May you find Peace

I have a couple more Sympathy cards that I made last month for the card order I completed.  I know you're probably tired of seeing these types of cards, but I promise this is the last of them.

The first one is using The Greetery  Fresh Floral stamp and stencils.  The main part of the stamp consists of all the greenery, (plus individual flowers and greenery) which I placed in my misty to make sure I got a good imprint.  All the flowers are stamped individually.   I then used a couple of the dies from  Creative Expression die - Portuguese Collection - Lisbon. I stamped the sentiment onto some which c/s then layered this together. 

To finish this off I added some pink seam binding ribbon, small flower from Wild Orchid crafts and some greenery from the Memory Box Leafy Sprig die.

For my second card, I sponged some  inks onto some white 100 lb card stock using distress oxide worn lipstick and scattered  straw. I made sure the inks were good a dry before stamping the floral image with versamark and heat setting with gold embossing powder.  The floral set is from WPlus9 - Kind Soul stamps.

I used Creative Expressions Greek Island Collection - Santorini for the sentiment piece.  Sentiment is from Papertrey Ink - Willow, embossed in gold.

A few pearls were added around the edge of the sentiment to finish off.

I'm so glad you were able to stop by today.  Have a great day!

Pauline

Bontanical beauty

Hello and Happy Monday! 

Today I have a couple of cards to share with you, both of them the same, just changed up the colours and sentiment.

I'm using The Stamp Market Botanical Beauty leaf die,

I cut this one from TH metallic papers -and for the strips of paper, I just selected green/blue tones from my scrap bin..  I cut the strips approx 1/4" then glued them to the front layer.  Used my corner rounder for the top edges, then added some fun foam behind for dimension. Sentiment stamped in green ink.

For my second card, basically the same as the first just changed up the colours and used TH metallic papers in copper.  Happy birthday is from SSS.

A couple of CAS cards for my stash, one can never have too many!

Thank you for visiting today, have a great day!

Pauline

50th Wedding Anniversary

Hello! Just popping in for a really quick post today.  I was asked by a friend to make a 50th Wedding Anniversary card.  Of course I jumped at the chance, as I love making these types of cards.

There isn't a lot of explaining on this, so I'll just leave you with the details below of what I used.

Paper - Basic Grey, Penny Black, cougar white
Dies - Sue Wilson Creative Expressions - Scandinavian Collection - Stockholm, Quick Kutz for the '50'
Misc - lots of flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts, bling, pearls, Nuvo shimmer pen

I'm glad you stopped by today, have a happy day!

Pauline

Easy breezy coneflowers

I'm back today to share another card I made for my card order.  I have so many digital images already printed off, I need to start colouring them and making them into cards.

These cone flowers are from Power Poppy. I decided to colour these in purple tones using copic colours V91, V93, V95 and V99.

I pulled out some cardstock to try to match the purples.  Purple tones are the hardest to match, just so many variations of tones.  In real the background cardstock is pretty close to the flower colours, but it doesn't look that way in the picture.  It's funny sometimes how the camera see's colours in a different way. For the embossed background I used a die from Nellie's Choice called Square Drops A, for some added interest.

Anyway, designer paper is some older Basic Grey - Wisteria. I think I hoarded this paper pack because I love it so much, but time to change that! I also sponged some antique linen distress ink around the edges of the floral piece once I cut it out using MFT stitched rectangle.

The layer behind the flowers is cut using one of the Postal Frames from The Greetery.

To finish off I added a few tiny purple rhinestones and some gold coloured silk ribbon. I also added some loose glitter from Art Institute to the centers of the cone flowers.

Well that's it for me.  I'm so glad you stopped by today.  Enjoy the rest of your day and have a fabulous weekend! Beautiful weekend here with temperatures in the mid to upper 60's and sunny! Perfect weather!

Take care my friends, hugs,

Pauline

Birding #2, 2020

So glad you were able to stop by today.  I do not have a card to share, but I have some of my photos that were taken April & May.  

Not a lot of explaining on these, so I will leave you to take a closer look at each but clicking on the picture.

These were all taken from the car window as we traveled the country roads.

The Blue-headed Vireo (below)  just happen to land in our backyard one day during spring migration.  Now that I have been working from home, it amazes me how many variety of birds actually stop on their way through. I was just lucky enough to see this guy stop for about 10 min then gone!

I hope you enjoyed these, I will have more in the coming days to share.  Have a wonderful day!

Pauline

Pure Prairie Bouquet

I hope everyone is having a good week. I've been busy at nights these past few weeks working on a card order for a friend.  Sometimes it's good to have an order to work on as it pushes you to make cards, where as if you have no orders, I seem to slide a bit, and then find it hard to get back at it.

So with that said, today I have a Birthday card I made for the order. I decided to colour up some of the digital images already printed off ages ago.  This one is from Power Poppy called - Pure Prairie Bouquet. I just love it, such a variety of flowers.

I used copics to colour, and used the pointillism technique for adding colour around the image.
After the image was trimmed down I added a couple of strips of gold peel-off's for some added interest.

Now you know you need some sparkle on the flowers, so I pulled out my container of Art Institute glitter. I have so much of this, and I hardly think to use it.  I used a couple of different colours on the flowers although the close up shot below, they all kind of look the same! Just love that sparkle!

A few gold sequins were added to finish this off.

I've also been busy going through my bird photography.  So many pictures to go through, but that's one good thing about a digital camera, you can delete the ones you don't want.  I should have some pictures to share with you soon.

Have a wonderful weekend, and thanks for your visit!

Pauline

Homeward

Hello everyone!  I hope you had a good weekend, and are doing well.  Here we are, beginning of another month already, time is flying!

My card today is one that I actually made two of and then just changed up the sentiment.  This card is for my brother-in-laws birthday which is actually today!

I pulled out Penny Black's Homeward cling stamp.  I just love how fast these cards work up. Put it in your MISTI, ink it up and stamp, it's that easy!  I also used Canson 140lb watercolour paper.

For ink, I used Tombow markers, coloured the stamps and then spritzed and stamp.  Repeat process until you are happy with it.  With the stamp still in place in the MISTI, clean the stamp then add versamark to the rubber and stamp onto your image.  I repeated this twice to make sure I got a good impression.  I then pulled the image out of the MISTI, then added clear embossing powder, then heat set.

For the background shading, I used some Memento inks and my life changing brushes.

Sentiment - happy birthday is from Papertrey Ink stamped in Rich Cocoa Memento ink.

To finish off I added 2 enamel dots, picking up colours in the image.

The other card I made the same just added 'Father's Day', requested from my friend.

For great tutorial's on these types of stamps, hop over to You Tube and check out Penny Black's videos.

I appreciate your visit today.  Have a great day!

Pauline