Tub of raspberry flowers

Here's a card that I made for the Impression Obsession Encouragement challenge.  I love sending cards to people just to let them know that they are on my mind and that I am thinking of them, whether in good times or in bad.
I made this with the IO Flower Tub C1182  stamp and a PTI sentiment.  Simply stamped and coloured with Copic markers, a couple of dies and the resin flower from Prima is a perfect match in colour!  I added the MS punched foliage.  The patterned paper is Basic Grey Indian Summer....I know it's Fall paper, but couldn't resist using because of the colour match :)

Thanks for taking a peek today,
Have a great week-end!
It's warm here and there's a Margarita calling my name ;)
I will be participating in our community garage sale tomorrow morning...not really a garage sale holder, but I have been busy cleaning and pricing various goods this last week...wish me luck in selling.  At least if I have a lot of goods left, the community center will have three charities that will take our "stuff" and distribute/sell for a good cause.
Chriss

a DTGD plethera

Hi there!  Hope you are all well and enjoying the sights from CHA..oh I wish I was there ;)
I have a card that I made and can mark off a few more DTGD challenges.  The card is for 
DTGD10tayloredexpressions, DTGD10melmel, DTGD10debdeb, DTGD10cindy_haffner DTGD10flowergal36 and a Flourish challenge, FTTC77 to use a pin.  In my case I have used a teeny clothes pin with a ladybug attached to it.  I have been hoarding these for 3 years now...so time to let a few of them fly ;)
I used this great sketch as the foundation to my card and then wanted a black/cream/red theme, so I stamped this little Lockhart geranium stamp and coloured with Copic markers.  The black and cream paper is another hoarded sheet of BG LilyKate.  The red patterned pieces are from DCWV Summer Dream Matstack.  The tag is a MS punch and the sentiment is from the PaperTrey Ink set Tea for Two Additions.
Thanks so, so much for looking!
Chriss

Resting up...

Hello again,

I know, 2 posts today, what's up with that? Well, I was so anxious to use this new Stampavie stamp that I bought from Hope Stamps Eternal (I actually got another mousie stamp too and I don't think that it will be too long without getting inked up ;)

This card is for the Card Patterns Sketch60, found here. Julia S. is offering up a very lovely prize! Good luck to all!

I stamped the image on white and coloured with Copic markers and then used a circle Nestability die to cut out. I stamped the image again on a Basic Grey Lemonade scrap from the 6 X 6 size and paper pieced the hammock. Cute lady bugs one. All the rest of the papers on this card are from the 12 X 12 Lemonade pack.

I added some buttermilk Spica pen on the daisy centers and the mousie eyelid and nose. It is obvious that mousie's whiskers are a little thick...my fault.

There is stitching around the circle, I am gaining a little more confidence on this little machine that I am using, but it is a totally different feel from my big ole Singer.

I have not added a sentiment yet to this little one, but I was thinking of using something like "Hope you are resting up and feeling better" Any suggestions?

Thanks for visiting!

Chriss

My Mojo Dahlias and CPS161

Hi there everyone! Bet you thought that I had dropped off the face of the planet! Well, it's not that I have been lazy, just spending a great week with a very, very dear friend from Toronto last week and then I had to return to work yesterday, but here are a couple of cards that I created yesterday morning.

This first one is for Julee's Mojo Mondays sketch #133 designed by Janette Olen.

I will be using this one over and over I think, maybe even as was drawn and not flipped! I stamped the newly acquired Delightful Dahlias from Papertrey Ink (both sizes) and coloured/shaded with my Co

pics. I added some copper Lumiere to the center and also used my Spica copper pen to add some dots. I love experimenting with floral shading and I think I may need to add some Copic colours to my collection ;) Oh dear...

I also stamped and coloured the two sizes of leaves with the set and wanted to use both of these as well. I like how they look layered on the edge of the flower.

I used the Spellbinder classic ovals for the floral frame and a petite oval for the sentiment. I stamped the sentiment right onto the patterned paper and both of these that I used with this card are from the Cafe Mediterranean stack from DCWV...gorgeous colours! The kraft card front is embossed with a new PTI metal impression plate

Giga Guide Lines, a little hard to see in the photo, but pretty IRL.

The next card I made is for the Card Positioning Systems sketch #161. I used Basic Grey Kioshi papers and PTI sets Beautiful Blooms II and Giga Guide Lines for the sentiment.PTI blush card stock with a Swiss Dots EF, stamped the flowers using SU blush and coral and edged the points of the flowers and made dots around the PTI button centers with another Spica Peach pen also from the set B Spica pens. Looking at the button centers now...well, they need some twine or floss coming out of the button holes because I think they look a little naked!

