Something old and something new

I pulled out some paper that I've had

for a couple of years and not used plus

a few accessories. 

I found inspiration (as always)

on Pinterest and put this one

together.  I thought it 

came out cute....and maybe

more of a masculine card.

I ordered some stamps that I found on Scrapbook.com

by Art Impressions.  I watched several

YouTube videos using these and I 

couldn't wait to give it a try.

Stamped with watercolor pens and

use a damp (not wet) blush to

pull out the color and move it around.

I got to say, I am IN LOVE with this process.

So much so, that I had to order new

more stamps this morning.

This is about the 'only' way I will ever be 

able to watercolor!

Inspiration from others.

We always find inspiration from others, here are just

a few cards done recently where others inspired me.

I saw a video (forgotten her name) where

someone had this butterfly stamp.  I thought

it was so cute, I just had to order it.  It came

with the die cut as well. I used the Circle Scribble Flowers

from MFT for the flowers.  I popped the

wings up on the butterfly and added a 

few accents just for fun.

I've seen cards  everywhere with this style.

I ordered some inks at the end of last week

and they finally arrived.  I decided to give

this a try.  I have only a few stamps that

are styled this way, where you stamp on

top of each other in different layers of

colors to come up with the image.

After stamping the images I ran them through

my Brothers ScanNCut to cut around them. Some

glued down and some popped up with a twine bow 

and a few pearls to finish it off.

I found inspiration for this card from

a post on a Facebook page by

Birgit Edblom.  I loved her layout

but wanted to tweak it a little

to fit my own style.

I love it and think it came out

quite cute.

I like the way all of them came out.

Trying different things

We all get in a rut from time to 

time and I decided to do some different

things.  I hadn't used

my Faber Castell pencils in a while

so I pulled those out to 

do this card. Plus

I used a sentiment from

a stamp set that I had

not used in a good while.

This one, I found inspiration

from Pinterest and used my Cricut Explore

to cut out the birds, limb and circle.  The sweet

is a die set that I triple cut to give some depth.

With Wink of Stella and sequins I added 

a little pop.

I had used this flower die on a 

card once before but I wanted to

do something a little different.

I used just the outside of the

die and didn't mess with

the inner pieces like before.

Added it to a tag and with a little

ink on the edges.  Put some backing

paper and added it to the card.

Very simple but cute.

Graphically speaking

So, I love graphics, well, ok, I love fonts too.

My major source is TheHungryJPEG.com 

for both of these.  They have a current

package of graphics that is available that I

simply could not resist.

It is something different for me and

I think it came out pretty.

Simple and not so simple

I just wanted to do a simple little

card so I decided to do some

simple stamping. I off set it

and added a few sequins.

Now, this was the not so simple

one.  I purchased the Hyacinth planter

file from DreamingTree.com

because I fell in love with it.

Actually, it wasn't really that hard to do,

just a lot of curling of paper for the flowers.

I think it came out cute.

Got behind on my posting.

I decided to crank out the Explore and use

the images that are available to 

me.  I cut the circles out and 

put the images behind them.

Just some simple cards, but

I thought they came out cute.

Here's a flower.

I ordered the Altenew set 'Magnolias for Her'

and it finally came.

I love that stamp set, so pretty.

I wanted to use stamps only so I pulled out a

couple of sets and picked one to use and

got to stamping.  It came out cute I think.  The

sentiment looks better than the picture shows.

I found another floral set after a 

trip to Hobby Lobby.

Used my Zigs and colored it in.

Simple but cheery.

Challenging myself...

My inspiration was to go with

flowers.  I started out with one card and

decided to challenge myself

to see if I couldn't make a few

cards using the same paper

on each one.

So, 5 colors of card stock, 3 pinks and 2 greens.

I turned on the Explore and found

several flowers that I liked.

This first one I decided to cut the stems

of the flowers out of the white and put

the green cardstock behind so it would

show thru the shapes of stems and leaves.

The flower shapes went on top, a little

bit of pink and white string. The grass

die on the darker green.  'Thanks' out

of both greens (for shading) with a bit of

Wink of Stella in the center

of the flowers and I called this one done.

2 greens on the leaves and stem, grass, 

2 pinks on the hyacinth and 'shine'

and pink and green for the butterfly.

I put Wink of Stella on the darker pink 

to give it a shimmer and added 3

pearls.

This one I added the ribbon and sequins

and called it done!

All in all, came out pretty cute I think.