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

 

 

 

 

Happy Orange Flower ~ PDCC171 & FMS75

I thought the color combo over at Play Date Cafe was interesting this week and was determined to play along.  I used the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches too.

I had this awesome polka dotted Tangerine Tango designer paper from Scaringbone & Howlingstooth paper pack and wanted to use it for a fun project....this fit the bill.  Stampin' Up doesn't have a mint color in their line-up anymore, so I used the closest thing I had, which was some retired Sage Shadow designer paper.  I think it works though!  For the light peach I used Peach Parfait.   

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

Stamps: Curly Cute

Paper: Peach Parfait, Scaringbone & Howlingstooth and Sage Shadow DP

Ink: Sage Shadow, Tangerine Tango

Accessories: Blossom Party die, Build a  Brad, Blossom builder punch, Martha Stewart border punch

Thanks for taking a peek! 

Jenny

Our Creative Corner Guest Designer!

 

Good morning everyone!  Today I'm excited to share the card that I made for a guest designer spot on Our Creative Corner.  The Challenge was to use the "kissing techinique" with a twist.  The twist is to use an X & O somewhere on your project.  I know and love the kissing technique and have used it a few times before. (If you've never tried this technique before, there is a link to a great tutorial on the OCC blog).  I did find it very challenging to incorporate an X & O.  I sort of did it on the Midnight Muse backround where I used my score tool to make the diamond or "X" patteren.  I added the white gel pen dots, which could be the "O".  Am I stretching it?  Maybe so, but I am pleased with the way the whole card came out! 

 I also used the sketch from Create with Connie and Mary 217 and the color combo from The Play Date Cafe 148.  PDCC148 asked us to combine Navy, Peach and Stone.  I love Navy color combos...they are always so striking to me. By the way, isn't the stormy beach picture on the PDCC inspiration collage just gorgeous!?!?

 

Ok...back to the card.  There are just a few details I'd like to share with you.  Number one is my love/hate relationship with the gel pen.  I love the results that it gives, but I ALWAYS have trouble with the tip gooping up.  And then there are the times when the ink doesn't want to come out of the pen at all!  Ugh!  The little sentiment flag was added to cover up a big goopy mistake of white gel pen.....ugh again!  I was almost done putting all the white dots on when my pen started to give me trouble and got all gloppy.  Darn it!  I did not want to start all over and use another piece of Midnight Muse.  The solution?  Cover it up!  It turned out to be a happy mistake, because I love that little tag, but now you know why I love/hate my gel pen.  Also, I wanted to add more peach color into the card, so I used my Peach Parfait marker and colored some basic pearls.  It was so easy and the end result is lovely!  And, the last detail I want to share is the shimmer on the butterfly.  What card doesn't look better with a little sparkle?  The shimmer sprayed butterfly gives just a hint of it, but it's a detail that I didn't want to go unnoticed and sometimes it's hard to photograph.

 

 

Here's a list of all the supplies I used.....

Stamps: Bliss, Everything Eleanor, Sihlouette Sentiments

Paper: Crumb Cake, Vanilla, Midnight Muse, Peach Parfait

Ink: Sahara Sand, Midnight Muse, Peach Parfait

Accessories: Pearls, Vanilla hodgepodge hardware, shimmer mist, scallop ribbon punch, white gel pen, crumbcake taffeta ribbon, score tool

 

Thanks for taking a peek and have a great day!

Jenny

 

Glittery Brilliance - PDCC137

Today's card is for The Play Date Cafe Challenge 137.  The colors are black & white with a splash of  blue.

 

 Here's what I came up with....I was totally inspired by the silver flower in the inspiration photo.  I started out by cutting three flowers (two big and one small) out of my Blossom Party die in Brilliant Blue cardstock.  I sponged black ink on the edges of all three flowers.  Next I added a touch of glue on the tips of the flowers and sprinkled them with silver glitter.  I finished the flower off with an antique silver glitter brad from Making Memories. 

I used Black Satin ribbon with a layer of braided silver cord to offset the pretty brocade looking patterened paper. 

Here's a complete list of all the supplies.....

Stamps: none

Paper: Black, White, Brilliant Blue, Recolections patterened paper

Ink: Black

Accessories: Blossom Party die, Antiqued Silver Glitter brad, Black Satin ribbon, Silver braided cord, Silver glitter

Thanks for taking a peek!

Jenny

Retro Playdate - PDCC125 & RS5

Today's card is for two challenges again.  The Play Date Cafe Challenge 125 using black, white, and brown.  Black and brown really do go together!!  I actually really like it and may even have to try it with my wardrobe.  I will definately be using this color combo again in the future.  It gives such a vintage feel.  The other challenge I used for this card is Retro Sketches 5.

This sentiment I used is from a set called Card Chatter-Birthday, made by Close To My Heart.  I love how the font matches the vintage style of the card. This is actually the first time that stamp has seen any ink!

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

Stamps: Daring Adventure, Card Chatter-Birthday (CTMH)

Paper: Black, Vanilla, Chocolate Chip, Newsprint DP

Ink: Early Esspresso, Black

Accessories: Buttons, Bakers Twine Black, Square Lattice EF, Brown 1/2 pearls

Thanks for taking a peek!

Jenny