The Heart Desires #12 and CAS Watercolor

When I visited Michele a while ago, I stamped her Mondo Peony from EbyE on some Bristol so I could color it later with my Zigs. I knew it was perfect for The Heart Desires after seeing this mood board.

I love those gorgeous bright colors.

I didn't know what to do with it after it was colored so it sat on my desk for a few days. I decided to fussy cut it and place it on a vellum panel cut with N&T scallops and white heat embossed with a background stamp from SSS. A little sentiment from WP9 finishes it off.

I'm also sending this to CAS Watercolor.

Thanks for dropping by and please do enjoy your day.

Tag You're It! #71

You should have heard by now that Tag You're It! has gone to a monthly format.  Each month there will be a featured artist to inspire your tag.  A guest designer and different members of the design team will have other tags to inspire you each week.  This is week three and here's my tag based on this one by Lindsey M-P.

The PB rose is stamped on a tag cut from watercolor paper and colored with Distress Inks with a little Inktense pencil added for darker shading. The sentiment is a die from SSS.

We hope to see your tag in the gallery this month.

Inspired By All the Little Things #56

Someone must have told Inspired By All the Little Things that I just got a bicycle stamp.  Now I can make a card inspired by their photo.

The difficult part was coming up with a different layout since so many people have a bicycle stamp.

I happened across a picture with a bicycle leaning against a tree and had an aha momemt.

Thanks for dropping by.  I hope you do enjoy the little things.

Stamps:  SSS Beautiful Ride, Altenew Birch Land

Ink: Distress Ink in Ground Expresso, Peeled Paint, Tumbled Glass, Black Soot and Iced Spruce

Die: SSS Beautiful Ride

Paper:  Range Watercolor 

Less Is More #328

Less is More is back to it's one layer week but this one was easy.  Stripes and Spots.  Or maybe it's Stripes or Spots.  Either way I have both.

There's a stripe down the middle that has stripes of DOXs.  For the spots, I wet the eraser end of a pencil and stamped it onto the card then blotted the water.  The sentiment is from HA.  QACAS card I may do again - and again. ;)

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CASE The Designer Day

Two of my favorite designers have cards to CASE on challenges.  The Flower Challenge has several designers to CASE and I chose Karen from Snippets. She always does wonderful floral cards with beautiful backgrounds and fantastic sentiments.  You have to check out her blog if you haven't already. This is her card for the challenge:

Like Karen, I took an unfinished background for my card but left it in one piece.

The background was left over from my shaving cream marbling. I put it in a frame and added die cuts from the same TH set that Karen used.  I thought this worked well for a sympathy card so I added the sentiment from PTI.

My next card is my CASE of the one Hannelie of Desert Diva did for Time Out.  Hannelie does some of the most magnificent cards using her Silhouette, all very creative.  Check out her blog to see more work like this one she did for the challenge.

I did a sort of a reverse CASE, coloring the flower and making the background black and white.

The PB lily was stamped on watercolor paper that had been cut with PIT's Tipped Tops and colored with DIs.  A sentiment from HA and some splatters were added before mounting it on black and white stripe paper.  I like this one so much I may do it in other colors.

I will also sent this one to CAS Watercolor.
ETA:  And at CAS Mix-up.  I don't know why I didn't originally do this. Thanks Nancy for telling me it qualifies.

Thanks for dropping by today.  I hope you've found some inspiration.

CAS(E) This Sketch #221

I have a quick and simple card for CAS(E) This Sketch, turning the sketch upside down.

A little cork, some ancient PTI paper with an equally ancient note punch for the top, and some enamel dots to represent push pins fill the bill.  The sentiment is from PB.

This one will go into my masculine file.

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Merry Monday #247

I didn't think I had anything to use to make a card for Merry Monday this week.  They want a non-black silhouette.  The non-black part wasn't the problem.  It was the silhouette part. Then I remembered my SSS Village.  I played around with it until I came up with a design that I liked.

