Sheltering Tree in Pink ~ CAS(E)109 & NAC128

I just love this stamp!  It's so beautiful, fun and versatile!  I made this card for CAS(E) this Sketch 109 & Nacho Average Challenge 128.

I've stated before that I'm not a real Clean and Simple kinda gal....and I suppose if you look at this card it's not really that clean and simple with all the extras. :) But, I liked the simplicity of the sketch and the fact that you could do just about anything you want with it.  I had had this tree scene in mind when I first looked at the sketch......and then I saw the color combo at NAC this morning.....I raced down to my craft space and cranked this one out in no time!  I love it when that happens.  It wasn't forced at all!  

I stamped the tree in Smokey Slate, the leaves in Pink Pirouette and added a few little leaves in Blushing Bride.  The little silver butterfly was added to cover up a smudge and that's how the bigger butterflies were added to the sky also!  I love to peruse Pinterest for inspiration and ideas (I mean, who doesn't!) and I came across a drawing of a tree that had sparkles all over in the branches.  I knew I wanted to incorporate that idea with this stamp set.  

For the side panel I used a strip of the new resist DSP from Sale-a-bration.  I sponged Blushing Bride on the bottom and graduated the color into Pink Pirouette.  I love how that turned out....very subtle.  I also added a little strip of brushed silver cardstock and some silver trim that I got at a craft store.

I'm totally in love with this card and how quick it came together!  

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

Stamps: Sheltering Tree

Paper: White, Brushed Silver, Irresistibly Yours DSP

Ink: Smokey Slate, Blushing Bride, Pink Pirouette

Accessories: Silver trim, Beautiful Wings Embosslit, Rhinestones

Thanks for taking a peek!

Jenny

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

Fancy Field Flowers ~ DD45 & SSSC180

 

Good Saturday Morning everyone!  Dynamic Duos has beautiful, monochromatic color combination for us this week.  Pretty in Pink & Regal Rose.

 

 

I used Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge 180 to help me along with my card for this week.

I hadn't used my Field Flowers set in a while and decided to go with it!  I also decided to add in a neutral of Crumb Cake.  I stamped the flower stems on a piece of First Edition DP, stamped the flower heads on vanilla cardstock, cut them out and attatched them to the stems.  I curled up the edges of the flowers a little to give them some dimetion.  I also stamped the flower center on vanilla, cut them out, sprayed them with a little shimmer spray, and popped them up with dimentionals.  I distressed the edges of the designer paper, sponged it, and layered it on some Crumb Cake.  For the background piece, I ran my brayer over my crumb cake ink pad and rolled it right onto the Vintage Wallpaper EF.  I placed a piece of vanilla in and ran it through the my Big Shot.  Voila!  A textured background with a little color.  I love that technique!  A few other accessories in the form of ribbon, buttons and sentiment tickets complete my card.

 

 

Make sure you hop on over and check out all the other amazing designs our team has come up with this week!

Allyson Andersen
Christina Barnes

Vicki Burdick

Karen Day

Deanna Dean

Anne Marie Hile

Erna Logtenberg
Bobbie Trost

Amy White

 Here's a list of my supplies....

Stamps: Field Flowers, Kindness Matters, That's the Ticket, Teeny Tiny Wishes

Paper: Regal Rose, Pretty in Pink, Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, First Edition DP

Ink: Regal Rose, Pretty in Pink, Crumb Cake

Accessories: Twitterpatted button, Vintage Wallpaper EF, Crumb Cake Taffeta Ribbon, Ticket Punch, Scallop Eyelet Border Punch, Shimmer Mist, Linen Thread

 

Thanks for taking a peek!

Jenny



Colorful Sorrow ~ CTD231

Well, this is an unconventional sympathy card, but oh well!  I wanted to play along with Color Throwdown because it's been so long since I participated in a challenge over there.  

I've needed so many lately and this one will go to the family of an older woman who lived a long, happy life, so I think it will be appropriate.  

I used bleach to stamp on the crumb cake background, but it's hard to see in the photo.  As usual it looks much better in real life.  Bleaching on Crumb Cake brings out a So Saffron color, so I thought that would be perfect.  

I've also decided that the shabby chic-ish look is one of my favorites to create.  I love the torn edges, sponging and crumpled paper.  

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

Stamps: Thoughts and Prayers

Paper: Melon Mambo, Crumb Cake, Vanilla, So Saffron, Print Poetry DP

Ink: Pear Pizzaz, Crumb Cake, bleach

Accessories: Designer Frame EF, Oval & Scalloped Oval punches, Floral Fusion die, Designer Builder Brad, So Saffron brad, Natural Trim, Melon Mambo Grosgrain ribbon

Thanks for taking a peek! 

Jenny

Beau Chateau Sympathy

This card takes in three challenges: still addINKtive #3, Fab Friday #11 sketch challenge, and The

Paper Players #131-Sympathy Theme.

I LOVED the color combo at still addINKtive and knew I wanted to play along....and I am making it just under the wire!!!  The Fab Friday sketch this week was, well, fab and I am alway in need of a sympathy card, so that was easy to incorporate, as well!  The swirled pink and suede paper is from the retired Beau Chateau pack and was a no brainer pick for these colors....the rest fell into place from there.

