Colour Throwdown #429

Good Morning!  I'm playing in the Color Throwdown this week - aqua, orange and black - such vibrant summery colours - love them!

I pulled out two sets from Reverse Confetti for my card - Butterfly Dreams along with the matching Confetti cuts and Fancy Word Coordinates.

I began by watercolouring a simple striped background using my Ganzai Tambi watercolour paints. I added a strip of similar coloured card stock along the bottom and a scalloped circle from Circles 'n Scallops tucked in just a bit.

I stamped the butterfly with Hero Arts Mint to Green Ombre ink and diecut it with the matching butterfly Confetti Cuts. I popped it up onto the scalloped circle.

I trimmed a flag from cardstock, stamped the sentiment in black and popped it up onto the aqua cardstock.

I finished by added few enamel dots in different shapes and sizes!

You've still got time to join in the Color Throwdown challenge - try it out!

....just because it's the Color Throwdown!

Good day and another nice one it is!  Actually it's raining and drizzly but smiling is always an option - so here we go with a quick post.

The Color Throwdown has some warm colours this week - red, kraft and grey so I put together a 'just because' card.

I used Papertrey Ink's Petite Places: Main Street stamps and dies along with Simon Says Stamp ink.

I finished the card off with red and white twine - cute.... I love making little scenes!

Take a trip over to the Color Throwdown and ink it up!!

You're Cherry Sweet - except for Google

Good day - cripes, I was almost locked out of my blog.....gotta love google.

The current sketch at Reverse Confetti and the beautiful colours at Color Throwdown were my focus today for my card - sketches and colours - thank you for making this card an easy one!

I stamped and diecut using the cute stamp set from Reverse Confetti - In a Jam - along with the matching Confetti Cuts.

Using the sketch and colours I assembled my card and stamped the sentiment along the bottom - that is from Fancy Word Coordinates.

Short post today - Google has me frazzled!

Thank you for visiting today - I'm off to clean up the yard so we can head south in a couple of weeks - dang winter is coming yikes!

Color Throwdown - The Lord's Strength

I'm on the time line (again) and want to post this card before the end of the Colour Throwdown deadline!

I loved the soft colours which I thought went along with a sympathy card....an unfortunate necessity sometimes.

I didn't go with flowers this time - crazy I know, I'm a flower lover! but instead I went semi-trendy.

Using the new Reverse Confetti Wheat Confetti Cuts, the sentiment from Reverse Confetti's The Lord's Strength and Papertrey Ink's Cover Plate: Centre Stage Die my creation came together quite nicely!

My cardstock is Papertrey Ink's Aqua Mist and Pale Peony along with Simon Says Stamp Smoke.  The circle dies are the cross-stitch from Cottage Cutz.

Thank you for visiting today - there is still a wee bit of time to get your entry into the Color Throwdown - play along won't you?!!

Colour Throwdown #408

Hi Everyone - it's time for another Color Throwdown and this week the colours are celebrating Primary colours - it's back to school time!! Are you ready for your little sweethearts to go back to school? Are they ready - haha!

I wanted to ink up my new Toucan of Friendship by Reverse Confetti - pretty easy to apply those colours to that cute toucan!

I stamped the image with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink and then coloured it with my copic markers.  After die cutting with the matching Confetti Cut dies, I popped up the image onto a rectangle and stamped the sentiment.

I kept the layout quite clean so I wouldn't detract from the colourful image.   Using one of the frames from the All Framed Up Confetti Cuts seemed to add the perfect touch!

Head on over to the Color Throwdown blog for more wonderful inspiration from the Design Team!

Let's Chat over Coffee!

Wow - the Colour Throwdown is at #405 - crazy!!....and CAS(E) this Sketch works well for my Floral Shadow card!

Here are the colours for Color Throwdown- I'm cutting it soon close (as usual) so this is a short post!

I just received my new Altenew sets, Coffee Love, and Floral Shadow, so of course I had to ink them up!

