The Art of Inking

Playing in the Rain!

  This is a recent layout I made featuring the pictures I took of my three daughters-Jillian, Elaina & Danielle and my niece, Lauren, when they played in the rain in late August. Yes, they are just big kids at heart! They had so much fun dancing around while I took pictures from under an umbrella!

I used Bashful blue for the background and Brilliant blue and green galore for the layers. "Rain" was cut with my Cricut.  I used some random accents that coordinated.

 

 

 

I used my Big shot to make the clear plastic flowers layering them with punched cardstock & brads.

 

The raindrops are the pieces of clear plastic that popped out of the flower in the previous photo. Isn't that a cool idea?

 

All supplies are from Stampin' Up! except as noted.

Happy Birthday to Me!

 

My daughter, Danielle, made this beautiful birthday card for me last Sunday. I absolutely LOVE it!! She did such a great job, didn't she?

She used Old olive, Taken with teal, Rose red, Pretty in pink & whisper white cardstock. The crimper and the scallop edge punch was used.

 

   

She used the Crazy for Cupcakes stamp set, stamping the tier of cupcakes in basic black and cutting each one out. All the cherries were glittered with coordinating glitter and the 2 way glue pen. They were attached with Stampin' dimensionals.

All supplies are from Stampin' Up!

Dream!

  I combined 2 challenges for this one- Kristina's color inspiration #31 and Paper craft planet's sketch.

The colors for today are Pumpkin pie, Elegant eggplant, Close to cocoa, So saffron & whisper white.

I used the Happiness Always hostess set inking the flowers in saffron, rolling the edges with eggplant and using the pumpkin marker to highlight the inside petals.

The center of the flowers were stamped in cocoa twice, then layered with Stampin' Dimensionals and glossed with Crystal effects.

The saffron layer was textured using the crimper.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here's a closeup of the dimension of the butterfly and centers of the flowers.

All supplies are from Stampin' Up!

Summer Friends Layout

  I was lucky enough to spend a whole day scrapping with friends on Saturday! I'll try to show you a lot of the layouts that I got done.

This "Summer Friends" layout is about the hummingbirds that visited us all summer long. They just loved our trumpet vines. My daughter, Danielle, took so many pictures, it was hard to pick the best ones.

For the background, I used Ruby red cardstock. The title was made using the Cricut Plantin cartridge with Pumpkin pie cardstock and layering on Basic black.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I used the Spring song stamp set for the embellishments, stamping in black stazon and watercoloring in with the aquapainters and watercolor wonder crayons.

 

All supplies are from Stampin' Up! except as noted.

Color Inspiration #30

Look how gorgeous this picture is? The colors are so soothing and serene. I love all the Color Inspiration Challenges that Kristina comes up with.

This week the colors were Old olive, Certainly celery, Sahara sand & Whisper white.

 

 

 

I used the Baroque Motifs stamp set for the flourishes in Old olive.

Celery grosgrain ribbon is tied around the card and tied into a knot.

The sentiment comes from the Always set and is stamped in Old olive.

 

 

The main image from Baroque motifs was stamped in celery, cut out and mounted on Sahara sand. It was adorned with a punched Boho blossoms and rhinestone brad. Everything was attached with Stampin' dimensionals.

All supplies are from Stampin' Up!

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Cupcakes for you!

  For the card today, I used the sketch from Jen, and the inspiration challenge at Our Creative Corner. 

The colors that I used were Riding hood red, Pink pirouette and Chocolate chip. The patterned paper is from the Bella Rose Designer series paper.

The sentiment is from the hostess set, Best yet and is punched with the 1 1/4" circle, layered on the 1 3/8" circle and then on the scallop circle.

The Chocolate chip grosgrain ribbon is used around the card.

 

 

 

 

The main image is from the Crazy for Cupcakes stamp set. They are stamped twice in Basic brown and colored in with markers. The top layer is adhered with stampin' dimensionals. The icing was "frosted" with tombow glue & dazzling diamonds. The cherry was glazed with Crystal effects.

All supplies are from Stampin' Up!

Color Inspiration #29

  Wow, these weeks are just flying by. It's time for another Color Inspiration Challenge from Kristina! This week's colors are Pacific point, Taken with Teal (which I omitted), Elegant eggplant, Pumpkin pie & Whisper white.

 

 

 

 

I found it really hard to use these colors together but I'm happy with how it turned out. I used a sketch from Splitcoast this week. 

The flowers are from the Eastern Blooms stamp set and are stamped with eggplant ink. I colored the centers with the pumpkin pie marker. They're layered on a Scallop square punch out and attached with Stampin' dimensionals.

The sentiment comes from the Best Yet hostess set. The Pacific point striped ribbon was tied around the cardfront.

 

 

 

 

 

 

All supplies are from Stampin' Up!

Quick Origami Tree Tutorial

 

So many people have asked me how I did the tree on this card so I put together a quick tutorial. If you have any questions, just let me know.

You are going to repeat the steps for each square. The four squares measure 3", 2 1/2", 2" and 1 1/2".

Use a bone folder when folding to get good creases.

Thinner decorative paper works better than cardstock.

 

With good side down, fold paper diagonally corner to corner both ways. Then, fold in half. Dotted lines show how the fold lines will look.

 

Fold paper in half by creasing on the diagonal folds and pushing the half fold towards center as shown in the picture.

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is how it should look held upright.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then you will fold the right side towards the center making sure the edge is straight down the middle.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Finally, you will do the same on the left side making sure the center lines meet.

Repeat these steps to all 4 squares. Adhere to your card starting with the smallest. Place the next tip inside the previous one until you are done.

All supplies are from Stampin' Up!

Be Merry with Mr. Twigster!

  This is the 3rd card that I made for my upline's challenge. I stamped Mr. Twigster with Black stazon so I could watercolor him with Bashful blue. Then I colored in the rest with markers. The presents were stamped on a piece of scrap paper, cut out and adhered with a Stampin' dimensional.

The designer series paper is from the Bella Rose package.

The sentiment is from the Warm words stamp set that is on the dormant list. It's punched with the 1 1/4" circle punch and layered on the 1 3/8" circle punch.

 

 

 

 

 

 

A quick close up of Mr. Twigster!

All  supplies are from Stampin' Up!