 

Here's a list of my supplies...

Stamps: Card Chatter-Sympathy (CTMH)

Paper: Pink Pirouette, River Rock, Soft Suede, Vanilla, Beau Chateau DP

Ink: River Rock, Soft Suede

Accessories: Honeycomb EF, Bird Builder punch, flower trim, Pink Pirouette gingham ribbon, pearls

 

Thanks for taking a peek!

Jenny

Neutral Thoughts

I needed a quick sympathy card today, and here it is.  I searched around for sketch inspiration and came up with The Paper Players 130.

I started off with scraps that were on my desk....again!  The Crumb Cake background paper was used on my last project, as well as part of the main image.  For the card in my last post, I cut out the center "heartfelt" piece from the Layered Labels set.  For this card I used the outside of the stamped piece, sponged it with some Crumb Cake, and layered it over a vanilla scrap I stamped with the "Your In My Thoughts" sentiment.  I popped it up with dimensionals to give it some extra interest.

I thought there was space that needed to be filled in under the sentiment, so I grabbed the new Designer Builder Brads and some linen thread.  

In my last post, which was for the Dynamic Duos color challenge, I mentioned that I had a hard time putting together a card with the neutral challenge colors.  Today, with basicly the same color scheme, it came together in a snap.  It's funny how some things work out!

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

Stamps: Layered Labels, Word Play

Paper: Early Espresso, Vanilla, Print Poetry DP

Ink: Crumb Cake, Soft Suede, Early Espresso

Accessories: Designer Builder Brad, Linen Tread, Oval Famelits

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

Triple Time Duos - DD26

 

This card is for Dynamic Duos Challenge 26 using So Saffron and More Mustard.   I neglected to write down the colors and had it in my head that it was So Saffron and Summer Starfruit.....Sooooo, that's what my card is.  So Saffron and Summer Starfruit.  I'm gonna go ahead and link it to the challenge anyway, even though the colors aren't quite right, but hey, they're similar!  This card also fits into the Try Stampin' On Tuesday Sketch Challenge 89.  I used the Triple Time Stamping Technique for the sketch part.  There is a great tutorial on Dawn Olchefske's website.

 

When I first started putting this card together, I was only using Vanilla and Starfruit as my layers....I didn't like it.  I added  a very small black layer and added the black sentiment and voila!  The whole thing came alive!  It was pretty dull before.  I hated this card while it was in the making, but it is growing on me!

 

 

Here's a list of supplies....

Stamps: Fabulous Florets, Card Chatter-sympathy (CTMH)

Paper: Summer Starfruit, Black, Vanilla

Ink: Summer Starfruit, So Saffron, Black

Accessories: Vintage Faceted button, Starfruit & Saffron ribbon, Gold thread.

 

 

Thanks for taking a peek and have a wonderful day!

Jenny

Aged Denim Sympathy - RS30 & CR84FN63

 

Today's card is for Retro Sketches 30 and CR84FN63. 

I loved the simple nature of this sketch and was excited to use the color combo with it!  My other inspiration for this card was a backround from a game on my iPad called Glass Tower.  When I saw the brown and tan swirled backround on the game, I knew I wanted to use it sometime on a card.  This sketch and color combo happened to be the perfect match for that!!!

 

 

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

Stamps: Everything Eleanor, Card Chatter-Sympathy (CTMH)

Paper: Marina Mist, Chocolate Chip, Crumb Cake

Ink: Chocolate Chip, Sahara Sand, Early Espresso (sponging)

Accessories: Bird Builder Punch (leaves), Itty Bitty Punch Pack (flower), Scallop Eyelet Border Punch, Pearls

 

Thanks for taking a peek and have a wonderful day!

Jenny



Sympathy for CQC145 & FMS43

Today's card is for Colour Q Challenge 145 and Freshly Made Sketches 43.

 I needed a Sympathy card as my good friends' great granny passed away recently.

This was the first card made with my brand new set Everything Eleanor.  Again, I've used scraps that were laying around my desk.  I started out with the Vanilla peice that was already cut and stamped on with the French Script backround stamp.  I added the flowers and watercolored them with my watercolor pencils and a blender pen.   I thought the sketch was great for this card, but flipped it on it's side to accomodate my flowers.

I added the Daffodil ribbon with an Antique brad to complete the look. 

Here's a list of the supplies.....

Stamps: Everything Eleanor, French Script, TLC (Close To My Heart)

Paper: Chocolate Chip CS & DP, More Mustard, Sunny Days DP, In Color DP, Very Vanilla

Ink: Stazon Black, Chocolate Chip

Accessories: Antique Brad, Daffodil Seam Binding ribbon, Framelits Dies, Watercolor Pencils, Blender pen

Thanks for taking a peek!

Jenny

Thinking of You Bliss

Todays card is for Creating With Connie and Mary's Color Challenge.  Colors are Basic Black, Cherry Cobbler, and More Mustard.  This is really an elegant looking color combo.  Here are the supplies I used.
Stamp: Bliss
Paper: Black, Cherry, Mustard, retired DP
Ink: Cherry Cobbler, Black
Accessories: Vintage Wallpaper EF, Rhinestone stickers, Cherry Seam Binding Ribbon
Thanks for taking a peek!
Jenny