Fabulous You---Sunflowers

Today’s Fabulous You featured set by The Angel Company is Sunflowers. This set is so fun to color! The guest designer for today is Maria Van Stratton on The Savvy Projects Blog. Check out her examples as well as the examples of those who are playing along… you can too! Ink up those stamps and join in!



I had such a good time coloring with my Copics… yep my addiction… err therapy! I did some blue Prisma Pencil and OMS background and added a sentiment from Trendy Greetings. The yellow background is DCWV embossed with a flowers Impressabilities Die and sanded. I love white core for embossing and distressed edges.

Stamps: Sunflowers, Trendy Greetings
Ink: Burnt Umber palette
Paper: white, brown CS, Yellow DCWV
Other: Prisma Pencils/OMS, Flower Impressabilites
Copics: 0, C1, W3, W7, YR21, YR23, YR24, E21, E25, G94, G99

Thanks for stopping by and taking a look, please let me know what you think! If you have the set, join in the fun or look to The Savvy Projects Blog for other upcoming featured sets to join in!

One layer card challenge

I’m playing along with a One Layer Wonder challenge on TAC’s Paper Crafting Community. To do so I put away the copics and pulled out my Prisma Color pencils and OMS. I stamped my images from The Angel Company, Want to Fly and Trendy Greetings, with Noir Palette on my Kraft card base and then went to town coloring and blending. Afterwards I added some white gel pen highlights and glitter pen for sparkle.



Here is a close-up to show you some of the sparkle.



Thanks for stopping by to take a look! Let me know what you think and have a wonderful weekend!

Stamps: Want to Fly, Trendy Greetings
Ink: Noir Palette
Paper: Kraft CS
Other: Prisma Color Pencils, OMS, Gel Pen, Glitter Pen

Tree of Many Colors

At a time when my yard is full of many many leaves waiting to be raked up, I am having fun with this tree set, Good Timber, instead of raking by putting different colors to it. Just a few things to say before getting to today’s card…. Check out the TAC specials Tab at the top to see new Stamp of The Month and Stamp-A-Palooza that brings double hostess benefits! (If you are viewing via email you have to go to my blog to see this tab).

I made this card for my hubby, he had his catechism for Mason’s Entered Apprentice last night and wanted a Thank You card for his instructor. This one has green and tan inks in the leaves with Burnt Umber on the trunk. I used blue prisma pencils and gamsol for the sky and sponged more burnt umber on the ground. The background is Brown CS, Willoughby PP and the tree grain was done by inking up a fiskar texture plate with Burnt Umber and running kraft CS through the Wizard. I tied my little tag on with twine.



On the inside I layered white on kraft, snipped the corners and sponged them with Burnt Umber.



Thanks for stopping by, let me know what you think! Have a wonderful week!
Don’t forget to come back this weekend for the next TAC blog hop!

Deck the Halls - Christmas
We'll begin decking the halls with a Christmas themed Blog Hop.  Feel welcome to showcase cards, gift ideas, holiday decor and more! Friday the 12th and Saturday the 13th swing over to The Savvy Project’s Blog to share your TAC creation and enter for some yummy blog candy!

Stamps: Good Timber, Trendy Greetings

Tile card catty submission

This is the last of my recent catty submissions. I am so glad I gave it a go, and will again! Time to play along in the monthly challenges too! I was inspired by a lovely friend of mine that made a card using tiles like this that had me in awe... mine didn't turn out near as lovely as hers!

I used Simply Divine and Trendy Greetings stamp sets. I stamped and embossed with Transcendence embossing powder, love that stuff!



Thanks for stopping by! Let me know what you think and have a wonderful week!

Card call submission

So I took a leap and sent in some cards for TAC's card call... didn't make it in, but had a blast trying! I will make it someday....

Here is one of the cards I sent in. I used one of my favorite sets, flowers and holly. Colored with copics and let me tell you, IRL it rocks! I sat and stared at it and debated on sending because I wanted to keep it LOL! The flowers just popped out at me! The blue background was done with Prisma Color Pencils and OMS.



I hope that you like it! Thanks for stopping by, let me know what you think and have a wonderful week!

Another Mother's Day Card!

Here is my final Mother's Day card to post.... my Momma loves Pansies... it is amazing how many candles, frames, towels, figurines, tiles, etc. that there are to be found, and she has LOL I made a candle for her at Christmas using this set, it is a retired set called Pansies, go figure... and now am using it for her card as well. I have an amazing Mother. She is such a hard worker and does so much for everyone else. She taught me so much and I only hope to be half the Mom that she is!

I haven't gotten much done crafty'ish as the weather is beautiful and my DS and I have been getting outside as much as possible, did color this in while sitting on my front steps again. Great place to color, nice breeze, shady but natural light... just need to bring a cushion out as bricks can be a bit hard on the rear :-)

I popped up the top layer and used some light purple rhinestone brads on the corners. The flower and sentiment are both stamped in Noir Palette and then embossed using Transcendence clear embossing powder for dye inks.




Looking back now, I wish I would have made the image and layers into a magnet so she could stick it up on her refrigerator... darn it... I used my new ATG gun to adhere so I'm afraid that I would tear it up if I tried to now. Maybe next year!

Thanks for stopping by, let me know what you think! Hope you have a wonderful weekend. To all the Mom's out there.... I hope you have a wonderful Mother's Day! Make sure you tell your Mom's how much they mean to you!

