Lovely Trees Sympathy ~ RS35

 

This card is for Retro Sketches #35. 

I pretty much took the sketch literally and used trees.  I just bought this Lovely as a Tree set not too long ago and thought it was fitting.  I've also been on a bit of a vellum kick lately.  I really havn't used it in years, so it's fun to pick it back up again and play around.  I stamped the tree image in Black Stazon ink, then added the sky and grass colors with chalk and a dauber.  I've been in need of so many sympathy cards lately (unfortunately), so I've been trying to make a variety of masculine and faminine ones.  This one would be for a man because of the blue tones.  I used the new in-color Midnight Muse (which I love!) and Baja Breeze, plus a splash of Crumb Cake.

 

 

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

Stamps: Lovely As A Tree, Card Chatter Sympathy (CTMH)

Paper: Midnight Muse, Baja Breeze, Crumb Cake, White, Vellum

Ink: Black Stazon

Accessories: chalks, Provo Craft EF, Adorning Accents Edgelits, Paper Piercing Essentials pack, Silver brads

 

Thanks for taking a peek and have a super-duper day!!!

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

Distressed Foliage ~ FMS58

 

I made this card for Freshly Made Sketches #58.  I loved the look of this sketch and you could go in so many different directions with it.  I'm trying for a distressed fall look.

 

 

The first element I started with was the paper.  Then I decided what stamps and accessories I wanted to add.  The colors were fallish, so I pulled out my French Foliage set.  With the sanded backround piece of Early Espresso Core'dination and the vintage feel of the set, there was no other choice than to distress everything.  I added a copper button, which doesn't really fit with the sketch, but I felt it needed that something extra. 

 

 

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

Stamps: French Foliage

Paper: More Mustard, Early Espresso Core'dinations, Tangerine Tango DP (retired), Scaringbone and Howlstooth DP, Very Vanilla

Ink: Early Espresso, More Mustard, Tangerine Tango

Accessories: Circles #2 die, Stripe EF, Copper button, Linen thread, Corner rounder punch

 

Thanks for peeking and have a fabulous day!

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



Poppies in Orange ~ DD25

 

This card was totally inspired by Dynamic Duos #25 with the color combo of Pumpkin Pie and Black.  The desert option is die cuts, but I opted out of that one. 

 I was trying to go in a less Halloween-ish direction with these colors.  I chose to use the Pleasant Poppies stamp for the main image.  I absolutely love these poppies!  They are actually (and unexpectedly) really versitile.  I think you could color them any color and they would look fantastic!  I stamped them on vellum paper with versamark ink, embossed with black EP, and colored the images with marker on the back.  This is such an easy technique.  I layered the vellum on a peice of First Edition DP.  The tricky thing with vellum is attatching it without the glue/tape showing.  I used two little glue dots in each upper corner and then covered them with a pearl.

 

 

Here's a list of the supplies.....

Stamps: Pleasant Poppies

Paper: Black, Vellum, Howlstooth & Scaringbone DP, Polka Dot Parade DP, First Edition DP

Ink: Versamark, Pumpkin Pie, Black, Pear Pizzaz (flower stems)

Accessories: Brights button, Scallop dotted ribbon, Pearls, Vanilla string, Black EP.

 

Thanks for taking a peek and have a stupendous day!

Jenny

 

 

    



Halloween-ish Birds ~ SSSC169

 

This card is for the Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge 169.  I made the focal image of the birds on the branch first and then browsed around to find a sketch for it to fit into.  SSSC169 worked perfectly. 

 

 Believe it or not, this is my first brayered image.  I had a brayer a long, long time ago, back in the prehistoric stamping days, but it had long since disappeared.  I just recently purchased a new one and finally put it to work.  I just love the results of the smooth, graduated ink.  I thought with the night sky and the bird image, plus the texture from the Lacy Brocade EF, this card conjurs up a Halloween-ish feel.  I left the sentiment off on purpose because I'm just not sure exactly who I'm sending this card to yet. 

 

 

 I rubbed the embossed cardstock with some Blue Bayou ink to make it stand out a little more. My other embellishment is two pearls colored with a black sharpie.

 

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

Stamps: birds from Inkadinkadoo, Weathered Backround

Cardstock: Black, Blue Bayou, Island Indigo

Ink: Soft Sky, Cool Carribean, Blue Bayou, Black

Accessories: pearls colored with black sharpie, Lacy Brocade EF, Baja Breeze wide ribbon, scallop lattice punch from EK Success, brayer, circle punch

 

Thanks for taking a peek and have a wonderful day!

Jenny

 

Peek-a-boo Baby - NAC15 & JAI139

 

 

Todays card is for Nacho Average Challege 15, a sketch challenge.  It also encompasses Just Add Ink #139 which says to use something new.  My something new is my Peekaboo Frames die!

 

  When the Peekaboo Frames die first came out last year and they were showing it used in making advent calendars and such, I just couldn't see where that would fit in with my stamping.  Then, recently while flipping through the Catalog and Idea Book, I saw a card made with the Peekaboo frames and another stamp set that contained little images.  The idea of making a baby card with this same concept, only using my Baby Bundle set came to mind.  I basicly bought that stamp set for the cute little stroller image and didn't think I'd really ever use any of the other stamps.  Once I had the idea, I had to purchase the Peekaboo Die right away.  AND THEN, along comes NAC sketch challenge.  It was a match made in heaven! 

 I tried to use neutral colors that could go either boy or girl, since I don't have anyone in particular to give this card to.  I was just so excited about this idea and getting to use those stamp images that I thought I'd probably never use otherwise!

 

 

Here are some pictures inside the peekaboo frames.

 

 

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

Stamps: Baby Bundle, Sweetness Unlimited

Paper: Real Red, Chocolate Chip, So Saffron, Crumb Cake, Polkadot Parade DP

Ink: Same as above

Accessories: Peekaboo Frames die, Crumb Cake Taffeta ribbon, Argyle EF, 1 1/4" Square punch, Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border punch, Three Heart punch, Modern Label punch

 

Thanks for taking a peek!

Jenny