Splashes of Watercolor

Light My Fire!   It’s a song, folks!  Ok, so it’s an old one, but still a song!  I skipped supper tonight to make a quick card for today’s Ways to Use It Challenge WT155.  These Cat’s Pajamas stamps are so cute!  The set is called “Having a Pow Wow!” and not only are the stamps kid-appropriate, they are really cool for making cards like this:

I stamped the image on a strip of shimmer vanilla cardstock, colored it with Copic markers, and highlighted it with gelly roll glaze pens.  I cut the long edges with zig zag scissors and sponged the edges with Ranger Distress tea dye ink and my ink blending tool.  I stitched the strip to 2 pieces of Basic Grey Mellow paper from a 6×6 pad.

Then I stamped the fire, after stamping off once, on another piece of shimmery vanilla.  I colored it lightly with Copics, then stamped the sentiment partially over the fire with Palette Hybrid Burnt Umber ink.  I punched it with my SU scallop circle punch and then punched it again to get the pointed scallops.  I think I saw this on Mary Jo Albright’s blog.  Yes, I just looked and there it is!  The edges on this were sponged too.

I cut a slightly larger circle with my Coluzzle and attached it at the bottom of the card front.  Then I tied that beautiful Mays Art ribbon from Jacksonbelle Embellishments around the card front, knotting it right above the sentiment circle.  Then I mounted it on a shimmery vanilla card base.

Hope you like it!  Thanks for stopping by!

By the way, I didn’t really SKIP dinner.  I had popcorn while I watched the American Idol results show!

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Stamps: Having a Pow Wow - The Cat’s Pajamas

Paper: shimmery vanilla, Basic Grey Mellow 6×6 pad

Ink: Palette Hybrid Burnt Umber, Ranger Distress - tea dye

Accessories: Copic markers, gelly roll glaze pens, zig zag scissors, ink blending tool, scallop circle punch, Coluzzle, May Arts ribbon

I love today’s Way to Use It challenge WT155 to use music as an inspiration - posted by Michele for Julia this morning.  Alas, I work during the day, so I’m never able to play along with the challenges on the day they’re posted.   I finished this card over the weekend for last week’s challenge.

I used a stamp that I really love but haven’t had the courage to use before now.  I guess I needed the push to produce a card with a “window” for Julia’s Ways to Use it Challenge WT154 on Splitcoast.  This does count, doesn’t it?

The stamp is from Rubber Romance - directly from the maker’s Etsy store, and I fell in love with it the first time I saw it.  I think it’s the foreign cafe or Charleston garden atmosphere that I’m really in love with and the stamp just provided that.

Of course I had to watercolor it!  It was meant to be watercolored surely!  I distressed the edges and layered it on ruby red cardstock.  The so saffron layer was lightly stamped with the Grid Paper backgrounder from Cornish Heritage Farms.  I LOVE it and am SO glad that Lisa designed it!  The flourish and corner stamps are also from Cornish Heritage Farms, from the Rubbage Bin collection.  More amazing stamps!

I finished the card off with some hodgepodge hardware from Stampin’ Up! and a wide brown organdy ribbon.

I hope you like it and thanks for stopping by to visit today!

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Stamps: The Courtyard - Rubber Romance, Grid Paper backgrounder - Cornish Heritage Farms, The Art of Framing from the Rubbage Bin collection - Cornish Heritage Farms

Paper: watercolor paper, ruby red, so saffron, Screen Door Darling Stripe - My Mind’s Eye

Ink: Palette Hybrid Burnt Umber, close to cocoa, creamy caramel, going gray, old olive, always artichoke, really rust, pumpkin pie, ruby red, so saffron, blue bayou, soft sky

Accessories: waterbrush, Hodgepodge hardware - antique brass, ribbon

I just found out today that one of my Mom’s friend’s husband died yesterday.  I won’t be able to go to the funeral because of the travel distance, but I definitely wanted to send her a card.  This week’s color combination challenge CC155 on Splitcoaststampers to use white, black and river rock was perfect.  These colors are very crisp, yet subtle and very elegant looking together.

