Cards from My Prize

I was lucky enough to be the first Facebook winner in Ellen Hutson's 5th anniversary give away.  The prize was a Hero Arts/Sizzix Floral Stamp & Die Cut set.  What was so impressive to me was how fast I received it.  Of course I had to play with it right away. Forget about cleaning the house, doing the laundry and getting ready for Christmas, I had to play.  For this card I used Echo Park's Happy Days for my DP.  I stamped my image using Memento Cantaloupe and Bamboo Leaves and after cutting it out with the matching die I added some Potters Clay, Tangelo and Canteloupe to the petals with Memento markers and colored the center with Rich Cocoa.  I mounted the flower and the little dragonflies onto a piece of scrap black card stock after adding the scrap of yellow across it (the DP is two sided so I knew it would work-takes a lot of thinking out of the process when using these paper pads).  I stamped the sentiment with Tuxedo Black and cut it out and the card was done.

For this next card I used DP from Jilly Bean Soup's Dutch Mustard paper pad.  I used Cryogen White for my card base and then cut the DP slightly smaller.  That card stock has a subtle sparkle that I just love and hate to cover up completely.  The yellow is Memory Box Sunflower card stock.  This flower I stamped with Cantaloupe and then I swiped some Tangelo around the center and again Bamboo Leaves for the stem and leaves.    The sentiment was stamped with Rich Cocoa.  All of the DP was part of a previous order I received from Ellen Hutson , love her site.   Hope you like my cards and thanks for stopping by.

  

A Vellum Rose

Unless I get stuck for something to post (not likely) this is the last of the vellum cards I will post. I do have several more made up but I'll spare you.

I used the Stitched Rose from Hero Arts for this card. I wanted a little bit of a longer image to fit into the oval Nestabilities cut out. I used some Papertrey Ink card stock for the frame.

Let me tell you about cutting out this frame. It's a pain. I'm not the most dexterous person and trying to line up two Nesties to cut at the same time is tricky. I finally learned to put down the center oval (the same one used to cut the front of the card base) then line up the scalloped oval around it. Whew, it can be frustrating. Be sure to have a flat B plate, mine was bowed from previous cuttings and the Nesties kept shifting.

Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by.

Vellum Balloon

I'm posting this card to point out a mistake. When I stamped the Balloon image from Hero Arts the top of the balloon didn't get stamped. I thought I would just have to throw it out but decided to play with it any way. When I colored it up I just colored it as if the line was there. Hey presto it looked fine. So I made a card.

DP is Bazzil Basic Swiss Dots.

The Sentiment is from Papertrey Ink Button Basics.

Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by.

Have a Wonderful Day Part 2

When I was using this Hero Arts set Wavy Wishes the other day I thought it could be fun as a background set. Turns out I was right. I used Memento Cottage Ivy, Pear Tart and Bamboo Leaves to stamp it out over and over.

I stamped several times with each color without re-inking to give a faded look on some of them. I then ran Memento Rose Bud along the edge.

Then all I did was added this fabric flower to the center and mount it all onto DP from Basic Grey's Lemonade Paper Pad .

I'm adding this to my blank card stash for any occasion that might come up.

Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by.

P.S. Happy St. Pat's Day

Christmas Upright Z fold

When I was cruising through blogs today I saw this recipe for a Z fold card and thought it would be fun to try. The challenge form Scor-Pal was to make a upright card as opposed to the normal horizontal card. I used DP from Basic Grey Wassail. The card stock green and red were scraps and the white is Cryogen white. Between the white and red is Kraft card stock for a little difference. I stamped the Christmas tree from Hero Arts and used snow flakes from Impression Obsession. The little red circle at the top is taped and has a snowflake brad to help hold the card together. It looks like a complicated card but it's really easy, especially using the Scor-Pal. This was a fun card to make and I hope you like it. Thanks for stopping by.

Stitched Rose

This card was kind of a backward card. This is some more of the pretty vellum I had in my stash. I backed it with white card stock and since I was playing with my Bow Easy I slapped one on here. Then I had to come up with what to put on the card. What to do, what to do. I started looking through my stamps and came across this image from Hero Arts. The light bulb went off!!! I colored it with Copics of course, then cut it out with a Mega Curved Rectangle Nestie. It is mounted on a larger Mega Curved Rectangle. I ran a Copic around the edge of the image to give it some dimension then put the card together. Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by.

Vintage Garden Chair

This stamp is from Lockhart Stamp Co. I just love these chairs and I have two of them in my front yard. Last year when a local candidate was in the neighborhood campaigning she wanted to just sit down and rest under the shade of my maple tree. I offered her a chance to sit and rest but she had a lot of ground to cover so she went on her way. Anyway I saw this stamp at the Novi convention and like my other Lockhart stamps it just jumped into my hand and begged to be taken home (that's still my story). I colored this image with Copics and matted it and found this DP for my background. The sentiment in from Hero Arts. Again I apologize for the blurred image. Hope you like it anyway.