Thanks for coming back to check out what I have been up to!

cheers!

Chriss

SFYTT Lucky in Love

Have you seen the loot that Jen has to give away here? Quite the prize!!!

For this week's sketch I really wanted to use this new Hero Arts 2 Birds stamp that I bought from Ellen Hutson. I think it is such an adorable image and I paired it with some of the BG Origins paper that I have had for a couple of weeks, but was finishing the re-org. of my craft room (you can see the 2 previous posts for before and after shots...don't be too afraid of the before, no one got hurt!)

So here is my card. I used all Basic Grey for the front of the card. The card base is a Papertrey select white. I love the quality of this card stock!

On this card I used a MS border punch, Spellbinder dies, a narrow chocolate brown ribbon, BG square rhinestones, Spica pens for the birdie eyelashes and I cut out the bride's head piece (flower from BG Origins) and the wings on both birds are also cut from the Origins dp.

Here is a close-up of the loving birds. The sentiment is a new one from the Papertrey mini set "Luck of the Irish".

Hope you are having a great day so far,

cheers,

chriss

Challenged just RITE

Happy Monday everyone! Hope you all had a good weekend and were warm and cozy. It is starting to warm up a little here, and that is a very good thing;)

Here is another sketch challenge, this time from the Caardvarks site AND there is a wonderful JustRite prize associated with winning this one! Oh my, in my dreams...but here is what I came up with.

I used Bazzil and Basic Grey Bittersweet (yes, again) to make a simple, but elegant Valentine/Love/Anniversary card. The colours are soft and the little pink rhinestones add a nice amount of bling, without being too gaudy?

The sentiment is a JR as is the beautiful border. I stamped both of these in close to cocoa craft ink and clear embossed. The scallop in the beige?taupe card stock is a SU border punch and the pink one is a Martha Stewart one.

The little pink hearts are also MS and they took a little time to apply...I first used mini pop dots, but they proved to be too bulky and the hearts were not sitting just right (oops ~ no pun intended! ;) so I carefully removed and used about 1/4 of each pop dot for each heart.

Thanks for peeking in today, I surely do appreciate the visit ,

chriss

Birthday bird and a SFYTT

Hello out there. I had time today to play along with Jenn's ~sketch for you to try~ and this is what I came up with...

I have not shown any love to my BG Urban Prairie paper pad lately (so many neglected collections that I have to put to good use, a new year's resolution for sure!) and it is such a pretty collection of papers, so I pulled it out and started mapping out my card with this great sketch from Jenn. More details for this can be found on the iheart2stamp.com blog.

I made my panels with the pink print and solid pink (this one I placed in a Quickutz Retro Diamonds embossing folder and backed them with the solid blue and adhered to the pink pirouette card base.

I made some circles and ovals using my Spellbinder Nestability dies, alternating the paper patterns. To these I added a punched MS bird, a SU birthday sentiment and a Serendipity cake image that I stamped with Tuxedo black Memento ink and coloured with my Copic markers. This has a lot of colour in it and I am wondering if it has a little too much going on. Well, that's it for now...

cheers,

Chriss

Paper pieced hot air balloons MOJO89

Hi everyone.  I have been spending the last 10 days with a very dear friend that I get to see once a year.  She lives in the Toronto area and I am in Austin, so we don't get to have coffee dates on a regular basis, but we sure did make up for it these last 10 days.  I am so blessed to have a few very close friends, some near and some living far away.

My Mojo took a few hours to "come back" this morning after having not stamped for a while, and I have been dying to ink up the Verve newly released set , Up, up and Away!  It is just a darling set and as you can see from the 3 samples I made today, you can make a feminine or masculine hot air balloon. I really had fun paper piecing these and will be making a lot more of them with the different balloons.  The first one is my feminine version and my submission for Julee's Mojo 89 which happens to be a contest this week! I worked with the lavenders and purples from BG Wisteria. I used my labels 3 die to frame the balloon  and layered it onto the striped paper from Wisteria.  The flower is a Prima and I cut out a tiny circle of dp and added a lavender rhinestone for a little bling.  I love using all of the BG paper packs as it is so easy to match the colours and patterns and I so love that the patterns are teeny!  Here are a couple more using the same sketch with different Basic Grey papers to create a different feel.  Thanks for taking a peek!

chriss