Altenew Floral Shadow is so pretty and when used as a border, it looks so beautiful!

I stamped along the edge of my cardstock panel with dye inks and then, using a wet paintbrush I moved the ink around for a watercolour effect.  Stamping along the edge works well for the CAS(E) this Sketch challenge this week!

I stamped the coffee pot and mug with in Versafine Onyx Black.

I white embossed the sentiment onto a strip of black cardstock and popped it up onto the watercolour panel.

I adhered it to my Spring Moss card base, added some twine and a few (very few!) Pretty Pink Posh sequins.

Here is the sketch for CAS(E) this Sketch!

Colour Throwdown Love!

Good day - another post in the same day - crazy right?  If you are looking for my  Your Next Stamp post - please scroll down or click on the link!

The colours at Colour Throwdown are so soft and pretty - peach, pink and yellow - what a lovely combo.... and a double challenge creation - because Splitcoaststampers has their Dare to Get Dirty Challenges happening this week - wahoo!.... check it out!

I decided to do some watercoloring - it seems that I really enjoy that medium lately - I find it quite relaxing, so using my Zig Real Brush watercolor  markers, I coloured up one of Suzy Plantamura's Every Occasion images from Simon Says Stamp.

I also added some Glossy accents to the two hearts and Pretty Pink Posh sequins - because they are just so pretty - and a great embellishment - very quick and easy!  I trimmed up the image and adhered it to Papertrey Ink patterned paper and then onto my yellow cardstock base.

Simon Says Stamp has an Anything Goes challenge this week too and this fits right in!

I have got to get going - we are having family for supper and I need to think about my supper plans - yikes!!

Let the Adventure Begin!

Good Morning! I'm creating with Color Throwdown's colours today - and I love that they played right into my new stamps.

I have been eyeing up Dress Up Dolls from Papertrey Ink for months - every release I was drawn into the memories of my girlie youth (long, long ago), playing with my friends and our paper dolls.......and then I happily crumbled.

I'm began my purchases with the Dress Up Dolls: Basic Stamp Set and dies because the Summer Fun Mini Set and Dies pushed me over the top!!  I have great memories of being at a cottage up north fishing when I was a girlie and then being able to rent a cottage for a few years with our children - at a beach - beautiful!

I'm sure the neighbours heard me squealing after each little outfit was finished lol.  There are shirts and shorts and pigtails and ponytails and lifebuoys and ice cream cones and bathing suits and watermelon and sandals and on and on and on ----

I began by stencilling along the bottom of white cardstock using one of the stencils from the Sun & Surf Stencil Collection and Spring Rain ink.  These are beautiful but delicate stencils - so pouncing instead of swiping works the best to achieve your look.

I diecut and adhered the waves from the What the Doodle: Waves Die on top of my stencilling - die cutting it a few times using the proper part of the diecut along with some of the negative to place sort of willy nilly.....

Dawn McVey had a post this week about using stamps out of season.  Well, my sentiment is from a baby set - Sweet Cheeks -now in the vault :(....so that is sort of out of season right?

Give the Color Throwdown a go this week won't you?  There is tons of inspiration on their post - and this is Amy Rysavy's first go at hosting the challenge so get going!!

Leaping Lions!

Color Throwdown and The Paper Players are in my creative mind today!  Colour Throwdown colours are pink, kraft and grey - with whatever other neutral you want to thrown in there - and The Paper Players are looking for wild animals - yay!

I used Reverse Confetti product today - I mean isn't this just the wildest of all animals from in the animal kingdom? - This sweet little lion, from Leaping Lions,  looks like he is on a holiday from being mean - just a cutie of an image!

Using Kuretake Gambai Tambi paints - I swashed up a background in pink on watercolour cardstock. I die cut it with Your Next Stamp Stitched Rectangle Die Set.

I coloured Mr. Lion and his little stool with copic markers and then die cut them with the matching Confetti Cuts.  Using foam tape, I popped the images up onto the watercolour background.

