Play Date Cafe Challenge #29

It's time for another Play Date Cafe Challenge!  The colors were selected this week by Sarah and they are lovely!  Look at the inspiration photo:

The colors reminde me of the greens found in the grass and early flowers and the light blue skies.

I was inspired by these colors and the beautiful Webster's Pages and decided to create my own background.

The background is sponged and a combination of Adirondacks Citrus, Memento New Sprout and a little distressing with Memento Rich Cocoa.

The background chicken wire is from Art Impressions and is a resist using clear embossing powder.  The roses, flourish and birds are all Hero Arts stamps. 

The sentiment is from Verses called Dreams of Wings.

The flowers, flourishes, birds and sentiment are stamped using Versafine Vintage sepia and colored using  watercolor pencils and waterbrush. 

The challenge this week is hosted by Lisa

Our wonderful guest designer is Heidi Van Laar, and her blog is  Van Laar Designs

The design team created a wonderful variety of cards and are great inspiration!

Sarah Anderson

Stephanie Kraft

Ruby 2 Shoes

Savannah O'Gwynn

Mona Pendleton

Julie Ranae

Lisa Somerville

Now, time to celebrate!!! I just realized that I reached 100 followers (Thanks Barb!) and  I want to celebrate with blog candy.  All you need to do is leave a comment on this post by May 16th 11:59 PM CST and I will use the random number generator to select a winner. 

The blog candy is still being accumulated but I know it will include a Hero Arts 4x6 clear set of stamps, ribbon, a package of embellishments(gems/pearls), and some more goodies. I am cleaning up my craft space and I am sure I will find some more fun items to include.

Thanks for stopping by!

Suzz

Moxie Fab World Challenge - Three Cheers for Chairs

Cath over at the Moxie Fab World Challenge is hosting a challenge three cheers for chairs. This is not my usual card style so I am giving it a try...

The challenge is to use a chair on your project. I looked up online some chairs and printed out an image and then cut it into separate pieces to trace and stamp on. The standing lamp was fairly simple to piece together and that lovely doily lace stamp makes the perfect rug!  All the stamps are Hero Arts with the exception of the sentiment which is memory box.

I hope you like my little scene. I wanted to add a pool of light under my lamp but when I got to this point I was afraid of making a blotch and decided to play it safe and leave the lights off. :) 

Thanks for stopping by... Hope you are having a lovely Monday! 

P.S. here is a picture of my youngest in her 1st Communion dress!

Suzz

Father's Day card before Mother's Day?

Hero Arts monthly challenge for this month is Dads, Grads and Birthdays.   I just bought this really fun paper from Creative Imaginations called Real Wood Collection for the express purpose of making a birthday card (his birthday is in May)  and a Father's Day card for my DH.  He is the best fix it man around! 

So here is his Father's Day card... After I started working on it and it started to take shape I realized it was similar to my MIL card but all I can say in my defense is the kids are going to love giving it to their dad and I think it is really fun!

I started with the wood panel and stamped the tools stamp from Hero Arts Father Day set across the front and colored in the images using my trusty watercolor pencils. I added a few highlights using my white gel pen.

I added a sentiment and another row of tools. I then embossed the background on grey cardstock.  I decided I needed some hardware on my card front. I had this cute handle sent to me as a RAK and thought how fun if I made a little drawer. Then I was thinking why not make some large tools to include in the drawer?

So then I set about photocopying and re-sizing (around 350%) until I had a size that would stand up in my tool drawer. After I had the size I wanted, I used it as a template and traced it on the different colored cardstock and cut them out. They are sponged around the edges to give them depth. The red is also embossed to give it texture.  

Each tool has a stamped message on the reverse side with room for them to write their own message to dad. The biggest issue is that everyone already wants the saw. :)

I shared the last picture so you could see I made accordian sides on my card to allow room for other goodies to be stuffed in the drawer.

I forgot to mention that we had a book for the kids that was a 3D tool box and had little books in the shapes of the tools and this reminds me of it and I bet it will remind him as well, since we both spent a few hours reading those books with all our childern. :)

Tomorrow is Tanya's big celebration so there won't be any stamping for me. I actually was happy I had time to play at all today.  Have a lovely Saturday and a lovely Mother's day. (Although I have plans to stamp and hope to be sharing something then!)

