Love

I was admiring all the beautiful work by the CR84FN design team and the lovely colors for the CR84FN68 challenge and had  a few minutes to play. 

I created this:

I had stamped these flowers (Stampendous - Jumbo Cling Peony)  using glimmer mist a long time ago and had them sitting in my file cabinets. When I saw the colors for the challenge, I knew I wanted to pull out the flowers. I cut one of the flowers down to size.   I added gray using my STAEDTLER karat Aquarell watercolor pencils  in the white spaces.  I pulled the color from the glimmer mist and mixed it with the gray shading with a waterbrush. I added a hint of script and the letters of  Love and Music from the Verses Rubber Stamps to finish off my main panel. I kept the rest of the card clean and layered it onto cream and gray cardstock.

The beautiful inspiration photo:

Thanks for stopping by!

Suzz

Soft Pastels

I had to whip up an anniversary card to be sent off today.  I pulled out the Mojo Monday Sketch # 263 and used the CR84FN65 colors to help jump start my card.

This card is for my SIL & her hubby.  They have been married just about as long as me and my hubby.  Their oldest daughter is at West Point.  I remember when she was born!  Time goes by so quickly.

I looked through my pattern paper for coordinating colors and found a beautiful pad of paper from My Mind's Eye - Follow Your Heart - Be Happy which had the perfect colors to match the CR84FN challenge.

I cut the paper to fit the layout added a touch of distressing and dye ink.

I added the beautiful sentiment from Verses Rubber Stamps - Bright Hopes Anniversary backed by the poem How Do I Love Thee. 

I also added a sneak peek of the brand new butterfly from Stampendous being released this week! (all next week the Stampendous DT will be sharing the new catalogue!)

The last detail was to take a gem flourish and to mute it with liquid pearls.  I didn't have a pearl flourish that coordinated with the colors I had.  I took the gem flourish and coated it with liquid pearls in a soft pink and it worked perfectly with the color scheme.

Hope your Saturday is spectacular! 

Suzz

CR84FN57 - Music and Life

A shabby chic card  for the CR84FN57 challenge. 

I started with some fabulous canvas paper.  I painted over with a combination of white and pink acrylic paint. I added a layer of stamped music (Hero Arts) and masked in a Note (Hero Arts Digital Dies). I sponged around the die cut with brown dye ink.

I die cut two pieces of the Memory Box music notes on white cardstock. I painted them pink with the acrylic paint and after they were dry I added a touch of brown dye ink.

I stamped the lovely Verses Rubber Stamps - Life is the Music stamp in black over the surface. (Hint: I added a bit more of paint in this area to allow me to get a more bland surface for the sentiment to really pop.  I acccented it with a touch of lace and flowers.

The edges were distressed with a distressing tool and brown dye ink. I put it on a tan cardbase distressed with a touch of brown dye ink.


Here are the beautiful inspiration photos and colors:

For all the details on the challenge this week go to the CR84FN blog. 

For more inspiration the CR84FN Design Team:

Deborah Frings * Sue Lelli  * Andrea Matthews *  Suzanne Czosek (me)  *  Heather Jensen * Mona Pendleton  * Lisa Somerville * Shannon White* Pauline Pollington

I have truly enjoyed being part of such a wonderful team.  I will be looking forward to future challenges and all the inspiration provided by the design team.

Suzz

CR84FN - Birthdays & Graduations

Back today to share my week II  CR84FN56 project:

Products: Memory Box Something Special, Memory Box Flutter Vine, Vivienne Butterfly, Tessatina Border, Squash Dot Paper, Dream Text, Tattered Angels Frame, Acrylic Paint, Tattered Angels Lemon Zest Glimmer Mist.

I was also  inspired to create this card which was for a niece's 8th grad graduation: 

Products: Crafter's Workshop Template, Hero Arts Graduation, Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist, White Gel Pen, and  Imaginisce.

Here are the beautiful colors:

For all the details on the challenge this week go to the CR84FN blog. 

For more inspiration the CR84FN Design Team:

Deborah Frings * Sue Lelli  * Andrea Matthews *  Suzanne Czosek (me)  *  Heather Jensen * Mona Pendleton  * Lisa Somerville * Shannon White* Pauline Pollington

Thanks for stopping by! 

Suzz

CR84FN56 - LOVE

Welcome to CR84FN56, the colors are a lovely yellow, gray and neutral...

My wonderful friend Jacqueline provided me the beautiful image. The image is perfect with her golden highlights and touches of gray. 

I used some remnants of pattern paper smeared with acrylic paint and added the beautiful Verses Rubber Stamps Love & Music sentiment stamped in gray.  The butterflies are from Hero Arts Papillion set.


Here are the beautiful colors:

For all the details on the challenge this week go to the CR84FN blog. 

