Happiness

I have a card to share today that I made for the Play Date Cafe Challenge using some Penny Black stamps.  The background was created by generously sponging Tim Holtz distress ink onto an ivory panel and then water stamping with Harmony (a slapstick background stamp).  The Petal Party flowers were stamped on a separate piece that had been sponged in similar fashion, trimmed, and popped up using Glue Dots.  

Here is a look at the fun color challenge from PDCC:

Had a great time this weekend with some dear paper crafting friends at the CKC Charlotte show.  It was so much fun getting together and we had a blast!  Great memories ladies...  Linda had a "particular" Shell service station she wanted to go to, lol and Patti definitely KNOWS her way around Charlotte!!!  Love that! Here is pic of Linda, Patti, Olga and I at a fabulous scrapbooking store called The Stamper's Alley:

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful day! 

Blessings, 

Crayon Resist

Hello!  Getting back in the swing of things after a little getaway with the family and have a card to share that I made using Floral Thread background, Butterfly Kiss, and Gratitude.  I stamped the image with Versafine Black Onyx and embossed with clear embossing powder.  I die cut the image using Labels Fourteen and colored over the flower petals with a white crayon.  After the were covered with crayon, I generously sponged the die cut (in the die) with Squeezed Lemonade distress ink.  It really makes the flower POP!  

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful day! 

Blessings,

 

Celebrate

 Today I have a CAS card to share using the beautiful background, Floral Thread, illustrated by my friend Laura Kirstie Campbell.  I inked it up with various Memento ink pads: LuLu Lavender, Angel Pink, Cantaloupe, Summer Sky, New Sprout and stamped it onto white cardstock.   Then I stamped the sentiment (from Gratitude) with Versafine Black Oynx and embossed with clear embossing powder.  The panel was layered onto some Black Oynx cardstock and adhered to a white card base.  The butterfly (from Social Butterfly) was stamped/embossed and gently sponged using Ink Blushers.  I adhered it by the sentiment with a pop dot.  

I am entering this into the Moxie Fab Tuesday Trigger Allegro con Brio and was inspired by the pastel colors: 

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful day! 

Blessings,

 

Wonderful Day

I have a card to share today that I made with some new Penny Black stamps and Memento ink.  I was inspired by a yellow/blue card on the Penny Black blog last week.  For this card, I used some stamps illustrated by my dear friend Laura Kirstie Campbell.  The first is a background stamp, Flower Flourish which I stamped with Memento Dandelion ink (picking up a smidge of color that was already on the stamp, which created a cool effect, I think).  The focal image is from A Flight of Thread and was embossed with Versamark ink and clear embossing powder.  After it had cooled, I colored it using Fantastix coloring tools and Bahama Blue and Dandelion ink.  Finally, I die-cut using Labels Twenty, wrapped with ribbon, stamped a sentiment from Gratitude and added some Want2Scrap bling.

I hope you have a wonderful day! 

Blessings, 

Posies

 

I wanted to try embossing the Posies stamp using Versamark and clear embossing powder and thought I had to try it in pink first :)  I love the pop of the flowers after a bit of sponging using Memento Angel Pink and Rose Bud (the latter especially highlighting the flowers) for this fun pink design.  I added the musical score from Vintage Borders stamped with Rose Bud and love the pop it brings.  The sentiment is from Gratitude  and added some pearl Want2Scrap bling to the center of each flower to finish it off.  All in all... quite quick and easy and thinking an assortment of designs with varying colors/sentiments would be nice to create!

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful day! 

Blessings,

 

Wonderful Day!

 Hello! Finally making it back to stamping a bit and did you see my exciting news???  Check this out!  Oh my stars was that an exciting email to receive from Cath!!!

My card today uses one stamp set, Gratitude from Penny Black.  This clear stamp set has elegant sentiments and some smaller sized images as well.  If you know anything about me, you know I love any damask image and this one I thought would be perfect for creating patterned paper. I used the new Memento Pistachio ink from Tsukineko and isn't it a pretty green, so different from the others!  A small Want2Scrap pearl added to the center of each finished it off nicely.

I am entering this into the Damask and Brocade Challenge in the Moxie Fab World and hope you can play along too!!

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful day! 

Blessings,

 

Happiness

I was recently at my favorite LSS: Betty's Scrapbook Room (in Greensboro, NC) and had to pick up some more Penny Black stamps.  This time I found Fanciful and Gratitude, the latter of which is a great sentiment set.  This is SUCH an easy design...I stamped the image with the new Memento Pistachio ink and using a Memento Love Letter marker colored directly on the stamp.  Super easy!  I added some red bling from Want2Scrap and a simple scalloped border.

 

I know I have been lying low for a bit and appreciate you checking up on me.  Just swamped with a busy schedule as the school year is wrapping up, music lessons for oldest winding down with recitals, and baseball is full steam ahead.  Honestly though, this is my favorite time of year and I am enjoying every minute!!  The youngest is playing his first year of T-Ball and he LOVES it.   Sure is fun!!  Here he is checking out his "fans"....

He is a M-E-S-S!

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful day! 

Blessings,