Inspiration Strikes

Today on the SCS Inspiration Challenge, our inspiration piece was this:

I was inspired by the rich magentas and the green and white swirls and came up with this:

I used Purely Pomegranate SU! ink and Tattered Rose Distress Ink to watercolor the flower petals, Peeled Paint (Distress Ink) for the leafy parts around the center, and Vintage Photo and Walnut Stain (Distress Ink) to do the center. The swirls were painted with Peeled Paint.

As you can see I departed quite heavily from the light airy-ness of the inspiration piece. But after I started--it kind of got a mind of its own.

Materials Used:

• Stamp: Autumn Sunflower;
• Inks: see above & StazOn Jet Black;
• Paper: dp--Paper Loft; Black and Olive (SU!); watercolor paper;
• Accessories: sponges; watercolor brush; Galaxy Marker (American Crafts); ribbon; foam tape;

I hope all of you mom's have a blessed Mother's Day!

Thanks for stopping by my little corner of cyberspace!!

Home Sweet Home

What I should be doing is making Mother's Day cards--but am I???

Nooooooooooo.

Every time I try--it doesn't work out right. Too much pressure--I am very close to going to Hallmark. Somebody HOLD ME BACK!!

Instead I am playing with my other new stamp from Rubber Cottage that I purchased at the Akron stamp show.

I just love this image. Not sure if I have colored it correctly (as I have never actually seen an English cottage in person). But it was fun experimenting.

I half expect seven dwarves to come out the front door and happy little woodland creatures to break out into song when I look at this! LOL! The image is actually named *Rubber Cottage* so maybe the incognito princess inside is rubber stamping!

Materials Used:

• Stamp: Rubber Cottage; Noteworthy--SU!;


• Ink: Palette Noir and Various Distress inks to watercolor;


• Paper: white; Close to Cocoa, Chocolate Chip and Rose Red--SU!;


• Accessories: Liquid Pearls (gold); Stickles (diamond); Coluzzle; word window punch; Distressing Tool--Tonic; watercolor brush;

Well, thanks for stopping by--maybe tomorrow I will have made a Mother's Day card.....hopefully!

Serenity

I decided to take a break from packing boxes and knock out a couple of challenges. Yesterday's Color Challenge was a bit out of my comfort zone. There was a strong request for Lovely Lilac from the folks at SCS, so Emily obliged by giving us a combo of Lovely Lilac, Certainly Celery, and Pretty in Pink.

Though Lovely Lilac is not a color I reach for often--when I do, I usually use it with earth tones. A pastel-ish card is a little our of my comfort zone. So I added a light brown as a neutral.

The branch is from Starving Artistamps and was stamped with Brushed Corduroy and clear embossed.

The moon was made with a circle punch. I punched the circle out of a post-it note, and brayered the main image with Shabby Shutter ink. Then I removed the post-it circle and placed a paper with the same size circle punched out, then sponged Worn Lipstick in onto the white circle. The *serenity* is from the mini positive words set and stamped with Lovely Lilac.

This is a very pearly card--I got a little carried away with Perfect Pearls (Perfect Pearl color). I made two mixtures: one with water, Perfect Pearls, and Worn Lipstick Distress Ink Reinker; the second with water, Perfect Pearls, and Shabby Shutter Distress Ink Reinker. The main image is sprayed with the Shabby Shutter mixture, and the Lovely Lilac circle, and Close to Cocoa base is sprayed with the Worn Lipstick mixture.

I had a lot of fun making this card!

Thanks for stopping by!

Cluck!!

The Doodle Factory stamps are just so much FUN!!!
Today I played with the chickens from the Doodle Factory Country line. And what do a bunch of hens do when they get together??? CLUCK!

Materials Used:

• Stamps: DF Chickens; Circle Background;
• Ink: Palette Noir; Broken China, Spiced Marmalade & Scattered Straw Distress Ink;
• Paper: pumpkin, rust black white, Caribbean blue;
• Accessories: Grungeboard Minis; Nestabilities, Willow Adirondack paint dabber; Galaxy Marker-white; distress tool; corner rounder; black pen;

Thanks for stopping by!!

ETA: I still have juicy inkpads for sale HERE.
and DONNA has some Blog Candy to give away--it is an awesome sheet of stamps up for a drawing!

Get Lost!!!

I finally got to stamp today!! WOO HOO!!

I decided to use my new Tim Holtz Distress Inks and to participated in the RubberNecker Blogger Challenges. This weeks Challenge is masking.

I have to admit that masking is not my favorite technique--I love the look--but I am a bit too impatient to make the mask. But in honor of a newly organized stamp space and new toys and tools I thought I would give it a go.

I stamped the car first, then the suitcases and then the palm trees. I then lightly watercolored the travel stickers and palm trees. The car is colored with Prismacolor pencils. I had a lot of fun distressing and sponging the suitcases and the different parts of the card.

The arrow is a piece of Grungeboard colored with a Stream Paint Dauber.

Materials Used:

• Stamps: Suitcase-RubberNecker; Car-Great Impressions; Trees-SU!; Alphas-Karen Foster and Starving Artistamps;


• Ink: Distress inks: Many for stamping, sponging and watercoloring; Palette Noir;


• Paper: Vanilla (unknown), Sahara Sand (SU!); Dp from Walmart and KMA;


• Accessories: Pencils + LOMS, sponges, watercolor brush, Diamond Glaze (Judi-kins), Grungeboard, sewing machine and thread;

This card was heavily infleunced by my good stamping friend, Shelly! Check out her blog for really cool ways to use Tim Holtz Distress Inks!!

Thanks Jeanne for the opportunity, and Shelly for the inspiration!!!