Mice

I managed to get some more Christmas cards done, YAH!!! if I can keep this up I may just be ready at Christmas time.

These stamps come from another Card making magazine, aren't they too cute, I couldn't pass them up :) I colored up two of these while I was at it.  That is what I am going to try to do from here on out is at least make two of each thing I do.

Make cards magazine, November 2018, Mice stamp, colored w/markers
Lilybee design- Jingle paper
Spellbinders - Classic Ovals Lg
Starform - border stickers
Stickles - x-mas red
Cardmaking and papercraft magazine - sentiment

On the next one I just changed it to a landscape card and cut them out with a rectangle die instead of oval. I had a little strip of the paper left and instead of throwing it away I added it to the bottom of the die cut.

Make cards magazine, November 2018, Mice stamp, colored w/markers
Lilybee design- Jingle paper
My Favorite things - Cross-stitch Rectangle die
Starform - border stickers
Stickles - x-mas red
Cardmaking and papercraft magazine - sentiment

Thanks so much for stopping by today, hope you have a fun and creative weekend!

Connie

For the girls

This time it is cards for the girls in the military members life to send out.

My first card used some premade flowers I have had for quite some time, before I started buying dies to make my own.

Colorbok - Layered flowers
Spellbinders - Romantic Rectangles two die
Crate paper - Party day paper
Martha Stewart - leaf punch
Cardmaking and papercraft - sweet sentiments

The next two are using some flowers from my coloring calendar, I tried to match the colors with the sentiment stickers I had.

Coloring for calm 2017 calendar - colored w/markers
Sticker sentiment
Spellbinders - Lg, deckled rectangle die
Partial cut from a embossing folder, rubbed w/ old paper distress ink

Coloring for calm 2017 calendar - colored w/markers
Sticker sentiment
Papers from my stash

We are supposed to have sunshine and in the 50's tomorrow, YAH!!  I hope you enjoy your weekend, thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today!

Connie

For the guys

In my cardmaking group one of the girls is getting ready to send another box of cards to a military group deployed overseas, so they can send cards home.  As we know there are a lot of women that deploy too and so I made some masculine cards so that they can send some to their family members.

This first one I could even see going to a girl, but it was meant as a guy card.

Silhouette Cameo - Bird on branch die cut
Tim Holtz - wood grain embossing folder, inked with Walnut stain distress ink
Gina K - Tag line sentiment stamp
PPD - A2 Stitched Banner set die

Recollections -- wooden leaves
DCWV - Travel scrapbook papers
Ki - metal accents
Deckle scissor

Recollections - Embossing folder
EK Success - Dragonfly punch
My favorite things - Happy Greetings die set
Foiled paper

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

Connie

Nuts

Thanks so much to everyone for your advice on my flower on the last post, it is fun trying new techniques but not always knowing how to go with it can be challenging, I guess that is what is nice about art and the creative process is that it is up to the one creating, I have to try and remember to keep that in mind :)

I was in need of another masculine card and when I was going through my coloring calendar images a little while ago I had set aside these two images to use on a guy card, now I am not sure if the piece in the back was meant to look like a slice of tree or not but that is what I used it for.  I didn't like the way the nuts were on the original piece so I cut them out separately and scattered them around myself.  I colored this with pencils once again.

Coloring for Calm calendar 2017 - colored w/pencils
Hero Arts - Birthday messages stamp

It is really pretty outside this morning it is snowing and we have an inch so far, they say that it should end sometime around noon, this Sunday it is to make it back in the high 50's again, such a roller coaster of temperatures.

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

Connie

Add Leaves

I have been working on some water coloring with some Daniel Smith watercolors I bought and I painted this rose, I first stamped it using some embossing powder I had recently purchased from Altenew, I have been liking the flowers done using this color, so I had to give it a try.

The Flower challenge blog has a challenge for adding leaves, so I thought I would use one of the flowers I have been painting.  I decided to cut it out so I could add some die cut leaves to it, using some Tim Holtz dies.

First I water colored my background by adding some scattered straw distress ink to my glass mat then spritzing with water and laying my paper in it and smooshing it around.  I let the first layer dry and did a little more. I used some gold watercolor to add some extra spots to the background before adding my arrangement. 

All my leaves were cut from card stock except for the ones with the little berries on them, those I colored using my inks and a dauber to apply the ink.  The flower was popped up and the rest were glued directly to the background. Topped it all off with a few gems.

Hot off the press- Watercolor Roses stamp, embossed with Altenew Golden Peach embossing powder and watercolored with Daniel Smith watercolor paints
Scattered Straw distress ink for background, gold watercolor splattering
Tim Holtz- Funky Floral #3 dies
Heidi Swapp - Clear gems
Whimsy Stamps- simple  sentiments stamp

I have a question for you, my eye sight isn't the best and when I cut along something I usually leave a little white space because of that, well with the embossing I decided to cut right up to it and as you can see in the above picture there are some white where I didn't get it good enough, what would you do in that case, it isn't like when you use black ink and you can take a black pen to cover that up.  Honestly I couldn't even tell I had messed up until I was seeing this picture on my big computer screen, but was just curious.

The challenge ends tomorrow just in case you want to play along.

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

Connie