Rustic Spring Floral ~ HSS260

Hi stampers!  Today's card is for Hand Stamped Sentiments photo inspiration challenge #260.  I just love the floral images along with the wood.  It's rustic and springy all at the same time!  

I drew inspiration from the shape and color of the flowers in the upper right hand photo, as well as the wood.  I'm very pleased with the way my card turned out!  I added some metallic gold in there to jazz things up a bit, too!

I actually combined three different stamp sets to make this card.  First is obvious...Swirly Bird for the flowers and small leaves.  Second I used the long leaf from Botanical Blooms, and lastly I used the sprig image from Foxy Friends.  Also used is Hardwood, of course!  I stamped the large flower in Calypso Coral and Watermelon Wonder, the medium one in Pool Party and Bermuda Bay, and the small one in So Saffron and Crushed Curry.  The leaves were cut our of Dapper Denim paper and stamped with Night of Navy.  The card base is Tip Top Taupe.

I hope you'll be able to join us for this fun challenge!

Thanks for taking a peek and have a blessed day!

Jenny

Pretty Little Beach ~ CCMC428, NAC182

Hey stampers!  Look at this gorgeous color combination we've go for you at Create with Connie and Mary Thursday Challenge this week!  So fun!  I also used the sketch from Nacho Average Challenge 182 to help me along with my design.

I SOOOO wanted to go Christmas with these colors like a few of my fellow designers did (and all their cards are gorgeous, BTW!) but I was itching to use the palm tree out of the new {Totally Trees} set.  I must confess that this tree is the one and only reason I wanted this set.  The other images are fantastic, but the palm tree stood out to me right away.  I don't believe I have any other sets in my possession that include a palm tree.  

I figured these colors would lend themselves nicely to a beach scene.  Who doesn't love a pink sunset, right?  Gorgeous!  Someday I'm actually going to see a beach sunset in person.  For now, I'll settle for looking at them in pictures and keep dreaming!

I sponged the colors on for the sky and water, using a circle mask to make the setting sun.  I also used the long "ground" image from the tree set to add waves into the water.  I really love the way it looks, too!  For the sand, I punched an oval out of Crumb Cake cardstock, crumpled it up and distressed it until the layers of cardstock started to come apart.  I carefully peeled them apart and what was left was a smoother side and a textured side that looks a little like suede.  I sponged some Crumb Cake ink onto the suede side, which I thought nicely reassembled sand.

I stamped the tree in Chocolate Chip ink and the leaves in Pear Pizzazz.  I fussy cut it out and gently bent the trunk of the tree as the image is pretty straight up and down.  I like the slightly bent look.  

I layered on some Botanical Builder framelits flowers in the coordinating colors to add to the tropical feel.  

for the vertical panel I finally got a chance to use my Irresistibly Floral Specialty DSP!  I sponged some pool party onto the paper and magically watched the flowers appear!  How fun is that?!?!!

Lastly, I layered the whole thing on a base of white cardstock that I embossed with my Petal Burst EF.  The petals kind of mimic the leaves of the palm tree.  

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

Stamps: Totally Trees

Ink: Pool Party, Pear Pizzazz, Sweet Sugarplum, Chocolate Chip, and Crumb Cake

Paper: Irresistibly Floral DSP, Pear Pizzazz, Sweet Sugarplum, Crumb Cake, Pool Party

Accessories: Botanical Builder Framelits, Petal Burst EF, Rhinestones, Oval punch

Thanks for taking a peek and have a blessed day!

Jenny

Lovely Blossoms ~ HSS240

It's time again for another Hand Stamped Sentiments Challenge!  This time we've got a beautiful color trio chosen by yours truly!

Wedding season is upon us and I love these colors together for a wedding card.  I was married in the winter (February) and chose darker, richer colors for my wedding, but had we been married in the summertime these would have been my colors. 

I really love the texture, shimmer and shine this card has going on.  The combination of all those things makes me giddy!

I hope you'll stop over to the HSS blog and check out the other designers' work.....they are all wonderful!  We look forward to seeing cards in the gallery should you choose to play along!

