Precious Friend

 

Here's a card made for the Featured Stamper challenge this weekat Splitcoaststampers - it's Pattie G. and HERE is the card that inspired me.

I used Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Precious Poppies set for the sentiments and curved the long one on the acrylic block to imitage a butterfly flight path.

I coloured the two hat pins with Copic marker YG03 to match the dp made by Wild Rose Studios.  The polka dot dp is from Stampin Up and was sent to me by my sweet friend, Roberta (stampin'nana).

The tag was made using Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Mini Tags and Sentiments and Mini Tags and Sentiments die set with Stampin Up's Lucky Limeade ink.

Other Supplies include Spellbinders Butterflies 2, my sewing machine, a flower and some ribbon!

Pretty in Pink

A card made for this week's Moxie Fab Tuesday Trigger Challenge and for the Inspiration Challenge at Splitcoaststampers  at DryGoods. 

 And here's the Tuesday Trigger inspiration photo, Pretty Little Petits Fours:

 

 

I made a couple of masks with post-it-notes using Spellbinders Nestabilities Squares Large and Small, then sponged inside with both pink and gray ink.

The flowers were made with different sized punches, layering them up, and topping with pearls.

The sentiment is one of my favourites for a thank you card, from Papertrey Ink's Signature Greetings.

Then a few pearls scattered around to finish!

Other Supplies include:

Stampin Up Pretty in Pink ink

Tsukneko Archival Brilliance Starlite ink

Woodware Flower punches (medium and mini)

Papermania Midi Flower punch

Pearls

 

Courage

 

A card with absolutely no stamps! 
I made this for three challenges - Moxie Fab's The Wonder of Watercolor, Splitcoaststampers Mix-Ability (to use drawing or doodling), and the Free For All Challenge,
to write a sentiment rather than stamping. 

Here's the story behind the sentiment. 

When I saw my sweet friend Dina Kowal's sample for the Mix-ability challenge,
I was astounded by how beautiful it was - you can see it HERE.
 I showed it to my son and said, "I know she's fabulously talented, but how does she do that?"  and he said "She's not afraid."  
When I told Dina, she said it made her teary and to give him a hug! 
As a young man headed for Art College in September, this has been part of his journey - learning to "let go" and not be worried about people's expectations, or about messing up, but to just CREATE! 
It inspired my sentiment for today's card.
I sponged a watercolor paper panel with ink before loosely watercoloring grass and flowers in several layers. I then drew in some lines and dots, and added a doodled border to frame. I wrote the word "courage" with different size letters on watercolor paper before popping it up in a random fashion. The whole panel is popped up on a watercolor paper card base - I love the rich feel of the paper!

I used Winsor & Newton watercolors and the only other supplies are a small Woodware butterfly punch plus a black fine line pen. 
Thanks for stopping by!

Pale Pink Roses

 

A card made for this week's Moxie Fab Trigger Tuesday Challenge and the Splitcoaststampers Ways to Use It Challenge - Add it Up (mathmatical symbols).

Here's the gorgeous Trigger Tuesday photo that inspired me called Pretty Little Petits Fours.

 

 

I love that wood grain bg, but I don't have a wood grain embossing panel or stamp - I did have a few brown woodgrain embossed panels lying around someone must have given me - so I swiped white embossing ink over one and then embossed with white embossing powder - it ended up with a glossy white woodgrain effect. 

I also used several layers of silver embossing on the flourish and multiple layers of silver embossing on the tag before stamping the sentiment while it was still warm to leave the impression (it's helpful to ink up the stamp with embossing ink first so it doesn't stick, and don't do it while it's still too hot.)

The roses are made from pink felt using MFT Mini Rolled Rose Die-namics - I just love rolling those little things!

The tag is Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Mini Tags and Sentiments Die set and the XOXO sentiment is from SNSS's Bottom of My Heart.

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Peaceful Sea

A card  made for the Colour Challenge at Splitcoaststampers using Night of Navy, Baja Breeze, and River Rock....the blues and sandy hues made me think of the sea so I reached for one of my very favourite Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps sets, The Sea.
 The sentiment is also from SNSS, Bridge of Hope.

These words were written by Horatio Spafford after deep personal tragedy and are still bringing peace and comfort today through the singing of this hymn.

I masked and sponged the scene with post-it-notes after stamping the silhouette and then used a Cuttlebug die set for the sea shells, lightly sponging the edges with Ranger Distress Frayed Burlap ink.

Other supplies include:

Spellbinders Nestabilities Circles Large

Hessian burlap
Post-it-notes

Stampin Up Night of Navy, Baja Breeze ink

Memento Tuxedo Black ink

Ranger Distress Frayed Burlap ink

Brads

Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps The Sea

Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Bridge of Hope

Provocraft Cuttlebug Seashell dies

Chocolate Cupcake Anyone?

 

Here's a card I made for hosting the Featured Stamper Challenge at Splitcoaststampers today - it's Robin, aka Missro, and I was inspired by her cupcake card found HERE.

I used Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps newly released Birthday Bash set and Birthday Bash Die Set to make the cupcake and SNSS dies for the stars and pennants. 

I stitched with brown thread to add to the chocolate theme. 

 I used a tiny star punch to make some chocolate star sprinkles, just like some we've got in our cupboard - they're a favourite cupcake decoration!

I scored a line at the top of the pennants so that I could fold a small edge back and tape them over the twine at the back, I found it helps keep them all in place and gives a neat edge.

Other supplies include:

Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Pennants and More dies

Sweet 'n Sassy Stars dies

Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Birthday Bash die set

Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Birthday Bash

DCWV Sweet Stack dp

Sewing machine

M-bossibilities So Trendy embossing folder

Spellbinders Nestabilities Ovals Petite Small, Large

Buttons

SU Pool Party, Early Espresso card stock

American Crafts jute twine

Hey Chickie!

 

 

 

Here's my card for the fab Paper Smooches Sparks Cool Shades Challenge this week - Oceanside:

 

 

I ended up loving this combo! 

I used a Stampasaurus Stencil and sponged the colours in the

chevron pattern before popping up this little bird. 

Strictly speaking, chicks are yellow, but in Stampyland,

we can be as creative as we like, so my little chick is acid green!

 

Others supplies include:

MFT Color Box Black Licorice ink

Stamping Up Cool Caribbean

Memento Pear Tart, Sky Blue

Ranger Distress Antique Linen

Marianne Designs Bird/Branch die

Kraft cardstock

Buttons

Copics