CAS....friend to friend

Happy Thursday Peeps!!

I have been covered up over here making swaps and trying to get some Design Team commitments done. I am running behind so today I am sharing a card made a week ago for the Clean & Simple Challenge on Splitcoaststampers.

It was a one layer sketch challenge. I used a set I love to watercolor from Stampin' Up called "The Nicest Things".

I stamped the image onto some white card stock with black stazon and colored with my aqua painter and ink pads. To be honest, for coloring directly onto card stock and not using watercolor paper, I prefer to use a non SU white. I do love very vanilla for this method of declaring but the SU white is a bit to slick and smooth, I have found  some white by neenah is perfect for me. Still doing this method of water coloring you need to be careful with the amount of water and ink. I would say this method is an advance skill technique, but give it a try if you love to watercolor, I love the look.

Well, that is all from me today, thanks for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!

SC329.....Hey There

Good Friday Morning Peeps!!!

Today I am sharing a card I made with the sketch challenge this week on Splitcoaststampers.

The base of the card is crumb cake card stock and I followed that with some Cajun Craze card stock. The Designer paper here is from the Paisley Patterns paper pack.

The cute little bunny comes from the Stampin Up set called The Nicest Things. I stamped two bunnies with black stazon onto some watercolor paper and colored in with my aqua painter and some ink from my ink pads. I used two separate EF on here, the square lattice and the elegant lines. The sentiment is from the retired Really Retro stamp set. I added some crochet lace trim and a few silver pearls.



Well, that is all for now, HAPPY STAMPING!!!

Vicki

SC328....friend to friend

TGIF Peeps!!

Today I am sharing a card I made with the sketch challenge on Splitcoaststampers.

I had a ton of problems while making this card, that has been my M.O. lately, I am in a bit of a stamping slump and have been trying to push through it. I decided right away with this sketch to use this sweet image from the Stampin' Up "The Nicest Things" stamp set. I stamped it onto some very vanilla card stock with black stazon ink. I pulled out some paper from the Springtime Vintage paper pack and used that for my color pallet for coloring this image.

After getting it all colored, I set the image aside to work on the design of the sketch. I tried several colors and designs of the paper before I settled on the one you see here and even now I am second guessing this, I think I should have made my base with the rose red and then the very vanilla, but it is done now.

While coloring on the card stock is not that hard but you do have to be careful not to over-saturate the paper. The card stock tends to curl just a bit, so when I was adhering it to the matt, I flipped it over on my work surface, (which is the stampin up grid pad) and ran my hand over the back of the piece to smooth the image and make sure it laid flat. When I picked it up, it tore. I guess there was some adhesive on the grid paper and it gabbed hold of the image piece right in the middle and tore it. Man I was so upset. I smoothed it out the best I could and it didn't look to bad except in the are of the middle of the basket. So came the little popped up flower. It covered the messed up part pretty well and looked OK. I finished up the card with some basic pearls and rose red seam binding. DONE!!!!






I guess some days are just like that and you find new ways to make it work. Ha!

Well, that is all from me today, be sure to come back by tomorrow for another Our Creative Corner Challenge!

HAPPY STAMPING!!!!

Vicki

Crazy 4 challenges.....Friends

Happy Tuesday Peeps!!! Hope you are all having a good week so far!

Today I am sharing a card I made with the sketch challenge this week on the Crazy 4 Challenges Blog. You all know I love me a good sketch challenge and this is a great one, the kind I like best,not to busy!

I wanted to watercolor again so I pulled out this Stampin' Up set called t
The Nicest Things. I stamped the little girl image onto some very vanilla card stock with black stazon and colored with my aqua painter and ink from my ink pads. I used the Ice Cream Parlor Paper pack that was from SAB. It is not available anymore but I just love the melon mambo piece in this pack. It is definitely girly and fit this image well, so I used the colors in the paper pack for the colors on my girls.

The base of the card is melon mambo and I followed that with some pink pirouette and then the DSP. The sentiment is from the Just Believe stamp set. I added accents of basic pearls and some very vanilla satin ribbon.

Well, that is all from me today, thanks so much for stopping by today and HAPPY STAMPING!!!!!

Vicki

SSSC109....Hello bunny

GOOD MORNING PEEPS!!! It's Sunday which means it is time for another Sweet Sunday Sketch Sample

This is the fabulous sketch Karen has for us this week:



Great sketch, Loved this one! I pulled out a set I hadn't used in awhile, Stampin' Up's The Nicest Things. I inked up the bunny stamp with timber brown stazon and stamped him onto some watercolor paper twice! I then stamped him two more times onto some scrap water color paper. I colored the rabbit in with crumb cake ink. I used cajun craze for the flower pot and a bit of baja breeze on the carrot tag on the pot. I cut out two of the bunnies and adhered them over the first bunny. I colored in the ground with a bit of old olive ink and added some baja for the sky.



The base of the card is made with Crumb Cake card stock, I then used some cajun craze card stock and the designer paper is from the new soon to be available pack, Paisley Petals. The main piece is matted with cajun craze and the bottom portion was embossed with the dot EF. I added a crumb cake strip across the bottom of the image panel and added some crunched crochet trim across it. I then added two small tags and an antique brad. The tags are made with the Tiny Tags stamp set. I finished it off with some basic pearls in the corners.

I hope you can find some time to play along with us this week, I would love to see what you come up with, create a card or scrapbook page with this sketch and then go to Karen's blog and link up your project for all of us to see.


OK, let's see what the rest of the Sweet Sunday Sketch Team has in store for us this week:

Karen-the Sweetest Thing

Jen-JenTapler Designs

Karen-Paper Playhouse

Lynn-The Queen's Scene

Sarah-Jane-Janeybell

Dana-Dana's House of Cards


Well, thank you for stopping by today and HAPPY STAMPING!!!

Vicki