Wedding Wishes

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Good Morning all!

How you all doing this week? I'm off to a slow start but it is the holidays and I've been busy with errands, events and all the stuff that goes on during the holidays. I've also been busy making some custom cards for a friend as well as a card for a friend at work. We're throwing her a surprise wedding shower of sorts and I volunteered to make a card for everyone to sign. I thought I'd show it to you all today!

Isn't it sweet?! I intended to make a fairly neutral card, since it's going to a couple, but I got carried away while coloring the image and it turned into a sweet and fluffy card instead! Hope she doesn't mind too much!

I think you can tell I love coloring in these Sarah Kay images, can't you?! They're so much fun to color with the reinkers and I love all the little details in them - even though they are time consuming to color!

I bought this Stampavie/Sarah Kay stamp, called First Kiss, from DieCutsRUs when Claudia was having a sale. It's no longer in her store now (not surprising since it was a great sale!). I used a combination of SU reinkers and Distress Ink pads to color it in. Then once it was done, I cut it out using the Labels Four Nestie, matted it with some kraft cardstock (which I cut by hand) and machine stitched them together...very slowly! For the base of the card I used that beautiful paper from The Girl's Paperie and more kraft cardstock. Each panel was sponged, some were distressed with my Tim Holtz edge distresser and machine stitched.

The sketch is an oldie, but a goodie! It's Friday Sketchers #118 sketch. It may look familiar to you since I used it on a card I made using a Stampavie image! Who says you can't use the same sketch twice?! :)

Thanks so much for stopping by today!


Supplies
Stamps: Stamping Bella 'First Kiss', PTI 'Enjoy The Ride'
Inks: StazOn 'Jet Black', Creamy Caramel, Pretty In Pink, Regal Rose, Ruby Red, Going Gray, Buckaroo Blue, Soft Suede, Old Olive, So Sahara, Cool Caribbean, Distress Inks 'Antique Linen, Tea Dye, Vintage Photo and Black Soot'
Papers: Strathmore Bristol Vellum, Bazzil Basics, PTI Cardstock - Kraft, PP - The Girls Paperie 'Paper Girl Collection'
Access: Ribbon, Button, PTI Rustic Button Twine - Cream, Spellbinders Labels Four Nestibilities, EK Success Edge Punch, Fiskars Decorative Scissors, Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist - Pearl, Sponges, Dimensionals

Live Your Bliss

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Good Morning sweet peeps!

How are you all this morning? Good I hope! I'm so glad it's hump day already. I could use another weekend already. It's just been one of those weeks, ya know? I just want it done already. Although today's ride home from work should be interesting....I'll have a large bird in my truck tonight. :) Haha! The company I work for gives each of their employees a turkey for Thanksgiving! Sweet, right?! I'll be taking it over to my in-laws for our Thanksgiving feast. YUM!

I've been trying to get used to coloring in my new room for a couple of weeks now and for some reason it's really strange working in a new space. Is that weird?! In the apartment, I was in the middle of everything (smack in the middle of the living room and dining room) and now it's all quiet in the room and I'm almost looking for a distraction now! So bizarre! I'm sure I'll get used to it soon though. Anyway, so one of the images I colors up this week (yesterday actually!), was this image by Sarah Kay.

There's something about her images that really lends itself to the watercoloring style, it's there?? I just love how you only get a climpse of the kids faces and they could be anyone's kid. As usual, I colored this up with my reinkers and aquapainter brush on Strathmore Bristol Vellum (not really vellum). It's nice, thick and smooth! When I color, always pick the upper right hand corner of the image for where my sunlight is coming from and all my shadows are on the left hand side of any objects. I did the opposite to this on this card because more of the image (the little girl) was 'facing' the left hand side, so I switched corners and put my 'sun' in the upper left hand corner. Does that make sense?! I hope so.

The layout is one I keep going back to again and again. I can't remember where I got it from or when I used it first, but it's a keeper! I figured the image required a simple but layered layout. The paper an oldie but goodie MME collection....which I can't remember the name of right now! Sorry!

Thank you SO MUCH for stopping by today!

Supplies

Stamps: Stampavie Sarah Kay 'Adele Enjoying Fresh Apples', PTI 'Mixed Messages'

Inks: StazOn 'Jet Black', Creamy Caramel, Pretty in Pink, Regal Rose, Ruby Red, Cranberry Crisp, Old Olive, Buckaroo Blue, Going Gray, So Saffron, Cool Caribbean, Distress Inks 'Antique Linen, Vintage Photo, Walnut Stain, Tattered Rose'

Papers: Strathmore Bristol Vellum, Bazzil Basics, PP - My Minds Eye

Access: Ribbon, Machine Stitching, Sponges, Dimensionals

In A Garden Of Friends...

Thursday, September 9, 2010

Good Morning!

My Little Ray of Sunshine's first day at school went well....I think. That's because getting any information out of her was like squeezing blood from a stone! I had to ask all the right questions otherwise the only answer I got to the 'What did you do today?' question was: "Nothing." Sound familiar?! Yesterday sounded like it was a little more difficult for her because she had had a rough afternoon at the after school care facility. But I soon found out the reason for it - apparently an older boy on the bus threaten to kick her butt if she sat next to him. Now I know all about school buses and the unspoken hierarchy that goes on in them, but seriously?! What makes a 7 or 8 year old think it's ok to threaten a 5 year old little girl?!! I was furious! I plan on calling the program administrator about it this morning to make sure it doesn't happen again. Syd is a tough little girl, but I won't have her scared to take the bus everyday! Grrr!

Lets move onto more pleasant things shall we? I colored in this image about three weeks ago and had a bugger of a time trying to get it on a card! I couldn't find a sketch that worked with it and then I had problems with what paper to use. Finally everything came together the other day and I'm thrilled with how it turned out!

Isn't this image adorable?! It was so cute that I couldn't resist putting it in my shopping cart (along with other yummy things!) from DieCutsRUs about a month or so ago. It's called Mouse In a Hammock and it's drawn by Tina Wenke for Stampavie. Claudia at DieCutsRUs no longer has it in her store (can't imagine why?! ;)) but I did spy it at 7Kids....just in case you can't live without it, like I did!

As usual, I colored the image with my SU reinkers and aquapainter brush, then once it was dry, I added some Glossy Accents and Stickles to the daisy petals and spritzed the whole image with some Pearl Glimmer Mist. You should see it IRL! The layout is this week's Friday Sketchers Challenge #118 and the paper is a combination of Crate Paper and Basic Grey's Origins Collection. Each panel was sponged with Frayed Burlap Distress Ink, machine stitched to some Bazzil cardstock. That sweet sentiment is from the Garden Of Friends set by There She Goes. It's perfect for this image, don't you think?! Since I used an animal on this card, it fits this week's A Spoonfull of Sugar Challenge #120!

Thanks so much for stopping by today! Have a good one! :)


Supplies
Stamps: Stampavi 'Mouse In a Hammock'
Inks: StazOn 'Jet Black', Creamy Caramel, Old Olive, True Thyme, Cool Caribbean, Ruby Red, Curry Crush, Distress Inks 'Frayed Burlap, Vintage Photo'
Papers: Strathmore Bristol Vellum, Bazzil Basics, PP - Basic Grey 'Origins Collection'
Access: Ribbon, PTI Button - Chocolate, PTI Rustic Jute Button Twine, Fiskars Decorative Scissors, Machine Stitching, Sponges, Dimensionals

My Friend Elodie!

Friday, August 6, 2010

Happy Friday!

Congratulations! We've made it to the end of the week again my friends! I'm looking forward to this weekend since we're heading to the County Fair tonight and tomorrow we'll be picking blueberries - YUM! And the weather is supposed to be super nice! Yay! I L.O.V.E my weekends!

I have been slowly building up a small collection of Sarah Kay stamps for a while now and I have barely inked up any of them. Shame on me because I love the sweet little kids in her images! I finally have some time now to devote to coloring up them up, so that's what I did this week!

I'll be the first to tell you that I am HIGHLY embellishment-challenged! I see amazing designers like Claudia Rosa and Amy Sheffer create masterpieces with the right amount of ribbon, flowers and sparkle on their creations and for the life of me, I can't recreate those looks! But - that doesn't stop me from trying! :) How else am I supposed to get better at it, right?! Practice makes perfect!

So for this card, I inked up the sweet Elodie In Her Garden with my SU and Distress Ink reinkers and aquapainter brush. (I bought mine from DieCutsRUs, but Claudia doesn't have this one in stock anymore.) Then I spritzed the image with a teeny, tiny bit of Glimmer Mist in Pearl. (Loving a little sparkle!) Then I matted it with some kraft cardstock and Bitter Chocolate Bazzil cardstock and machine stitched them together. Then, for the base layers, I used some of BoBunny's Double Dot patterned paper and JillyBean Soup's Old World Cabbage Stew 'Caraway Seeds' paper, matted with more of the bitter chocolate cardstock, machine stitched them both and adhered them to a kraft cardstock base. I distressed and inked up the edges of the Double Dot paper and used some decorative scissors to decorate the edge of the floral patterned paper. For embellishments, I (tried) adding some crocheted eyelet ribbon, a wooden button tied up with PTI's Rustic Button Twine and mini Prima roses. Then I tucked a little tag stamped with the My Friend sentiment on it under the button and a matching sentiment on the kraft cardstock and cut it out with a Labels Four nestibilitie die.

I love the colors of this card....very sweet and calming.

You've probably either read, or noticed, that I no longer design for TGF's Critter Crew. I had the opportunity to stay on, but I decided to step down because I've been trying to free up my summer (even though it's nearly the end of the season!) to spend more time with my family and enjoy (the outdoor) life a bit more. I have had such a blast coloring for The Greeting Farm and the Critter Crew! But, that means there's now an opening or two on the Crew for some new talent and Jess is having a DT Call for anyone who wants to color those adorable critters for the next 4 months! You can find all the details on the TGF blog!

Thanks SO much for stopping by this week! Have a fabulous weekend everyone!

Supplies
Stamps: Stampavi 'Elodie In Her Garden', There She Goes 'What's Up Buttercup?' sentiments
Inks: StazOn 'Jet Black', Creamy Caramel, Pretty In Pink, Old Olive, Morning Marigold, More Mustard, Cool Caribbean, Soft Suede, Distress Inks 'Weathered Wood, Antique Linen, Tea Dye, Vintage Photo'
Papers: Strathmore Bristol Vellum, Bazzil Basics, Kraft, PP - Bo Bunny and JillyBean Soup
Access: Crocheted Ribbon, Ribbon, PTI Rustic Button Twine, Wooden Button (Joanns), Spellbinders Tags Trio and Labels Four Nestibilities, Prima Mini Roses - Off White, Glimmer Mist - Pearl, Tim Holtz Edge Distresser, Fiskars Decorative Scissors, Machine Stitching, Sponges, Dimensionals