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

Stamps: Botanical Blossoms

Paper: Pink Pirouette, Night of Navy, White, Gold Glimmer, Gold Foil Vellum, Gold Foil

Ink: Pink Pirouette

Accessories: Botanical Builder framilits, Elegant Dots EF, gold thread, Hello You Thinlits, Rhinestones

Thanks for taking a peek and have a blessed day!

Jenny 

Father's Day Mallard ~ CCMC410 & PP298

Hello everyone and welcome to another Create with Connie and Mary color challenge!  

I chose to go masculine with our colors this week so I've also joined up with the Paper Players 298, which is a Father's Day challenge.  

I water-colored practically everything on this card, except the embossed background!  

I inked the bird in black Stazon on watercolor paper and used my aquapainter to apply the color.  I used Crumb Cake on the body and darkened it a bit with some Soft Suede.  

I also sponged some Soft Suede ink over the Crumb Cake Boho Chic embossed layer.  I love the dimension this gives.  

For the Bermuda Bay panel, I stamped the leaf image onto watercolor cardstock with the archival black ink.  I thought this image looked kinda like a feather.  Then I spritzed it down and ran my brayer loaded with Bermuda ink over it.  I then took my aquapainter and dropped little drops of water all over the whole panel.  I let it dry and like the effect it gave.  I sponged the edges with Soft Suede ink as well.  I used the same process to make the little yellow strip of paper.  

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

Stamps: The Wilderness Awaits, Thoughtful Banners, Botanical Blooms

Ink: Bermuda Bay, Daffodil Delight, Crumb Cake, Soft Suede, Stazon and Archival black

paper: Watercolor, Crumb Cake

Accessories: Linen Thread, Dimensionals, Boho Chic EF

I hope you find time to play along with us for this week's color challenge at Create with Connie and Mary!  

Thanks for taking a peek and have a blessed day!

Jenny

Spring Botanical Blossoms ~ HSS233

Hello stampers!  Today it's time for another Hand Stamped Sentiments challenge!  We've got a fresh, springy combo of Calypso Coral, Pear Pizzaz, and So Saffron.  

I started off by inking my brick wall embossing folder with Tip Top Taupe ink and ran it through the Big Shot.  I love how it looks like grout in between the bricks.  I added lots and lots of flowers in leaves in our challenge colors cut from the Botanical Builder Framelits dies and stamped them with accents from the {Botanical Blooms} stamp set.  After I finished placing them on the brick wall, I decided it was still to plain for me so I added black sequin centers to each of the flowers.  I like the end result.  

A piece of coral bakers twine, a Calypso Coral mat and Black card base complete my card!

I hope you'll be able to play along with us over at HSS and remember, this is a two week challenge!

Hardwood Botanical Blooms ~HSS229

Happy Tuesday everybody!  Today marks another Hand Stamped Sentiment Challenge.  This time's two week challenge is a color one.  The color are Elegant Eggplant, Always Artichoke and Sahara Sand.

Some of you know that purple has never been my go to color and is probably the one I use the least, but I love the way this card turned out!  I can see it done in many different colors as well!  It was super fun to make.

Here's a link to a tutorial on circle masking, which is what I did on this card.

I used new stamps from the 2016 Occasions Catalog called {Botanical Blooms}.  This is a great set of floral images with really cool leaves to go along.  It also has a coordinating die set to go along with it!  I stamped off the flowers and leaves once before stamping onto my cardstock and then stamped the regular strength ink for the centers of the flowers and veins in the leaves.  

After everything was stamped I added a Sahara Sand oval from.  

For a finishing touch, I added some cool shimmer with my new Wink Of Stella pen. It's kinda hard to see in the photograph, but trust me, it adds so much shimmer!  It's so pretty!!!

Lastly, I added pearls to the flower centers.

I hope you'll find time to play along with our elegant color challenge at Hand Stamped Sentiments.  Remember, this is a two week challenge and you can enter as many times as you'd like!  Come on, play along!!!!

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

Stamps: Hardwood, Botanical Blooms, Happy Home

Ink: Elegant Eggplant, Always Artichoke, Sahara Sand, Tip Top Taupe

Paper: White, Sahara Sand, Copy paper for masking

Accessories: Wink of Stella clear pen, Oval Framelits, basic pearls