Blessed

I played along with Mercy's Sketch challenge today - I really love sketches with clean lines! I wanted to create something with the "Whatever" set (Clear Dollar Stamps). I decided to make a 5x7 card, allowing myself a nice, large surface. I pulled the patterned paper from my BasicGrey Sugared pad, and then accented with some Bazzill. I also decided to go a little crazy and use one of my big, fancy prima flowers (score 1 for the "do not hoard" pledge!) So I now had all my elements, and I just stamped and assembled. I ended up misting the flower with gold glimmer mist, going over all the edges with old paper distress ink, and adding a couple K&Co pearls along the bottom. When it was all done, I realized there was no way I'd be giving it to someone else, so I pulled out a simple frame I had and voila ~ something new for the wall in our living room! It's still a full card, though, so if I do decide to part with it, it will be ready to go :)

More fun with glimmer screens

So are you geting tired of the glimmer mist and/or glimmer screen creations yet? I promise these will be the last for at least a couple days :)

Both of these card use the "screen leftovers" (flip the screen and use it after you've sprayed over the first project). The first one uses pink taffy gm, and then I trimmed the panel down and accented it with some gray ink. I stamped the sentiment (Sweet & Simple) with Palette silky obsidian metallic ink, so there's double shimmer going on with this card. I attached the prima with three eyelets, and then filled them in with stardust stickles (still not sure about that particular effect).

The second card was created with deep plum & honeydew mist gm's, and I paired it up with some long-retired SU magenta ink & cardstock. I stamped the sentiment (Butterflies) and attached a couple primas.

Hope you all have a shiny, happy weekend :)

Dream - Live

I hadn't been able to play along with Mercy's sketch challenge these past few weeks, but I took some time this morning to make this quick card. It's a great sketch - no shapes or fancy cutting required! I used a DCWV card base and BasicGrey sugared paper. I stamped the sentiment (Heidi Grace) with brilliance pearlescent crimson ink, then added some primas (dotted with mushroom dimensional pearls) to dress it up a bit. Finished card is 4 1/4" square

What do you see?

I'm always drawn to images of children, and Looking collage is right up my alley! This time, I stamped it onto faintly patterned paper (BasicGrey, of course!), then added color with chalks. They're the sparkley ones (Pebbles), so there's even a bit of shimmer. I did add just a bit of detail with prismacolor pencils, then wrapped the mesh ribbon (AMM), and added the sentiment panel. Another quick creation, and a great reminder that it's all about your perspective...

Butterflies...

Another card made using the glimmer screens - this is the original I was working with (and then I flipped the screens over to use on the card I posted yesterday - you'll notice the colors are a bit more subdued with the second impression as they'd already started to dry a bit). Anyhoo, this is white cardstock sprayed with denim blue & latte glimmer mists. I then overstamped it with the butterfly image (Soar) and the sentiment (Butterflies), then added a couple dew drops for a bit of dimension. The colors are a bit more subdued than usual, but I find them quite soothing. If only I hadn't used such a "girly" image, it would make a great guy card! Oh well, next time :)

The hand of a friend...

I've been playing around with glimmer mist and the glimmer screens (which are basically plastic templates that you use as masks - you can see more about them here warning: there's music on that blog, so you may want to turn your speakers down) I had made a couple backgrounds using latte & denim blue mists, and then I flipped the screen over onto the white cardstock and "stamped" off the excess. I love the effect it gives, and I thought it made a nice background for this image, too. I stamped the Hands Collage, then added the sentiment and accented with a couple dew drops. I matted it, and after playing around with layout, I eventually settled on this z-fold. I layered some BasicGrey Boxer paper onto the right panel, and it's all done!

Time for Tea!

I must admit that I'm actually not much of a tea drinker - only fruity herbal stuff (with lemon and sugar, too) please! But I still love the idea of tea time... and this Teapot Trio is absolutely adorable!

I stamped the teapot with palette seascape (which is a very light color indeed!), brilliance pearlescent sky blue, and versamagic sahara sand. I added the sentiment (versafine sepia), then matted the panel and dirtied it up a bit with Distress Old Paper. I then layered it with papers from the BasicGrey LilyKate collection. Love the soft, soothing colors!