Inspired by {Collage Quilter}

 This week Denise is sharing the Collage Quilter site for inspiration And they have a collection of Pinterest boards here. I started looking knowing I needed another Father's Day card so, I started searching for Blue and Plaid I seen these country plaids. And this one  I have these old SU background stamps that mimic that but, I also know My husband used to back pack into places to go fly fishing some of our first "dates" we did this in little mountain streams and so, I dug out this really old SU set. I think when I bought it I did not have any coloring skills so I always used it as a line art image and I wanted to see if I could paint it to color it so, I stamped it on some Smooth hot press Arches cotton watercolor paper with some Versafine Sand Dune ink. I did not remember it being so not defined in the shadows. ( of his face ) 

first round of paints, these are Daniel Smith colors. I did not have any kind of a plan before I started this for colors I just knew I wanted the waders to be "bright green" and then somehow the yellow said pick me for a shirt. ha ha. this is not an outfit hubs would have worn. but, I did let this dry and then started adding more.

after the paint was dry I added some white gouache ( Windsor & Newton) straight out of the tube to places where I think there would be splashes or maybe foam in the water. for interest. I also added a Stardust gelly roll pen over the fishing line and to a few places inside the net where I think the fish could be for sparkle. 

 I am not so sure this angle shows the sparkle either but, its there. I also added another layer of paint to the mountains and water around the guys body for some contrast to give the scene more depth. I did add in some greys over the paint colors. also the waders kept bugging me because I could not figure out where the straps should be so I finally just add-libbed them up the chest to the shoulders. I figure they are baggy and they would be off set I guess from twisting around in the water right?  

I used a Honeybee stamps deckle edge die to cut this out and then found this printed paper in the whimsy stamps cottage core pack. (its glossy in real life) so, the colors were off a little when I was trying to shoot it with my cell phone it read it as black instead of blue and so, I did wait for the sun to come up this morning to use my camera. I know its not nearly the same as the plaids that I first seen but, it does have both blue and brown in it and it fits a little better with a fishing scene to me so, I decided to just keep going. I think the whole idea of the "inspiration" is for it to jump start a project you actually finish right?

I have not added a sentiment to the inside yet, the base is one of those SU ones they don't make anymore that I am mostly hoarding for cutting gingerbread dies with and its name escapes me but, this is 5 1/2" square in real life. If you'd like to play along with us you can find this challenge here. That's about it from me, I hope you are doing well & thanks for stopping by. 

Father's Day

 It's coming, you know its coming every year and since my step dad does not have an online presence it's OK to post his card even though its going out in the mail this morning.

I picked up this PinkInk Mel's Angel from the Frantic Stamper retirement sale not too long ago knowing I wanted to use it for him. ( he has done both the long blond hair along with the assortment of Harley's over the years so, the hair has gone grey now and the last bike was a glittery Purple.) I did stamp this with some Nocturn (waterproof) ink and then let it sit for a few days as this is textured cold press Arches cotton paper. and this image is really big, I tend to make bigger cards so buying stamps from the UK brands works out for me for the most part but, this one did take my by surprise.

I thought about popping in a mug shot of us on this bike as I have one framed but, it was not a digital shot and photographing photos does not always work so great for me, my brain still looks through the lens of a DSLR and expects I will get what I see haha. ( these flat shots are always done with my cell phone over the table) It's probably hard to see but, there are several shades of shimmery paints in the lights and on the chrome of the bike and the sunglasses lens here. So it has some sparkle as the paper is tilted.

I found one of those loose sheets of textured cardstock in a deep shade of purple for the base and cut it to A7 and then started trimming down the image on the paper trimmer so it could fit with a sliver of the purple peeking out. There was an "make it Masculine" clean and simple challenge a couple of weeks ago at SCS and I started this with that in mind. I stamped that sentiment ( from the Unity Stamps set called wild surprises with the moose) when it came in the mail and die cut it with an Whimsy stamps Antique frame die in that set and thought OK that hair is certainly wild so, to me it fits and I think it will surprise a laugh out of him) That's about it from me, I hope you are doing well & Thanks for stopping by. 
 

