Create Together with Marcie Sharp

Hey there - My lovely daughter Marcie Sharp has invited me to Create Together and I was most happy to oblige!

Marcie gave me this inspiration piece to work with and one rule - NO PATTERNED PAPER (eek!) and honestly, I almost went over and told her to pick another one lol! This is not really my taste, but I'm a professional - right? - right?? - so I made it work.

I started out using the SSS Falling Stars die and then it just evolved from there.  Since I could see Birthday in those stars, I brought out my Crafter's' Companion Sara Signature Happy Birthday stamp and Dies.

The balloons are embossed - isn't that awesome!!   One swipe through the Gemini Die Cutting and  Embossing Machine and that balloon was cut and embossed - perfect!

The sentiment is from Sara Signature stamp set - love that font!

That's all I have today - make your way over to Marcie's Blog - Cardmakin' Chaos - and see the awesome creation she has put together!

Create Together!

I've been forturnate enough to be able to contribute to Marcie Sharp's Create Together post this week.  For those who don't know, Marcie is my multi-talented daughter so I am extremely excited to participate!

This week, the theme is St. Patrick's Day, which conjures up a lot of green and fun!

I chose to bring out Reverse Confetti's Monkey Business along with Whole Lotta Happy focusing on green as my main colour!

My markers are in Florida so I used my Zig Real Brush Markers on this little monkey and his green flag.

I added a few green sequins along with twine to pull together the neutral shades.

I am also entering this card into Crazy 4 Challenges theme this week-which is to base your card on a book - whether it be children's or adult books.

My card is all about Curious George Lol! He's a rascal! Join in on the Crazy 4 Challenges theme this week - won't you?!

O Canada!

Good Morning! I am again honoured to be the guest over at Create Together with Marcie Sharp.

I am so happy that I have a creative minded daughter with whom I can swap ideas (and product lol!) 

With Canada Day- July 1st, being right around the corner - Marcie has challenged me to come up with something related to this day.

I pulled out Papertrey Ink's Blue Sky's Rays Die along with the Cover Plate Blue Sky's Die and created a red and white sunset-- or sunrise I suppose!

Using Concord & 9th Sophisticated Script, I inked up O Canada for my sentiment.  With a few added wooden hearts, naturally and twine, I wrapped it up hah!  I see after I took some photos, that I added some red sequin hearts - oops!

I hope you have a wonderful Canada Day with fireworks and swimming and lots of fun things to do!

Create Together with Marcie Sharp

Woohoo!  Today I am getting crafty with my daughter Marcie, who has a monthly feature called 

Here is how it all started - in Marcie's words…..

"I wish I could sit around a table with my crafty friends, drink a big ol' glass of wine (or whatever suits your fancy!) and make cards with them and all of you! 

Since that's often geographically impossible, I thought I'd try reaching out and do some fun cardmaking collaborations virtually. 

For however long there is interest, I am joining up with some amazing cardmakers and we're challenging each other JUST FOR FUN to get crafty. "

Such a fun concept - don't you think?  ….and actually, it IS geographically possible for the two of us to make cards together - she lives right across the field!  We didn't craft together for this collaboration -  we didn't want to influence the other!  (Which is kind of funny when you see her card!)

I picked a mood board for Marcie and I to be inspired by - a beautiful spring array with glorious shades of pinks, purples, blues and yellows - anything spring-y- I'm dying for spring in these parts - hopefully this will get the Mother Nature ball rolling. (?)

I loved every single one of these photos, but I chose to be inspired by the bottom middle.  The draped Wisteria just pulls me in and makes me think magical fairy tales and forests.

I began by sponging Lovely Lady, Aquamist and Winter Wisteria inks onto a 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" sheet of white cardstock.

I added a piece of very eloquently ripped patterned paper for a little hill on which to pop up my sweet Reverse Confetti Unicorn, from Unicorn Wishes.

The draped forest was made by die cutting Cas-ual Fridays Casual Trees Fri-Dies and sparkling them - and everything - with my clear Wink of Stella brush - such a beautiful shine!!  It is difficult to see but - since you asked - I took a close-up of that fabulous shimmer!!

Take a peek over at Marcie's blog to see how she was totally inspired by my mood board and why I laughed out loud when I saw her creation!!

Create Together!

I am very pleased to be a guest in a crafty collaboration called Create Together with Marcie Sharp on her blog today. She just happens to be my very talented daughter and has been crafting for many years - I'm so very proud of her crafty accomplishments!!

Marcie sent me this beautiful inspiration photo for us to work with - I absolutely fell in love with it!

I definitely used the colours and glitter to create my card and I pulled out my Vintage Linens Stamp Set by Papertrey Ink (again - I can't get enough of those flowers!)

Embossing the images with white embossing powder is always a great beginning when water colouring.  The watercolours stay where you put them - within reason of course - and the end result is so pretty!

I die cut the images after embossing and watercoloured with my Zig Real Brush Markers. I added some gold glitter in the middle with a gold Wink of Stella pen.

Using Mama Elephant Madison Avenue Frame Tags Creative Cuts (what a long name……) and DCWV Mat Stack glitter brights & neutrals, I die cut a frame from the blue glitter cardstock.  I also die cut the frame using the gorgeous Papertrey Ink Gold Luxe Foil Patterned Paper Collection.  - it is so shiny and…..Gold!!

I inlaid the middle panel of gold stripe into the blue glitter frame and adhered it to my white cardstock card base.

I stamped the sentiment, from Papertrey Ink Choose Joy stamp set onto the die cut tag and popped it up onto the gold striped cardstock.  I popped up the flowers and added ribbon and some pretty gold glitter baubles to finish my creation.

Thank you for visiting today - and get out those water-colours and play!!