Here is my take on Dawn's raspberry suite color challenge #9. This one was so hard for me because of the "grass green" (new leaf). I really have trouble with this particular color. I decided to take the minimalist approach and use the cream color as my main color and the new leaf and black as my accents. Sorry for the bad picture.... my camera is on the blink and it took me over an hour just to get a decent picture. I guess I will be in the camera shopping business sooner than later. I will try again in the morning and see if I have better luck. I used vintage cream card stock and ran it thru my cuttlebug with the damask embossing folder. I stamped the main image in new leaf and cut it out with the petite oval nesties and matted the image with black cardstock. I stamped the sentiment in true black, punched out and matted on a black punch oval. The ribbon is the new leaf bitty dots from papertrey ink as is the button slide. I added pearls to the center of the little flowers to give it a little pop. I'm off to go investigate the camera options...Thanks for looking and have a great day!!Lisastamps: basic grey urban prairie line, wishing you from papertrey inkink: new leaf, true black (papertrey ink)cardstock: vintage cream & true black ( papertrey ink)ribbon: new leaf bitty dots ( papaertrey ink)buttons: newleaf (papertrey ink)pearls: hero arts
We have a huge thunderstorm coming in so I have just a short post to share a simple card that I made a few months ago. I made this for one of the challenges during the papertrey ink anniversary in February. This card is posted in my pti gallery. All supplies are papertrey ink. The colors are raspberry fizz, ripe avacado, dark chocolate and white. I used the flower frenzy and around and about sets. I also want to thank you all for the kind comments regarding my card for Dawn's raspberry suite color challenge#8. Ya'll are so sweet.. I don't know how to respond to each comment... I'm a little slow when it comes to tech stuff!! :) I was a little shocked that my card was chosen for the spotlight.. I played with that card all day and I couldn't seem to get it right so I told myself " look, Lisa you are just PLAYING here okay? so slap that baby together and get on with it!!! Then it get's chosen!! Weird how that happens!! Any way I was honored and I do really appreciate Dawn's color challenges.. it totally gets my out of my comfort zone.. Gotta go before the storm hits..
Thanks for looking and have a great day!!!Lisa
Hi all!! Here is my take on the card positioning systems sketch #119. This was a super fun sketch with sooo many possibilities. I have to make this post short so the deets are in the recipe.
Thanks for looking and have a great day!!
Stamps: mixed messages (papertrey ink)
ink: true black (papertrey ink)
cardstock: vintage cream (papertrey ink)
patterned paper: amy butler lotus pad from k&comapny
ribbon: kiwi kis (stampin up)
pearls: hero arts
buttons: papertrey ink, stampin up
chipboard butterflie: k&company
Hi all!! Here is my card patterns sketch for the week. I flipped it once again.. mainly because I wanted to use this image that I received from unity stamp co. the other day. I love birdcage stamps and this one is so cute. I decided to spotlight the bird.. I stamped two and punched one out with a circle punch (the square looks good too) and matted it with a slightly larger circle, colored the bird with a mix of my copics and colored pencils and sponged around the edge with sweet blush and then mounted the punched image over the main image. I used a spring moss ribbon mainly because I wanted a little more color and there is a tad bit of the green in one of the papers I used. The rest of the deets are in the recipe below.
Thanks for looking and have a great day!!
