Love you....

Happy Saturday!!  Time for another Less is More challenge.   This time Chrissie and Mandi are challenging us to use two of something, ie two images, two-step stamping, etc.   I puzzled about this one for a few hours and then started looking through my stamps to see what I could find.  Initially I almost went with one of my favorite Stampin Up! sets Fast & Fabulous with the idea to do some two-step stamping, but then I saw this cute little Taylored Expressions a la Carte' stamp of two whales that I got for free (love that!) a few months ago and decided to use it instead.

I stamped the image on white cardstock with Memento Tuxedo Black and then colored it with Copic markers... boom I was done!    Super simple, but I think really cute.  


Supplies:  Cardstock:  White cardstock; Stamps:  Taylored Expression & PTI; Copic Markers 

Birthday Wishes....

Hey there!!  Wow... Friday already!  Time flies when the kids are back in school!!  hee hee!

Here with a card for the following challenges:   Flourishes, Paper Players (birthday) and ColourQ (color combo.  The challenge at Flourishes is to have water used in some way on your card (ie... image with water in it, watercoloring, etc.).   When I saw the color combo from ColourQ I thought it would be a good one to combine with the Flourishes challenge since one of the colors is called "Pool Party", a light, watery blue.  Now when I colored the vase I did get the blue a bit darker, but it is still in the ball park.   This is the first time I have actually colored an image to match a color combo.  I have always been a little scared of doing that, but now that I have tried it I'm ready to do it again!   The sentiment is from the Waltzingmouse Fancy Phrases set.   

I'm squeeking this one in for the Paper Players challenge as it ends in a few hours.  I love that challenge and so really wanted to make something to play along.  Thank goodness it is easy to turn a card into a birthday card by adding a sentiment!

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI white; SU! Lucky Limeade & Pool Party; PP:  SU! Rich Razzleberry dp; Stamps:  Flourishes Lenten Rose & Waltzingmouse Fancy Phrases; Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black & SU! Rich Razzleberry; Copic Markers:  BG000, BG01, V01, V12, YG03, YG06, YG23, Y11, C1 & C2
                                                   

Welcome Back OLW!!!

Wooohooo!! One Layer Wednesday is back, baby and this week Jennifer is challenging us to make a one layer baby card.    Until afew months ago I did not own a dedicated baby stamp set.   I had a few baby related stamps that came in sets containing other images, but no set completely baby related.  In fact I never really thought that I was good at making baby cards until I got three baby cards accepted for publication (they will be in the March, 2012 issue of CardMaker).  When that happened I decided to get a stamp set dedicated to babies and that set is PTI's Bundle of Love.   I also want to get PTI's Night, Night Moon, because is it just so darn cute!

Anyway... on to my very simple card.  I used two colors, teal and olive green.  I think that color combo could work for a boy or a girl.   The card was so quick to make, in fact, that I got it done before I took my big kid to school!!  Make sure you check out One Layer Wednesday.  To celebrate its return, Jennifer is having a fabby giveaway.  Some lucky player will win some awesome A Muse goodies!!

Oh and a quick "hello" and "thank you" to some new followers! 

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI Vintage Cream; Stamps:  PTI Bundle of Love; Ink:  SU! Taken with Teal & Old Olive

What's Black and White....

and read all over???  The new challenge at CAS-ual Fridays, that's what!  This week the challenge is to make a card that is black, white and red and based on a favorite book in honor of National Literacy Day (Sept. 8th).    I had a hard time deciding if I was going to do the challenge because my favorite genre of book is science fiction/fantasy and well most of the books I thought of just wouldn't have translated well into a card.    But then I started thinking about what kinds of stamps I had and then it hit me... the palm trees in the Hero Arts Lauderdale set look an awful lot like the truffula trees from the Dr. Seuss book The Lorax.  The Lorax is one of my favorite books to read to a child.  The story is basically about how natural resources (truffula trees) can be misused and ultimately destroyed, but there is a ray of hope at the end (see below).  Like most Dr. Seuss stories the way the story is written makes it an absolute joy to read out loud.

For the card I stamped the trees using dark red ink and then trimmed them out.  I cut a small rectangle of white cardstock and stamped the Hero Arts Friends Definition background on the piece with black ink.  This piece was matted with black cardstock.  I hunted around for the right sentiment and finally settled on the sentiment "its the little things" because at the end of the story the other main character in the story, the "Once-ler" gives a young boy the last seed (a little thing) from the last truffula tree in hopes that he will plant the seed and the truffula trees will regrow.  

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI white; Gina K black; Ink:  PTI True Black, Stampin Up! Cherry Cobbler; Stamps:  Hero Arts

Silver Rose....

Hey there... happy Saturday!!  Time for another Less is More challenge.  This week Chrissie and Mandi are challenging us to use something metallic on our project.  So... as I sat here at the computer early this morning I pondered what I was going to do.  I have plenty of metallic supplies (paints, sprays, brads, etc), but nothing really jumped out at me as something I wanted to use.   Then I remembered that I had a partial sheet of flexible metal foil that I bought from Close to My Heart aloooong time ago (they no longer sell it).  I also remembered that I have some Spellbinders/Donna Salazar dies (Rose Creations and Carnation Creations) that I have NEVER used!   So I put the two together and made a silver rose using the Rose Creations dies. 

The layout is based on the current sketch from Clean & Simple.  I used some Waltzingmouse stamps (Victorian Frippery & Fancy Phrases) for the card.   In order to really get the full effect of the rose you might want to click on it to make it bigger. 

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI white; Gina K. black; SU! cherry cobbler; Stamps:  WMS; Ink:  PTI True Black; Dies:  Spellbinders Rose Creations dies;  metal foil

Goin' Rustic...

Hey there!! Wooohooo!! Its Friday and school started!!   I don't think my big kid is quite as happy about school starting as I am, but there you are!!

Have a rustic little card for two Moxie Fab challenges:  The current Tuesday Trigger challenge Nice & Neutral and the Vertical Sketch challenge.   When I saw the trigger I wasn't really sure I would give it a try, but then I saw the "Ways to Use It" challenge over at Splitcoaststampers and my idea started forming.  This week's Ways to Use It challenge asked us to use paint and I happened to have a bottle of DecoArt Creamy White paint that I had bought for another project that I never made.  I took most of my inspiration from the headboard of the bed and the blue-grey color of some of the pillows. 

I embossed kraft cardstock with a ProvoCraft embossing folder called Forest Branches and then light brushed the piece with the paint.  My husband had recently trimmed back our lavender plants and left some pieces behind after cleaning up.  I grabbed a few and made my little bundle with a bit of cream twine.  The little twig is from one of our hydrangeas.  In keeping with the banner in the inspiration photo that says "love" I used the sentiment "Amour" from the Hero Arts set Paris. 

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI Soft Stone & Kraft; Stamps:  Hero Arts; Ink: PTI True Black; Paint:  DecoArt Creamy White; ProvoCraft Embossing folder; SU! punch