Plant a seed of friendship

I created this card using the CPS104 sketch from March 22nd. The embossed and glittered patterned paper is from Mind Mind's Eye's Laundry Line collection (Sundress Heirloom) and the rust colored paper I used for my mats is from BasicGrey's Marrakech collection (African Nectar).

The flower stamp is an old one from Hero Arts and was colored using Copic markers (E11, E35, R02, YR00, YR41, Y26, YG95, G99,0). The sentiment is from Cornish Heritage Farms. Both stamped panels were sponged/distressed using Ranger Distress Inks (Antique Linen and Vintage Photo). The ribbon is from May Arts. Here's a close up of the glittery embossed background:

Hope you're having a good week! I'm excited about going to see A Chorus Line tonight at the Fox Theater. Thanks for looking!

Seize the Cupcake!

This card is a two-fer - I made it for Taylor's Cupcake Challenge using my Krafty Kats kit. The Krafty Kats is the stamp group that I get together with each month and we take turns putting together a kit of supplies and the following month when we get together, we do show-and-tell of what we made using the materials from the prior month's kit. The theme of last month's kit was food, so this cherry paper worked out perfectly for Taylor's challenge.

The cupcake was stamped once on white paper and again on the striped paper. I cut out the cupcake liner from the striped paper and pieced it on top of the one stamped on the white paper. The frosting is a combination of two colors of Glazed Dimension. The cherry was also stamped on white paper and 'colored' in with Glazed Dimension then cut out and adhered to the top of the cupcake.

The faux stitching along the borders of the striped paper was done using the zig zag stitch stamp from Sassafras Lass Stitched Borders set. That's the only way this girl will be doing any 'sewing' on her cards!

Thanks for stopping by. I'm feeling a bit under the weather - I came down with a sore throat yesterday and it hit me hard last night as we were driving home from having dinner with some friends for Tim's birthday, which is today. I'm sipping on some tea at the moment and about to head back to bed. Hope you're having a better Monday than I am!

Card Details:
Pattern paper: Paper Pizzaz
Stamps: Hero Arts (cupcake and sentiment); Sassafras Lass (stitched border)
Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black; Versa Magic - Red Magic; Adirondack - Cranberry
Other: Ribbon; Glazed Dimension - The Stencil Collection

Give Thanks

We are feeling a little bit of Fall in the air here in Atlanta - the lows are in the low 60's and it's nice and crisp in the mornings. So, with that in mind, I made this card for Beate's Weekend Sketch Challenge. The butterflies were cut out with Spellbinder's Butterflies 2 dies. I rubbed some of the Metallic Rub-ons over them to bring out the texture of the cardstock. I added some rhinestones to the middle of each to give them a little body....har, har, har...

I did a little paper piercing in each of the left hand corners to add a little something in those bare spots. I dressed up the pattern paper by going over all the veins and outlines of the leaves with my clear Copic Spica marker - it really adds a nice sparkle that is so difficult to photograph. I also ran it over my sentiment to give it a little sparkle. Not much else to it.

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Thanks for stopping by - hope your week is going well!

Card Details:

Pattern Paper - Scenic Route Sonoma - Oak Lane

Stamp - Lockhart Stamp Company

Ink - Ranger Adirondack Caramel

Brads - BasicGrey

Rhinestones - Hero Arts Gemstones

Other - Metallic Rub-ons - CrafT Products; Spellbinders butterfly dies, Copic Spica marker (clear); paper piercing template - Darice

Pretty in Pink

The assignment for this card was to use a printed transparency from Hambly Studios. I love transparencies and have a bunch, but I have to admit, they can be a bit tricky to find just the right way to use them. So, for this card I had the pink gridlines transparency and thought these stamped flowers looked good with it. I matted the stamped images on some Marco's Paper Stardreams Stationery and adhered the transparency on top with 4 little drops of Ranger's Glossy Accents, which I covered with my dew drops.

The butterflies on the bottom were colored with the same markers as the flowers and the Happy Birthday sentiment was inked with the same pink marker.

Thanks for looking!

Card Details:
Solid Paper – Marco’s Paper – Stardreams Stationery
Transparency – Hambly Studios mini graph
Stamps –Hero Arts – butterflies; 7 Gypsies - sentiment
Markers – Inque Boutique Whispers
Other – Ranger Glossy Accents; The Robins Nest Dew Drops

And another....

Here's another card with the new Basic Grey Euphoria paper. I just received an order of scented embossing powders from Cornish Heritage Farms and was itching to try some of it, so I decided to make a baby card.

There's not much to this card - I stamped the baby feet image with Versamark and embossed it with the Baby Powder Pink powder, then dragged the edges of the paper through the Versamark ink and embossed that too. The scalloped squares were cut with my Nestabilities. The edges of the card were sponged with Ranger Adirondack Cranberry ink.

I stamped directly on the grosgrain ribbon with my Adirondack Cranberry ink and then tried to heat set it before it bled too much, but it bled a bit anyway.

Thanks for looking!

Card Details:
Pattern paper - Basic Grey Euphoria - Frenzy and Utopia
Stamps - Hero Arts - Baby Feet; Rubber Stampede - Sentiment
Ink - Ranger Adirondack Cranberry
Embossing Powder - Cornish Heritage Farms - Baby Powder Pink (scented)
Other - Ribbon, Spellbinders Nestabilities