Bejewled Love and Laughter

Hello my friends.

I hope you are having a day filled with love and laughter!

This is a one layer card for

Penny Black Saturday Challenge

and my goodness, what a wonderful array of cards are in that gallery!

I popped this Penny Black Brushstroke Stamp into my MISTI

and inked it with mini distress ink pads and markers.

After the first stamping, I moved the color around a bit with a damp Aqua Painter.

Then I stamped again.

Added some more color where I wanted it darker and stamped again.

A sentiment, splatter and a painted strip across the bottom finish the card.

I'll take this over to Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge too.

   

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Bejeweled, Special Wishes (PB)

Ink:   Distress Inks (Spiced Marmalade, Peeled Paint), Distress Markers (Same colors plus Festive Berries), Early Espresso (SU)

Paper:  Watercolor (Arches HP)

Other:  MISTI, Ruler (to guide for painted strip)

Wishing You Love Reminder for CAS Watercolour Card Challenge

 There's just over a week left at the
  CAS Watercolour Card  Challenge.

There's lots of loving entries in the gallery.

The Design Team and our talented Guest Designer, Michelle have
some more inspiration cards for you to enjoy.

Hope to see your's there too.

DH and I recently went to Virginia for a few days.
While he was in meetings, I played with my Koi travel set
and some previously stamped pieces.

This piece hadn't stamped clearly but I decided to try to salvage it.

After I colored the butterfly and did a very light wash on the background,
I took my Extra Fine Point Black Sharpie and dotted the fine tip around the
outline of the butterfly where it hadn't stamped well.
This technique is called Pointillism.

I finished it off with one of my favorite Penny Black sentiments.

I'm thinking about adding some sequins.
I'm not sure that I want them.
What do you think?

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Wonderful Wings (retired SU)

Ink:   Basic Black Archival (SU)

Paper:   Strathmore (140 lb. cold press), Basic Black (SU)

Other:  Koi Watercolors, Black Extra Fine Point Sharpie

Softly Autumn CAS Watercolour Reminder

This is the actual card that I watercolored during Hurricane Matthew.

It's a CASE of this card by Heather Telford.

I stamped the image with Antique Linen Distress Ink a couple of times on
a folded piece of hot press watercolor paper.

I used my Zigs and an Aqua Painter to add color to the flowers.
I first applied Carmine Red to the base of the flower with a bit of orange next to that.
Then I added Yellow to the tips and used the Aqua Painter to blend the colors.

I determined where I wanted more flowers and added some more using the same technique.

I masked off some of the sentiment before inking.
(I actually remembered to remove the inky tape before stamping. Not always the case!)

And I added some orange splatters for extra interest.

CAS Watercolour Card Challenge
is open until the 24th of October
Here's this month's challenge

and I'm playing along with some other challenges too.

One-Layer Simplicity Challenge

Where my friend Karen has asked for

Red, Orange and Yellow 

on our one-layer cards.

Penny Black and More Challenge

AUTUMN

Penny Black Saturday Challenge

AUTUMN/FALL COLOURS

and last but certainly not least is a brand new challenge

The Flower Challenge

Where this month's challenge is

ANYTHING GOES WITH FLORALS

Loll and I are thrilled with the participation at 

CAS Watercolour Card Challenge!

We've had so many wonderful entries and a lot have DT on them.

It's going to be a hard choice!

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Softly (PB), Special Wishes (PB)

Ink:   Antique Linen, Gathered Twigs (Distress)

Paper:  Watercolor (Arches 140 lb. Hot Press) 

Other:  Zig CCRBM (Carmine Red, Orange, Yellow, Mid Green, Brown), Aqua Painter

Fruit of the Spirit

This is one of my favorite Bible verses.

You see I have a terrible time memorizing things.

When I need to keep from giving in to a bad habit,
I try to remember this in perfect order.
By the time I have to look it up, I've forgotten about that bad habit.
For the time being.....

I like to keep the verse handy so I can find it quickly and easily.

