Tea and Roses

This is such a pretty and feminine stamp, I have colored it with my Spectrum noir markers. My hubby bought me a big jar of gems of all different sizes and I always thought when will I ever use these big ones but when laying them out to see how I wanted to use them I picked up one of these big ones and when I laid it on my strip of washi tape it just seemed to work, hopefully it isn't taking away from the stamped image, as I am now seeing that I have already sent the card out.

Hero Arts - Roses in Teacup stamp, colored w/ Spectrum noir markers
Pawsitively Pawsome designs - Mini stitched square die
Martha Stewart - Swirling lace border punch
Paper Studio - Washi tape
Elizabeth Craft designs - Happy Birthday die
Sew pretty paper - cardmaking and papercraft magazine
Wink of stella - Clear on roses
Gems - hobby lobby

Hope you enjoyed a nice weekend and have a great week ahead!

Connie

Thanks

I needed a few thank you's, so I went with a few embossing folders and a sparkle coloring card.

My first card I used an embossing a friend sent to me, so all I did was cut it down to my card base size, sand the image, stamp the sentiment and layer some already made flowers.

Thank goodness for the Misti, since this was embossed on textured cardstock, I had to stamp the sentiment a few times to get a good impression.

Embossing folder image from friend- Sanded
Inkadinkado- All Occasions sentiment
Prima flowers
Brad

The next one is using another embossing folder I received.  This time I used Distress inks and Sparkle markers to color it.

Darcie - Small floral sprigs embossing folder, Colored w/ Distress inks  and Spectrum Sparkle markers
Hot Off the press - Tiny words & phrases Dazzles sentiment , colored w/Spectrum Noir Marker

Tip:  I happened to get a bit of the sparkle marker off the edge of my embossing and I quickly reached for my Tombow Mono Sand Eraser and that worked like a charm to take it right off, love that new little tool.

Lastly I have shared these before but I thought I would again. The cards come with the image already on the card and it is all sparkle so when you color with your Alcohol markers it gives such a pretty shimmer.

Spectrum Noir Colorista - Wild Daisies card, colored w/Spectrum noir markers

We are only 34 degrees this morning and the high should be around 38, when our normal is 62 this time of year, but I will take it because the Sun is shinning bright, no rain now for 3 days in a row :)

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful and fun weekend!

Connie

Spring

Visiting around blogland I see that all of us are so ready for spring to arrive, it has been a bit lower than normal temps and quite rainy for a lot of us, I am a little encouraged about next weeks temps although we still have rain in the forecast.

Maybe this card will brighten things up a bit :)

The images are stickers and the little rabbit on the punched border is an epoxy sticker,

Debbie Mumm - Spring II stickers
Hallmark - Stickeroni sticker (epoxy bunny)
Pawsitively Pawesome Designs - Mini stitched Square die
Martha Stewart - border punch, colored w/markers
Sew Pretty paper (cardmaking and papercraft magazine)

I thought I would share a new park we found in the town next to ours that we had never heard of in the 13 years we have lived here.  While out test driving our van we came across the sign but didn't check it out then we waited until the week after we bought the van and took a drive over to see what it looked like, they had a neat old building and pretty rolling hills, trails in the woods but we didn't check them out since it was muddy and there was a steep hill to both of the trails we went to check out so we thought we had better try them when things dry out.

I loved the way the evening sun was coming through the trees.

It was just a tad windy that day we went but as you can see we had a day with clear skies :)

We had thought we had been to every park in the area so it was so nice to have come across this one. Looks like we need to do more driving around and see what else we are missing out there. Do you like to explore different and new places?

Thanks so much for stopping by today,

Connie

wish upon a star

In my stamping group after we have had our week of challenges a lot of us pick someone from the group that gave our challenge a try and then we gift them with some goodies, well after this last winter challenges one of the girls picked my name and she gifted me this cute stamp set.  I had been loving the cards I saw from the set but hadn't decided yet whether or not I would buy it and then it came in the mail and I was so excited, and I knew I wanted to use it for my great niece's birthday card who is turning 10, but honestly I could use this for any age I think, I know I love it :)

I used a combination of Distress inks and Distress Oxide inks sponged onto the background.  I embossed the stars with detail white embossing powder and added a few more dots around with my white gel pen. Colored the bunnies with a gray marker and used pattern paper for the grassy hill.

Distress Oxide inks - Walnut stain, faded jeans and iced spruce (for background)
Distress inks - Black soot (For background)
Lawn Fawn - Upon a Star stamp set, colored w/markers, white embossing for stars
White gel pen, smaller stars
Stickles - Star dust ( star centers )

We haven't had a chance to see many stars lately with all the cloudy rainy days we have been having but I know this to will pass.

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

Connie

He is Risen!!

He is Risen Indeed!!  There is not a better phrase, he has conquered death, and he lives so we may live with him!!

I am sharing one last Easter card, this image is from a sheet of clipart I bought from a stamp store in Missouri, the whole sheet of different images was around $1.

Added a few punched leaves and flowers, added a little marker and stickles to the flowers.

Marianne designs - Country flowers spring image
Sassafras - Mix and mend paper
Lawn Fawn - Fancy scalloped rectangle die
EK Success - Flowers
Martha Stewart - Leaves and butterfly
Enamel Accents - white (on butterfly)
Stickles - Yellow and scattered straw (on flowers)


Wishing you a blessed day of celebrating our Risen Lord!!

Thanks so much for stopping by,

Connie