Berry Bright Butterfly ~ CCMC563, GDP191, SIP200, TSOT410

Hello stampers!  Today's card is my design team card for Create with Connie and Mary using the bright combo of Berry Burst, Pumpkin Pie and Bermuda Bay.  I also used the butterfly inspiration from Global Design Project, the sketch from Try Stampin' on Tuesday, and I'm also entering Stamp Ink Papers designer's choice challenge.  I love this big, bold butterfly and have so much fun coloring it in each time!  

I embossed the butter fly in white on watercolor paper, watercolored with my ink pads and aqua painter, and fussy cut it out.  I layered it on a circle of Berry Burst, and then on a pearlized doily....I actually used the the opposite side, the plain white side.  

I love the polka dot DSP from the color family packs and used the Bermuda Bay here.  The Berry Burst card base seemed a little too much, so I toned it down with a piece of vellum.  Vellum can be tricky to work with since you can see adhesive through it.  I added a little bit of white thread to help keep the top and bottom tacked down, since I couldn't use adhesive on those parts!  Lastly, I added in some iridescent sequins to tie in the Pumpkin Pie accents on the butterfly.

Here's a list of my supplies......

Stamps: Beautiful Day, Needle and Thread

Ink: Berry Burst, Pumpkin Pie, Bermuda Bay, Craft White

Paper: Brights DSP, Berry Burst, Bermuda Bay, Vellum, Watercolor

Accessories: Perlized Doilies, iridescent sequins, white thread

Thanks for taking a peek and have a blessed day!

Jenny

Birthday Card for Mom ~ CCMC551, CTC218, PP431

Hello stampers!  Today's card shows off a lovely color palette brought to you by the latest color challenge from Create with Connie and Mary.  For my card layout, I played along with Caseing The Catty Challenge #218.  I cased a card from the center section of the newest Sale-a-bration flyer.  I'm also playing along with the Paper Players spring fever challenge #431.

It was my mom's birthday recently so this card went to her.  She loves flowers, so this was perfect for her!  

If you look closely, the Fresh Fig panel has a fun technique applied to it.  I inked up the flat side of the Country Floral TIEF with Fresh Fig ink and laid my card stock on it.  When I ran it through the big shot, the ink transfered to the depressed areas, making the background a little darker than the raised portions of the paper.  It really is a lovely look and gives such dimension!

Here's a picture of the card I cased.

Here's a list of my supplies....

Stamps: Needle and Thread, Beautiful Day

Ink: Fresh Fig, Mossy Meadow, Petal Pink

Paper: Very Vanilla, Fresh Fig, Mossy Meadow

Accessories: Needlepoint elements framelits, Gold faceted gems, Country Floral TIEF

Thanks for taking a peek and have a blessed day!

Jenny

Big Grape Bloom ~ CCMC533

Good Morning stampers!  Today's card comes by way of Create with Connie and Mary's new color challenge.  The obvious choice is to go the Halloween route, but I'm not a fan of Halloween cards and don't really have any Halloween themed stamps, so I went floral.  I watercolored my flower from Beautiful Day with Gorgeous Grape ink.  The leaf was colored with Granny Apple Green.  After coloring, I fussy cut it out.

I did a color wash of Pumpkin Pie on my background piece of watercolor paper, layered on some banners, (one embossed with my Subtle TIEF, the other stamped with Handwritten background stamp), and a sprig punched from Granny Apple Green CS. 

Lastly, I colored an retired neutral button with my dark Pumpkin Pie Blends marker and tied it up with black bakers twine.

I scattered a few sequins from the Metallic assortment and gave the whole a little spritz of Frost White shimmer paint mist.

I hope you'll join us at CCMC533!

Thanks for taking a peek and have a blessed day!

Jenny

Beautiful Day Thinking of You ~ CCMC523, JUGS453, TGIFC172

Hello Stampers!  Today's card comes by way of the newest Create with Connie and Mary Color Challenge #523.  It's a nice mix of three new colors: Mango Melody, Pineapple Punch, and Shaded Spruce.  Last time I used Mango Melody I stated that I was not that excited about the color and then surprised myself how much I like it after the card was made.  I think I've found that this color has really grown on me.  It's not that attractive on it's own, but when combined with other colors it becomes so rich and vibrant!  I was kinda excited to use this color mix!

I decided to go with the Just Us Girls trend week challenge #453 and use the fast watercolor technique.  First you embossed your image, in my case the big flower from Beautiful Day, then you lay the color on the image straight from the pad, and then you spritz the whole thing with water and let the colors do their thing.  Really fairly easy.  I used Pineapple Punch and Mango Melody on my embossed image and then after the whole thing dried I added some Soft Suede to the middle of the flower.  I cut the leaf off the flower before laying the inks on and then replaced it after all the inks had dried.  I wanted to keep the green separate from the orange and yellow.

I also used the sketch from TGIF Challenges #172.  I followed the sketch pretty strictly.  If you look closely at the sketch you'll see a little flourish on the top panel.  I added a bit of embossing with my Lovely Floral TIEF to mimic that element.  

All in all I'm happy with the way this turned out!

Here's a list of my supplies.....

Stamps: Beautiful Day, Accented Blooms (sentiment)

Ink: Mango Melody, Pineapple Punch, Shaded Spruce, Versamark, Basic Black, Soft Suede

Paper: Shaded Spruce, Wood Textures DSP, Basic Black, Watercolor, Mango Melody, Pineapple Punch

Accessories: Black embossing powder, metallic sequins, Lovely Floral TIEF, Linen Thread, Tailored Tag punch (for cuts on the banner), decorative ribbon border punch

Thanks for taking a peek and have a blessed day!

Jenny