MOJO Monday 401 - Wishing you a Fabulous Birthday!

What a fabulous sketch Julee Tilman designed for today's Mojo Monday#401 which just celebrated 8 years in business and will say I love their stamps. Today I pulled out these beautiful flowers to play along this week.  

As you can tell, I've been having fun with watercolors lately and wanted to also join in on the Pretty Pink Posh Water Color Challenge which is ending later today. Also, today is day 8 of the 30 day color challenge Kathy's is hosting over at The Daily Marker . 

Here is my card:

Again, I just love these flowers from the set called: Surely Goodness where I white embossing them first to create a resist background before applying the watercolor to them. Next, I scribbled some water colors onto my craft mat using the Spectrum Noir Aqua markers. 

Since I wanted to soften the color a bit, I made sure to take my water brush and mix the color on the craft sheet before applying to the water color paper. As the saying goes, you can keep adding more colors to intesify the look or add more water to soften the look. 

Stamped the sentiment from the set called: Let it Be and added a very light blue on top of the saying and around it adding just a bit of color since the flowers had enough color. At the end, added some Pretty Pink Posh sequins and added foam mount under the Stitched base rectangle panel.

As always, if you haven't checked out the challenge sites, please go take a look to see fabulous inspiration and creativity.

Supplies Used: 

Stamp Set: Surely Goodness (Verve), Let it Be (Verve), 

Card stock and Paper: Watercolor Paper (Crafter's Companion), Black Licorice (MFT), Newspaper DSP (SU)

Inks: Black Licorice Hybird (MFT), Spectrum Noir Aqua Markers

Accessories: Blueprint 13 (MFT), Goodness Flower Dies (Verve), White Embossing Powder (Ranger), Sequins (Pretty Pink Posh), Foam Mount Tape

VLV Sept Week3 - Autumn Birthday Wish

 

 

Here is my take on the VLVSEP2013 week 3 sketch which also has an inspirational photo that I decided to try as well since I don't have a lot of cards with this color combo. Plus it gave me an opportunity to play with some new paper I got called: Sweater Weather by SU.

Here is my card below:  

At first I wasn't sure what to do with this paper, but once I saw the inspirational photo I thought this would be perfect. Here I used Early Espresso as my mat for this 5x5 card and worked from there. Next pulled out my spellbinder circle dies and added the cute ribbon in the middle. Flag it Die Set came in handy for the upper right hand corner along with some mocha pearls.

Also, used some 1/16th cork across the card from My Favorite Thing. It's nice that it's thin and able to add to cards without to much bulk.

For the main attraction, I pulled out the set Surely Goodness by Verve and played around. For the leaves, I used Early Espresso ink and stamped directly onto Old Olive cardstock (SU) and used the matching die to cut it. Than I used the same ink and stamped directly onto the DSP paper.

Next layer was another flower, but this time the color was: Cajun Craze (SU) and to top it off, I stamped a little flower using More Mustard (SU) fuzzy cut that and added it on top. Each layer is separated using foam mount in between. Sentiment is also from the same set.

Supplies Used:
Stamp Set: Surely Goodness (Verve)
Paper: Sweater Weather DSP (SU),
Cardstock: Whisper White, Early Espresso (SU), Old Olive (SU), Crumb Cake (SU)
Inks: Early Espresso (SU), More Mustard (SU), Cajun Craze (SU)
Accessories:  Goodness Flowers Die Set (A Cut Above by Verve), Flag it Die Set (A Cut Above by Verve), 1/16th Cork (MFT), Foam Mount, Mocha Pearls (ctmh)

MOJO300 - A Birthday Wish

Mojo Monday is having a fantastic challenge with this cute sketch by Julee Tilman. At the same time, Julee is celebrating 300 posts and celebrating huge, MOJO300. It's a must see and not one to miss out on. Plus terrific sale going on through July 7th.

To see all of the inspiration, this time 20 fantastic inspirations to get started plus already so many cards on the link, click here to go directly to it. Also, I'm linking up to Stacey's Birthday Linky Party she is having over at Stacey's Stamping Stage to celebrate her birthday. Happy Birthday Stacey and hope you enjoy your day and year!!!

Happy Birthday and MOJO300

Just got this stamp set by Verve called: Surely Goodness and wanted to play with it. Also, pulled out my MFT Die-namics Fishtail Flags for the center. 

Since I forgot to buy the matching dies, I stamped the flower using A Cut Above Dies by Verve called: Floral Circles and loved the look of it.  Colored using Prisma Colored Pencils for the Blues and than re-stamped the flower onto paper and fussy cut around the center flower and popped up using foam mount.

For the leaves I used A Cut Above Dies by Verve called: Elegant Leaves and Old Olive ink and the scalloped circle is SU Perfect Pennants Bigz L Sizzlit.



Supplies Used:

Stamp Set: Surely Goodness (Verve)

Paper: Cardstock: White, Desert Sand, Outdoor Denim

Inks: Distress Black Ink (Tim Holts)

Assesories: Basic Rhinestones, Floral Circles (A Cut Above Dies), Elegant Leaves (A Cut Above Dies, Blueprint (MFT Die-namics), Fishtail Flags (MFT Die-namics), Perfect Pennants (SU)