Online Card Classes - Watercoloring

Hi everyone!  Today is day 1 of the Online Card Classes Watercolor for Card Makers. 

 There were three different watercolor techniques presented today, and I chose to do one that Kristina Werner taught.  I used a retired background stamp from SU called Hand Stitched, some white embossing powder, and water color paints to create this strip.  It started out as a full panel, however I wanted to follow the Clean & Simple sketch, so I cut it in half.

 

Here's the sketch.

 

I'm also entering this into the Catered Crop button challenge.

 

Sorry for the short post, but I didn't want to give too many details since this is a class that's paid for.  Also, it's kind of late and I need some sleep!

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Recipe

Stamps:  Hand Stitched (SU), Take Flight (Clearly Besotted)

Paper:  Tim Holtz watercolor paper, Neenah white, calypso coral

Ink:  Versamark, watercolor paints

Accessories:  Button, floss, white embossing powder, enamel dots, sequins, dimensionals





Just Us Girls #207 - Color Challenge

Happy Saturday!  What a crazy week at school!  It's only the second week of school and already I'm wiped out!  But I'm so glad it's Saturday because we have a new challenge over at Just Us Girls and I'm the hostess!  Loving these colors I chose this week and I hope you like them too!

I had to do something quick because I was running short on time, so what do you turn to when you need to get a quick card done?  Dies and washi tape!  I used Ruby Rose dies and stamp set with riding hood red and baked brown sugar inks.  Easy peasy!    I added some shimmer with a Wink of Stella pen on the flowers and leaves.  It doesn't show up well in the picture, but it's very shimmery in person.  I'm finally using up the many rolls of washi tape I own too!  The red one is a Martha Stewart one I've had for at least 2 years!  First time using it (of course!).   Some pearls finish off the card. 

I of course had to use a sketch!  I don't think I ever make a card without following some sketch or another!  This one is from Clean & Simple sketches (last week's sketch...I made this card before that challenge ended).  I've always loved their sketches and use them often.

 

So hop on over to the JUGs blog and the DT blogs to see what they've created.  Here are the links.

 

JUGs blog

Elise Durenberger

Maria Levine

Marisa Ritzen

Nancy Leppek

Tangii Crain

Vicki Dutcher

 

Also, don't forget Just Us Girls is looking to add to our design team.  Make sure you check out the blog for details!

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Recipe
Stamps:  Ruby Rose (Papertrey Ink)
Paper:  Vintage cream, kraft
Ink:  Baked brown sugar, riding hood red
Accessories:  Ruby Rose dies, Wink of Stella pen, pearls, corner rounder, washi tape, dimensionals

Papertrey Ink Stamp-a-Faire: Rolled Dough Designs

Hi again!  This is the third post for today.  I'm playing along with Papertrey Ink's Stamp-a-Faire.

The next challenge I'm participating in is the Rolled Dough challenge.  I've had my Delight paperclay drying out all day.  I kneaded glitter into my clay like Heather did.  You won't be able to see the sparkle in the pictures, but it's definitely there.

 

I only took out a little bit of clay and added the glitter to it.  Then I rolled it out and let it sit for about 8 hours.  When I picked it up it felt like those foam sheets.  I rolled it out pretty thin so I could die cut it easily.  These are the pieces I die cut.  I cut a ghost (not pictured here), teapot, 2 flourishes and with the remaining pieces I cut out some flowers and hearts.

 

 I made two cards with the same layout.  Here's the first.  Who says Halloween has to be all orange and black?  This would have been if I had black googlily eyes, but I only had pink!  So pink and purple it was!  After adding the eyes, I was wondering how stamping would work on this clay.  You can see in the picture above a pink flower.  I practiced stamping Memento Luxe pigment ink onto the clay and it worked beautifully.  So I used the same ink to stamp the smile.  I also added a small pink bow to her head.  This card is so much cuter in person!

 

 Next up is the teapot.  It was also stamped with Memento Luxe Pear Tart pigment ink.  I added that pink flower (there was a spot that didn't stamp all the way).  I ran the front of the card with an impression place,  but it's hard to see it. 

This is the sketch I used from Clean & Simple Sketches.  

 

I still have some time and some more challenges from PTI to work on!  Gotta go!  Thanks for stopping by!

 

Recipe:  Ghostly Greetings

Stamps:  Happy Haunting (PTI)

Paper:  Pink pirouette, elegant eggplant, Eva (Basic Grey)

Ink:  Versamark, Memento Luxe rose bud

Accessories:  Happy Haunting die, white ep, ribbon, google eyes, sequins, Delight paper clay

 

Recipe:  Tea for Two

Stamps:  Tea for Two (PTI)

Paper:  Neenah white, pink passion, Green at Heart (PTI)

Ink:  Memento Luxe rose bud and pear tart

Accessories:  Tea for Two die, ribbon, canvas impression plate



Happy 16th Birthday!

Hi all!  Hope everyone had a nice 4th of July (if you are in the US!).  We had a nice relaxing day at our cabin.  A little rain in the afternoon, but it cleared up for the beautiful evening!

The card I made today is for our neighbors' son Kevin who turned 16 today.  By 10:30 this morning he already had his driver's permit!  Remember those days?  So I had to make a special card for him that was driving-themed.  The paper I chose is Basic Grey's Wander.  It had this cool collage paper with all sorts of road signs and such.  I thought it would work well for my theme.  The numbers are from PTI's By the Numbers dies and the sentiment is from Sentiment Sampler from Paper Smooches. 

I originally used Handsome Hunter cardstock for the numbers, then changed my mind and went for the Cherry Cobbler instead.  So instead of wasting the numbers, I put them inside.  The car paper is also from Wander.

I used the Clean and Simple sketch for my layout.



Hope you are enjoying your summer!  I know I am!  Thanks for stopping by!

Recipe

Stamps:  Sentiment Sampler (Paper Smooches)

Paper:  Naturals ivory, cherry cobbler, handsome hunter (all SU), Wander (Basic Grey)

Ink:  Riding hood red

Accessories:  Circle and pinked nesties, WPlus9 flag die, By the Numbers dies (PTI), pinking scissors, Prima wood star

Just Us Girls #189 - Color Challenge

Happy Saturday!  Today is a special day for my family because my nephew is finally graduating from college today!  Mark is such a great guy...full of fun and adventure.  I wish him all the best and am so proud of him!  

 

Today also begins a new challenge from Just Us Girls.  It's a color challenge and Vicki has chosen some great colors. 

Here's my take on the colors.   The stamped design was created using Papertrey Ink's Modern Basics in Cameo Coral and Sahara Sand inks.  I mounted it on Cameo Coral cardstock.  The banner is Sahara Sand and I stamped the sentiment from Happy Trails in Versamark and embossed it in white.  The butterfly was cut with the Heart-2-Heart #10 die and stamped with the coordinating stamp in Cameo Coral.  I added bling to the antennae and some to the coral panel.  It's mounted on white and the base is Crumb Cake.  I'm going to send this to the mother who chaperoned our field trip yesterday.  She was a great chaperone to the kids, and it was nice having her on the trip with me.

I used this Clean and Simple sketch.  

The JUGs design team has some great inspiration for you.  Check out these blogs.

 

JUGs blog

Elise Durenberger

Maria Levine

Marisa Ritzen

Nancy Leppek

Tangii Crain

Vicki Dutcher



Thanks for stopping by!

 

Recipe

Stamps:  Modern Basics, Heart-2-Heart #10, Happy Trails (PTI)

Ink:  Sahara sand, cameo coral, Versamark

Paper:  Neenah white, cameo coral, sahara sand, crumb cake

Accessories:  Heart-2-Heart #10 die, white embossing powder, bling, corner chomper, dimensionals



My Time Made Easy January Release: With All My Heart

 Today is release day at My Time Made Easy, and we have some fabulous new Valentine products for you this month?  Have you seen the previews?  You can go to Lauren's blog and see her projects and links to the design team projects too.  The all the new products here.

I have the new With All My Heart template to share with you today.  It's a traditional Valentine heart-shaped box that you can personalize any way you choose!  

Here's a close-up of the box.  So Pretty!  I used SU's Melon Mambo for the base of the template with the white scalloped top and bottom.  The pattern paper is from the previously released Grammy's Pretty Patterns and I framed it in SU's Lucky Limeade.

The flower is the previously released Rambling Rose cut file.  Lauren has a tutorial on how to create this lovely flower.  I cut it out of white paper then added some color with Melon Mambo ink.  The leaves are from the Fanciful Flowers cut file.  I added a white glitter dot in the center.

For the card, I used the same papers and added a flourish from Fanciful Flourishes digital stamp set that I colored in GIMP.  The tag is from the new BFFs Valentine Tags cut file.  I just cut off the rounded part of the tag and punched a new hole.  It just didn't work with my layout!  The sentiment is also from the new BFFs Valentine Sentiments digital stamp set.  I just used part of the sentiment.  The entire sentiment says "Hip Hip Hooray, It's Valentine's Day!"  So nice to work with digis, because you can crop easily!

The sketch is from this week's Clean and Simple sketch. 

The entire MTME design team is posting projects today.  You can see them at these blogs.

MTME Store 

MTME Gallery

Lauren Meader

Debbie Marcinkiewicz

Farida Rone

Kimberly Morrow

Lori Hairston

Lori Kalus

Pattie Goldman

Tangii Crain

Tina Hale

Thanks for stopping by today!  

