Okay, I was so thrilled how my flowers lined up so nicely in my last card that I had to do it again, just with different stamps, inks and card stock.
It's my classic red and brown color combo that I love so much. The heart is from Verve and I can't for the life of me remember where the sentiment is from.
Oh, how I love the clean and simple look. Makes me smile to see the white space.
Have a fantastic day!
Okay, I took a little detour off the turquoise train but I'm back today with another creation using the color I seem to be stuck on!
This card started way off in another direction that included the three square metal die from Papertrey. I don't even remember what the original plan was - all I remember now is that is wasn't working in the least.
Then I looked at the negative cut from the die and thought, this could line up three images really nicely. And yep, it does. So I took my little flower(ish) stamp from Stampin' Up and got it nice and inky with my turquoise ink. The sentiment, I think, is from Verve. I like pairing turq. with red so I went with the red just to brighten things up.
Been pretty productive in the studio lately and getting the store inventory filled some more. My goal is to hit the ground running when the kids get back to school so I'm stocking up in the meantime.
Have a great day!
I'm still having fun figuring out what colors to use with my Blooming with Kindness flower. Today I decided to go with all blues for this card.
This one is the smallest of the bunch from the week, an A1 card.
The sentiment comes from Verve Visual and is stamped in the same shade of blue as the flower.
Supremely simple, but pretty in it's way. I like grabbing some color for bases as a change. While the white always looks so crisp and clean, it's nice to try something different and I'm a big fan if monochromatic too.
Have a great day!
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!
I am loving the new Stampin' Up catalog (and just wait until you see the holiday mini - it's fantastic!). I was intrigued with this year's In Colors and have been trying them out. Today I used the Midnight Muse ink and card stock for my card.
The flowers are from Stampin' Up and the sentiment is from Verve, I think.
I am still practicing with the new type of ink pads. They remind me a lot of the chalk ink pads and the more I use them, the more I really like them. Although it doesn't look it from this card, the coverage is really nice with the more solid type stamps. I've liked them enough to start the changeover from the old stamp pad to the new ones.
Stamping has been light this past week as it's been the last week of school - today being the last day, woohoo. I think I'll be able to breathe and get more crafty time in now that the late spring/end of school/early summer rush is over.
Here's to more crafty time! Have a great night.
Not only am I spending 2012 with Stephanie Ackerman in a scrapping adventure, I really enjoy the stamping classes put forth by the folks over at the Online Card Classes website. I've done a few but you know of my love for Clean and Simple Stamping so I definitely knew I wanted to sign up for the two week CAS workshop.
Of course I am hopelessly notorious for posting things late so don't expect my posts to stay on track with all the daily lessons - LOL!
The first day of the workshop gave sketch ideas. I took one of the sketches and minimized it and made it tiny by making a mini 3 x 3 card with it.
The heart is from Verve and the sentiment is from Papertrey Ink.
I took the basic sketch.......
and made it into something small for Valentine's Day.
I am actually hard at work using the Day 2 info although I did kind of change it up a bit. Like food recipes, I can't seem to follow card challenge directions too closely either!
Have a great day!
Whenever the kids have thank you notes to write, I generally take that as a invitation to create something new. With Christmas over, there are thank you's that must be written so I created some note cards that worked perfectly.
The tree is from Papertrey and the sentiment is from Verve. I went with garden green for the ink because besides wasabi, it's my favorite green!
I got the kids to sit down and write out the thank you's so it's another thing crossed off my list! I've been making my lists this week and am amazed at how well I'm accomplishing everything! Now I remember why I was always such a big fan of lists - it keeps me on track.
Hope you have a fantastic day!
My monthly guild challenge for the month of July is "paint". Some guild members got nervous with the very word so I'm on a mission this month to show what that means even if you never actually "paint" a scene.
Today's card was inspired by a CAS sketch challenge over at Splitcoasters a couple of weeks ago. I did use acrylic paint but only as a background.
For the background layer, I embossed the background and then dry brushed it with acrylic paint to give the ocean like feel to go with my image. Once it was dry, I cut it up into equal sections (note to self, next time make the measurements more basic so I'm not forced to really do math to figure out the sections!)
The boat image is from Stampin Up and I think the sentiment is from Verve Visual. I attached the boat image with mounting tape because I'm really digging the small uses of dimension lately in my cards.
And I have laundry that is just about ready to be hung up so I'm wrapping this up. Hope you have a fabulous day!
Today I'm into the third week of my summer card class. I've really enjoyed the challenging color combos and I haven't even really dug into the techniques yet. I think I'll attempt those in August (pace myself and all).
When I first saw this week's colors, I thought, no problem. But then I got down to the studio and I wasn't so sure it would be as easy as I thought.
I may have to try some more variations of these colors but here's the first one I came up with.
The leaves are from Verve and then sentiment is from Papertrey Ink.
I chose those leaves because I knew I had a CB folder the same basic design so I thought I could repeat the pattern that way.
I'm not 100% thrilled with how I added in the kraft color but like I said, I may have another go at those colors this week.
Hope you have a fantastic Monday!
One of my favorite challenges at Splitcoast is the CAS challenge (hmmmm, I wonder why....). But while I always check it out, I never seem to actually create anything applicable to the challenge. But this latest creation fits one of the recent challenges.
I'm not sure if it was this week or last week's challenge to create a long card but I figure I'm within the last month so I'm doing good.
The flowers are from Sweet n Sassy stamps. It's the first time I think that I've used their stamps and I was very pleased. They are clear stamps that inked up well (Stampin' Up inks) and stamped with good coverage every single time. And that's not always the case when you first get clear stamps.
The flowers themselves are stamped twice so I got a bit of a shadow.
The sentiment is from Verve Visual. I like the combination of fonts and thought it matched nicely with the flowers.
I've had a good week studio-wse ~ I'm hoping this is a good sign for a productive and creative summer. Have a great night!