Suzz

Play Date Cafe Challenge #28

Look at the gorgeous color combination from  Julie for the Play Date Cafe Challenge this week.

Yummy pink, black, grey, and white. I love this mix of colors. I immediately thought of Valentines Day. :)

I even pulled out my heart punches and started a mix of hearts. But then I got distracted by this beautiful new stamp from Stampendous called Ranunculus Field and started of stamping that and playing with my watercolors.

The flowers are stamped using Versafine Black Onyx and colored using my watercolor pencils and waterbrush. I accented them with Crystal Stickles from Ranger.

The edges are sponged using Memento Rosebud. The background is a lovely stamp from Verses which has the entire How do I love Thee poem from Elizabeth Barrett Browning which I stamped using the Versafine Smokey Grey.

The scroll work is the Fleur De Lis Pendants from Spellbinders. The grey cardstock is embossed using a Cuttlebug Embossing Folder - Victoria.

The challenge this week is hosted by Ruby

Our wonderful guest designer is Ashley Cannon Newell, and her blog is  A New Design

The rest of the design team created beautiful projects for the challenge. Go check them out!

Sarah Anderson

Stephanie Kraft

Ruby 2 Shoes

Savannah O'Gwynn

Mona Pendleton

Julie Ranae

Lisa Somerville

Hope you get a chance to play along with these beautiful colors! Thanks for stopping by!

Suzz

Card Patterns Sketch #62

Well... I had a few minutes of free time last night and decided to create a card for the Card Patterns Sketch #62. The sponsor this week is Hero Arts and they have a lovely prize of Hero Arts stamps.

The sketch is:

and I created this:

The kick off was the Field Trip paper. I had it sitting out on my desk from a Yellow Bicycle Journal tablet School.  I thought of field trips my children go to where they take them to the nature center and then everything flowed from there. :)

The background is Hero Arts Antique Brocade clear embossed with a sponging of Ranger Distress Ink Wild Honey and Memento Rich Cocoa. I used the same inks to sponge the edges of the journal paper.
The flowers and butterfly are Hero Arts inked up with Versafine Toffee and Vintage Sepia. Add a little stickles, lace trim, ribbon, and twine.  To finish it off you need to go pull some dead branches off the dead bushes by the front door. (We lost all of our dwarf Spirea)

Well have a lovely Wednesday!  I will be back later tonight with the PDCC challenge and the colors are very pretty!

Suzz

Happy 1st Communion Tanya!

My youngest Tanya has her first communion on Saturday. We had a practice last night. How sweet to see all the kids in her class practicing a song for their communion and how to enter and leave the church.  

I had asked Tanya what type of card I should create for her for her big day. She answered "Don't make me a modern card" I wasn't sure what she meant by modern so I asked her "What do you mean?" She said "Like all that old stuff". LOL! She didn't want a vintage or shabby card.  Too funny. She likes most of my cards but once in awhile when I get too vintage pictures mixed in, she doesn't like it.

I had made a few cards previously using a little girl and she liked how those turned out so I went down the same path and created this:

The background is a Cuttlebug folder with little crosses.

The little girl was stamped multiple times. She is stamped in Memento Rich Cocoa twice and Memento London Fog once.  She was stamped multiple times to allow me to get the colors closest to a white dress and brown hair. She is pieced together. Her legs on the stamp have tights and I know my little one is going to be going bare legged with fancy shoes so I cut the legs off and flipped them over and colored them.

My favorite is her little bible created from a scrap of white cardstock and hand written. :)

Thanks for stopping by...

Hope you have a lovely day!

Suzz

Tiddlyinks Challenge #2 Happy Mother's Day

My friends Donna and Kiara are Coloring Friends for Tiddly Inks and they both have created some inspirational cards for Tiddly Inks.   I happen to have one image from Tiddly Inks provided to me by another good friend.  I decided to join in the Tiddly Inks challenge using this sweet image and to celebrate Donna's and Kiara's Coloring Friends announcements. This is not my usual forte but I find it is good to switch up and try different things.

The sentiment is from Hero Arts and I wanted to hang little tags. I tried a few arrangements and ended up hanging them all together. I have to fess up that the flower ended up with a button due to my excessive coloring which caused a little bleeding that the blender couldn't get completely out.

The pattern paper is Cosmo Cricket - Garden Variety.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you are having a beautiful Sunday! 

Suzz