So Very Happy

Hey there!  

I have let the week slip away from me...and it's Wednesday already!  Sheesh!  I wanted to share another fun card for i {heart} papers, using fabulous goodness from Wplus9.  Oh, their release this month is just too much fun! 

For this card, I brought out the Whole Lotta Happy set, and stamped the starburst image in a few happy colors from Hero Arts.  I believe I used Lime, Butterbar, and Pool.  I heat embossed the large Happy image in white, and added a bit of gray ink around it to make it pop.

I stamped the rest of my sentiment, above and below the happy...and then added a few enamel dots, before adhering it to a gray panel and then onto a teal card base.  It makes me smile!  Be sure to check out the newest goodies in the store!  I hear there is a ton of new Lawn Fawn!  Yeah!

Have a great day, and thanks for stopping by!

The last Sweet Post

Hello blog friends!

Happy Friday to you!  I thought I would stop by and let you know about a post I have up at the Sweet Stamp Shop blog.  It is my last post for them, sad face!  I hope you will stop by and take a look!

Here is a little peek for ya!  Yup, more watercoloring...

Nicole, thank you sooo much for allowing me to design for you (again)!  I just love your sweet self and your stamps!  :0) Have a great weekend my friends.

You Make Me So Very Happy

Hey friends!

Oh my word, it's almost Friday!  That makes me happy.  Very Happy.  This card also makes me very happy, why?  Because it has Wplus9 on it, and Distress Inks.  Now those are two things I enjoy very much!  I made this for Wplus9's 4th B-day celebration!  Dawn's challenge was a fun one, Trends!

As you have seen lately, I am a bit obsessed with watercolors.  I love that artsy feel and the freedom it gives to create.  For this I chose a few sets from Wplus9 to create my card, including, Backgrounds & Borders 1,  and a new one, Whole Lotta Happy.

I stamped the border image in three colors of Distress Inks, Picked Raspberries, Spun Sugar, and Ripe Persimmon.  I then took a bottle of perfect pearl mist, and sprayed it liberally, until it began to run.  I then heat set it dry, and adhered it to a piece of pattered paper from BG Fresh Cut 6x6 paper pad.

Sadly, you can't really see the shimmer very well, but whoa it's sparkly!  I then took the Happy die and layered it up, adhering it, and stamping the rest of the sentiment from the Whole Lotta Happy set.  To finish it, I added some enamel dots.

Thanks for stopping in today!  I will be back soon!

Wishing You the Best

Oh Monday...

I am just not ready.  My days are on repeat, spin cycle, or rather it's like Groundhogs Day.  I mentioned yesterday that I have quite a few projects to share having made a bunch on Saturday with my friends, Katie and Kirsty, this is one of them.  Hero Arts has a really fun Birthday Challenge going on, and I believe this fits in their Rainbow category.  

I took the awesome Triangle Background die and ran it through my Big Shot with a bunch of colors in red, orange and yellow.  I adhered the white die cut panel to the card base, and fit all of the colored triangles back into the negative spaces with a bit of Tombow Mono glue and my Quick Stix.  It was the most relaxing project.  :0)

After I was done, I took a black cardstock strip, and heat embossed a fun greeting from the You're So Kind set and attached it to the card front with foam.

Thanks for stopping by!  Have a great one!

Twisted

Happy Sunday!

I have quite a few cards to share with you in the coming week.  I just had a fun crafty session with my friends this weekend and there are quite a few!  For today, I have this fun one, made with Paper Smooches, Calorie Free set.  It was perfect for their latest challenge, Anything Goes!  

I took a white card base, and stamped the pretzel image repeatedly in Vanilla ink from Hero Arts.  I then stamped my sentiment, along with an extra pretzel, that I cut out and popped up.

I took a piece of patterned paper from the Wildflower 6x6 by Carte Bella, and cut it up and popped it up onto my card front.  I then took twine and sequins and adhered those.

Thanks for stopping in!  Have a great rest of your weekend!

CFC128: So Long

This is a tough one to write...

You see, it is my last post as a Girl Friday.  I have thoroughly enjoyed working with Michele and her awesome, creative and fun, challenge blog.  Seriously, they are always clever and fun.  I will miss it so much!  Well, enough sad, how about a card for the occasion?  This week, since it is our last, the challenge is to make a goodbye or farewell card that is long.

I chose to do a 2 1/4 x 4 inch card, and a little ink sponging.  To start, I secured my stencil over the card, and applied my ink using a sponge dauber, and Hero Arts ink.  I then took a stamp from Mama Elephant called Message Bands, and black heat embossed it onto white cardstock.  I then trimmed it and adhered it with foam.

To finish it off, I die cut a few hearts from Paper Smooches Heart Dies, from black cardstock, and applied Glossy Accents to give them some shine.

I sure hope you are able to play along with us!  Cas-ual Friday Stamps is offering a fun prize this week.  See you soon!

Paper Crafter's Library Feature

Hey friends!

I am popping in really quick to share a link to the Paper Crafter's Library, where I am a guest.  I have a fun little blurb, and a couple of cards to share.  Here are a couple of sneak peaks of my projects.  Please head over to their blog to see them in full!

Thanks so much, and have a great one!

February Sweet Stamp Shop Release

Hey, hey!

I am back today with some fun projects to share with you, using the February release from Sweet Stamp Shop.  There are some really cute stamps this month, so be sure to check out the Sweet Blog for more cards using them.

