:  Christmas Star

Ink:  Real Red Craft

Paper:  Solar White (Neena), Whisper White

Other:  Christmas Words EF (Quickutz), Clear EP

All supplies are Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted