Vintage Valentine

Hello Thursday!  I am waiting anxiously for Friday and the weekend!  Today I am combining the beautiful valentine colors from the ColourQ Challenge #174 with the Mojo Monday Sketch #278 and the vintage images of PaperArtsy.

I don't know about you but I have a few Valentines I need to make and my brother has a Valentine's birthday. So I have to create a variety of valentine's cards.  The colors from the challenge mix the browns, red and pink hues together which is a good balance for a masculine valentine. 

I stamped the sweet boy image on the right half of the heart and added the stripes from another stamp to the other half. I punched out the heart and was going to stamp something else on it but thought it would be fun to continue with the stripes.

The background was an embossed scrap never used and decided to bring in some texture and color in the background.

Products: PaperArtsy - Hot Picks XTRA-01 - Backgrounds, PaperArtsy - Vintage Collection - ID02, 
PaperArtsy -  Mini 06, Spellbinders - Heart Dies, Fiskars Heart Punch

The sketch and colors:

Hope your day is wonderful!

Suzz

Pages in a Book

Today I am mixing up the Moxie Fab World Repetition challenge with the ColourQ #153 colors.  For my repetition I used the background stamp with all the houses in a village. I added touches of the colors to the houses using the palette.

I decided to use the Hero Arts Designblock houses in the village and stamp them using brown dye ink.  I mounted the card on brown cardstock and the button is brown too. (They look black in the photo but really are a nice chocolate)

The sentiment is from Verses Rubber Stamps World is a Book and I wanted to give it a big pop so I added the big button and tied it around the card.

Here is the color palette:

Have a great Thursday!

Suzz

Happy Bee-Day

 The Colourq challenge colors this week  had me stumped and I had to think about it for awhile.  I decided to pull out this adorable fairy with her bouquet of flowers and create a fun birthday card.

 The image is from Stamping Bella.  Colored with water color pencils. I died the doily and ribbon using glimmer mist to match the razzleberry color. The sentiment and bee are from Memory Box.

Here are the inspiration colors.

 Hope your Thursday is wonderful!

Suzz

Two Cards, Two Sketches and One Color Scheme

My inspiration for today's post was to use the warm colors from ColourQ challenge #99 with the sketches from PageMaps and Mojo Monday...   These two cards took me a really long time.... And lots of ripped paper and messing around.  I think my mojo is hiding and giving me a hard time. :)


The PageMaps layout:

Using the lovely Stella Rose from My Mind's Eye which works wonderfully with the colors this week at ColourQ.

and the Mojo Monday Sketch #205

Using the same papers and the wonderful Verses Rubber Stamps for my sentiment.

 Here are the sketches and color inspiration:

Hope you have big plans for the weekend.  We are planning on doing some housework and hanging out. Have a good one!

Suzz

July Birthdays

I combined two of my favorite challenges together to come up with another  July birthday card. The ColourQ challenge and the City Crafter Challenge combined together gave me the inspiration for this card:

I bought this sentiment along with a similar one for the month of April. I don't know who makes them but I love that they describe the months in celebration.  I purchased them for my girl's birthdays month and think they will get a kick out a card with their birthday month mentioned in the verse. (Of course they will get plenty of use for other birthdays too :)

The background paper is Webster's Pages and is perfect for the blue and grey tones. I stamped the sentiment using Versacolor Burgundy ink. The sparklers (Northwoods Rubber Stamps) was stamped using StaZon Grey ink.

Everything was sparkled up using my handy dandy Stampendous Crystal Glitter (ultra fine).

The charm with the stars is another one of my jewelry finds on clearance and is an earring.

Here is the fun inspiration picture:

I am looking forward to a long holiday weekend! Come back tomorrow for another fun Lily Pad challenge.

Suzz

ColourQ Challenge #89

I am loving the rich masculine colors in the ColourQ challenge.

The background was created by inking up the lace background (Hero Arts) stamp and spraying with pearl misters.  I added a touch of light blue in the flowers. The main image was inked up with the rust, Burgundy and brown dye inks. I used the Sizzix die cut for the frame and sponged the edges to match.

Here is the lovely color palette:

 

Thanks for stopping by!

Suzz

Wild Wild West

I am having so much fun with the Wild West  set from Stampers Anonymous.  The stamps bring back fond memories of wallpaper my brother had in his room with Cowboys and Indians. And images of my baby sister Jodie, the summer she spent wearing a fringed vest and skirt with a coordinating cowgirl hat in just that shade of red when she was about five.

Here is my tag for the Simon Says Stamp and Show a Tag challenge this week and it uses the lovely color combination from the ColourQ Challenge #88.

The tag is made out of Kraft paper. The image and sentiment are Stampers Anonymous. The script and flourish on the top are from Hero Arts. (Fabulous Flourish) Inks: Ranger Distress Inks Vintage Photo, Ranger Archival Ink Coffee, Versamark. The papers are from BoBunny Timepiece Collection.

The lovely inspirational colors:

Thanks for stopping by!

Suzz

Secret Garden

Happy Thursday!

This week has been a long week for me... Glad to be getting to our three day Memorial Day weekend.  The kids are winding down from school so lots of activities going on including their last exams. :)

I snuck in some time to play along in the ColourQ #86 challenge.  My card has mostly brown with hints of the other colors.

I started with the Stampin Up Bingo stamp. Love the size and the image and pulled it out for the background of the card.  I then decided that the sweet kids from the Artistic Outpost Think and Wonder set would look cute in the corner. I added some flourishes from the Artistic Outpost - Serenity plate and birds from B Line Designs to create a secret garden. 

Here is the inspiration photo:

Thanks for stopping by!

Suzz

ColourQ Challenge #85

I saw the beautiful colors at ColourQ this week and loved the earthy tones. The colors inspired me to create two very different cards.

First I created this card which is also for the Hero Arts Monthly Challenge.

I used the Envelope Background Designblock to create the background. The poppies one of my favorites was stamped in StaZon grey ink. The flowers are colored using distress inks and watercolor pencils. (Rusty Hinge, Memento Rich Cocoa) The sentiment (Hero Arts) is stamped using brown pigment ink. Added a touch of silver glimmer mist to white tulle and added to the background.

The second card is a masculine card. 

The image is from Class Act Chapel Road Artstamps - Northern River . The background is an script stamp called old script but I really thought it looked like birch bark and would be a fun background to the trees. :)

The image was stamped using the StaZon grey ink and colored with distress inks.  After the image was colored it was covered in clear embossing powder. 

 Here are the beautiful colors from ColourQ:

Tomorrow I have two challenges to share for Lily Pad Cards and Chapel Road Artstamps.  Thanks for stopping by!

Suzz

Masculine Card - ColourQ Challenge #84

I was playing around with some beautiful collage stamps from Chapel Road Artstamps and  the lovely colors from the ColourQ #84 Challenge to create this masculine card:

The Paper Crafts Sketch Magazine had this lovely sketch which uses scraps to create a grid card and left the sentiment to the left. I liked that design and decided to use it and a bunch of my white cardstock scraps to create a grid card.  The stamps are all Class Act Chapel Road Artstamps.  The colors are Ranger Distress inks (Antique Linen, Faded Jeans, Forest Moss) and Memento Dandelion.


Here is the inspiration photo from the challenge:

Happy Thursday! I will be back tomorrow with something very feminine for the Lily Pad Cards challenge using some new stamps from the Craft's Meow!

Suzz

ColourQ & Moxie Fab Tissue Paper is Magic

Welcome to the fish bowl. A few of you commented yesterday that the background felt like it was an underwater scene. I too had the feeling after I finished my background yesterday.  I actually created a few fish to fit into that scene using the Colour Q colors.  Somehow I ended up with fish and flowers.  Hence a fishy post today! I had to create something to hold my fish and I used the colors from the  ColourQ Challenge #82 and crepe paper seaweed for the  Moxie Fab Challenge - Tissue Paper is Magic challenge. 

The background of the fishbowl and the crepe paper are misted with Chalkboard Glimmer Mist. (Decadence, Peacock, Sprout).

The fish are from Inkadinkado using their new clings. (They worked wonderfully). The fish are stamped on watercolor paper using Ranger black archival ink. Colored with watercolor markers and waterbrush.  They were highlighted with a little white gel pen.  The sentiment is Hero Arts.  The fun part was nestling the fish into the seaweed and putting on the acetate front. Which is bowed to create the bowl effect.

A great little birthday card for one of my DD's friends.

Here is the inspiration color photo:

Have a wonderful Thursday!

Suzz