Whirlpool of Imagination

Best Grandpa

I recently got a new stamp set from My Favorite Things and decided today to get it a little inky.

The car image is from MFT and the sentiment is from Verve Visuals.

As is my norm, the style is pretty clean and simple. I was in the mood to stamp on a color rather than the regular white or cream. I wanted patterned paper but really couldn't decide if I wanted to pull in the greys and blacks from the image or more of a brown tone from the card stock. As you can see, I went with the browns. I liked this grid pattern and that swayed me, I think.

Hope you are having a fantastic weekend. Enjoy your day!

Painted Butterfly

As July comes to an end, I have another guild challenge card to show you. The challenge was to interpret the word paint in any way on a card.

This time I chose to "paint" with twinkling h2o's and ink pads.

The butterfly stamp (from My Favorite Things) is stamped on watercolor paper and heat embossed with white powder. I then used three shades of twinkling h2o's to color the inside of the image.

For the outside, I smooshed some distress ink on my Ranger pad and spritzed it with water. I then picked up the color with a paintbrush and painted /watercolored the area all around the butterfly.

The embossing folder I used for the strip of card stock seemed outdoorsy enough to go with the image.

Overall, I had fun with this month's challenge and there are still ideas I wanted to play with but never got around to it. Hopefully they will provide some more painty goodness.

Have a great night!

Orange Flower Thoughts

There will not be a cupcake anywhere in this post. I promise.

I decided to ink up a new stamp from My Favorite Things. I was convinced I wanted it in yellow. Until I stamped it in yellow. Orange jumped out at me so I went with it.

Then I had thoughts of shades of yellow, green and orange.

I took a step back and just reached for my brown instead.

Sentiment is also from My Favorite Things.

And really, that's all I have for today. Have a great night!

 

Seeing Double? Nope, just the same flower

Another weekend has flown by. I've been working on an order for baby shower invitations but I still have a few things to show you. Today, I used a stamp version of MFT's flower die.

  
Yowza, that's bright! Apparently I went a little heavy on the brightness editing on this picture. Note to self: retake this picture.

The flower is from My Favorite Things and the sentiment is from Papertrey. I feel like it's been a while since I pulled out my purple so you knew it was time.

I'm off to relax before gearing up for another week  ~ I'm afraid to check the schedule, lately it's been waaaaaay to busy to stamp! Have a great night.