September Flower Morning Glory

Hello friends.  I'm so glad you stopped by.

I'm still trying to use all those flower of the month stamps.

The September flower is Morning Glory or Aster
which symbolizes daintiness, love and magic according to Google.

Papertrey ink went with the Morning Glory.

I put the stamp in my MISTI and colored it with Distress Markers
then moved the color with my waterbrush and stamped again
to strengthen the details.

I actually stamped the flowers after I was finished coloring, with
Hickory Smoke.  I felt the blue was strong enough and
the gray worked beautifully to add detail.

I used a previously die cut piece of watercolor paper and
used the the next larger die in the set to emboss a frame.

Some little clear drops finished it off.


Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Year of Flowers Collection (PTI), Handwritten Borders (SSS)

Ink:   Old Olive (SU), Distress Markers (Salty Ocean, Peeled Paint, Squeezed Lemonade, Hickory Smoke)

Paper:   Watercolor (TH), Neenah

Other:  Stitched Rectangles Die (SSS), Clear Drops (Starlit Studio)

August Flower Gladiolus

Hello and welcome.

I'm still working through the Year of Flowers.

This month the flower is gladiolus.

They were my grandfather's favorite flower.

There was a farm between our house and his that had a whole field
of gladiola in the summer and we would stop to buy a
bouquet to take along to him.

That field was so pretty with so many colors of flowers.

I've just done one color on mine.

I placed the stamp in my MISTI and inked it with Distress Markers.

After stamping I moved the ink with a damp water brush
then restamped until I was happy with the image.

After stamping a tiny sentiment, I die cut the piece
and placed it on a piece of foam to pop it up.


Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Year of Flowers Collection (PTI), Snippets (PB)

Ink:   Mowed Lawn (DI), Abandoned Coral, Mowed Lawn (DM)

Paper:   Mixed Media (Strathmore 400 series), Neenah

Other:  Scallop Diamond Tags Die (Pretty Pink Posh)

June Flower-Rose

Hello friends.  I'm so glad you could stop by today!

Today I'm sharing June's Flower.

This started out with the rose at the top of a longer piece of cardstock.

I stamped the sentiment crooked. Bah!

Fortunately I was able to salvage the rose!  Barely!

I used my MISTI to stamp this, and used Distress Markers

for color.  Once stamped, I moved the color with my

water brush and stamped again.

To add extra shading, I swiped a marker on my palette and

picked up a little color with the water brush to add here and there.

The design piece is popped up on a piece of foam.

Challenges:

CAS on Friday #136 - Watercolor

Four Crafty Chicks #409 Summer is Here

Seize the Birthday: Anything Goes

Simon Says Wednesday: Anything goes

 

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Year of Flowers Collection (PTI), Agapanthus (TT)

Ink:   Tattered Rose, Abandoned Coral, Peeled Paint (DM), Onyx Black (VF)

Paper:   Neenah, Blush Blossom (SU), Mixed Media (St)

Other:  Double Pierced Rectangle (AE)

May Flower-Lilly of the Valley

Hello Friends.

Edited to add: Mystery solved!  When I mentioned it to DH, he remembered
putting a different flower in the vase since the lily of the valley was past it's prime.
We have wood hyacinths in the yard and I didn't realize they were still blooming
and that he had brought a blossom in.

I can't believe the month is over already!
I barely got my flower of the month done.

This time I chose to stamp on a piece of textured Crumb Cake cardstock

and color with Prismacolor pencils.

I stamped in the middle of the piece with Crumb Cake ink,

then masked that flower and stamped another on each side.

I used Terpenoid with a cosmetic swab (the kind with a pointed end)

to blend the coloring.

We have a flower bed that has lily of the valley growing in it.

Our flowers bloomed in April this year.

I picked a small bouquet that scented the whole house.

Some of the blooms opened in an unusual way, at least to me.

See those at the top of the bouquet?

Instead of little bells that turned brown, some of the flowers opened

up like other lilies.

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Year of Flowers Collection, Beautiful Butterflies (PTI)

Ink:   Crumb Cake (SU)

Paper:   Crumb Cake, Crumb Cake Textured, Naturals White (SU)

Other:  Prismacolor Pencils, Turpenoid, Make Up Swabs, Rectangular Peek-a-boo Window die (MFT)

April Flower-Sweet Pea

Hello friends.

I'm back with an April flower or should I say flowers.

These sweet peas are so little that I had trouble watercoloring them.

But perseverance paid off.

I stamped the image with gray Archival ink then colored with 

Distress Markers and a water brush.  

I find that I have more control of the colors if I swipe the marker on a pallete

and pick up the color with the brush.

The Flower Challenge #19

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Year of Flowers Collection (PTI), Botanical Silhouettes (PTI)

Ink:   Smokey Gray, Onyx Black (Versafine), Spun Sugar, Worn Lipstick, Picked Raspberry, Shabby Shutters, Mowed Lawn (DM)

Paper:   Vanilla Thick, Watercolour (Arches 140 lb. hot press)

Other:  Opulent Ovals, Classic Ovals dies (Spellbinder), Raindrops (PTI)

March Flower-Daffodil

Hello, friends.

The flower for March is the Daffodil.

March is almost over....ACH! How did that happen?

I inked the stamp with Distress Markers, stamped and moved the color around with a water brush.

Quick and easy!

I'll enter at
Inspired by all the Little Things

I'm inspired by the daffodil in that vase of flowers.

I hope you have a very happy Easter.


Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Year of Flowers Collection (PTI), Easter Blossoms (SU)

Ink:   Mustard Seed, Dried Marigold, Peeled Paint, Mowed Lawn (Distress Markers), Onyx Black (Versafine)

Paper:   Mixed Media, Daffodil Delight (SU), Neena

Other:  XStitch Frames (GM), Tulip Frame EF (SU), Water Brush

Pocket Notebook NBUS Challenge

Several of my blogging friends have posted entries into the

Make it Monday challenge.

Curious, I checked it out.

It's sponsored by Papertrey Ink.

I love Papertrey Ink stamps.

Unfortunately, I don't have a lot of them.

But this time I have one that works!

This week, Erin Lincoln offers a video
instructing us to make lovely little notebooks.

I switched it up a bit and used some of that huge stash of 

Decorative Paper for the inside. 

This paper only has a design on one side and I layered it so the design is on the back

thinking that it would be easier to read my scribble if it wasn't competing

with a pattern.

It's kind of a nice surprise to turn the paper over and see the design.

I made my chipboard and Decorative Paper flap longer so I could wrap it 
around the bottom and  added some magnetic dots to keep it closed.

It really was pretty easy and it would make a lovely gift.

Or a prettier notebook to carry in my purse.

The flowers were so easy to stamp.

I inked the stamp with Summer Starfruit ink.

After stamping I used a blender pen to move the ink around into the petals.

I swiped a Old Olive marker on a plastic lid and picked up the color

with the blender pen for the leaves.

I stamped a sentiment from this set under the bottom flap

for a little surprise!

And since both of these stamps are NBUS,

I'm joining in my friend 

Darnell's Challenge

NBUS Challenge #1 

"Anything Goes" 

(Friendship Theme)

As I was reading the details of Darnell's challenge, it occurred to me
that this would be a perfect friendship gift.

Congratulations, Darnell on reaching 500 followers!

Thanks so much for the visit.

Enjoy!

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Recipe

Stamps:  Year of Flowers Collection (Papertrey Ink)

Ink:  Summer Starfruit, Old Olive Marker (both Stampin' Up!)

Paper:  Sweet Sorbet DSP (SU), 110# White (Neena)

Other:  Magnetic snaps (?)