Another week, another amazing sketch from Freshly Made Sketches. This time it is the lovely Jen Brum as our sketch hostess and she has created one that will ensure a varied and interesting gallery. I have been in a bit of a stamping slump (mostly due to lack of time) and so when I sat down to finally stamp yesterday, I was a bit overwhelmed with too many ideas and found myself stuck doing nothing instead. Ever have that happen??!! I did what any good stamper does and fessed up to the team, lol! And the wonderful Linda Callahan broke the code for me with three little letters. D.S.P. Yep, I needed a directional push and that was the right one. Yay for stamping friends!
I went over to my stash of papers and found this pretty spring set from last year called Painted Blooms. Once I chose the Wild Wasabi stripes and the Daffodil watercolor solid, I was back on track. I kept rummaging through some unused things and found these leftover flowers from my Watercolor Wishes kit. The sentiment from Watercolor Wishes was just the right size and I added sequins from the kit too. All of the rectangles are cut using Stitched Rectangles dies from Simon Says Stamp.
I’m sure you will have lots of ideas the minute you see this sketch but if in doubt, listen to Linda. This is a great sketch for using some of your pretty DSPs. Hope you have fun and I’ll see you in the gallery.
Supplies (affiliate links included):
Stamps: Watercolor Wishes; Ink: Wild Wasabi; Paper: Thick Whisper White (SU), Painted Blooms DSP; Accessories: Big Shot, Stitched Rectangles Dies (SSS), Dimensionals, Watercolor Wishes Kit
So I told you that I was supposed to head to Denver on Wednesday….well, the weather had other plans and crazy enough, I ended up back at home for another night (YAY!!!). Well I had a little bit of time to play (very little) in the morning before heading back into the fray and I just had to do a little bit of coloring on a new stamp set. This Botanical Garden set from Altenew is just gorgeous and I wanted to color it to look like my cherry tree which is just starting to bloom.I really wanted to use my new Chameleon Markers that were sent to me by the fabulous Ilina Crouse. She is a master with these and I am determined to learn to use them well. I only used the pink on for today and the way they blend seamlessly is really cool. Again, I was working quick but I look forward to more time with them. I added some Copics markers for the green. The sentiment comes from another set I just got called Butterfly Kisses (Mama Elephant) and I’m in love with the fonts and sentiment choices on this one! I played along with The Paper Players Celebrate Spring theme and with Addicted to CAS #84 code word Delicate. Ok, I’m really out on my trip now and hoping for some flyer friendly weather tomorrow. Today….not so much. Thanks so much for stopping in today! See you soon.
Do you ever feel like the weeks are flying by? Yeah…me too. Something about this time of year, I suppose. Over the weekend my boys started up the spring soccer season with a tournament and then the whole family headed out for a couple of days of much needed vacation. We joined some friends in a cabin at a local state park for an amazing time! Unplugged and out in a beautiful location with great friends! FABULOUS!! We hiked, made s’mores at a big fire the dads built, and enjoyed the company of some of our favorite people. Now that we are back to reality, I’m trying to catch up a bit but out for a trip later today. Maybe I’ll catch up next week??? Sure, ok! *smile*
In any case, my friends over at Freshly Made Sketches have a great sketch for jump starting your creativity this week. The talented, fabulous and oh so creative Cindy Hall is our sketch hostess this week and her sketch is sure to get you moving right to your stamp room!
My card, thankfully, popped right into my head when I saw the sketch. I just got this awesome little plane set called Bon Voyage from Lawn Fawn and I pulled out my Copics to color it. I thought the plane and the clouds were perfect for the set of three on the sketch. Now I have to confess that when I started editing my photo, I thought it looked like something was missing and I realized that I should have included a sentiment. Ah well…I will include a fun one inside instead. I used the coordinating dies for this set to cut out the images with my Big Shot, added some Black Baker’s Twine and attached them all to a panel cut using Stitched Rectangles Dies (SSS). The base of the card is Real Red.
Alright…off to get ready to fly into Denver and beyond. Hoping the blizzard there doesn’t cause too much havoc! Make sure you take a look at all the DT’s inspiration this week! Have fun stamping!
With this trip and then Easter, I won’t be back until next week. But I have some great ideas that are all ready to hit the paper when I return! Until then, I hope you have a safe and blessed Easter.
Welcome to this month’s Fancy Friday Blog Hop! Our team is a group of demonstrators who love to make beautiful things. Sometimes they are clean, sometimes they are layered but the one thing I can say for sure is that our projects will be fancy! If you hopped over from my dear friend Cindy, welcome to the next stop. For March, we decided to have an inspiration challenge. Wow, inspiration is the word!
