Butterfly Inspire ~ RS62 & PDC39

 

Hello fellow stampers!  This card is for Retro Sketches 62 and The Play Date Cafe 39. 

 

The Play Date Cafe's color combo is black and white with a splash of magenta.  I used Raspberry Ripple for the color splash.  I stuck to the sketch pretty closely and kept it simple.  I embossed the background DP with my Vintage Wallpaper EF and then rubbed it with my Illuminate ink pad for some extra shimmer.  I stamped the butterfly, from Best Of Butterflies, in Stazon Ink on watercolor paper and used my marker and blender pen to add the color.  I painted on some Frost White Shimmer paint here and there on the wings for some more shimmer.  Lastly, I added a line of rhinestones to the body of the butterfly. 

 

 

 

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

Stamps: Best of Butterflies, Perfect Words

Paper: Black, White, Night and Day DP, Silver Shimmer

Ink: Stazon Black, Raspberry Ripple, Illuminate

Accessories: Vintage Wallpaper EF, Black Satin Ribbon, Rhinestones, Frost White Shimmer Paint

 

Thanks for taking a peek!

Jenny

 

 

 

 

Mojo 281 For Reilly

Mojo Monday 281 is what inspired this card. 

It will be going to my son's best friend, Reilly, who is at basic training for the guards in South Carolina.  We miss him terribly and he, too, has a small case of home sickness.  I hope this cheers him up a little!  He is part of the "Wolf Pack" (at least that's what his address is) so I thought this stamp was appropriate!

I watercolored the wolf's with my blender pen and watercolor pencils using tans and grays.  I tried to stick with masculine colors and accessories.

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

Stamps: In Wilderness, Perfect Words

Paper: Midnight Muse, Sahara Sand, Basic Black, Very Vanilla, Watercolor, In Color and Houndstooth & Scaringbone DP

Ink: Midnight Muse, Stazon Black

Accessories: Watercolor Pencils, Blender Pen, Neutral button, Natural Trim, Linen Thread, Oval Punches, 1 3/4" Circle punch, Circles #2 die, Chevron EF

Thanks for taking a peek!

Jenny

Poppin' Poppies - FMS54

 

Good Morning everybody!  It's a crisp, sunny, beautiful Monday morning here in eastern Montana.  The colors are turning on the trees and the leaves are crispy under your feet....Fall is amazing!  OK, on to today's card.  I made this for Freshly Made Sketches 54.

 

I also used an older Dynamic Duos color combo of Poppy Parade and Lucky Limeade.  This is the first card I've made with the Pleasant Poppies stamp.  It sure is pretty!  I stamped it on the circle in black Stazon ink, colored the stems, then stamped again on a scatch piece of CS.  I colored the poppy heads with my blender pen and Poppy Parade ink pad, cut each of them out and popped them up on dimentionals.  I love how it turned out! 

 

 

I added in Black as my neutral.  All these colors are so striking together.  When SU first introduced Poppy Parade as an in-color, I was hesitant.  I usually gravitate towards the blue-toned reds, but I have fallen in love with this color.  Plus, it couldn't be more perfect with this stamp!  I know it's retired now, but I'll just keep using it until all my supplies are gone!

For the button detail, I removed the "legs" off the brad and added a glue dot to adhear it to the black button.

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

Stamps: Pleasant Poppies, Perfect Words

Paper: Black, Very Vanilla, In-color Lucky Limeade & Sunny Day DP

Accessories: Circle cutting system from Creating Memories, Black striped grosgrain ribbon, Black button, In-color brad

 

Thanks for taking a peek and have a super day!

Jenny

 

16th Birthday Mojo

I made this card for my son who just turned 16.  It also happens to fit into the Mojo Monday Sketch 249.  :) 

Masculine cards are hard for me, but a masculine teen card......whoa, that's a challenge.  I think he appreciated the fact that I put the time into making him a special card and it fits him because he like to play guitar.  He's a big fan of the color red, so I looked for patterned paper that was on the boyish side.  I came up with the Poppy DP from Sunny Days collection and the Torquoise is from Patterned Paws collection. 

Here's a list of other supplies I used.....

Stamps: You Rock (Close To My Heart), Perfect Words

Paper: Black, Tempting Torquoise & Poppy Parade DP, First Edition DP

Ink: Tempting Torqoise, Cool Carribean, Poppy Parade, Black

Accessories: Poppy ribbon, Paper Piercing Pack Essentials, Black Mini Gems, Notebook Tab punch

Thanks for taking a peek!

Jenny

Triple Threat Circus Train!

Multitasking is the word for today!

This card is for The Paper Players #91 (CAS watercoloring), The Friday Mashup #54 (Muppet colors + a kids card), and Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge 237. 

For the Friday Mashup part, I chose to use the colors of the muppet Gonzo and then chose this fun, old Circus Train stamp set to go with it.  I watercolored the train cars (which incorporates The Paper Players challenge) after I used my Stamp-a-ma-jig to position them.  I embossed the train using black EP.
 I used the Mojo Monday sketch and interpreted it a little "loosely".  I didn't use four seperate circles, but I did use four separate images. :)
I kept it fairly simple (again for The Paper Players), just adding a couple borders to the main image and enhancing the sentiment a bit by popping up the word BEST with a pop-dot.

Stamps: Circus Train, Perfect Words

Paper: Island Indigo, Real Red, Crushed Curry, White

Ink: VersaMark

Accessories: watercolor pencils, Blender Pen, Scallop Border punch, Dotted Scallop Border punch

Thanks for taking a peek!

Jenny 

Inspiring *CCMC 182*

The inspiration for this card comes from this weeks challenge over at Create with Connie and Mary.  Here's the sketch......

I had seen some cards over on Splitcoaststampers a few weeks ago using a similar color combo to this one and just loved them all.  I love the softness of the colors together and feel like they lend themselves to a vintage sort of theme.  I added some of the "coffee splatters" from the French Foliage set and sponging to the main panel to make it feel older.  I also crumpled up the flowers and sponged those for the same effect.

 

Here's the list of supplies I used with this card.....

Stamps: Perfect Words, French Foliage

Paper: Pear Pizzaz, Crumb Cake, Soft Suede, Vanilla and Newsprint DP

Ink: Soft Suede, Pear Pizzaz, Sahara Sand

Accessories: Blossom Party die, Antique Brad, Lace Ribbon Border punch

CCMC177 & PPC74 Rock My World

I love the colors from the Create with Connie and Mary this week, although I do have to confess that River Rock has never been one of my favorite colors.  In fact, I don't even own any cardstock in that color.  I found a some designer paper that was part of a chistmas pack from a couple of years ago that had River Rock as one of the colors.  I decided to combine the color challenge with the sketch challenge from The Paper Players.  To make the U pop, I inked it up with River Rock and then used the kissing technique by touching a stamp inked with Night of Navy directly onto the inked up U, then stamped the whole thing onto white cardstock.  This is a fun technique that I need to try a little more.  Here are the supplies I used....
Stamps: All About U, Perfect Words
Ink: Night of Navy, Lucky Limeade, River Rock
Paper: Same as above plus Navy DP, River Rock DP
Accessories: Lots of Tags die, chistmas ribbon pack, half pearls
Thanks for taking a peek!
Jenny