Spring scene

I had a little more trouble with this card.  I bought some new colored pencils from a sale that Spectrum noir was having, I think they were trying to get rid of these pencils to replace some nicer ones they just came out with, anyway I thought I would try them out on a stamped image a friend gave me, and I wasn't totally thrilled with my results so I need more practice with my pencils but I needed to get this out to my 13 year old great niece for her birthday. I decided to add a few diecuts to the scene after I finished coloring.

Stamped image from friend, colored with pencils
Sassafras - Mix and mend papers
Impression Obsession - Rectangle 6 in 1 frames and Rabbit dies
Poppystamps - Cheery cardinals
Butterfly die
Liquid pearls - Chestnut (butterfly)
Nuvo crystal drops - Autumn red ( flowers)

I am entering this in the following challenges:
House that stamps built blog -- All Creatures, great and small
Sisterhood of Crafters blog -- Bunny Rabbits

My hubby took off work yesterday and we went out to a State park in Southern Illinois, it was beautiful weather, sunny and warm, one of the trails was a little challenging for me but hubby got me through.  I will share if any of them look good, I haven't had a chance to look.  We picked the right day to go, today is quite windy but the sun is shining and it is warm, oh could it be possible spring has arrived, I sure hope so.  Hope it comes very soon to all in the north too!

Thanks so much for taking the time out of your busy day to stop by and say Hi,

Connie

Pink and Green/Springtime Challenges

The Impression Obsession Blog is having a pink and green challenge.  The first thing that came to mind was flowers, but who am I kidding any colors would make me think of flowers :) The Dies R Us Challenge blog is also having a springtime challenge, you have until April 28th for that one :)

I used the following dies from Impression Obsession:
Rectangle 6 in 1 Frames
Layered Floral set
Grass

Other items:
SRM - happy birthday stickers
Nuvo Crystal drops- Carnation pink
Enamel Accents - white
Dew drops - pink

There is only one day left if you want to play in this challenge.

Hope everyone is making it through the storms going through everywhere in the country and through the fires in Texas and Oklahoma.

Thanks so much for stopping by today and I hope you have a great week,

Connie

New homes

My Niece and her family moved to a new home in Texas, and my Nephew and his family moved to a new home in Michigan, so I sent out some cards to Congratulate them.

First up is my Niece's card, they moved to a two story house so I went with this die cut for their card. I went with coloring just one house to emphasize like the one they moved into, I saw this done on another blog but for the life of me I can't remember who's it was and didn't save it, so if it happened to be yours let me know :)

In this first one I applied yellow papers to the backside of the dies for the windows and colored the doors, lamp posts and houses with markers. The tree was done with inks. I went with a gray card stock base so that my clouds would show up against it.

Taylored Expressions - Neighborhood Border and Evergreen dies
Memory Box - Country stitches die (grass)
Fiskars - Cloud punches
Our Daily Bread designs - Mini tag sentiment stamp

My second card I was going to apply some leaves to the trees but decided to keep them bare since they moved when the trees in Michigan were still bare. On this border die the doors open, but I went with keeping them all closed except the one that I cut again in white card stock and applied on top, this time instead of adding paper behind the windows I went with using my Sunshine yellow sparkle pen to color in the windows. My cloud stencil for the sky.

Poppystamps - Breville Houses, stitched landscape die
Impression Obsession - Tree Row die
Memory Box - Flying birds die
Homemade Clouds template, sponged w/ tumbled glass
Hero Arts - Everyday sayings sentiment stamp
Sunshine yellow sparkle pen for windows

Both these house dies were ones my hubby picked up for his art projects and I ended up getting good use out of them too :)

We had some wild storms go through last night and this morning with very heavy winds, the house was making all kinds of noises, but it seems to have finally quieted down.  Hope if they are headed your way that you do as well.

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by and say Hi,

Connie

Hang in there

My daughter is under a bit of stress right now, gearing up to take her finals. She is getting her Doctorate Degree from Yale and so I thought she needed a card to let her know I am thinking of her.
I had to go with this cute little stamp set, and I used the sketch challenge my card making group had for us this week.

Inky Antics- Furry Friendship stamps, colored w/ Spectrum Noir markers
WeRmemory keepers - Anthologie paper
DCWV - pattern stack
Spellbinders - Matting basics B die
Kaiser - Rhinestones

It was so nice to be able to open the doors and let some fresh air in yesterday, can't get better than that :)
Thanks for stopping by and saying Hi, Have a great day!

Connie

Dogwood Blossom

I am in need of a few sympathy cards here lately and decided to go with a simple flower die cut from textured card stock.  I will be sharing this over at The Memory Box blog for their floral challenge this month.

I started with an Alcohol background, cut out a shape from white card stock to frame it, leaving a little edge around to see the background peeking around the edges. Finished off with my flower die cut and a rub on sentiment.

Memory Box - Dogwood Blossom die
Spellbinders - Decorative Labels 28 die
Alcohol inks - Sunshine yellow, Carmel and Pearl Mixative
Pebbles Inc. - thinking of you rubons

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today, hope you are enjoying a nice week.  We had a high in the 50's yesterday and today they say we will reach 70, have to enjoy it since by Sunday we will be back in the 40's, talk about roller coaster of temperatures.

Connie