Hello everyone, and happy Saturday to all! Isn't this time of year wonderful? Cooler night temperatures, as well as early morning, and then the day warms up to low to mid 70's, the sun warming your face - ah... a perfect day.
This past Monday, Sept 21 my daughter turned 29 - OMG yes 29, she is my baby. I can't believe where the years have gone. She loves sweet images, so I just received my Purple Onion order a few weeks back and I knew I wanted to colour up this image for her card.
Is this not the sweetest image ever? I just love this cute mouse. The image is called Wishing - a Stacey Yakula image from Purple Onion.
I stamped the image onto cougar 100 lb white cardstock using black memento ink, then coloured using primsacolour pencils and blended with gamsol.
I cut the image out using spellbinders square die, then layered this onto a piece of blue bazzill c/s, then stitched around the edges.
Designer paper is from Kathy Davis - journeys. I wanted to stamp a little sentiment of some sort, but nothing big to take away from the image. I found the perfect sentiment in my PTI- mixed messages set, that fit perfectly on this little die cut tag.
Finished off with some seam binding ribbon, glitter and a couple of dots on her cheek using my white pen.
Supplies:
stamp - Purple Onion - Wishes by Stacey Yakula, PTI - mixes messages
ink - black memento, black versafine, prismacolour pencils & gamsol
paper - cougar white 100 lb, blue bazzill - starmist, Kathy Davis - journeys
dies - spellbinders square , back to basic tags
misc - glitter, seam binding ribbon, gold floss, marvy white pen
Thanks for stopping by today, I hope I have encouraged you to do some stamping. Have a wonderful day.
Pauline
Hello there to all my blogging friends! Can you believe that we are in the middle of September already, summer just came and went?
Not sure if I mentioned a couple of months back or not but my son Mark got engaged to a wonderful gal - Anna. Wedding date is set for fall of 2016. They have been looking for a home since late spring and found one - closing date was Sept 15. So yesterday Bill and I were in London to help move them into their new home. The rain held off long enough to get the moving van packed and unpacked, then shortly after that it poured! We are so happy for them to be moving into a new home, to start a new chapter in their lives.
I haven't had much time to do any card making, I have been working OT the last 2 weeks and again this coming week, but I managed to colour this before OT started a few weeks ago.
I'm using one of Marcella's digital image called Ranunculus. Not sure if purple is a real colour for these flowers, but I felt the need to go purple!
After printing the image off, I coloured this using prismacolour pencils and blended with gamsol. Image was cut out using spellbinders labels twenty-five, then I layered this onto a piece of heavy vellum cut using spellbinders elegant ovals.
Designer paper is from DCWV- latte matstack. I also used some bazzill purple tone cardstock for layering and base card.
My finishing touches include some seam binding ribbon, glitter (of course!), sequins, and a wooden bird from Studio Calico.
Wishing you a wonderful day. Thanks for stopping by
Pauline
Hi - hope your weekend is going well. Remember that heat wave I complained about earlier in the week, well we got relief - like 60 degree weather, cool winds, it sure feels like fall as landed upon us, so I made a big pot of homemade chicken noodle soup. Mmmmm good!
We were invited to our neighbors 75th birthday open house today. When we got the invite last week, I thought what kind of card should I make. He has a good sense of humor, both dishing it out and taking it. I don't have a wide variety of choices when it comes to masculine images, but then I remembered I have Tim Holtz's Crazy Bird set - perfect!
So off I went to create a card for my neighbor:
I just loves these birds! I started out by stamping the bird onto some water colour paper- cold press 140 lb using black archival ink. Crazy bird was water coloured using distress inks- hickory smoke, twisted citron, peacock feathers, fossilized amber, spiced marmalade. After that was coloured I wet the paper around the bird with my paintbrush - make sure it is really wet, then picked up some of the fossilized amber (stamped off onto my Teflon mat) and dropped the paintbrush down onto the wet water colour paper. If you have enough water on the paper the ink will spread. I continued to add a bit of twisted citron and a bit of peacock feathers.
The corners were rounded, twine was added, then I added a piece of fun foam cut a bit smaller than my image layer and glued it to the back. I find by using the fun foam, it gives you a much even and stable layer - sometimes using foam tape or dimensionals your paper can droop/sage in spots.
This was then layered onto my card. I added some MME enamel dots to finish this off.
Inside for my liner I stamped this: "Happy birthday you old bird". I know Gary will get a chuckle out of this!
Thanks for stopping by today, enjoy the rest of your day,
Pauline
Hello everyone. We are in the middle of a very hot & humid streak of weather, which according to the weather forecast will come to an end sometime tomorrow as the cooler front pushes through with rain and thunderstorms. I'll take cooler weather anytime. The 100 + degree days can go.
Okay, lets get on with my card. I had this coloured up for a few weeks now, so I guess it's time to share. This is one of the Power Poppy digital images released a few weeks back called
Easy Breezy Coneflowers. As I have said several times, I just love digi images, there is just something about instant gratification once you purchase you have the digi within a few hours, and you can resize to your liking.
So with that being said, after printing this off, this is he finished product:
I did google for colours of these coneflowers - there is quite a variety, and since I had this paper in mind I went with the yellow/orange combo. The centers are brown tones but layered with art institute glitter - ultra fine autumn. I love the way it glitters in real. I hope you can see in the picture how sparkly this really is.
supplies:
stamp - Power poppy digital - easy breezy coneflowers
ink - copcis - E09, e19, E33, E79, R02, R05, R56, R89, Y000, Y32, Y35, Y38, YG93, YG95, YG97, YR01
paper - cougar white, bazzill peach/orange tones, MME - wild asparagus
dies - spellbinders - 5 x 7 herloom legacy
misc - sizzix embossing folder - swiss dots, art institute autumn glitter, rush seam binding ribbon
I thank you for stopping by for a visit. Enjoy the rest of your day.
Pauline
