Browns

Due to the fact I had to get batteries for my camera I am behind times. This card was made yesterday. I like earthy colors but then I like nature also. This card contains many neutrals including grey but is mostly brown. I like how the different patterns blended together nicely. I am not certain where I got the flower stamps.

I had to keep the image quite dark so that all the patterns would show. The inside is below.

Lemons

If life gives you lemons...make lemonade, is a popular quote...and Lemons is what this card is all about. I followed a challenge for the colors and as I contemplated them I could see fruit. Thus the reason for the card.
Now, everything you see I made including the fruit slices and the glass and straw and even the paper. How? By using my painters program psp. I started using psp in 2002. I learned everything possible about creating digitally. I am also an artist so creativity comes naturally.

This card is also interactive. The pink fruit slice moves to reveal the saying underneath. The second photo shows this best.

The challenge I entered this card in is Color Throwdown.

Christmas CAS

This is today's Christmas card. I will be doing several sales this fall so I know I will need many Christmas Cards. This card is definately cas. Many like simple designs and this is one of my fav's. I followed a sketch by The Paper Players and worked it out with my dies.

White Leaves

Today's card is totally created with dies. Not only are flowers beautiful but so are the little gifts nature provides including shapes of leaves and much in nature. My garden is designed so that different flowers are in bloom at different times but I also designed the garden according to leaf shapes. I hope you like this card as much as I do. What inspired me were bowls. At Splitcoaststampers the Saturday challenge was to be inspired by a bowl or two from this Pinterest Site. The bowls that inspired me were this one and this one.

The inside is quite simple so that different sayings can be added. This card could be used for a multiple of occasions. 

Fashionista Femme

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This card was fun to create! I cannot say how much I enjoy creating cards especially when there is a challenge to be met. I wanted this card to speak of the female language. I wanted it to be fancy yet sophisticated and classy. I always enjoy putting pink and soft blue together because it reminds me of the 1950s. Which provides me with images of Sophia Lauren and other actresses of that time period. Now the dress is much prettier in reality. It sparkles of gold lambe. I wish glitter would show better when captured in photography or in a scan. Oh and the stamped words are indeed pink why they show as purple, I haven't a clue.

Now for the challenges I entered. CD Challenge gave me the idea for the dress. Avenue 613 gave me what I wanted to add by following their create your own challenge.

Challenge Links

CD Challenge - fabulous femme

Avenue 613 - My own challenge - 1) image 2) diecut 3) solid color paper 4) flowers 5) ribbon

Christmas Blue Jay

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Here is the card I created using my own digi that I made from an image of a real blue jay. I do offer it as a gift on the previous post.

I added this card to the challenge by Jingle Belles. 

Freebee

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I am in the process of making this Christmas Blue Jay digi into a card and I thought, seeing I made it, why not share it!
So here is an image you may download free of charge. Right click copy image or save as.

Purple Smart Mart

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This card was totally designed to emphasize the color purple, one of my fav colors. I wanted shades of different purple with white only.

Challenged Entered:

Share the Joy - Sketch only

Double D Blogspot - color purple

Happy Holidays

With sales moving to Christmas faster than you know, and the Bazaars where I sell at, I need to start stocking up on Christmas Cards...and with Christmas in July, well this card is very appropriate.
Technique: Swing Card
Theme: Vintage Poinsetta Christmas

Challenge entered: 52 Christmas Card Throwdown - 2 or more folds

Watercolor

I really like how this watercolor card turned out. I did not use stamps. What I did do was draw the design on Strathmore paper, then proceeded to paint it with windsor newton water color paints.

I created this painting last night then noticed that "The Paper Players" are requesting watercolor cards for their challenge, thus I entered it.

dream

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This card was something I created after watching a youtube tutorial. I do like how it turned out but adding the glitter was fun. This was actually my second attempt and I added the glue for the sparkle by using a toothpick.

I entered this card into the challenge by Crazy 4 Challenges which was a sketch challenge..

Urban Chic

This card was fun to create! Instead  of using stamps I decided to create the city from card stock. I just drew the buildings and then cut them out. The word is stamped on textured pink paper. This is totally created with inks and card stock. I wanted a cas but wanted it in color. I do believe I accomplished that.

This was created for my favorite cas weekly challenge called Cas(e) this Sketch and 

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge which was "Create a Scene".

Doggy Surprise

I created this card last night while trying to keep my mind off of the heat. It is far too warm. I really liked some challenges that came by recently and they inspired the design of this card.

