Beautiful Poppies

The current challenge on the Unity Stamps Facebook

page "Unity Show & Tell" is to do some water coloring.

                      I love to use my Zig Clean Color pens to watercolor.  

                                   The colors are so vibrant. Here is what 

I came up with, following this sketch from Stamp Nation.

I used the poppy stamp from the Unity Septemeber 2017

kit of the month called "Flowers, Foilage & Fall".

I love poppies when we go to see my Mom in Colorado

there are poppies all over the place.

I used 3 colors on the poppies, a red, an orange and a yellow

then blended it out with an aqua brush.  I added some

very pale blue to the background, it looks much better

in person, the picture makes it look much darker than it is.

I hope you like my card.

Challenges entered:

Crafty Addicts - anything goes optional flowers - ends 7/3

Simon Says Stamp - anything goes - ends 7/4

Creative Moments - anything goes - ends 7/9

Paper Piecing Daises

Hello, hope everyone had a great weekend.

Today I have a card to share with you using paper piecing.

I love to do it but often forget about it, so when the

Thursday challenge over at The Outlawz was

anything goes with a twist - paper piecing. 

For my card, I chose to use one of the Unity stamps

from the "Free Your Dreams" set for the daisies and the

sentiment came from the "Be My Bird" set. 

I use some small polka paper for the flowers and

colored the stems with Copics.  I love the way it turned out.

Thank you for stopping by. 

Lori's Garden Vines

Hi, hope you are having a great day and have lots of

fun stuff planned for the weekend.

Today I have a card to share with you that I made using

this weeks Wednesday sketch over at The Outlawz.

When I saw this sketch I thought "oh man what am I going to
use for that flourish in the corners."
I looked through my dies and didn't find anything so I
went to Cricut Design Space and searched for
flourish, and didn't see anything so then I search corners
thinking maybe some fancy corners would come up.
Well, I did find the perfect corner flourish for my card.

I spent a lot of time looking through my stash for the perfect thingsto use to make this card.  I had picked out my paper before
I found the pretty corners and they came from an
SEI pack called Aunt Gerti's Garden.  The center polka square
was from the same paper pack.
Then when I found that flower in my stash I knew it wouldbe great for this sketch. 
The vine corners are from the Cricut Imagine cartridge
called Lori's Garden.  I think this was my favorite Imagine
cartridge.  I am so happy that I can access all my Imagine
cartridges in Design Space.  I printed and cut them using
my Explore and they cut perfectly, I was a bit worried because
some of the branches were so thin.
The happy birthday wishes is a Catherine Pooler die and
I thought it worked great on this card.
I didn't realize that the vines corners and the paper
are both from a garden named pack.
I just noticed that there is nothing colored or stamped
on this card, weird for me.

I hope you like my card, would love to hear your thoughts.

Challenges entered:

The Outlawz sketch challenge - sketch

Crafting With Friends - anything goes 

Crafty Catz - anything goes/twist blooms

Creative Fingers - anything goes

Dancing Girl

Hi, I have a quick fun card to share today.

I am trying to do some cleans & simple cards sometimes I

have a hard time leaving so much blank space, but I find as

I am doing more of then it becomes a bit easier.

This week over at CASology the theme is "jumpy".

At CASology is always clean & simple cards and then with 

a theme.

Here is what I came up with.

The stamp is from Clear Dollar Stamps and I have had it for many

years, in fact, I don't think they are even in business anymore.

I colored her with my Prisma Pencils and then added a bit of 

watercolor background.  Stamped a sentiment

added a few sequins and that was it.

Thanks for stopping by my blog today.

Multi Step Stamping

Hello, I have another card to share with you that is 

using the Kitchen Sink stamp multi stamping flower.

This is the same stamp as I used in my last post, while I was

making the previous card I had stamped out a few of the

flowers in different colors to decide which colors I wanted

to use.  So when I saw the sketch this week at 

Crazy 4 Challenges it was perfect to use one of those

flowers I had stamped.

Here is the sketch

and here is my card.

I replaced the center square with a circle that I die cut using a 

stitched circle. All the papers are from a Close to my Heart

paper pack called Roxie.  It is a few years old but I love the colors

and patterns.

Even the 2 strips across the card, they are the top strip

of 12 x 12 piece of paper that I cut off.

It was a simple card to put together but I love how it 

turned out.

Thanks for stopping by.

Flowers of Friendship

Hello, hope everyone is doing well.

