Color Hues - take two!

It wasn't until my play day with Cindy recently that I thought of the perfect way of combining blue, and brown - sandy brown, that is! - for Color Hues #19  See if you agree... Waffle Flower's Sandy Toes to the rescue!

Hope your weekend includes some fun in the sun!

=]  Michele

Inspired By #178 - Dad's Meal

 

Hello my friends!  Thanks for stopping by today - it's Thursday, and time for another fun Inspired By challenge!  There are so many elements of this IB178 photo inspiration to capture, I couldn't decide where to start first - except for I knew in a moment I had to change the menu!

I'll have fish-fries for my Dad today!

I had a package of PTI glassine bags in the perfect size for my card front - just a bit of trimming to height, and it was ready to fill with some more of those fun Fintastic Sardines from The Stamp Market!  Pigment Craft Co.'s  Dashing Sentiments and dies took care of my sentiment - with a tiny addition, compliments of an old EH Polaroid die set - it's amazing how many words one can spell with those alphas!

Here are the wonderful Concord & 9th inks I used today!

I know the perfect guy for this card - and I also know a few card makers who will love this inspiration... is it YOU?

I'll be watching our gallery for your cards for those special guys in your life!

=]  Michele

Hey, sweets!

I had a gap to fill in my crafty supplies, and I found just the set to fill it!  Welcome, Berry Patch, from Pigment Craft Co., to my crafty world!  Let's start with a closeup of this sweet little sentiment... it also has a shadow die, but I loved seeing the green shine through...

I clipped the berries from their greenery to fill this sweet little stack of bowls - then popped the leaves, and bowl of berries onto a Pinkfresh oval of pale pink!

Next up - here they are as Pigment Craft Co. intended them - our bird friends have planted the most wonderful berry patch by our deck!  Looks like we'll be having hundreds of these tiny wild strawberries to munch on!

All these mini cubes helped to rock-n-roll color onto the berry cute stamps

Now don't you just want to make jam??  and eat it on a piece of homemade bread, right out of the oven??  ahhhhhhhh Summer!

=]  Michele

Pigment Craft Co.  Berry Patch stamps, and dies

Pinkfresh Studio - Braided Ovals, and Braided Tags

Concord & 9th mini cube collection, and Parsley card stock

Ellen Hutson - pale rose card stock

Playing Cards with Friends - Cindy Beach!

With a surname like my friend Cindy's of  Stamps, Paper, and Ink, what do you think I'd choose for my theme this month?  hmmm - go ahead take a guess...

If you guessed fun at the beach, you're absolutely right!!  lol  I was so happy Cindy Beach accepted my invitation to play cards!  Cindy is a fabulous card maker, and fellow Inspired By Challenge design team member!  We get to play cards once a week - how fun is that?

Today is National World Oceans Day* and we are celebrating it with only one parameter:  our cards must reflect something one might see, or an activity one might do, AT the beach, in the ocean, or a big old lake like the one near me! 

I have pulled out one of my all-time favorite Waffle Flower combo sets:  Sandy Toes, to make my card today.  Time to show you, and Cindy, my card!  I even pulled out my old Dymo label maker for a fun sentiment...

I really love to use the original Distress inks for water coloring, don't you?

The colors are so bright, even when watered down. I just stamp them onto an acrylic block and use an aqua painter to bring the color to my stamped, and heat embossed, images.

I thought these WF's Nesting postage dies give this card a little 'post cards from the beach' vibe!  I cut them from the same TH water color card stock, and gave them a little beach sand color.  I was too lazy to drive to the beach for some sand!

Thanks, Cindy!  I had a blast Playing Cards with you, and hope you did too!  xx

Okay.  Who's ready to join me to see what fun Cindy had at the beach??  Last one there ...

=]  Michele

*there are some fun activities for National Ocean Day if you follow the link above!

Color Hues #19

With lovely crafty friends like mine, a girl can have what seems like an unlimited variety of supplies at her fingertips!  Thanks, Marcia for sharing your fun stencils from The Greetery, and your inks, too!  

I managed to make two cards from one stenciled plaid panel - one will be shared with Color Hues, who totally inspired our color choices!

First up, using a fun little embossed piece of kraft-brown to represent the outside view from my window, and a few blooms from the The Stamp Market stamped in the featured Hues.

Keeping with the CH colors, I chose a few shades of Pinkfresh Studio blues, and Gina K browns for the 'greenery.'  

Next, here is that little window I cut from the full panel!  and I finally found a way to love these blooms - it always bothered me that they had 4 petals!  

This one makes my CAS heart happiest - but you'll have to visit the CH gallery to see which one made the cut!  Hey, you might as well play, too!  

=]  Michele

Inspired By #177 - shred the cake!

 

Before anyone asks, I don't know what that means - but I know Inspired By #177 - Shred the cake inspired another Christmas card for my stash!!  THAT is a win!

See if you can find the elements from our photo that inspired my card this week...

This guy is having no problem shredding the slopes!  

Along with a few Stickles stars, these are the inks I've blended for my sky:

I love it when Danni stretches my imagination!  Don't you?  I also love it when we have tons of cards in our gallery - will I find YOU there this week?  Hope so!

=]  Michele

MFT Warm and Feathered Hugs

Altenew Gradient Stripes cover die

An invitation to Play Cards FROM a Friend!!

I was delighted by an invitation from a friend to Play Cards - yes, it can work this way, too!  

Shirley Bampton a.k.a. Shirley B's Stamping Stuff,  and The Bee's Knees, designs sets for Stamplorations.  I once used her fun Poinsettia set for a split-four technique, in a much different, non-Christmas way - perhaps you'll remember it?  If not you can see it here.  Shirley loved it so much that she made her own - it caused quite a bit of shopping I hear!  Yay!

Shirley invited me to play with another of her sets - yes, please!  We only wish we could do it in the same place!  

We're using The Bee's Knees: Carved Flowers today - totally reminds me of 'potato stamping' in elementary school.   Stamplorations, and Shirley have done all the work for us!

Shirley - at your suggestion:  using slimline style -  I've made four slimline minis - this is my 6.5 x 11 inch panel - you'll see that I've scored it to indicate my sections:

 Split, and mounted:

And a closer look at each, with the inks used:

I masked the edge of this panel so I could use these large petals without carry over to its neighbor.

Most of these sentiments are in the set!  So fun!

This sentiment above comes from another Stamplorations' set called 

Bloomfully: thankful.  

You might remember it from my IB Mother's Day card?

Shirley I had such a wonderful time with your wonderful Carved Flowers!  All the petals, and leaves are perfect for making all the custom blooms a girl could ever want!  Thank you so much for inviting me to play cards with you!

I'm coming over  - and bringing all my friends with me - right ladies?!  OH btw, Shirley is highlighting her makes at Stamplorations, too - you'll find them here.

Thanks for stopping by today - and for leaving a comment!  It means the world!

=]  Michele