Waltzingmouse Stamps Make it Monday

Claire has started a Monday challenge on her blog at Waltzingmouse Stamps. This week was a color challenge "Cranberry Sauce" and dang it was a doozy for this girl!! After much thought, I decided to go CAS with gradient colors.

Here's my card...

 

 

My vines were stamped in rich razzleberry, raspberry ripple, calypso coral, and pink pirouette onto this new linen paper I purchased (love this stuff)- it's hard to see in the pic- maybe if you click and enlarge it will show up better. The vine image is from WMS My Heart and the sentiment is from WMS Join Us. Added a few buttons and did a little paper piercing in the corner. 

 

Here's the inspiration pic..

 



Hope you're having a relaxing Sunday- I am--getting a little stamping in!!

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Love You- Cloud 9 Blog Hop

Recently acquired a few stamps/dies from WPlus9 and wanted to participate in the Cloud 9 blog hop this month. I'm under the wire here so...

Here's my card

Used the XOXO die and Cupid's Arrow and dies to make my card.

The tag tucked inside.

The inspiration pic...

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Still trying some coloring with copics... it's been so long!! Made this card using the Color Q colors and Jen's Deconstructed sketch. Veered a "titch" from the sketch.

Well, I did play with banners and I guess that's what I saw in the sketch... or wanted to see. I love banners! Playing with some patterned papers and ended up with this combo. Those gorgeous flowers are Zinnias from Flourishes. Normally when I think of Zinnias... what comes to mind is a riot of colors but, I had fun using the pinks/reds and neutrals.

Colors...

 

Sketch..

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Fun stuff:
Stamps: Flourishes Zinnia
Paper:  Authentique, MME, SU, and XPress It Blending
Ink: TH Antique Linen, Copics
Other: Spellbinders, Tattered Angels Glimmer mist in gold (that you can't see-covered it with banners), Seam binding from the Ribbon Carousel, Button SU, and twine from TCP

Some Birdie..

Playing with some new stamps (new to me, that is) from WPlus9 using the colors from this week's Color Throwdown and sketch from Retro Sketches.

 

CTD colors are crumbcake, regal rose (substituted melon mambo- it's a bit brighter), pretty in pink, and old olive. I love Regal Rose but, for the life of me I can't find my ink pad... wondering if I pitched it since it's not part of the new lineup. The sketch layout is a "mirror" of the Retrosketch. Thinking this card is a bit busy? The background was embossed with Seeing Spots and then I did some wonky stitching. The sentiment and birds are from WPlus9's Love Birds and matching dies. Added some bling for the bird's eyes.

 

The colors.. gorgeous pic!!

The sketch...

Hope you're having a great Sunday eve... oh right, some of you may be watching the Super Bowl. We've been dealing with a car that decided to break down... my daughter's and had to take her to work....work's at Hickory Tavern (grill and raw bar but, sports bar) so I imagine she won't be ready to come home until after the Super Bowl is over.

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DIY Washi- WMS Make it Monday

This week Claire has a challenge and tutorial on her blog to make your own washi!! Lots of fun and the tutorial is fabulous---it's really easy peasy!! I have some washi and have to admit that I really don't use it- but, I should.

Here's my card

 

Used several Waltzingmouse stamps to make my washi- a small image from Large Doily stamped in pink onto white tissue paper (most of my inks are SU and I'm thinking that a chalk ink would have been better keep the detail of the image), checked image from Gingham & Co was stamped with green onto green tissue paper, and lastly the smaller Chicken Wire image was stamped in pink onto white tissue paper. The image is the sweet girl from Half Pink Heroines stamped in soft suede onto XPress It blending cardstock and colored with copics. Working on my copic coloring-geesh! Sentiments from the same set.

 

A close up of the washi

 

 

You can find all the sets I used here. Browse a bit- I know you'll find something you'll love!!

 

I started with Retro Sketches48 and veered off a little!!

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