For more inspiration the CR84FN Design Team:

Deborah Frings * Sue Lelli  * Andrea Matthews *  Suzanne Czosek (me)  *  Heather Jensen * Mona Pendleton  * Lisa Somerville * Shannon White* Pauline Pollington

Thanks for stopping by! 

Suzz

Embrace Happiness

Welcome to CR84FN55 a palette of beautiful springtime colors!

I created an ATC for a swap using a beautiful vintage image which I tinted with lavender to coordinate with the flowers.

The flowers are Hero Arts Real Wildflowers Cling and the paper is from the Prima Almanac Collection.  The sentiment is from the Flourishes set. The image is from the Graphic Fairy blog.

Here are the sweet colors:

For all the details on the challenge this week go to the CR84FN blog. 

For more inspiration the CR84FN Design Team:

Deborah Frings * Sue Lelli  * Andrea Matthews *  Suzanne Czosek (me)  *  Heather Jensen * Mona Pendleton  * Lisa Somerville * Shannon White* Pauline Pollington

Happy Sunday!  I hope it is a wonderful Memorial Day for all my U.S. friends!

Suzz

Drop A Line

Welcome back to week II of the lovely  CR84FN54 colors. 

When I was working on the colors for this challenge I used two different Mo Manning images to create my cards. 

I used  Memory Box paper in the background.  The image is from Penny Black.  I was so happy to find out that Penny Black is now carrying Mo Manning images too.  I was able to purchase this image at my LSS and love it for the fisherman in my family.

The image is stamped in Ranger Archival ink. The coloring is watercolor pencils and a waterbrush. The background is sponged with dye ink and a few little waterspots to add a little texture.  The EK Success border punch is perfect for a masculine card.

I added a few accents on fish line to emulate a lure. 

Here are the pretty colors (love that they work for masculine or feminine cards):

For all the details on the challenge this week go to the CR84FN blog. 

For more inspiration the CR84FN Design Team:

Deborah Frings * Sue Lelli  * Andrea Matthews *  Suzanne Czosek (me)  *  Heather Jensen * Mona Pendleton  * Lisa Somerville * Shannon White* Pauline Pollington

Thanks for stopping by!

Suzz

Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day!  I forgot that my card this week for the beautiful CR84FN54 colors would be on Mother's Day here in the U.S.  Funnily enough it seems very appropriate for some of us who have had children who might have acted a little like this when overtired. 

I decided to play around with a Mo Manning image and my copics:

I used some beautiful Memory Box paper in the background and stamped the new Artistic Outpost Secretary Pool background in the panel behind the main image.

The Mo Manning image is from Stamping Bella.  I colored with copics and added shading with my watercolor pencils.   

Here are the pretty colors (love that they work for masculine or feminine cards):

For all the details on the challenge this week go to the CR84FN blog. 

For more inspiration the CR84FN Design Team:

Deborah Frings * Sue Lelli  * Andrea Matthews *  Suzanne Czosek (me)  *  Heather Jensen * Mona Pendleton  * Lisa Somerville * Shannon White* Pauline Pollington

Happy Mother's Day!  I hope it is a wonderful day for all of you!

Suzz

CR84FN52 - Spring Flowers are Blooming!

Happy Sunday!  The new CR84FN challenge is here with some soft and pretty new colors.

Spring flowers came out and appeared onto my card: :) 

 

Part of my bouquet of cards created this past week. :)  See I can have a green thumb! LOL! 

The stamps are  Memory Box: Dogwood Branch, Happiest Birthday, Mail Definitions, Renaissance Tile and  Meadow Dragonfly Die. 

Here are the sweet soft muted colors:

For all the details on the challenge this week go to the CR84FN blog. 

Please visit the fantastic CR84FN Design Team:

Deborah Frings * Sue Lelli  * Andrea Matthews *  Stephanie Kraft * Suzanne Czosek (me)  *  Heather Jensen * Mona Pendleton  * Lisa Somerville * Shannon White* Pauline Pollington

Thanks for stopping by!

Suzz

Never More than a Thought Away

Happy Easter! Welcome back to week II of the CR84FN challenge.I was inspired to create a card using watercolors for the Inspiration Journal challenge of watercolor.

I started with a water colored  background with smears of the beautiful pastels: 

The background was created by smearing distress inks on the craft map and picked up with waterbrush across the surface.

The flowers were stamped and colored with watercolor pencils. All the stamps are Hero Arts.


Here are the lovely colors:

For all the details on the challenge this week go to the CR84FN blog. 

Please visit the wonderful CR84FN Design Team:
Deborah Frings * Sue Lelli  * Andrea Matthews *  Suzanne Czosek (me)  *  Heather Jensen * Mona Pendleton  * Lisa Somerville * Shannon White * Pauline Pollington

Thanks for stopping by!

Suzz