Blessings of Spring

My second card for Cupcake Inspirations - - -

I used the Carrot Bouquet stamp set by Catherine Pooler Designs for this card.  I stamped them on watercolor paper and colored them with my Zig watercolor brush pens.  I love how vibrant the colors came out.  I used a piece of the same watercolor background as I did for the previous card as a side border here.  Then I used the Floral & Diamond Tiles cover plate by Pinkfresh Studios for the rest of the background. I embossed my sentiment from Honey Bee Stamps onto black cardstock so it would pop on top of the white background.

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 Thank you for stopping by. I'm sure glad you did!  Come again soon!

Nance

Floral Mom

TGIF!

Happy Weekend!

I have a couple posts to share and just barely squeaking into a challenge before it closes (again)! I took some images to color while on vacation and these posts are a couple of them.  I almost forgot (AGAIN) that I had colored them for a specific challenge, Cupcake Inspirations, which closes tonight.

So this is card one.  The image is a digital stamp that I colored with my Zig watercolor brush pens.  I had a watercolor background with the same colors and so I clipped a bit of it off for the bottom border along with the decorative border.  I kept the sentiment, from Picket Fence Studios, on white and bumped it up.

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Thank you for stopping by. I'm sure glad you did!  Come again soon!

Nance

 

LoveScent

 Good Evening!

Well, it's been longer than I'd planned to have another post here. Luckily I will have a few this week. Here's the first one:

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Freshly Made Sketches #632

Thanks for visiting my blog and I hope you return again soon!

Card Supplies:

Stamps: Heaven Scent Stamp Set (Catherine Pooler Designs).

Paper: Neenah 110# Solar white; Watercolor paper.

Ink: Quartz, Whipped Honey, Rose Gold (Catherine Pooler Inks).

Extras: Feeling Exotic Layered Stencil; Heaven Scent Lable Dies; Perfume Bottle Die; Bucharest sequins (Catherine Pooler Designs).

Mom and Friend

Hi again!  

Another Mother's Day card, this time for my mom.  It's been a year and a half since I saw my mom.  She only lives about three hours from us but with the Pandemic and the fact that she is in her mid 80s, we have only visited via video chat and texts.  Now that we all have our vaccines, hopefully we will see her this summer.

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Thanks for visiting my blog and I hope you return again.

Mother's Day Blessings!

"Hoop"la For Mom

Good Evening!

Sharing some cards I made last week. Here's the first one ---

This one I used the Altenew Embroidery Hoop die with a flower swag stamp by Catherine Pooler colored with Copics. The background is a linen background stamp stamped in white pigment ink. 

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Card Supplies:
Stamps: Sealed With A Kiss (Catherine Pooler); Sentiment (Stash).
Paper: Kraft cardstock (Bazzill). White cardstock (Neenah Solar); Gold foil cardstock (Stash).

Ink: Copics; Midnight, Something Blue (Catherine Pooler); Unicorn White Pigment (Hero Arts).

Extras: Embroidery Hoop Die (Altenew).

 

Krafty Chicks Challenge #508 - CAS (Clean & Simple)

Hello Thursday!

This week has flown by.  It's been a very soggy, cool one here in Cary, North Carolina.  It has mostly rained, I mean poured, for the past 3-4 days.  We have needed rain since we had a very dry, mild winter.  It would just be nice if it was spread out more.  

Since it's Thursday, there's a new challenge beginning at Krafty Chicks Challenge.  Tangii is our hostess and the theme is CAS (Clean and Simple).

Krafty Chicks Challenge #508 CAS (Clean & Simple)

I'm sharing a Mother's Day card I made using a background I created a while back.  I stamped the flowers in Versamark and white embossed them to create a border and then watercolored the background.  The center was perfect for a nice sentiment.  I layered it on a purple cardbase and finished it off with a few clear gems.  


Stop by the Hen House and see the rest of the Team's CAS projects as well as our Guest Designer's, Laurie.  Then come play along with us!

Krafty Chicks Blessings!

More Mom Cards...

Happy Tuesday!  

I'm trying to share more cards I've made lately.  I've been creating more than posting.  These are more Mother's Day cards I made for some of Dave's healthcare coworkers to give their moms.

Motherly Blessings!