 

 

Inspired by {Moda Operandi}

 This Memorial day weekend Amy is sharing the Moda Operandi site and pinterest boards. And I came across this light colored straw cowboy hat. and I laughed and laughed. Because, I had received this Whimsy stamps Cowboy Obsession stamp set and printed paper in the mail a day before I seen that and I had made her hat that color a few hours before that... and I thought OK lets just keep it simple.

 The couple was stamped with Versafine Morning Mist ink on some cold press 100% cotton watercolor paper and painted with Daniel Smith watercolors. The sentiment from that same set of stamps was done with Pine cone ink. When the paint was dry I cut this out with a new to me die set from Craft Addiction UK called Stitched craft fusion frames. I did get mine from Color me Nordic here. I thought the stitching details could lend itself to western style. And I then cut it out with some Kraft cardstock and it really showed off the stitches really well but, I wanted to use some of this scenic paper. ( every sheet in this pack is gorgeous) So, I cut one piece with a large die and then cut out a smaller section from its center. And I put the second frame up on foam pop dots) and then layered these over the watercolor/kraft layers. The base layer here is some Bazzill Quick Sand textured cardstock and this is 6" square in real life. I did try to give him some of that five o' clock shadow and then removed most the grey from the skin and went back over the top with the same shades of skin tone I blended for her. I think there is a little bit of contrast between their faces. I did still struggle with where to put the shadows on the folds of their shirts but, I am pretty tickled with how this turned out all in all. I hope you are doing well & thanks for stopping by. If you'd like to play along with us you can find this challenge here at SCS. 

A baby Boy card

 One of the guys at work his family is expecting a baby boy soon-ish. and this boy will have 4 older sisters so, they are all a little excited about that fact so, I have been poking around in my stamps trying to come up with an card idea for the shower gift. ( I have time) and I started with this Hooked on Stamps cowboy baby image stamped with some Versafine sand dune ink on Arches hot press (smooth) watercolor paper and started adding paint to it. 

last night 
 

and then after work today I added a few more layers. The skin tone is a little more pink than this in real life but, I just could not get it to photograph well.

I recently received a happy mail box from Unity Stamps and this printed paper pack was in it. (and on the table) so it influenced the blue hat band as well. The postage die cut frame was on the table from probably the last time I cut scraps and it happened to be close enough in size that I only had to trim the painted panel down a sliver for it to work. I did leave some space to the right of him to add a sentiment later but, my mind is blank on this because, this baby is obviously not a newborn and so, it may work better as a birthday card instead some time. (maybe for an old cowboy) I'm not real sure yet. So, I am thinking it will be back to the drawing board for me. I hope you are doing well & thanks for stopping by. 
 

Virtual Stamp Night { Go 4 the Gold Continued }

 Good Morning, I hope you are staying warm and have some time for yourself this weekend. I decided to steal some for me in snatches yesterday and I did do a couple of simple cards for VSN that is going on now. And this morning when I came up the stairs this is what I seen. And I decided. that if I would like to do a few more of the challenges today I need to clear the decks.

 The view when I got to the top of the stairs.

 Where I actually stand to stamp. Yeah, the struggle is real and it looks like I lost.. haha. I won't put away everything you see here as I do create with what ever is in front of me and I "Know" that pad of printed paper that was used on the snowman card below just may have a forest scene print that will pull together a wall paper I seen for this weekends IC that Denise is hosting and LizBeths Icy VSN challenges... but, that will be later this morning maybe after the sun is up is the hope. 