Isn’t this gorgeous?! How to choose what to focus on with all that spring beauty?!! I know it isn’t any great shock that I was drawn to the butterflies first. I do love a butterfly! And the pink and blue setting on the bottom left is just so pretty! I pulled out watercolor paper and used some Distress Inks to create an ombre effect on the paper. Then, using my Greetings Thinlits and my Butterfly Thinlets, I positioned the dies on my Big Shot to cut them out. I made sure on both cuts that I had a little bit of white left to add interest to the cut-outs. Don’t you love it when a little bit of ink and some dies do all the work? Yeah, me too. I used a Stitched Rectangle as a focal layer and then pulled out my sequins. I have become quite the sequin hoarder and it pays off! The little blue sequin is from the Watercolor Wishes kit and the pink ones are from the February Paper Pumpkin kit. I just love the little bit of sparkle and fun that they add! And these colors are so fabulous together….totally channeling the Pantone colors of the year (a combination of pink and blue).
I love using these little sentiment dies and I seem to be obsessed with “hello” on my cards lately….just noticed that as I was scrolling down some of my latest posts. Just like a “for you”, it is such a workhorse sentiment. You can make the inside anything from a birthday to a thank you to a thinking of you.
I hope you love all the spring loveliness from the team this month! If you find yourself inspired by our picture, make sure to let us know!!
My lovely friend Jeanna Bohanon is up next! As always, she will wow you!
Well, all I can say is thank goodness for Freshly Made Sketches!! The beginning of the flying month held 8 out of 11 days gone from home so I can safely say that stamping was pretty much off the table. Then I came home to a house full of sick boys (big and little, alike!) and the last few days haven’t allowed much time to myself. Thankfully, I got to the stamp room for a few minutes yesterday and got to try my take at Kim‘s super fun sketch. I was feeling absolutely NO mojo when I walked in. Totally distracted and my brain racing will all the stuff I need to get done. But her sketch seemed so perfect when I looked around at my stamps.
I had this old retired set, Betsy’s Blossoms, sitting in my closet but it virtually jumped off the shelf for this one. I thought it might be fun to use it with updated colors and I fell in love with it all over again! I stamped the flower in Watermelon Wonder, added mask and then stamped the leaves using Momento Tuxedo Black ink. I cut a piece of Basic Black to look like a label and added the sentiment from Lil’ Inker Designs Fancy Feathers set. It was stamped in Versamark and embossed with White Stampin’ Emboss Powder. I added a layer of black to make the white pop and put it on a Watermelon card base. Super simple but I really love how modern it looks!!
I’m hoping to get back to some more stamping today and tomorrow and I should be back for an early edition of Fancy Friday later this week. Until then, I hope you’ll go enjoy the inspiration from the team! See you soon!
Supplies (affiliate links may be included):
Stamps: Betsy’s Blossoms (SU ret); Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black,Watermelon Wonder; Paper: Thick Whisper White (SU), Basic Black, Watermelon Wonder; Accessories: Heat Tool, White Stampin’ Emboss Powder, Foam Tape
Wow, is it already Wednesday again?! The last week has just flown by! Literally. Because I have been flying TONS! But at least it is Freshly Made Sketches day. Yay for that!! And the clever and so fabulous Linda Callahan has our sketch all ready for this week and it is awesome.
I just got this stamp set called Blue Skies from Lawn Fawn last week and the little balloons called out to be colored for this one. I also got some new Copics so out those came too! Also in the order, Pretty Pink Posh Sequins….yep, I was ready for some spring colors and inspiration for sure! The sentiment on this is from the February Paper Pumpkin, the DSP is retired from SU and the pink strip is a piece of white colored with Copics to match.I know my post is super fast. Long day dealing with weather and another looms for tomorrow. This is a long trip but when I get home, I have some time off so it will be worth it!
I hope that you are having a great week. Last week you all blew us away with a super gallery. I’m hoping to see that again this weekend. Make sure you let the team know how much you like their work and give a special note to Linda for our awesome sketch! Happy rest of your week. See you soon!
Happy Wednesday everyone! I’m so thrilled to share this awesome sketch from the lovely Rita. I was so grateful for this one since my card came together really fast!!
I had colored this flower a few weeks ago when my mom was visiting. We were playing with Zig Clean Color Markers and Shimmery White card stock and this flower was a natural to color. You can’t see it in the picture but the flower has a lovely shimmer to it that makes it even prettier in person. I stamped some Crumb Cake card stock using the Dots for Days stamp and Momento Black. The sentiment is from the February Paper Pumpkin kit (I’m obsessed with this font and the sentiments).
I hope you enjoy playing along this week! I can’t wait for you to see all the team has created. And I know I’ll be loving the gallery this week too. Thanks for stopping in! See you soon!
Today is the last day of the 30 Day Coloring Challenge and I wanted post one last card that I created with my colored samples. Mostly as a big thank you to Kathy for all that she does in this challenge to encourage us all to make time for a little art every day.
I used the retired SU set So Very Grateful because I just love the flowers and the style of artwork on this stamp! It is a fun set to color and I pulled out my Zig Clean Color Markers again for this one. The flowers are stamped with WPlus9 Dye Ink and the sentiment with Versafine Black Onyx. Not much else to add other than I am going to try to keep up my coloring as much as possible because it makes me happy. The overwhelming participation in this challenge says that I’m not alone.
I hope you enjoy this sweet card. Back tomorrow with the latest from Freshly Made Sketches! See you then!
Welcome to this month’s Fancy Friday Blog Hop! Our team is a group of demonstrators who love to make beautiful things. Sometimes they are clean, sometimes they are layered but the one thing I can say for sure is that our projects will be fancy! If you hopped over from my dear friend Cindy, welcome to the next stop. For February, we came up with a really unique theme. Colors. But not your average color challenge. Nope, not for us. We decided to give some love to colors who, frankly, don’t get enough love. You know the ones. The sad neglected ink pads that haven’t been opened in, ahem, months (or years).
So as I looked at my papers and my markers and pads, a few colors jumped out. The first was Chocolate Chip. There was a day in my early stamping that I was hard pressed to make a card without this color. I thought it would be my all-time favorite bestie forever. But then, sigh, Espresso came to town and the shabby chic trend went to the side and…..well, you know the story. My dear friend was set aside. I also noticed that Pumpkin Pie and Tempting Turquoise had not seen much love either. So a card to combine them….possible? Why yes!!
Admittedly, Turquoise has never been on my go-to list but maybe it needs to be. It really is a pretty color! In any case, I wanted to make these colors look fun and trendy so my first thought was watercolor. Specifically Watercolor Wings. I sponged the Pumpkin Pie onto the big butterfly and stamped it onto Shimmery White card stock. Then I sponged Tempting Turquoise onto the coordinated “spots” image and stamped it over the orange. And here is where the magic happens. I took a dampened Aquapainter (mine did not have water in it, I just dipped into water so you could use a paint brush here too), and started moving the ink around a bit. Just a little. Enough to make the edges fuzzy and to create the watercolor look. Almost like I painted it myself if I was capable of painting it myself! The body of the butterfly was stamped with Chocolate Chip with more water added. Then I added a few speckles with my Gorgeous Grunge stamp and added a little water to those too.Here is a closeup.I’m going to take a moment to give a big shout out to the underutilized workhorse that is Shimmery White paper. This paper is so pretty. The subtle sparkle in it makes everything special to start. But then….who knew….it actually allows for some watercoloring!! Not tons and tons of water like a true watercolor paper, but certainly perfect for this kind of project. It makes this one layer card feel complete. You can see some of the shimmer in the closeup but in person, amazing.
The sentiment is from the Watercolor Wings set too and is one of my favorite sentiments to put on cards. Many times I’m not sure of the card’s purpose when I make it and this one allows for the card to used for almost anything!
Ok, it is time for you to continue on our colorful hop. Hope you will be inspired to pull out some of your old favorites that need a little love!
The fabulous Mercedes Weber is up next! As always, she will wow you!
I’m back today with the latest and greatest from Freshly Made Sketches and I do mean great! My friend Jen Mitchell has created a marvelous sketch for this week and you are going to love it!
I had some birds from this wonderful Happy Birds stamp set (WPlu9) colored from the coloring challenge I’ve been doing. This bright happy pink one jumped out and demanded to be used! I used some retired SU DSP from my stash and I love the graphic feel that it gives. I stamped the bird in Momento Tuxedo Black and colored him with my Copics (RV21, RV04, Y06) then cut him out with the coordinating die. I added the little “wire” from the stamp set onto my square panel and then popped the bird on Dimensionals to attach. The sequins and the sentiment are part of the Paper Pumpkin kit from February…..one of my all time faves!
Ok….I hope you enjoy this fun little card as much as I enjoyed making it! The team has some adorable work to share with you so have a great time with their inspiration. Back on Friday with a fun new hop with my Fancy Friday friends. See you then!
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Another week, another amazing sketch from Freshly Made Sketches. This time it is the lovely Jen Brum as our sketch hostess and she has created one that will ensure a varied and interesting gallery. I have been in a bit of a stamping slump (mostly due to lack of time) and so when I sat down to finally stamp yesterday, I was a bit overwhelmed with too many ideas and found myself stuck doing nothing instead. Ever have that happen??!! I did what any good stamper does and fessed up to the team, lol! And the wonderful Linda Callahan broke the code for me with three little letters. D.S.P. Yep, I needed a directional push and that was the right one. Yay for stamping friends!
I’m sure you will have lots of ideas the minute you see this sketch but if in doubt, listen to Linda. This is a great sketch for using some of your pretty DSPs. Hope you have fun and I’ll see you in the gallery.
