Watercolored Wings

 This week the ways to use it is to do a "bug" card and Butterflies count as they have 6 legs...

So, this particular one is from the Simon Says Stamp Beautiful Butterflies set, its stamped with some versafine on Strathmore watercolor paper (twice once to the base for the antenna's) and the second on a piece that was painted with Kuretake gansai watercolors and cut out with scissors and paper pieced back into the design. there is also clear wink of stella over the whole thing for some shimmer. 

a look at the finished card, this is the second one for C this year as her first card I mailed to the wrong ( old address ) you yeah, you have no idea how much that bites. Its highly unlikely that I will receive the box back in the mail so I can turn around and re send it to the correct address. (is my thought) So, the Happy Birthday is inside the card here. And I am just embarrassed and heartsick over that one as I spent months collecting the goodies that went into that box. good thing she doesn't read my blog eh?

Hopefully you are all continuing to do well & thanks for stopping by.

VSN Mini {Parks & Rec}

 Last weekend there was a Mini VSN hosted at SCS and there were three challenges, the first was to do something inspired by Music in the park. (so you had to have an element from each) The birds and tree trunks dies here are from Impression Obsession. the Music/Lyric stamp is from Hampton Arts Cosmo cricket line and the tag is a very large one ( larger than a size 8 shipping tag, I need to measure it) It was run through an Anna Griffin snowfall folder and where the line is when I ran it through the second time to extend the pattern, That is where the sentiment strip goes across.

the second challenge was to do something with Butterflies on it. And this was the newest set in the room that had an un-inked butterfly in it. ( Colorado Craft Co. Anita Jeram's 4 leaf clover set colored simply with pencils real quick to fit the time frame.

And the third was to have snow covered mountains on the project. This one the halfdome scene is from Crafters Companion. The sentiment and eagle are from Club Scrap. And this one finished out at A7 in real life.

And like always you have a one hour time limit for the construction. the thinking can be an how ever long it takes but, the execution is timed.  So, for my third one I also combined it with this week's featured stamper Dawn who had this gorgeous Purple mountains scene card here. 

You always need at least two changes from the FS card you are casing so, I did move the eagle up in the design and chose a mountain scene image with the water below the bridge of the half dome so, that I could just color the blue there and have less layers. 

I think the main event for this VSN happens in a few weeks in March. And I find my self looking forward to that. Thanks for stopping by.

Inspired by {Retro-Stage}

 This week Amy has us peeking inside the Retro- Stage site for inspiration where I just loved all those dresses from the 50's with the crinolines... And I decided to just pick this one because, I loved the colors of the roses and I don't know about you but, I am getting totally ready to start seeing blooming flowers again.

This is one of the oldest "fashion" stamps in the room here its from Inkadinkado called My Mothers Dress. It's stamped with some versafine clair nocturn ink on a piece of printed paper from the carta bella spring market pad. the stripe printed paper is unknown and the solid pink is from a die cuts with a view shimmer Christmas pad.

if you look closely at the words in the circle die you can catch a glimpse of the tulle peeking out from under the dress. I just used glue dots on this and no foam but, the tulle did give it some dimension. You can find this challenge here to play along with us at SCS. Thanks for stopping by.

Inspired by {Monika Winden homemates Pinterest boards}

 

This week I am hosting the Inspiration Challenge and I sent everyone to Monika Winden's homemates pinterest boards. And I came across this one as one she had saved. I just love the colors and textures of the space. would I live there. no, but it was interesting in a thing to me to catch my eye because, I really used to tend to skip over the yellow and orange tones. And a few years ago someone said to me, she see's the orange colors best so that was her reason why it was her favorite. and I think I started looking at a wider range of colors after that but, not really moving out of my comfort zone of greens and browns and pale colors very often. So, when I seen that space. I thought of this stamp because there are so many patterns layered right next to each other and So, I started coloring this Colorado Craft Co. Anita Jeram's puppy hugs image with some Polychromos & Prisma pencils. there is a tine bit of Stardust Jelly roll pen and some white gel pen bumps on those flower centers on the bottom pattern. The Bricks printed paper is from crate paper and the yellow is some really thin paper from Joanns. The base is Bazzill and this one finished out at A7 so far. There is not a sentiment on it because, I am not sure what I want to do with it yet. You can find this challenge here at SCS to play along with us. Thanks for stopping by, I hope you are all continuing to stay safe out there.

Cute Bunny Hugs

 There was a challenge thrown down by Angie to do a "hugs" card for the free for all a few weeks ago. 

And I knew I had this set in my pick me pick me next pile. So, the bunnies were stamped on a scrap of Strathmore 400 series watercolor paper and watercolored with Mission Gold watercolors. That panel was cut out with a Simon Says Stamp stitched rect die.

And I stamped a couple more of the sentiments from that same set ( Colorado Craft Co. Anita Jeram's Lots of love) on a scrap of solar white and cut it with a smaller rectangle die for the inside. This one is 6" square in real life. I have to tell you the more I water color even for something like this and the easier it comes to me the more I want to do more of it to have that whole ability thing increase. I am pretty tickled with how this turned out. Thanks for stopping by.

WOYWW # 612 {loot, painting, etc}

 

Happy desk peeking day, if you'd like to see more spaces or play along 

the link up for this blog hop starts here at our hostess

Miss Julia's Blog.

There is also a new Instagram hashtag of #WOYWW

 

So, yesterday when I got home from work. ( isn't that great to have some daylight at that time of day again?)

Promptly made a cup of hazelnut coffee and topped it off with some spray whipped cream. just because.

a closer look at some eBay loot that arrived on Monday night and I had not finished admiring them ( or photographing them for the evernote file) so, after that was done these were just moved out of the way so I could start on a sample for this coming weeks IC. I am slowly collecting some of the stamps I wanted way back when, when I could not afford them. So, its kind of exciting to see that some of them are still for sale out there.
 

 

 But wait there's more ha ha. on Saturday I actually had an interesting desk for a while, I had watched the Wednesday watercolor challenge link to a painting watercolor mountains video ( the thread is here with the video here) and Saturday morning I tried to duplicate that from memory. ( which is always an iffy thing) I also grabbed brushes that were the size she used in the video, which were not my best fine tip round brushes so, I struggled with that. That particular pan of watercolors are Mission Gold ones. I also tried to use the colors she used which were not a normal choice for me. I also gave the first one ( card on the right below) some lifted paper towel "clouds" in the sky but, I lost too much of the orange-ish sky at the top of the gradient so, they are hardly seen.

The finished size of these is A7  and the sentiments were made possible by Saturday's happy mail from Club Scrap. they came out of the "Pacific Northwest" stamp set. It really took me by surprise when they moved over to clear stamps last year, I had one wine set from them that after all this time is still clear and holding up so, I felt confident about picking up some more of them.

The papers and ribbons pile is a Kit for making cards that are vintage Americana type themed and I did get the stamps for that too. ( I normally do not buy kits like this so, it surprised me when I kept going back to it while looking at the store) there are two sheets of printed things to cut up and a few sheets of solid colored card stocks, three sizes of envelopes and some glitter star stickers. not sure if I should cut up the printed sheets now. ( probably as I just may be more likely to use them if they were little pieces I could move around on a card front) and so, I just scooped the whole thing back into the box and it sits for now. So, that's about it from my corner of the internet, hope you all are doing well. & thanks for stopping by. Oh, I wanted to mention that my antivirus program is shutting down some of the blogs when I click on them. ( its not very many but, BJ's is one of them again today) so, I am not sure what it setting it off.