Pickin' Punkins

Continuing on with my Anni-Verve-sary cards, here is number 11. Imagine that, you might get to see number 12 before another month passes by!

For this card, I used Bazzill Brown cs for the base card and the itty bitty layers around the print cs. The print cs are from My Mind's Eye. I stamped the Pumpkin Wagon image (Lockhart Stamp Company) in Ginger Adirondack ink on Shimmer White cardstock and colored it in with my Prismacolor markers. The ribbon is brown twill from PTI and the card was finished off with three brown Dew Drops. I really like how the pencils colored on the shimmer cardstock. It is as though the shimmer just comes right through the color.

Have a great day,

This Day

Here is sketch and card #5 for the Anni-Verve-sary. I know I said I liked the way #4 turned out but this one really is my favorite of all of them. The base card is brown Bazzill and then a layer of aqua cardstock and then green Madeira cardstock. I used my Textile CB folder for the top brown panel with a smidge of the aqua behind the brown panel. The scallop edging was created using my Wrought Iron punch. You need to remove the guard from the punch to get the continuous edge. The phrase image is from Penny Black and the ribbon is aqua grosgrain from PTI. I used 3 aqua Dew Drops to finish off the phrase panel. If you have any questions about any of the card, leave me a comment and I will do my best to answer right away.

Have a nice evening,

Pastel Inchie Cards

Here is my set of inchie notecards that I made last week. This set came about because I wanted to make a card for the Stamp Simply challenge last week. I have had these wonderful watercolor notecards for quite some time and have been wanting to use them. I started by embossing one of the Formal Squares Cuttlebug folders on each of the notecards. I knew I wanted a watercolor look for the inchies and because the Inchie Squares are made of a very high quality artboard, I knew I wouldn't have a problem if my image was a tad wet when I stamped it. I rummaged through my flower stamps and finally picked two from Hero Arts and two from Penny Black (links on the left) and colored them in with Tombow markers and lightly spritzed with water before I stamped them on the inchie squares. Once they were dry, I added some little words from Papertrey (also linked on the left) and Stickles glitter glue. You can learn more about the inchies and ways to store them by going to the Inchie Arts website.

I need to take pics of the cards from the first swap at the store and I hope to upload them some time this weekend.

Hugs,

Stamp Simply #44

Over at No Time To Stamp, Sharon has her "Stamp Simply" challenge and this is the first time that I am joining in. Her challenge was to create a card using purple and flowers. The flowers did not have to be purple, you just needed to have purple somewhere on your card.

For this card I inked part of the Penny Black Lace Flower Trio stamp with blue and purple Tombow markers. I spritzed the stamp with water and stamped it onto an inchie square. I embellished with a little bit of Diamond Stickles and then I stamped the itty bitty word "thanks" from the PTI Mixed Messages set. The inchie was layered to a scrap of cs out of my stash. Hooray for using scraps! The notecard is a lavender Fabriano Medioevalis stock. I don't remember where I got them from as they have been stashed away for some time. If you know where I can get more, please leave me a comment cause I would sure like to get some more. I framed the inchie with one of the Cuttlebug embossing folders from the Formal Squares set. The inchie was attached to the notecard with some foam tape to give the card a little dimension.

This card is one from a set of four. I will share the others later.

Hugs,