The images don't cut at the bottom so you can line them up, die cut and then cut out in between.  I did have another building and tree but the building was a little slanted.  Now what?  I decided to put them in a circle which meant I could cut off the offending images. ;)  I also cut two SSS slopes to put in front of the houses.  It's difficult to see the first one but I like the dimension it gives to the card.  Once I had my top panel put together, I masked off where the windows would be and inked with DOX in Faded Jeans.  I added a few spatters, removed the mask and inked the window area with Zigs.  The sentiment from PB was stamped in Faded Jeans also.  That's one thing about the Oxides.  You can stamp sentiments with them.

That's quite a long write up about what I did.  If you made it through, thank you.  If you just looked at the card, that's okay too.

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Addicted to CAS #111

The code word for Addicted to CAS this week as picked by Ellenor is

I just HAD to do flowers.

The Altenew Lotus were stamped, masked and watercolored with Distress Inks.  I didn't know what sentiment I'd use until I was all done and then thought this sympathy one from PTI fit well.

The winner of this challenge will receive a $15 gift certificate to Happy Little Stampers.  We hope you'll make a card featuring pink but be sure to keep it clean and simple.

I'm going to do something I rarely do on a Design Team post.  I'm going to send my card to CAS Watercolor Challenge where they are looking for flowers.

Just Us Girls #393

It's Trend Week at Just Us Girls and Sue has picked one of the hottest things going: Distress Oxides.  If you don't have them don't worry.  You can use your regular Distress Inks to make a background.

I have the Oxides and they blend beautifully on Bristol Board so that's what I used.

I originally tried the technique where you mist your stamps before putting them to inked paper to remove some of that ink.  I don't know if my stamps were too small or too wet but I didn't like the results so I overstamped the images from TT with Distress Ink.  The sentiment is from PTI and to balance it's Onyx Black, I added a strip of black cs to the bottom.

Our guest designer Kathie Durgan and the rest of my fabulous team mates at Just Us Girls have cards waiting for you to peruse and be inspired by. We hope you will make a card for a chance to be our Chic of the Week and possible guest designer in the future.

Less Is More #327

It's color day at Less Is More and the colors are yellow and gray chosen by Design Team member Anita who is celebrating her birthday.  In honor of Anita I made a yellow and gray birthday card.

I used the Beautiful Day set from Altenew and stamped the multi-layer flower in Altenew yellows and popped it up.  The rest of the flowers and leaves were stamped with Evening Gray, with a touch of yellow washed on. The sentiment is from HA.

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Addicted to Stamps and More #241

One of our most popular challenges at Addicted to Stamps and More is -
you guessed it!

I figured it was a good time to use my NBUS Feel Better stamps and dies from MFT.

The bottles were stamped on Bristol and colored with Zigs. While the GA on the heart dried, I stenciled the background, stamped the sentiment and added a shelf.  It seems there's a lot of crud going around so I may need this sooner than I think.

I know you don't need much encouragement to add your cards to an 'anything goes' gallery but why not check out what the Design Team has made.  It may inspire you in a different way.

Curtain Call - Flutter

It must be butterfly season as I'm seeing them all over blogland.  My card is for the challenge at Curtain Call.

The butterflies from HLS are heat embossed in white and then the background smooshed with Distress Oxides.  To balance the black sentiment from PTI, I edged two sides of the panel with black cs.

Thanks for dropping by.  Enjoy your day.

CAS(E) This Sketch #220

The sketch from CAS(E) This Sketch gave me a chance to get out my NBUS Altenew Garden Treasures. With a little masking I came up with this.

Zig coloring on Bristol Board; Sentiment from MSE

That's all for now.  Thanks for dropping by.

Time Out #82

You all know what kissing is don't you?  No, not that smoochy, lip touching kissing.  Stamp kissing.  It's when you ink up a stamp and then press another stamp into it to make a pattern before you put it to paper.  Stamp Kissing is the twist to use on your flowers for the Time Out challenge. Here's what I mean.

I must admit that I bought some stamps from Paper Smooches called Kissables a long time ago when I first learned of this technique and haven't used them in forever.  The SSS Artful Flowers are the perfect stamp to use them on although I did add a couple of tiny Altenew flowers that I kissed.

I've been working all weekend to get a bunch of cards made ahead for Design Teams and challenges I like to participate in.  I need to get busy making curtains for the cottage and since I use the same space that I stamp in, I have to clean up all my stuff.  I wouldn't want any stray ink on my white fabric.

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