Today I have a card to share with you that I created following

the sketch this week at 

Freshly Made Sketches

A couple years ago I heard of stamp company named

Kitchen Sink Stamps most of their stamps are multi-step stamps

so the images you stamp all the layers separate so it gives

them dimension.

Both of the flowers were stamped in 4 layering including the

center.  The sentiment is from the same set.  The set

is called Daisy you can check it out HERE.

I used Catherine Pooler inks to stamp them,

The yellow background in an embossing folder from

Cuttlebug.

That is it, hope you liked my card and I am grateful you stopped by.

Challenges entered:

Freshly Made Sketches - sketch - ends 6/18

4 Crafty Chicks - Birds & Blooms - ends 6/20

Aud Sentiments - anything goes/sentiment - end 6/18

Crafting with Attitude - anything goes - ends 6/24

Southern Girls - anything goes - ends 6/27

CAS(E) This Sketch

Hi I have another card to share with you today.

I have felt like messing around with my Distress Oxides to

make some background papers.  When I saw the sketch this 

week at CAS(E) this sketch I knew it was perfect for using some

Distressed paper.

Here is the sketch this week.

Here is what I came up with.

I used watercolor paper and did some smooching using my Oxides 

in the colors Spiced Marmalade, Wild Honey, Abandoned Coral and Candies Apple.  I love this combination of colors.  I popped the 

                                 watercolor strip to give it dimension.

I stamped the flower using a Simon Says Stamp and then colored

it using the same colors then misted it with water and hand cut it out.

The happy birthday stamp is from Bo Bunny.

I added a few sequins to bling it up a bit and that was it.

I had so much fun making the watercolor paper I made a few

other in different colors while I was at it.

Thanks for stopping by.

A Humorous Birthday

Hi, today I have a card with a bit of humor on it

I have had this stamp set for a number of years and haven't

used it much.  I love chickens so when I saw this stamp set

from Rubbernecker I had to buy it.

I made this card following the sketch from last week over at 

The Outlawz.

I stamped the chicken on kraft cardstock using 

Catherine Pooler inks, Eucalyptus and Sauna.  I used my

MISTI (as I do for all my stamping) so I could stamp it

a couple times to make it show up on the kraft.

The chickens and the sentiment are both from the same

Mark's Finest stamp set, unfortunately, they have closed

down their shop.  I must have bought these stamps 6-7 years ago.

I used my chicken wire embossing folder for the background and

the background chicken paper is a single sheet I had.

Added a bit of twine and that was it.

I will enter this in the Retro Rubber challenge that

wants you to give your love to some old stamps.  The challenge

is open until June 15th so you still have time if you wish to play along.

Well, I hope you liked my card and got a chuckle out of it.

Just have to figure out who I can send it to that would get a chuckle also.

A Cheery Get Well

Hello all, when I started to make this card following the sketch this week

over at Sketch Saturday I knew I wanted to use the new

ink colors from Catherine Pooler.  As I was working on the pieces

and started to put it together I thought it was just

right to cheer someone who is sick up.  The colors are

so bright and cheerful.

This is the sketch.

I started out by stamping the atrip across the card with a 

dotted stamp that came in the last Stamp of Approval box using the

new inks, Limoncello, Grape Crush and Be Mine and then a 

little bit of All that Jazz.  I just love these inks, the colors are

so vibrant and the names are so fun.

Then using those same inks colors I watercolored the vase and flowers,

The vase & flowers are a Gina K stamp I have had for a long time.
The sentiment is a Rubbernecker stamp, stamped in Grape Crush.

I embossed the yellow using a Darcie embossing folder.

Thank for stopping by to take a peek at my card.

Challenges entered:

Sketch Saturday - sketch ends 6/8

Aud Sentiments - Anything goes + a sentiment - ends 6/18

Crafting with Attitude - Anything goes - ends 6/24

Creative Knockouts - Anything goes - ends 6/23

Kokopelli - Have a Great Day

Hi, back to share another card with you.

Hope you all had a great weekend.

For this card I followed the sketch this week over at

The House that Stamps Built.


Here is the sketch.

I live in the desert in Arizona so I love all the southwestern things, when
I saw this stamp from Repeat Impressions I just had to get it.

I colored it with my Poloychromo pencils and mounted it on a distressed piece of paper.  I embossed the side panel with a southwestern embossing folder
then a simple square embossing paper on the back.
To the corners I used my Nuvo drops to had some copper dots.

So that is it, I hope you like my card and thanks so much for stopping by.