Blessings to a True Friend

I had a few extra minutes last night so I went on a search for some ideas for a card to create.  I found a color challenge and a sketch.

 The current Card Patterns sketch...

And this totally wonderful colour combo at Colour Q...

 I recently won some stamps from Layers of Color and I wanted to give this adorable little wire tea cup and the flowers a try. This is two different stamps plus a word from another set.

To go along with the colors in that combo, I stamped the tea cup with white ink and embossed it with white embossing powder and then watercolored it.  The white stamped lines act as a resist.  I also sprayed it with some Glimmer Mist Chalkboard spray.  The flowers were stamped with black and embossed with clear embossing powder and then colored with watercolor crayons. 

 I also wanted to share my Card Positioning Systems (CPS) sketch card for this last week. Our sponsor this week is Clearsnap and we got to play with some brand new inks, Mix'd Media Inx.  I LOVE these things.  They are very wet and the color selection is pretty neat. 

 I wanted to really show off the colors so I pulled out my most favorite flower stamp by PaperTrey, Inc.  After I stamped the flower and leaves with the black ink, I embossed them with clear embossing powder and then "colored" the flowers and leaves by rubbing the paper with the stamp pads.  I was careful to not color the flower completely so some white still showed through.  I used three different colors for each flower. 

I loved coloring the flowers this way because of how fast it is to just rub the ink onto the paper.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

BLESSINGS card

Materials list:
Cardstock – Core’dinations
Patterned paper – Die Cuts With a View
Stamps – Layers of Color
Black stamp pad – Verafine
White stamp pad – Joann Craft store
White and Clear embossing powder – Stampendous
Border punch – Martha Stewart
White Enamel paint – Ink Essentials
Watercolor crayon
Watercolor brush
Foam tape – 3M
Self adhesive pearls – Queen & Co.


SKETCH 229 – TRUE FRIEND card

Materials:
Inks courtesy of Clearsnap – Peridot, Honey, Chiffon, Truffle and Black/Mix’d Media Inx ColorBox
Cardstock – Core’dinations and Bazzill
X-Press Blending Card – Copic Markers
Stamp set – PaperTrey, Inc
Patterned paper – My Mind’s Eye
Clear embossing powder – Stampendous
Corner rounder punch – Fiskars
Self adhesive pearls – Queen & Co.

Unscripted sketch time

Any excuse I can get, I will use a sketch to create a card.  That is why I love being part of the Unscripted sketch blog and the Card Positioning Systems sketch blog.

 I didn't share my Unscripted sketch card with you last week so today I am going to share last weeks and this weeks together. 

This sketch was a bit of a challenge, but it was fun to stack the cut out leaves and butterflies from the Little Yellow Bicycle papers.  Notice the pretty punched corners on the light blue paper, LOVE that look.

The leaves and the butterflies are both in pieces of the patterned papers.

And, here is this weeks card.

Arielle from the Wax Fruit Company let the team use one of her digital stamps if we wanted. I just love what she creates so I found this fun.

I opened a Word document and inserted the little birdhouse image.  I sized it to the size I wanted to use and the I printed it three times. Once on plain white cardstock, once on the brick patterned paper by My Little Shoebox and again on the text print patterned paper by My Mind's Eye.  I used portions of each of the tree print outs to paper piece my design together for my card.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

SKETCH 116 – MAGIC MOMENTS card

Materials list:
Cardstock – Core’dinations
Patterned papers – Twig and Elizabeth Park/Little Yellow Bicycle and Double Dot/BoBunny
Word stickers – Cosmo Cricket
4-in-1 punch - Kreaxions
White Enamel Accents
Foam tape – 3M

SKETCH 117 – SEASON’S GREETINGS card
Materials list:
Digital stamp – The Wax Fruit Company
Cardstock – Core’dinations
Patterned papers – My Little Shoebox, Die Cuts With a View and My Mind’s Eye
Copic markersRub-on sentiment – Paper Smooches/EAD Designs
Glitter Glue - Stickles
Foam tape – 3M

Encourage a Friend

I love using scripture verses on cards to friends.

 I did make this to tell a friend "Thank You" but I wanted to share it with you before I put it in the mail.  I love this verse and there is a song that goes with those words so I am finding myself singing that now that I have stamped it. The verse is from a new set of stamps by Layers of Color stamps. 

 The flower and leaves are stamps from PaperTrey, Ink. This just might be my most favorite flower stamp.  I colored that with Copic markers.  That great doily is from a set of doilies by Martha Stewart that I found at Joanns Craft store and those papers are new from Die Cuts With a View. The entire collection is soooo cool.

And for some photos...

 We stopped along the California coast - this view is at Fort Bragg.  I loved the color of the water. 

 Another view

 And, the reason we stopped at Fort Bragg is the wonderful and amazing Glass Beach.  Yes, the sand is more polished glass then sand.  The pieces are really small, but fun nonetheless.  The story goes it was an old dump or something.

And, how is this for a weathervane? LOVED it.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)