Taylored Expressions Cupcake Challenge #63

Cathy is right - I have been blurfing a lot lately! I really love doing the Taylored Expressions Cupcake Challenge and this is my second attempt at this one. I didn't like my first try at all, so am not going to post it. I think I did a better job with this one:

I haven't used this beautiful pear from Stampers' Anonymous for a long time. I decided to pull out my pastels too, which have also been collecting dust. I stamped the pear in Versamark and rubbed various colours of pastels over it. I sponged So Saffron around the edges. I added a the "hello" sentiment. I layered it with Kiwi Kiss and Chocolate Chip panels. My card base is also Chocolate Chip and I used a Kiwi patterned paper over that. I wrapped some chocolate satin ribbon over a Saffron panel. I added a flower from the Flower Fusion kit and used a polka dot brad from the Dollar store.

Just in Time for Easter!

Hi everyone! I am still experiencing problems with my computer, so at the moment I can only post if I visit Donna and use hers! So until I find another solution, my posts might be a little sporadic! Today's card is in response to Taylor's Cupcake Challenge. The sketch looks like this:

But I had to flip it and fiddle it a bit in order use these images for a fun Easter card!

I used a branch from a Pink Paislee Clear Stamp Set "Autumn" and the eggs and bunny are from the SU set, "An egg-cellent Easter." I initially stamped the branch with dye inks but it didn't look so hot and I ended up filling it in and adding some shading with my Copic markers. I masked the branch and stamped the egg three times, also colouring these with Copics. The lines are drawn with a gold gel pen and then I added some dimension with brads and ribbon. I felt like the white background was a bit flat so I stippled it with some pale blue dye ink.

The rest of the card us just some layering with cardstock and some fun flocked sky paper from Heidi Grace. I didn't have room for the embellishment as placed in the sample, so I trimmed out the bunny, coloured with Copics and slipped it behind the main panel up top I thought it turned out pretty cute!

Taylored Expressions Cupcake Challenge #61

I thought this sketch was so cute, I decided to make two cards for this challenge. What can I say, I'm on a MAJOR card-making roll today. The card below was made with a Very Vanilla base. I layered on some patterned paper from Junkits' Grandparents Collectionz called "grandma's flowers". Most of it is hidden, but trust me, it's gorgeous paper! I layered two 1-1/2" slightly different coloured brown panels on the top and side. I absolutely love the Thoughts and Prayers tree/flower and thought the tree would go well with the paper. I added the sentiment from the new Great Friend set from S-U. I layered that with the same brown as on the side panel (non S-U; GASP!). I added some ink to the sides of the tree image to mirror the texture in the patterned paper. I layered a bunch of different flowers that I've had in my stash for ages & added a brad to secure them.

For my next card, I used Regal Rose as my card base. I added some S-U DSP on top of that. I added a Regal Rose panel and Certainly Celery panel (both 1-1/2" inches wide). I ran them both through the Texturz plate and adhered them. I stamped a sentiment from the retired Friendship Flowers set and layered it on Celery and Regal Rose. I used the ticket corner punch on the sentiment and Celery layers and added Celery brads on the Rose layer. I sponged around the sentiment as well to add a little depth. I layered a bunch of paper flowers together and secured them with a green rhinestone brad.

I'm heading to bed. I'm sure I won't post as many tomorrow. Night, night.

Taylored Expressions Cupcake Challenge #60

I fell in love with this sketch from Taylored Expressions as soon as I saw it! I can envision quite a few possibilities with it. I dug around in my non S-U stamps for an image that I hoped would really show this great sketch off. My sister bought a wedding set of stamps from Inkadinkado that I don't think ever saw ink. That was it! I knew this beautiful dress needed some love. I stamped it in Black Stazon on watercolour paper and coloured it with various S-U inks using my aquapainter. There was a lot of empty space on the upper right side, so I dug through my big stash of primas and tried to find a couple of flowers to layer with coordinating colours. It took me about 2 hours to figure that out and in the end, I had to use reinkers to paint the rose flower in the middle. I was mucking around with these puppies that the petals were starting to come off! Of course, I didn't have a small pink rhinestone brad (well I did, but it was attached to another flower somewhere in the pile, so I had to search for that too). I cut out the dress with nesties and layered it on a Regal Rose panel, then a Barely Banana scalloped panel. My card base is Gina K. 120 lb. white and I added a panel of Barely Banana. On top of that is a Regal Rose panel and on top of that is a sheet of patterned paper from the Bella Bleu line. As accents, I used the scallop border punch on the patterned paper and added a little bit of fancy pants ribbon. I am happy with the way this one turned out!

Celebrating Sloth

One last post for today (for me anyway). There's a great sketch over at Taylored Expressions for today's Cupcake Sketch Challenge and I wanted to play!

It's a pretty simple card. I whipped up a quick page of fun text using Microsoft Word and phrases like "living in yoga pants" and "potato chips are a vegetable" to provide a background for PMSabella. (Looks like me all the time)! She is coloured using pencil crayons and gamsol, then trimmed into an oval and matted. I layered the oval onto some glossy black cardstock for contrast, then onto a patterned paper which I turned into a scallop with the Fiskars Threading Water Border Punch. I love that thing! A ribbon, a flower and rhinestone and that's all folks!

What's Up?

Donna, obviously! My dear friend is an early riser and she has already posted in response to two challenges today, before I even finished the first!

So having said all that, here is my post for Taylor's Friday Cupcake Challenge:

It's my first time playing and I fully intended to use a cupcake image in honor of Taylor, but somehow these adorable little owls I just got from Stamping Bella were "hooting" my name! Nothing too revolotionary to report on the making of this one. I just coloured the little darlings with my copic markers, chalked the background and used lots of lovely patterned papers and scalloped edges etc... to layer it all up. I did however, get a stern "talking to" by my hubby for breaking a little branch off of the Catalpa tree out front. He seemed to think that one of the dead twigs all over the front lawn would have sufficed. Hmmph! Just goes to show what he knows about "art." Clearly, a twig in bud was called for. LOL!

Taylored Expressions Cupcake Challenge #59

This is my submission for the Taylored Expressions challenge today. My photo has a bit of a blue-ish shadow on it from my dining room light. I like these Trendy Trees from S-U. I also love their DSP. Today's card uses Good Morning Sunshine. My card base colour is Kiwi Kiss. I layered Summer Sun using my Nesties. This colour looks so much brighter than what is in the DSP, but I double checked the colours that were in the DSP and it says Summer Sun, so who am I to argue? I picked up the Pacific Point in the DSP and layered a strip over the circle and DSP. I added a bit of Kiwi Kiss satin ribbon to bring in more of the Kiwi. Even using my SAMJ I couldn't lie up the tree stems very well! I finished the main panel off with a 1/2" library clip in Chocolate Chip. The main panel is also popped up a little to add a bit more dimension. My card measures 5" x 5". Thanks for taking a look.