Another year older

I have talked about this lady before on my blog, she is in her 80's and she and her husband have had many health problems and they had to move about an hour away to an Assisted Home, so we don't get the opportunity to see them much anymore but a couple weeks ago their daughter brought them to church and you could just tell how happy everyone was to see them again.

While talking to her, I mentioned how good she looked and she said she doesn't feel it, she says she just feels old, so when I saw this sentiment in my stamps I thought that will be perfect for her and hope it brings a smile to her day.  I embossed it with gold embossing powder to match the gold piece.

Most of this card came from my collection of unused products from other cards.

Pink patterned piece is a cut from Cricut machine
Sentiment tag from Making memories packaging
Spellbinders -- Long classic rectangle small die (gold)
Paper Smooches -- Happy Birthday sentiment (embossed w/gold embossing powder)
Paper flowers
Gold Brads
Embossing folder


Thanks so much for stopping by today,
Have a great weekend,

Connie

Colorista cards

Have you heard of the Colorista line that Spectrum Noir came out with.  The only thing I watch HSN for is their crafting days and this past one in August they had a new line of watercolor papers, cards, card fronts, tags, Aqua markers and watercolor pencils and watching Sara play with them just got me more excited and so I fell for it and bought the whole set. It came with a video that I haven't had time to sit down and watch yet so I started with something very simple to start off with.

This card front came with the text background, that you can't see well until you add your watercolor and the Gold sentiment, as well as the deer in gold on the tag.  You just add your watercolor to it and it all appears.  I was going for a gradient look but didn't blend the purple into the blue very well, I started with the purple then went onto a lighter blue and then a darker blue for the top.  There are two of every tag thank goodness cause I ruined the first one with too much water, the tags are a thinner paper than the card fronts, so instead of using the Aqua markers like I did on the card front for the second tag I used watercolor pencil and that worked nicely. I just put the jute through my gold button and added it to the tag.

Thanks for stopping by today,

Connie

Delicate Butterfly

I really love how delicate this butterfly is, and don't you just love pink and gray combo of colors! It almost looks red here but it is pink :)  I believe this corner die was meant to be use the opposite way where the corner is cut from a whole piece of paper but I wondered how it would look used this way and I think I like it this way. I hope you can see the pretty embossing it has on it too!

Poppystamps -- Clara Corner die
Memory box -- Surely stitched circle  and Leavenworth Butterfly dies
Lilybee designs -- Head over heels paper

Hope you enjoyed the long weekend and now it is once again time for all the kids to go back to school, although here they have been back for a couple weeks now.  It is amazing how much more traffic there is once school starts up again.

Have a wonderful remainder of the week!
Thanks for taking the time out of your busy schedule to stop by,

Connie

Christmas

I know I need to start making some Christmas cards soon or I am going to be scrambling at the last minute.  I decided to start with cards that will be going to two families that we still keep in touch with from England since we were stationed there 17 years ago.

I bought this magazine with all these papers and images last year but never got around to making them into cards.  Since it is a British magazine I thought I would use it for their cards :)

On this first card, the border strip, tag, image and papers all came from the pack, all I had to do was punch out the border and add some brads to the image panel.

On the second card, I shaped the ribbon that was in the pack with my stylus and foam mat, and also scored the banner so that I could give it some dimension and pop it up with foam tape. The image was already matted too, so I just adding some sequins around and was done :)

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by,
Connie

New Baby

I shared a card I made for my friend that has been struggling to get pregnant awhile back, well we just recently had a baby shower for her and this is the card I made for her.

She found out she is having a baby girl, so I had to go with an all pink theme!  The sparkle borders is washi tape, isn't that a pretty sparkle it has and it is a little thicker than some washi tape too.  I colored the stamp with my Spectrum markers.

Cornish Heritage Farms -- Baby Dear stamp set, image and sentiments, colored w/markers
Our Daily Bread design -- Shabby Rose collection paper
Spellbinders -- Circles, Lacey Circles and Labels 4 dies
Cloud 9 design
Metallic Paper tape
Sequins- Iridescent

 Wishing you a wonderful long weekend!!

Connie