Trio of Birdhouse Tags

I created a trio of birdhouse tags for the following challenges: Simon Says Stamp and Show a Tag, City Crafter Challenge - Home Sweet Home, and one of the tags for the Color Throwdown #153.

Tag #1:

The stamps are all from Class Act - Chapel Road Artstamps Butterfly Square, Inchy Words, Old Script, and  Vanity Women.

The second tag is for the Color Throwdown Challenge and uses a B Line Design Bird, vintage papers and lace trim from Artistic Outpost.  The sentiment is stickers from Authentique.

This little tag uses Maya Road Flowers and Memory Box stamps.

I had so much fun with these little birdhouses. If I had more time I would have made different birdhouses for different themes (School House, Picasso's house, Haunted House, Gingerbread house)  Really fun!

Thanks for stopping by!

Suzz

Explore the Open Road

I combined the Mojo Monday #202 with the ColourQ #96 and some wonderful Artistic Outpost stamps and mix them all up and here is what you get!

It was really hard for me to leave all that white space. :)  

The images are all from Artistic Outpost - Route 66. I used the following inks: Memento - Pear Tart, Memento - London Fog, Ranger Archival Ink - Black, Memento - Bahama Blue.

The inspiration photos from the challenges:

Have a fabulous Wednesday!

Suzz

Triptych and Recycled Cardboard

This was just purely for fun and inspired by a Stampington Magazine with a variety of projects using recycled cardboard.

I created a Triptych using the template from Verses Rubber Stamps on cardboard. 

 and here is the other side:

The sentiments are both from Verses Rubber Stamps.  The digital die cut of the dancing children is from Hero Arts and is stamped with a Hero Arts friends definition.

The flower are from Penny Black and the butterflies are from Hero Arts.  The embossing on the flowers is that very cool Aged Silver Enamel from Stampendous.


I had so much fun playing with the recycled cardboard I might have to pull out another piece this week. :)

Have a lovely Tuesday...

Suzz

CR84FN35 - Pressing Flowers

The lovely colors this week for CR84FN  and the Moxie Fab World Challenge - Fanatical about Botanical had me out in my garden looking at the lavender.

To create the main image I pressed the flowers onto cardstock by pounding on them. I had lots of misses with this technique. I loved the soft muted tones from the lavender and they worked wonderfully with the CR84FN colors.

The background behind the flowers is Hero Arts Design block and I stamped it using the Hero Arts sand shadow ink. The wheat in the main panel on the card is stamped with gray and light tan dye inks.

The butterflies (Hero Arts Antique Engravings) are stamped in gray and colored with watercolor pencils.

I left the lavender to dry out over night and included them as a detail behind the main image.

The sentiment is from Verses Rubber Stamps - Flowers in Bloom - FS1119 - D.

And because I had the colors out I created a second card for both challenges : 

The flowers are from the beautiful Stampendous Ranunculus Field and  the sentiment is Stampendous Friendship Assortment.  The papers are Lily Bee Design.

The beautiful CR84FN35 colors are courtesy of Creative Mint: 

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

The fabulous CR84FN Design Team:

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


Thanks for stopping by! 

Suzz

Moxie Fab World Fanatical about Botanical

I am loving the fanatical about botanical challenge over at Moxie Fab World. Me and my flowers are never far apart.

 

The peonies (Jumbo Cling Peony) are stamped in versamark and embossed using the new Aged Silver Enamel from Stampendous.  I love the new embossing powder and I am going to have to hunt up all the new ones as I saw Fran demoing them at the show and they were fun. 

The flowers were colored using glimmer mists and a water brush. The ribbon was died to match. 

The dragonfly (Dragonfly Vine) looks like an old fashioned hair pin.The dragonfly was stamped twice once on acetate and once on cardstock and embossed using the same embossing powder. 

The additional flourishes in the background are Class A Peel Stickers - Leaf Swirls. They were an easy addition to add a little leaf around the flowers. 

Around the edges versamark was sponged on and then embossed using the Aged silver enamel. 

Have a lovely Saturday! 

Suzz

Vintage Garden

My card today combines the City Crafter Challenge - Vintage Garden and Moxie Fab World challenge - Fanatical about Botanical  challenges.  Jacqueline's gorgeous designs and her beautiful grid and inchies cards inspired me to create this:

The stamps are Stampendous - Rose Hips Jumbo Cling, Impression Obsession - Nest Definition, Crafty Secrets, Hero Arts - Artistic Windows, Lily Bee Designs - Picket Fence, Memory Box. 

Inks: Ranger Archival - Black, Versafine Smokey Gray, Memento London Fog

Other: Watercolor Pencils, Thread, Vellum, Clear Embossing Powder, EK Success Border Punches

The inspiration photo from City Crafter Challenge

Hope your weekend is wonderful!

Suzz

Happy Birthday Tanya!

Today is our DD 10th birthday. She is our youngest which makes it harder to see her grow up. :)

I created a patriotic themed card for her as she is a July baby and she thinks that her cards should be red white and blue and patriotic themed.

 

The background is Hero Arts Design Block, The little girl image is from Penny Black.  Tanya selected the stamp set to create her card from. I modified the image to have her holding the star balloons. The background fireworks is from a Northwoods Sparkler stamp. The script in the background behind the fireworks is the Declaration of Independence pasted into the word processor and printed out on card stock to create a custom pattern paper. :) 

I also created a card for the Colour Q Challenge #95  this week: 

I picked up a few new Pure Innocence stamps from My Favorite things and this little girl and her kites were perfect for the colors of the challenge.  The background is another Hero Arts Design Block. 

The sentiment is from Verses called Think Lovely Thoughts FS1140-D.

Here is the fun inspiration photo:

Hope you are having a tenth birthday kind of day! (where you are queen and everyone does everything for you!) 

Suzz