When I quit smoking, I carried it in my pocket for months.

I'll share this card at One Layer Simplicity where I haven't played in ages.
The challenge this month is art.
I used watercolor as my art medium.

I painted another and matted this one.

Just Us Girls Challenge

Love those watercolor challenges!

I stamped both with Antique Linen Distress ink
and colored with Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolors.


Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps: Holy Spirit Fruits (Inky Antics)

Ink: Antique Linen Distress (Ranger), Chocolate Chip (SU)

Paper: Watercolor (Arches 140 lb. cold press for card 1), (Arches 140 lb. hot press for card 2), Chocolate Chip (SU)

Other: Kuretake Gansai Tambi Watercolors, Aqua Painter, Simply Scored (card 1)

Snow Day for Merry Monday

It's Merry Monday time.

Debbie is our hostess this week.

Let's see what she chose...

I haven't made a one layer card in a long time!

My snowman looks like he's about to roll down the hill.

That could be fun!

My card is Crumb Cake and the snowman is from a 

Stampin' Up! retired set called Snow Day.

He's stamped in Whisper White craft ink.

I tore a piece of paper to use as a mask and sponged

Whisper White ink under him with a sponge dauber.

Snowflakes were stamped and blowing snow added with the dauber.

I thought it needed something else, so I stamped a tree off the side.

(I had to stamp the bottom under the bottom of the tree to get more height.)

Now it's your turn.

Get a head start on those Christmas cards so you don't have to panic later.

Check out the fantastic Design Team cards.

They are sure to inspire you!

See you at Merry Monday.

Rudolph Days start today

and the challenge is open until the end of the month.

I'm going to share this over there too.

Thanks for stopping by.

Enjoy!

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Card Recipe

Stamps:  Snow Day (retired SU), Lovely as a Tree (SU)

Ink:  Whisper White, Garden Green, Real Red, Pumpkin Pie, Soft Suede (SU), Jet Black StazOn

Paper:  Crumb Cake (SU)

Other:  Sponge Dauber

Bloom with Hope One Layer Watercolor

This is for a special Paper Players Challenge this week.

They're celebrating their 200th challenge!

Well, I guess it's not really a birthday.

The challenge this week is

create a new project based on any one of the challenges presented by our DT

I chose two for this card.

First is Ann Schach's challenge.

        

also Jaydee's challenge

There's some beautiful cards by the DT.

And the winner of this week's challenge gets all these gorgeous DT cards!

And at Splitcoaststampers, the CAS challenge this week is honoring 

Harriet Skelly.

I've been an admirer of Harriet's cards for a long time.

This is the card that was my inspiration.

I'm so glad you could stop by.

Enjoy!

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Card Recipe

Stamps:  Bloom with Hope (Hostess set), Blooming with Kindness

Ink: Brushed Corduroy Distress Ink (Tim Holtz), Early Espresso

Paper:  Strathmore 140# cold pressed

Other:  Sakura Koi Watercolors, Needlepoint Border EF (retired)

All supplies are Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted

Backyard Basics in Watercolor

I love the look of watercolor.

I'd really like to be able to do it myself.

So I'm trying.

Sanketi of The Storyteller blog has been inspiring me to try.

She makes the most incredible cards!

There are a lot of other watercolor artists out there that also inspire.

So..........

I made a card from some watercolor paper and inked up this stamp from Backyard Basics

with markers.

Then I squished some ink from inpads and dipped the damp Aqua Painter in the ink 

to color the flower.

I added some accents on the petals with a marker.

Then I tried to splotch some green and yellow around the flower to add a sort of wash.

It looks kind of muddy.

I'll have to work some more on the technique.

But I was happy enough with this to share it.

I added some score lines to the top, rounded the bottom  corners, and added pearls.

Addicted to Stamps and More

is having an ANYTHING GOES challenge.