The Challenges I Entered with this card are:

Freshly Made Sketches - the sketch layout

Stamping Royalty - the colors

Paper Craft Crew - tic,tac,toe I chose diagonal die cuts, animal and pastel

Dar and Diane - gingham

Missing You

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Today's card is titled "Missing You". I created this with mixed mediums. I started by creating a circle cut out as a stencil. I filled it with Liquitex modeling paste and allowed it to dry. I then began painting using the darkest colors along the bottom going up to the center and repeated this starting at the top going down to the center creating a double gradient. Then Iproceeded to finish the painting by adding stars and the colorful circles. I took another piece of watercolor paper and threw down color blending it. Once dry I stamped the birds using Stamplorations "Trendy Birds". Cut them out. Then using acrylic paint instead of ink I stamped one leaf on the painting and one leaf on blank watercolor paper. The leaf stamps are also from Stamplorations called "Trendy Leaves".

The challenge I decided to enter this card into is Stamplorations "Theme and Sketch" also their "Never Ending Challenge".

Oh one last thing, for the "Themes and Sketch" Challenge I followed the sketch, and theme which is stars and stamps.

Coffee

This friendship card was created with love. I love coffee :) I used watercolor and rather than be perfect with my painting, which I can, I chose to just be creative and artsy by splashing color and allowing color to seep into one another which gives the cups a bit of a reflection from the cup next to it. I used the sketch from Tuesday Morning Sketches which I really liked. The colors chosen came from a challenge at Splitcoaststampers. The stamp is from Stamplorations and the cardstock is from Recollections. The watercolor paper is Strathmore and the paints are windsor newton.

CAS - Orange

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Here is another card I created in CAS. I think I now know why I like CAS best. It provides a very classy card. I created this for Stamplorations CAS.

CAS

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Today I decided to create a cas..clean and simple. I really like these colors, they are my favorite. I created the card from textured card stock then I watercolored a 2" square and added a simple white cupcake. I then cut a 1 1/2" circle. Then embellished it with ribbon, pearls and a flower.

I created this card for CAS(E) this Sketch.

Following this sketch:

Victorian Sailing

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Today I created another Victorian paper product but this time it is "Summer is Sailing". It sure is sailing and will soon be August. Time just seems to fly when your having fun creating with paper. This does contain different products from home and from the shore with the real shells.

Entered into the Following Challenges

lil red wagon - theme summer love

Mod Squad - theme lazy days of summer

The Sisterhood of Crafters - Create your own background

Altered Eclectrics - mixed media

First Journal Page

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This is my first journal page. I racked my brain trying to figure out what mixed media truly is. As my husband is an artist he kept saying it was a mix of mediums. I then went to youtube and looked there at paper crafts mixed media and wow did I come away with a different thought of what mixed media is in the paper world. It even encouraged me to start a journal. So I created my first journal page. I drew everything. I am so looking forward to my shipment of stamps and stencils from Stamplorations so that as the month progresses hopefully so will my work. :) I did happen to have one stencil from a floral stamp set. Which I used. How I used this stencil was to apply acrylic paint very thickly through the stencil. I do like how this turned out but am looking forward to improving and what better way than using a journal tosee the progress. I decided to make my own book by creating pages and adding them to a book folder which I made.

http://stamplorations.blogspot.ca/2016/07/stencil-sunday-july-3.html

Mixed Media - Time Changes

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This is a mixed media I did today following a couple of challenges. To create this I used water color, acrylics, pan pastels, a leaf stencil,a bit of elements, stamps, ink and a leaf cutout. Following Take a Word, I received the theme which was "Time". The Stamplorations Mixed Media Challenge this month is to use a stencil.

http://stamplorations.blogspot.ca/2016/07/stencil-sunday-july-3.html

Sunday - Stamp Kissing

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Each day I try to add something different so I have a list of techniques for each day of the week. Today I found a great blog for stamping called "Happy Little Stampers". Each month they give info on a different technique and a challenge to go with it. Today's technique was called "Kissing". This is where you merge two stamps together to create a pattern within a stamp. You can also use embossing folders or die cuts to create the pattern. I used a heart stamp with a doily edging stamp over it. This stamp is also stamped along the bottom of the card. I followed somewhat a mix of two designers Linda and Chrissie.

I am going to try this again before the month is out because I do like it.

Saturday - Christmas

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Here is my card for Christmas Throwdown. I had fun putting this all together.