Archive | August, 2014
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Flowers Everywhere

If you asked me a favorite place to be in all the places you could ever be….I would say in a field of flowers. I feel so peaceful with flowers all around. In fact, a favorite place to visit is the Flower Fields in California (in April or May). It it just amazing!! (Read my post about it here).

So it seemed perfectly natural to build a card around that idea. Have you ever thought of throwing flowers as a sort of celebration? Well, it sounds like fun, and that’s just what these little cuties are doing:

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See all the flowers in the background? The sky is just filled with flowers! I was going for an Ombre look with my watercolored sky, but it didn’t turn out exactly as I imagined. That’s the beauty of watercoloring….it’s completely unpredictable!

I white embossed those flowers first onto watercolor paper, then applied the color. I also watercolored those gals (from Mama Elephant “In My Heart”) and I think they turned out so cute!

For the “happy,” I first watercolored some paper with greens, yellow and blues, then cut out the word. As you can see, I didn’t get much of the blues in there, but I like the variation of greens and yellows here…it kinda goes with the grassy hill. 🙂

I think this little scene would also go well with the sentiment from “Up and Away” that says: Spread Happiness Wherever you go. I just might add that to the inside of the card.

Joining in the fun at the Mama Elephant and Me Challenge!

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Supplies Used:
Stamps: Mama Elephant In My Heart, Up and Away; Avery Elle Red & Goldie (basket);
Dies: Mama Elephant Landscape Trio; Avery Elle Red & Goldie; Simon Says Stamp Happy;
Watercolor: Distress inks
Other: Wink of Stella Clear glitter brush pen; Glossy Accents; white embossing powder; stickles

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Hey, Sexy Lady

Ok, so who wouldn’t love to get this as a birthday card? This Mama Elephant sentiment just cracks me up and I KNEW I had to use it along with one of their adorable panda bears.

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That is one cute dancing panda! I just can’t even stop grinning.

I’m just loving their products right now…I put together this little card using their die cut Femme Frames. A little watercolored background (I love how those splotches form!) and watercolored umbrella make it look so soft and sweet.

Wouldn’t you get a giant smile on your face if you got this card in the mail? 😉

Joining up with the Mama Elephant Challenge

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Supplies Used:
Stamps: Mama Elephant Up and Away, Pandamonium, Say What
Dies: Mama Elephant Pandamonium, Femme Frames
Watercolor: Distress Inks
Sequins: Pretty Pink Posh Lemon Drop
Other: Stickles, Glossy Accents
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Happy Little Spot on Cloud 9

Today is my Dad’s birthday. He likes bears…so this card was made just for him.

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I love that little panda! The cloud he’s sitting on is embossed in silver embossing powder, and the stars and banner were cut with silver glitter paper. Those clouds with all different designs are so awesome (Neat and Tangled) and when I saw them, I just knew I had to have them!

By the way, I gave this card to my Dad at his birthday lunch today and he LOVED it. I just knew the panda bear would be a hit! 😉

Linking up with the Pretty Pink Posh Cutting Edge challenge.

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Supplies Used:
Stamps: Neat and Tangled Clouds; Mama Elephant Pandamonium; American Crafts Cloud 9;
Dies: Mama Elephant Pandamonium; Lawn Fawn Stitched Journaling card;
Embossing Powders: Silver
Inks: Stampin Up! Pool Party; Distress Ink Salty Ocean;
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Hi Pretty Pink Posh

Today I thought I’d enter the Pretty Pink Posh Cutting Edge Challenge. I’ve had these dies from Pretty Pink Posh: Stitched Duo dies 1 and Stitched Borders 1 and I wanted to make a pretty shoppe scene.

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It took me a while to make this look like I envisioned. I just LOVE this new gold polka dot vellum! And these dies from Pretty Pink Posh make it so easy to create a sweet window scene.

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You may not be able to tell in the picture, but the background is embossed with stripes to look like the siding of a building. I just used my Martha Stewart scoring board to add the “lines.”

That gold “hi” is a die from My Favorite Things (Happy Hellos) and it was so difficult to get a great picture with the gold foil paper! But I love all the gold with the black & white. I’ve always wanted a pink cruiser bicycle (funny, huh?) so I had to add that to the scene.

Can you just imagine shopping at such a chic store?!

Supplies Used:
Dies: Pretty Pink Posh Stitched Duo 1 dies, Stitched Borders 1; My Favorite Things Happy Hellos, Silhouette cut file bicycle
Sequins: Pretty Pink Posh 4 mm Pink Peonies;
Ink: Distress Markers Black Soot; Sakura Metallic gold pen
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Have a Monster of a Birthday

I’ve been working on some masculine cards lately. This is a simple card, but a favorite! That little monster from Paper Smooches is so funny…and he can cheer me up like no other.

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This time, I painted him with green liquid pearls. It gives him a pearlescent glow and adds a little texture! Then I used some new dies (index card die by Mama Elephant) and drew some silver pinstripes in the background with a Sakura silver glitter pen (loving these pens)! A few stars with glossy accents added a bit of dimension and shine.

This was a fun card to make…had me smiling the whole time. 🙂

Linking up to the Paper Smooches anything goes challenge.

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