Big & Bold Cupcake - Pink Frosting

Hi - remember THIS card and I said I would stop back in and share the other one I made...here it is and I included a photo so you can see the shaped card. 

Love this big and bold cupcake from Colorado Craft Company - can't wait to use it again! I used the die to make a shaped card and worked on my copic coloring. I added a couple layers of clear wink of stella glitter and some glossy accents.

I did a wrapper like this one other time; white with various sized pink polka dots - I LOVE polka dots!😍

Thanks for popping in; I appreciate your visit!

See you again soon!

WHAT'S IT TAKE:

Stamps: Colorado Craft Company Big and Bold Citrus Berry Cupcake

Inks: Gina K Obsidian Amalgam

Papers: Neenah 110 lb. white, TE Cupcake

Accessories: glossy accents, clear wink of stella, copics, white gel pen

CHALLENGES: 

CTD643 - blue and green roses

I absolutely love the color combo at Color Throwdown thtaylos week, LOVE! So much, I saved it to my color inspiration on Pinterest. 😊

I used 3 Roses from Rubbernecker - I don't see it on their website any longer, but they have several with the same type watercolor look. The image comes with a solid image you can color and stamp over the roses and leaves, but I enjoyed coloring with Copics and colored pencils. 

Before I stamped the image (in TE Earl Grey), I used TE's bokeh stencils in Salt Water Taffy, Sprinkles and Mint Julep, all from TE.

Once I finished coloring, I used VIBES from Stamp Unity in the same colors, some in 2nd generation,  and added some fun mixed media images. I then splattered with black ink, mounted on black card stock and finally on a Salt Water Taffy vertical card. The hello (Reverse Confetti Cup of Friendship) is stamped in VersaFine black.

Thanks for peeking back in; see you again soon!

WHAT'S IT TAKE:

Stamps: Rubberneck 3 Roses, Stamp Unity Vibes, Reverse Confetti Cup of Friendship

Inks: TE Earl Grey, Salt Water Taffy, Sprinkles, Mint Julep, VersaFine

Papers: Neenah 110 lb. white, TE Salt Water Taffy and Oreo

Accessories: TE Bokeh Stencils, stitched rectangle die

CHALLENGES: 

  Color Throwndown

Cupcake - good enough to eat!

 Hi friends - hwo are you doing? I am doing really well...I have my 2nd major oral surgery next Friday, May 28; thankfully, it's Memorial Weekend so I'll have an extra day to recovery!

I ADORE this big and bold cupcake from Colorado Craft Company. I used the die to make a shaped card and I just love it. I used it to work on my copic coloring; I also did one with pink frosting - I'll share it later this week.

I colored the 'wrapper' in rainbow colors, made a chocolate cupcake and had tons of fun coloring the lemon wedge and berry. 😊

I added a couple layers of wink of stella clear glitter to the frosting and some glossy accents to the lemon and berry.

Thanks for stopping by; hope you will come back when I share the pink frosted cupcake.

See you again soon!

WHAT'S IT TAKE:

Stamps: Colorado Craft Company Big and Bold Citrus Berry Cupcake

Inks: Gina K Obsidian Amalgam

Papers: Neenah 110 lb. white, Lime Zest

Accessories: glossy accents, clear wink of stella, copics, white gel pen

CHALLENGES: 

All the layers - but PINK!

Remember when I shared THIS card and I told you I had made a pink version? Here it is, I love it just as must as the blue one!

I stamped a ton of flowers and greenery using the Signed and Sealed with a Kiss stamp set from The Greetery. The envelope and seal come from THIS set, the postmark comes from THIS set. I die cut the postal frame from heavyweight white card stock and blended on some sprinkles ink; popped up with fun foam onto some soft stone designer paper. The envelope was embossed with white embossing powder, the seal was embossed with liquid platinum embossing powder. I used a 2 way glue pen and sprinkled on glitter. 

Once I had all the pieces and parts finished up, it was a matter of assembling. Oh yes, I finished the berries off using a variety of Nuvo drops.

PS - why did my font change? 😐😖

See you again soon!

