Flourishes Peach Birthday Card

I learned a costly leason today. You cannot sponge over Copics with SU ink. The sponge will pick up the Copic color. So after I ruined the first peaches I made sure my mask covered every bit of ink and I colored the stems at the end. Whew!

Stamps: Flourishes Cherries and Peaches, Justrite Sentiment
Paper: Old Olive, Gina K White, DCWV Mariposa, Su dp
Ink: Memento Black, More Mustard SU
Accessories: Ribbon, Dimensionals, Copics, Nesties, Brads, MS Border Punch, Fiskars Border Punch
Techniques: Sponging

Soft Pink Birthday Card

Today's card uses a Hero Arts sentiment stamp. My birthday card stash has been depleted since I was so bad about making cards during the first part of the school year. I sponged most everything on this card with either Distressed Tea Dye ink or Antique Linen.

Stamps: Hero Arts
Paper: Vanilla, Pink Pirouette, Brenda Walton dp
Ink: Stazon brown, Tim Holtz Tea Stain, TH Antique Linen
Accessories: Ribbon, Spellbinders Lattice die, Nesties, lace, MS border punch, SU butterfly embossing folder, K & Co pearls, dimensionals

Butterfly Birthday Card

This is my latest Copic card. Coloring with Copics is very different than watercoloring. I love the way the Copics blend. They are much more forgiving than watercolor. For the butterfly I used V09, V12, V15, E00 and E02, E33. I used G21, G24, and G28 for the leaves and the same violets for the flower along with R00, R02, RV11 and R08. I did not have the peach colors I wanted so I was trying to get the flower to look more peachy. I just ordered R30, 32 and 35 so that should help next time! Paper is Memory Makers Boho Chic and Elegant eggplant, Always Artichoke and White. The rhinestone are Kaiser and ribbon is from Hobby Lobby. The stamp set is SU God's Beauty.

High Hopes Valentine

This is my second time to use Copic markers. I usually use ink to watercolor. Copics are so much faster. They don't have to dry between layers of color. There are several technique video on the web to show you how to shade with the Copics. This is my first High Hope stamp. I love the bug stamps that they have. They are so cute!

Stamps: High Hopes bee, Verve Sentiment
Paper: Black, Real Red, Paper stack dp
Ink: Momento Black, Summer Sun
Accessories: Stickles, Copics, MS border punch, Kaiser rhinestones, ribbon, dimensionals
Techniques: Sponging

Peachy Birthday Card

It has been so long since I have posted here. I have been working on card sets for a charity project as well as homeschooling an 8th grader and a Junior in high school. My stash of birthday cards is so depleted that I have to start making some cards for myself again!

This is my first flourishes set. I have admired them for a long time but since they has a sale at New Year's I had to buy one!

Stamps: Flourishes Peaches and Cherries

Paper: Basic Grey Ambrosia, Pumpkin Pie

Ink: Black Stazon, Pumpkin Pie, Really Rust, Pear Pizzazz, Always Artichoke

Accessories: Ribbon, button, Nesties, Dimensionals

Thinking of You Challenge Card

This is for today's sketch challenge at Splitcoaststampers.com. I used my new Labels 9 Nesties for the image. The stamp is from the SU Feathered Friends set. I have had it for a while but have never used it. I used the Lemonade paper from Basic Grey as well as Baja Blue and Baroque Burgandy from SU. The flowers are Making Memories and the metal spacer is a bead cap that I flattened and cut a hole in with my Big Bite. I LOVE the Big Bite! It punches a hole in anything. The brads did not match my card so I dipped them in the Versamark pad and then in pearl embossing powder. After you heat the powder they look like they came that way.

Stamps: Feathered Friends

Paper: Basic Grey Lemonade, Baroque Burgandy, Baja Blue

Ink: Kiwi Kiss, Creamy Caramel, Really Rust, Baja Blue, So Saffron, Rose Romance, Baroque Burgandy, Yoyo Yellow, Chocolate Chip, Old Olive, Versamark

Accessories: Nesties, Brads, EP, MM flowers, bead caps, ribbon, dimensionals

Porcelain Sketch Birthday Card

This is for this weeks sketch challenge over at SCS. I used Basic Grey Porcelain for the patterned paper because I thought it looked like fabric. The dress was stamped on patterned paper and then cut out and glued over another image stamped on solid card stock. Only the dress has to be cut out - not the hanger or the swirls.

Stamps: Haute Couture

Paper: Basic Grey Porcelain, Chocolate chip, vanilla

Ink: Brown Stazon

Accessories: ribbon, dimensionals, nesties, computer font Society