Whirlpool of Imagination

Black and White Flowers

I always like the classic black and white color combo so every once in a while I throw those two colors together and see what happens.

I think that stamp image is from The Angel Company - it's all one stamp so it's an easy collage-y look. After layering black and white card stock, I used one of my favorite embossing folders for a little bit of texture.

Was busy working on my Summer Bucket List that I mentioned a few posts ago. Can't wait to get the pictures up and show you what we've got planned this summer.

Have a great night!

Pink and Blue Zebras

Alright, are you ready for some baby cuteness?

Meg had a small gift of her own at the shower so I made a mini card for her to give.

They mom-to-be knows she's having a blue so we made the card blue.

The zebra image is from TAC and the sentiment from Papertrey.

I thought he looked so cute in blue, I made some pink ones up too.

And I just had to take a picture of the two cards together.

The extras will be up in the store this weekend to add to my inventory of baby cuteness.

Have a great night!

Sports Birthday Cards

Recently I had a client who asked me to make a birthday card for her 16 year old nephew who liked to play soccer. I tried a few things but nothing was working until I went back to my clean and simple style.

I had a couple of different soccer stamps from TAC so I tried them both. The sentiment is from Papertrey.

She was pleased with her choices and then I went on a roll with other sports.

 

The sentiment on this one came from Spunky Stamps.

This is my first go around with clean sports cards. I have more ideas still yet to come, just need to get inky with them.

Blue Dandelions

I love the fact that when you can create, you can be whimsical instead of always true to life. I did that with this first notecard set. I'm not sure whether these are dandelions or not but I'm calling them that. And since I felt like playing with a sort of blue, I made blue dandelions.

The image is from The Angel Company and stamped with SU Bermuda Bay ink. Here's the set...

 

I turned to another stamp from this TAC set but kept this a more traditional color.

I pulled out my SU melon mambo ink for this one. And the set....

No stamping for me today ~ busy day ~ but hopefully you'll get some creative time in for yourself. Have a great day!

Even More Mini Card Mania

Okay, I have one more post of these (at least for now) so I might as well just throw them all out there at you. Let's look ahead 5 weeks to Easter, shall we.....

I don't have a lot of bunny images so I keep going back to these little cuties from The Angel Company. These bunnies were stamped with Memento ink and colored with copic and prismacolor markers.

Copic: B21, B23, R20        Prismacolor: lt walnut

The background paper is from Papertrey Ink and I added a strip of Melone' (Art Glittering System) glitter along the middle.

Don't these look great as a group??

I was seriously craving something sweet today but I didn't cave in and held my ground. I figure if I can make it through the first week of Lent, I'll get used to not having the sweet stuff. Hope your weekend is going well - have a great night!

Wishing You Good Luck

Can you believe it is Wednesday already? This week has been flying by!

Today I am CASEing myself. I originally did this design for a CAS challenge and used flowers. With St. Patrick's Day coming up in a month, I thought I'd try it with shamrocks.

 

The shamrocks I think are from the Angel Company and the sentiment is from Papertrey. Everything is stamped with Stampin' Up wasabi ink.  I have to say, I like the finished product!

So I may get crabby over the next several weeks. I've decided to give up all sweets for Lent so I think there will be a definite sugar withdrawal period ~ keep on my case about it so I make it through the next 40 days!

Have a great night!

Announcing a New Baby Girl

I am knee deep in baby announcements this week (and probably next week too). I know, Michelle is shuddering right now at the idea of mass production but I find it kind of relaxing. The mom wanted pink but not the traditional bright pink so we went with my personal favorite, rose red.

Pair that rose with chocolate chip and my fingers are doing the happy dance as they work. This is a simple pocket card. I started with a 9 1/4 x 4 1/4 inch piece of cardstock and score it at 3 3/4 inches so my final dimensions are a traditional A2 card size.

The feet are from Stampin' Up and stamped with rose red. The other layer of rose cardstock is stamped with a textured harlequin background from TAC in rose red. The mom will give me wallet sized pictures for the inside card which fit just perfectly on this 3 x 5 inch tag. I will also print all the baby info on the back side of the photo tag.

Alrighty, enough of a break. I have 60 of these to make, you know.

8 Year Olds Like Sparkle

I forgot to take a picture of Meghan's birthday card before we gave it to her so I rescued it for a photo shoot. This was created with last week's CAS challenge from Splitcoast in mind (remember - it was to add bling).

For ages, Meg's favorite color was pink, everything had to be pink. This year that has changed. Meg is now asking that I no longer buy things in pink, her new favorite color is blue. I told her that her lunch bag was already bought in the obligatory pink so she was stuck with that but I'd keep her color preferences in mind for the future. And see, I kept my word and went with a blue birthday card.

The image from TAC is stamped with Momento tuxedo black ink and colored with copic markers.

Copics: G09, B00, B12, B16

I have no idea where the sentiment is from but it too is stamped with tuxedo black ink. For the bling I added the rhinestones for the cherry and in the pink liner. Pretty simple all in all. Have a great day!

My CAS Bunny

I had to think about this week's CAS challenge which was to use punches. I kept leaning towards a butterfly punch but I used butterflies last week so I scrapped that idea (for a later date).

After a few fits and starts, this is what I came up with. The bunny is a TAC stamp and is colored with copic and prismacolor markers. The sentiment is from Papertrey as is the colored cardstock - this is their new hibiscus cardstock. It's a very pretty pink in person.

I used a scalloped square punch and the word window punch to fulfill the requirements for this challenge.

I've got a quiet day planned today - just me and the laundry. In fact, I'm off to get some out of the dryer now - have a great day!

Birthday Girl

Did you miss me? This weekend we've started our St. Patrick's Day celebrations early. Yesterday was a glorious day for a parade and we reveled in it. Meg marched with her step dancing school while I walked along with them. The crowds were enormous and vocal. Every time the girls stopped to dance they got a rousing cheer of approval when then finished - how cool is that for these girls? People waved to them and gave them high fives along the way. Then it was over to my in laws for a family meal. Great day and lots of fun.

Today I have the card I promised you a couple of days ago. I was shopping at Stamping Bella last month and when I saw this little card, I just had to buy her.

She is stamped with palette noir ink and colored with prismacolor and copic markers. The sentiment is stamped with night of navy SU ink and is from TAC.

I finally pulled out this CB embossing folder and really like it as a background. Now that I've finally used it once, I'm hoping I'll find more ideas for it.

Everything else is pretty much cardstock and layers. Most of my cardstock comes from California Paper Goods and the majority of the stock on this card is from there. I really like the Arcobalano line that they sell. It is not super strong for a stand alone card base but for layering, its fabulous.

It's shaping up to be another great day here again - hope yours will be lovely too!