Summer Fruits ft. Winnie & Walter

EDIT: Top 3 at Seven Hills Crafts

Hello all! I'm so excited to share what I created for the Gossip Column challenge! My card is heavily inspired by Taheerah's summer fruit card (shown below). 

I actually created this summery background with Christmas and floral stamps! (Yup, stretching my supplies once again) The pineapples and grapes are created with the In Bloom: Elsa's Flora set. (left) For the pineapples, I partially stamped the larger acorn  image and drew it's base with a Copic Multi-liner. Next I stamped the pine needle image twice to create its spiky leaves. The grapes were actually altered from the holly berries stamp. I then used In Bloom: Carolina's Florals (middle) to create watermelon slices and raspberries. Here I transformed strawberry seeds into watermelon seeds, and using the Copic multi-liner again, I drew the sides and completed the watermelon slices. Finally, I used images from the In Bloom Lola's Bouquet (right) set to make kiwi and passion fruit. Although you can't really see the kiwi because it's hiding behind the sentiment banner. :( Wish I had swapped its place with one of the watermelon slices. Oh well.
    

Here's a snapshot of my creative process: 

Super messy LOL! Just trying out some combos and see which works better. 

Then I covered all of the fruit images with masking fluid and distressed Candied Apple, Carved Pumpkin, Wild Honey, Crushed Olive, and Mowed Lawn inks to create the background. I also added an organic touch by flicking some water droplets onto the inked panel. At this point the background is finished, but I thought it was missing something and looking a bit plain. So I stamped the striped patterns from Scenery: Stripes 2 set with Hero Arts Unicorn white ink for some added interest.

I decided to keep the sentiment relatively simple; I stamped and heat embossed several sentiments stamps gold on a vellum banner. "you are my" and "heart" are from Sentimental: Endearments. "sweet" is from The Big, the Bold and Baby. 


I also decided to create a CAS version because I couldn't pass up this pineapple design with its dramatic spiky leaves. The punny sentiment is stamped with Stampin' Up's Labeler Alphabet set. And it's a direct CASE of Taheerah's pineapple card. Isn't it super clever? ;) I hope you liked these summary cards. Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Challenges Entered:
  
W&W Gossip Column: Summer Fruits / Dies R Us: ATG with Dies / Little Miss Muffet: ATG


Seven Hills: Color Combo (middle one)


STAMPlorations: CAS

Brew-tiful Day ft. Craftin Desert Divas

Good morning!! Are you still feeling a little sleepy? Then this coffee shaker card is the perfect one for you! I received a bag of coffee beans a long time ago and it's been sitting in my kitchen for the longest time because I don't drink coffee... So I thought I'd use them in my card today. :P 

I created the window frame with some burlap paper and watercolored the background with ZIG markers. Then I colored the stovetop coffee maker image with Copics. The sentiment is handwritten and I can't help but create another punny one. I hope you enjoyed it and thanks so much for stopping by!

Challenges Entered: 

Pink & Main: Moveable Parts

Cool Birthday ft. Lawn Fawn

I have a quick and short post for you today: It's about the shaker card I made for the new Lawn Fawn challenge! I used the Here's a Scoop set from Lawn Fawn and colored the images with Copic markers. Next I used the square frame image from Winnie & Walter's Framed set to create my shaker window. I decided to write the punny sentiment with a white gel pen. Then I cut the sentiment strip into three segments for a more appealing visual effect, and that completes the card!

Challenges Entered: 

  

Lawn Fawnatics: Interactive Cards / Paru's Challenges: ATG

Pink & Main: Moveable Parts

Spring Teapot ft. Craftin Desert Divas

EDIT: Honorable Mentions at CASology

Hi and welcome! Lately I've been playing with my digital stamps and thinking of different ways to use them creatively, and I thought I'd share the result with you today. I combined the teapot image from Brewing Coffee with the lilies from Lamb in Basket. Since they are digital, it's easy to erase the face of the tea pot and replace it with the resized lilies. The end result is kind of similar to that of the masking technique.

