Messy Watercoloring for The Paper Players

Happy Monday peeps!!

Today I am sharing a card I made using the challenge this week at The Paper Players.

The challenge is to use some watercolor on your project. I decide to messily free form a few watercolored flowers and then use the Swirly flower from the Stampin Up Swirly Bird dies to make my card.

I started with a piece of watercolor paper and then die cut my flowers and my leaves, which come form the Rose Wonder dies

I laid them out n the middle of my water color paper to get a general idea of where I wanted to put my colors. I then just messily laid down my colors, I used Melon Mambo, Daffodil Delight and Tangerine Tango for the flower circles. The leaves are Wild Wasabi and the blue BG is some very watered down Pacific Point.

The "thanks" is one of the dies I ordered online a while back. 

I die cut it twice using Basic Black card stock and layered them together.

I added a few little sequins to finish it up.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Vicki

Freshly Made Sketches......Hello

Happy Wednesday Peeps!!!

Today I am sharing a card I made using the sketch this week at \

Freshly Made Sketches:

OK, I know it is a bit of a stretch, but in my defense one of the design team girls used a square instead of an oval and more importantly I had just gotten a couple of new goodies and I wanted to use them.

I ordered these stitched rectangles along with the hello die online and they were begging me to use them! 

The card base is Papertrey white card stock as is the stitched layer.

The flowers are of course my fave Stampin Up Swirly Bird.

I used Calypso Coral, Crisp Cantaloupe and Pink Pirouette card stock for my flowers. Aren't they just the sweetest?!!

The leaves are made using Pear Pizzazz and the Rose Wonder Framelits.

I die cut the "hello" twice using some Basic Black and glued them together and then glued the stack to my card.

The stitched layer is added to the base using dimensionals.

I love how this card came out, so clean and simple, but very pretty!

Thanks for coming by today!

Vicki

Happy 4th of July.......Celebrate

Happy Monday Peeps and Happy 4th of July to all!!

Today I am sharing a card I made using the Stampin Up Swirly Bird set.

I love the kites in this set.

Normally I make several Americana cards this time of the year but this is my only one this year.

I love how it came out tho. When I sat down to make a card to post today and knew I wanted to try to make some flag looking kites. this card came out pretty much how I envisioned when I started, which is not my norm. 

Everything on my card is Stampin Up except the little star stickers, these are some I found in my stash as I was looking for something to add to my BG around the kites. They work perfectly, I do not even know where or when I got them.

The kites are stamped with Night of Navy and Real Red ink

. I stamped four of these and layered them up with dimensionals between the layers,

 it really adds great dimension to the front of the card. 

I stamped the tails and bows with the same colors.

The sentiment comes from an old Paper Pumpkin kit from last year.

The navy banner is embossed with the lucky star embossing folder,

I used some cherry cobbler Bakers twine around the top and also added a silver clip there as well.

I added in the silver glimmer paper in the end cos I felt it needed s bit more sparkle and it was the perfect choice.

I have another cute pic of Audrey to share, dressed in one of her Americana outfits:

You can't see much of the outfit, but isn't that bow too cute? 

I hope you that are celebrating this 4th have a safe and happy celebration with family and friends.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Vicki

I'd Be Lost Without You

Hello Peeps!

Today I sharing a card I made using the challengethis week at Inspired by All the Little Things.

I love the colors in this image and used them for the inspiration for my card.

I am playing with the new Stampin Up Swirly Bird set and one of the new in colors, Dapper Denim.

I also used white and Pool Party.

I love this little sailboat and I also think it fits the inspiration photo as it reminds me of a quaint little foreign costal town where you might see many sailboats.

I used the retired cloudy day embossing folder, I thought it was the perfect backdrop for my tiny sailboat.

The swirl was cut with daffodit delight card stock and makes a cute little sun for my summer scene.

The waves ae cut with Pool party card stock using another die in the Swirly bundle.

I stamped a sentiment from the Cottage Greetings set using Dapper Denim.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Vicki

Swirly Birthday Wishes

Hello Peeps!!

Today I am sharing another card I made while playing with the new Stampin Up

Swirly Bird set.

I had seen the swirl die cut used to make a wreath and I wanted to give it a whirl. :)

I decided to use Early Espresso to make a "grapevine" wreath.

I glued the wreath down and then stamped a few flowers using the small flowers in this set. I used the new in color Flirty Flamngo I stamped once and then another time without reinking to get the two colors.

I die cut a few leaves using the new Emerald Envy card stock.

I added the flowers to the wreath using some dimensionals.

The wreath piece was matted with some Flirty Flamingo card stock and added to the base with more dimensionals.

I added a few rhinestones to the flower centers. The sentiment is from the Build a Birthday stamp set.

Thanks so much for stopping by today.

Baby Audrey will be 1 month old tomorrow:

Sweetest Baby ever!!

Vicki

Freshly Made Sketch.....Swirly Flowers

Happy Saturday Peeps!!!

Today I am sharing a card I made using the sketch this week at Freshly Made Sketches.

This is a great sketch by the fabulous Rita Wright, I love it!!

I had just got my pre-order earlier in the week from the new Stampin Up catalog.

This set Swirly Birds was on my list when I first saw it in the new catalog and I was thrilled to see it available on our pre-order.

I also love the new in colors and I used every one of them on this card. The Dapper Denim is just splattered on the white piece but it is there and it was fun to use all of them on this card. 

I started the card with a base of white and then laid down a piece of DSP down the side from the Go Wild paper stack.

I then added a strip of basic black across the bottom. I embossed the sentiment from the Butterfly Basics stamp set using white embossing powder.

I then cut another piece of white and splattered it with a bit of the Dapper Denim ink.

The flowers are die cut using Peekaboo Peach, Flirty Flamingo and Sweet Sugarplum. I die cut the leaves using Emerald Envy, I hand cut some watercolor paper and washed it with the same ink as the flowers and popped the swirl die cut onto the watercolored piece.

I finished it up with a few Basic rhinestones.

Another pic of  our precious baby Audrey:

Thanks for stopping by today!

Vicki