Mint Chocolate Chip

Hello Friends,

Here is a card I did for the CAS challenge to use green & brown with White or Cream. I've been wanting to ink the Happy Moments Sale-A-Bration stamp set and this was a perfect opportunity. This set is still free (until March 31st) with a $50.00 Stampin' Up! purchase. It has 4 adorable images plus 3 sentiments. You can click on the Sale-A-Bration catalog on the side to see all the great sets available.


Card Recipe

Stamps: Happy Moments, Short & Sweet

Paper: Chocolate Chip, Whisper White, Certainly Celery

Ink: Chocolate Chip, Old Olive Stampin' Write Markers

Accessories: Big Shot, SU Backgrounds 1 Texturz Plate, Ticket Corner Punch, Horizontal Slot Punch, Old Olive 5/8" Satin Ribbon (from the Occasions Mini Catalog), Circle Ice Brad

Sorry about the crazy spacing. If anyone can tell me why it spaces the way it wants please email me and tell me. Hope you enjoy the card anyway.

Happy Stampin',

Bonnie

Ye Olde Garden Shoppe

Hello Stampin' Friends,

I had some leftover pieces from the last card and some stamps out that I was going to use, but didn't. Sooo, I played a bit last night. I love the Bella's Bloom stamp set and I have barely wet the rubber! I meant to stamp a few flowers, but got carried away and decided if a few was good, a lot was better. I used the leaves on the sentiment as well as a stamp from a retired set, Watercolor Minis for the greenery at the bottom. I cut around the top of the flowers and put some dimensionals in the middle to lift it out a bit. Then I trimmed a piece of the Bashful Blue DSP that I had "quilted" with the Big Guy and punched it with that oh so popular Scallop Trim Border Punch (still free with a $50.00 purchase). I thought it looked like a store canopy and the Shoppe was born! The bloom sentiment is from another stamp set, Bloomin' Beautiful. (I always thought that Bloom would be a great name for a flower shop.) The butterflies are from the Beautiful Wings Embosslit Die, p. 24, in the Occasions Mini Catalog.


Card Recipe
Stamps: Bella's Bloom, Bloomin' Beautiful, Watercolor Minis
Paper: Melon Mambo Textured, Very Vanilla, Bashful Blue
Ink: Melon Mambo, Certainly Celery
Acc.: Scallop Trim Border & Scallop Trim Corner punches, Big Shot, Beautiful Wings Embosslit die, Perfect Details Texturz Plate, Dimensionals

I had fun with this one. I hope you enjoy seeing it as much as I enjoyed making it.

Don't forget to get inky this weekend.

Hugs,
Bonnie

Lindsay's Card

I made this card for several challenges. I love it when I can combine challenges for a card! Sometimes I get way too confused but this one went together well. It wasn't at all like I planned when I went in my stamp room. Sometimes it goes like that!

The Color Challenge this week was Bashful Blue, Certainly Celery & Melon Mambo with neutrals of choice. Bashful & Celery I could see. They are both Soft Subtles. But Melon Mambo??? It's one of my favorite colors but I never ever thought of using it with the Subtles! When I inked the branch with the Celery & Melon, it didn't look bad. So then I went all out and decided to use Melon for the card base too! What do you think?

The Color Challenge was combine with the Tea Pot Challenge to do a card based on quilting. So I ran the pieces through the Big Guy to make it look more like a quilt. I also drew little stitches to try to make it look like an applique piece. (I'm not sure if I succeeded with that or not but there was no going back!)

Then I used the Sketch Challenge this week for the layout.

This card will go to a young woman, Lindsay, who found out she had cancer right after she found out she was pregnant. She is fighting a big battle and my heart goes out to her and her mother. Say a prayer for them, ok?

Card Recipe
Stamps: Thoughts & Prayers
Paper: Melon Mambo, Bashful Blue, Whisper White
Ink: Certainly Celery, Bashful Blue & Melon Mambo Markers, Night of Navy
Acc.: Big Shot, SU Perfect Details Texturz Plate


Wishing you good health and a joyful day.
Bonnie

Today I met with the Creative Arts group of the Cary Newcomers Club and not only learned how to "paint" with Prismacolor pencils but made a new and very creative friend. She demonstrated how she creates wonderful pictures. It is amazing that they are "painted" with colored pencils! She has some really neat tricks up her sleeve (and in her makeup bag) and she graciously had made prints of her work for us to make a card with.

This is the card I made. It was hard to choose which print to use.

All I did was tear the edges, mat the picture and use the paper piercer & mat pack to outline the design.


Not only is the rose painted beautifully, but the background is gorgeous! Here is a close up. Can you believe it was done with colored pencils?

Jean doesn't think she is an artist. What do you think? I hope I can remember some of her tricks. If I can't, I will just have to pester her to get together again...and again...and again.

'Til next time, happy stampin', or drawing, or tracing or coloring or anything that you enjoy doing.

Bonnie

Easter Lily

Still keeping to an Easter theme with the CAS challenge this week which is to layer 2 different shapes. I hope this qualifies even if I shaped one layer myself. The lily was stamped on Shimmery White in Going Gray then I painted the petals with Frost White Shimmer Paint. It's the first time I have used this paint and it definitely has a shimmer but not too much. The oval was first dry embossed with a Texturz Plate and then cut with the Ovals die. I've been using pastel shades for my Spring cards but like the brightness of the Crushed Curry for this one. It looks like a sunny day, which we had today. Spring is going to come after all!

Card Recipe

Stamps: Fifth Avenue Floral, Well Scripted

Paper: Crushed Curry Textured, Crushed Curry, Whisper White, Shimmery White

Ink: Going Gray, Crushed Curry

Acc.: Scallop Trim Corner Punch, Big Shot, SU Backgrounds 1 Texturz Plate, Ovals Die, Frost White Shimmer Paint, Crushed Curry Marker, Crushed Curry Polka Dot Ribbon

Hope you saw the sunshine today and maybe got to stamp too.

Bonnie