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!!!

OCC....Fun with Fruit

Happy Saturday Peeps!!

It is time for another challenge over on the Our Creative Corner Blog. This week our challenge hostess is Kristin Tierney from LillyBeth Designs.

Her challenge for us is:

Fun with Fruit - Summer is the best time for fresh fruit, this week make a creation focusing on fruit images!

She offered up these images for inspiration:

I was totally inspired by this beautiful creation by Cindy Beach. I loved the look of her card so I chose to use the same papers and stamp set. I changed my card up a bit from hers to make it my own but she was my total inspiration for this card. I hope she doesn't mind.

The base of the card is whisper white and then I followed that up with some Pool Party card stock and then the Designer Paper is from the Stampin Up "Domestic Goddess"  DSP. This paper is amazing, I love the colors and patterns in this pack! The other color of card stock I used on this card is Calypso Coral.

The image here is from the Stampin' Up "Cherish Friendship" stamp set. I stamped with black stazon onto some white cardstock and used my aqua painter and ink pads to color. The sentiment is from an older retired hostess set, my box doesn't have a name on it and I don't remember the name. I matted my image with a die cut from the Perfect Pennant Die and added a bunch of basic Pearls. The scallops are made with the Tasteful Trim Die. I also used some of the pretty Calypso Coral ruffled ribbon.

Be sure to check the Our Creative Corner Blog to see what the rest of the design team came up with for this fun  challenge. I hope you can find some time to play along and if you do don't forget to link it up over on the Our Creative Corner Blog so we can all see it!

Thanks for stopping by today and HAPPY STAMPING!!!!

Vicki

SSSC122....thinking of you

Good Morning Peeps!!!

 It is Sunday so that means it is time for another Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge.

Here is the fun sketch Karen has for us this week:

I varied the sketch just a bit by bringing in my DSP layer just a bit. The base of the card is Riding Hood Red card stock. I followed that up with some crumb cake card stock and the DS paper is from a retired pack, I am not sure of the name.

The bowl of cherries stamp is from a new set that will be available in July and is called "Cherish Friendship". I stamped the image with black stazon onto some watercolor paper. I colored in the image with riding hood red, old olive and soft suede ink. The image is layered onto a die cut which is from the Perfect Pennants die. I added some crystal effects to the cherries and added some silver pearls all around the die cut.

The sentiment is from the "Teeny Tiny Wishes" stamp set.

I added three silver brads to the top corner. I kept my design CAS. I really love this new stamp set. Cute huh?

I hope you can find some time to play along with us this week, I would love to see what you come up with and don't forget to link it up over at Karen's blog 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 -Lynn will be posting a bit later

Sarah-Jane-Janeybell

Dana-Dana's House of Card

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

Vicki

3 x 3 thank yous

Good Monday Morning Peeps!!

Today I am sharing a couple of little 3 x 3 thank you cards I made up yesterday. I needed a couple of little cards to enclose with a  some goodies I made up for my neighbors.

I love the new stamp set that will be available July 1st in the new Stampin Up catalog called

 "Cherish Friendship"

so I pulled it out for these little cards. I stamped the bowl of cherries stamp onto some very vanilla card stock and used my aqua painter to color it in. I used some marina mist, poppy parade, bravo burgundy, old olive and crumb cake.  I used my 1-3/4 inch circle punch to punch out the images. I then used 2-3/8 scallop circle punch for the matt. The card bases are Marina Mist and Poppy Parade. The DS paper is from the new Pocketful of Posies paper pack that will also be available in the new catalog.

The sentiment comes from the Bold Blossom stamp set and I just masked off the part I wanted to use and stamped onto very vanilla card stock. I curled them and cut the end. I added them to the main image piece with a bit of tombow mono liquid glue.

Cute and simple and will look great tied onto the goodies I made. Hope they like them!

Thanks for stopping by today and HAPPY STAMPING!!!!

Vicki 

Thank you, thank you

Good Tuesday Morning Peeps!

Today I have a card to share with you using a new set that will be available July 1st. The set is called "Cherish Friendship". I was drawn to this set when I first saw the sneak peaks last week. When my order arrived I pulled this out first and stamped it onto some very vanilla card stock so I could color it.

I used some black stazon ink to stamp the chair image and then colored with my aqua painter and ink pads. I first colored the chair with some crumb cake ink and then colored the basket and flowers. After finishing it I thought it looked plain, so I went over the chair with some baja breeze and I like the look, looks a bit old.

I used some crumb cake for my card base and then baja breeze and baja breeze DSP for my next layers. The sentiment comes from the Blod Blossom stamp set. I inked up just the "thank you" and used my stamp-a-ma-jig to position it where I wanted. I did it twice. I added some baja breeze seam binding and a few basic pearls. The main image panel is added to the card with some dimensionals.

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

Vicki