WHAT'S IT TAKE:

Stamps: The Greetery Signed and Sealed with a Kiss, Signed and Sealed, Pretty Postmarks

Inks: All from Taylored Expressions: Sprinkles, Toffee, Confetti Cake, Cookie Monster, Strawberry Milkshake, Pink Champagne, Fruit Punch, Mulled Wine,  Versamark,

Papers: Various Neenah 110 lb. white, PTI Soft Stone

Accessories: The Greetery: Signed and Sealed with a Kiss die, Signed and Sealed die, Pretty Postmarks die, blender brushes, white embossing powder, liquid platinum embossing powder, glitter, 2 way glue pen, Nuvo drops

CHALLENGES: 

  Just Us Girls (JUGS) - Trend Week: Layers

Love to Scrap - Anything Goes

Hi there, thanks for stopping by! This month at Love to Scrap, ANYTHING GOES - always a favorite!

Remember THIS card? I created another one using different colors and different embossing folder - this one says SPRING to me! Raise your hand if you're ready for some gorgeous temps? 🙋

I also colored this one with Copics, softer colors. I blended Sprinkles ink on the background and a bit brighter blue, Gumball, on the focal point.Very clean and simple; I used Nuvo drops to finish off the berries.

See you again soon!

WHAT'S IT TAKE:

Stamps: SSS + Honey Bee On My Mind

Inks: TE Toffee, Poppy Seed, Sprinkles, Gumball

Papers: Fabriano Watercolor paper, TE Strawberry Milkshake, Neenah 80lb. white

Accessories: embossing folder, Copics,,clear wink of stella, glossy accents, MFT Blueprints

CHALLENGES: 

Layers - all the layers for MIUCB

Hi friends! IT. IS. MAY.

Serioulsy, how did we get here? Goodness, this year is flying by!

This month on the Mix It Up Challenge Blog, we're focusing on layering, I love me some good layers! AND I made two cards pretty much identical, just switched out colors. I'll show you the other one a little later. I guess you could say I am enamored by the sparkle on this card - HA! My cards were inspired by Kelly Lunceford. I stamped a ton of flowers and greenery using the Signed and Sealed with a Kiss stamp set from The Greetery. The envelope and seal come from THIS set, the postmark comes from THIS set. I die cut the postal frame from heavyweight white card stock and blended on some sprinkles ink; popped up with fun foam onto some soft stone designer paper. The envelope was embossed with white embossing powder, the seal was embossed with liquid platinum embossing powder. I used a 2 way glue pen and sprinkled on glitter. 

Once I had all the pieces and parts finished up, it was a matter of assembling. Oh yes, I finished the berries off using a variety of Nuvo drops.

Thanks for stopping by; hope you will join us this month with some layering cards!

See you again soon!

WHAT'S IT TAKE:

Stamps: The Greetery Signed and Sealed with a Kiss, Signed and Sealed, Pretty Postmarks

Inks: All from Taylored Expressions: Sprinkles, Toffee, Confetti Cake, Cookie Monster, Strawberry Milkshake, Pink Champagne, Fruit Punch, Mulled Wine,  Versamark,

Papers: Various Neenah 110 lb. white, PTI Soft Stone

Accessories: The Greetery: Signed and Sealed with a Kiss die, Signed and Sealed die, Pretty Postmarks die, blender brushes, white embossing powder, liquid platinum embossing powder, glitter, 2 way glue pen, Nuvo drops

CHALLENGES: 

Color Me Crazy - and yep...I went crazy!

Hi friends! It's another fun coloring creation for Colour Crazy Challenge! For this challenge, I'm using the sweet Purple Balloon from Ching-Chou Kuih.

But boy, do I have a doozie to share with you! I knew I wanted to color this dress in rainbow colors - did that, loved it! Then I did the hair, loved it! Then the eyes and, 😖 THAT'S where it all went wrong. I tried a few things to fix it, but couldn't; however, I still wanted to share the coloring with you, because regardless that it was an ultimate fail, I was proud of the rainbow dress. 😉

Hope you join us at Colour Crazy Challenge, we always love seeing your creations!

See you again soon!

