Clean and Simple Smiling Heart

I haven't made anything for a few days, and I was missing it so I wanted to at least make a really quick card before bed!  I love black and white, and I really love all the gold that is popular right now.  I think it looks beautiful in decor and in card making!

Stamps: Timeless Love
Ink: Basic Black
Paper: Whisper White, Everyday Chic Designer Series Paper
Accessories: Gold Glitter Tape, Banner Framelits, Metallic Sequins, Decorative Label Punch

The card base is Whisper White Thick Cardstock (I love it, it's so nice to have a solid card stock in white now!  Maybe next we get Vanilla??).  I apologize for the lighting making my card look less than white, I promise it's very white indeed.

Anyways, took a few pieces of glitter tape (I love how easily it just tears off) and layered it onto the card base.  Put a cut banner over top and adhered the stamped sentiment which was punched out.  Glued a couple sequins, and ta-da!  A fast and fabulous card!  This set has a gorgeous font.  Love!  Goodnight all!

Mint Curry Cake Party

A fun and masculine birthday card using this great set!

Stamps: Party With Cake
Ink: Basic Black, Crushed Curry, Mint Macaron
Paper: It's My Party DSP, Whisper White, Basic Black, Mint Macaron
Accessories: Deco Label Framelits, Circle Framelits, Metallic Sequins, Dimensionals.

Background is a piece of Whisper White cardstock stamped in black with the various images.  The Layering behind the top label is a circle cut from Basic Black.  Just used some paper snips to trim around the small Mint Macaron sentiment banners.

World's Greatest Bear

First of all, this bear is from Christy who created the design.  I changed some minor details as this card is going to be for a father's day class.  Here is her blog post: Just Hanging Around

TOO cute!  There are some super creative people out there!

Here is my version:

Stamps; Guy Greetings
Ink: Hello Honey, Soft Suede
Paper: Hello Honey, Whisper White, Basic Black, Soft Suede
Accessories: Bow Paper Clips, Sponges, Dimensionals, Woodgrain Embossing Folder, Punches: 2" Circle, 1 1/4" Circle, 1" Circle, 3/4" Circle, 1/2" Circle, Owl Builder Punch, Cupcake Builder Punch, Itty Bitty Accents Punches

Here are some further details on creating the bear:

-Head: 2" circle for base, the ears are the 3/4" and 1/2" Circle Punches.  The Nose is the 1" Circle punch with the heart from Itty Bitty Accents.  The eyes are the two largest circles from the Owl Builder Punch.
-Front Paws: 1" Circle Punch
-"Foot" Paws: 1 1/4" Circle Punch, Heart from Itty Bitty Accents, the small circles from the Cupcake Builders punch.

The Bowtie paper clip added an adorable little accent!

Thanks again Christy for your inspiration!

Fab Friday 84 Challenge

This is for the Fab Friday 84 challenge:

You can find the link to the challenge here: Fab Friday 84

Here is my project, which incidentally is going to be the first project for my upcoming card class event this month!

Stamps: Helping Me Grow, Watercolor Wash
Ink: Pool Party, Calypso Coral
Paper: Pool Party, Whisper White, So Saffron, Calypso Coral
Accessories: Watercolor Wishes Kit (sequins), Rose Garden Thinlits, Brayer, MISTI, Fine-Tip Glue Pen, Big Shot Die Cutting Machine

Started by stamping the Watercolor Wash image onto Whisper White in Pool Party ink.  I struggle using this image because the foam ink pads don't ink well without leaving ghost images.  So for the first time I used advice I have been given, which is to use the brayer tool to evenly ink your background stamps.  I inked up the image directly, and then I got some ink on the brayer and ran it all over the stamp image before stamping onto the paper.  WOW what a difference this made!

Cut out the smaller rose in the die set twice, one in So Saffron, the other in Calypso Coral.  Save the inside pieces to fill in after.  Adhere the image that will go behind first, making sure to fill in the spaced with your die cut pieces.  Don't do what I did, which is adhere the roses first then try to go back and fill it in.  After you finish the behind image, adhere the second and fill in the pieces again.  The Fine-Tip Glue Pen is such a Godsend!  it makes adhering these tiny pieces so much easier and less messy!