Lisa
Stamps: sweet zzz's from unity stamp co., a little birdie sentiment (birds of a feather, papertreyink)
ink: sweet blush, dark chocolate (papertrey ink)
cardstock: vintage cream (papertrey ink)
patterned paper: my mind eye, sei
ribbon: spring moss (papertrey ink)
pearls: mellisa frances, hero arts
other: diamond stickles, copics, colored pencils
Happy Saturday!! Here is my take this weeks raspberry suite color challenge. I had about ten different ways I was going to use for this color challenge but ended going with the simplest idea I had. This is actually a graduation card for a friends daughter and these are her fav colors!! Not your typical grad card but I love the take flight saying and I think it really pertains to a graduation. I had to use this hero arts background stamp that I have had for awhile and just haven't used yet. It is beautiful! The deets are below in the recipe.Thanks for looking and have a great day!!LisaStamps: flower outline leaf pattern background (hero arts), take flight (birds of a feather, papertreyink)ink: vintage cream, dark chocolate (papertrey ink)cardstock: kraft, vintage cream (papertrey ink)ribbon: dark chocolate (papertrey ink)pearls: mellisa frances, hero arts
I am on a mission this week to get my stamp room cleaned and LOTS of cards made. I have decided to start an etsy store so if you are interested it should be up and running in a few days. Here is my take for the cps sketch #118. The deets are in the recipe below. I really appreciate you who check out my blog (all 3 of you!! Ha! HA!). I figured when I got up to a thousand hits ( I figured it would take 6-8 months!!) I would do a blog candy thingy. I realized that I am over twelve hundred hits and I have only had my blog for a couple of months!! So watch in the next couple of wekks for some blog candy.
Thanks for looking and have a great day!!
Lisa
stamps: papertrey ink, friends til the end
patterned paper: stampin up! (I've had this for a few years)
cardstock: vintage vanilla & kraft, papertreyink
ink: vintage cream, dark chocolate from papertrey ink
ribbon: papertrey ink vintage cream
pearls: jenni bowlin
other: copics
Here is my take for the mojo monday #89 sketch. I got some new papers from collage press and I had to use it. It is from the sweet shoppe line called "YUM" and I definitely think it's "YUM". I was in a raspberry fizz kind of mood and when I saw the yum paper I knew it would be perfect. I stamped my image ( unity stamp co. may KOTM) in raspberry fizz ink on vintage vanilla cardstock (both papertrey ink). I cut mine out using my square nestibilities and sponged the edges lightly with dark chocolate ink. I cut out a square of raspberry fizz cardstock and lightly sponged the edges with dark chocolate and then matted the stamped image onto the raspberry fizz cardstock. I stamped the text style background basics in vintage cream onto a kiwi kiss piece of cardstock and sponged around the edges. I matted the patterned paper and the kiwi kiss together just at the edge and then wrapped a dark chocolate ribbon around. Mat to a vintage cream card. I stamped happy birthday from the around and about sentiment set on to a piece of vintage cream cs stamped with the text image in spring moss.. punch out and then mat on a ripe avacado circle. I made the flower from a cuttlebug flower die (2 layers) roughed it up a bit, added a pearl and adhered it to the center of the flower. For the finishing touch I went over the image with diamond stickles to give it a little sparkle.
Thanks for looking and have a great day!!
No matter what I did I could not get a good picture today so the one side looks darker than it is.. sorry about that!!
I absolutely love this birdcage image from unity stamp co.!! It is my favorite from the may kit of the month and I wanted to use it for the card patterns sketch but it didn't look right the original way that the sketch was..... so I flipped it. This is actually the first time I flipped a sketch and I am lovin' this new possibility!! I had a scrap of paper on my table and one thing led to another... and my card turned out totally different than I intended!! I ended up with a more vintage look than I was aiming for but I love the way it turned out.. After I stamped my main image with dark chocolate ink, I distressed the edge with my Heidi Swapp edge distresser. I stamped portions of text from the new papertrey ink text style in sweet blush over my image... it comes out light but gives it a little "something", I then took a copic marker that matched the sweet blush (R30) and hightlighted a few of the words. I aged the edge with the new chamomile ink from papertrey ink (the aged duo) and used my spica pen to highlight the birds (I love those birds... I WISH they would make a set with the birdcages and the bird separate so you can mix or match... I can always wish, right?) I layered it on a berry sorbet scrap and layered that on a vintage cream card that I ran thru my cuttlebug with the damask folder. I used an old my mind eye asparagas scrap and tied a vanilla taffeta ribbon around. On the end part I stamped the label image from the papertrey ink recipe box label set in dark chocolate and cut out, adhered it to the card with dimensionals and added a few berry sorbet buttons (my FAV!!) from papertrey ink. To top it off I took a couple of the maya road trinket pins and colored them with copic marker R22 to match the berry sorbet. Works like a charm!
Thanks for looking and have a great day!!
