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Happy Birthday x 90

Happy Monday!  My mom turned 90 over the weekend.  Her comment?  "90 must be the new 89."  She is doing well.

Since her favorite flower is the daisy, I used one of my favorite Flourishes sets, Gerber Daisies. 

In a bit of a rush, so I'll just mention that I colored with Prismacolor pencils and also sponged over the background a bit with Distress Inks.  As you can see in the close up, I didn't fuss.  Also used an Impression Obsession background on the yellow LilyBee Designs Homemade patterned paper.  

MOOD WHEN DONE = flowery

ps.  Got so many questions/emails about the Silhouette/Cameo, I'll try and post my thoughts (pro and con) later this week.  Thanks for reading and thanks for the comments.

 

Honeycomb Masking

OctHexagons are in.  Or so the internet tells me.  Or maybe octagons are in and I'm just confused.  Either way, I like clean geometric shapes.

So I used my Silhouette to make some.  Haven't figured out a decent way to use the hexagons themselves, but I'm thinking.  In the meantime, the leftover makes a great mask.

And here's the card I made using the mask -- love the tag, so-so (or as my Mom would say, "moosh moosh") on  the card. 

MOOD WHEN DONE = conflicted

I'm trying out something new and I'll be practicing, not posting, for a few days.  Hope to have something fun to share in a bit.  Have a great weekend.

Oh and a personal note -- thrilled to finally straighten out all the financial stuff for my Mom to stay in the nursing home.  It wasn't easy.  But it is done. 

Boat Load of Stuff on One Little Tag

Here's a card that uses a ton of supplies, including my beloved Silhouette.  Had lots of fun making it.  By keeping most of the supplies on a small area and leaving lots of white space, it isn't toooo busy.

Card Construction Details:

1.  Cut tag (with the cute heart cutout) with the Silhouette and some cheap white thin cardstock.

2.  Resized the tag and cut another one with black cardstock for a mat, but removed the heart cutout piece before cutting (it would not have aligned with the white tag).

3.  Stamped the daisy image from Flourishes twice as shown in Memento black ink and colored with very sharp Prismacolor pencils.

4.  Colored around the flowers with a Copic -- not the whole tag, just the parts inside the flowers.  Did this because once I embossed the flowers, the clear embossing powder would cover beyond the flowers and make it impossible to get blue right up next to the flower.

5.  Stamped By Definition (SU) background and sponged with Distress Inks.

6.  Added White Bic "Wite Out" on top of center of daisies.

7.  See that black heart shape with the gloss?  That's white cardstock, colored with black Copic and covered with Ranger Glossy Accents. 

8.  Matted with larger tag, added the ribbon and adhered to white cardstock embossed with a folder.   Then adhered to a white card.

9. Oops. the sentiment?  From PTI Birthday Basics -- added as shown.  Whew

MOOD WHEN DONE = Tired, Inky and Happy

 

 

Doves and Holly

Stamps -- Flourishes Doves and Holly and music background from Cornish Heritage Farms.  Layout inspired by Jill Foster's cards here. (Everything she makes is an opportunity for me to learn.)

 

Lots of steps on this one -- too many to detail.  However, here are some highlights --

-- all paper is A Muse vanilla cardstock.  green layer covered with Ranger Shabby Shutters Distress Ink and then stamped the music background with water.

-- holly leaves colored with Copic markers and then painted over with a combination of Ranger Glossy Accents and Shabby Shutters ink (combined both on a craft sheet).

-- red paper made with vanilla cardstock covered with Ranger Festive Berries Distress Ink and stamped with the music background and black ink.

-- doves stamped twice.  added cut out doves with dimensionals

 -- Finished card -- 3.75" x 7 (plus the dove tail!)

MOOD WHEN DONE = Glossy, Inky, and Happy

Week Four With Flourishes

It is always fun reading your reactions to my posts. Yes, Friday's post contained a preview of the card I made for my last week as Flourishes Limelight Designer.  You can find my post here.

If you decide to try the technique I'm featuring, I would love to check out your results.

Haven't had much time for stamping, other than the Flourishes' posts; however I hope to get back in the craft room soon. 

 

 

Week Three With Flourishes

My third (of four) Flourish Limelight Designer posts is up.    You can see what I did for Week Three HERE.

Am desperately trying to come up with an idea for week 4.  All suggestions welcome!

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Apple Tag -- Second Flourishes Limelight Designer Post

is up.  You can see it here.  Enjoy!

 

I'll be back later today.  (See below).

Happy Holly Days

I'm ready -- my Christmas cards are almost done.  And yes I am gloating.

Here's a quick one.  If I need more, I may whip up a few more.

I could tell you how I made this but then I would miss the end of the Waltons and wouldn't know whether John-Boy gets the new pair of gray flannel britches at Ike's.  So -- let's leave it at I used Flourishes Dove and Holley set and colored with Copics.  So simple you really don't need my chatting.

Here's a close up of the A Muse twinkles I added for sparkle.

MOOD WHEN DONE = Merry

Guess What?

I'm the Flourishes Limelight Designer for September!  Here's a bit of my first post.

You can see a step by step set of photos on how I colored this gorgeous image by reading HERE

And thanks for all the nice comments welcoming me back to the blog!

Daisies

And, I'm back.  With a bouquet of orange daisies. 

Card Construction Details:

1.  Stamped this gorgeous image of daisies from Flourishes and colored with Copic markers.

2. Masked the flowers and stamped a retired Stampin Up background.

3.  Sponged Ranger Distress inks.

4.  Stamped sentiment and the small dasies, trimmed and adhered. 

5.  Wrapped panel with twine.

6.  Went to Chicago with Mike.

7.  Left one day early due to Hurricane Irene.

8.  Adhered panel to an A Muse Studio Winter Sky A2 card.

9.  Drew line under sentiment and two lines in the flowers. Why?  I have no idea.

MOOD WHEN DONE = Pensive