Flowers for You

Welcome to the weekend!  Today, it is time for the Inspiration Challenge at Splitcoast and I chose a beautiful print (below) as my inspiration for this card.  

I coloured my stamp from Rubbernecker using Memento markers, then sprayed with water before stamping to blend the colours.  This stamp set comes with an outline image that I stamped in black.  When it was dry, I added the hand drawn border and the sentiment from Printworks.

Thanks for coming by and taking a look.  Hope you have a great weekend and find a few 'snippets' of spare time to do something you love.

Supplies:  stamps; Rubbernecker, Printworks/ Memento markers and ink/ spray bottle

You can find the OLW159 HERE.

Fall, Thanksgiving

Getting started on a few Thanksgiving cards since our Canadian Thanksgiving will be in just a couple weeks from now.  The weather is turning cooler and the leaves on the trees look fantastic.

I am playing along with the challenge at Splitcoast today- to use squares, the CASology challenge- Autumn and the CAS-ual Fridays challenge- to use fall colours and a leaf.

I pulled out my leaf stamp from Penny Black and coloured it using Distress ink and Memento markers.  I added some splatters around the sentiment for interest.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a peek.  

Supplies:  stamps; Penny Black, Stampabilities/ Memento markers/ Distress inks/ waterpen

You can find the OLW159 HERE.

OLW159- Free for All

Welcome to another OLW challenge (One Layer Wednesdays).  

This week the challenge is an easy one:

Free for All- you choose any theme for your one layer card

I chose to create a sympathy card using stamp floral stamps from Rubbernecker.  I love the watercolour look of these stamps and the great layered effects you can get with them.  This stamp set is a 4 part set so you are able to add different colours each time you stamp.  I use a combination of Distress inks and Memento markers to colour my flowers then added scoring lines at the top and the twine to finish off my card.   

Sorry for the dull, grainy photo....having issues with my camera.

OLW159 Rules

l.  Create a one layer card.  This is defined as a single layer of cardstock folded in half.  No other         

     layers allowed.

2.  Create a card of your choice.  Add a link to your card.  Remember to keep embellishment to a 

      minimum and NO ADDITIONAL layers of cardstock.

3.  Post your card online and link it to the InLinkz button below.  If you link to your blog, please link 

     to the specific post and not your blogs main page.

4.  HAVE FUN!!  Looking forward to seeing what you create.

Surprise

Today, I am playing along with the Featured Stamper challenge at Splitcoast and here is what I came up with.  Playing with my Penny Black stamps and this cute little owl image called At Mimi's Party.  I began by stamping him onto white card stock, coloured with Copics and cut him out.  I added glossy accents to the balloon for shine and google eyes for fun.  I pop dotted him onto my hand drawn bkg. that was sponged with Distress inks.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Supplies:  stamps; Penny Black / Copic markers/ pop dots/ google eyes/ Glossy Accents

Garden Ferns

Ferns are one of my favourite plants in the garden and I find they translate onto my cards very easily.  That's what happened with this one as I am playing along with the Inspiration Challenge at Splitcoast.  Loved the pillow pictured below.

I was cleaning up in my garden and brought some fronds inside with me.  I laid one on my paper and sprayed with Mr. Huey's mist in brown (can you believe I didn't use blue!!).  When dry, I stamped over the ghost with a Hero Arts fern stamp and added the sentiment.

Always good to have some sympathy cards on hand.  Thanks for popping by.

Supplies:  stamps;  Hero Arts, Avery Elle/ Mr. Huey's mist/ pop dots/ fern

Celebration

Phew....made it to Friday and luckily, had time to play along with the F4A challenge at Splitcoast this am.  The challenge was to create a card on a card base other then white or ivory.  I grabbed a piece of blue cs then stamped the flourish from Technique Tuesday, first in a darker blue then I white embossed the main image flourish and the sentiment.  

Thanks for stopping in today.

Supplies:  stamps; Technique Tuesday, Papertrey Ink/ wh eb powder/ twine

Over the Edge

It's Sunday.....sure hope you are having a restful weekend.  Today, I am playing along with the Featured Stamper Challenge at Splitcoast.  I need to make a few thank-you cards to have on hand so this is what I came up with. 

I stamped the flowers from a set by Avery Elle off the edge of my paper keeping it all very clean and simple.  I attached the small panel to my card front before stamping with repositionable glue so I could remove it, mount it on the blue cs when I finished stamping.  By mounting it onto the blue piece, you eliminate the gap created when you stamp an uneven surface.

Thanks again for the all the emails and comments.  It really means so much to me!

Supplies:  stamps; Avery Elle, Wordsworth/ Memento bl/ twine