My first card, uses my favorite set (shh, don't tell the others), called Sparkle and Shine.  I adore the little gems included in this, as well as sequin images too.  I stamped them onto watercolor paper, because I knew I wanted to give them an arsty look using Gelatos.  

So, for my color palette, I was inspired by the bag of sequins the lovely Paulina from Pretty Pink Posh, sent to each of us.  I love her sequins!  I simply took my gelatos and watered them down, and sloppily applied them to my stamped images.  I then stamped my sentiment, and adhered the panel to a dark brown card base.  

I didn't want to leave out the inside, so I used the rest of the sentiment, as well as a gem image.

For this next set, called Too Hip, I wanted to focus on one of the little images.  So, taking the bow tie, I stamped it across my panel, and again with the solid, in a masculine color scheme.  I then stamped my sentiment, and adhered brown cardstock strips to the top and bottom.

I then took the colors I used for the ties, and watered them down, flicking the ink in the top right, and bottom left corners, before adhering my panel with foam.

Next, I created a shaker card, using Announcing.  This set has fabulous sentiments for baby and weddings.  I adhered a panel of vellum to my white card base, and filled it with flat silver and gold confetti from the Pretty Pink Posh store.  Then I took a piece of AC glitter paper, cut out the center, and adhered it to the front. 

Of course, I had added the banner and the words with Versamark and gold embossing powder for added glam. 

For my last card, I went super clean and simple.  Using the banner and doves from the lovely Announcing set, I gold heat embossed both images, cutting out the doves, and adhering them with foam, to a white card base.  Easy and quick!

To see more cards using these sets, please stop on over to the Sweet Stamp Shop blog!  Thanks so much for visiting today.

Sending Lots of Love

Oh Monday, Monday...

It got me today, that is for sure!  I am super happy to be able to try and play along with at least some of the challenges Dawn is hosting for Wplus9's 4th Birthday!  I looove their stamps, in a big way!  I am sure you knew that i {heart} papers has them in the store, right?  Well, they do!  So, the challenge is to add dimension to your project or Step It Up.  Now, there are so many ways to do this on a card, but I went super simple using die cuts.

I love that layered die cut look, and did so with the Clear Cut Stackers Die: Hearts.  To begin the card, though, I stamped a lovely sentiment from Valentine Wishes in black ink, onto my white card base.  I then die cut the hearts multiple times with white cardstock, and then one from the SC Snippets 6x6 paper pad.

I stamped my sentiment again, onto the patterned paper heart, and layered them all together with glue.  I then lined it up on top of my sentiment and adhered it.  To finish it off, I added a few sequins and rhinestones, and then rounded all of the corners.

Thanks for stopping by!  Have a great one!

Hip Hip Hooray!

It's Friday!

Hip Hip Hooray!!  I made this card the other day, and thought I would share it with you now, I mean, it's Friday!  That is cause for celebration!  I believe it was right after taking the Stenciled class at Online Card Classes, that I made it, so I was pretty inspired to try gradient ink sponging with my stencil. 

I also gave embossing paste and powder a try as well.  I have to say, I would have waited to let it dry, if I knew it would turn out this way.  You should have smelled it, lol!  I thought I might burn the place down!  Anyway, I simply dabbed my ink on in a rainbow of colors through a Heidi Swapp stencil.  After I was done, I added my stars using some modeling paste, and another HS stincil (both purchased at Michael's) and sprinkled gold powder over it.

To finish it, I used a new Hero Arts set, Yay! and black heat embossed my sentiment onto vellum, wrapping it around my panel, before adhering it to a black card base.

There is nothing like rainbow colors to cheer someone up, right!  I hope you have an awesome weekend, my friends!  Thanks for stopping by!

XOXO

Hey there!

How's your week going?  Great I hope!  I have a couple of cards featuring Avery Elle stamps and a bit of watercolor.  The stamps can be found in the i {heart} papers store!

For this first card I stamped the "X" and the "O" in Ranger's Adirondak black ink, as I didn't want it to bleed when I applied my watercolor.  I then took Gelatos and watered them down, carelessly applying them to the bottom of each letter. 

I then took the hearts from the Love Notes set and then covered them in glitter with a Spica glitter pen.  I adhered the panel to a black piece of cardstock, and then to a white card base.

For my next card I did the same stamping, only this time onto a panel that I watercolored heavily.  I was inspired by a lovely image I found on Pinterest the other day, and tried to recreate the effect.  It certainly was fun!

Before I adhered the panel to the card base, I gave it a spritz with some black spray mist, adhered the panel, and spritzed it again.  As a last touch, I added a few gems.

Thanks for stopping by!  Have a great day!

CAS(E) this Sketch #62

Hey there, happy weekend!

I hope you are having a relaxing one.  I was able to make a little card for the CAS(E) this sketch challenge for this week.  I recently bought some Gelatos made by Faber-Castell, and really wanted to play with them.  I have a hard time getting messy, so I figured this would be a good way to practice getting "messy."   

I took a white panel, masked off the areas I didn't want color and going from dark to light, blended three colors of pigment onto it.  I then dried it with my heat tool, and white embossed my sentiment, from Avery Elle's Handwritten Notes set.  I cut the words apart, and staked them to fit better on the panel.

I then lined the inked area with black cardstock strips and added two die cut branches from the Laurels dies and stamped and heat embossed on vellum using the coordinating stamps.  To finish it off, I added a glittery button.  I then back the panel onto some vellum for a sort look and adhered it to a white card base.

Here is a look at the sketch:

Thanks so much for stopping by!