Joans Gardens #11 Card Challenge

I decided (very late) to submit a card for Joan's Weekly Card Challenge. She has great weekly challenges and I waited to the last minute to design and finish my card.

Here is what is needed for Joan's Gardens Weekly Challenge #11

Use the colors Peach and blue (teal)
Use some Butterflies
Add something Frilly

Here is my submission for this weeks challenge:

I really like this color combination. I started with a 6"x6" card in teal. Paper is from Core'dinations. Next I cut a 5"x5" square from a peach Core'dinations cardstock. I also used the Spellbinders Lattice Pendant on that beautiful peach Core'dinations paper. Next I used a doily and colored it with a teal colored Smooch Spritz. The ribbon is from May Arts and the stamp is Passion Flower from Innovative Stamp Creations. Butterflies were made using a Martha Stewart punch.

I am submitting this very close to the deadline, but it will still be in time.

That's it for now, thanks for stopping by and I hope to see you soon,

Reminisce sent me.......

Hi Everyone,

About a week or so ago I participated in a blog hop over at Reminisce. They were giving away some new papers and to one lucky winner a collection of all the new lines. Well, I was lucky to win paper from the new line of my choice. The Celtic collection was so appealing to me, so I chose that one. The postman delivered my prize today and I wanted to share this amazing paper with you. The papers are soooo nice. I included two pic's for you. I received die cut stickers (sentiments and borders), 12X12 papers and glittered shamrock embellishments. What a great sampling of this line. I can't wait to use papers from this wonderful line. The papers are double sided and can be used for lots of different designs, not just St. Patty's Day.

I will be using the sentiment stickers and the shamrocks on my St. Patty's Day cards next year, for sure.

Here is a card that I designed today using ippity kit # IPK-117. It was snowing a little, earlier today, so I thought the yellow flowers would chase the cold and snow away.

I stamped the flowers onto watercolor paper with Marvy #43 Brilliant Yellow and used a waterbrush to soften the stamped image. Stamped the swirl with in Giovanni's Garden by Fresco. This is a permanent ink so I painted the swirl using Marvy #96 Jungle Green and softened that somewhat. Punched some small butterflies and added some bling and ribbon.

AND ON A SAD NOTE...............

In Memory

I'm sad to report that a friend to many at a lot of stamp conventions, Norm Weed (husband of Polly of Polly's Pals) died Sunday, March 27. He was stricken last Thursday on the way to Heirloom's show in Portland and wasn't able to recover. Polly is requesting no calls or e-mails at this time, but you are welcome to send cards to her at 40995 Prominade Chardonnay Hills, Temecula, CA 92591
I copied this info from Marco's site, just in case you weren't aware of this sad information.
 

Well that is it for today,thanks for stopping by,

Watercolor and Spring

Hi Everyone,
Spring is slow in coming, we are expecting snow tonite and up to 1". So........ lets think spring. One of these days we will be wishing for cooler weather. LOL.

Since spring is on the horizon, I made a watercolor that exudes springtime flowers. Art Impressions has the nicest stamps that make great watercolor scenes. So I made a beautiful scene, added handmade flowers and punched a great accent strip using a Just Imagine/Kreations punch. A little leaf ribbon from May Arts adds to those handmade flowers and here is the card.

Well, I decided to submit this card to this weeks Art Impressions Challenge #9 - Watercoloring. Hope you enjoyed this and I hope it inspires you to do a little watercoloring. Thanks for stopping by,





Thanks and more.................

Hi Everyone,
I would like to thank everyone for stopping by my blog for the Sparkle N Sprinkle blog hop last week. I read all the wonderful comments that were left and I want you to know I appreciate those comments so much. Also, I want to thank you for stopping and looking at my post on the Just Imagine/Kreations blog. I post directly to their blog every other Sunday.

I have been out of town for the last 4 days. I went to the Memories Scrapbooking Expo held in Columbus, Ohio Mar. 25 and 26. I ran into old friends and it was so nice to see familiar faces, especially Gina. While I was gone, I received some new stamp sets and I just fell in love with this new set, called Bird Swirl. I thought I'd give you a sneak peek because the set is not available just yet. This set is really cute and has 13 stamps and I know you will really like it. Stay tuned and as soon as it is available I let you all know and I will post another card creation. Then, just in case you are interested, you can go to Sparkle N Sprinkle to check the set out further.

On this card I used Labels 10 from Spellbinders and it seems that I use it quite often. So, I would say, it's probably my favorite die set. The ribbon bow on this card is utilizing 5/8" satin ribbon.  The glitter used was Parisian Mist (G1037) and Sparkling Snow (G1003) from Sparkle N Sprinkle. Well I have a few more projects I need to get completed, so....... I will see you soon. Thanks for stopping by,