Deborah's Card Exchange

This was my card I sent off to my friend Dawn for the card exchange. Deborah provides three challenges one is color, another sketch and last a theme.

The colors were various shades of green and purple. I immediately thought of my Flourishes violets stamp set. This is what I created with that in mind.

These were colored using my watercolor pencils and accented with stickles. The centers of the flowers are accented with these glittery pearls. I have had them for awhile but didn't have anywhere to use them. After I added the stickles they fit right in. :)

The background is a sizzix embossing folder. The die cuts are both nestabilities.

I laid the die cut over the image after I had stamped and colored and sponged around the frame to create the white border.

The white frame on the large die cut was traced around the outside of the die and hand cut.

I hope you have a lovely day. (Forecast here is for about 6 - 10 more inches of snow by end of tomorrow.) I guess that is why I keep creating spring flower cards. Trying to inspire mother nature to give up on the snow and start moving towards spring.

Have a lovely day!

Suzz

Butterfly Time

I have been very busy with a couple different things... Getting ready for classes, family, and work. The worst part is I have a bunch of new stamps and they are piled up on my desk waiting for some love and I have no time to give it to them.

Here is something I put together yesterday and thought I would post up really quick.
I am going to be teaching tomorrow and then teaching Sunday school on Sunday. So first chance to play probably won't be until then. Boo Hoo... 2 Peas stamping forum is hosting Winterfest from tomorrow until the 28th. If you get a chance, go play in some of the fun challenges!

I am hosting one of the challenges too!

Thanks for stopping by...

Suzz

What a lovely mail day!

Around my house there are a few of us, myself included who love to get the mail. Well yesterday I had to run out to the grocery store at the end of the day and the mail never showed up before I had to leave.

When I get home we unload groceries and my two oldest decide to go out and enjoy the snow with our puppy. My husband said "I can't believe you didn't get the mail today". "Of all days you should have gotten the mail" Now my ears perk up and I am wondering what is going on. Turns out I received 4 packages and my kids had hidden them. So now I had to wait until they came in to try to find them.

You get to share in the beautiful cards I received yesterday...

First up I am participating in Deborah's Card Share which she hosts once a month. (You need to stop over at her blog because she is tremendously funny and really talented! She is always hosting fun events) I was lucky enough to have Marilyn V get my name... Take a look at the beautiful cards she sent me...

First there is this adorable frog wth shamrock background paper. It is so cute and adorable.

And that wasn't even the card... This was her card... I had to take the picture on an angle so you could see inside to see that she put coordinating paper and doily edge on the indside too! This is so beautiful! (She also sent me some goodies inside the package too!)

Then on top of that package... I received a package from Kiara which was totally unexpected. Look at this gorgeous card!

She too included a RAK for me! Thanks Kiara!

If that wasn't enough Alice sent me a package too and these beautiful cards were in there. This card is so delicious in it springy colors. I love these bright colors the owls are adorable and the coloring fantastic.

When Alice offered to send me a card I asked if she would mind sending me one of her little elf cards she colored around Christmas. I was so lucky she had one left that she could share with me. I think this is the cutest card and loved that I got to see the coloring up close and in real life!

Now how about that... It was like having my half birthday! What a great day of surprises. And my fourth package was a new release from Memory Box that I didn't even know was on it's way to me and the stamps are lovely! I have all these new stamps now and no time to play just yet.

Thanks for stopping by... I hope you enjoyed my mail as much as I did in receiving it.

Suzz

Tag Tuesday Challenge # 39

This weeks challenge from Louise is to create a cutsie tag!

Now this is a perfect challenge for me because I have some cute pattern paper burning a hole in my pocket.

I purchased a few sheets of this adorable October Afternoon Splish Splash - Ducks in a Row paper after seeing these chicks on a few of your blogs!

This is going to become a bookmark for my youngest DD. She kept asking me if it was done yet this morning.

You have to see the expression on the last chicks face. He looks like he is sad so I made his umbrella dragging because that is what would happen with my chick when they were not happy.

Don't their umbrellas look like have of an egg shell? I thought that was fun too!

This was much easier for me than the last couple of tag challenges.

Thanks for stopping by... Suzz

Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day to you and your special ones! I don't have any valentines' cards left to share. :) Instead I have still been playing with the green and gold color combination. I made these shamrocks which were very fun as they were kissed using two different stamps. The Hero Arts Artistic Windows and the Memory Box Shamrock. I still have to create two st. patty's day birthday cards for my brother and sister in law and to top that off they are turning 50 this year.

So the twist is to incorporate all three concepts into one card. We will see if I can come up with anything fun.

I inked up the shamrock stamp with the versafine olympia green and then placed that stamp face up and laid the artistic window ontop of it and removed some of the color. I then ended up stamping both stamps on white cardstock. Both stamped beautifully. I only used the green ones an saved the other ones for another time.
As you can see I repeated that a fewt times more. The background is the wood grain stamp from Hero Arts stamped using the Versafine Toffe. I then created a little wreath and added some twine and buttons.

The second card was inspired by the October Afternoon Farm Fresh Paper. It has a lot of fun patterns in the pack. This one reminded me of the Toffee color I have been using alot lately so I paired it up and stamped some flowers on the pattern paper.

I cut the flowers out and created my stem from the flourish ontop of the wood grain stamp.

Very simple card. Both are for the Hero Arts Challenge this month. St. Patricks Day and Flowers.

Well I hope you have a lovely valentine's day and that it is special!

I wanted to make a correction to my post yesterday, several of you asked about the butter cream embossing powder. Well... I was going to use my Zing Cream EB powder but decided to you my Ranger Adirondack Butterscotch embossing powder on the flowers on my card. Hence the Butter Cream. :O Ohh... Sorry about the confusion. Now I am doing it with my embossing powders. Used to be just the kids I am calling by each others names.

Suzz

Golden Brown Flowers

Happy Friday to you!

I have to share what was in my mail box today when I went out to get the mail. One of the perks of making cards is to receive cards from other friends. I received TWO envelopes from Lin! Lin is the Queen of hearts.. and not in the Alice in Wonderland kind! She is the sweetest person and not only that, she is extremely talented. She is so good at using hearts and flowers in her cards and I was thrilled to get both kind from her today.

Look what she sent me two ATC's which are both wonderful and lovely!

Love the watermark background behind the flowers in that cute pot and the butterfly with the hearts flourishes is stunning!

And a separate envelope with a valentine card. Look at her sentiment so appropriate! I couldn't adjust the whiteness on this because it made the pink too bright and this is the most soft and pretty card IRL. My photo did not do it justice.

and if that wasn't enough she sent me this gorgeous card. This was the card she made for all the new Hostesses over at the Hero Arts Flickr group and I was lucky enough to receive it from her.

Thank you Lin!

Now on to a share of something I worked on tonight. I have been wanting to play along in the Hero Arts challenge this month again. I haven't had the inspiration. Finally I had a break through this evening... I have had this piece sitting on my desk for more than week waiting for a card to put it on.

The background is all chocolate brown and the embossing is a combination of golds and butter cream. Love both embossing powders.

The butterfly is embossed on acetate with gold embossing powder and I love how it turned out. (Translate that to mean you probably will see this happening again!)

By the way my daughter is watching me type this up and she said my card was ugly. :) LOL!

Of course she loved what Lin created and helped come up with the descriptions.

Well off to watch Ice Age 3 with my dearest daughter.

Tanya wanted to leave a comment too: "I like my mom's butterflies and background, I just didn't like the dandelion on the bottom. Lin's cards were very good."

Have a great night!

Suzz (and Tanya)

Wedding Card

Caardvarks current challenge is to create a wedding card. The prize is an opportunity to be published in the CARDS magazine.

I like to switch up my style sometimes and do something more clean. (Very hard for me to keep it simple) But I was really pleased with the way this turned out of course with the embellishment I chose I had my big design element.

I have the fantastic Verses Stamp which is the poem "How do I love Thee?" by Elizabeth Barret Browning. I knew I wanted to use it on this card and when I was rummaging through my odds and ends drawer of embellishments I found these earrings which I had snuck out of the dress up box. These were hand me downs from Great grandmas junk jewelry box and are clip ons. So when the kids would try to wear them they really hurt the ears! (Didn't stop them from trying to wear them tho!)

Very simple card but I liked how the earring provided such a beautiful accent.

Products:

• Verses - How Do I Love Thee
• Versafine - Dove Grey
• Inkadinkado - Weddings Clear Set
• Cuttlebug Embossing Folder
• Hat Pin
• Vintage Jewelry
• McGill Tag Punch
• Silk Ribbon

Thanks for stopping by..

Suzz