Wildflowers

I was playing around with some colors for a challenge and they didn't quite come together and I ended up with this card instead.  I was happy with the pretty background. The quote  from Hans Christian Anderson seemed very fitting for a card made up of wildflowers. Then I botched stamping the sentiment on the panel so instant fix... Re-stamp on vellum and overlay in the exact same position! :)

The background is glimmer mist and a lovely stencil from Layers of Colors. (A scrap from another abandoned project.) The verse is from Verses Rubber Stamps and the flowers are all Hero Arts.


Hope your day is fantastic!

Suzz

Home Sweet Home

Simon Says Stamp and Show challenge this week is anything goes. I have the lovely globes from GlobeCraft Memories and decided to create a wall hanging of the homestead. I used some old photos that I had in my stash.

Here is the full piece. Hard to see so I took individual photos:

 

The homestead reminds me of my great uncles farm house in Wisconsin. I remember walking through and playing with all the old photos: 

 

The next couple look so handsome all dressed up and having their picture taken in front of the porch with the trellis.  The pictures were taken in 1920's. 

Love the expression on the man's face in this photo. She is beaming and he looks so taciturn.

The backgrounds are a combination of papers and stamped backgrounds using the Artistic Outpost Ephemeral Backgrounds Plate, Oz collage, Home and The Outpost Plate.

Very fun to mix and match some of my vintage photos along with some bits of lace, charms, and papers. 

A close up of the header.

I didn't realize how hard it was going to be to get a picture of the project. :) 

Hope your Mother's Day was wonderful! Mine was terrific! Have a beautiful Monday!

Suzz

CR84FN27

I went a little shabby chic for the  CR84FN27 challenge this week.  The colors are bright pink, grey and cream. I was inspired by some lovely papers from Echo Park Paper Called Love Letters from the Be Mine collection. 

The dress form is the Sizzix Die Cut dressed up with a little lace, crocheted flowers, and gems. The stamps are Hero Arts - Old Letter Writing, Lace Background and the sentiment is Layers of Colors - Happy Wishes.
The ink is Versafine Smokey Grey and StaZon Fuchsia Pink.

I love the pink, grey color combo and created two cards for the challenge this week:

The stamps are Penny Black (Cattails) B Line Designs (Bird) and Verses Rubber Stamps (Begin Each New Day)

Here are the beautiful  inspiration colors from CR84FN:

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

To see all the wonderful creations from the CR84FN Design Team:

Deborah Frings * Sue Lelli  * Andrea Matthews *  Stephanie Kraft * Suzanne Czosek (me)  *  Heather Jensen * Mona Pendleton  * Lisa Somerville  * Lin Brandyberry

If you are in the U.S. I hope your Mother's Day is wonderful!

Suzz

Hero Arts Monthly Challenge

The challenge this month for Hero Arts - Flowers, ATCS or Watercolor Pencils includes some of my favorite things.  I love my Hero Arts flowers, ATCs  are so much easier for me as it is all about the artwork and not so much about the design, and watercolor pencils which are my favorite coloring medium....

I worked on two ATC's this morning for the challenge. 

First the fabulous peacock stamp:

 I love this striking image and it allows you to use sponging of colors over the image. The background is the music design block stamped in soft sand shadow ink from Hero Arts.

My second ATC uses the beautiful cling rose stamp from Hero Arts:  

 

The inks include Ranger Archival Ink, Memento Rose Bud, Memento Bahama Blue, Memento Pear Tart  and  Versafine Smokey Gray. 

Hope your Saturday is wonderful! 

Suzz

Everything is just Ducky!

Time for another fun color challenge at Lily Pad Cards featuring Kathy's Color Throw Down 

and we have a wonderful sponsor this week The Greeting Farm! They  provided us with lovely images to work with this week. I selected this adorable image called Duckie Rain to color.

I had so much fun coloring in the sweet ducky! He is colored using watercolor pencils. The background is sponged with dye ink and embossed using an embossing folder. The circles are outlined with a little glitter as well as the puddle under my ducky friend. The sentiment is from Memory Box.

Here are the wonderful colors from Kathy:

All the details of the challenge are at the Lily Pad Blog   and there is a fabulous prize from The Greeting Farm!

For more inspiration and to see some beautiful projects visit the wonderful design team:

Design Team: Alice Wertz, Deborah Nolan, Lin Brandyberry, Nancy Krueger, Sherri Thompson, Vicki Papaioannou

Have a wonderful Friday!

Suzz

Baby Card

 I mixed the Mojo #189 Sketch Challenge with the Color Throwdown #140 colors to create this whimsical baby card. The new Valise papers from Memory Box are based on kraft paper. Love the colors in the papers and they fit perfectly with the challenge colors. I decided to pair it with the fun Memory Box Bubble Gum dots paper.

The sweet elephant and balloons are from Memory Box. Memory Box has dies now!  I used one of the new dies to create the scalloped doily border. They cut like a dream.

Here is a list of all the products: Memory Box: Valise, Bubble Gum Dots, Dies - Pearl Lace, Little Banner, Mama and Baby Combo, Balloon Bundle, Thank You Combo, Nestabilities Lacy Circles, Watercolor Pencils, Glitter, Memento Rich Cocoa Dye Ink, Black Versafine Pigment ink

I was inspired to try a second card using Stella Rose papers:

Here is the lovely sketch:

Hope your week is going well!

Suzz

Wonder

Simon Says Stamp and Show challenge is to show  your Hands. I had this beautiful compass stamp from Class Act - Chapel Road Artstamps - Find Your Way and decided to combine it with the Scribe hands.

The background is a thin piece of wood and glimmer mist with orange, green, and purple. The image is stamped using black archival ink. 

The sentiment is stamped using brown pigment ink on ivory cardstock. Sponge edges with vintage photo dye ink.

Thanks for stopping by!

Suzz