Archives for March 4, 2009

I’ve been on a watercoloring kick lately. This time, I used the SU markers. There are great tutorials on how to watercolor with markers. This one is my favorite. Basically, the idea is to use Watercolor Paper, color in the image  with SU markers, then go over it with the watercolor pen until you get the desired effect. It’s more a matter of removing ink than applying it.

This card is so fun and cheery in real life, I hope it comes across here. The base is Apricot Appeal, layered with a piece of Certainly Celery DSP. The image layer is SU Watercolor paper. I used Blooming with Love stamped in Black Staz On ink.

I colored the wheelbarrow with Close to Cocoa marker, shading the back of the wheelbarrow slightly and picking up some of the color to highlight the front area. The flower pots are watercolored with Certainly Celery marker, cut out, and popped up with dimensionals.

In the upper left corner, the sentiment was stamped onto a 1 1/4″ Whisper White circle punch, layered with a 1 3/8″ Pink Pirouette circle and a Regal Rose Scalloped Circle, all popped up on dimensionals.

I wanted to make some Mother’s Day cards today, but I was trying to challenge myself to use a stamp set other than that Good Friend set I’ve been using to death lately. I know, people must have thought “Does she have any other sets?”

New stuff is on the way, but today I made good use of a few oldies but goodies. Here’s one of my all time favorite sets, Season of Friendship. Too bad it’s retired–I will treasure mine forever!

I apologize for the picture quality here, I just could NOT get a good shot tonight. As for the details: Card base is Chocolate chip card stock, 4 1/4″ x 11″ folded in half, fold at the top. Using Season of Friendship, I stamped the tree in chocolate chip ink and the leaves in Kiwi Kiss. The flowers were stamped in Pink Pirouette on Whisper White card stock and cut out with my scissors. With my cropadile, I punched a hole in the center of the flower and used a small green rhinestone brad. So that the prongs wouldn’t stick out, I bent them toward the center of the flower. Then I adhered the flowers with glue dots.

The sentiment is from Blooming with Love, stamped in Basic Black on a piece of Whisper White. The leaves were stamped in Kiwi Kiss again.

Along the bottom, are 3 Kiwi Kiss Corduroy Buttons, threaded with Linen Thread and adhered to the base with glue dots.

A friend is getting married in June and I keep making wedding cards! I’ll have a hard time deciding which to give her when the time comes if I keep this up.

I’m on a brown and blue kick I guess. Now that my pack of Parisian Breeze textured DSP is open, I find I’m using it in everything. It’s ok, I want to use it up so I can buy new stuff!

The stamp set used here is For the Bride, which I loved when I first saw it in the catalog. Ironically, I am finding it hard to use for some reason! Even though I like it, whatever I make is just “meh” or so-so. I’ll keep trying because I love to emboss this dress!

I stamped the dress in Chocolate Chip Craft Ink on Whisper White card stock and poured clear embossing powder on it. Heat set and voila! I paper pierced the corner and swiped the edges of the card stock on Chocolate Chip classic Ink pad. The image is layered on a piece of polka dot Parisian Breeze DSP, and I tied a piece of gorgeous polka dot ribbon around the bottom. This is from the Ribbon Originals Valet collection.

Next, I attached the image layer to my card base, which is Baja Breeze with a layer of Parisian DSP. The sentiment is also from For the Bride. I stamped that with Chocolate Chip Classic ink on whisper white and paper pierced a line above the “Congratulations,” adhering it to the base with dimensionals.