green leaves... and flowers!

Hey there!  I hope everyone is staying safe during this uncertain time!  My kiddos are both officially out of school for the next month.   Thankfully it seems our school district has tried to be proactive about everything and we already have information on ways to keep our kids engaged in learning!  Yay!  Anyway... I have a card to share that I made for several challenges:  CAS(E) this Sketch, Color Throwdown, Time Out and Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge.  Time Out is celebrating their 6th birthday!  Time sure does fly when you are having fun, right?  So they want birthday themed projects and they have a "twist" option of fussy cutting.   I was able to get my hands on the Simon Says Stamp March card kit, but not the matching dies so I was able to get that option in on my card.  Like many crafters I have lots of different coloring options.  One of them is Copic markers.  I jumped on that bandwagon and purchased quite a few pens.  I tried working with the pens and even took a Copic coloring class, but eventually I fell off that bandwagon as I just was never comfortable coloring with them.  But recently I have been watching a few videos by the incredibly talented Kelly Latevola and in one of them she mentioned that she had a list of color combos.  That has always been my biggest stumbling block... figuring out color combos.  So, the other day I copied down some of her combos and I used one for today's card.   I stamped the long vine image from the Stronger Together stamp set from the kit in Memento Tuxedo Black and then colored the leaves with the green combo of YG03, G05, G17 and G28.   I then stamped the little single flowers from the set in Tuxedo Black (2 of the larger one, 1 of the smaller) and colored them with the same combo.  Those were fully cut out and the edges colored with a Tuxedo Black marker.  I die cut the panel with the leaves, stamped the sentiment from another SSS set and then popped up the little flowers.   Thanks to watching all those videos and Kelly's color combo I think my coloring turned out pretty well!  This is also going to the Simon Says Stamp flickr challenge.

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Spellbinders Glimmer Hot Foil Sale!

Hey there!  I'm popping in to let you know that Spellbinders is having a fabulous sale on many of their Glimmer hot foil products including a super awesome deal on the Glimmer hot foiling system!  Click on the banner below to head to the sale.

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Happy Wednesday!

Hey there!  Happy Wednesday!  I hope your week is going well.  So far so good for me!  I have a post up on the AJVD blog and here is a little peek:

I hope you will head over to the AJVD blog to check out the full project and let me know what you think.  Have a wonderful day!

Flowers!

Hey there!  I'm popping in to share a couple of featuring flowers.  First up is a card that I made this afternoon using the beautiful Simon Says Stamp Stronger Together stamp set from the SSS March card kit.  When I sat down to start this card I saw a piece of Simon Says Stamp fog cardstock and decided to use that to do some coloring with my Polychromos pencils.  I stamped the image from the set using VersaFine CLAIR Nocturne ink and then picked out a nice purply-blue to color the flowers and two shades of green for the leaves. I laid down a layer of white before adding the colors and then blended out the purply-blue with additional white to tone down the color.  I did the same thing with the leaves.  Once I was done with the coloring I positioned sentiment and stamped it with the Nocturne ink, as well.  The layout for my card is based on the CTS layout and so I added some scoring to frame out the stronger together portion of the sentiment.   The piece was then die cut with an AJVD stitched dot rectangle and adhered to a white cardstock base with foam tape.  Finished with various different jewels in blue, silver and white.  Also going to add this to the current Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge because what is more feminine then flowers?

This next card was made using one of the floral prints from Suzy Plantamura that were included in the SSS March kit.  This one I colored with Faber-Castell watercolor pencils.  I had tried watercoloring with pencils several years ago and was never really happy with how things turned out.  Thankfully I have learned alot since then and I gave my watercolor pencils another try.   To color the daisies I used a combination of a bright yellow and a yellow that bordered on orange.  I colored on the two colors at the base of the petal and then blended out with water making sure to leave the center of each petal with a highlight area.  I colored the center of the flowers with two shades of brown and the stems with one shade of green.  Once I was done I die cut the piece with an AJVD stitched dot rectangle die and then I used the little hello die from the kit to die cut it out of the panel.  I placed some washi tape on the back and then filled in the opening with two additional hellos that I cut from scrap cardstock.  I finished off with the original die cut.  I then stamped one of the small label sentiments on white cardstock with VersaFine CLAIR Nocturne, trimmed it out and them popped it up with foam tape.  This one will also be going to the SSS flickr challenge to use dies.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

More Spellbinders Fun!

Hello!  Popping in with a couple of cards that I made with a set of dies that I recently purchased from Spellbinders called Kaleidoscope Petals.  They have several different kaleidoscope die sets and I have most of them.  I just love the look they create.  Since I just got them I wanted to put them to use and so I did... twice!  For the first card I used the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches and the colors from Color Throwdown.   I will also be adding this to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge.  The die set has three different dies:  a top, middle and bottom.  I cut the top and bottom dies from the same color of cardstock (pink, orange and blue) and the middle one from white.  I then layered all the pieces together and arranged them on a die cut rectangle of white cardstock.    Since I have been using butterflies a lot lately I decided to not use one for this card and instead I die cut a Spellbinders layered flower and leaf from light gray cardstock.  I thought about using white, but I decided to try something a little different by using the light gray and I really like how it turned out.   I stamped the sentiment in VersaFine CLAIR Nocturne and then adhered the flower and the leaves.  The panel was adhered to a card base made from the same light gray as the flower and then I finished off the card with tiny sparkling clear Pretty Pink Posh sequins.

The second card is going to the current Sunday Stamps challenge and the Paper Players challenge to use heat embossing.  I only embossed the large sentiment so hopefully that is enough.  I die cut the petals from purple, green and gold mirror cardstock (although in the photo it doesn't look gold) and then adhered them together.  I used a circular kaleidoscope die set to create a piece made from yellow and green cardstock.   I then die cut a strip of white cardstock and then stamped the sentiment (from Spellbinders) in VersaMark watermark ink and then heat embossed in black embossing powder.  That piece was adhered to a white cardstock panel and then I layered on all the petals to make it looked like a half flower finishing it off with the circular piece.   The rest of the sentiment was stamped in VersaFine CLAIR Nocturne on white cardstock, trimmed down and adhered.

I just want to remind you that the pre-Spring Surprise Bundle offer is still going on at Spellbinders.  You can click here to find out all the details.  The is also a special clearance section where you can get up to 70% off tons of different items.  Click here to go to the sale.

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Happy March!

Hey there!  Wow... March is already here!  Where is the time going?  It is Wednesday and that means that I have a new post up on the AJVD blog and here is a little peek:

Hope you will head over to the AJVD blog to check out the full project.  Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!