Doodlebugs - Magnolia Ballerina!

Hello and happy weekend eve, my friends!  

Here's peek at the card I'll be featuring over at the 

Doodlebugs Blog today!  Hope you have a moment to hop over!

=] Michele

Fusion Flutterby!

It's not often I jump right in to play at challenges these days, but this one at Fusion today immediately gave me all the feels today! 

You might know I couldn't resist those butterflies, right?  Here are the inks I've used today, along with a 'banner' made from a dome die from Waffle Flower!  I couldn't bear to clip a bit of that knitted embossing for a fish tail - sorry!  

My friend Marcia allowed me to borrow her Pinkfresh Jumbo Butterflies home with me for a bit - thanks, sweet friend!  this sentiment is from Altenew's Paint-a-Flower Tulips set! and my embossing folder is a Richard Garay that normally is used in the Winter - the string art in the Fusion photo brought it out of hybernation!  

All I did was swipe the inks across the raised bits!

 Just three little PF gems, and it was a done deal!

Hope you've had a great week!  I'll see you again tomorrow!

=] Michele

p.s  THANK YOU, FUSION!!

A Colorful Life Designs - two more for the road!

 

I'm back today with my final projects as a guest designer for A Colorful Life Designs!  I have had such fun - and shared a few ways we can use these wonderful ACLD stencils on our cards!

My last card features that little teaser I mentioned last week: Sea Foam

Here is how I made it the perfect environment for a sleepy seafaring sailor - although how he could sleep through those waves is beyond me:

MFT You Keep me Afloat stamps and dies; 

starburst sentiment strip dies, plus Stitched Scallops - no longer available.

This time, I purposely inked up the stencil on my glass mat, spritzed it with

water and flipped it over on an A2 panel of Neenah 110# cardstock.

Okay, yes, it did warp - but I knew I would be sending it through my die-cutting 

machine after it dried to cut the waves - flattened it out nicely!

ONE more!

Oh Happy Day is a sentiment from The Stamp Market.

A sprinkle of Martha S. punched butterflies, and the centers of my 

groovy flowers are leftovers from an old Dotted die from MFT.

This Groovy Flower Mask brought me right back to the 70's!

Who remembers avocado green? My panel was stenciled in a traditional way,

using Peeled Paint Distress Oxide inks - keeping the center a little less intense.  Then my micron pen went to work, again, to bring out the groovy-ness! 

A splash of black splats, and die-cut with a stitched rectangle, and

it was a happy card completed!

Thank you, A Colorful Life Designs! and my friend Amy for inviting me 

to delve more deeply into the wonderful world of stencils!

I had a blast!

=] Michele 

Second Helpings for Color Hues #39 Purple and Green!

A new little Spellbinder die arrived, so I had time to play again at

Color Hues #39 YAY!

Spellbinder's little Bouquet of Flowers dies

a beautiful Pinkfresh Floral Grid cover panel from a friend [thanks, Stef!] cut with the outer die from SSS Shimmer Oval that cuts the oval and leaves this pretty stitching.  A second cut from this lovely purple that I embossed before popping it in place.  The sentiment is one from Waffle Flower's Rejoice Rabbit. 

It's always a good day when I can sneak in Second Helpings!

=] Michele

Doodlebugs - tulip time!

 

Happy weekend eve, my friends!  It's Friday and time for me to invite you to see what I've created using some goodies from the Doodlebugs shop!  

Today it's all about this gorgeous new-t0-my-stash tulip from Honey Bee Stamps, and a new addition to my Altenew cover plate collection!!

Yes, I did need another - and you will, too!

 I'd love it if you dropped by the Doodlebugs Blog today!

=] Michele

Color Hues #39 - Purple and Green

I had all the best intentions of playing cards with Color Hues #38... don't believe me?  Here's the card I made... 

Altenew Mega Succulent + Apothcary Label dies + EH Everyday Punnies  

My day did kind of 'succ' after I realized I was too late!

That's okay - I just kept the idea and used another embossing folder -

not at all a hardship to bring Color Hues of purple and green to the party!

I love painting with distress inks even more now that I can squish them right onto

my new Glass Mat I recently won on IG!  Just LOVE this thing!

I embossed these gorgeous Lisa Horton Foxgloves into a panel of Bristol cardstock for that creamy white and tucked in simple hugs from PF.

Would you believe this is the first card I've made in weeks?  I'm happy to say it truly was like riding a bicycle!

=] Michele

Dive into A Colorful Life!

 

Hello again!  Are you ready for my next dive into the ocean of stencils from A Colorful Life Designs?  Did you see what I did there?  

ACLD's School of Fish 3x6" stencil jumped right into my boat cart!

Here's my first play - with a quartet of Catherine Pooler inks... and a bit of debossing for some ocean current ...

I'm very sad to say I didn't write down the colors - but please see these

inked up with the colors you love most - fish of any color of the rainbow 

can be found under the sea!  This old cover plate isn't available any longer - but

if I told you it was wood-grain, you might have just the thing in your own stash.

My wonderful die-cut sentiment is from Waffle Flower - called Sentiment Additions combo.

Let's dive in to my next card...

Sentiment from PTI - Ways to Say with Sympathy c. 2017

This beauty was once again the result of rescuing that leftover ink on my stencil[s]... isn't that water-y-broken-china-ink gorgeous??  I'm giving you a little teaser here for the next time... those ocean waves?  More A Colorful Life Designs soon...

=] Michele