Just a quick one...

I've had this in my head for a week and tonight took a break from packing..



It is very simple card just a few dies from spellbinders and my retire lighthouse stamp from Stampin Up!... hope you all have a great night... I'm head to Florida for a visit with family then off to CHA supershow...

Playing around...

Yes I'm playin around with my copics this morning and my circle cutter from SU!. I started this card about a week ago when I got my circle cutter from SU!, just wasn't sure what image would go with it. Well this morning I decided to break the card out and finish it.



GinaK inspired me to use a double mat on this card. Her blog entries of late have been so beautiful using a double mat with both the scallop and regular ovals. You really should hop over to her blog and check out her beautiful creations... They can be found here. I had never thought to double mat with my images using my nesties.

I then chose one of my Whiff of Joy stamps to color...I colored her in with my copics. I so enjoyed this little bit of color therapy. I hope you all are have a great week... I have to take the oldest to the dentist today and can't wait to see how that goes.

Morning moon....

Today's card is inspired by a morning picture I took of the moon setting one morning while waiting on my daughter's bus...



This moon was beautiful the other morning and I loved the cotton fields below it... I had to go run in and grab the camera and take this shot. And then today it helped me pull this card out.... I really do love living out in the country and seeing the beauty of nature.



I love the silhouettes this year Stampin Up! has come out with and this is my first set and you know I am happy with my creation with it... I think this will become one of my favorite sets. Hope you all have a great weekend....

Supplies:
Stamps: Upsy Daisy
Ink: only orange, so saffron, black stazon
Cardstock: old olive, only orange, glossy white, fall flowers dp scrap
Accessories: cuttlebug border, ciircle nestie, and scallop circle nestie, cuttlebug, black marker, white gel pen, scor-pal

Copic playing...

Well I'm back and had fun making this card...



This wreath image is a Lockheart image and is so pretty. I had fun breaking out my copics and coloring it in. I also made sure to use my nesties to cut the image and frame it.


I had to use my sahara sand for my base and then grabbed a scrap of stampin up!'s fall flower dp... I think it is retired not sure. I hope everyone is heady for a great weekend I am too excited about tomorrow but will be sure to let you in on it during tomorrow's catty case post... Have a great friday night...

Circle card again...

I just had to make another one using mostly Stampin Up supplies all due because the new catties have made it to my house, My DH is a chief select this year and My DD will be in school by the end of this month. All this exciting news has happen in the last few days and I just had to make a few cards. This was one I made this past weekend.



This little lamb in Stampin Up! Pun fun set is ust too cute. He was just perfect for this circle card along with coloring him in with my SU markers... yes no copics on this one. I cut the many circles out using my nesties scallop circles and cuttlebug... I love making card bases with these. The decorative dots around my lamb are made with liquid pearls... they sure due make him pop..

I hope everyone is having a great week so far... our lives here are alittle upside down but hope it will get alittle better sooner or latter.... Have a great day.

Supplies:
Stamps: pun fun
Cardstock: baja breeze, pink pirouette, berry bliss retired su dp, cardstock vellum
Ink: jet black stazon
Accessories: liquid pearls, SU markers, scalloped circle large nesties, cuttlebug, ribbon

Another sneak peak....

I decided to play with the new hostess set Serene Spring and really enjoyed trying to make it mostly SU. I couldn't resist using my nestie dies o it though or grab the ribbon that matches one of the newest incolors so perfectly. Take a look and tell me what you think....




I stamped the butterfly twice and cut her out and used half of a dimensional to pop it up on the card. All of it was colored using my watercolor crayons no copics on this one... I used both my scalloped and regular long nesties to cut the cardstock. This is such a beautiful image. And the new incolor pink pirouette is such a soft pink... I think it will be one of my favorites this coming year.

I got all my new incolors today and boy do they look wonderful in person.... can't wait to see the new catty in the next few weeks. Have a wonderful Friday everyone....

Supplies:
Stamps: Serene Spring, holidays and wishes
Ink: stazon jet black, pink pirouette classic ink
Cardstock: sage shadow, pink pirouette, whisper white
Accessories: watercolor crayons, aquapainter, long rectangle scalloped and regular nesties, cuttlebug, ribbon

Gettin alittle dirty..

This week is a chance to play with the Dirty Girls over on SCS and to warm up a bit I decided to play with JulieHRR's challenge from Tuesday. It can be found here. Her challenge was to embrace the white of a card which basically is a simple one layered white card and I went with alittle embossing and watercoloring for mine....



I grabbed my poor neglected watercolor crayons and went to work on this magnolia stamp image of tilda.
After watercoloring her, I then took a couple of my stickles out and added them to her top and her wings. I used fruit stickles and star dust on her. I also happened to have some ribbon from a share I had gotten from Texasjodylynn
a while back. It matched her shirt really well. I then noticed that I needed alittle something else and ended up running it through my cuttlebug with one of my long scalloped nesties to dry emboss a frame around her. This was such a fun challenge.

Supplies:
Stamp: Magnolia Tilda, stampin up hostess set serene spring
Ink: Jet black stazon
Cardstock: Stampers select white
Accessories: cuttlebug, long scalloped rectangle nesties, watercolor crayons, aquapainter, stickles fruit punch and star dust

Kinkade mood...

Yup I am in a Kinkade type mood and thought I'd share the first card I made today...


This card idea has been in my head all weekend ever since GinaK posted her weekend challenge. I just couldn't come up with anything using her stamps because my Kinkade collection has been calling out to me... I've neglected them and I need to knock some dust off and play... This was fun coloring it with my copics and then adding a layer of iridescent ice ep over the image.

I wanted this to be perfect but the only problem is my sewing machine is not working.... I wanted to add a little stitching around the dp edge. Oh well Guess I'll have to work on the machine before making another one of these.

