A Mother's Day Gift

My Mother's Day gift was given to me by moi' and that was to do a little stamping.  It's been quite a while since I've been able to stamp due to an illness I'm battling, but I found that I had a little energy and garnered some mojo from the featured stamper over at Splitcoastampers, silli (Silke). I cased her cute Hambo Stamps card here.

I've tried, unsuccessfully, to upload the photo of my card for two days now.  Not sure if it's a Blogger issue or what, but here's a link to my card in my Splitcoaststampers' gallery.



I'm not sure how often I'll be back over the next couple months, but it sure felt good to be at my stamping table today.

For all you mom's out there, I hope you had a terrific day yesterday!


 

CCEE Oldie But Goodie

Do you have some "oldie but goodie" stamps in your collection that have been neglected for a while? How about taking up our CCEE Stampers' challenge to pull one or more of them out and make a card with us this week?

I chose to use an old retired stamp set from Stampin' Up called Roses in Winter and a triple time technique for my card today.  I used Pink Pirouette and Regal Rose for my roses and Garden Green for the leaves.  The button is die cut from striped designer paper.  I finished the card off with bakery twine.


 

Please visit our CCEE Stampers' blog to see what the rest of the team designed!

CCEE Pencils, Please

This week I challenged the CCEE Stampers to use colored pencils only in coloring their images. I used my Stampin' Up watercolor pencils and a blender pen for Violet below.

 If you'd like to play along or see what the rest of the design team created, please visit our CCEE Stampers' blog.

Supplies I used:
Stamps:  Violet, Victorian Lace bg, Word Set 2 by Rubbernecker Stamps
Paper:  Not Quite Navy, More Mustard, Cajun Craze, Whisper White
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black; Stampin' Up Not Quite Navy and Really Rust
Accessories:  oval Nestability, brads, spiral and scallop border punches, paper piercer, watercolor pencils, sponge dauber, embossing folder, dimensionals

CCEE The Eyes Have It

I am the CCEE Stampers' March challenge hostess and, for this first week in March, I challenged the team to use eyelets in their design.  My eyelets are in the center of my flowers (Rose Red), as well as the four corners (Always Artichoke) of my card below.

 I used the Puzzle Piece Resist technique on my card.  I stamped my Rubbernecker Lace background stamp with Versamark onto white card stock and heat embossed it with clear embossing powder.  I then die cut the flowers with my Rose Creations Nestabilities.  I applied River Rock and Always Artichoke inks to the background layers, and I applied Rose Red for the flowers and sentiment.  I then fit the flower puzzle pieces back into the green background, applying them with Tombow glue.

Here's a closer view so you can see the texture of the Lace background image, as well as how the puzzle pieces fit into the design.

Please visit our CCEE Stampers' blog if you are interested in seeing what the entire team created for this challenge or if you'd like to play along with us.

 Supplies I used:

Stamps:  Lace background and Word Set by Rubbernecker
Paper:  Whisper White, Rose Red, Always Artichoke, River Rock
Ink:  Rose Red, Always Artichoke, River Rock
Accessories:  eyelets, twine, dimensionals, blender tools, clear embossing powder, Versamark, heat tool, Beautiful Wings Embosslits

Spring Flowers

 I was glad that Mary, the color challenge hostess on Splitcoaststampers, chose such pretty colors for the color challenge this week:  Primrose Petals, Raspberry Ripple, and Bashful Blue with the option of making either an Easter or Spring-themed card. I chose the Spring theme.

 

I don't have the new Stampin' Up In-Colors Primrose Petals or Raspberry Ripple, so I chose colors I did have on hand that I thought came close to the new ones.  I used Rose Romance (that's going back a bit, eh?) and Purely Pomegranate...both retired colors.

I inked up the flower stamp with the Rose Romance and then lightly spritzed with water for a water color effect.  The flower centers were punched using the circles on the owl punch out of Purely Pomegranate.   I also covered them with Glossy Accents.

Supplies I Used:

Stamps:  Secret Garden and Flight of the Butterfly (Stampin' Up)

Paper:  Whisper White, Bashful Blue, Purely Pomegranate

Ink:  Stamping Up Rose Romance, Memento Tuxedo Black

Accessories:  Secret Garden Framelits, Paper-Piercing Pack, owl punch, Cheery Lynn Fanciful Flourish die, dimensionals, fan fold embossing folder, Beautiful Wings embosslit, Bashful Blue brads

CCEE Fairies

Frances challenged the CCEE Stampers to use a fairy image in our design today.  I got several free images, including this sweet Lili of the Valley fairy image, out of a Papercraft Inspirations (a UK publication) magazine last year and totally forgot I had them until I was searching for something else one day and came upon them.  I colored her with Copic markers and added turquoise stickles to sections of her wings and wand.

The crocheted flower was white, but I colored it with my Sage Bundle distress pad to match my Sage ribbon.  The button in the center is a dark eggplant color.

Here's a closer view of this sweet little image

Thanks for stopping by!  Have a blessed day!

Supplies I used:
Stamps:  Lili of the Valley
Paper:  White, Eggplant
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black
Accessories:  Copic markers, crocheted flower, ribbon, button, Polkadots Card Creator die, Labels Seventeen Nestability

More Old Muse Color Challenge

This week's color challenge at Splitcoaststampers is being brought to you by yours truly to use More Old Muse: More Mustard, Old Olive, and Midnight Muse. Dessert option is watercoloring.

I watercolored my bird and my background. I used a direct to paper technique for the background, running my More Mustard and Old Olive ink pads across my card stock and then applied a light spritzing of water. Once dried, I stamped the Inspired by Nature image with Midnight Muse.

I used my bird punch for the bird and leaf branch, watercoloring him with reinkers and a watercolor brush. I sponged the edges with Midnight Muse for definition.

I love how vivid and rich these colors are together!