"We do not remember days, we remember moments." Cesare Pavese

Friday, January 25, 2019

some cards to share...

Hello!   As my blog title suggests I have cards to share.  Two cards to be exact.   First up is a card for this month's Altenew inspiration challenge, as well as Freshly Made Sketches.  I did some watercoloring using my Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolors and the Altenew Starry Flowers stamp set.  I stamped the image using VersaFine CLAIR Nocturne ink and then did my simple watercoloring.  I used the red and scarlet red colors from my palette to color the flowers and then added in touches of orange to deepen the colors.  The stem was colored with a turquoise green.  When the image was dry I die cut it with the matching die.   Some teal color cardstock was die cut with an AJVD rectangle die and then stamped with the other floral image from the set using teal ink.   The sentiment was then stamped with the Nocturne ink.  I adhered the panel to my card base per the sketch and then adhered the watercolored image.  Another super clean and simple design.



The second card is for Color Throwdown.   I used my newly acquired Everyday Bouquet Turnabout kit from Concord & 9th.  Can I just tell you how much I love the new jig that comes in the kit, as well as the alignment tool the comes with the stamp set?  Both are fabulous and I can't wait to create more cards with the turnabout stamp sets that I have!  I stamped the images using the three inks from the CTD palette and then finished off the image by stamping the fourth turn using SSS Fog ink.  I love how the soft gray fills in the missing images, but doesn't make them stand out too much.  I stamped the sentiment in the dark blue ink and then die cut it with the square die from the die set.  I used the smaller square to die cut gray cardstock twice to get the little frame around the sentiment.  The flower and leaves (also from the die set) were die cut from dark blue and green cardstock.  I die cut the main panel with an AJVD rectangle die and then layered up the sentiment square with the other elements.  I added in a little loop of silver sequin trim (from C9) for some sparkle.



Wednesday, January 23, 2019

Happy Wednesday!

Hello!  Hope you are having a good week!  It is Wednesday and that means I have a post up on the AJVD blog today.  Here is a little peek of my project:


I hope you will head over to the AJVD blog to see the full project.  Have a wonderful day!

Monday, January 21, 2019

all the best...

Hello!  Hope your week is off to a good start!  I got the chance to create with some stamps and dies that I recently purchased from Stampin Up! so that means my week is off to a great start, lol!   The stamp set is called First Frost and is absolutely gorgeous!  I noticed in the die set that there are two dies that both cut out the smaller of the two flowers.  I love that I can cut two flowers at the same time!  I used them to create my card for the current CAS(E) this Sketch challenge, Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge (clean and simple) and the Just Add Ink challenge to use something new (the stamps and dies).   I stamped the leaf image using SU!'s Lemon Line Twist ink and the flowers using SU!'s Berry Burst ink.   I stamped the sentiment using VersaFine CLAIR Nocturne ink and then die cut it with a banner die from the Reverse Confetti Beautiful Banners die set.   The main panel was die cut, the banner and flowers arranged over the leaf image and the end of the banner trimmed off.  The entire panel was then adhered to a light gray cardstock base.  



Hope you have a wonderful day!

Supplies:  Cardstock:  MFT white; SSS Fog; Stamps:  Stampin Up!; Dies:  Stampin Up!, Reverse Confetti, A Jillian Vance Design; Inks:  Stampin Up!, VersaFine CLAIR

Saturday, January 19, 2019

snow many thanks...

Hello!  Hope you are having a nice weekend!   I have a clean and simple thank you card to share today.   I used the sketch from MFT (haven't played along with that in ages!) and the color combo from Color Throwdown.   Since the card is clean and simple I will also add it to the line up at the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge.   The snowflake was created using the MFT Layered Snowflakes dies and cardstock in the CTD colors.  I also threw in a little sparkle by die cutting one of the flakes from silver glitter cardstock.   Stripes of the same cardstocks were trimmed out.  Before adhering them to the card front I stamped the sentiment (from A Jillian Vance Design) on one of the strips with VersaFine CLAIR Nocturne ink.   The strips and the snowflake were adhered per the sketch layout and I was done.



Hope you have a wonderful day!

Supplies:   Cardstock:  MFT white, silver glitter; SSS blue; SU! aqua; Stamps: A Jillian Vance Design; Dies:  My Favorite Things; Ink:  VersaFine CLAIR


Wednesday, January 16, 2019

Hello, Wednesday!

Hey there!  It is Wednesday and that means I have a post up on the A Jillian Vance Design blog today and here is a little peek:


I hope that you will take the time to head over to the A Jillian Vance Design blog to see the whole project and to let me know what you think!  Have a wonderful day! 

Sunday, January 13, 2019

love you...

Hello there!  I have another Valentine's day card to share.  Most months I barely get a card made for the Reverse Confetti stock your stash challenge, but this month I have managed to get two done!  Yay me, lol!  I combined the stock your stash challenge with the current Fusion challenge to make my card.  I used both the layout and the colors from the inspiration photo for my card.  I did some simple watercoloring on some watercolor paper with a blue and purple ZIG marker and then die cut the RC Heart Love Pretty Panel from that when it was dry.  I die cut a second one from some scrap paper to make it a little more substantial because I decided that I wanted to create a shaker element with the die cut.   Cutting the foam tape thin enough was a little tricky, but I managed to get it done in most spots.   I adhered my die cut pretty panel to some acetate and then trimmed it out when everything was dry.   A simple strip of blue gingham patterned paper was adhered to a white cardstock base, I added some sequins from Pretty Pink Posh and then adhered the panel over the top.  For the butterflies (die cut using the Butterfly Dreams Confetti Cuts) I did some additional simple watercoloring with blue, purple and pink ZIGs and when the paper was dry die cut the butterflies.  The largest one was stamped with the word you (I used part of a sentiment from the Whole Lotta Thanks stamp set) using VersaFine CLAIR ink in Nocturne and adhered to the shaker element.  I then arranged the rest of the butterflies. In retrospect I think I should have arranged the butterflies differently, but I still like how it turned out.

Hope you have a wonderful day!

Supplies:  Cardstock:  MFT white; watercolor paper; Paper:  gingham patterned paper; Stamps and dies:  Reverse Confetti; Ink:  VersaFine CLAIR; Watercolor Medium:  ZIG Clean Color Real Brush makers; Sequins:  Pretty Pink Posh; Acetate