Espress Yourself with the Nicest Things

I don't always get to play but when I do I love to pile it up. LOL. Sorry just made me think of that dumb commercial about some brad of liquor. Anyway this is for today's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 620 - Twine Inlay and today's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 411 - Hot Beverage which have been enjoyed this weekend with these below freezing temps we are having. I live in the deep south portion of GA why am I freezing? LOL So I think it is all self explanatory but I did use a heart border punch for the small hearts I needed.

I also used all the cut out pieces to help with the inside and envelope decorations. Hope you like it.
RECIPE:

Stamps: Espress Yourself, The Nicest Things

Paper: white, watercolor, chocolate chip, real red,

Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black, red water coloring

Accessories: Dimensionals, IO Drink Cup die, dark brown twine, heart border punch

Techniques: 3D, twine inlay, water coloring,

May Flowers for Your Birthday

This is for today's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 588 - Stencil Monoprint, today's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 379 - May Flowers, and last Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 584 - Wondering who Crushed my Pumpkin pie.
I think I may have added too much water. I used my SU coordinating markers to ink up my stencil then huffed and misted before turning upside down on my watercolor paper. To add some depth I used the pen side to accent the lines and flower centers. I cut the HB sentiment out in crushed curry cs. 

On the inside I stamped a sentiment from Sweet and Sassy's Birthday Innies set in watermelon wonder. For the envelope I inked Happy in crushed curry and Birthday in watermelon wonder. Hope you like it.














RECIPE:

Stamps: SU- It's Your Birthday, SNS- Birthday Innies

Paper: white, watercolor, watermelon wonder

Ink: Watermelon Wonder, Crushed Curry, Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive

Accessories: Memory Box Happy Birthday die, Memory Box Flora Stencil

Techniques: Stencil Monoprint, CAS

Watercolored All Holiday Blessings from Heaven

This is for today's COLOR CHALLENGE # 552 - A Pistachio Party in the Sahara, Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 555 - Watercolor Powders, and Monday's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 346 - Use Your Words. So I went to my standby layout and standby SU sentiment. I heat embossed with white ep on watercolor paper then added all three colors of re-inkers on wax paper and misted (since I have no wc powders yet) then pressed my wc paper onto the colors. Love how it turned out. Matted on pool party then sahara sand and tied some ribbon across. I used white card base and layered with pistachio pudding cs.

On the inside and envelope I stamped the sentiment in pistachio pudding. Don't know what happened to the photo for the inside it is blurry and I did not change any settings on the camera.  My have to do a retake tomorrow when I get back upstairs by for now gotta head to work.  Hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: All Holidays, Blessings from Heaven 
Paper: white, pistachio pudding, pool party, sahara sand 
Ink: pistachio pudding, pool party, sahara sand, versa mark 
Accessories: ribbon, white detail embossing powder 
Techniques: heat emboss, watercoloring

Water Colored Happy Birthday Amanda

This is for today's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 555 - Watercolor Powders. For Today's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 346 - Use Your Words where I used some dp, die cut and stamps. My layout is from today's MOJO MONDAYS SKETCH CHALLENGE # 419. This was a quick and easy create and put together card. I stamped all sentiments in tangerine tango ink and cut the Happy die from tangerine tango cs.  I needed one more birthday card for next Saturday's Fall Festival/Birthday celebration. This one will go to my Step-Daughter Amanda. I hope she likes it and I hope you do too.

RECIPE:
Stamps: Birthday Greetings - Joanne's 
Paper: Vanilla, Crushed Curry, Tangerine Tango, Old Olive, ColorBox DP
Ink: Crushed Curry, Tangerine Tango, Old Olive 
Accessories: HB Die - Impression Obsession
Techniques: Watercoloring, die cuts 

Sidekick Blessings from Heaven

This is for today's SKETCH CHALLENGE # 561, for Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 551 - Blushing Saffron Pears, Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 554 - Watercolor those Diecuts, Monday's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 3456 - CAS-ing HYCCT. Today I choose to do LEND A HAND and DON'T COLOR BETWEEN THE LINES. I water colored my rectangle panel using all three colors then cut with spellbinder rectangle die then stamped my sentiment in black ink and matted on blushing bride cd. I embossed the so saffron with cuttlebugs Leaves EF.

On the inside I stamped the praying hands in blushing bride then stamped the sentiment from Blessings from Heaven over that in pear pizzazz ink and then again on the envelope. Hope you like it. Now let's go earn some money. Hobby Lobby opens in Tifton next week and I plan on being there. We are just too excited to have one closer to us.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Sidekick Sayings, Blessings from Heaven, Praying Hands 
Paper: white, so saffron, blushing bride, pear pizzazz 
Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black, so saffron, blushing bride, pear pizzazz 
Accessories: Spellbinders Rectangle Die, Cuttlebug Leaves EF 
Techniques: watercoloring, watercoloring dies, dry emboss

Trust God for Strength

This is for today's COLOR CHALLENGE # 551 - Blushing Saffron Pears, Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 554 - Watercolor those Diecuts, Monday's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 3456 - CAS-ing HYCCT. Today I choose the I AM A WARRIOR from the list as I was my mother's support during her 9 year battle of breast cancer that spread throughout her body. This is a difficult month for me even though it is my birth month. Mom went to heaven on 10/29/90 but I know in my heart she was not suffering any longer once she took that final breath. I had to Trust that God had my back and would give me the strength needed to care for her as long as He allowed her to remain. Mom loved roses and so do I with yellow being my favorite. I used my SU watercolor crayons to color my watercolor paper then cut the rose and leaves.

