Just Us Girls #319

I was so excited about this week's challenge at Just Us Girls-- watercolor!

Here is their challenge image:

Supplies & notes:

• I'd been wanting to emboss and then paint this stamp for a while,  so here was my opportunity!  I used Tim Holtz's embossing ink with clear Custer's Last Stamp embossing powder on watercolor paper
• I used my "fancy" (compared to my kids' Crayola sets) Loew Cornell watercolors... had this set since college
• After the flowers were painted,  the stamp was used on a piece of scrap, then fussy-cut to create a mask for the flowers. Then the tap-speckle method was used to create the droplets (you know: extra water on your brush... tap it onto the paper...) I used blues for the sky-speckles, then added green near the ground.
• Tore the edges, and did the same with my mounting paper (Core'dinations). After I did that,  I thought it made the card look a little 80s... I might have preferred it with crisp lines.

Have to say: the family liked this one a lot.  :) I know what I'm going to use this for: my close friend who has been battling breast c. for over a year is beginning yet another phase of the process in two weeks. This will be one of my "Thinking of you" notes as she recovers. 

A tag for DL Art AG...

Here's another offering for DL Art's November Linky:

This is a bottle-tag I made with "50s Vintage" in mind. That yellow-gold glass glitter screams "ANTIQUE ORNAMENT" to me.  I think it will be nice on a dark bottle of wine...

Supplies and notes:

• Kaisercraft paper along with some other paper scraps... unknown make
• I made the rosette last year...
• The glass glitter was bought in a generic tube from my fave scrapbook boutique. 
• The lace ribbon was bought on the spool at the thrift store. The label said like 1992 on it.  Old, but not vintage! 

MFT Color Challenge #33

I know... kind of a boring one... but the idea came to me and I dropped my other project in order to do this!:

This card was inspired by My Favorite Things Color Challenge # 33:

Supplies & notes:

• I used a Zig Emboss Writer with Recollections embossing powder in Ebony
• I added some red and green sequins from my stash
• All of the paper is Core'dinations cardstock 

FMS # 212

I had all these awesome ideas for this sketch... Of course it all came to me in the middle of the night, the night before the sketch is due! Then I found myself with half an hour this morning and thought, "Let's do this!"

Here is my card:

Here is the Freshly Made Sketch:

I used all American Crafts DP and Core'dinations solid cardstock.  The drawings of the heart, the party hat, and the the sentiment were all written using a Uni paint pen.  I chalked the edges with white using a Studio G stamp pad.

Simon Says: Monday... N... Nativity x 3

Wow,  brainstormed a bunch of words that begin with the letter N and got N-N-Nothing... until the eleventh hour!

Came across this picture I took last year of this magnificent Nativity scene... so I made a quick, cheesy card... but it somehow is sooo glorious...

Of course my darned paint pen was half-frozen and gooped all over...and yes, I know how to spelll "very"... verry welll!!! (VERRY...MERRY... I kinda wish I didn't do that...)

Let's see... how many Marys?  Josephs?  Wise men? And don't forget all the shepherd boys. And if you are really looking, there's a bit of a philosophical conundrum: adult Jesus watching over Baby Jesus... I call it the Multinativity! It is fabulous!

If any of you express interest in this kitsch, I'll post the angel... hahaha... she was watching over it all... kind of...

Now I'll post at Simon Says Stamp: Monday and check out what the really creative people came up with...

Funkie Junkie Tag #4

Obviously, I was very inspired by Linda's tag for the Funkie Junkie 12 Tags, Tag #4, sponsored by The Funkie Junkie Boutique. Here is my tag:

...and here is her tag:

Supplies:

• I LOVE the inspiration from Linda to make a quasi-plaid background with Tim's striped stencil.  I used Peeled Paint and Fired Brick, and I actually did the reverse-stencil technique... gave a lighter effect. 
• Sprayed with Perfect Pearls Mist in gold.
• Edged wuthering Color Box chalk in Creamy Brown 
• The pom-pom trim is an old sale-find (magical purchase), and the poinsettia, red twine, and leaves are from the dollar store. I added some Tim Holtz Distress stain in Tarnished Brass 

Funkie Junkie #5

Okay, for Funkie Junkie 12 Tags, Tag #5, sponsored by The Funkie Junkie Boutique, this is what I came up with:

My tag was inspired by the pale pastels of the tag and the abstract trees of Linda's tag:

Supplies:

• Zig Emboss Writer with Stampendous Frantage in Shabby White on a library card
• Color Box chalk in Creamy Brown 
• Twine and seam binding from my stash. I glued the twine at an angle, not the top-center
• Catkins from alder trees painted with Liquid Leaf 
• My tag ended up much more rustic-looking than Linda's abstract-ish card