wednesday with a jillian vance design...

Hello!!! Popping in to let you know that my usual Wednesday post is up over on the AJVD blog.  Here is a little peek of what I created:

Have a great day and I hope you will take the time to head over to the AJVD blog for a look and to let me know what you think!  

happy birthday wishes...

Hello!!  After being mojo-less for the last week or so I seem to have gotten a little bit of it back after I made the card I posted the other day (you can scroll down or click here to see it).  I had wanted to make a card for the current Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge of  "its hip to be square" and so I combined it with the current CAS on Sunday challenge of balloons to create my card.  I recently purchased a My Mind's Eye Hooray bundle from Peachy Cheap that included a package of fun die cuts including several balloons and so I used one for my card.  The scalloped and plain squares were die cut from some of the paper from the Hooray 6x6 pad using Spellbinders dies.  The sentiment is from the Simon Says Stamp set Celebrate.  I laid the striped square on my mini MISTI, placed the sentiments how I wanted then, close the lid to my MISTI and then inked up everything for perfect placement stamping!  Love that!!  Since this card uses die cutting and SSS products I also included it in the current SSS flickr challenge to "cut it out".  I love that this card took next to no time to make thanks to the die cuts!   Going to add this to the current City Crafter challenge of birthdays.

Hope you have a wonderful day...


Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI vintage cream; PP:  My Mind's Eye; Die cut:  My Mind's Eye; Stamps:  Simon Says Stamp; Dies:  Spellbinders; Ink:  VersaFine Onyx Black

3 pumpkins...

Hey!!  Can't believe August is almost over!! Time flies when you are having fun, right??   I have been experiencing a lack of mojo again and this morning decided to do some watercoloring.  I have had this beautiful Penny Black stamp called "Pumpkins" for ages and have hardly used it (sadly I have too many stamps like that!!).  I decided to get it out and color it up with my ZIGS.   Stamped the image with Vintage Sepia and then colored the pumpkins with a combination of orange and yellow markers and a limited amount of water.  I have to say that I'm really, really pleased with how everything turned out!  The sentiment is from the AJVD Pretty Posies stamp set.  I decided to use the current Freshly Made Sketches layout for my card and so I will be adding it to that line up.  I wanted to use the entire colored image so I die cut the image using the second largest AJVD polka Dot rectangle die and then die cut the center using the largest Spellbinders plain oval die.  A piece of patterned paper was die cut using the largest polka dot rectangle die as a mat for the water colored piece.   After everything was layered I added the die cut oval using foam dimensionals to give it a bit more height.  Some clear Wink of Stella was brushed on the pumpkins as well.  I have included a cropped image that shows the Wink of Stella.

Thanks for stopping by today... and would love to know what you think!

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI Fresh Snow linen, Ranger watercolor; Patterned paper:  My Mind's Eye Howdy Doody; Stamps:  Penny Black and AJVD; Dies:  AJVD and Spellbinders; Inks:  VersaFine; Watercolor medium:  ZIG clean color markers

bountiful blessings... pti august blog hop

Hello!!! Playing along today with this month's PTI blog hop.  Nichole provided a lovely inspiration piece that had my thoughts going in all kinds of directions.  I really wanted to play off of the way the paint palette looked and so tried an idea that unfortunately totally bombed, lol!  But that is why we try things, right?  Since I had to take my little guy (seriously I think I have to stop saying that... he isn't that little anymore, lol!) to swim lessons on Wednesday (the day before the hop)evening and I still had to make dinner my crafting time was limited.  So I went with an idea that I think turned out nicely.  When I looked at the inspiration photo I saw the colors of coral, dark yellow and navy blue.  I used Abandoned Coral and, Fossilized Amber distress inks and navy blue cardstock.  The PTI stamps I used are from the Brushed Off stamp set and the new Color Pop Autumn mini make it market kit.  The brushed off image was stamped in Abandoned color on watercolor cardstock and then blended out with water.  I did that to provide some of the depth of color that you see in the inspiration photo.   I added some additional color by stamping several of the detail leaf images from the Color Pop Autumn and blending them out with water.  The word "bountiful" was die cut from navy cardstock three times and adhered together.  The watercolor panel was then die cut with the largest die from the Inside Out die set and a second was die cut from kraft cardstock to provide a little bit of a mat.  I wanted to bring in the silver from the paintbrushes and so I added a coil of silver thread to the panel and then adhered the die cut word on top.  Finished off by adding the sentiment "blessings" in black ink. 

Thanks for stopping by today...


Supplies:  Cardstock: PTI kraft and Fine Linen, Ranger watercolor, Simon Says Stamp navy; Stamps and dies:  PaperTrey Ink; Inks:  Ranger and VersaFine; Silver Thread:  Coates & Clark

wednesday with a jillian vance design...

Hey friends!!   Stopping by to let you know that my regular Wednesday post is up on the AJVD blog.  Here is a little peek of my project:

Thanks for stopping by today... I hope you will head over to the AJVD blog for a look and to let me know what you think.

a couple of cards to share...

Hello!!  After our vacation I'm still trying to get back into the mood to make cards.  I finally decided that today was the day I was going to get a few made and hopefully get my mojo back.  Kept both cards super simple to make it easier on myself!   First up is a card for the current Color Throwdown challenge, as well as the current Sketch for You to Try challenge.   Initially I was going to use a different Reverse Confetti set for my card, but then decided that I wanted to use the fun RC Globe Confetti Cut and so I used the RC set My World which is a companion to the die.  Took forever to find the right combination of papers.  At first I was going to use cardstock, but did really like how things were looking so switched over to patterned paper.  Once I got that all worked out it was just a matter of putting everything together and figuring out where to put the sentiment.  I didn't like most of my options for the sentiment and then I realized that it would fit nicely inside the actual globe and so that is what I went with.  I like how it turned out!  

 

The next card is for the current CAS(E) this Sketch, as well as the current Essentials by Ellen Pin-Sights challenge.  The pin-sights mood board is gorgeous and so I pulled out a few of the colors and the floral images as my starting point.  I started by watercoloring three of the single hydrangea flowers from the Mondo Hydrangea set using a dark pink ZIG clean color marker and clear water. I wanted to have the concentration of color in the center of the flower. I added some yellow to the centers, s well as some Diamond Stickles.  After I got all three done I let them dry and then die cut them with the matching die.   I die cut a piece of what color cardstock and then cut it on the diagonal per the sketch.  Water was brushed on the piece and then two colors of green ZIG clean color markers were brushed on and then blended out with some more clean water.  Once I finished I let that dry I stamped the sentiment from the Up the Happy stamp set using my mini MISTI so I could get a really nice crisp impression.   The panel was adhered to a pink cardstock base, the flowers adhered and then a few sequins in the same color palette was adhered.  Again, super simple, but I really love how it turned out. 

Thanks for stopping by today... love to hear your thoughts!


Supplies:  Cardstock:  white, kraft, pink, watercolor cardstock; Stamps:  Reverse Confetti and Essentials by Ellen; Dies:  Reverse Confetti, Essentials by Ellen, A Jillian Vance Design; Inks:  VersaFine Onyx Black; Patterned Paper:  My Mind's Eye and Reverse Confetti; Sequins:  Pretty Pink Posh; Watercolor Medium:  ZIG clean color markers