I chose to use Garden Silhouettes and one of the sentiments from Small Sayings, both from Stampin’ Up!  I stamped the branch in Versamark and embossed it with black EP.  I then sponged over it with River Rock ink.  I added a black circle, 2 flowers with jewel brads, and a ribbon with a decorative pin.  Simple, flat enough to mail, yet pretty enough to let her know how much I care.

Thanks for visiting.

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Stamps: Garden Silhouette, Small Sayings - Stampin’ Up!

Paper: White, black, River Rock DP

Ink: Versafine Onyx black, Versamark, River Rock

Accessories: black EP, sponge, Coluzzle, flowers, jewel brads, ribbon, decorative pin, glue dots

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Timestamp: 2008-02-27 13:24:25 UTC

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And #9 is:

Monika on 26 Feb 2008 at 3:30 pm

Right now, while the snow started to come down again… I am just looking forward to not having more show and mud. :o) TFS!

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This card is going to a young pirate that I know.  I hope he likes it!

The waves and Ahoy text on the striped paper were stamped with Adirondack Stream ink and embossed with clear embossing powder.  I really like that this ink stays wet enough to emboss with. 

The saffron piece was painted with Ranger crackle paint in the Scattered Straw color - a perfect match!  Actually, the saffron strip, the textured red square and the teal circle were all pieces from my scrap pile, so this card was practically thrown together!  I just colored one of the boat images with my Copic markers, cut it out into pieces, and mounted those on the other image using tiny pieces of foam tape.  The first boat with the waves underneath had already been colored with Copics and cut out and embossed with a Nestabilties rectangle die.

I used clear imitation “Dew Drops” from Michael’s and painted the bottom of them with my BG15 Copic marker so they match the main image.  They were attached using glue dots.   The main image is attached with mounting tape to make it pop up a little higher.  I sponged the edges of the striped paper with Ranger Distress ink in Scattered Straw and my ink blending tool.

Thanks for visiting with me today!

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Stamps: Sail Boat, Waves, Ahoy text - Rubbernecker Beach Party section

Paper: white, taken with teal, textured dark red, so saffron, “Screen Door”" Darling Stripe - Front Porch from My Mind’s Eye

Ink: Versafine Onyx Black, Adirondack ink - Stream, Ranger Distress ink - Scattered Straw, Ranger Distress crackle paint - Scattered Straw

Accessories:  Ranger ink blending tool, coluzzle, clear EP, heat gun, Nestabilties rectangle dies, Dew Drops, Copic markers, glue dots, mounting tape

This is actually the second card I made for Beate’s sketch challenge WSC36.  On the first one, I made the second layer too large so it didn’t fit the sketch after all!  Phooey!  But things have a way of working out, because I really like this card better and it gave me a chance to do more stamping!  Nothing wrong with that!

I love the expression on this chick’s face!  This is another stamp from my Bird Assortment set from Inkadinkado.  I stamped her on white cardstock and colored her in with Copic markers.  I used my rectangle plain and scallop Nestabilities dies to cut out the image and the groovy guava mat.

The pretty patterned paper was on sale at Target.  It’s from an 8×8 assortment called Splendor and it’s by Rhonna Farrer for Autumn Leaves.  I cut along the right side with large scallop scissors.  The card base is the new Aqua Mist color from Papertrey Ink.  It matched the patterned paper perfectly!  I stamped my Grid Paper backgrounder on it using PTI Aqua Mist ink.

I cut a small slice on the fold of the card using my craft knife to run my groovy guava ribbon through and then threaded both ends of the ribbon through my flower and tied it in a knot.  Then the main image layer was attached with mounting tape.  Easy!

Hope you like it!  Thanks for stopping by today!