Stamped the sentiment in Calypso Coral first, then the frame before cutting out with the frame die.  Adhered with dimensionals.  I added a couple sequins to the background, the pieces from the Watercolor Wishes kit are a perfect match for this card!

Happy News Flower Patch

This is a card made for a gal who is retiring, my office will all be signing this.

I had an idea for the Flower Patch set, which honestly I have barely used.  And I'm so glad I did.  Fabulous!

Stamps: Flower Patch, Gorgeous Grunge, Happy Happenings
Paper: Whisper White, Gold Glimmer
Ink: 2014-2016 In Colors: Blackberry Bliss, Hello Honey, Mossy Meadow, Lost Lagoon, Tangelo Twist
Accessories: Lots of Labels Framelits, Flower Fair Framelits, 1/8" and 1/4" Handheld Circle Punches, Dimensionals

The card base size is 5.5 x 8.5" to start.  Stamped the flower images in all the in colors, using the framelits to cut them out.  The largest flowers are adhered with dimensionals, the smallest flowers and leaves adhered flat for added dimension.  Flower centers punched out of Gold Glimmer paper with the handheld punches.  Stamped the grunge splatter in Blackberry Bliss.  I adhered strips of gold glimmer paper around the white middle layer edges for added "layering".  Used thick white for the base since this is a substantial weight card!  Thanks for visiting today!

Tempting Bohemian Ikat Whisper of Tangelo

This card was created for another color challenge, and somehow the Bohemian suite seemed to be perfect with these colors.

Stamps; Bohemian Borders, Crazy about You
Ink: Tempting Turquoise, Tangelo Twist
Paper: Tangelo Twist, Tempting Turquoise(regular Cardstock and Coredinations CS), Whisper White
Accessories: Metallic (Gold) Washi Tape, Washi Label Punch, Boho Chic Embossing Folder, Gold Wink of Stella

The challenge was to use: Whisper White, Tempting Turquoise, and Tangelo Twist.  As an added bonus, use Metallic.

Well, the ikat stamp in the Bohemian Borders makes really fun patterns, so I alternated with the Turquoise and Tangelo, coloring the center of each ikat diamond with gold Wink of Stella.  Cut around the stamped piece, raised with dimensionals over top layered gold washi tape. The base turquoise layer is embossed onto the Core'dinations paper, sanded to let the middle layer show through the design.  Love all the bright colors together!  I tried to keep my sentiment simple and understated to let the pattern shine through!

Water Lily Bamboo

This card used a beautiful technique created by Lyssa Zwolanek that you can find here on her blog: Lyssa's Bamboo Background Technique

It took a few practice rounds, but wow what a technique this Bamboo Background is!

I created a water lily to go with it, which turned out pretty well, if I do say so myself. ;-)

Stamps: Remarkable You, Everything Eleanor
Ink: Early Espresso, Crushed Curry, Pear Pizzazz, Calypso Coral, Watermelon Wonder, Mossy Meadow
Paper: Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla
Accessories: Brick Wall Embossing Folder, Aqua Brush, Metallic Sequins, Gold Thread, Dimensionals, Sponges

I will let you follow the above link for the instructions from Lyssa on how to create the awesome Bamboo Background.

For the flower, I stamped the blossom in Calypso Coral onto Very Vanilla.  Using the aquabrush, I colored in the petals using Crushed Curry, then highlighted the petals most of the way with Calypso Coral, then highlighted the edges with Watermelon Wonder.  It's actually much darker IRL.  I used an Early Espresso Color to color the flower stamen.  Then I cut it out to adhere with dimensionals to the card front.

Stamped the swirl onto the background with Mossy Meadow.  I used a Mossy Meadow marker to fill in the gaps from the areas where the cardstock was impressed so to have a solid swirl image.

Looped a few loops of gold thread and adhered to the back of the flower before adhering to card.  Added a few gold sequins for extra bling.

I was going to add a sentiment, but I decided to leave it just as it is.