Whirlpool of Imagination

Blue Double Hearts

I thought I had the recent blogger group 9 challenge all figured out. No pink, check. No red, check. Valentine card, check. Embossing, check. What I forgot was NO hearts. Ooops - the whole card has the hearts as its focus. Oh well, I still made a pretty card.

  The background stamp in the window was inspired by an article in the latest Paper Crafts magazine. I first used one of my iris folding templates to cut out the hearts. Put that aside.

I then heat embossed the lace backgrounder from Cornish Heritage Farms in blue sparkle embossing in from Embossing Arts. The hearts layer was then placed over the backgrounder.

Then I stamped the sentiment from River City Rubber Works and added the ribbon and flower to finish it off. It's hard to tell from the picture but the backgrounder really sparkles. This powder is tough to work with in the sense that its hard to tell when the powder melts but it certainly is cool when you see the finished result.

I got a chance to hit Michael's today. I have to get ready for Meg's Valentine's party this weekend. I have some projects up my sleeve but you'll have to wait for those. Have a great night!

The Walton's Truck

Does the phrase, "good night Mary Ellen, good night John Boy" bring back any memories? I used to watch the Walton's all the time when I was younger, loved that show. This truck stamp from River City Rubber Works reminds of the Walton's truck.

I was asked to make a birthday card for someone with a blue truck. I don't have any modern looking trucks so I went a bit retro. The truck is stamped with persian blue chalk ink which matches really well with the not quite navy cardstock from Stampin' Up. The sentiment stamp is from Spunky Stamps. Can you believe I actually made a card without using Papertrey or Cornish Heritage? It may be hard to believe but I actually have other stamps (a LOT of other stamps!).

The paper is from American Craft and the brad is from Pink Hedgehog. This was the first time I had ordered from them and I have to say that it was a wonderful experience. The shipping was quick and I got great customer service. This brad is called denim and matches the SU cardstock really well. I am definitely placing another order with this company.

I have to get busy making some event cards. We are swamped for events (this weekend a wedding and a christening, along with a birthday party) and I'm not ready for any of these yet. Off to stamp!

Blue Flower Thank You

A stamp pen pal of mine recently ordered some TAC from me and I wanted to make her a thank you card. This card is actually a reworked card that had a completely different image on it (plus a few other changes).

I recently got these cute flowers from the March set over at River City Rubber Works and wanted to give them a go. They are colored with prismacolor markers and a little bit of sparkle from a spica glitter pen. I didn't mark the back of the sentiment stamp so I don't know where it's from - is it Stampin' Up? Anybody know?

I need to get busy in the studio. I got myself another card spinner for my craft fairs so I need to get cracking on new card designs - if you need me, I'll be in the studio......

The Paint Challenge

I took another challenge over at Splitcoast. Two challenges in a month - must be a record! The Ways to Use It Challenge for today was paint. You know I love using acrylic paint on my cards, especially for backgrounds so I jumped on this challenge today.

I was in the mood to use blue so I went with it. I used blue acrylic paint for the background. Very simply, take a dry brush and swipe it in every direction all over the cardstock. I also used the brush to make the edgings on the balloon panel as well. I find it easier to use a paintbrush rather than an ink pad. I get the look I'm going for much better with the paint.

The balloon stamp is from River City Rubber and the sentiment is from Spunky Stamps.

This was it for me today. Meg stayed home sick so my studio time was limited. See you tomorrow!