CAS on Sunday

says COLOR ME PRETTY

I inked the stamp with markers

and colored in the flower with my Aqua Painter

The One Layer Simplicity Challenge

this month is

JUST ADD WATER

Virginia's View

is a new challenge on the block.

Her first challenge is Watercoloring.

She has some wonderful inspiration photos 

and the gallery is full of beautiful watercolored cards.

Stampin' Celebration

has a lovely inspiration this month...

I'm so glad you stopped by!

Enjoy!

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Card Recipe

Stamps: Backyard Basics, Blooming with Kindness

Ink:  Wisteria Wonder, Pear Pizzazz, Elegant Eggplant, SU Markers Wisteria Wonder, Elegant Eggplant, Pear Pizzazz)

Paper:  Watercolor (Strathmore)

Other:  Aqua Painter, Simply Scored, Basic Pearls

All supplies are Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted

Winter Memories

Here's another Christmas card.

I love how my box is starting to fill up again.

Festive Friday

has this great inspiration photo

One Layer Simplicity Challenge

This month is JUST ADD WATER

I used my Aqua Painter and ink pads to color this image.

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Card Recipe

Stamps:  Winter Memories, More Merry Messages

Ink:  Chocolate Chip, SU Markers (Garden Green, Chocolate Chip, Real Red, Basic Black, More Mustard)

Paper:  Water Color (Strathmore)

Other:  Simply Scored, Corner Rounder Punch, Gold Bead (stash)

All supplies are Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted

Frosty Friends at Sunset

I finally found time to finish a card and actually spent 2 hours last night editing photos so I'd have something to put on my blog. Now to find time to share them.  It's such a crazy time of year!  Fun but crazy!

This is a bit non-traditional and I'm not sure if I will use it for a Christmas card or a holiday thank you so I haven't added a sentiment yet.

The sunset is inspired by the view from my kitchen at sunset! I love seeing the red through the trees.

This card's for several challenges, although some have probably closed the door since I started this.

One Layer Wednesday  to put snow on a one layer card.

Less is More #97  which is a One Layer Week with a theme ALL IN A ROW.

Dynamic Duos #32 

Jingle Belles-December to Remember Anything (holiday) Goes

All supplies are Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Frosty Friends, Lovely as a Tree

Ink:  Jet Black StazOn, Goint Grey, SU Markers (Pretty in Pink, Rose Red)

Paper:  Whisper White

Other:  Stampin Sponges, Dazzling Details, Simply Scored

I've been getting some lovely Christmas cards in the mail.  I look forward to going to the mailbox every day.  Usually there's nothing fun in there.  I hope you're getting some snail mail these days.

Thanks for stopping by during this busy time.

Enjoy!

One Layer Give Thanks

I'm just under the wire for the One Layer Wednesday challenge.  Last week it was hosted by Karen of the blog Snippets.  She challenged us to use MASKING on a card.  This is what I came up with....

I cut a mask out of a sticky note (the lines really help to cut straight) and laid it on the card front, then inked up my Woodgrain Background stamp with Crumb Cake, stamped off once and stamped.  

I used a little thumping on the leaves and added some red "berries".  

We have 2 dogwood trees in our back yard that are decked out with lots of red berries as well as colorful leaves.  I've been enjoying all that color.  Our back windows are filled with that beauty!

When I was trying to think of what to do for this challenge, I saw this card by Polly P. aka know as peeps321 at SCS.  She's the Queen for the Day this week.  When I saw her card the idea just came together. Thanks Polly for the inspiration.  I hope you enjoy your week as Queen!

And The Friday Mashup challenge is

So here is the "Mashup" Challenge:

1. Make a "Fall Leaves" themed project.
2. Or Make a project with "Twine".
3. Or "Mash it Up" and create a "Fall Leaves Themed project using Twine". 

I didn't add any twine,  but I think it would look really good.  Maybe I'll go add some.  Imagine it with Early Espresso Baker's Twine.  Yep, I think that would work.

I'll post this on Susan's sidebar for her Gratitude Campaign.  I think it's a wonderful idea to show our gratitude to people who make a difference in our lives.

