Best Mother Penned and Painted ~ CCMC455, JUGS390

Hey there stampers!  Welcome to my blog featuring this weeks Create with Connie and Mary sketch challenge!  I also used the inspiration photo from Just Us Girls #390.  I was mostly inspired by the colors.  

Mothers Day is quickly approaching and I thought this card was certainly pretty enough to fit into that theme....I mean, what mother doesn't like pretty flowers?  

I lightly stamped the outline flower image vertically down the left side of the card to fit the vertical strip from the sketch.  I also used a piece of the Irresistibly Floral Specialty paper, sponged it with Smokey Slate ink and then layered the flowers, stamped with Melon Mambo ink on top.  I think the diamond pattern on the specialty paper sort of looks like a trellis.    

Lastly, I stamped the "best mother ever" greeting from {And Many More} in Basic Gray ink and then added some white enamel dots. 

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

Stamps: Penned and Painted, And Many More

Ink: Smokey Slate, Basic Gray, Cucumber Crush, Melon Mambo, Daffodil Delight

Paper: White, Daffodil Delight, Melon Mambo, Irresistibly Floral Specialty

Accessories: White perfect accents

Thanks for taking a peek and have a blessed day!

Jenny

Green Penned and Painted ~ CCMC449, PP335

Hello all!  It's time for another Create with Connie and Mary sketch challenge.  I also used a little color inspiration from the Paper Players with green and white.  It seems like when you think of March one always thinks green!  

I wanted to play with watercolor again so I started out with a piece of watercolor paper that I could slice down into three panels.  I stamped the solid flower image from Penned and Painted in versamark ink and embossed it with clear embossing powder.  I then washed some Old Olive and Pear Pizzazz ink over the top with my aquapainter.  After it dried, I stamped the lined flower and leaf images from the same set and then ran over them with my wet brush.  I love the way this turned out!  

For the background, I embossed a piece of Vanilla cardstock with the Brick Wall EF.  I used my aquapainter to "fill in the cracks" with pear pizzazz and crumb cake ink.  After that dried I sponged over each brick with Crumb Cake ink to add a little more dimension.  

My flowered panel ended up a little large, but I loved it so much I didn't want to cut it down.  I really like how the background turned out too and wish more of it would have been visible.  

Lastly I added some lace trim and vanilla satin ribbon and a sympathy banner.  It seems like I've needed a bunch of sympathy cards lately.

Thanks for taking a peek and have a blessed day!

Jenny

Vibrant Remarkable Watercolor ~ CCMC442

Hey stampers!  It's Create with Connie and Mary challenge time again!  Look at the vibrant color trio we have for your challenge enjoyment!  I have to admit that I wasn't that excited about the color combo at first....but, once I started putting the ink to the paper I fell in love!!!!  I'm enamored with the way this came out!  It might be one of my all time faves....

It is so vibrant and fun in real life!  Once I had my flowers and leaves stamped with Stazon ink, I added the color challenge inks with my aqua painter.  I splattered the whole thing with black ink and then a little extra splattering with my gold Wink Of Stella pen.  I also went over some of the flower centers and leaves with my clear Wink of Stella.  

After stamping my sentiment in black, I added a thin Emerald Envy ribbon and a scattering of gold sequins.  

Thanks for taking a peek and have a blessed day!

Jenny

Dainty Embossed Vellum ~ CCMC441

Wow, the weeks seem to be flying by!  Can you believe we are into the third week of January already!  Another Thursday has rolled around so here we are at Create with Connie and Mary again!  We've got a neat sketch challenge for you this time.  