 Kim is hosting a back to the basics challenge ( stamps, ink & paper only) and I had this drop piece of Bashful Blue card from my VSN sample I made for my challenge and I also have ( its hard to see but, on the first desk shot, I am making stamped sheets for pockets that I laminate for cling stamp storage and this sentiment is in one of those silly dog sets from Unity Stamps ( a new one I think ) and I knew it was over there so I stamped it on the bottom of this 3" square and then started looking for a face that would fit above it. ( This gal is one of the oldest stamps I have and I took her off the block a long time ago and my memory does not remember her name at the moment It is called Elegant Hat by Inkadinkado.) but, I did add a little bit of watercolor paint to this. ( very little water in the paint) and called it "good enough" 

 The next one I did finish is this long tall snowman for Vickkijo's made from snow challenge. I stamped it on some Arches cold press watercolor paper with Versafine morning mist and started adding DS watercolors to it, I also had stamped two of the twig arms on a scrap from when I cut around the body but, I was not able to successfully cut around those "fingers" so, the pivot was I decided about where he would stand on that Kaiser kraft music sheet print and then stamped one twig directly on the printed paper, glued him down, then waited for any paint on his body to be fully dry then stamped the cross body arm. There is watercolor on both of them and it was very little water so, the printed paper was fine with that. The base here is some Textured Bazzill and this one is A6 in real life. I did that sentiment tag a few weeks ago and I no longer remember the details. ( I might edit this if I find the packages as I am "cleaning" ) 

Those were the two I got done in the middle of the very early Saturday am night and then when we got home in the afternoon I stole some time from helping Hubs to do this one for Brenda's Mountains / Gold Mining challenge that had gone live when I went up stairs again.

The scene here is from the Stampin' Up! Beauty of Life set and its on some cold press Arches with a light first round of DS watercolor paints. ( My eyes seen a lack of shadows on this and I may add more paint to it later) This was cut with a large Spellbinders deckle die and the edges have some Scorched Timber DOX ink on it, its up on foam pop dots. That sentiment is from the Paper Artsy Sara Naumann set that I have not clue what the sets name is. maybe ESN40 ?I stamped some time around last Christmas and it was just sitting there waiting for me to diecut it, so I used a Spellbinders Perfect touch rectangle die on it to give it some interest on the edges and found this green in my ( I don't know what brands loose sheets hanging folder of green papers and made it A2.) And then I added some white gouache to the clouds and the water ripples because, that paper is not really a "bright" white and I wanted those highlights. That's about it from me at the moment. I am hoping to be back later with more progress. Thanks for stopping by. 

 

Dirty Dozen February Christmas Wishes

 It's almost February and the Dirty Dozen Christmas card prompt for Fan Club members is up and available here at in the special forums seen here. 

 I started with that green ledger looking paper from Graphic45 because, even though its kinda office supply looking I loved the faded greens going on and wanted to use it for Christmas. and I had these Spellbinders postage stamps folders and dies set on the table I had started trying to figure out how to cut and emboss them as they are a folder with 2 dies. I had thought the die was going to just be one inside the folder ha ha but, I ended up doing these about 3 times each in the machine to get it to look like this. And then I started looking for something that would fit in the opening. This printed paper girl was cut from the Prima 25 & peppermint pad and then I found that the Stampin' Up Sage shadow cut to 5 1/2" square looked pretty good with those bits and pieces but, there was too much of a mat gap between the greens so, I found this 49& Market evergreen season print that would bridge the gap between them. The mulberry flowers are out of the canning jar on the wall and I've forgot who makes them. The Christmas wishes was stamped on some watercolor paper a while back and then cut with a Tim Holtz label die. And then I needed some things to tuck into the other frame and I found this bit of red stripe in the same envelope from the prima envelope and the fa la la washi tape stamp from 49 & Market a while back. I am crossing my fingers that it does not unravel it self from the papers. The edges of the green print and the frames were inked with some Distress Oxide Scorched Timber ink. I debated about those flowers for a long time because, the trend here is to use those things on tags so that I don't have to pay parcel postage on the cards for the lumps but, as I was building this one I decided I know who it will go to next year and it will be hand delivered. That's about it from me. I hope you're doing well & thanks for stopping by. 

Green Boughs

 There was a "Pines" challenge tossed out recently at SCS and I knew I had these new long needled pine branch dies coming from SSS when I seen it and so, when they arrived I cut some from watercolor paper and started adding paint to them.

And then after that I fished out one of their trio die sets that has smaller needles on the branches and painted some of those as well.

 

And then on Friday Angie tossed out a use your favorite color challenge ( mine is green you already knew that though right?) and so, I had started pushing these branches around with this red chipboard frame ( Tim Holtz) and the printed glass acetate sheet is also from one of his packs ( as is that Santa behind that) and I started thinking maybe its too much "red" for a "green project" but, eventually I found this 49 & Market print paper that picked up both colors and left me some almost blank space for behind the Santa and I just started layering foam pop dots between it all to give it some depth. once it was all glued on ( the sentiment and hearts are also chipboard but from an 49& Market Evergreen season set I did add some stickles crystal colored glitter glue in places. The green photo corners here are really old ones from Colorbox and the edges of those and that printed paper were inked with some DOX forest Moss. 

The card base here is from photoplay and the color name is Seasalt which is nearly the same as the frame on the sentiment. It's one of my favorite shades of green. At any rate this is going in a gift bag this week that is being hand delivered so, it was fun to get to play with these lumpy things that would probably break the postal machine to mail in an envelope. That's about it from me, if you'd like to play along with that challenge you can find it here at SCS. Thanks for stopping by. 
 

Dirty Dozen Christmas Prompt

 There are actually two prompt's to choose from this December for those people doing last minute makes and one of the things I have been working on and off the last few years is I bought a stamp from SU that reads "happy gift wrapping season" in one of their Christmas sets with dogs and cats being silly for Christmas and it's taken me a while to do it, make up gifts packages with a variety of Tags to gift out this Thanksgiving. And so with that thought in the back of my head I decided on the blue photo and Stamped this Hero Arts Santa,Sleigh & Reindeer stamp #D592 from 1993 on some Strathmore mixed Media paper that had been cut with an Cottagecutz 4X4 postage stamp die. And as a side note I think their "from the vault set that has some assorted small Christmas stamps in clear on it, the same image is on that sheet in the same size as far as I can tell just eye balling them. ( I didn't pull out a ruler.)

 I did use some DOX inks to fill in the bulk of the sky and where I wanted the tree tops to be so that they were not stark white and I also when I am watercoloring something tend to do several at once and then there is not much hurry up and wait time. Since I have been on a postage collage kick the last little while the things I was bouncing around between here were some also really older Hero Arts postage images on either Studio loft watercolor paper, Strathmore mixed media paper or Neenah Environmental coversheet. ( kraft) 

 I did start adding watercolor paint (loose tree tops) and over the stamped image for this panel.

 I added some white gouache and stickles to some of the postage stamps after a few layers of paints.

I ended up diecutting a piece of printed paper from the Whimsy Stamps Blurry Flurries with an Avery Elle A tag for all die ( this is A2 in real life) and I did back that even though it's a double sided paper with some more Mixed media paper so that I could add some weight to it. Which is always a fun thing to tie on tags and charms and such in my world. The blue pearls here are from Martha Stewart and the tiny red rhinestone is from Spellbinders. The metal snowflake charm I am not sure about as I tend to toss packaging and dump those kinds of things into an old canning jar together. 

 

The sheer ribbons are unknown and the blue burlap string is from May Arts. I am going to have to edit this when I remember who makes those sentiments. If you'd like to play along with us you can find the challenge for December here in the special forums set aside for Fan Club Members. That's about it from me, I hope you're doing well. Thanks for stopping by. 

Inspired by {Greenrow}

 This week Amy is sharing the GreenRow site for inspiration at Splitcoaststampers. And I found quite a few things that caught my eye but, I stopped looking when I came across this red striped rug because, I knew I could claim this and use the colors for a Christmas card quite easily. So, that is what I did. 

 I had received this old Stampington & Co. Debbie Mumm Santa stamp in the mail recently and it was on the table when I found the rug. So, I stamped him on some Artist Loft watercolor paper and painted him with Daniel Smith watercolors. The Sentiment here is from the Spellbinders set and it was cut with some die that I did piles of recently using up scraps into use-able shapes. There is a tiny amount of Stickles glitter glue in the ball of the Santa's hat that maybe this angle catches along with some Distress Oxide Vintage photo ink along the edges of everything. 

 When I started building the card base for him I found this really thick woven ribbon and I had this antique-y colored red & cream sheet music print on the top in the scraps box so, it just felt like fate. The ribbon was just too thick to wrap and glue like normal so, I cut it on the edges of the paper and used a Tim Holtz tiny stapler to attach it. The Santa panel was cut with an Impression Obsession stitched die from Anna Wight. The base here is some tomato type shade of smooth Bazzill finished out at A6 in real life. That's about it from me, I hope you are doing well. If you'd like to play along with us you can find this challenge here. Thanks for stopping by. 

Decorate the Season

 I don't know about you but, I have a little stash of these old sweet Penny Black kids that are just a lot to color. So, I have not colored any of mine before today I don't think.

So, as a trial I stamped her on some Studio Loft watercolor paper with Versafine morning mist ink thinking I did not want any dark black lines and I had to laugh at my self because, once the paint was dry I ended up taking a black micron pen to most of the edges of that panel. I cut her out with scissors and put foam pop dots on the back. The plaid paper here is from one of the Simple Stories pads and that aqua trim with the faux red stitching is the back side ( drop piece) from the plaid. I cut the red ric rac ( IO die) from some shimmery red paper and just wrapped it around the edges. The red base here is something from SU. Probably ridding hood red as its one of my go-to colors and its finished out at A2 in real life. I did use the white gouache straight from the tube so it would dry 3-D and I am pretty tickled with how she turned out. Thanks for stopping by. 

At the same time I was painting the one above, I had a second panel going in shades of Pastels.

So, since the simple stories plaid worked well with the one above I did nearly the same thing on this one as well. The plaid on this one was from one of their Winter pads. The pink ric rac was cut from scraps with the IO trims die and the plaid mat under the painted panel was from one of their other pads. ( simple stories) and those are up on foam pop dots. The base here is something I want to say an herb type name from Neenah and its A2 in real life. I am debating adding a little more color to the birdhouse here as the creamy color kind of fades into the scene I guess. I think I like the contrast of the darker one on the top more but, she is still cute. That's about it for her at the moment. 

Watercoloring Human Doodles

 This week Linda is sharing this video tutorial by Stephen Coats doing quick sketches of people from the back in simple scenes and watercoloring them. The video is called Watercolour Doodles Human Figures seen here on YouTube. 

 So, I started doing sketches of people after watching the video in these sketch books. 

 And I thought OK this is not so bad as the mental thought of drawing people or even sketching people so, I picked up a second sketch book with watercolor paper that I had not used as of yet and did a larger couple on it. This is a link to this particular pad. 

And then right before I started painting it I remembered that you were supposed to ink over it and I actually remembered to test it on a scrap. 

 

 I grabbed an Micron pen and found it bled with just water so, I went online and found this multipack of the Uni Pens in the video on Amazon here. And then I scribbled on some of the black from that pen on the same scrap of Arches paper 

 And it looked like this pen bled more than an Micron pen... so, I decided that I would use the pen and let it sit for a while incase there was some drying time needed. 

 I did try to mix some plum paint from the ultra marine and some red (not a what ever red he used and I did not really see the paint move as well on this paper. I will have to look for a link for this particular sketchbook but, it is not Arches paper for sure. 

I did drag the paintbrush below their feet trying for some blurry shadows in the rain um, reflections type movement.

 

So, after that paint dried I added on some more shadows at the feet for a reflection and Sketched inked shadow lines as the paint had dried by this point. And this is where I stopped. I did not have time to build a scene and I am OK with that, I still grin about the whole "carrot" people comment but, I was glad to see this explained in more depth as the first time I had heard him say that during the beach scene tutorial from Last month seen here I did not try to add legs and feet like I did there and this is more realistic to me so that was a cool thing to learn. That's about it from me, If you'd like to play along with us you can find this challenge here at SCS. Thanks for stopping by. 

Dirty Dozen August 2025 Christmas

 Happy August :) This was done using the Dirty Dozen August prompt to jump start this shaker card. I recently played along with the Tim Holtz & Simon Says Stamp Christmas in July class doing collage things and so, since I have a lot of those bits and pieces of papers, layers, chipboards. Not only Tim Holtz but, also some from Simple Stories and others. And I'd like to make a dent in using it up. With that thought in the back of my head it was pretty easy to turn this Chipboard window into a Shaker card. the inside of the shaker is also some of that new "Snowflake" mix that came in the class kit from Ranger. ( its Mica flakes, glitter, rock candy maybe other things mix ) It is very sparkly in person. 

 I am planning to hand deliver this so, the thickness of the card is not a factor here. I do have a layer of the Simon Says Stamp foam tape behind that window pane to give it wiggle room to shake. The let it snow below her feet is also printed chipboard but, not high up as the window frame. The woodgrain printed paper here is from Impression Obsession, so it has a little gloss to it the same way the paperdoll and the printed tree layer do. I did tint that paperdoll with some of the Tim Holtz crayons and the stickers on her hands are from last years Christmas sticker pad. The layers of printed paper that looks collage-y in the top left corner are from the Simple Stories simple vintage fresh snow ephemera package. The Dec 25 red block is also from one of the TH packages. The printed snowflaked edge acetate inside the window frame on the top was in one of the baseboard packs with the chipboard frames and then I just used some plain (thick) acetate from Crafters Companion to contain the shaking bits on the back side. That snow flaked edged one was not quite long enough to go across the width of the frame so, it is off set to the left and then I used the paperdoll girls body to cover over the exposed right side. That's about it from me if you'd like to play along with us you can find this challenge here at SCS. Thanks for stopping by. 

Create Together Collage tag Trio

 The third project in Create Together the class that is Tim Holtz & Heidi is some size 5 shipping tags that get totally collage covered with the ephemera papers. and then layered up over that. So, I did start with picking out a handful of bits of paper to cover 2 of the tags, but as I trimmed the edges of the first one. I walked around the table where I have piles and picked up more bits and a third tag. This turned out to be something I really enjoyed the finished tags of. 

I did try to minimize some of the mess by using a piece of plastic packaging for the collage medium smears for using a glue brush. 

 

A closer look at the base layer of those tags. 

I did use a piece of plastic packaging to lay the tags on the glass mat as I did the seal them with the medium with your fingers step. off to the left out of this shot is a box of baby wipes and now I am not as nervous about getting it on my skin as I was before I started but, they do mention you need to get this off your fingers while its wet or you are wearing it for days. That freaked me out a little and I almost put on rubber gloves. 

Once they were dry shiny cello tape stickers came out to play along with more Paper dolls and shiny foliage bits. and then some stickers that were cut up to look more ransom note type style. the people and foliage are all up on the foam dots from the kit and surprisingly enough they felt a little more sticky adhesive wise than the ones I have been buying so those have now gone on the mental shopping list to get more of when I get low again. I found I do not have a 1/4" hole punch. ( who knew?) so, that went on the wish list as well but, I used a 1/8" hole (4 time haha) which made little funny shapes in the hole of the tag so, then I tucked in some red skinny velvet yarn fiber through the hole. I am pretty tickled with how these turned out and I know I will be making more of them at some point. This class has an hashtag of #SSSHolidayCollage if you are playing along. Thanks for stopping by. 