WHAT'S IT TAKE:

Stamps: Purple Balloon (digital)

Inks: None

Papers: Neenah 80 lb. white

Accessories: PTI Scallop Stackers - Medium, Copics, white gel pen

CHALLENGES: 

More Easter Cards

Hi! I promised to return and show you the detailed Easter cards I made for my friend - these were super fun. You can make this wreath for EVERY season throughout the year and the dies, again like the Bunny Hop dies shown yesterday, offer lots of variety and flexibility. It's not often I enjoy mass producing, BUT when you can change up small details - like the colors of the greenery or mushrooms - it makes it fun. 

I stamped all the wreaths at the same time, changing up colors as I mentioned - and same thing, I die cut them all at the same time. In my head, I wanted a really soft yellow background - don't ask me what happened, but I used watercolor and it turned out SUPER bright. LOL WHY I did not ink blend on the yellow, I will never know. I splattered on some color and then thought about it for a few days and decided to add vellum to tone it down a bit. I sewed the vellum to the water color paper; heat embossed the sentiment and adhered the wreath with fun foam. As you can see, I cut the card layer with 3 different dies; only two shown here - but it added a nice variety to the cards. 

Thanks for stopping by; let's see if I can pop in more than once a month - that's my goal! With the loss of my father, moving my mother - twice in less than 90 days - changing jobs, and regular life, things have been a bit crazy!

See you again soon!

WHAT'S IT TAKE:

Stamps: The Greetery Bountiful Wreath and Empty Grave

Inks: All from Taylored Expressions, Versamark, distress inks (mustard seek, fossilized amber)

Papers: Various TE card stock for bases, Ranger water color card stock, vellum, Neenah 110 lb. white

Accessories: The Greetery Bountiful Wreath Dies, various A2 die cuts, Janome Sew Mini, black embossing powder

CHALLENGES: 

LTSCB - Spring Forward

This month at Love to Scrap, we might be springing forward, but I'm HOPPING forward. 😉 Hope you will join us!

I had a friend ask for 10 Easter cards, so I took this chance to use several, new to me, stamp sets from The Greetery. First up, these super fun bunny cards; the die gives you so much flexibiliy, but I took a page directly from Betsy V. and created almost identical cards. I had already made 6 super detailed cards, so I kept these very simple.

Stop back tomorrow and I will show you the detailed cards I made using more fun products from The Greetery!

I used the Bnnny Hop stencils and blending brushes to add the bunnies and kept going from there changing up the greens I used for the greenery - won't these bunnies be great for baby cards too? So fun! And again, like Betsy, I added the eyes and noses with a sharpie. Die cut the inner portion of the bunnies and stamped the sentiment in the middle. The card base is from PTI, Vintage Cream. 

Bunny bunches - cards and envies

Thanks for hopping by - hope to see you again tomorrow!

WHAT'S IT TAKE:

Stamps: The Greetery Bunny Hop and Put a Bow On It (envies)

Inks: All from Taylored Expressions

Papers: PTI Vintage Cream

Accessories: The Greetery Bunny Hop stencils, Bunny Hop Dies, sharpie

CHALLENGES: 

  The Card Concept (Clean and Simple)

MIUCB - No Stamping

 Hi friends! I hope this post finds you and your family doing well!

After 8.5 years; I changed jobs...please note, I AM NOT a young chick; but I DID IT. Totally new industry, but what I do, that isn't all that critical. Anywho, fun adventures!

This month at Mix It Up, we're creating cards with NO STAMPING; I don't think I've ever made a card with no stamping. 😄 I have a couple jars on my desk that hold lots of ephemera and bits and pieces I have stamped but haven't used...yet. I sat down and pulled out lots of things that I liked and started making a little collage. It was all finished, but when I sat down yesterday (several days later), I decided to add the larger rainbow in the upper left. I like all the rainbows and happy colors.

The two sentiments are from Simon Says Stamp and were cut with various dies from The Greetery. In the full picture, you can see how incredibly sparkly the bird is; the wing is actually a heart, but you can't tell until the close up photo! I added a border to the top and bottom with a sharpie.

Hope you will join us this month; we would love to see your creations!

Thanks for stopping by; hope you and yours are safe and healthy!

WHAT'S IT TAKE:

Stamps: NONE

Inks: NONE

Papers: Stamp Market Basic Stripes, Neenah 110 lb. card base

Accessories: Altenew enamel hearts, The Greetery Text Dies, sharpie

CHALLENGES: