Two with one

After I made my first card, I was getting ready to put away all my supplies and thought you know I could use the same stamp set and paper pack for another card, so I ended up using both stamps in this set but with a little different layout.

The papers and stamps are from a magazine, both stamps had the name of the flowers right onto them.  I kind of tried to match the coloring of the stamps to that of the paper. Below you can see the new little gems I found at the stamp convention, they are so sweet and sparkle, I had to pick them up.

Going Potty stamps and paper set from Magazine
Spellbinders - Scalloped borders two die
Queen & co. - Petite Posies , pink gem
Technique Tuesdays - Happy Birthday sentiment stamp

My next card went very quickly because I used an old sketch, but I did use a new technique one of the girls in my stamp group suggested.  Taking our nuvo drops or enamel dots and add them to our mat then stick our stylus into it and add the dots onto our projects that way.  I use to do tole painting years ago and I used that technique all the time with paint, so I thought I would try it here.

Here is a close up of how the dots turned out using this technique. I don't think they turn out as full as just applying them straight from the jar but they were nice and rounded.

Going Potty, stamps and papers from magazine, colored w/markers
PPD - Stitched Mini Scalloped borders
Stamped sentiment, unknown

Thanks so much for stopping by today,

Connie

MFT Sketch 442

My favorite things blog has a sketch challenge that I thought I would play along, you can check it out HERE.

For the arch I used a left over piece I had sitting on my desk from a previous card, thought it kind of looked like sun rays. I used a sponge that already had a little bit of gold onto it, so when I added the oxide ink to it, I ended with a glittery piece, which worked perfectly.
 Mulberry Paper that I cut by wetting the sides and pulling on the paper made my sky. I colored the little girl with markers and used my blender pen to add some texture to her little dress. Since the sentiment that came with the stamp didn't fit the sketch very well I added another from MFT's sentiment stamp sets.

My Favorite things - Blooming good day, colored w/markers and More Essential Sentiments stamp set
Paper Studio - Mulberry Paper
Memory Box - Stitched Circle layers die
Left over top piece, colored w/ Distress Oxide - Scattered Straw

You have until the 25th at noon to play along with the sketch challenge.

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

Day outing

I was going through my pictures and found this folder that I had never shared of our day trip we took back in May. 

First up is a few pictures from Hickory Canyon Natural Area, Missouri. This area was right off the road and there was a trail on either side, hubby wanted to get some pictures of a waterfall that was supposed to be down there. Of course it wasn't too hard going down until we hit an area that was just too rugged for me, so hubby went on by himself to get some pictures of it, going back up was quite the chore.

I loved the texture on this tree, do you think they will ever make embossing folders for our card making with this much texture :)

We saw so many plants that we haven't seen before at both places we went.

Next up we went to Hawn State park, Missouri we picked a trail to walk down and after you walk back a ways you can hear the creek running through, so pretty with that and the songs of the birds, it was a really nice walk, you had to do a little walking off the path to get down to the water.

When we got to this area of the path it was looking a little to rocky for my taste, I am a little nervous about twisting my ankle or falling when it get's this rocky so we decided to turn around.

The picture above is how the trail was up until we hit all those rocks.

On our way out of the park we pulled over and took a picture of this field, so pretty with it's different types of wild flowers.

I will be back tomorrow with another card, I just had so many pictures to share I thought I would just share those today.

Thanks so much for stopping by today.

Connie

Sketch

In my cardmaking group we have a sketch challenge every now and then and the girl that supplies our sketches for us had her birthday coming up just after so I used the sketch for her birthday card.

I used a stained glass collection stamp from my cardmaking magazine, colored it with markers.

Cardmaking and papercraft magazine - Stained glass collection stamps, colored w/markers
Sassafras - Mix and Mend papers
PPD - A2 Stitched Banner set

I hope your week is off to a great start, thanks so much for taking the time to stop by,

Connie

Graduations

We had a couple graduations to kids that we have known since we moved here. So neat to see how the kids grow and what they plan on doing with their lives. They both were graduating from the same high school, but both feminine and masculine.

I did the cards in their school colors.

Spellbinders - Lattice Rectangle, sentiments one and back to basics tag dies
Prima flowers
Craftaroo - Clear rhinestones
Button brads
Brads colored w/yellow marker for flower centers

Spellbinders - Sentiments one and A2 Distressed Edges dies
Taylored Expressions - Whimsy #, Balloons and confetti dies
Pebbles - Candy dots

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by,

Connie