Happy Wednesday and thank you for stopping by. It is All About Occasions on the Watercooler Website and Kath is our hostess this week.This is the Mother\'s Day card I made for my mother-in-law. I embossed the blooms and leaves from Create a Smile\'s In Bloom. I love these large bold flowers! Then I used distress… Continue reading WWC220 – Kath\’s "All About Occasions" Challenge
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Create A Smile Guest Designer – Spring Citrus
It\'s citrus season here in Texas and that inspired me to make a bright cheery citrus themed card. I was invited to be a Guest Designer for Create-A-Smile stamps and I used one of my favorite stamp sets, Fruit Salad. For this card, I chose to use only the citrus stamps. The theme for their… Continue reading Create A Smile Guest Designer – Spring Citrus
WWC208 – Charlotte\’s "All About Occasions" Challenge
Here at Watercooler Wednesday, we are hosting our All About Occasions Challenge.. Birthday, Anniversary, Graduation, there are so many themes you can use to enter.I purchased Gina K\'s Wreath Builder Stencil a while back and thought it would make a pretty background behind some large blooms from the Create a Smile Botanical Love and In Bloom… Continue reading WWC208 – Charlotte\’s "All About Occasions" Challenge
WWC206 – Anything Goes Challenge
Its time for another Watercooler Wednesday Challenge and this week is the bonus 5th week of the month so we have our broad \"Anything Goes\" prompt. To find out more, please pop on over to the Watercooler Wednesday website.A while back I watched a Jennifer McGuire video about one layer \"Framed Stamping\" and thought I would… Continue reading WWC206 – Anything Goes Challenge
Bright Summery Card for a Girlfriend
I have been mentally designing a card with linear pattern stamping using citrus fruits. I tried a couple different patterns and selected this one. I usually use my misti, but I stamped this card freehand using an acrylic block. To save time, I put all three stamps on the block and stamped across the card.Create… Continue reading Bright Summery Card for a Girlfriend
Ink Blending for Summertime
I was in the mood to do some ink blending and this fruit collection (Create a Smile Fruit Salad) was calling to me. This is such a fun summery stamp set and I wanted bright bold colors. I started by embossing 5 fruit images and then used distress inks to blend from pink (watermelon) to… Continue reading Ink Blending for Summertime
Create a Smile Fruit Salad Card
I was invited to be a guest designer for the next Create a Smile Challenge so I\'ve been busy playing with their fun summery stamp set, Fruit Salad. Summer is my favorite season and I love bright bold colors which work perfectly with this stamp set.I started by embossing 5 of the fruit stamps plus the… Continue reading Create a Smile Fruit Salad Card
Experimenting with New Techniques
Lots of experimentation on this card. I was interested in entering the Muse Challenge #268 so I spent a day thinking about what direction my card should take. I knew I would use the floral theme, but the rest came to me in bits and pieces.Ultimately, I chose to focus on the following:Pink and Green Color SchemeEmbossingBlack… Continue reading Experimenting with New Techniques
Analogous Botanical Love Card
I\'ve been wanting to create a card using analogous coloring, so I sat down today and came up with this design. I am entering it in the Just Add Ink Inspiration Challenge. I selected Create a Smile\'s Botanical Love because of the dot accents on each of the floral images which paired nicely with the circles… Continue reading Analogous Botanical Love Card
Fruit Salad Birthday Card
I just received this new stamp set (Fruit Salad by Create A Smile) and wanted to play a bit. I saw that The Paper Players Blog was having a color challenge so I selected those four colors as my inspiration. Paper Players Card Challenge I embossed 5 of the fruit images and then watercolored them with Tombow… Continue reading Fruit Salad Birthday Card
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