2015 March » Rainy Day Creations

Rx - Live on Greens

Mar 262015

Isn’t this a great sentiment! It’s the perfect prescription for any golf lover.

After coloring the image I was adding a few gray tones to those stylin’ shorts and a big blob of gray ink dripped out of my Copic onto the picture. This is the second time I have had this happen after refilling one of my markers. Obviously I’m putting in too much ink! Hopefully next time I’ll get it right. lol Well a trusty little button brad came to the rescue and covered up most of it.

The card is entered into a few fun challenges:

CAS-ology Week 139 Challenge: “Style”

Simon Says Stamp Challenge: “Anything Goes”

Addicted to CAS Challenge #59: “Green”

Happy Crafting!
——————————

Stamps: Clear Art Stamps “Golf Time”

Papers: PTI Select White, True Black and Limeade Ice

Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black; Copics:

Accessories: Baker’s Twine; Button Brad

Spring Is Coming!

Mar 232015

I love sponging. There is just something about pulling off the masking paper to reveal this sharp line between the white cardstock and the sponged on ink that makes me giddy every time! If it wasn’t for the fact that my fingers end up with as much ink on them as the cardstock, I would do it much more often.

The sentiment is an Easter hymn called “He Is Risen.” It has been computer generated.

With so many “Spring” themes this week/month, today’s card is entered into several challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge – “Spring Pinterest Inspiration!”

CAS-ual Fridays #CFC137 Challenge: “Springtime Melodies”

Papertake Weekly Challenge: “Happy…….Anything:)”

Addicted to CAS #59 Challenge: “Green”

Addicted to Stamps #136 Challenge: “Anything Goes”

Monday Mood Board #8: Inspiration Photo

Happy Little Stampers CAS Challenge March 2015: “Sponging”

Stamp and Create March Challenge: “Is it Spring Yet?”

Just Us Girls #285 Challenge: Color Week – “Black, White and Your Choice”

Cards in Envy Challenge: “Spring is in the Air”

Happy Crafting!
——————————

Stamps: CAS-ual Fridays Stamps “Truth Is”; SU “Kinda Eclectic” and “Teeny Tiny Wishes”

Papers: PTI Select White

Inks: SU Summer Sun and Old Olive; Memento Tuxedo Black; Copics:

Accessories: Computer Printer

Without You, Life Does Not Compute

Mar 212015

Isn’t this a fun sentiment to go along with this cute robot! It’s perfect for those computer whiz guys in our lives.

The robot reminded me of the tin man from the Wizard of Oz. So, I made sure he had a heart.

The card is entered into a couple of challenges:

Addicted to Stamps #136 Challenge: “Anything Goes”

Cardz 4 Guys Challenge #62: “Clean and Simple”

Happy Crafting!
—————————-

Stamps: MFT “Love Machine”

Papers: PTI Select White and Pure Poppy; My Mind’s Eye “Flair” Designer Paper

Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black; Copics:

Accessories: Heart Brad

A Rainy Day

Mar 192015

Oh that face! Fox doesn’t look too happy about the rain.

But, those clouds sure seem pleased with themselves!

Little fox was a fun image to color. He is entered into three challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Animals

Addicted to Stamps Challenge #136: “Anything Goes”

Splitcoaststampers Ways to Use It Challenge #523: “Triple Play”

Happy Crafting!
——————————

Stamps: SU “Life’s Adventure”

Papers: PTI Select White; SU Chocolate Chip

Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black; SU Chocolate Chip; White Gel Pen; Copics:

Accessories: Rick-Rack; Rhinestones; Circular Metal Clip; Spellbinders A2 Curved Borders Die

Blooms

Mar 162015

Have been playing with this floral image from SU’s “Bloom With Hope” set.

What a fun image to color! I tried coloring it with pastels, but for whatever reason the more intense colors looked better to me.

I added some black marker to this second flower to give it even more contrast.

The first card is entered into one challenge:

Craftyhazelnut’s Patterned Paper March 2015 Challenge

The second card is entered into three challenges:

Splitcoaststampers #CAS316: “No Patterned Paper”

Sketch Saturday Week #352

The Paper Players #PP236: “Ann’s Clean and Simple Foral Challenge”

Happy Crafting!
——————————

Stamps: SU “Bloom With Hope” and “Kinda Eclectic”; PTI “Inside & Out: Birthday II”

Papers: PTI Select White and True Black; My Mind’s Eye “Everyday Basics” and “Notable”

Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black; SU Ruby Red and Really Rust; White Gel Pen; Copics:

Accessories: Grosgrain Ribbon; Rhinestones; Pearls; Spellbinder Nestabilities “Blossom” Dies and Circle Dies; 5/8″ Circle Punch; SU “Stripes” Embossing Folder

The Essence of Love

Mar 122015

LOVE this tulip image. So happy I finally got to color it!

