Old Fashion Cherry Blossoms- JCI46 and SoShelli.com

I had a little time to create a card, besides the ones that will be going to convention with me, today and decided to combine two challenges. I combined Stacey's Jewelery Color Inspiration #46 and the SoShelli.com Creative Challenge. The colors for Stacey's challenge were Not Quite Navy, Ruby Red, Creamy Caramel and Very Vanilla and Shelli's challenge was to create a Birthday card (you can never have enough Birthday cards on hand)!

Here is what I came up with. I stamped the cherry blossom stamp from the Embrace Life stamp set on Water Color paper in Creamy Caramel ink. Then I used my Aqua painter and painted the flowers with Ruby Red and Not Quite Navy ink. I then used a toothbrush with watered down Creamy Carmel ink and "spattered" the image a bit. The "Happy Birthday" is from the Fundamental Phrases stamp set.
I used a Styled Vanilla Hodgepodge Hardware (Deal of the week this week!!) Designer holder to dress up the sentiment. The fibers on the side of the card are the Linen Thread and the Hemp Twine.

Here is a closer look at the tooth brush "spattering" on the Water Color paper.

Thanks for looking and have a great weekend!

Full of Buttons- JCI44

I was gone last week, so couldn't participate in Stacey's Jewelery Color Inspiration, so I was excited to get back to it this week! The jewelery this week is this necklace and the colors are Perfect Plum, Really Rust, More Mustard and Very Vanilla.

Here is what I cam up with, a card full of buttons! I made the buttons using my Big Shot and the Sizzlits Buttons #5 die. I then layered a few buttons on top each other and then sewed them together using Very Vanilla thread. I paper pierced a border around the main image.


The sentiment is from the new stamp set called Teeny Tiny Wishes. I know this is going to be a set that gets used a lot! I finished off the card by wrapping the Very Vanilla thread around the main image and adding a little knot.

Thanks for looking!

Simple Fun Fishy Birthday- JCI41 and CAS19

Stacey has another great Jewelry Color Inspiration this week. The colors are Brilliant Blue, Tempting Turquoise, Tangerine Tango, Summer Sun and Whisper White. These are such fun and bright colors to work with, go check out Stacey's blog and give it a try!
I saw the CAS19 (Clean and Simple #19) challenge over at Splitcoast, to make a card based on tashers card here, and decided to combine the two challenges into one card.

Here is what I came up with, A simple fun fishy birthday card! The card measures 4 1/4" X 4 1/4". The fish are from a stamp set in the Occasions Mini Catalog, that will be going away on June 30, called Just Beachy. The birthday hat is from the stamp set Crab and Company. The sentiment is from the set called All Holiday.

I colored the fish in using my Aqua painter. What a fun and quick card to make!

Thanks for looking!




p.s. Here is what we, my husband and I, did all day yesterday and will be doing all day today and who knows how much longer....
building an addition to our deck!

An Ant's Lunch- Jewelery Color Inspiration #40

This weeks Jewelery Color Inspiration (it's #40!) from Stacey is this Springtime Garden Bracelet. The colors are Garden Green, Certainly Celery, Pretty in Pink and Whisper White. I thought of watermelon when I saw these colors and remembered that I saw this tutorial from Alison and decided to go with it!

Here is what I made. The card started off not having an ant and not having the saying "let's do lunch!" but I saw the saying (a rub on) and then thought an ant would be cute, so I made an ant and added it to the card! *I know the inspiration piece didn't have black in it..so I am kind of cheating... sorry!* I made the seeds by taking the smallest heart from the SU Three Heart punch and cut it in half, I think it worked out well!

Here is a close up of the watermelon and the little ant. You can see he already tasted the lunch to make sure it was good enough for you to eat too!

Thanks for looking!

Choo Choo Train- Jewelry Color Inspiration #39

Stacey has some fun colors this week for her Jewelry Color Inspiration #39. They are Basic Black, Ridding Hood Red, Taken With teal, Pumpkin Pie and Whisper White. I saw these colors and thought "fun kid card" (I guess bright colors say kid to me!) and I have been wanting to use the Choo Choo stamp set in the Occasions Mini, so that is what I made and used.

Here is my card. This card went thought a few designs, before I came up with this one, but I think it turned out good. I stamped the train cars in the colors and then mounted them onto the Basic Black squares. The sentiment is from the Birthday Wish stamp set in the catalog under the under $10 section in the very back.



The background is the retired Canvas background stamped in Basic Black ink onto Whisper White card stock. The three little black circles are just circles punched out from a hole punch and glued on.

Thanks for looking!

Are you ready for another What? post? You better be, because one is coming your way soon!

Red and White Boat- Sweet Sunday Sketch #19 and Jewelry Color Inspration # 38

This week I combined Stacey and Karen's challenges to make one card. Stacey's Jewelry Color Inspiration this week was Real Red, Brilliant Blue and Whisper White in honor of Memorial Day. Karen's Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge was this fun sketch.

Here is what I made for the challenges. The boat is from Boat Loads of Love. I colored it using my Real Red Stampin' write marker. The brads are the jumbo white brads from SU! (I am finding myself adding these to a few cards lately!).

You can see in the close up that I paper pierced the Brilliant Blue card stock and used my big dots texture plate and big shot on the Real Red card stock to finish the card off.

Thanks for looking and I hope you
all had a great Memorial Day!

