Some sweetness to share

Hello Everyone. I hope you all had an absolutely wonderful weekend. Today I am going to share with you a card that I think is very different than any other that I've done. The image is not what I'd regularly do, but when I received this little sweetheart in the mail from About Art Accents, I had to stamp him. So here he is, Splish Splash Bath.



I glazed the entire cup with Glossy Accents. Then started all the coloring. For the image i used markers, color pencils and gamsol, and glaze pens. Super cute and this little guy is a part of a set. I hope you all enjoyed todays creation. He was a real treat to make.

Supplies:
Accessories: cream pearls (Kaiser Craft), green velvet ribbon, lace ribbon, orange jewel brad (Frightful:Little Yellow Bicycle)
Coloring agents: Versafine Black Onyx, glaze pens, le plume markers, color pencils, gamsol, glitter pens
Die cuts- Labels 1 (Spellbinders)
Paper: Card stock- Ocean Tides, Spring Rain (PTI), Bella Bleu (SU), sage scrap patterned paper
stamps: Splish Splash Bath- About Art Accents
Tools: Scor-pal, Purple Cows 2-in-1 trimmer, Big Shot, heat gun

Color Create Challenge

Today is a snow day here in Frontier. Big chunky flakes that are filled with spring water. I'm sharing with you a card that I made last night that I think is super sweet. I used the Color Create color challenge, which is chocolate, coffee and cream. This card was really fun to create and I hope you enjoy it just as much as I do. Don't forget to also enter in for my Sweets, there is a $15 gift certificate from Pez-a-Doodles in it!!!

Also MAKE SURE to check out the Pez-A-Doodles New releases event. Take a moment to figure out todays hint at Sandie's The new sets from Pez-a-Doodles are FAN-FLIPPIN-TASTIC!!! You could win some great stuff.

Now on with the show.


I tried my hand at something a little different with this card. I distress inked the embossed background with photo brown ink to really pull the chocolate and cream combo for the top part of the card. And for the first time I used a whole lotta buttons for a border so to speak. I just got these vintage buttons from Paper Trey and if you haven't purchased buttons before, Theirs are truly beautiful. Then I added some pink pearls to a few of those cute buttons to bring in just a hint of pink to the card. The coffee cup was glazed over to give it that porceline look using Glossy accents.

Supplies:
stamps: Unity Stamps March Kit of the Month-coffee on display, Polka Dot Pie-Chocolate Treats 1 Studio G-Warm and Cozy
Spellbinders: Scalloped and regular Large rectangles
Paper: Card stock-SU Basic Black, PTI White, BG bittersweet-Almond Toffee, Scrap black and white paper, embossed hand made paper
Accessories: PTI Vintage Cream and White buttons, Pink pearls, Ranger Glossy Accents,
Coloring agents: Tim Holtz Distress ink Photo Brown, Versafine-Onyx Black, Cinnamon Stickles, Coal and Coffee Shimmerz, Pink glaze pens.
Tools: Big Shot, Scor-pal, Purple Cows 2-in-1 trimmer

Happy Crafting

CPS challenge 105 and Color Create 5 challenge

This weeks CPS challenge was one that I absolutely loved. I paired it up with the color challenge #5 over at Color Create which was blue and brown. This color combo is one that I'm absolutely smitten with. It is so soft and fresh. So without further adieu, here is the CPS challenge I really wanted to do the postage edge, but since I didn't have a punch for that, I went with an edge that was comparable, on my Purple Cows trimmer. Have i ever told any of you how much I love my purple moo cow? Anyways. The papers that I used for the card are from the Bella Blue patterned paper from SU. For the CS I used Chocolate Chip and Bashful Blue. They truly are a great match.
As for the stamps, I used a few from the Little Yellow bicycle set "Elegant". These are a part of my blog candy. so if you haven't entered, please go leave a comment to win these and a few other items. I used two different techniques for the butterflies. The blue one was stamped then clear embossed. on the bottom side I used versamark and then added blue glitter. Sealing it with glossy Accents. Using this really gave me the ability to mold the butterfly. For the other one, I also stamped the image, then used clear embossing power (both were stamped on acetate). Then on the back side I used Alcohol inks in Denim and Ginger with some Copper Krylon marker. Hope you guys don't get sick of butterflies. I'm really taken with them and they bring something to the table inspiration wise. Lastly I used a really cool button which is the shape of a branch. I painted it with December Sky Shimmerz and cinnamon stickles.
I hope you enjoyed the card for these two challenges. It was a lot of fun to make and a whole bunch of smiles to share. Thanks for stopping by and
Happy Crafting!!!