This one was a toughie for me.  I planned and then re-planned my card and supplies and then ended up using nothing of what I planned!!!  LOL!  I started out wanting to use the new Carried Away DSP, which I did (the gray polka-dot).  I planned to use the reverse side of this as well, which is Peek-a-boo Peach, but I felt like the patterns were too busy together.  I settled on stamping some Flirty Flamingo lines on Flirty Flamingo cardstock to accent the gray dsp.  I also had in mind that I was going to make this into a baby card with the gray and pink and use {Foxy Friends}.  Then I spotted a piece of vellum laying on my desk and remembered a technique where you emboss the vellum with a stylus.  Here is a link to a video showing the technique. It's kind of a fun and unique look.  I fussy cut my {Penned and Painted} flower and leaves after I stamped in on vellum in Stazon ink.  I then used my stylus to emboss.  I didn't use a very heavy hand because I wanted a more subtle look.  I layered the flower on a circle of Flirty Flamingo and then then another circle of Silver Glimmer paper.  All of that is perched upon a super sweet lace doily.  I tied the silver together by adding the "hello" diecut and metallic silver ribbon from the Sale-a-bration catalog.  Lastly, I added a three white perfect accents.  I decided against rhinestones because I felt like this card had enough sparkle already.  

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

Stamps: Penned and Painted, Thoughtful Banners

Ink: Flirty Flamingo, Stazon Black

Paper: Up and Away DSP, Flirty Flamingo, Silver glimmer, white

Accessories: Perfect white accents, lace doily, Silver metallic ribbon, greeting thinlit

Thanks for taking a peek and have a blessed day!

Jenny

Painted Posies CAS Birthday ~ HSS255, CTS203

CAS...dare I say I love it???  If you know anything about me and my stamping then you know I've never been a fan of CAS.  I try it but I'm never quite happy with in the end.  But this card!  I think this one has just enough "extras" that I can get behind it!  In fact I really, really like it!

The #1 reason behind this card is our color challenge at Hand Stamped Sentiments.  What a cheerful combo this is!  I searched for a sketch challenge to help my  card come together and I ran across this one from CAS(E) this Sketch #203.  

I hope you'll have a chance to play along with us at Hand Stamped Sentiments.  The challenge lasts for two week! 

Here's a list of my supplies...

Stamps: Penned and Painted, Celebrate today

Ink: Flirty Flamingo, Emerald Envy, Watermelon Wonder, Black

Paper: Flirty Flamingo, Emerald Envy, Black, In Color DSP 

Accessories: Adorning accents edglits, iced rhinestones, rouched ribbon

Cottage Penned and Painted ~ HSS244

Welcome to another Hand Stamped Sentiments Tuesday!  This is our color combo for the next two weeks.

When I first saw this combo I was totally not inspired,  These are not my usual comfort colors, but the more I played around, the more I came around!  I ended up loving my result!  This one was extra special too, because it went to my mother in law who celebrated her 80th birthday today!

We hope you'll join us over at HSS!

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

Stamps: Penned and Painted, Kinda Eclectic, Cottage Greetings

Ink: Blackberry Bliss, Crushed Curry, Old Olive, Versamark

Paper: White, Crushed Curry, Blackberry Bliss

Accessories: Brick wall EF, Elegant Butterfly punch, Gold sequins, Dotted scallop ribbon punch, pearls

Striped Poppy ~ CCMC417

Happy Thursday stampers!  It's Create with Connie and Mary challenge day!  This week is sketch week and look at this dandy!  It was a little perplexing to me at first.  My interpretation is looser this week.  I pretty much just went with the stripe theme.....and my stripes are running the opposite direction too.  I'm happy with my end result though!

I used a new set called {Penned and Painted}.  I think this will be a really cool set to do lots of experimenting with.  I can see all kinds of techniques used with this set.  

For this card I stamped the images twice, fussy cut them all out and layered them together, curling up the edges of the top layer.  I was trying to make the flower resemble a poppy.

The stripes are stamped with the big background stamp called {Brushstrokes}.  Very cool.  I like how both of the stamps look watercolored although I  assure you there was none of that this go around.

I even had to find a way to include the little ladybug from the set...it's simply adorable!!!

I hope you'll find time to join us over at CCMC and participate in this interesting sketch challenge!

Thanks for taking a peek and have a blessed day!

Jenny