Stitched Blooms

When I saw the challenge over at Sisterhood of Crafters Blog using stitched dies, I decided to use my stitched blooms for my friends card. She also leads our Ladies Bible study and so I wanted to make an extra special card. I tried my hand at making buds using the smallest die in the set.

I started out by spraying the background with Color wash spray. Then cut a frame using two dies. Cut the lattice and layered that behind the frame. She likes red so I went with that for the flowers. For the leaves on the buds I used a flower punch, and added the sprigs, little gems for the flower centers.

 I do enjoy when I am hand delivering a card and I don't have to worry about how thick and how much dimension I have on it.

Poppystamps- Stitched Bloom Trio and Leafy Sprig dies
Spellbinders - A2 matting basics A for frame and Fancy Lattice dies
Adirondack - Color Wash in Lettuce for background
Momenta - card stock for flowers
Me & my big ideas - gems
Ek Success - flower punch under the buds
Whimsy stamps - Simple sentiments stamp set

I hope you are all enjoying a fantastic weekend,
Thanks so much for taking out the time to stop by,

Connie

Jump Rope fun

This one is going to my little red head great niece. I added her cat with her on this card :)

I wanted to ground her a little more than the little piece of grass that is on the stamp so I added some washi tape.  The sentiment is a sticker I added to card stock.

Stampendous - Jump Rope Kiddo stamp colored w/markers
Paper Studio - washi tape
Impression Obsession - Cat set die
K & co.- Card Quotables- Birthday & celebrate vellum stickers
Pizzazz Aplenty - 3mm pink pearls

My house is all decorated, YAH!  Love the glow of the lights at night, well all day really but stands out more on gloomy rainy days like we are having today.

Thanks so much for stopping by,

Connie

Flower Bouquet

It is so hard for me to shake those Autumn colors :)  This was given for a November birthday so it is ok, although it was after Thanksgiving .

I colored the stamp with markers and added a couple die cut charms for the sentiment and heart :) A bit of sparkle added with clear sparkle pen. Shading around image done with ink while image still inside die. Colored the brad marker.

Inkadinkado - Floral Inspiration stamp, colored w/markers
Spellbinder - Floral Ovals die
Distress ink - old paper
Sassafrass - mix and mend paper
Our Daily Bread design - mini tag dies and mini tag sentiment stamp
Brad colored w/marker
Spectrum noir sparkle pen

Hope you are having a great day, thanks for taking the time to stop by,

Connie

Dino-mite

I made this card for my great nephew who turned 5.  I saw pictures of his birthday and he had a dinosaur cake, so I actually did a right theme for his birthday this year :)

This is a stamp set from an Australian card magazine, the papers were also in the magazine.  I used my dies to make hills, colored all the stamps with markers and hand cut them out.

Australian Simply cards - Nit wit collection stamps and paper, colored w/markers
Poppystamps - Stitched Landscapes die

We actually had a good day Saturday so we now have the outside of our home all decorated, now it is time to tackle the inside :) 

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

Connie

Beautiful day

I really like the look you can get with layering stamps but even with my Misti stamp tool, I still have times when it is hard to line things up just right. This is another stamp set from my card making Magazine.

I first started by doing my background adding clouds with my home made cloud stencil and sponging on my ink. Then I adding a bit of grass with a new stamp I found at my stamp store. I immediately sponged over the stamped grass and it seemed to smear it just enough to give it a nice softness. Next I stamped my bike in brown then my tires in black inks.  I added the basket then masked that off so I could add some flowers to the basket. I added the color to the basket and flowers with markers.

Cardmaking and Papercraft Issue 183 - Bike, basket, flowers and sentiment stamps
Home made cloud stencil for sky
D.R.S. designs - Easy Grass stamp, with sponged ink over top

I hope you enjoy a wonderful and creative weekend,
Thanks for stopping by,

Connie