Create Together Tim Holtz & Heidi Holiday Collage Card

 A funny true story. I have a ton of Tim Holtz products, you knew this already right? but, I don't really use much of the papers and chipboard pieces I think I am more of a collector of them more than a collage person. I use a piece here and there so, I was really excited about the live class they were offering from Simon Says Stamp and teaching it as an YouTube video. (you can watch the replay here) I also had assumed that the 11th was going to be a Saturday when I bought it without looking at a calendar so, I heard part of it at work yesterday between payroll and customers and our IT guy coming by so, This morning I started watching the video where I could just sit and watch it. It starts with a collage card. 

 

I opened my box this morning so, no homework done here. I do have packs of some of these packages from last Christmas that are open in a container so, I picked and chose from both the kit box and my Tim Holtz papers stash box.

This is what I was thinking my card might turn out to look like. 

I built my shaker frame piece and I had not used that liquid glue much and I got it too close to the acetate and I thought ok, you're going to have all this shaking sparkle inside anyways it does not matter, but the glue leaked out the front of the frame under where you see this girl sitting. and I thought OK but, as I was moving piece around to do the collage building part I thought, you know you could move her to the other side of the frame the way her back is in the mugshot she'd probably look more natural posed there, so. I did. I also stacked one of the smallest poinsettias tilted on top of the medium one under her feet so, the flowers are a little 3-D here also. 

I think she turned out pretty cute, I shot all of these photos with my cell phone and the colors are a little off to me but, not in a this is terrible kind of a way. (that card base is a very deep green color in real life) I did use the Candied Apple crayon on her hat and the mowed lawn green on her coat for tinting, the cheeks are worn lipstick. I had not ever thought to do this, and I love how that turned out.  

I am excited to see what the next project is. I am also thinking I just may add some stickles or something to the center of that poinsettia for a little more sparkle. I probably could have added a little more to my shaker window but, I do like that you can see the corner bit of the layer under it as well so, there is that. 

The bits and pieces I did not end up putting on the card, some have been inked with the iced spruce ink. I am thinking I may also add some of that cello tape to the top of the green ticked under her feet as well but, I have not gotten that far. I have replenished my cuppa Joe however and this means the creating can continue. I hope you are having a really creative Saturday as well, Thanks for stopping by. 

and I stopped the video too soon, they added tape after I thought they were done with the cards haha.

 So I cut a piece of the tape sticker and used it at the top and bottom and decided the flower stamens just needed that sparkle as well. I am not sure how it works but, this class has a hashtag that is #sssholidaycollage if you are playing along on maybe Facebook?  I know there are some people from Splitcoaststampers who have also bought the kit and will be playing along, so I am just going to try the hashtag there in the gallery as it is keyword driven. That's about it for the moment. Thanks for stopping by. 
 

Inspired by {BonTon}

 This week Kia is sharing the Bon Ton site where nearly right off the bat I found this girl Easter Bunny. And I just decided to roll with that as I had started adding color to a Missy Bunny last weekend. 

She was stamped with some Versafine Clair Morning Mist ink on Arches cold press 100% cotton watercolor paper and I was glancing at the index sticker on the stamp block when I started painting this, So the hat and clothing got a little brighter than I think I would normally pick as color combos from me personally. I guess in my head Easter is Bright. 

After I had added a few more layers of paint I decided to cut her panel down with an Stiched Simon Says Stamp square die. The gingham print here is from Graphic 45 and the textured paper under that on the left is some Woven Paper from Diecuts with a view. The base here is some Sundance Felt Natural (textured) cardstock. The base on this is 5 1/2" square and that salmon velvet is unknown. The Happy Easter is from the Clearly Besotted Message me set on an Scrap cut with a Spellbinders Justrite die. The salmon brad is unknown. the two larger flowers are the Hobby Lobby or Micheals brand as I am certain June gave them to me and the smaller one might be a Prima flower but, I really don't know for sure anymore. ( I have all my mulberry flowers in clear vintage canning jars on the shelf and I toss the packaging when I get them) 

That's about it from me, If you'd like to play along with us you can find this challenge here. Thanks for stopping by.