Falling For You card kit

The new Seasonal Expressions includes an Autumn paper pack called Falling For You that is so pretty!  I copied the card from the mini-catalog.  This is one of the two choices people will have for Open Stamping on 10/29/2017.

The only ink used was archival black.  The flowers and the colors added to leaf and the "day" circle are all from the watercolor set available from CTMH.  Pretty!

This little box card was a lot of fun - I think I'll do something similar (in a gratitude theme) for my friends at Open Stamping later this month!  This one is for me - to remind me that I'm perfect - with all my warts!

The back part is scored to come around and make the bottom box. It's a little hard to see with that diagonal stripe paper!  I'll make one with another paper and post the details about size and scoring lines.  

So - how could this get better?  By being able to fold it up and put it in a regular A2 envelope!  No kidding!  

I used CTMH stamps (all retired Halloween - from two sets I believe) and the sentiment is one I found in a local scrapbook store in Superior, WI that is closing.  I got a big set of these cool "statements" for $4.  I quickly overcame my aversion to red rubber and snatched them up!   They are from a company called Dylusions.  The paper is from the new Seasonal Expressions mini-catalog "Cats & Bats" and the CTMH ink colors are Champagne, Black, and Goldrush rolled in Sunset. 

It feels great to be HOME and back in my studio.  It took many days to get things sorted out around the house here to a point that I felt like I had earned some craft time.  Woot!!  Hope you like it!

Travel time

I travel tomorrow back to Arizona - to my HOME.  I'm excited and sad.

Today I drove back and forth to the post office (I could have taken a third suitcase!) and found these three trees in our neighborhood.  Since the sun was shining, and the sky blue with pretty white clouds - how could I resist?!?!? 

Give me a few days to unpack and get back to making things!  I'll post as soon as possible!  

Hugs!!

Sunflower Garden - an OLDIE

This beautiful multi-layer stamp set is an OLDIE!  I first bought it from CTMH perhaps 16 years ago - just before I became a Consultant!  Those were wood-mounted rubber stamps and I still have them (💚).  The set I found in the closet today in my MN studio and used for this card are Acrylic - and they are still so amazingly beautiful!  I put this on watercolor paper because I thought I might just use part of the set and watercolor in between - but I quickly decided against that plan.  It's just so easy to layer these.  If you've been aware of CTMH for awhile you remember this stamp; and if not, then you're probably wishing they would bring it back!  Me too, me too, just so I can play with them more!

Colors were Saffron, Canary, Champagne, Saddle, Garden Green, Sweet Leaf and the sentiment in Nutmeg. The design paper is from Cats &Bats, and the card base is Kraft.  

September Special, From The Heart - ends 9/30/17

The cone flowers again . . . but this time I used a lovely new sentiment from CTMH that is in the September special campaign - From The Heart.  If you want it, you'd better drop everything and order it today!

Here is what the special looks like - it's two stamp sets in one; flowers with layering, and lovely sentiments with more flowers.

The cone flowers were stamped with Momento Tuxedo Black ink, then water colored with the CTMH set.  The sentiment is stamped in one of the new colors, Nutmeg.  This one is already on it's way to the recipient.

Another pinterest card

This card was inspired by Pinterest, and it looked like it would be SO-oooo easy!  Hahahahaha!  Maybe I complicated it by first creating my own colors of paper by putting Tim Holtz Distress Oxide inks direct-to-paper.  Then, because I thought the circles looked too perfect, I hand cut some of them so they would be more random.  I spritzed them to try to create different shades of color, and then came the assembly!  Aiaiaiai!  My card turned out to be a rather un-conventional size.  

But it's cute!  I just wouldn't do it again.  Nailed it!

Inspired by Pinterest

I've saved a card idea on Pinterest that has been re-pinned from my folder at least a hundred times!  No kidding!  I didn't think of this, and the original (see below) uses Altenew stamps and w/o the additional design papers.  Anyway, I'm pretty pleased with the end result.  The flowers are from the "Here For You" set and the sentiment is from another retired CTMH stamp set. It does have a little wink-of-stella on the flowers but you know how that doesn't show up.  *wink* 

Colors were Momento Tuxedo Black, and watercolored with the water brush directly from the Pomegranate ink pad.  

The inspiration.