There are some fun challenges this week that I had in mind while making the card:

Splitcoaststampers Ways to Use It Challenge: “Lucky Charms“ – I have always loved pearls. Did you know that black pearls are thought to offer the power of love and protection and luck and to give wisdom. What’s not to love about that!

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: “B is for…” – B is for a tulip BOUQUET, a sweet little stamped BOW and an embossed tulip BORDER.

Papertake Weekly Challenge: “Mum’s The Word” – Since this Sunday is Mothering Sunday in the UK, the challenge is to make a card for your mother. My mom passed away over 25 years ago, but I still have the most wonderful mother-in-law anyone could ask for.. I loved the idea of using this sentiment for her mother’s day card this year.

Thanks for dropping by today.
Happy Crafting!
——————————

Stamps: SU “Love Is Kindness”

Papers: PTI Select White; My Mind’s Eye “Everyday Basics”

Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black; Copics:

Accessories: SU “Framed Tulips” Embossing Folder; 2mm Rhinestones; Black Pearl

Sending Butterfly Wishes

Mar 072015

Sometimes my fingers get really inky, like for instance, while making this background. But it was totally worth it because sponging is such fun, and I love the effect!!

One of the fern stems was stamped on acetate and then pressed onto the cardstock so it would bend the other way.

The solid butterfly was made by using the negative cutout of the top butterfly as a template and then fussy cutting. By using the inside of the cutout rather than tracing around the actually butterfly, the solid/bottom piece is slightly smaller than the top. I think it just looks better not to have any overhang of the bottom butterfly.

*Insert random discovery here*
Yeah this is completely random, but when I was playing around with the SU Summer Sun (retired?) cardstock, I noticed that the Copic Y35 marker is a perfect match. Just an fyi. (Oh and the Copic is colored on PTI Select White cardstock.)

Okay back to the card… It is entered into the following challenges:

Splitcoaststampers Inspiration Challenge #483: “Great Big Canvas”

Butterfly On Catmint Flowers

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge: “Anything Girly/Feminine”

Papertake Weekly Challenge: “Anything Goes”

Stamp and Create March Challenge: “Is It Spring Yet?”

Sister Act Card Challenge #96: “Anything Goes”

The Card Concept Challenge #30: “{Thinking of You}” – Card is Mixed Media… I think!

Happy Crafting!
——————————

Stamps: SU “Butterfly Basics”

Papers: PTI Vintage Cream and Royal Velvet; SU Summer Sun

Inks: SU Always Artichoke, Bashful Blue, Not Quite Navy, Summer Sun and Basic Black; Memento Tuxedo Black

Accessories: SU Butterflies Thinlits Die; Rhinestones

Petal Potpourri Poinsettias

Mar 042015

Have been playing with one of the floral images in SU’s “Petal Potpourri” set.

This is a one-layer design with a sweet little line of embossing across the top of the card for some texture. Its so tempting to add more embellishments, but I’m going to keep this one clean and simple and very very mail-able!

The card is playing in the following Challenges:

Merry Monday Challenge#148: “Red and Green”

Papertake Weekly Challenge: “Anything Goes”

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge: “Anything Goes”

Addicted to Stamps Challenge #134: “CAS”

Happy Crafting!
——————————

Stamps: SU “Petal Potpourri”, “Ornamental Pine” and “More Merry Messages”

Papers: SU Whisper White

Inks: SU Real Red, Garden Green and Summer Sun

Accessories: SU Needlepoint Border Embossing Folder

For the Birds

Mar 022015

So is this bird cute or what!

The grass was added and the little bird was colored with Copics. A black Copic was also used to color the edges of the image circle and sentiment strip.

The miniature doily was made using a Spellbinder’s die and cutting it from a larger doily. LOVE how it turned out!

Here is the card with some pearls added across the top of the patterned paper. Too much? Do they distract from the cute little image or just add to all the fun dots and circles that abound? What do you think?