Time Out #292 - Theme Challenge

This week's challenge at Time Out is based on a theme. 

There are so many things you can do with this prompt.  Here is my idea. 

Every summer we travel from our winter home in Ohio to our lake home in northern Michigan.  I know it seems a little crazy when Ohio isn't that far south, but this is a cottage that my parents have had since the early 80's and it holds a lot of memories.  While we discourage seagulls from perching on our dock, this is the general scene at the water's edge - minus the line up of pontoons.   

The nautical images are from Spellbinders Oh Buoy.  The dock is made from The Greetery's Shiplap Builder, leftovers from a previous whitewash technique.  Even the posts were cut from the leftover pieces.  The sky is Tumbled Glass DI over Rabbit Hole clouds and the lake is Salty Ocean.  

How will you represent travel on your card?  The Design Team has plenty of inspiration for  you over on the blog. 

If you would like to subscribe by email,

please fill out the subscription form in the upper right sidebar.

It is also important to add  Bobby.bitsandpieces at gmail dot com to your contact list 

so Google recognizes the address and delivers the updates.

You may also unsubscribe using the same form. 

Inkspirational #335 and NBUS #71

Inkspirational has a beautiful mood board for challenge #335.

I saw hyacinths but since I don't have any I thought lilacs would work as well so that's the direction I took.  It's the first time using that die so my card is also going over to NBUS. 

The lilacs are from The Greetery, cut from white PTI cardstock and colored with Altenew inks.  The background is The Greetery's Shiplap Builder.  I've had it in my Bits box for quite a while after trying a technique I saw Betsy do on You Tube.  I can't remember exactly how I did it so I'm glad I have the video saved to try it again.  You may want to try it too. 

Thanks for dropping by.  Have a great day!

If you would like to subscribe by email,

please fill out the subscription form in the upper right sidebar.

It is also important to add  Bobby.bitsandpieces at gmail dot com to your contact list 

so Google recognizes the address and delivers the updates.

You may also unsubscribe using the same form. 

Just Us Girls #581 - Photo Week

I'm the host this week at Just Us Girls and for Photo Week I found one that has lots of possibilities.

I can't remember which came first - the stamp set or the photo choice - but either way I had a great image to use.

Now that I see the watering can on the large screen, the coloring doesn't look that good although galvanized metal is what I was going for. ;)  The can and flowers are from Penny Black, colored with Altenew artist markers.  The 'deck' was made with the shiplap die from The Greetery.

What catches your eye in the photo?  I'm sure there's something that will inspire you to make a card.  Or you can always check what the Design Team and our guest designer Claire have done.  You may have a chance to be a guest designer if you enter a card in our challenge.

Inspired By #168

My Altenew Starry Flowers was the first thing that came to mind when I saw the photo at Inspired By.  

Can you see why?

I colored them with Altenew artist markers and added leaves from Sweet Violets in place of a bow.  The background is the shiplap die from The Greetery, cut from a couple of Distress Inked panels.  Then I had to figure out a card base.  Altenew's  Spicy Yogurt seemed like a good option.  

Thanks for dropping by.  I love it when you do.