I stamped on the front panel and inside with pear pizzazz and the envelope with so saffron. Hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Trust God 
Paper: white, so saffron, blushing bride 
Ink: so saffron, blushing bride, pear pizzazz 
Accessories: Cheery Lynn Rose Die, Twine 
Techniques: watercoloring, watercoloring dies

Hope Happens

This is for today's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 554 - Watercolor those diecuts. I colored some black for my clouds and rain and some pinkish for the top part of the umbrella. This is also for today's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 345 - CAS-ing HYCCT where I chose the HYCCT1501A - Whatever the Weather. After spending this weekend in the woods with rain I can honestly say RAIN is my least favorite weather for sure. Everything got wet and we got home hoping to spread it out to dry and what is it doing at home, RAINING!!! gggrrr My layout is from today's MOJO MONDAY SKETCH CHALLENGE # 418. Hope you like it. Off to work I go.

RECIPE:
Stamps: SU - Hope Happens, CTMH - Special Friendship 
Paper: white, watercolor, watermelon wonder 
Ink: daffodil delight, Watermelon Wonder 
Accessories: dimensionals, twine, watercolors, Tim Holtz Rays, spellbinders Umbrella die, SNS Clouds die 
Techniques: watercoloring, watercoloring dies, sponging 

Jessie - My Anchor, My Love

This is for today's SKETCH CHALLENGE # 527, Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 517 - A Cabana in Old Bermuda and Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 520 - Embossing Folder Stamping. Such a fun technique, lovely color combo and the sketch just worked perfect for me today.
I used a new embossing folder ,Anchor, from the Paper Studio to ink the negative side by daubers on the ink pads of all three colors. The 2 blues are so close in color it was hard to see where one stopped and the other started, :( of well. I stamped the sentiment in momento tuxedo black in the open top left corner. The white anchor cut from a die is popped up on dimensionals. I think this will be for my dear hubby who is my anchor. He keeps me grounded and I love him so much. LOL. 
RECIPE:
Stamps: Anchor the Soul - Our Daily Bread 
Paper: white, water color, Coastal Cabanna, Bermuda Bay, Old Olive
Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black, Coastal Cabanna, Bermuda Bay, Old Olive, 
Accessories: ribbon, dimensionals, Anchor Die, The Paper Studio Anchor Embossing Folder, Circle Punch
Techniques: emobssing folder stamping, 3D

Wet Crimped Fall Leaf

This is for today's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 294 - Wet Paper Stamping and today's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 88 - Crinkled.
My layout is from Sunday's SWEET SUNDAY SKETCH CHALLENGE # 88.
My color combo is from Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 294 - Razzleberry Saffron Tangerines.
I have also completed Thursday's STAMPIN' B's CHALLENGE # 79 - Fall Card.
My striped ribbon is for Friday's SPEEDY THE CAT'S FRIEND CHALLENGE # 24 - Stripes.
I used a leaf that I picked up yrs ago from the dollar bin at Micheals for my wet paper stamping and stamped 1st in so saffron then over it after drying with tangerine tango. I then added some watercoloring to fill it in as well as some irridescent red and green water coloring for shimmer then cut it out, crinked it up in my hand a bit and popped it up on my vanilla layer that was stamped in so saffron with a darling background stamp also from the dollar bin then sponged the edges with tangerine tango and matted on tangerine tango. My So Saffron layer was stamped in so saffron with the main leaf image. I used my Fiskars leaf border punch in rich razzleberry. My base is very vanilla. Here are a couple of close ups of that leaf. I love how it turned out and wanted you to see the shimmer better.
I also truely love the changing colors of leaves this time of year. They are just marvelous to watch and I wish I could see the change as it occurs but it seems that one day they are all pretty and green and the next time I look they are orange and green and yellow and then they are gone. Oh Well. Now off to work to start a brand new week. Happy Monday everyone.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Leaf, Leaf background - dollar bin
Paper: vanilla, water color paper, so saffron, rich razzleberry, tangerine tango
Ink: so saffron, tangerine tango
Accessories: ribbon, dimensionals, water color crayons, irridescant water colors, stamp-a-ma-jig
Techniques: tone on tone, water coloring, wet paper stamping

Watercolored Sea Babies Mail Box

This is for today's TREEHOUSE THURSDAY CHALLENGE # 059 - Watercolor. This week Gloria choose a fun technique of watercoloring for the challenge. I can not remember the last time I used watercoloring to color. I had a blast making this. I was in the mood to make something other than a card so I looked over at my mounds of supplies on my unloved shelve and spyed this mini mail box. Well you should have smelt the rubber buring in my head. Ideas were going everywhere. I guess I should have put corks in my ears so that the ideas would not escape before I could use them. LOL. I decided not to use any dp to alter the outside since I liked the color that it already was. I used some craft cs punched with my beach border punch. My images are digital and they are from "Sea Babies" that was released this month and "Fun in the Sun" that was released a couple of months ago. Both sets are digital sets and can be found at TREEHOUSE STAMPS DIGITAL LINE.

Here is a side view of the crab from "Sea Babies" . I put some google eyes on him. He is so cute.

So come on and play along with us. Be sure to use THT059 in your keywords when you upload to Splitcoast Stamper and also be sure to provide us with a link over at the TREEHOUSE STAMPS CHALLNGE BLOG POST so you can be entered in the Random.org drawing for the weekly free $5 digi set. We would love to see what you come up with.