March Blog Hop with Paper Wings!

Hello! Its time for another blog hop with Paper Wings, a wonderful place to go for inspiration It is full of examples using The Angel Company stamps and papers!

This month our theme is Spring…. and it couldn’t come soon enough! I picked out my papers first, I decided to go with the More Mimi SWIC Collection. They are so bright and pretty and just what I needed!



The flowers are from the watercolor plants set that is so fun to play with. I colored the stamps with Aquacolor crayons and spritzed with water to stamp. I used Burnt Umber palette to stamp the sentiment from tag tidbits and the distressing from background soup.



Thank you so much for stopping by, please let me know what you think and then head on over to your next stop in the hop to see what my fellow angels have to show you!

Rita W

Shirley

Laura

Seleise

Kim

Laurie

Carol

Teresa—that’s me!

Stamps: watercolor plants, background soup, tag tidbits

Ink: Burnt Umber palette

Paper: More Mimi SWIC and CS, kraft, white

Other: twine, aquacolor crayons

Valentine’s Cup of Love

I just had to play some more with the Cup of Love set! I made these envelope pocket cards for my son’s teachers for Valentine's Day along with some Hot Cocoa packets.



I used some more of those junk mail envelopes… yay for recycling! The Tag pulls out and I wrote on the back side of it.



I have just started using Background soup… so much fun to add different elements.  As you can see from these two different cards you can change it up by stamping directly after inking and getting a darker and crisper result, or stamping off on other paper before using it for lighter effects.



This shows the front and back, you have to make it all pretty right!



Stamps: Cup of Love, Background Soup, Bless Your Heart
Ink: Noir and Bordeaux Palette
Paper: Recycled Envelope, white CS, Pink DCWV
Other: white gel pen, sponge, ribbon, eyelet, crop-a-dile, ribbon, Labels 1 Nestabilities
Copics: 0, C1, C3, C5, R81, R85, R39

Thanks for stopping by and taking a look, let me know what you think! If you haven’t played along this week yet… there is still time, so swing by The Savvy Projects blog and join in one of this weeks hops! Don’t forget, Cup of Love is 25% off this month, along with tons of other sets, check out my TAC Specials Page for more information and a link to list of sale items! Have a Fabulous Day!!!!!

Retiform Blog Hop!!!!!

It is Blog Hop time at The Angel Company! Click on the picture above to Go to The Savvy Projects Blog and see! This month the theme is Retiform. This is a new technique for me, and was a bit difficult to figure out. There are some wonderful tutorials on the Savvy Projects blog to help you out though! While you are there check out all the Fabulous You feature sets going on every weekday!

I tried two cards, one I like, the other not so much, but I’ll figure it out and of course have to show you anyway right! This first card uses Fanciful Vintage.



Stamp: Fanciful Vintage
Ink: Cote d’Azure and Bordeaux Palette
Paper: White CS and Caboodle A CS
Other: sponge, floss



The second card I wanted to try on Kraft… not so sure on the bright yellow, and I think the blue I used is just too light… and there was actually the random letter stamp from Background soup in blue and it just kind of blended right in when it dried… live and learn right! I colored the boat with Prisma pencils and OMS.

Stamps: Background Soup, Bless Your Heart, Anchor to the Soul
Ink: Burnt Umber, Ballet Blue, Sunflower Palette
Paper: Kraft CS
Other: sponge, prisma pencils, OMS

Thanks for stopping by! Let me know what you think!

Hop on over to see what other lovely retiform examples there are and join in the fun!

TAC Dream Team Call

TAC has put out a Dream Team Call to it’s Angels and I’ve decided to try out, wish me luck!

My first card was made with Cup of Love, such an adorable set! I colored with copics and popped the cup up, cut out a bunch of flowers and layered them. The background is embossed with the Flowers Impressabilities Die and sponged with Sunflower Palette ink.




Copics: 0, Y000, Y11, Y15, YR24

For my second card I used Heather Scott’s weekly Sketch #135 and I decided on a masculine theme. The image and sentiment are both from Good Things, such a sweet set! I colored with copics and added a few highlights with a white gel pen. For the background I added some Background Soup in Versa Mark. All paper is Amberley Grace SWIC and CS.




Copics: 0, E51, C1, C3, W3, W7, BG000, BG10, BG11, BG13

My third card is my favorite I believe, it just seems so soft to me. I stamped the image from All Things of Nature in Versa Mark and then chalked it. I wanted a little more so I outlined the flower with a glitter pen and chalked over it again to tone it down. I cut it out with Label’s 4 Nestabilitie Die and sponged Aegean Blue ink on before removing the die. I added some texture to the Maggie SWIC paper with the Scor-Pal and Scor-Bug. The three pearls are from the Clear and Pearl Gem Collection.



For my project I decided to make a mini album. I used a tutorial from 2 Worlds blog for her recycled envelope album. She has some awesome tutorials to share! I’ve been saving all those return envelopes that come in our junk mail and this is s perfect way to put them to use. All papers and ribbons are from Maggie SWIC and CS… my favorite new paper from TAC! The sentiments are all from Joy, Found and the Tree is from Good Things, I colored it with Prismacolor pencils and OMS.













The album isn’t quite done yet… but then I doubt you want to see where I go with it! I am making it an album for my hubby and I, each section will be half his and half mine starting with… What did you think about him/her when you first met and moving through the things we love about each other, etc. So there will be pics of us and our own responses on the inserts… so long as I can convince him to play along!

Thank you so much for stopping by, and for making it through the whole post! I hope you have a wonderful day!