30 Minutes to a Fabulous Floral

Spending some time this morning getting to know my Zig brush pens...
I thought a good place to start would be with this fabulous floral background Cling stamp from Hero Arts (no name on the packaging).  I embossed in white on bristol board and started to colour...
Still not quite sure of what colours actually "blend", but I am pleased with the colour combo, although it is darker than I hoped!  I stamped the sentiment in Versa Mark ink onto a strip of black CS and white heat embossed, cut a wide angle fishtail on one end and adhered to a strip of vellum.  The vellum was wrapped to the back of the floral panel and mounted onto a fun foam rectangle, then adhered to an aqua card base.  Fun and easy!  
Are you colouring every day?

I am offerring this up for Kathy's 30 Day colouring challenge and the 

Hero Arts Fabulous Florals challenge.

Thanks X 3

Hi there!  Another month finished...Oh where do the days fly to?

I have a few Thanks cards that I have been working on to add to my stash, basically all the same layout, just  a few different embellishments, all easy as pie!The first one features one of the twine flowers that I have also been having fun making, a vintage button and some "water" sequins.  Hero Arts sentiment.  The second stamp is a cornflower (an old K & Co. stamp) coloured with Copics and cut out.

This last one uses SU Starfruit CS, embossed with a Sissix EF (Ironworks, I think) and the sentiment is a Memory Box thanks that I layered onto a fun Basic Grey polka dot scrap and entwined in the Memory Box twig and teeny leaf die.  Making many of these simple ones lately...maybe 'cause it has been so hot here!  TRIPLE DIGITS for 11 days now.
Hope you are having a wonderful week and thanks a bunch for stopping by!
Chriss

Old School Cool

Happy Saturday everyone!

There has been a lot of high temperatures going on around here, and normal for Austin, but my friends and family in the "Great White North" have been experiencing lots of the same. Unusual for them and not all have air conditioned homes like here in the south.  They have been using these "old school" wonders.
  I was inspired by this darling card from Meghan on her Little Pink Bikes blog and I made a few of my own version to mail up north.

I popped up the blades for a 3D effect just like Meghan (thank you)
I used a Hero Arts sentiment (perfect for this situation), dollar stamp fan image from Michaels and a Basic Grey popsicle image.  The paper is SEI.
Stay Cool folks!  It's about 95 here right now!

Another couple of Foxes

Good Morning!  Hope your week-end was grand and you had time to relax and create!

I have been having a lot of fun with this little fox from Hero Arts.  I made a couple of cards for a challenge that a few friends of mine issued.  I was to use blues, a colour that I rarely use and NOT use florals.  This is what I came up with and I really think that this little creature is adorable!  I paper pieced parts of this cute creature, gave him sparkly whiskers and coloured some white Maya Road heart stick pins with my Copic markers.  I made the sentiment on the computer.

Thanks for taking a peek today,

hope you have a great start to your week!

Hugs,

Chriss

Birthday girls

Hello again!
Two posts in a day...whoa!
I have been having some fun with this other new Hero Arts stamp and made two cards with different colour combos.  The skirt is paper pieced and the presents are coloured with Copic markers and Spica pens, they have a nice sparkle to them IRL.
The top piece of patterned paper is cut with a Spellbinder label and cut in half and I added some Maya Road vintage style buttons threaded with some embroidery floss. The second card has a textured background that I made with a PTI embossing plate.  Again, some really easy cards.
Thanks for taking a peek!
Chriss

50 years of wisdom

Hi there!
I needed a birthday card for a male friend turning 50 and I thought this Hero Arts owl was perfect!  I am a little older than 50 and I would like to think that I have gained some wisdom over the years...this little guy is here to give some wise and happy birthday wishes!
I stamped the Hero Arts newsprint owl onto PTI kraft card stock in SU black craft ink, cut out and sponged around the edges with PTI spring moss ink.  I coloured the leaves with a Copic marker.  The medalion at the top was made with a Memory Box die and I glued it into place, nestling in this fun Jenni Bowlin button at the same time, it sits on a sponge dimensional.  The little wooden tag is one of several that I have had in my stash for a few years.  They are not a craft item, but rather tags that were extra to some little wooden ducks and lambs that Smith & Hawken carried.  When they closed, I was allowed to take some of them home...:))  I knew I could use them one day and I think this makes a great masculine tag.  The 0 is a sparkly sticker and the 5 is something that I had in my stash.  It was a paperclip, but I broke the wire off and glued the 5 in place.
That's it for this simple card.
See you soon-hope your day is going well and that you are safe and warm.  It's pretty cold here in Austin today, 40's and windy.  I am staying inside today.  Yesterday's winter day was MUCH nicer 79 and sunny...
Thanks for stopping by to take a peek,
Chriss

