LSC123 Catty Case

I loved today Limited supply challenge because its something I've wanted to do since seeing the new catty. Todays challenge was to case a card in the catty. This year the cards, scrapbook pages, everything is so good. I like all the cards in the catty much better this year! I chose to case the card on page 103 for the new set Ginormous flowers and since I dont have this set yet I improvised. I used the flower from On board Accents and colored it with my Versamagic Pixie dust. I punched a 1" circle out of taken with teal and my little pieces flower was punched with a 1/2" circle. I used my bling from Eclectic Paperie for the center of the little pieces flower. I went around my little pieces image with my white gel pen. My circle cut in the middle of my card was done with my Fiskars. Now my circle was supposed to be 3 1/2" but my flower didnt fit and it messed up while I was cutting it so I had to go to 4". The textured cs is some I got from Walmart. I pierced around the inside of my circle and went over it with the white gel pen. The paper knot on the side of the circle is to cover up an uh-oh and as Kelly always says there are no mistakes just embelishment opportunities! The strips of paper at the top are polka dots and paisley dp and tempting turquiose with turquiose staples. The tab is a 1" circle with grateful from cute converse stamped in regal rose. Sorry the pic isnt that good again today. Im out of batteries here and I think its time to change them again! So off to Walmart we go today! Hope you have a great day! happy stampin

Last one I promise

This is the last card I made using the Summertime stamps. This card is a little on the bright side! The card base is yoyo yellow stamped with canvas in basic black. The green galore layer is stamped with the fruit slices from Citrus and Such. I embossed the image with black ep and colored w/SU markers. Embossing is a great way to get your color to "fall" into place. I love images embossed and watercolored but I wanted a more vivid color with this image so I used markers instead. I used colors from bold brights to color the image. FYI you cant use gamsol on embossed images it takes the ep off ask me how I know!

I sponged the main image w/real red and layered it on real red then basic black. The blue ric rac I got from Hobby Lobby and matches brilliant blue perfectly!

I used basically the same things on each card. 1 strip of paper the main image and mats and one embelishment or accent to show the different looks you can get w/a few supplies. Hope you enjoy it!

Quick Summertime card

This is another card I made for my Mom using the Summertime stamp. When I want a quick card I love using cardstock quality DP for my card base. I used American Craft DP here. The strip is chocolate chip and is pierced at the bottom but you can see it in the pic. I stamped the image in cameo coral and matted it on cameo coral and summer sun. I went over the heart, van, and mountains in the stamp w/stickles. The card is a 4x4 square. I love square cards! Now my Mom will have two cards to give to her friends and wish them a happy and safe vacation!

Summertime Mystery Watercolor

Hello everyone! Today Im sharing with you some cards I made for my Mom. Yesterday while we were playing I went through some of her Close to my heart stamps. This was the stamp of the month last month that she received. She loved the stamp set but after looking at it had a hard time trying to find ways to use it. So...darling daughter that I am I brought it home to help inspire her.

I used a technique called Watercolor Mystery I found it on Ericka Martins awesome blog. Its a simple techinque to use and you get different results everytime. My Moms favorite technique is embossing so I thought this would be right up her alley. You stamp your image w/versamark on white paper and use clear embossing powder. Color your image w/watercolor crayons and blender w/aquapainter. Let your image dry and iron your image in between two sheets of computer paper to take off the embossing. If you want to see the tutorial visit Ericka's blog. www.stampinmama.typepad.com

The summertime image is layered on close to cocoa and regal rose (it looks bright pink in the pic though!) The strip is green galore and the ribbon is American Crafts. I used Basic Grey Phoebe paper and sanded it over my white card base. Remeber you can always click on the pic if you would like to see it larger.

Sc131 Christmas in July

Hey everyone! I hope you a fabulous day today! We had a classic 4th of July here. Grilling, swimming, watching fireworks/firecrackers, and (tryin) to catch fireflies. It was a day filled with my favorite things family, fun, stampin, and good food. The kids have sacked out from complete exhaustion from the day!

While at my Moms today we decided to do some playin and do the sketch challenge for today. I decided to pull out this fluffles image since I dont have it and play with it and it was the perfect size for the image in todays sketch. He is so cute! I watercolored the fluffles image using pencils and blender pen. I went over the christams spirit w/the pencils and then w/the blender pen to make it stand out. I used the blue to make a shadow around fluffles which actually didnt turn out the way I wanted but I did it last and didnt want to redo the image so I just went with it! The fluffles image is matted on glorious green,brilliant blue, and real red. I stamped crosshatch on the second layer w/glorious green and used the gel pen to put some dots(that I should have left out) on the crosshatch. The brilliant blue layer has the lights stamped in black stazon then I stamped the lights again in white and colored them to pop them up on the blue layer. The lights are from Michaels $1 bin from this past Christmas. The ribbon is from Walmart. The card base is real red.

Check out my Moms card in the SCS gallery under n5stamper.

CC121 Baroque Motifs

I love this new stamp set! When I first saw it I was like "uck so not my style" but after seeing some great cards on SCS I had to have it! Go check out the gallery at SCS for some gorgeous cards using this set. I decided to case a card by stamper addict for this card. I loved her layout and how she stamped the the main panel. I changed it up a little so it was not exactly like hers but its still pretty close.

Todays color challenge was inspired by the new Basic Grey paper called Infuse. Check out Eclectic Paperie to see the new line. The color in todays challenge are pretty in pink, old olive, and chocolate chip. I also used sahara sand as a neutral color in my card.

Hope you all have a safe and happy 4th of July! Hopefully the weather will permit for the classis 4th of July celebrations here. We plan to swim, grill, watch fireworks, and catch some fireflies.

Happy Stampin!

River Rock Zoofari

Have I said yet how much I love the new Incolors!! They are so awesome! I finally got a chance to play with some of my goodies. I find it hard to sit down and come up with my own card at looking at so many on SCS. I waited a little bit to place my preview order and Im glad I did but after seeing everyone else's cards it's hard to sit down and come up with a card that yours! I kept everything on this card pretty simple The card base is basic black. The second layer is river rock stamped with on the spot background with my personal fave tone on tone. I know you see on here I use alot of tone on tone stamping but its my fave for a subtle look. I got some cute ribbon for a dog scrapbook I made for MIL and I used some I had leftover on this card. It feels like suede. I also pierced both corners of the river rock layer and stamped the sentiment from Wild about you in basic black. The cheetah is colored with the blender pen and pad. It is layered on river rock and basic black on then popped up.

I will be posting later at night from now on it's just easier for me to post after kiddies have gone to bed so I can think! Im so not a morning person so you dont wont me babbling incoherently(sp) in the morning! Have a great night!

Happy Stampin!