Another Hero Arts card and a Unity one too.

So, I have one last card to share for this week using my really cool and fun Hero Arts stamps. This time with the Four Dolls clear set.

I just loved this Graphic 45 paper to with the feel of the stamped and colored dolls.

I used the exact same doll and just stamped her three times, coloring each outfit a different color. Can you see the neat shading that I was able to get with the Copic Markers? And, is that border punch neat with this theme? It's my newest border punch!!! I added white dots to the flowers on their outfits using the White Slick 3-D Fashion paint by Tulip. I love how easy it is to use this product with the tiny tip it has. Each doll has a matching rhinestone in her hair.

And, now for my absolutely NEWEST stamps, my order that arrived this week from Unity. I LOVE THIS SET!!! My card fits with KWerner's Designs Color Inspiration challenge #48 for last week and it also follows the Card Pattern #9 for this week. Why not include a few challenges at once and I would have never picked this layout for a card without using that pattern!

1. The saying is stamped on the white Cryogen Curious Iridescent cardstock from Cut Cardstock.com.

2. I did emboss the frame, the words and the bird. I just like that the lines are more intense that way.

3. I did color in the border of the frame with a Copic marker.

4. I did add a generous coat of Aleene's Paper Glaze to that border and to the bird. I just love the dimension that epoxy type of coat gives.

5. Added dimension comes with using foam tape to add the frame and the bird.

6. I punched the border of three strips of the patterned paper and sanded those edges so the layers would stand out better. The pattern had three pieces of something on the card front.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

THREE LITTLE CHINESE DOLLS card
Materials:
Cardstock – Cryogen White Curious Iridescent/CutCardStock.com
Patterned paper – Graphic 45
Clear stamp set – Four Dolls/Hero Arts
Versafine black stamp pad and Clear embossing powder
Fluid Chalk stamp pads – Clearsnap
Copic Markers
White Slick 3-D Fashion paint – Tulip
Border punch – Martha Stewart
Ribbon
Machine sewing
Rhinestones – Me & My Big Ideas

LITTLE BIRDIE TOLD ME card
Materials:
Cardstock – Cryogen White Curious Iridescent/CutCardStock.com and other cardstock
Patterned paper – Woolworths/Hometown/October Afternoon
Stamp – Little Birdie set/Unity stamps
Versafine black stamp pad and Clear embossing powder
Corner rounder punch – Fiskars
Border punch – Martha StewartClear Paper Glaze – Aleene’s®
Self-adhesive pearls – Mark Richards, Inc.Copic Markers

Want some YUM colors!?

I set out to meet a couple fun challenges this week and ended up with some pretty neat color combos.

This card was designed after Laura's Sketch #22 at 2 Sketches 4 you blog. I have this big package of amazing SEI prints so I wanted to pull out some more of those for cardmaking. These two prints are both sides of this one piece of paper.

I used some adorable stamps from a set by TJ Designs. These are great rubber stamps with a cling backing. Can you see that I stamped over the dot patterned paper? I used a line of music notes and stamped that in a color that matched the paper so the stamped images would be subtle.

You guessed it, my next card uses KW Werner Designs, Color Inspiration challenge #47. I always just melt when I see the colors she puts together for her challenges.

Can you also guess what I used for the foundation piece of my card? Right, a paint chip from the home improvement store. This particular kind of paint chip is cool because it comes with these little punched out squares. I just let those be a focal point and backed them with white cardstock.

The flowers I had that I wanted to place in those punched out squares were white so I sprayed them with Memories Mists sprays by Stewart Superior. It only took a quick squirt or two and they were a wonderful shade of orange. The stamps are by Art Declassified. I LOVE that fun and artsy circle design.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

EACH DAY… card
Materials:
Cardstock – Bazzill swiss dots
Patterned papers – Adirondack/Poppy/SEI
Stamps – Bird nest, greeting, notes and circle design – Song Birds set/TJ Designs
Ancient Page and Fluid Chalk stamp pads - Clearsnap
Pearl brad – Recollections
Corner rounder punch – Fiskars
Scallop border punch – EK Success
Scallop circle and circle punches – PaperShapers/EK Success

ALL MY LOVE card
Materials:
Cardstock – Prism
Paint chip from the home repair store
Stamps – Bisous/Kewel Frame/Art Declassified
Ancient Page - Clearsnap
Flowers – Petaloo
Memories Mists spray color – Stewart Superior
Rub-on words and phrases – Art Warehouse
Corner rounder punch - Fiskars
Ribbon

"Heart" stuff

It just so happened that both of these projects have the word "heart" in the title or greeting! The one thing that is pretty true is that this little guy is a heartbreaker with those big brown eyes and that cute smile!

This is our youngest grandson and you can see that I was able to capture those first two little teeth in the photo.

Two interesting things to point out on this layout is the mix of sticker letters that I used for the main title. I just love to mix fonts and sizes of letters. I wanted a little extra accent but didn't really want flowers on a boy layout so I created my circle accents with buttons in the middle. This let me bring in a little more color and use more of the striped paper accent.

I have always loved these Color Inspiration challenges but I don't usually get time to play. I did work out this combo for Challenge #46 although it is too late to post it along with that challenge on her blog. Oh well, love the card that resulted.

It was hard to actually find a patterned paper that held all of the colors, so I just pulled out papers and prints that were on my table that fit.

I used some epoxy flowers that I have had for awhile. I took this photo from the side view so you could see that I layers two flowers together and you can barely see it, but I added a black pearl.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

HEARTBREAKER – DREAM MAKER layout
Materials: Cardstock
Patterned paper – Hometown:Country Library and Weathervane:Picking Pumpkins/October Afternoon and Dreamy 2:Blue Without You/My Mind’s Eye
A big mixture of sticker letters for the title
Tiny sticker letters - Sticko
Circle punch – McGill
Buttons
Martha Stewart border punch
Tonic Paper Distresser

HEARTFELT THANKS card
Materials:
Cardstock
Patterned papers – Basic Grey and Scenic Route
Border punch- Martha Stewart
Epoxy flowers – Making Memories
Ribbon – May Arts
Self Adhesive Black pearl – Mark Richards, Inc.
Machine Sewing
Rub-on greeting – Deja Views

Color Inspiration Challenge and 2 Sketches 4 You cards

I have watched other designers create amazing cards with the color inspiration at Kwernerdesign.com and I finally found a few minutes to participate! LOVE the color combos she comes up with. I'm late for challenge #43. She already has another color combo up for this week, but I still wanted to share my card.

Another techinque I have wanted to try for sometime is to use a grouping of butterfly punches and that just seemed to fit when I studied the color inspiration colors.

Can you just say that this sea of colorful butterflies makes you HAPPY?

Next is my take on 2 Sketches 4 You's, Kazan's sketch #21 for this week.

I recently picked up this too funny rubber stamp at Michael's and this seemed like the time to use it.

Notice my lattice design on the white cardstock? I wanted to use my Scor-Pal tool to go with this sketch since they are featuring a scoring tool on that blog this week. The score lines on the tool make this a snap to create and I rubbed it with a Fluid Chalk stamp pad and that highlighted the score lines.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)