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Stamps: Bird Assortment - Inkadinkado, Grid Paper backgrounder - Cornish Heritage Farms

Paper: white, groovy guava, aqua mist (PTI), Splendor - by Rhonna Farrer for Autumn Leaves

Ink: Versafine Onyx Black, Aqua Mist

Accessories: scallop scissors, Copic markers, craft knife, Nestabilities rectangle dies, Cuttlebug, flower, ribbon, gelly roll pen, mounting tape

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Now here’s the card I originally made:

Stamps: Spring is Here - Studio G

Paper: white, certainly celery, Basic Grey Lilykate 6×6 pad

Ink: Versafine Onyx Black

Accessories: Copic Markers, Nestabilities rectangle dies, Cuttlebug, ribbon, flower, cropadile, eyelet, glue, mounting tape

That’s Mary Jo Albright’s style!  That’s probably why Bethie chose her to be the Featured Stamper on SCS today!  I chose this card of MJ’s to CASE.  Here’s my card:

I kept the same layout, changed the image, the sentiment, the charm, and the colors, and used Dew Drops in the upper right instead of brads on the 4 corners.

Hope you like it!  Thanks for visiting today!

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Stamps: Girlfriends on a Bench and Fabulous Darling! - Rubber Romance

Paper: white, Basic Grey Pheobe 6×6 pad, certainly celery, creamy caramel, purely pomegranate

Ink: Versafine Onyx Black

Accessories: Copic markers, 5/8″ pomegranate satin ribbon, flower charm, linen thread, Dew Drops - flame

This is another double challenge card. I absolutely love the inspiration photo that Stef posted on Splitcoast today. The bright blues and greens are some of my favorite combinations. I also wanted to try Jen’s (genie1314) sketch challenge today. The layout she used just called for a simple baby card to me. So this is what I came up with:

I used the papers and inks from my new Papertrey Ink order. Just love those colors!!! The stamp set is called Baby clear stamps from Fiskars. I first saw this used on Paula’s blog when she posted this card. I love that little onesie and she works wonders with it! So when I was in AC Moore’s last weekend and saw it, I had to buy it. What a great deal! There are 44 stamps in this set and I used my 40% off coupon! Whoop!!

Thanks for visiting today. And thanks to Stef and Jen for the great challenges!

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Stamps: Baby clear stamps - Fiskars

Paper: White, Aqua Mist, Everyday Blessings DP - all from Papertrey Ink

Ink: Versafine Onyx black, Aqua Mist and Spring Moss from Papertrey Ink

Accessories: Signo white gel pen, 1 3/8″ circle punch, scallop circle punch, dimensionals

I always have such good intentions when it comes to participating in the weekly challenges on Splitcoaststampers.  But somehow everything else seems to get in the way and demand that my time be spent elsewhere.  Well, this week I decided to make some time to join in the fun. 

This card is for the color challenge CC154 to use orchid opulence, certainly celery, and pumpkin pie.  Now my first thought when I read what the colors were, was “Yuck!”  I’ll need sunglasses to be able to work with those colors!  I’m still not saying this is going to be one of my new favorite combinations, but it wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be.  The card also was made to fit the sketch challenge SC164.  Roxie chose a card of Leslie Miller’s this week.  Since Leslie is one of my all-time favorite stamping heroes, I just couldn’t not participate! 

I just got this great Inkadinkado stamp set and couldn’t wait to use it.  The birds are a real “hoot” (pun intended!) and the sayings are just as great!  I was going to use the stamp from the Foursquare set of the Kim Hughes collection from Cornish Heritage Farms to have the bird sit in, then I got the idea to make a bird cage out of it.  So I scalloped the bottom edge and doodled it, then drew a half circle at the top and cut that out.  Doesn’t it look like a bird cage?   Maybe just a little?

The branches on the orchid layer were stamped in Versamark.  You probably can’t see it in the larger photo, but the patterned paper is glittery and I added some sparkle to the bird using a metallic gelly roll pen.  Here’s a close up: (click to make it larger)

Thanks for visiting!  Please come back soon!

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Stamps: Bird Assortment from Inkadinkado, Foursquare - the Kim Hughes collection from Cornish Heritage Farms

Paper:  white, orchid opulence, certainly celery, pumpkin pie, DCWV Pocket Full of Posies matstack

Ink: Versamark, Versafine Onyx black

Accessories: Copic markers, Pigma Micron pen, flower, 1-1/4″ circle punch, ticket corner punch, A Muse ribbon, Dew Drop (from Ellen Hutson’s store), rhinestones, metallic gelly roll pen, mounting tape