Coral Symapathy ~ CQC183

 

I made this card for ColourQ Challenge 183.  It's a sympathy card for a friend of mine who lost her mother.  I've had to make so many Sympathy card for myself and others lately.  I hate to think about it, but I know people appreciate the thought and a handmade card.  I still have a few more to make and I want to make sure each one is special. 

I loved the color combo over at CQC this week.  I simply adore Calypso Coral and Blushing Bride together....it's a match made in heaven.  When I first started stamping, SU had a color called Cameo Coral and I didn't care for it.  Now my style and tastes have changed and I love it and the newer Calypso. 

 

 

 

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

Stamps: Apothecary Art, Elements of Style

Paper: Soft Suede, Calypso Coral, Very Vanilla Everyday Enchantment DP, Watercolor

Ink: Blushing Bride, Calypso Coral, Soft Suede, Daffodil Delight, Stazon Black

Accessories: Labels framelits die, Antique brad, Vintage faceted button, Flower trim, Paper doily, pearls

 

Thanks for taking a peek!

Jenny

Shiny Butterflies ~ SSSC179

I made this card for Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge 179.  It also fits into Create with Connie and Mary 242 using Raspberry Ripple, Primrose Petals, and Summer Starfruit.

I loved this sketch the moment I laid eyes on it.  I've been on a layered flag kick lately and this was just up my alley.  You could do so many cool things with this sketch and I'm sure everyone will!  I can't wait to see what turns up in the gallery link!

I started with the butterflies from the Kindness Matters set.  These were actually made to go on another card, but they weren't working for that, so I set them aside for another time.  I stamped them in Stazon Black ink, colored them with markers, cut them out and then oozed Crystal Effects on each one.  I like the 3-D effect it gives.  The Primrose Petals circle was another scrap I had laying on my desk.  I added a vanilla scalloped circle that I ran through the Big Shot with my Square Lattice EF and secured the butterflies on it with mini glue dots.  I stamped one of the Elements of Style images on the Raspberry Ripple card base in Primrose ink, then layered on a Primrose piece that I had embossed with my Chevron EF, added the fun banners made for the Print Poetry DP, and put on the little strip of Summer Starfruit cardstock tied up with vanilla string.  The last thing was to add the Thinking Of You banner.  This card came together very easily, and I love it when that happens!  You will definitely be seeing this sketch again from me!

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

Stamps: Curly Cute, Kindness Matters, Elements of Style

Paper: Raspberry Ripple, Primrose Petals, Summer Starfruit, Very Vanilla, Print Poetry DP

Ink: Stazon Black, Summer Starfruit, Primrose Petals

Accessories: Crystal Effects, Square Lattice & Chevron EF, Vanilla String, Scallop Circle die

Thanks for taking a peek!

Jenny

Stylish Sympathy

Boy, oh boy....I have had a time with this post!  Something inexplicably happened to my browse button when trying to upload photos to my blog post.  After much searching for answers and solutions, it was suggested to try posting using Google Chrome. I found that I actually had Google Chrome on my computer which worked.  I usually posted in regular old Google...apparently.  Now, I am not the most computer savvy person on the planet, in fact, I don't know much about them at all.  Most of my learning has come by trial and error.  I was totally panicking when I couldn't post a photo!  Thank goodness I was finally able to figure it out....I think!

Anyway, back to this card.  This one is for a brand new challenge site called Still addINKtive.  The very first challenge combines a color combo and a sketch.

I used my Elements of Style set and played with the spotlight technique.  I neglected to write down the color combo and used Old Olive instead of Wild Wasabi and Pool Party in the place of Baja Breeze.  I knew it was a green and a blue....

I used the little square die from the Apothecary Accents framelits and turned it on it's side to make a diagonal.  I watercolored the images and added pearls to the flowers. The background was embossed with my Lacy Brocade EF and sponged with some Crumb Cake ink.  I added some Vanilla Seam Binding ribbon and a little tag with the sentiment on it.  

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

Stamps: Elements of Style, Teeny Tiny Wishes

Paper: Pool Party, Sahara Sand, Perfect Plum, White

Ink: Pool Party, Old Olive, Perfect Plum, Crumb Cake

Accessories: Vanilla Seam Binding ribbon, Pearls, Apothecary Accent die, Tiny Tag punch, Lacy Brocade EF, Linen thread

Thanks for taking a peek!

Jenny

Elements of Style Framed ~ PP118

 

Here's a card for The Paper Players #118.  The challege is to use a frame. 

 

 

I was loving the "coloring on the back of vellum" technique (I'm sure there is a technical name for the it, but I'm not sure and I don't have time to look it up!) that I used in my last post with the poppies, and decided to try it again with Elements of Style.  This is such an EASY way to get color onto these images and it looks so nice!  I stamped a larger vanilla labels framelit with the Frech Script backround stamp in Sahara Sand ink and layered it behind my framed vellum.  It's hard to see in the photo, but you can see the French Script peeking out from behind the flowers and it looks so elegant!  I topped everything off with a crumpled seam binding bow, along with a ruffled strip.  There are some great tutorials out there on YouTube on how to crumple seam binding, but the easiest I found was to spray it with water, crumple it up in your hand and dry it out in the microwave for about a minute.  What a cinch!

 

 

The Vintage Faceted button adds the perfect touch to this antique-elegant card. 

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

Stamps: Elements of Style, French Script backround

Paper: Rose Red, Very Vanilla, Always Artichoke, Vellum

Ink: Versamark, Rose Red, Regal Rose, Old Olive, So Saffron, Sahara Sand

Accessories: Black EP, Framelits labels die, Tulip Border EF, Artichoke seam binding ribbon, Vintage Faceted button

 

Thanks for taking a peek and have an excellent day!

Jenny



Dazzling Sweet Style - DD11, SSSC163, & HSS127

This card combines THREE challenges....I love it!  Dynamic Duos 11, Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge 163, and Hand Stamped Sentiments 127.

 

I absolutely love the color combo from DD this week...so soft and pretty.  And the Technique Challenge from HHS was all about glitter and boy do I love glitter, so that was right up my alley.  Thow in the sketch from SSSC and poof, this pretty little number is born!  I am so pleased with the way this turned out.  I actually don't own any Pink Pirouette CS, but I do have some ribbon, so that's what I used for my pink element, as well as some ink for watercoloring.  I found this old piece of DP in my scrap pile and thought it blended nicely with this project.  It's from Le Jardin. 

Oh, the glitter put this card over the edge for me.  It'd be pretty without it, but, boy does it elevate it to another level!  Here's a closer pic of the glitter panel.

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

Stamps: Elements of Style, Fench Foliage, Tiny Tags

Paper: Baja Breeze, Crumb Cake, Vanilla, Le Jardin DP (retired)

Ink: Stazon Black, Pink Pirouette, Baja Breeze, Crumb Cake

Accessories: Tag punch, Modern Label punch, Baja Breeze seam binding ribbon, Pink Pirouette 1 1/4" grosgrain ribbon, Antique brad, Irridescent Ice EP

Thanks for taking a peek!

Jenny