Time to Catch Up

Hi everyone, thank you for stopping by. I hope you are all having a great day.

We all have those times in our lives where no matter how much planning and preparation we do, life happens and little things like coffee with a friend have to be cancelled. 

Sometimes life happens a lot. 

This was the inspiration for today's card.

To create this card, I used two of the coffee cups from Lawn Fawn's Love you a Latte stamp set on Copic friendly paper and coloured them in. I also used the little steam stamp on a couple of the open cups in a soft grey ink, and I used second generation stamping for the scattering of coffee beans around the background.

I used the small stitched rectangle die and CTMH's etched alphabet stamp set to create the banner.

I really wanted to have matting that coordinated with the card for both the panel and the greeting banner, so I used my darkest teal colour from the card and coloured the paper edges to create my own.

I didn't have a sentiment that I wanted to use on the inside, so I created my own; using Martha Stewart's typeset sentiment creator. I also used some of the smaller stamps from the Love You a Latte set to decorate the inside of the card (something I very rarely do).

I hope you all like today's card and are inspired to create something of your own.

This card is for:

Chocolate Coffee Cards: Anything Goes Challenge

Hang in There

Hi everyone, thank you for stopping by. I hope you are having a great day.

When I got the Happy Harvest stamp set from Lawn Fawn I had so many fall and Halloween ideas, but now that it is spring, I really didn't want to put the set away. I thought that he would make a super cute encouragement card, but was unsure on how I wanted to do it.

I love using my copic markers to colour in images, but not so much for backgrounds. I knew I wanted a one layer card, so I decided to go with watercolour for the whole thing.

To create today's card, I stamped the scare crow and flowers from Lawn Fawn's Happy Harvest set using a water resistant ink. I then covered them with a liquid mask. Once that was completely dry, I was able to start on the background.

I wanted really intense colours for the sky and the foreground, so I wet the paper and used Distress re-inkers with very little water and dropped the colour in. I did this for both the sky and the grass area. I could have used my heat gun to speed up the process, but I really prefer the way it looks when it air dries. Because of the amount of water, this card actually took two days to make.

Once the background was completely dry, I removed the masking and watercoloured the images, using Distress markers and mini Distress ink pads.

The greeting was stamped using the same black ink with an etched alphabet stamp set from CTMH.

I hope you like today's card and are inspired to create something of your own.

This card is for:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Anything Goes

Thanks a Daisy

Hi everyone, thank you for stopping by. I hope you are all having a great day.

Generally I like to use my MISTI to create batches of thank you cards, because they are ideal for box sets (which are ideal for gifting). Today, however I really wanted to use a focus pop technique, to make the daisies stand out.

To create this card, I stamped the image on Copic friendly paper using Memento Tuxedo Black ink and coloured it with Copics. I then used the two smallest dies of the stitched squares and cut three squares, and set them aside.

For the background, I masked off the top third of the card and used CTMH ink to sponge through a stencil. I stamped the image a second time and did not colour it in.

I adhered the squares with foam tape over top of the image on the card base to create three focus squares. I then stamped the greeting using Lawn Fawn Black Licorice ink, (my favourite for stamping greetings and sentiments).

I hope you all like today's card and are inspired to create something of your own.


Today's card is for:

The Muse Challenge #154. 

This challenge is inspired by Jenni's beautiful card: