Vintage birthday hydrangeas

Hope everyone is having a great weekend so far.  It has been so hot here that I spent most of the afternoon in the craft room instead of doing some chores outside!  Here is a card that I made for the Weekend Sketch challenge #86.  I really like the colours together and like how the card turned out.  I chose my image of hydrangeas from a Lockhart stamp that I purchased probably 2 months ago and have not made the time to ink up, until today.  I stamped the image on SU very vanilla with basic gray ink and coloured with Copics, see all of them in their own pic!  I really love how you can change the brightness and tone of colours with the neutrals, like the warm grays that I used.  I decided to make the berries in this image a red colour to match with the papers I selected from K & Co "Wild Raspberry".  The image was cut with a labels 3 Nestability and layered onto the dp and and Baja Blue.  Thanks for taking a peek and enjoy the rest of the weekend! Chriss ~ recipe ~

stamps Lockhart Hydrangea bouquet

ink SU basic gray

paper SU very vanilla, baja blue, K & Co. Wild Raspberry

access. Nestabilities label 3 & round petite scallop, SU round punch, K & Co rhinestone in pewter setting, Copic markers

VSJUN05, Happy blue blessings

I am back with sketch #5, I know, #4 will be here later (after I finish putting it together!)  I had fun with this sketch and the Papertrey Birdwatching set.  There are so many great sets out there and with monthly new releases from some of my favourite companies, well, I have a hard time keeping up with actually stamping with them, BUT, I love having new releases to look forward to!  This one was paper-pieced for the Verve release sketch #5.  I don't often use much blue, but love the combination with SU's retired River Rock.  Boy, I seem to be using a lot of retired stuff, it must be a phase.  The dp I used here is also from SU's retired paper from a couple of years ago.  I stamped the background in craft vanilla and sponged most of the edges with not quite navy.  Thanks to Julee for another great sketch, I don't know how she keeps coming up with these winners all of the time, but am sure grateful that she shares with us!

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stamps PTI Birdwatching

paper SU river rock, not quite navy, dp also from SU (porcelain?)

access. Spellbinders Nestabilities ovals, rhinestones, MS lattice border punch, Copic marker for grass

Summery Rickey bouquet

Back again with the 3rd sketch that I call my Lime Rickey bouquet.  (Julee, I turned the sketch on the side to accommodate the floral image, hope that is OK)  

I really adore all of the great stamps out there that we can colour in with markers.  I stamped this Lockhart image with basic gray from SU' and coloured with a few Copics.  I added some crystal effects onto the water (just for my friend Yvonne) for a little more dimension.  The panel was cut from a Spellbinders label4 and layered onto another larger L4 that I cut out of a coffee sleeve from Panera and pierced the edges.  I like the organic feel that I think it lends to this bouquet along with the vintagey wood button from Papertrey Ink.  I added a flower punch-out from an acrylic package and placed that on top of the same shape that I punched out from the dp I used for this card, BG Lime Rickey.  The button treatment is placed on top of a Heidi Swapp ghost flower and the 2 Lime Rickey center panels are edged with a white border punched from EK.  Thanks again for another great sketch Julee!

Elegant Flowers for VSJUN02

Here is the second sketch challenge from the Verve blog for the new release.  I love this flower from Verve, a plain Jane that I call elegant!  This was a fun sketch and so easy to keep adding to the layering, but I think I stopped just in time before creating a misfit ;)  Love these colours together, Tango Tangerine and Blue Bayou (sadly both are retired from SU) and I had this perfect little dragonfly to use as my tiny embellishment. The flower was stamped in Tango Tangerine and then coloured with a Copic (my beloved BG72 Ice Ocean) which imho is a perfect compliment to Blue Bayou.  Cut the flowers out and mounted them to a CB'g die and layered that onto a white square.  I used the small corner rounder on the square to mimic the rounded corner from the die.  I then used a Nestability square to cut out some Blue Bayou squares and another Nestability scalloped square to cut out a white layer.  I added some rhinestones for the centers of the flowers and placed on the square panel front of the card. In between the panels I also used a CB embossing strip to place in between the squares as I thought it looked just a little plain without anything "going on" in the center spaces.  The sentiment is also Verve and I stamped it in Basic Gray and sponged the edges and front of the word panel with some Tango Tangerine.  Thanks a bunch for taking a peek!

Chriss

VSJUN01 & MojoMonday92 Special Edition

Here it is, finally a post ;)  It's my Mojo Monday sketch from Julee, owner of Verve stamps.

I chose a Lockhart image (this fun hen) for the main panel and stamped it in Memento black Tuxedo ink and then coloured with my Copics.  Cut the image out with the label 4 die and layered it onto another larger panel.  The blue panel is SU' Not Quite navy and I used the ticket corner punch on the corners.  The white base of the card was put through the CB folder and I did the same for another 1/2 panel in Riding Hood Red and added some ribbon of the same colour and 3 tiny rhinestones at the top and bottom of the sentiment.  The Heartfelt Thanks is from Verve.  This is the first in a series of special sketches from Verve for the next release.  Thanks for taking a peek!

Chriss

Not alone MOJO88

I am hopelessly behind on any of the last few weeks of challenges, but did manage to get this Mojo sketch done.  Love the soft colours and (imho) I think they really compliment the sentiment.  A good encouragement card.  Pretty straight forward, nothing fancy.  I used Verve stamps, this perfect SEI large brad, MS frond punch and an EK border punch(almost all covered up()& scalloped nestabilities.  The paper is Basic Grey Wisteria.

Thanks for taking a peek!

cheers,

chriss

Paper pieced hot air balloons MOJO89

Hi everyone.  I have been spending the last 10 days with a very dear friend that I get to see once a year.  She lives in the Toronto area and I am in Austin, so we don't get to have coffee dates on a regular basis, but we sure did make up for it these last 10 days.  I am so blessed to have a few very close friends, some near and some living far away.

My Mojo took a few hours to "come back" this morning after having not stamped for a while, and I have been dying to ink up the Verve newly released set , Up, up and Away!  It is just a darling set and as you can see from the 3 samples I made today, you can make a feminine or masculine hot air balloon. I really had fun paper piecing these and will be making a lot more of them with the different balloons.  The first one is my feminine version and my submission for Julee's Mojo 89 which happens to be a contest this week! I worked with the lavenders and purples from BG Wisteria. I used my labels 3 die to frame the balloon  and layered it onto the striped paper from Wisteria.  The flower is a Prima and I cut out a tiny circle of dp and added a lavender rhinestone for a little bling.  I love using all of the BG paper packs as it is so easy to match the colours and patterns and I so love that the patterns are teeny!  Here are a couple more using the same sketch with different Basic Grey papers to create a different feel.  Thanks for taking a peek!

chriss