Sketch Inspiration

Good Morning, it's a new week we put all the outside furniture away over the weekend and cleaned off the deck getting ready for winter!

Despite that today's card is a reminder of summer. Inspired by Stamping used inspiration pictures whether it's a color collection, sketch or picture. The idea is you use one or more of these in your design but with your own spin on it.

It gave me the opportunity to use a stamp I have had a long time but rarely use:

These were the pictures I chose to use:

I started with my stamped image and colored the flowers with in the color theme using my Copic Markers. I then used a stitched circle die to cut out the image this is the main focus of the card.

Staying within the sketch theme,  I matted my card base with some patterned design paper, a die cut strip and a rectangle of peach colored card, again following the color scheme.

I added my image using foam squares for dimension but felt the card looked a bit bare. Using the same peach colored card I cut 4 corner die cuts making it look as though they were embossed rather than separate parts.

A few Enamel dots finished the sketch theme as well as balanced my design.

  Products used:

  Lili of the Valley Hydrangea Stamp - Retired

  Spectrum Noir Ultra Smooth Card

  Copic Markers

  Patterned design Paper-from my Stash

  Staples White Card for Base

  Turquoise Card

  Peach Card

  Memory Box Contempo Circle Border Die

  Cheery Lynn Lace Corner Deco B die

  Enamel Dots

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Time for a spot of gardening

Good afternoon - well May is almost upon and us and summer is on it's way! We have started planting out our yard with flower tubs and vegetables - we have so much grass that it needs color out there.

Today's card is my final make for my Guest Design Team member over at 2 Paper Divas and it a great gardening scene

Garden Joy was my favorite to color I loved using delicate colors and the image is almost dreamlike.

Once colored I used a circle die to cut the image out. I then matted it onto a blue  trellis circle die-cut. I used the same blue as a mat on my card having first decorated opposing edges with a lacy punch.

I then added the gorgeous design paper which has delicate flowers all over it. After placing my image I die cut a butterfly to coordinate and used some of my mulberry roses (spiraling the stems of the small ones) to balance the design.

Ingredients Used

2 Paper Divas - Garden Joy

Spectrum Noir Ultra Smooth White Cardstock

Spectrum Noir Markers 

Spellbinder Circle Dies 

Tonic Trellis Circle dies

Lili of the Valley - Petal Fresh 8x8 design Paper - Retired

X Cut Sparkler Border Punch

Cheery Lynn Exotic Butterfly Die

Wild Orchid Crafts Mulberry roses large

Wild Orchid Crafts Mulberry roses small

Oh Baby

Good morning - It's Memorial Day here, a time for the American nation to remember the heroes who have helped to serve their country.

 My blog post today is showcasing a So Suzy new release. Have you seen the gorgeous new stamps this month? There are some adorable baby stamps just pop by the shop to take a look, but before you do why not enter the challenge this month's challenge. The details can be found under the May tab at the right hand side on the So Suzy blog.

 

I couldn't resist - I love pink and girly so I have used the pretty baby carriage stamp for my showcase card today:

 

 

I stamped the image with Tim Holtz Pick Raspberry distress ink and then water colored it with my Spectrum Aqua pens. I then die cut it using a spellbinder die and before removing from the die color tinted the card using the same ink. The papers were some scraps from my stash which I distressed and again color tinted using a doily as a template on the front piece of card. I then printed the sentiment from my PC and used the same die set to cut this - again tinting it with the distress ink. The vines were cut from a Cheery Lynn die and the flowers from my stash. I used just a few pearls to fill some blank areas and embellish the baby carriage.

 

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