Saturday Inspiration Challenge

This card was made for the Inspiration challenge today at Splitcoast Stampers. The inspiration came from the line of Scarves from Echo, the one I chose is here:
http://www.echodesign.com/Product/beaded+painterly+scarf/default.aspx?rid=4497&crid=437

I loved the painterly look of this silk scarf. I chose to use a set I haven't used in a while, Fifth Avenue Floral. I love coloring this set ( or painting in this case). I used the cosmos flower image and painted them in melon mamba, pixie pink, pumpkin pie, and real red. I added chrystal effects to the center and added clear glass beads to that for a texture for the center of the flower.

Card recipe: ( all Stampin'Up!)

Stamps - Fifth Avenue Floral, On Your birthday
Card Stock - textured melon mamba, watercolor paper, dusty durango
Ink - black, pumpkin pie, real red, pixie pink, melon mamba, kiwi kiss
Accessories - glass beads, pink satin ribbon, scallop trim border punch

Elephants and Polka Dots!

I made this card for the color challenge today at Splitcoast, CC254. I also used the sketch challenge from a few weeks ago for my sketch layout, SC259. The colors today were bashful blue, soft suede and ruby red. I used close colors but not exactly. ( I went more with what scraps of paper I have on hand!)
I love this elephant paper pieced, and the bashful blue worked great for that. I combined the fun polka dot paper from the Sweet Slumber designer series paper, with the elephant image, and some blue ribbon, and blue scalloped trim. For the back panels I had pulled out some scraps of Bella Rose designer paper ( red patterned paper) and Candy Lane designer paper ( close to cocoa pattern) to frame my main image.

Items used: All Stampin'Up!
Stamps - Happy Heart Day
Paper - Bella Rose, Sweet Slumber, Candy Lane, and bashful blue designer paper, red riding hood, bashful blue, chocolate chip, whisper white card stock
Ink - chocolate chip, ruby red, bashful blue
Accessories - bashful blue grosgrain ribbon, scallop edge punch

Thanks for looking!

A few Valentines Cards

This card was made for the CAS color challenge today on Splitcoast Stampers, CAS50. The challenge was to use Teal with one other color and white. I chose pink as I wanted to do a Valentine card too. I used the stamp set The More the Merrier, with the birds as the main image. I used my blender pens for the coloring in teal and melon mamba. I also stamped the heart from the same set onto the melon mamba and cut it out for an accent on the card. I used designer paper from the Razzleberry Lemonade ( pink) designer series and the Sweet Pea designer series ( teal DP). The strip of hearts is embossed with the Love It classy brass embossing plate, on pretty in pink card stock.




I made this card for a few CAS challenges at Splitcoast a few days ago (CAS48, CAS49). They were for a Valentine card, and Cut it out, something had to be cut out on the card. I mounted the designer paper ( Razzleberry lemonade, Stampin'Up!) onto chipboard and cut it out with one of my heart sizzlits. For the pretty in pink strip I embossed the hearts from the Love it classy brass embossing plate. ( retired, Stampin'Up!) I next added the trim done with the new scallop trim from Stampin'Up! cut from Melon mamba paper. The pink satin ribbon finished the card.

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Fresh Cuts Botanical

I made this for the inspiration challenge today at Splitcoast. My inspiration was a botanical print.
http://www.nellhills.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=66&products_id=253 at this online store
http://nellhills.com/store/
The main image is stamped with the main image from the Fresh Cuts set in River Rock ink. I then colored it with prismacolors to highlight some of the leaves and flowers. I stamped, colored and cut out the butterfly from the Natural Beauty set. The sentiment is also from Fresh Cuts. The river rock accent was punched with the modern label punch. I added a black grommet and tied some River Rock double stitched ribbon into it.

Thanks for looking!