The sentiment, from Leaping Lions, was stamped in VersaFine Smokey Gray and the hearts are from Reverse Confetti's Weather It Together.

I die cut the banner from Kraft and Smokey Shadow cardstock.

The watercolored panel was adhered to a sheet of Avery Elle Everyday Collection patterned paper - it's full of fun little grey triangles and I tied a bit of twine around the top for TONS of interest....

Glad you could come around today to visit - hurry back now!

Color Throwdown!

Another week and another Fabulous Color Throwdown.  This week the colours leave me with a muted beachy feel, but I didn't make a beach card - makes sense to me hah!

I got my hot little hands on some of the new Taylored Expressions product - mainly the VW dies - On The  Road - Beetle ....LOVE these.....

I made a little scene using Build a Scene - Rolling Hills and Neighbourhood Border and of course the VW dies.

The sentiment is from the Go Beep matching sentiment set.....

Thanks for coming around - it's Sunday and I am going to spend some quality time couching it!

Happy Mother's Day! X2

Well, yesterday was Mother's Day - was it a fun day for you? It can be difficult for some so the day drags by for sure.

We are lucky enough, blessed enough, fortunate enough to have my mother and Ron's mother still in our lives and so I made a card for each (naturally)

This first card.....well I'm also sneaking it in the Color Throwdown challenge hehe....the colours were just too good to pass up!

Aren't they pretty??!!

I used an image that Marcie owns from Avery Elle called Canopy - I wasn't sure about it at first, but I absolutely LOVE the way it all came together!

I coloured the image with my copic markers and highlighted some of the flowers with Wink of Stella clear brush pen - I love the glisten this pen gives to an image, just yummy!

The sentiment is from Reverse Confetti's Whole Lotta Happy and the huge butterfly is from Reverse Confetti's Butterfly Dreams and it was stamped in Raspberry Fizz ink and die cut using the matching Confetti Cuts and then popped up onto the Canopy image.

I created my second card using Papertrey Ink's Bloomin' Cute stamp set - and it really is Bloomin' Cute!

The great thing about the dies in this Bloomin' Cute set is - the dies are joined together of course, but only two of the dies (two leaves) are within the other dies.  This means you don't have to snipsnipsnipsnipsnip your life away before you die cut  - I mean, unless you like to snip them totally apart.....but if you just lay the whole panel of dies on top of a piece of cardstock and run it through your diecut machine - voila!  When I have to snip my life away before I even start to use a stamp set....well I tend to not use it until I really have the ambition/time to cut those dang dies apart.

Anyway - enough rambling - It's Monday!! try to find something enjoyable to do today - wash dishes, laundry, clean up after the weekend, STAMP!!

Oh Hello Color Throwdown!

hello. hello. hello

That was the theme for me last evening at a card making class I attended.  I was only going to observe - honestly, but the card was so cute that I had to delve right in and create!

My daughter Marcie was teaching the class at our local library - so double the pleasure, double the fun.

There were two cards to be made, but someone had to hold little baby Jack, and I was the winner  yay! - He is a such a cutie and he set about being so dang content that I'm pretty sure he was filling his pants or at the very least passing a ton of gas LOL - little boys……*love*

I decided to use the same colours that are offered up this week at The Color Throwdown - bright and beautiful!!  I'm also linking up to this week's Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge -make it girly!

The card we made was a shaker card - rightfully named - I'm not a fan of making them - don't ask me why but probably because there is so much fiddle diddling…. but Marcie had everything pre cut and provided the glue and die cuts making it a great experience.

I added some (very) fake stitching around the frame and then on the Lawn Fawn sentiment die cut so that I could pull the black from the flowers that I die cut and coloured in the Cas-ual Fridays Wonderful Words stamp set.

Join in on the fun at The Color Throwdown - I haven't been participating for a couple of weeks - but it feels good to be back at it!

Find Joy

Good sunny morning!  The Color Throwdown has some gorgeous colours this week - my favourite green (actually lime) and aqua - woohoo!