Fly Fishing Scene Birthday- Jewelry Color Inspiration #37

Here is Stacey's Jewelry Color Inspiration #37 inspiration piece. It is a cuff made from Japanese seed beads. The colors this week are Bashful Blue, Baja Breeze, Chocolate Chip, Creamy Caramel and Whisper White.

My husband's birthday was yesterday and I needed to make him a card, he is a fly fisherman, and I thought theses colors would probably work for that theme. So I pulled out one of my Fly Fishing stamp sets called Fly Fishing and made a card.

Here is what I cam up with. I think the colors worked very well with this scene. I stamped the image in Black Staz On onto water color paper and then water colored it using the Aqua Painter. I added the "Happy Birthday" stamp from Bitty Birthday, because it fit!
Just the other day my husband said he likes how stitching looks on cards, so I thought I would add some stitching to his card. I started off by doing something else than what you see here, but my sewing machine decided it didn't want to work for me, so I had to switch things up a bit, but I think it worked out ok.

Here is a close up of the scene. You can see all of the colors in this picture.

Thanks for looking and have a great Memorial Day weekend!

Want to play? Check out Stacey's blog for weekly color inspirations!

2 Cards for one Challenge- Jewelry Color Inspiration #36

I need to stop waiting till the last minute to make these cards for Stacey's Jewelry Color Inspiration #36! Well, I tried this week, but the first card I made, I didn't really like, so I had to start over...a few days later!

Here is the piece of Jewelry she got the color inspiration from. The colors are Temping Turquoise, Lavender Lace, So Saffron and Whisper White...what different colors for me!

Here is the second card I made, that I like better than the first, I think. It uses the Flight of the Butterfly stamp set, some 5/8" So Saffron ribbon and the 5/16" white Jumbo Brads.








And here is the first card I made. I got the sketch for this one from Got Sketch? It was sketch 83. I used quite a few different things on this card. They are, a flower from the pretties kit, the Top Note die cut using the Big Shot, a button die cut using the Big Shot, White Satin ribbon, DSP from my scrap pile, the Scallop edge punch, Versa Mark Ink, Basic Black Classic Ink and a few different stamp sets, one current (On Your Birthday) and one retired (Polka Dots and Paisley)...oh and some glitter glue used on the flower petals.

This picture you can see the Paisley print I stamped on the Tempting Turquoise and the Whisper White. And maybe if you look really closely the glitter glue on the flower petals (it only goes in a line on the "vein" of the leaf.)

Thanks for looking!

JUST POSTED! Stacey picked my card with the big flower on it for her pick this week...I am soo happy! Thanks again Stacey! Go check out her Weekly challenges, they are always so fun!

"Flamingo"- Jewelry Color Inspration #35

Another challenge! This one is from Stacey's Stamping Stage. She has a color challenge every week and gets the colors from jewelry, hence the name, Jewelery Color Inspiration #35 This week the colors were Cameo Coral, Ballet Blue, Kiwi Kiss and Very Vanilla (oh...and I did use a little black...hope that is ok).

These are not normal colors for me and I was having trouble with them , so I asked my husband what the colors reminded him of...and he replied in a smarty voice with "a flamingo playing in the grass and water." So off I went, to make a flamingo playing in the grass and water.


Here is my rendition of a flamingo playing in the grass and water! What do you think? My husband just started laughing and said "that is not a flamingo!!" :) Well it is as close as I could get using punches! I did have fun with this little "flamingo"!

The punches I used to make this guy were the Wide Oval and the Tab punch. I used the Scallop edge punch to make the Ballet Blue water and I cut the Kiwi Kiss grass with my scissors. As you can see in the close up picture, I used the Big Dots texture plate on the Very Vanilla background.

These challenges are always so fun to play with!

Thank for looking!

Plum Tulips on Gray Panels

I have missed the past two weeks of Karen's Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenges, because I was out of town and then I had to catch up!

So here is the Sweet Sunday Sketch 15. I need a little color inspiration, so I checked out Stacey's Stamping Stage and saw her Jewelry Color Inspiration 34 and liked the colors a lot, so I thought I would put the two challenges together!











And here is what I came up with! Some perfect Plum Tulips on a Going Gray paneled background.

The DSP is from the Urban Oasis paper pack, I punched the tulips using the Key tag punch and then cut the tops into them using scissors, the sentiment is from the Great Friend stamp set in the Occasions Mini and the ribbon I dyed gray!

I used my White Gel pen to add the dots around the edge of the tulips to make them stand out a little bit more.

I had fun with this one! I needed to make a spring-y flower-y card, since it was snowing on and off today...

Thanks for looking!

Jewelry Color Inspiration #29- Sail Boat for a Boy

The other day I found Stacey's Stamping Stage blog and while I was looking around I found her Jewelry Color Inspiration #29 (She finds neat jewelry on-line and then posts a picture it of once a week and then you have to make a card using the colors that are in the jewelry...how neat!) So I decided to give it a try.

Her colors this week were Real Red, Bashful Blue, Barely Banana and Whisper White. As soon as I saw these colors I thought of a sail boat, so that is what I did.


Here is my sail boat! I think it came out kind of cute. When I added the "boy" stamp from Everything Baby (retired), it made me think of a baby card, but I don't think it is necessarily just a baby card, it could be used for any young boy!





I used my Big Shot and a few embossing folders (Large Dots and Squares) to give the Bashful Blue card stock some texture. I sewed around all the edges of the card with my sewing machine as well as the sail and the boat.



I finished off the card by adding a few buttons in the same color theme to the bottom right of the card.

I had fun with this color inspiration, so I think I am going to do it again next week!

Thanks for looking!