Lots of Hugs

Hi there, back again with an inchie card for Ellen's inchie inkling challenge.  I chose to use black and white with red, a classic for Valentine's day.
I stamped the Lockhart Hearts cupcake and coloured with a red Copic and a Spica glitter pen, then cut out. Stamped the image again on this tiny gingham paper that I have in my stash and cut out the cupcake liner, adhered to the cupcake image and popped up on foam and layered onto the red polka dot paper circle.  This was added to the card front and I placed a Kaiser rhinestone circle frame around it.  The border layers were created with a MS punch and an EK success punch.  I stamped the Hero Arts "lots of hugs" onto white and punched out with the small MS tag punch and layered onto the same gingham.  The hearts are felt and I added a gingham brad to one of them (I have had these for years and I want to try and use something old on a lot of the cards that I make!) and left the other laying over the border and silk white ribbon.  Very simple!
Thanks for taking a peek,
lots of hugs...
Chriss

Back with 1 little card...

Hello everyone.  I am back from Montreal (a week now) and have been busy getting back into the swing of things, but I did make a halloween card yesterday.

I started with this fun Hero Arts bat that I simply coloured with Copics and a green Spica pen, cut out the image and popped onto a new Spellbinders label die 14.  I used various papers from MS and MM.  I used black thread to machine stitch a zig zag around the green paper edges and a straight stitch across the purple paper at the bottom of the card.  I also used the MS spider web border punch and layered the strip with a wide black ric rac ribbon.  The tag stamp is from SU Tiny Tags and I had the little bat brad in my stash.  That's it for today...another busy week ahead and World card making Day is less than a week away!

Thanks so much for taking a peek!

Chriss

My inchie bird couple

Good morning everyone! Still on the wedding kick and I made an inchie card for the Inchie Card Sketch #2 over on the Inchie Inklings blog! Oh how I love to use these tiny images :) This sketch was perfect for the card I had in mind (after I turned it on the side ;)! I like how

this card has a playful with a touch of elegance look to it and I love the neutral grey/yellow & creamy white colour combo. For some reason, I always tend to create wedding cards with grey in them. The birds are stamped, cut out and I used a buttermilk Spica pen on her flower and a pearl in the center and added black Spica to both of their wings. Quite hard to see in the photo, but sparkly in real life. I had so much fun making this and I am really looking forward to other inchie challenges!

The other card that I created is a sketch I made up as I created the card, just playing around with the Nestie pieces as I cut them. The background was created with the Damask CB folder and the two scallop borders were created with EK Success slim border punches. I used the SU Together Forever set...again. What can I say but when I like a set, I tend to hang onto it and use it a couple of times a year :)

Both cards use "La Creme" mat stack...I guess you can tell that I really like this one, and the paper flowers on both cards are from the Wild Orchid Crafts shop in the UK.

Here's a close-up of the border detail. Have a great day and thanks so, so much for stopping by again!

Happy, Joy birdies

Good Day everyone! It is snowing in Austin!!! Can you believe it?! All of the roof tops are covered. It looks like we got about 1 inch and it has stopped right now, but we will see what happens later ;)

I made a card today and was able to combine two challenges. The PlayDateCafe#17 is a colour challenge, to use red, brown and linen...check. The sketch I used for this card is from the Card Patterns site and this is sketch #52. They are celebrating the 1st year anniversary.

Here is the card, another wedding/anniversary card made with the same two cute birds stamp from Hero Arts that I used yesterday.

They are coloured with Copics and have touches of
Spica Sparkle on them. She also has a tiny pearl in her hair flower piece.

This is the first time for me that I have made one of the scalloped/ruffled paper flowers. I like how it turned out in the red/brown combination. For the center, I used a metal flower brad and a pearl studded fabric covered brad that I removed the fastening part from the back. I also useda length of lace that I first gathered with a needle and thread and cinched into a circle.

Most of the edges of paper on the card are sponged with creamy caramel. Thanks for visiting!

Chriss

SFYTT Lucky in Love

Have you seen the loot that Jen has to give away here? Quite the prize!!!

For this week's sketch I really wanted to use this new Hero Arts 2 Birds stamp that I bought from Ellen Hutson. I think it is such an adorable image and I paired it with some of the BG Origins paper that I have had for a couple of weeks, but was finishing the re-org. of my craft room (you can see the 2 previous posts for before and after shots...don't be too afraid of the before, no one got hurt!)

So here is my card. I used all Basic Grey for the front of the card. The card base is a Papertrey select white. I love the quality of this card stock!

On this card I used a MS border punch, Spellbinder dies, a narrow chocolate brown ribbon, BG square rhinestones, Spica pens for the birdie eyelashes and I cut out the bride's head piece (flower from BG Origins) and the wings on both birds are also cut from the Origins dp.

Here is a close-up of the loving birds. The sentiment is a new one from the Papertrey mini set "Luck of the Irish".

Hope you are having a great day so far,

cheers,

chriss