Build a Flower

The petals of my flower were created with the Colored Kissing Technique demonstrated on the Make It Monday video by Papertrey Ink. Heather Nichols demonstrated the technique.  I did not have many solid clear stamps so I went with this flower petal. First I inked the stamp with the lighter plum color, stamped on white paper and followed that by stamping PTI's Basic Backgrounds: Gingham in the darker plum color onto the petal stamp and stamped it on top of the lighter color. The flower parts are from a set by Autumn Leaves, Build-A-Flower. I also used the Gingham background stamp again by stamping in dark green on a lighter green cardstock. Sentiment is PTI, Everyday Button Bits.

I also made this card with the Sugar Creek Hollow challenge in mind. This week the challenge is Lots of Layers and the design team offered examples of the primitive style. I think that the gingham petals of the flower as well as the dashed stem and leaves give a country effect to my card. However, I think it may fall slightly short of the primitive style -- what do you think, Sugar Creek Hollow DT????? Any suggestions as to how I could get it to look more primitive? At least, my card does have lots of layers, especially if you count each petal as a layer -- they are layered one on top of each other at their points, after all!!

Later,

Betty



Happy Hellos

Yesterday I shared the Easter card I made for my granddaughter, Brianna. Today, it's equal time for  grandson, Ashton. He'll probably think he's too old for this silly card, but at least he will have received something in the mail from his BeeBee! I'll be entering this card into the challenge at Do You Stack Up? which is a favorite color challenge. I can't say that orange is my favorite color but it has always been Ashton's favorite color and that's why I used it!

Sorry, I wasn't able to find info on the creator of this digi image. The sentiment is from Stampin' Up (I did not ink up the last line of the stamp due to lack of space).

I used Sketch #26 from Freshly Made Sketches and here it is:

Hoping that you will check out the Freshly Made Sketches site and play with me there. This challenge closes on Monday, March 19 at noon, PST so you have all weekend to get your card made!

Betty

Easter Joy

Back again with a second post today.  This week's challenge at Joan's Gardens is to:

•   Create an Easter card with a bunny
•   Use an embossed background
•   Use appropriate Easter colors
•   Use some kind of flourish
•   Use rhinestones

Phindy's Place is having a Spring Has Sprung challenge. We are to make a card with a Spring theme and even show lots of Spring flowers.

Stamps are from Gina K. Designs, Stampin' Up and Michael's dollar bin. Ipaper pieced the flower pot with the little bunny. Background is embossed with a Cuttlebug folder, Heritage which is a set of four folders.

This will be my Easter card for my granddaughter, Brianna. Next, I need to get to work on one for grandson, Ashton.

Betty

Christmas Joy

This is my card using Lesley's Merry Monday Sketch #11. I think it turned out really cute and it went together so quickly -- would be an excellent card to mass produce. My image is recycled from a old Christmas card, cut out and embossed with a scalloped oval Nestability.

I am also entering this card in the Dutch Dare Challenge which is to use dots and stripes. The green/brown strip of paper has both stripes and dots but you can't ever have too many dots, so I added more with the red panel!

I've been meaning to share this cute little basket that I made several days ago. Saw one over on LeAnne's site, Wee Inklings. The instructions for the basket can be found here.

Have a wonderful day, my friends!

Betty

Front & Back Challenge

This is my card for the Flourishes Noon Time Friday Challenge. Here are the particulars:

To play in the “front” and “back” challenge, all you need to do is use the same image in the foreground for your main image as you use in the background! Have a beautiful focal image? Why not use that same stamp as a subtle background? The way you take on this challenge is up to you – just make sure you can see the same image in the foreground and background of your creation!

My card is made with the Flourishes set, Paperwhites. By using a Flourishes stamp, you will get two entries in this challenge. The focal image is colored with Koh-I-Noor pencils, blended with baby oil. Nestabilities dies were used to cut out the image and the sentiment. The image in the background was stamped with Momento London Fog.

Remember -- you have until Friday at 5pm, EST to enter both of the noon time challenges.

Betty

Round Cards

The Flourishes noon time challenge for yesterday was to make a card with a round base. I made the Thank You card with the yellow flower (which is a Martha Stewart two step clear stamp) for the challenge but decided -- why stop with one???? The pink flower is also MS, the red flower is Gina K. Designs, and the bottom two are Stampin' Up. Sentiment stamps are GKD and SU. All have scalloped bases, and pretty little bows attached.

The cards are 3 3/4 inches, so I'll have to make envelopes to go with them. That may not be as fun as making the cards but I can live with it!!

I see that it's after 12:00 now; we haven't "sprung forward" in Mexico yet -- so I've got to go see what the challenge is for today. The deadline for these noon challenges is Friday, March 16, 5pm EST. The prize is the entire March New Releases -- come check it out!

edited to add: I totally forgot that I wanted to enter my cards in the For Fun Challenges -- Helen wants us to use circles!

Betty

Gracias

The challenge at Flourishes' Timeless Tuesday is "Lace and Scallops". Since this week is New Release Week, the winner will win the entire March new released stamp sets. Can't get any better than that! Actually, there's more than one way to win the March New Releases. Check out the blogs at flourishes.org and get a a card entered in one or all of the challenges.

For the lace and scallops, I used a Martha Stewart punch that not only looks like lace, it is scalloped! I stamped my image and sentiment and then cut them out with a Nestabilities Oval Scalloped die. A lady at the Monday Market where I sell my cards requested a thank you card in Spanish.

By the way, I took pictures at the market this week but failed to get a picture of my own table!! So, next week I hope to be able to share a little bit of how I spend my Monday mornings!

Betty