Rosehips for Spring

Happy lovely Thursday to you all!  For our Mother / Springtime themes this week at Topflight Stamps, I've got a pop of color for spring to share with you.  I got to play with the main image from PaperArtsy / Alison Bomber's Rosehip stamp set by using a watercoloring technique.  On watercolor paper I stamped the rosehips image with Versafine Onyx Black ink.  On a clear acrylic stamping block, I smeared some Lavinia Soft Cygnet dye ink and spritzed it with water.  I painted this on the whole panel (except the image) in several stages, to get deepening color in some areas.  Then I painted the image using a few hues of Distress dye inks, plus Lavinia Pixie Green and Truffle dye inks.  I used a couple other stamps from the Rosehips set:  a postage stamp (top right corner) and the sentiments (springtime / rise and put on your foliage), all of these stamped on a scrap piece of white cardstock and properly distressed to look aged.  On the top right and bottom left corners of the watercolor panel, I used the Versafine Onyx Black ink to stamp Chou & Flowers Brittany Text.  

Supplies Used From Topflight Stamps:

PaperArtsy - Alison Bomber - Rosehips

Chou & Flowers - Brittany Text

Lavinia Dye Ink - Soft Cygnet

Lavinia Dye Ink - Pixie Green

Lavinia Dye Ink - Truffle

Lavinia Chalk Paint - Snow White

Versafine Onyx Black ink

Thanks for taking a peek!

Hope you have a beautiful day!

Springtime Bird Nest

Hi!  This week at Topflight Stamps, we're creating with Spring or Mother's Day in mind.  I happen to have both!  The front of my card doesn't say "Mom", but can certainly be used for Mother's Day.  With a page from the Creative Expressions Nature's Compendium paper pad, I created a base layer for my card.  On another piece of paper from the same pad, I stamped Crafty Individuals Love Is All Around Bird Nest with Versafine Onyx Black Ink, then trimmed it out and mounted on the base panel.  On vanilla and white cardstocks, I stamped an assortment of tiny things:  blossoms and a tiny butterfly from Hobby Art Hydrangea, and little tickets and a "for you" circle from Crafty Individuals Vintage Tickets & Ephemera.  Each piece was fussy cut, edges inked for a vintage look, and assembled in a cluster around a flower I had in my stash.  The little butterfly was mounted on the "for you" circle.  For the hydrangea blossoms, each one was topped with a Hunkydory Diamond Sparkles Gemstone (a silver ball).  

Supplies Used From The Topflight Stamps Store:

Crafty Individuals - Love Is All Around - Bird Nest

Crafty Individuals - Vintage Tickets & Ephemera

Hobby Art - Hydrangea

Creative Expressions - Nature's Compendium Paper Pad

Versafine Onyx Black Ink

Hunkydory Diamond Sparkles Gemstones (silver balls)

Thanks for stopping by!  Wishing you a beautiful spring and a blessed day!

Grassy Bunny

Hi there! I'm popping in real quickly with an Easter card, since Easter is getting closer.

Many of the elements were from a $1.00 Scrap Bag from my Stampin' Up! demonstrator a while back, so I don't know the names of the die or stamps used.

How do you like this polka dot fringe grass?

Hoppin' down the bunny trail

Hello!  Today's Easter card is full of whimsy.

At the time I made this (um, a year ago!), I had recently received Wplus9's Fresh Cut Florals in my mailbox.  This was my first chance to play with them, and I chose various shades of pink inks to create a garden.

The bunny is a lone ranger, found at a yard sale, all by himself, and without the rest of his Stampin' Up! set buddies.  I paper-pieced him with the same floral paper used for making a sun in the corner.

Hope you are seeing signs of Spring where you live!

Stamps: Fresh Cut Florals - Wplus9; bunny, sentiment (All Holidays) - Stampin' Up! Paper: yellow floral, yellow polka dot, Summer Sun cardstock - SU Accessories & Tools: White Opal, Petal Pink Liquid Pearls - Ranger; yellow marker

Happy Spring (before it's summer)!

Yikes!  Spring will be over before you know it.  I wanted to share this card with you while it is officially still Spring....and not yet summer.

It's super-simple, and employs a little bit of paper-piecing.  The vase and sentiment are from Inspired By Stamping, and the leaves from Papertrey Ink's Doodlie Do (what a fun, FUN set.)

Okay, there!  Now Summer can come!

Stamps: vase, sentiment - Spring Blossoms - Inspired By Stamping; leaves - Doodlie Do - Papertrey Ink Paper: floral pattern - My Mind's Eye Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black - Tsukineko Accessories & Tools: Copic markers