Heal Well

My friends husband was recently in the hospital and has a long road of recovery in front of him, so I wanted to send him this card to let him know he continues to be in our prayers.

Heidi shared HERE, how she used the new Distress Oxide's to stamp on colored cardstock, and I just thought the results was so neat that I had to give it a try myself.  I used Walnut stain on kraft with this card, my hubby even loved the results.  Since the image was so dark I tried to go a bit lighter with my papers.

Here is a closeup of the stamping. Inked up the stamp and then sprayed with water and then stamped. I let the stamp sit on the cardstock for a little longer than I normally do to make sure I got a good stamp.

Inkadinado -- Fall trees Silhouette stamp
Spellbinders -- Lg. Deckled Rectangles and A2 matting basics A dies
Distress Oxide - Walntu stain ink
g.c.d, - Funhouse papers
Words to the rescue -- Get well sentiment stamp
Martha Stewart -- border punch

Thanks so very much for all your sweet comments and sharing your thoughts, I really do appreciate you taking the time out to stop by,

Connie

Mum Blooms

Now I know spring is coming and usually we think of Mums in the Fall but I just got these Memory Box - Magnificent Mum Floral blooms dies and had to use them from the new release. The Memory box - Windswept stems are new too and thought would look great with the mums.

First I cute the mums out of brown cardstock, then I applied them to a piece of paper that I liked the colors but wasn't a heavy pattern to it and loosely cut around them.

Since I only had 3 flowers I decided to cut off one of the stems and add it to the previous set to get the 3 stems I wanted. Dies are so much easier to adapt for our cards than stamping.

I also added a pretty border using the Poppystamps -- Tailored Stitches die and then took my distress inks and added a bit of shading to the borders to give it a bit of a vintage feel to the card.

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Here are the dies used in the card today.

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Stamping with watercolor paints

I thought I had already posted this but I missed it. Last month my stamping groups challenge was to use watercolor to paint onto your stamp and then stamp it onto paper, instead of stamping onto watercolor paper I chose to stamp onto designer paper so the flowers would have a pattern to them.  I didn't have any watercolor paints so I just bought an inexpensive set at Hobby Lobby, it seemed to work ok, but it was really puddled up in places so I took a paintbrush to try and smooth it out a bit, not sure if I liked the end result or not, but it was fun to play with.  I added a bit of pen work around the stamp to frame it a bit.

BasicGrey -- Picadilly paper
Hero Arts - Silhouette flower stamp, watercoloring directly onto stamp
EK Success -- Flower punch
Martha Stewart -- leaf and tag punches
Ribbon - from Rak
Stamps of life -- Mini's 4 circles sentiment stamp
Nuvo crystal drops -- Golden sunset

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Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by and letting me know you did,

Connie

Sending Hugs

My father in law turned 88 recently and this is the card that I sent. It was hard to get a good picture of this vellum image and the stickers in the corner are really black but they are kind of glittery and the shine off those was hard to capture also.  The embossing folder used in the background is one my hubby bought for his artwork, so I thought his Dad might also like it :)

WeRmemory keepers -- Geometric embossing folder
K&co. - Floral & Fauna Diecuts and Vellum pack
Spellbinders -- Labels 18 die
David Tuttera -- Celebrate sentiment
Hot off the press -- Black Round Jewel stickers

Wishing you a wonderful weekend ahead, and thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today,

Connie

Bride and Groom

My hubby's long time friend lost his wife a few years ago. But he recently got remarried to a lovely lady who works in the same field that he does and we couldn't be more happy for him. We were not able to attend their out of state wedding but they did stop by and spent the night and we had a great visit. This is the card I made for them.

I love when the paper does most of the work for you. I just cut out the die cut heart, the letters Love and the corner die, added the sentiment and I was done.

Webster pages -- Petite papers
Spellbinders -- Lacey hearts and Font one upper and lower case dies
David Tuttera -- Celebrate sentiment

I am kitty sitting my grand kitty for a few days, my daughter and son in law had to go speak at a conference.  It is so nice to have a furbaby in the house again, even though she is a stinker and is getting into a few things and woke me up at 3:30 am.  The sun is shinning and the birds are singing so pretty, what could be better this morning :)

Thanks so much for taking the time out of your busy day to stop by and for letting me know you did,

Connie