All supplies are Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Woodgrain, Take Care, Whacked Bright Blessings Jumbo Wheel (retired)

Ink:  Crumb Cake, Cherry Cobbler, SU Markers (Soft Suede, Tangerine Tango, Old Olive, Cherry Cobbler)

Paper:  Whisper White

Other:  Simply Scored, Basic Pearls

I'm going to have to toot my horn a little.  I'm so excited!  When I went to check out the colors at colourQ this week, I saw that my Happy Autumn card was the winner.  I've been a Courtier several times, but never the Queen.  Those colors were fantastic!  The same card was a Favorite at SCS last week too.  It makes me happy to know that this card was enjoyed that much.

Thanks for stopping by.  And a special thanks for your vote of confidence.

Enjoy!

With a Flourish

Here's another card for the Less is More challenge. This week it's

ONE LAYER CARD

time once more. 

The challenge this week is to

 USE A FLOURISH

Again, I wanted to hang something from this Everything Eleanor flourish.  I seem to be hung up (pardon the pun) on hanging stuff from this flourish. Lol, that's only one of many  hangups!

I couldn't decide on a sentiment.  I'll figure that out later.

I'm liking the way the new Basic Black inkpad works.  It's soooo much easier to get a good inking on the stamp. The only trouble is, I get too impatient and end up with smudges.  I tried heat setting but got smudges doing that.  I'm going to have to remember to leave my projects alone for a while so the ink can dry.

All supplies are Stampin' Up!

Card Recipe
Stamps:  Everything Eleanor, Nature Walk
Ink:  Basic Black
Paper:  Whisper White
Other:  Basic Pearl


Be sure to check out all the lovely flourished cards in the Less is More gallery.

Thanks so much for stopping by to visit.  I love your visits and comments.

Enjoy!

Fabulous Purse

If you're looking for the Merry Monday post, click here.

A while back,my fabulous friend Ruthann and I went on a "field trip" to a craft store a couple hours away from us.  It was such a fun day and the store had the largest selection of rubber stamps that we'd ever seen in one place.  Ruthann discovered some delightful purse stamps.  She bought one and I bought another.  Mine sat on the shelf and never saw ink.  Until yesterday...

I was checking out the Queen for the Day challenge at SCS and looking through Taylor's fantastic gallery. When I saw this card, I remembered this stamp and an idea was born.

I decided that the colors that Lesley chose for the Paper Players challenge would be perfect.

  

Then I had the brilliant idea to do a row of embossing across the top.  It looked really good so I embossed across the bottom.  Oops! the folder moved.  It moved a lot.  There was no way to salvage it.

So I cut the design away from the embossing and mounted it on another card base.

When I saw the CAS challenge at SCS this morning, A WHITE LAYER ON A WHITE BASE, -I thought, hot dog!   That mistake worked out for the best!  How often does that happen?

Then I stamped and colored another one for the Less is More challenge.  It's

ONE LAYER CARD

time once more. 

The challenge this week is to

 USE A FLOURISH

I thought a flourish would make a good purse holder.  And I have a new set, Everything Eleanor with a fantastic flourish stamp. What do you think?

There's a little rhinestone button on each purse. I don't think the sparkle shows in the pictures.

These were fun to make.  It was fun having some time in my craft room.

All supplies are Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted

Card Recipe (card 1)

Stamps:  Fabulous Phrases, Purse (Impression Obsession)

Ink: Lucky Limeade, Melon Mambo, Basic Gray

Paper:  Whisper White

Other:  Blender Pen, Basic Rhinestone, Lucky Limeade Ribbon (retired)

Card Recipe (card 2)

Stamps:  Everything Eleanor, Fabulous Phrases, Purse (Impression Obsession)

Ink:  Basic Gray, Lucky Limeade, Melon Mambo

Paper:  Whisper White

Other:  Basic Rhinestone

I hope you had some fun today!  Thanks for spending some time with me.

Enjoy!