Happy Birthday

I made this for a few challenges.  One for the sketch challenge on PaperCraft Planet, and the second for Joanne B's birthday challenge to make a card using her buttony bow technique.  If you haven't tried it yet you should head over and watch the wonderful video that Joanne made.  Thank you for stopping by.

Card Details:

Stamps: eclectic summer, eclectic summer sayings- Gina K Designs

Paper: almost amethyst, barely banana

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, copics

Copics: sorry I forgot to write them down

Other: ribbon, button, twine, pearls

For you Mom

This is the card I made for my mom for mother's day. I used the calla lily from Asela Hopkins newest set Friendship Garden, the sentiment is from Notes to Mom. Both sets are from Gina K Designs. I colored the calla lily with copics. The patterned paper is from Basic Grey's Porcelain collection. The card base is certainly celery and mats are certainly celery and almost artichoke. Thank you for stopping by.


copics: E13, E25, Y11, YG03, YG95

Be Mine

I made this card for Jessicia Fick's challenge on PaperCraft Planet. The stamp if a very old (1996) stamp from Stampendous. The sentiment is a rub-on. I used Basic Grey paper Bittersweet, love that paper. I had to hand cut the heart as I don't have any of the nestabilities heart dies :( . Thanks for stopping by.
Brenda

Happy Holidays Dove

This card it made for two challenges, the first is for the 12 days of Christmas over on PaperCraft Planet. The challenge was to use 12 embellishments on a card. The other challenge was for Cat's sketch challenge. The background was done by stamping the snowflakes with versamark ink and embossing with clear embossing powder, next I sponged bashful blue over the whole thing. The dove and the sentiment are from The Magic of Christmas from Rupa Shevda by Gina K. Designs. Thank you for stopping by.
Brenda

A couple of challenge cards and an award

I made this card for the challenge Melanie Muenchinger posted last week on Paper Craft Planet. For this challenge you needed to make a card using a stamp from Little Tee's or Just So Sporty. I love Little tees and do not use it enough so out it came and this is what I came up with. I made it a 4 x 4 note card. Diva was stamped with versamark ink and heat embossed with some sparkle silver embossing powder I bought years ago. I wish it showed better in the picture.
My second card was for the other challenge to use one of Melanie's stamps. This was easy for me because I have several of her stamps and my new favorite set of Melanie's is A year of flowers, it is a beautiful set. For the poinsettia I stamped it twice and colored the first one with my bic markers, the second one I colored only the smaller petals on the inside then I cut them both out and heat embossed them with three layers of powder. Last I popped the middle up with a dimensional.



Lastly I have been tagged with this wonderful award by Deena. Thank you Deena!!! I would like to tag Theresa with this award she has a fabulous blog and is the person I have to give credit to for getting me started in the blogging world. Thank you Theresa. (For those of you who don't already know she is my very talented sister.) Second I would like to tag Erin. for those of you who don't know Erin she is a wonderful paper crafter and has a beautiful blog. Erin is very supportive to, so head over and leave both of these wonderful ladies some love.

Thank you for stopping by.
Brenda

P.S. I will not be able to post anything for at least a few days as I am having knee surgery tomorrow. I will post as soon as I am feeling up to it.

Sunflower Thank you

Have you heard of Paper Craft Planet yet? If you have been living under a rock and haven't it is a wonderful new paper crafting site. Most of the stamping companies have groups on there. In the Gina K. Designs group there are a couple of challenges, and this card is for one of them. Jessica Flick posted a challenge to make a thank you card using Gina K. stamps. This is my card for the challenge using Melanie Muenchinger's newest stamp set A Year of Flowers.
I stamped the first sunflower and then made two masks so I could stamp the other flowers to give them depth. The flowers and leaves are colored with koh-i-noor pencils and blended with OMS. Next I cut them out and inked them with versamark and clear embossed them, I repeated this three or four times. This really adds a lot of depth to the image. The flowers are mounted with pop dots on a so saffron oval which in on a really rust scallop oval. Behind the ovals I stamped leaves from Aslea Hopkin's set Botanical Dreams, with more mustard ink on more mustard paper. Lastly I mounted it on really rust and a card base of so saffron. The sentiment is from Rupa Shevde's set What Ever Floats your Boat.
Thank you for stopping by.
Brenda