The Angel Company Supplies:
Stamps: Trendy Greetings, Pansies (retired)
Ink: Noir Palette, Aegean Blue Versa Magic
Paper: Kraft, white, purple, yellow CS
Other: Prisma Color pencils with OMS, Labels One Nestabilities, Wizard, Transcendence, pop dots, sponge, brads

Mother's Day cards.... round one

It's amazing how many lovely cards I can amass... yet I've become terrible about actually getting them sent out. That or planning out a design I want to do with a new set... and then not getting to it. Well I got a lot done today... in the nick of time! I got my cards done for Mother's day so I can get them in the mail tomorrow... after I get some lovely artwork from my 5 yr old to include!

Showing you two variations on a design today.... and another hopefully tomorrow after I get some pics taken.

I used the same blue bottom layer for both, it appears gray in the first one though... gotta love lighting and temperamental cameras! I even did some sewing on here! Woo Hoo!



The Angel Company Supplies:
Stamps: Beautiful Place (retired), trendy greetings
Ink: Noir Palette
Paper: Kraft CS various colors CS
Other: Copics, scor-bug, MS border punch, pop dots, sewing machine

Leaving you with a little sneak peak... still didn't snap a good pic, but since I haven't put this guy into a card yet... I at least want to show that I've been busy coloring! Will give you the deets when I put it together!



Thanks for taking a look, let me know what you think and have a wonderful week!

March Card Class

I will be teaching a card class on March 18th and 19th... its been a long time coming and I can't wait! These three cards are what we will be making, two of them feature our aquacolor crayons! If you are in the local area and would like to attend, please contact me or check out my meetup group listed to the right!

The first card is a double pocket card and features our Simply Divine and Trendy Greetings Stamp sets.

These super cute bunnies are from Nobunny Like You. There is even a cute little crochet flower that I made!

This card uses the cupcakes from our Cupcake Cuties stamp set.

I hope that you are having a wonderful week! Please let me know what you think, and if you are out here in Northern Virginia I would love to see you in one of my classes!

Best Wishes

This card is a play along with a color challenge. I needed to use purple, yellow, and white. The little girl is from the Fairytale Fun set. I think she is adorable sprinkling her magic over the "Best Wishes". I stamped it, embossed it and then colored and embossed some more! Versa Marker makes it easy to emboss over top of colored images. The flowery vines up the sides is from Simply Divine.



Thanks for looking! I hope you like it, let me know what you think! If you would like any of the supplies used to make this card, contact me or checkout my online store. Have a wonderful day!

The Angel Company Supplies:
Stamp: Fairytale Fun, Simply Divine, Trendy Greetings
Ink: Noir Palette, Purple Hydrangea Versa Magic, Versa Mark
Paper: White CS
Other: sponge, Glitter Pen, Souffle Pen, cloud scissors, Transcendence
Copics: Y08, E51, E53, E55, E57, R30

Pumpkins and Kids, I love it!

I'm playing along with a sketch challenge on Paper Wings, SK 14. This stamp set is called Fall & Winter Whimsy and was part of the TAC October 2009 Vintage set. Super cute, and great for coloring for sure!

Thanks for looking, hope you like it! Have a wonderful day!

The Angel Company Supplies:
Stamp: Fall & Winter Whimsy, Trendy Greetings
Ink: Noir Palette
Paper: DCWV CS
Other: Circle Punch, flower punch, brad, white floss, cloud scissors
Copics: 0, W3, W7, E53, E55, E57, E95, G94, G99, YG63, YR15, YR16, YR18, BV11, BV13, BV17, B93, B95, B97

November Angel Art Blog Hop

It is blog hop time again with some fellow Angels on Paper Wings! Great place to find examples that you can search out by stamp set. This month we are doing Holiday Cards & Tags in 10 minutes or less. Your card must be able to be assembled in 10 minutes or less, start to finish. So be sure to click the links below to see what everyone has made!

This was a challenge for me, I love to color and most of my coloring methods take a long time with all the blending involved. I chose to use my AquaColor crayons for these examples, you can fly right through coloring making it feasible to make alot of them for sending out to friends and family!

This first card uses stamps from Gingerbread Fun and Trendy Greetings. I used a paper piercer and Scor-Bug. I stamped stars on the red with Versa Mark ink.

This card uses the Level C Hostess set Seasonal Snow Globes. Super cute set to use year round. I added a curvy edge with the cloud scissors and again the paper piercer.

This card showcases my new favorite tool, the Scor-Bug... I can't get over the little "extra" something it gives to cards and layouts and it is so easy to use. Stamps are from Flowers and Holly and Vintage Santa.

Check out these great examples in the blog hop!
Laurie W
Jamie
Diane
Jen
Rita
Shirley
Kim
Laurie U
Kay
Melisa
Stacy

Please let me know what you think! Hope that everyone had a great weekend!

Using less paper!

I have been spending soooo much time drooling, yes I said drooling, over Inspiration Avenue and all the new stamp sets that are coming out next week that I have barely done anything! So this morning I went into my craft room and settled in to make some quick cards. I hope you enjoy them!

I decided to show that it is possible to make pretty cards without having layers of patterned paper or cardstock. While I love my paper... if you need to budget out your stock, then here are some ideas to try! I used stamps from Flowers and Holly, Simply Divine, and Trendy Greetings. This first one has a masked border, I stamped with Versa Mark, and embossed with Transcendence then sponge/wiped on Versa Magic with a cosmetic sponge. The image is colored with a water brush picking up Versa Magic ink.

This Card I colored the stamp with Tombow markers and stamped it, even put both stamps on the same block to do it all at once! Then used the Scor Pal to create a border, which for some reason only the top and bottom really show in the photo, but I did the same two lines on both sides as well! This is a very simple card and could be made in bulk quickly!

This flower was colored with prismacolor pencils. I used a paper peircer in the corners and as a circle around the image and then sponged ink around the outside to grunge it up a bit.

I had a great time trying out these techniques and hope you will too! Let me know what you think!