Surprise….. I decided to watercolour!  I painted an aqua and yellow background which slowly turned into lime - good stuff.

I white embossed one of the many encouraging sentiments from Casual Fri-days Breathe stamp set, added a few sequins and voila!  a pretty card!

I had a ribbon around the top of this card - and then I removed it - and then I put it back on and then I removed it - geesh….I have a time with embellishments Lol!

Thanks for coming around to visit….come on back soon!

You Are My Sunshine…..

I have always loved that little song…..I remember singing it to each of my children - not as a "holier than thou" song, but just humming it now and then. A natural ditty.

Which is why - when I saw this particular water-colour doodle from Simon Says Stamp I had to buy the whole bunch! (For some reason I can't see any photos on the Simon Says Stamp website, so I am just linking to the page)

I thought I would watercolour it for this week's Color Throwdown…..the perfect colours for spring and water colouring both….heh heh.

I used my Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers to water-colour the image and did a light wash in the background.

I trimmed it down so I would be able to pop it up onto my patterned paper and card base.

I added a little scallop at the bottom - just for fun!

Giving thanks for your kindness...

It sounds like my sentiment is all about Thanksgiving and I suppose it is….but you know that giving thanks is not just a season - it is year round -giving thanks for life, love and family, to name a few.

Color Throwdown's challenge this week is just up my ever thankful alley!  Pinks and blues - or more aptly Hot Pink and Teal - woohoo!

I was ready to water-colour again and so I brought out my Zig Real Brush markers and Papertrey Ink's Bold Blossoms water-colour sheets.

I wet my paper and dipped in my brushes, letting the colour dry in between additions.  Such an easy way to get a fabulous result!

With the Wink of Stella clear pen, I added some shimmer - of course so much better in real life.  This pen is water based, so having a light hand is a must or your watercolour paints will move around - not what you want yikes!

My sentiment is from the Scripted Sentiment stamps and dies - it fit in the centre of those blossoms perfectly!!

Head on over to Color Throwdown and lay down YOUR colour!!

Sending Love….

Good morning! How about that sun shiney sun this beautiful day! Not getting any sun? - #sorrynotsorry….hashtag had to :)

The Color Throwdown has some delicious colours this week - and I just happen to have some new Papertrey Ink stamps to use - what a great combination - hah!

This new set is called Painted Petals and is another new multi-step stamp set - and with this week's Color Throwdown colours - it is just a beautiful match.

I diecut a circle from plain paper (not cardstock) and stamped around the circle leaving a large spot for my large sentiment.

The inks I used were Altenew Frosty Pink, Papertrey Ink Sweet Blush, Classic Kraft, Mint Julep and Spring Moss.

The sentiment is also from Painted Petals and offers several different combinations.

I adhered the panel to my Sweet Blush cardstock card base and then attached a flower with leaves on top of the twine.

Why don't you hook on up to the Color Throwdown's challenge this week - you still have time!!

One More Time…..Get your Color On!

Good day! I am pretty pumped because I am this week's Guest Designer over at The Color Throwdown….woohoo!

Here are the colours this week… I was told they were Light Pink, Dark Pink, Gold and Purple - so I went quite literal and used purple!!

I got out my new Cover Plate: Bitty Butterflies and started die cutting using Royal Velvet and white cardstock, along with some glittery gold cardstock.

I stamped several of the bitty butterflies from the Bitty Butterflies stamp set using Raspberry Fizz and Lovely Lady ink and inlaid them onto the die cut white cardstock.

I then adhered that to my Royal Velvet card base.  I die cut another Cover Plate out of the large Polka Dot vellum in the Sheer Basics Vellum Patterned Paper 

The sentiment was embossed in white on a strip of Royal Velvet cardstock.  I placed a messy blob of gold thread under the strip of cardstock before it was adhered.

Why don't you give it a go - you can use any stamp set you want!! Hope on over to Color Throwdown and get your colour on!