The color scheme is inspired by this challenge mood board from Cupcake Inspirations.

I colored the image with ZIG Clean Color Real Brush pens. Then I added a coat of Wink of Stella to some parts of the tea pot to create the shimmery effect.

I was inspired by CASology's "Text" challenge and decided to do something different with the sentiment. Yup, it probably has caught your attention already: This punny sentiment is pouring out of the teapot! I really love how it turned out, and I hope you enjoyed it, too! Thanks for visiting. :)

Challenges Entered: 

    

Cupcake Inspirations: Birthday with a Twist / CASology: Text / Uniko: Spring
  
Cas-ual Fridays: No Dies Allowed / Paru's Challenges: ATG

You Are Tea-rrific! ft. Craftin Desert Divas

Good morning! Here's my second card using this adorable teapot image from Brewing Coffee. I shared a card (shown below) yesterday where I altered the teapot and combined it with lilies from the Lamb in Basket digi. I love how you can create very different projects with digital stamps since you can resize and alter them easily. 

I colored the image with Copics then I used Wink of Stella and a white gel pen to add some finer details. To keep the card CAS, I only used two pieces of washi tape to create the background. I wrote the sentiment with a black pen and that finished off the card. Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Challenges Entered:

7 Kids: ATG (I used BG10 Copic marker)

Let's Sail-ebrate! ft. Craftin Desert Divas

EDIT: Top 3 at Addicted to CAS

Good morning! Here is my second entry for Cupcake Inspirations Challenge. I was inspired by the beach theme and the colors from Challenge 322's mood board. (Shown below)



I decided to create a small ocean scene and started out by sponging the sunset background. The distress inks I used are Ripe Persimmon, Dried Marigold, Tumbled Glass. 


Then I distressed Salty Ocean onto 3 wavy die cuts and layered them to create the waves. I also spritzed them with pearlized water so they have the shimmery look you see here in the picture. The images I colored today are digital stamps from Craftin Desert Divas. I used Navy Boy and Surf Boy. After adhering all of the pieces together, I wrote the sentiment with a black pen. I hope you enjoy this CAS and slightly masculine card. Thanks for stopping by! 

Challenges Entered: 
    
Cupcake Inspirations: Birthday with a Twist / Addicted to CAS: Seaside / 7 Kids: ATG (I used Distress mini inks and Copic Markers)

 Paru's Challenges: ATG

Love You Deerly ft. Poppystamps

Hello! I've seen so many lovely Valentines card on blogland lately and, not surprisingly, the majority of them are pink and red and filled with lots of hearts. So I thought about making something a little different. Today I'd like to share with you a not-so-pink-and-girly Valentines card.

This adorable deer image is from Poppy Stamp's Holiday Hoopla set, which I colored with my Zig brush pens. (Body: 64, 61, 72, 69. Blush: 29. Scarf: 27, 31) Then I used Memory Box's Cross Stitch My Heart dies to create a window for the small scene. The "I Love You" sentiment is from My Favorite Thing's Essential Sentiments set, and I wrote the bottom "Deerly" sentiment myself. 

I created the woodland scene by first embossing a watercolor cardstock with Stampin' Up's Woodland Textures embossing folder, and then coloring it with my Zigs brush pens. (Trees: 75, 96. Background: 34, 22) It's hard to tell from the photos, but the embossed details are actually quite amazing in real life. I hope you have enjoyed my not so traditional Valentines Day card. Thanks so much for stopping by and have a great day!

Challenges Entered: 

Poppy: Hearts Aflutter / Memory Box: It's All About Love / Addicted to CAS: Wood

HLS CAS: Blue / HLS Watercolor: ATG (Dies) / AAA Cards: Watercolor

MTF Color Challenge #64 / Paru's Challenges: Love / SSS Wednesday: ATG