Flourishes - Limelight Designer

I have happy news to share with you... I was thrilled to be asked by Flourishes to be their December Limelight designer. Every Sunday this month I will be sharing a project created using their beautiful stamps and sharing them on the Flourishes blog.  

I created a few cards and a technique to share over on the Flourishes blog today.  Here is one of the cards but you will have to hop over to the Flourishes blog to see the step-outs and my other card.

I was so happy to use the Flourishes Berry Sweet set to create this card. Love those raspberries!

Have a blessed Sunday! Thanks for stopping by!

Suzz

Tim's Tags Day Four - May Your Christmas be Merry

 Big challenge today with  Tim's Tag 4, I had to do a lot of improvisation.

The background is created by mixing the Ranger Distress Stains - Picket Fence, Faded Jeans, Broken China.  I added a dusting of brown chalkboard mist to the surface and distressed with vintage photo.  The music (Artistic Outpost - Ephemeral Backgrounds) was stamped using the weathered wood Distress Stain. The children are from Artistic Outpost - Sleigh Ride and are stamped in black ink and watercolored to coordinate. The snowflakes are die cuts from acetate and painted with the picket fence distress stain. I added a row of glitter around the edges behind the snowflakes.  The little tag contains a sentiment from Artistic Outpost - Snowy Woods and uses the same background as the main tag.  The snowflake on the tag is chipboard and crackled using the technique from Tim today.

I have a few more pieces crackled and drying so I will have to see if I can create a few more tags using the techniques from today.

Have a lovely day!

Suzz

CR84FN44 - Friendship that Warms the Heart

Happy Sunday!  I know you will love these happy  CR84FN colors this week.  They are a pretty soft palette perfect for any type of card.  I was inspired to create a holiday tag... :) I created this a week and a half ago not thinking that we would be in the midst of Tim's twelve tags. LOL!

I started with a white tag and embossed it using the Cuttlebug snowflakes embossing folder. On a second white tag I stamped the Hero Arts Snowflakes Design Block Versamark and heat embossed using clear embossing powder. I then sponged Memento Bahama Blue over the surface.  I punched the edge with the EK Success border punch and added a few watermarks to the surface.  The snowflakes are punched from a background created the same way with pink dye ink.  The image is from My Favorite Things and is Pure Innocence.

Here are the beautiful colors for this week. This challenge is only going to run for one week until the 9th of December.  The CR84FN challenge will be on holiday until after the new year! 

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

The wonderful CR84FN Design Team:

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

A special thank you to Mackie for playing along with us for the last few challenges.  Her work is beautiful!


Have a lovely day!


Suzz

Stampendous Monthly Challenge - Color Challenge

It's time for a new Stampendous challenge!

The challenge this month is to use the colors pink, brown, cream or gold. Pick at least three of the colors to use on your cards or projects.  This month Stampendous is giving away a Amore Frame Perfectly Clear Set  to a random US participant. You don't have to use a Stampendous image or products to play along, but it is appreciated when you do!  You have until Thursday, January 5th at 11:59 PM EST to add your link to the linky tool, and Stampendous will draw a random winner from the US participants.  You can enter as many times as you'd like.

 

I love this beautiful Eiffel tower image and wanted to showcase it in a lovely coppery tones.  I started on the background and stamped the rose branch from the Rose Branch Border Perfectly Clear Set in versamark and heat embossed with the Aged Copper Embossing Enamel.  I stamped the I Love Paris two times on pink cardstock. Once embossed using the copper embossing powder and the second time stamped in brown ink.  I then cut and colored a layer of flowers to accent the image.

The sentiment is from the Amore Frame Perfectly Clear Set set and stamped in versamark and embossed using the same embossing powder. The tag is from the Timeless Tags Perfectly Clear Set.  The layers and tag were distressed using the distressing tool. they were all sponged with brown dye ink and smeared cream acrylic paint across the surface to soften the effect.

For more inspiration in the color challenge go check out the wonderful design team and blogstars projects:
Stampendous Impressions 
Taylor Usry 
Pam Hornschu
WendyJordan 
Jenn Dove
Melinda Gleissner

Krissy Fossmeyer

Lynn Mercurio
Stephanie Lee

Cyndi Bundy

Kristine Reynolds  

Janelle Stollfus

Jennie Lin Eiger Black 



Thanks for stopping by!

Suzz

Let Heaven and Nature Sing - Tim's Tags Day #3

I never get tired of using the Heaven and Nature Sings sentiment from Memory Box.  I used it today to finish off my Tim's tag #3:

Love the technique Tim shared today with the re-inkers and foam pad. Unfortunately for me no foam pad.  :) So I spent some time playing around with other techniques to see how I could best get the effect he had created with the embossing and multiple colors. After about 4 failed attempts. I ended up embossing white cardstock and dragging the different colored inkpads across the surface unevenly.  (Gathered Twigs, Evergreen Bough, and Aged Mahogany) 

I love the effect! Very fun and striking.  I sponged the edges of the tag with the darker brown and came back in to the center with the softer brown.  I cut my bird from burlap!  Totally fun and love how it turned out. (I backed it on white cardstock to help keep the fraying to a minimum.

The rest is just touches of burlap, flowers, twine. I have another fun post coming up for the Stampendous monthly challenge so I had to hurry this morning to get this posted.

Have a wonderful Saturday! Now to clean up my desk from my whirlwind tag this morning!

Suzz

Oh Deer

Day Two of  Tim Tags!

 

I had the most fun creating the resist paper background.  The background started with kraft paper and stamping over it with Ranger Black Archival Ink. I used the letters stamp from the Stampers Anonymous Artful Artifacts plate. I stamped it unevenly to create a softer background.  After that dried, I stamped the Merry Christmas and Elegant Damask stamps (Memory Box) using versamark and clear embossed them. 

Then I followed Tim's instructions for the white wash. 

The deer was cut from music sheets. I added antlers using yesterdays leftover fir branches. I also am in love with some new silver burnishing I purchased from Viva and I added touches of it all over my tag. :) 

I replaced the fir wreath with the silver trim and added gold bells. (They are so cute but require the floss holder trick to get the twine through the hole) 

Have a wonderful day!

Suzz

Tim's Tags Day One - Noel

 

Yeah!  Today starts Tim's 12 days of tags!  His tags are always inspiring to me, as he shares tons of techniques.  This is my interpretation of Tim's 1st tag. 

A few things that I did a little differently: I started with a piece of blue cardstock and embossed using the snowflake folder. I used brown acrylic paint to sponge the edges.  The Noel is from Making Memories Noteworthy Shimmery Stickers.  I added the Stampendous Songbird nestled in the pine cones and leaves.  The pine cones were coated with a little bit of the Stampendous Ultra-Fine Crystal glitter. 

Have a wonderful day! 

Suzz