Not Quite Breezy Path

When I first saw todays colors not quite navy, baja breeze, and kraft all I could think of was beach! I would love to be at the beach right now! Its a cold and gloomy day here!!

I pulled out A light unto my path since its retiring and inked it up. Ive wanted to try coloring this image so today was the day! I stamped the image onto kraft inked with not quite navy and colored using prismacolor pencils. I used Jens sfytt for my layout and added another row of brads b/c it looked off balance without it! The inside of the card is stamped with the verse and I added a strip of pierced baja breeze to the bottom of the card.

Im still trying to figure out if I like this or not!!LOL!! Have a great day!!

Glitter Surprise Bella

Todays technique challenge is glitter surprise. Instead of a background stamp I used the flip flop wheel and paired it with this Bella image I got from Ashley. Its hard to see the flip flops in the pic but its pretty IRL. I colored the image with SU, copic, and prismacolor markers. I also used some of my stash of east coast prep dp. I love this dp for fun bright cards so I had to stock up when it retired!LOL!

I cleaned my stamping area yesterday and rearranged some things and I found these sparkling brads from MM. Now my table is covered in glitter from this technique!LOL! I used Jens sfytt for my layout. Have a great day!

Kraft Seashore skies

When I saw todays color challenge I wasnt thrilled. I tried to go a different way but the colors just kept coming back to beach. So I looked through my beach images and saw the MFT By the seashore set I had just used...I saw the bird image in it and this card was born.


Since I was using a MFT image I decided to pop over to the MFT forum and see what Cindy cooked up for a sketch challenge yesterday. I used MFTsc35 for my layout. My main image is stamped with the waves and birds from By the Seashore and popped up on dimensionals. The bird was cut out and popped up on the wave layer. I used the shells from the set to make my seashell "dp"and added dimensionals. I also used soft sky prints and soft sky ds ribbon. This card will go to my bestest friend Dusty who lives in FL. I talk to her all the time but its been awhile since she came home to visit and talking is just not the same as a girls night out!LOL! Have a great day!

By the Seashore

I made this card yesterday for the featured stamper. Denidill was the featured stamper. I changed just about everything on her card except the layout. I like her colors so I used similar colors. Im still playing with the few copics I have so I decided to use them. For my card I used prismacolor markers and copic markers.

I really liked the colors of my card. They remind me of bedding and pictures you see in beach hotels!LOL! The idea I had for my card was to use the layers as backgrounds. The top layer is soft sky stamped tone on tone with the waves from the MFT set. After my card was uploaded I realized I goofed and layered it upside down!LOL! Well just think of them as clouds instead of waves! The bottom portion is kraft stamped with itty bitty backgrounds in chocolate chip for sand. I added soft sky ds ribbon and kraft taffeta ribbon using Hollys easy peasy ribbon tutorial.

For my main image I stamped the image using pallette noir ink. I colored her shirt in spring green prismacolor marker and her pants and hat with BG10 Cool Shadow. For the skin tones I used E00 Skin white. I didnt know what to do to color the dog so I used Y17 Golden yellow and the colorless blender. I touched the blender pen to the marker to pull the color so it wasnt as dark. I outlined the image with C1 Cool Gray No.1. I wasnt as pleased with my coloring on this image as my first guess I had beginners luck!LOL!

BTW if you get a chance stop by my friend Denise's blog and congratulate her on getting DIRTY! Yayy Denise! She is an awesome stamper and definetly deserves to get dirty!LOL!

Kickstand Seashore

We are having some very gloomy weather here today. Sorry for the bad pic! Todays sketch challenge was a kickstand card designed by one of my favorite stampers Kirsten (ked). I love doing kickstand cards although sometimes they are hard to get a good pic of (like today!LOL!).

I made this card for my bestest friend Dusty. She lives in P.C. and has about 3 dogs and I think of her everytime I see this stamp set. BTW I won this stamp set off of Ana's blog candy (Thanks Ana!) All images and sentiment are from MFT By the seashore. The card base is kraft paper and I cute 1" from the bottom for my kickstand image. My soft sky layer has the waves embossed with clear ep. Since I still had my ep out from yesterdays card I decided to just go with it!LOL! The bird and post are up on dimensionals. I also used kraft taffeta ribbon. My sentiment layer is kraft( 1 3/8), cameo coral( 1 1/4), and textured soft sky(1) circle punched with the friendship embossed and punched out with the WW punch and popped up on dimensionals. For the main image I used my prismacolor pencils and blended with gamsol. On the inside of the card I stamped the birds at the top and the seashells on the bottom and colored them. You can see a couple of the seashells along the bottom in the pic.

Everyone is back to school and work today and I have a quiet day with the house to myself! AAAHHH!!!!LOL!