Scrappy Sweet Creations: Joy

Happy Friday!
How has your week been? Do anything super fun for St. Patrick's Day??
It was super chill here at our house. I threw a corned beef brisket in the crock pot and let it do it's thing for the day. So stinkin delicious!! Plus, it was a gorgeous day here yesterday so I was able to get out into the yard a bit, which felt wonderful! I love it when the sun shines!

So today we have another super adorable release from Sami Stamps to share with you. It's called Chicks and Eggs..total cuteness!

I've used the image Easter in Roses.

This image is so gorgeous! I loved coloring in those sweet little roses and the egg was the perfect frame for a sentiment. I chose one that fit from Create with TLC and printed them off together. I wanted to keep the egg white, so I did some light grey shading around the edges, and then colored in my roses to be a reddish pink.

My background was created using Pretty in Pink Stampin Up ink through a chevron stencil. I first inked up the whole background panel, then did a second layer through the chevron stencil. Then I shifted the stencil and applied some white pigment ink to make the whole thing look like there are 3 different shades of pink on the background. I absolutely love how it turned out!! It's soft and subtle for the background, which is exactly what I wanted.

I paired that with a light blue patterned paper from Lawn Fawn and cut the pink chevron paper to fit on an angle in the corner. I took some jute that I had on my desk and pulled out one of the strands. Usually jute has about 3 strands wrapped together, so I pulled one out to make it just 2 strands and then wrapped that around the card to tie it into a bow.

To finish the card off, I added shimmer brush to the roses and a few glossy accents around the image to add some more shine. Funny thing about those dots...don't put a card in the sun to dry...the glossy accents turn cloudy! I had no idea that would happen! So they don't sparkle...but they still look cool on the card.

Anyhow, be sure to check the rest of this release out at Sami Stamps!!! You don't want to miss it!!

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:
    AAA Cards #60-Easter
    Artistic Inspirations #152-Anything Goes/Easter
    Share Joy Challenge #27-Sketch & Tic Tac Toe (I used chevron, pink, twine)
    The Crazy Challenge #218-Flowers
    Word Art Wednesday #222-Anything Goes

Thanks so much for stopping by! <3

Though I've never had them, a small part of me is mildly obsessed with dreadlocks. The cool looking ones...not the gross messy ones that look like really bad bed head.

I've seen lots of the synthetic styles on Etsy and have been really tempted to buy a set, but money just doesn't allow that right now. So I've settled on just admiring the well dressed ones here in Montreal, and coloring them up on fun images.

To date, this was the most fun image to color! I took my time and made sure to really plan every part out so that it wasn't rushed and messy. There was a girl on the metro last year that had green dreadlocks and they were awesome! So I went with that inspiration for my girlies hair.

Of course, this fun paper from Pinecone Press Papers was an obvious choice for this card. The hippie colors and sweet patterns are just so much fun!

I colored Dreads in with my pencils and added little white dots around her for accent. I realized half way through outlining her that my blue copic marker was empty...it resulted in a very messy outline. So I tried to work with some chalks and blend the rough line out a little. It turned out pretty darn cool :)