ColourQ 113

Happy Tuesday!  That means it’s time for ColourQ!  Check out the stunning Christmas angel that inspired Arielle this week:

I had lots of ideas in mind for this….but not much time (or mojo, for some reason!) so I just pulled out a very, very old (1995) SU stamp called Country Angel:

She is stamped with Stazon on watercolor paper and colored with inks and Twinkling H2O sparkly paint!  You can’t really tell here, but her wings are shimmery blue (as well as glittered):

And she’s carrying a little glittery star ornament that’s been sitting on my desk forever! I also put some glitter on her little banner:

I love watercoloring but don’t do it enough, so this was a fun challenge for me….and I love blue, too, so that made it even MORE fun!  I hope you’ll play along with this angelic challenge….wing on over to the CQC blog to see the other designer’s creations and share yours with us too!  This card is also for Shirley’s Christmas card blog hop!!!

Here is my little Christmas angel; our first shot this season at a photo with Santa.  That didn’t work so well; she was much happier just running around with the children! 

Could that be Santa coming down the stairs???

Uh-oh---let me outta here!

Better luck next time!  Thanks for visiting today!
Wee Details:

• Stamps:  Country Angel (ret SU); 
• Paper:  Night of Navy, Sahara Sand, Bashful Blue, Watercolor
• Ink:  Stazon, Night of Navy, Marina Mist, Bashful Blue, Sahara Sand
• Acc:  Glitter, Nesties, Aquapainter, Star ornament, Dimensionals, Nesties, Twinkling H2Os

Vintage Halloween

My fun friend Shirley Pumpkin at Cute Stuff by Shirley LOVES Halloween.  She is having a 12-week long Halloween blog hop, and while I don’t have many Halloween stamps, I do have bunches of Halloween stickers & stuff that I have collected and (ahem) not used!  So, using the Our Creative Corner sketch from this week:

and a vintage Tim Holtz sticker, I made this card:

I realize my lower panel is not quite wide enough…I hope they don’t mind! (Where was my brain when I did that?!)   I used some images & sentiment from the Crafty Secrets Vintage Halloween set along with some Cosmo Cricket & SU papers.  Here is the inside sentiment, which is a retired Lizzie Anne single:

Heehee, I love it!  Thanks for visiting today!  Play along with Shirley's hop---she’s got a giveaway!  Any questions??? Give me a shout!