My Time Made Easy - Card Wrapper

Hi there friends!  Did you see the new products just released yesterday at My Time Made Easy?  I have another template to share with you today.  This is a super easy one to make!  It's called Card Wrapper and it is a wrap for cards, but it can be used to package up just about anything!  Here it is closed.  I used real red cardstock for the base and the lid was cut from cardstock printed with a print from the Hot Holidays digital paper pack previously released.  The label is from the new Christmas Swag digital stamp set.  I just love all the images in this set!  I colored it in GIMP and used the print and cut feature on the Silhouette Cameo.  I popped it up on dimensionals and added a flourish bling.

Here you can see the entire package.  I made four cards to package inside the template.



I used the same cardstock and paper for the cards.  The main panel was cut using the previously released Steno Note cut file.  I added the sentiment and those cute reindeer before cutting.  Then I created some clouds with Broken China distress ink and some ground with some brown distress ink.



I followed the CAS sketch.  It gave me some great inspiration!  I added some red stickles on the middle reindeer's nose (i.e., Rudolph) and the berries on the holly.

You can see more examples using new products at these blogs.

 

MTME Store

MTME Gallery

Lauren Meader

Debbie Marcinkiewicz

Farida Rone

Kimberly Morrow

Lori Hairston

 

Thanks for stopping by! 

 



Just Us Girls #156 - Wild Card Challenge

Hi friends!  This week over at Just Us Girls is the Wild Card Challenge where we get to pick whatever type of challenge we want.  I'm hostess this week and I chose to use numbers on your card/creation.

 

 I decided just to go literal and use the number dies.  I needed a 40th wedding anniversary card for friends of ours, so this was the perfect challenge for me!  I started with red in mind because red is the color for a 40th anniversary.  I chose this paper by Cosmo Cricket called Circa 1934.  I like the red with the black.  The sentiment is from a free set from PTI called Everyday Classics.  I stamped it in Riding Hood Red ink and die cut it with a flag die.  The ribbon is SU's Riding Hood Red taffeta ribbon.  The entire card is mounted on vintage ivory cardstock.

 

 I used this sketch from Clean and Simple Sketches.

You can see some great inspiration from the JUGs design team.  See for yourself by visiting these blogs.

 

JUGs blog

Andrea Matthews

Elise Durenberger

Lynn Mangan

Maria Levine

Marisa Ritzen

Vicki Dutcher

 

Thanks for stopping by!  Have a great weekend!

Just Us Girls #153 - Technique Challenge

Happy Saturday!  This week over at Just Us Girls is our technique challenge.  Vicki has chosen the line art image technique.  This is where you use a line art stamp that has some detail, but you don't color it.  You can find a great tutorial over on Stamp TV.

I searched through my stamps and found this old one from Great Impressions.  I created a panel of colors in red, yellow, and brown and stamped the image in Versamark then embossed it in white.  Easy peasy!  The sentiment is from Framed Elegance by My Time Made Easy.

Here's the sketch from Clean and Simple Sketches.

You can see more at these blogs and thanks for stopping by!

JUGs blog

Elise Durenberger

Lynn Mangan

Marisa Ritzen

Vicki Dutcher



Just Us Girls #150 - Color Challenge

Happy Saturday!  Just Us Girls has a new color challenge this week brought to us by our cowgirl Elise!  I happen to LOVE these colors, don't you?

This is what I came up with and it took me all of 20 minutes to create!  This great sketch came from the Clean and Simple sketch blog.  I thought it was a pretty cool sketch!  The paper is Blink of an Eye from My Mind's Eye.  It had all the colors in it that Elise chose!  I just used three different circle punches, three differnt patterns, played around with the layout, secured them in place, and then trimmed off the excess.  The sentiment is from PTI's Half and Half set and was stamped in Pumpkin Pie ink.  This cream panel is layered onto a Pumpkin Pie panel and then onto a kraft base.

Here's the cool sketch from Clean and Simple.

And now you have to see what the JUGs design team and our guest did with these colors.

JUGs blog
Elise Durenberger
Lynn Mangan
Maria Levine
Marisa Ritzen
Vicki Dutcher
Jen Wills, August Guest Designer



I hope you join us over at Just Us Girls!  Thanks for stopping by today!

Pretty Palette #65

This week's Pretty Palette color challenge are taken from the Bee Mine digital paper pack from My Time Made Easy.

I used one of the designs from the paper pack that had all the colors in it.  I used the My Bee Loved cut file to cut out the yellow bees.  The hexagons were punched with a Creative Memories punch I've had from my scrapbooking days.  The zig-zag design was created with pinking scissors.  I cut the flag out using a die from WPlus9 Designs and stamped the sentiment from the Bee-Loved stamp set.  I added a blue grosgrain ribbon and a yellow button threaded with some black and white baker's twine.

This is the sketch I used from Clean and Simple sketch challenge.

You can see more color inspiration from our Pretty Palette design team.

MTME blog

Jackie Randolph

Mary Vogel

Romaine Rancier

Thanks for stopping by!