Butterfly Moms

Happy Monday!

I believe my mojo is finally back for a while and I've been taking advantage of it.  Woohoo!  I just haven't had time to photograph or post the results much.  So I'm taking a little time now to do that. This trio is Mother's Day cards I made for my mom, Dave's mom and Dave's stepmom.  I almost didn't send them I loved them so much I wanted to hold on to them a while longer.  Do you ever do that?  Just want to hoard your creations? <wink wink>  Anyway, I did not hoard and they all got them before yesterday.  

I used the Happy Butterflies stamp set and Wings of Joy stamp/die set by Catherine Pooler Designs.  They are part of her newest collection, Flutters & Blooms. 

The first one, I used a piece of a watercolored background piece I've had in my stash waiting for the perfect card for it.  It has blues and purples with flecks of gold splattered all over it.  So I stamped and embossed my butterflies with WOW Gold Fine emboss powder and then using Grape Crush, Pixie Dust, and Aquatini with water and a watercolor brush.  I set the background on some gold foil cardstock and a scallop border frame and adhered it all to a light blue cardbase.

Next one I used the same inks and buttefly set.  I also used the Garden's Edge die and the Painted Stripe background stamp stamped in Sweet Sixteen with gold foil cardstock separating the two.  The sentiments are from the Thoughtful Phrases set and they were stamped in Grape Crush on cardstock inked with Sweet Sixteen.  I finished the card off with a strip of gold foil cardstock and aqua enamel dots.

 The last card I used the Wings of Joy die actually to  cut the butterfly from a background I stamped a while back from the Doodle Garden background.  I used letters from      the Funky Alphabet set and stamped them in versamark on top of the butterfly and then embossed in WOW Gold emboss powder.  I stamped the other sentiment in Sweet Sixteen ink at the bottom corner of the panel. Then, I took a piece of the striped background I had stamped before and put it under the white panel at the bottom.  Lastly I added some Paisley Park sequins.

Hope everyone had a lovely Mother's Day. 

Be healthy, safe and sane!  

Mom Blessings!

Krafty Chicks Challenge #452 - Color Palette

Hello Everyone!

It's Thursday so you know that means a new challenge over at 

Krafty Chicks Challenge!

I'm your hostess and I have a color palette for our twist!

Krafty Chicks Challenge #450 Color Palette

My card ---

I've been doing a little more stenciling these days and so I did with my card for today.  I used a stencil by Simon Says with blending brushes and blended CP Inks Coral Cabana and Mint To Be. Then I made some masks for my stenciled images so I could stamp a background around them.  I used the script background stamp by Catherine Pooler in Mint To Be.  I stamped the sentiment by WPlus9 in Mint To Be on a stitched banner to adhere to the middle of the card with foam adhesive.  Finally I die cut the "mom" sentiment from white cardstock, versamarked it and embossed  it with Oyster emboss powder.  I did this three times to get a very creamy metallic look.  Finally added some green sequins.

Please stop by the Hen House and check out the rest of the Design Team's colorful projects, as well as that of our April Guest Designer, Bonnie Klass, and leave them all some blog love.  Then play along with our Color Palette Twist this week.  

Krafty Chick Blessings!

4CC #401 ATG and Celebrate Women Twist

It's Thursday, Y'ALL! 

<insert southern drawl)

WOW, the week went way too darn fast! LOL

It's time for another challenge

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4 Crafty Chicks all ready!

4CC #401 - Anything Goes + Celebrate Women Twist 

Leanne is our hostess and she is requesting

we celebrate women!

 Mothers Day in North America is May 13th, just 10 Days away!  So, I decided to make a Mother's Day card.  Some of the Hubs' colleagues sometimes request Mom cards from me so I made a couple extra.  I made my background using a layered oxide technique shown by Jennifer McGuire on her blog.  She has such amazing talent and has so many great tutorials that she shares.  They are great for a boost of creativity when you're lacking and I have been lacking lately.  First, I inked up an entire piece of Neenah Solar White cardstock with Peacock Feathers Distress Oxide ink.  (Now I need some oxide reinkers because I didn't get them before <sigh>). I gave it a quick dry then stamped the background stamp, Doodle Garden by Catherine Pooler Designs onto it using Abandon Coral Oxide ink.  It's a little more vibrant than it looks in the photo.  I had a time getting a good photo of it, even with my manual settings.  Anyway, when it was dry, I smoothed on some Tim Holtz Distress Glaze which gave it a little glossy feel and a little protection too. The heart was cut from Abandon Coral Oxide inked cardstock and the sentiment is also Abandon Coral.  

So be sure and stop by the Hen House and see the rest of my fellow Chicks' projects, all oh so pretty!  Leave them some blog love cause they love comments too!  Then get inky and play with us, either with ATG or play the twist and Celebrate Women with us!

Stamp Supplies:
STAMPS: Doodle Garden (Catherine Pooler Designs); Sentiment from Strictly Sentiments 4 (WPlus9).
PAPER: Neenah Solar White cardstock 80 and 110 lb(cardbase); Vellum (my stash).
INK: Peacock Feathers and Abandon Coral Distress Oxides (Tim Holtz).
EXTRAS:  Mom word die (Lil' Inkers Designs); Label die (Lil' Inker Designs); Wonky Stitched Rectangle die (Stamplorations). Sequin from stash.

Crafty Chick Blessings!

Vintage Mother

Good Morning!

I feel like I've been away for a long time even though I've had several posts in the last week.  We were in Oklahoma most of last week, flew home on Thursday and haven't stopped since we landed it seems!

With picking up pets, getting groceries, doing errands, having an early Mom's Day with our youngest son and then the insurance guy and roofer here early Saturday morning, I feel like we were home for a week the first two days back!

I'm sharing the card I made my mom for Mother's Day.  I mailed it before I went out of town to make sure she received it in time.

Stamps: Vintage Flowers (Lil' Inker Designs); Sentiment (WPlus9).
Paper: Cream cardstock; DIY Painted cardstock.
Ink: Tiara, Sweet Sixteen and Mint To Be (Catherine Pooler);
Extras: Leaves Cover Panel (Reverse Confetti); white pearl gems.

The panel was cut from background paper I had made using the shaving cream technique.  The pastel ink colors I chose matched perfectly with it.

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Mothers' Blessings!

Incredible ~ Wonderful ~ Mother

May the 4th Be With You Today!

LOL

Just a little punny humor for hump day!

Been working on some cards and realized I needed to post one and now very quickly!  YIKES!

This one is a very CAS card I did using the sketch this week at CAS Colour & Sketch.  I did switch the sketch a bit but hopefully you can tell.  I used die cut words and stamp from Concord & 9th.  I watercolored the background in pink then stamped "mother" in versamark and heat embossed it in gold.  Then just cut the other words in heavy white cardstock once.  Sweet and simple!

I'm still working out my camera and photographing.  My house is just not conducive to nice bright natural light giving all the trees around (got to love NC for all the trees!).  Hopefully I will have my new camera lens in another week or less too, which hopefully will help.

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Pre-Mother's Day Blessings!

Floral Person

One more post tonight and probably the last as it is late!  

With Mother's Day just days away, here is another 'Mom' card.  

Incidentally, speaking of Mother's Day, I got to celebrate today receiving a very nice gift in the mail, a new graphics tablet to finally do some digital painting and drawing that I've been wanting to do for about four years now.  Now I can!  Can't wait to spend a day downloading the software and setting it up and playing around!

But until then, I have many cards to make with plenty of stamps and supplies to do so and a very busy Hubs this week in his job, as he begins learning a new system at work.  So, I'll get a bit more time in my craft room undisturbed!

SPIES:

STAMPS: Flower person digital stamp (Bugaboo Stamps); Label (Paper Sweeties); Sentiment (Raisin Boat).

PAPER: Yellow gold card base; white and pink cardstock.  DP - Vintage Bliss (Simple Stories).

INK: Dark yellow (colorbox); Teal green (Hampton Art); Copics on digital stamp.

EXTRAS: Picket fence die (My Favorite Things); Label die (Paper Sweeties); Ragged rectangle die (Spellbinders); yellow gold ribbon; yellow gold sequins and white sequin.

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Stampin Royalty - # 226 MOM!

Try Stampin' On Tuesday #165 - Bugs and Blooms

Mom Blessings!