Special Reason (friend, thankyou)

swirly scribbles and dragonfly dreams

flourishing phrases Stampin' Up (variety)

 What CAN'T you all do with Flourishing Phrases? Here several different ways I've used this set (again!) to create cards for a variety of occasions.
 

Hey Chick! You're a good egg!

For all you chicken lovers out there, here are two more Saleabration Hey Chick! cards for you! This stamp set is FREEEEEEE with a $60CD Stampin' Up purchase until March 31st.

fabulous shoes collections

Okay, this isn't Stampin' Up (FYI!) but these are still favorites of mine! My friends, Linda and Dee make sure I have shoe stamps on hand! LOL! They know me well!
These three cards are made with the Fabulous Shoes Collections 1 & 2.
As you can see, I had a lot of fun with them!

Special Reason watercolour effects

Try this: Take the largest daisy image from the Special Reasons stamp set (SU) and color three different colors directly on the stamp. I used Cucumber Crush in the center, So Saffron on the inner petals and Flirty Flamingo on the outside petals. Then using your Stampin' Spritzer, mist the whole thing really well. (I probably misted it too much, but I do love what happened next!)

 

This picture (above) isn't the greatest, but maybe you can sort of see how it turned out. I simply stamped that big flower image three times on three separate pieces of Whisper White cardstock. Each time I stamped I breathed an "Oh-h-h-h!" to myself! Watercolor does that to me every time! You just NEVER know what it will surprise you with.
Using those three images, I created the following cards. See what I mean? From bright and happy to sweet and soft! They cover all moods.
And don't you LOVE how that stem die from the Special Reasons set creates a gorgeous negative space?! I just love everything about this set!

dragonfly dreams water color

This card made itself. Well, after the black embossing was on there. If you've never worked with water color paper, you need to try it! I just sprayed it down really good and dropped reinker on it where I wanted the color. It bloomed out EXACTLY how it should! I did dab a bit of the excess moisture off and tipped and tilted the card so it would all act like I wanted it too.

If you're unsure how to do this, let me know. I'll personally show you if we live close enough so I can!

dragonflies

Stampin' Up has done it again! Designed the most wonderfully perfectly eye-poppingly delicious stamp and die Dragonfly Dreams bundle. I can't get enough of it and so I keep on and on using these dragonflies On EVERYTHING!! The card (above) has a water color background and if you look closely you can see I used Wink of Stella on the dragonfly as well as the Congrats. (Below) Is an example on a single layer direct-to-paper design with an embossed dragonfly and then masking and sponging.

good egg

Inside this card it says, "You are a good egg!" I can't beGIN to explain how wonderful it is to FINALLY have a chicken stamp set! And it's FREEEEEE in the Saleabration catalogue RIGHT NOW, with a purchase of $60CD. And the BEST thing about this set is this wonderful realistic Polish Rooster. That's right! He's a rooster, but there HAD to be an egg on this card....
(For those of you who know about these wonderful Polish guys, the designer of this stamp set obviously knew they cocked their heads to the side and she made this roo to do EXACTLY the right thing!)

water color AGAIN!!

I don't have to say it, do I? Watercolor techniques are right up there in my favorites. I don't seem to get my fill. Most of the cards on this post are simple and unadorned simply because I don't know what occasion they will be used for. Also, I always feel that water color doesn't need a lot of embellishing. I won't tell you which card I was embarrassed to post because only now did I notice that something has come unstuck on it...and it's been given away already and so I can't even give you a new picture of it! I did decide to post it, however, because it IS my favorite...the rest that IS stuck on properly! Ha!

birthdays galore

a little more Christmas before we move along

We needed a "group Christmas card" for school. This card is an 8 1/2 x 11" paper folded in half. And then I just created an envelope with SU's envelope board creator thing! When I took the picture of the inside of the card there were names on it already so I passed on posting it here. 

This card. THIS card! Was quite possibly the most thought-about and planned  card of all my Christmas cards. I have seen lots of bendy cards for months now and always wanted to make one. So when our Texas friends told us we were finally gonna meet them cuz they were coming to visit us, I thought to myself, "A bendy card! YES!!"