My main image is one of Cornish Heritage farms Thomas Kinkade stamps found here. It is called the Forest chapel Vignette. They have come out with a couple of new ones that I'm gonna have to add to my collection sooner or later.... I love the images and the detail you get from these wonderful stamps.

I hope you are all having a great Monday... I'm off to play with some more kinkade stamps....

Supplies:
Stamps: Forest Chapel Vignette, So many sayings
Ink: Adirondack slate, distress ink vintage photo, versa mark
Cardstock: stampers select white, basic grey figgy pudding 6x6 pad, blue bayou textured cardstock
Accessories: copic markers, oval nestiblities, black brad, iridescent ice ep

Playin with Inchies....

I decided to play with inchies for a bit today and ended up making use of my colored image on two cards. This became an inchie card and spotlight card.... This was fun to do.

I colored in this image completely and then cut out a 1" square. Then stamped another piece of cardstock with the same image and layered it behind my original colored image so I have a reverse spotlight. I used my copics and spica glitter pen to color my images in. The sentiment is from the retiring set Give Thanks from stampin up... I am so sad to see this set retire...

Now for the second card I used my inchie and created another surprise pop up card. I wanted my base to almost look like an aged piece of fabric. I used the Aida cloth background and serenity stamp to try and achieve this. I then sponged the edges with close to cocoa. I matted my inchie using my square nestie set.

I hope everyone is having a great Monday... I know I will latter today.

Supplies:
Stamps: Give Thanks, Lockheart fall basket stamp, Aida cloth background, serenity stamp
Ink: versamark, close to cocoa, adirondack espresso
Cardstock: stampers select white, basic black, cameo coral, wild wasbi, whisper white
Accessories: copic markers, ribbon, gold spica pen, nesties

Happy Stampin...

Yup I did some happy stampin yesterday with two of my friends... They asked me to come over and show them some tricks. We did three cards but today I'll share 2 of them today and the last one on tomorrow.

Well for our first card they had liked my Circle card I did a few weeks ago so I decided to break out the coluzzle again and created this little cutie...




Isn't it so cute... I watercolored my image with my poor neglected watercolor crayons and my aquapainter. And for some reason the color combo was just crying out to me the night I put this together. Cameo coral and Garden Green. I love my cuttlebug folder swiss dots too.

But you know something the five petal punch was calling out to me and I had to make it into a beautiful embellishment for this card.... I took and scored each petal using my scorpal toward the middle of the flower and pinched each petal. Then I took my crop-a-dile and punched a hole in the center and mounted a jumbo eyelet... then it wouldn't be the perfect embellishment without a little bling...

This card was so much fun to make and so cute....

Now for another card we made...



This is a 3x3 card I put together for the My favorite Things challenge over on SCS. But while I was working on it I gave them supplies to make their own 3x3 and let them choose the stamp set they wanted to put on theirs. This is a fun 3x3. I took one of my long Nesties and die cut it and then folded it in half to make my card base... they are the perfect size to make this card. I then cut out a whisper white piece and stamped my main image. I colored it with my copics and paper pieced it also.

I then decided to add some liquid applique to her boots and the mittens. This is such a cute card IRL.

I hope you have time to stamp with some friends... It is so much fun... Have a great afternoon and see you tomorrow.

Supplies for circle card:
Stamps: Pun Fun
Ink: Soft sky, jet black stazon
Cardstock: cameo coral, garden green, whisper white
Accessories: Coluzzle, watercolor crayons, aquapainter, word window punch, 5 petal punch, swiss dots A2 embossing folder, cuttlebug

Supplies for 3x3 card:
Stamps: Baby it's cold outside
Ink: Adirondack pitch black and slate
Cardstock: Blue bayou textured cardstock, stampers select white, 3x3 envelope, fall flowers DP scraps
Accessories: cuttlebug, Long rectangle scalloped Nesties, square nesties, copics, liquid applique, heat gun,circle punches

Another Magnolia...

This is another Magnolia that I got the other day. She is so cute. This time I also decided to use the CPS card sketch for this week, CPS 53.


I colored this one in using my prisma's and gamsol...
I love the flowers she is hugging. The basic grey Two scoops paper went so well with this image. I also could not resist putting some stickles on her wings. You can find this Tilda and other cute stamps over at Magnolia's Dream cottage.

Have a great evening...

Supplies:
Stamps: JU07 TILDA MED BUKETT, stampin up retired hostess sentiment
Cardstock: very vanilla, papertrey stampers select white, pretty in pink, basic grey two scoops DP
Ink: Stazon jet black, stazon green
Accessories: stickles glitter glue, prisma colorpencils, gamsol, fiskars border punch, square nestablities, cuttlebug

Christmas cards round 6....

Ok today was a challenge for me... I decided I wanted to use today's sketch challenge over on SCS, it can be found here SC152. I used to retired SU sets.




I had an idea for this card and think it didn't quite come through. Someone on SCS had posted a poem on the board called The Christmas Rose by Frances Cooper Thompson. I'm not sure if this is the right layout but I will deal...









I love the way the inside of the card came out thought. The set for the insides was the retired Holiday mini set Heavenly Peace from last year... I love my religious sets that SU has come out with just wish they wouldn't retire every time. Hope you all have a great evening... See you again tomorrow...




Supplies:
Stamps: Retired Heavenly heralds set, retired Heavenly Peace
Cardstock: Blue bayou, soft sky textured cs, brushed silver, shimmery white, scraps of Designer paper
Ink: buckaroo blue, black stazon
Accessories: Stitched soft sky ribbon, watercolor crayons, large regular and scalloped oval nestablities. ( I've gotten my nestablities from All That Scraps and Ellen Hutson If you have a die cut machine these are a must have...)