Hi Everyone. Happy Sunday. It's the fabulous Laurie's turn to host our Paper Players Challenge this week and she has a great sketch for us: I decided that I wanted to play with texture on the two background pieces and pulled out some Altenew woodgrain papers that I got quite a while ago. The one at the bottom is a much lighter weight than the vanilla one at the bottom. I know that the set I used is called Spring Daisy, but I thought it would work really well to color it with fall colors and the woodgrain seemed to... Read more →
Hi Everyone. Happy Sunday. It's the fabulous Joanne's turn to host our Paper Players challenge this week and she has a challenge that should be right up my alley! Now... this is a GREAT challenge and ... as I said...should have been right up my alley. But.. I have done so many cards with coloring recently - especially pencil coloring - that I decided to try and do something different. I pulled out some Holbein watercolor paints in a gorgeous shade of pink and paired that with some gold embossed Sketchy Flowers. I began by gold embossing the flowers onto... Read more →
Hi Everyone. Happy Saturday. It's the fabulous Susan's turn to host our Addicted to CAS challenge and she has the perfect code word for us. What a perfect execuse to make a card for your bestie :-) I do hope you play along with us this week. Our wonderful blog creator Kylie has a generous gift for the winner of our challenge: Happy Little Stampers Prize: $15 gift certificate I decided to make a card using one of my favorite Altenew sets - the Build a Flower Magnolia. I also chose to use the no-line coloring technique You don't have... Read more →
Hi Everyone. Happy Sunday. I have a very quick post for you tonight. It's almost midnight and I realized I haven't typed up my post for the Paper Players challenge tomorrow! It's the awesome Sandy's turn to host our challenge this week and she has a color challenge for us Shhhhhhh... don't tell Sandy... but Bermuda Bay and Calypso Coral are two of my least favorite SU colors. SU has created some amazing colors... but these two are WAY outside of my comfort zone. I do love, Pear Pizzazz though. So... in the spirit of challenges - I decided to... Read more →
Hi Everyone. So, I did warn you that I was obsessed with this stamp! I have had such fun playing with it this weeked. I have colored it with Copics; colored it with pencils; watercolored it and overall, just had tremendous fun with it! I saw this great color challenge across at the Altenew challenge for August. It's a rich collection of emerald and bronze - gorgeous! I decided I wasn't going to go with florals for this.... I mean... who could compete with Erum's stunning floral card! So, I took a decidedly different direction and thought these colors would... Read more →