Splashes of Watercolor

~ Do you ever just KNOW how an image has to be used?  I’m absolutely in love with this Little Angel from Just For Fun Rubber Stamps.  And I knew she needed to be water colored and used on a shabby chic card. The image is actually a square one but I wanted a circle […]

We have some gorgeous fall colors for you this week brought together into the Color Throwdown  challenge by our super-duper talented Ms. Barbara.  Don’t you love them? For my card, I chose to use this new image I got from Just For Fun Rubber Stamps.  It’s called Ready for Winter and I just love the […]

***You still have time play in the Stampers United blog hop –  you can find it ->-> HERE. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Today at the Angels Landing blog, Judi has challenged the design team with a 4-way sketch.  It’s one basic sketch but laid out 4 different ways.  I chose to use the one on the bottom left. […]

~ Strong coffee!  I can always use some of that! Today is Wacky Wednesday!!  Yay!  The famous and famously talented Kittie is our hostess this week and her challenge is for us to use CIRCLES on our cards.  I’ve used several on my card below, starting with the Basic Grey Porcelain paper. ~ ~ The […]

Hi y’all!  It’s time for another Wacky Wednesday challenge!  Sherry is our hostess this week and we’re doing a color challenge: Pink, Purple and Green.  Sounds like a winning combination to me! I decided to go a little vintagy (is that a word?) this week.  I love this K & Company paper and it had […]

  I’m hosting the Color Throwdown challenge this week!  Can you believe we’re already at #50?  Time sure does fly! The colors I chose are:   Great summer colors, huh? I chose to use my Butterfly Inchies (427) set from Rubbernecker for my card.  I misted the stamps with water after applying the ink, then […]

I got some new toys!!  A full set of Tombow markers…and I couldn’t wait to play! Lucky for me, the Featured Stamper at Splitcoaststampers this week is (Sandra McLean (B-gin-r) who is a super-talented watercolorer. I chose to use THIS CARD as my inspiration.  Of course mine is the little girl version of it!!   […]

Today is another Wacky Wednesday over at the Rubbernecker blog!  Be sure to check out the great challenge that Candy has presented us with….using inchies in our design. It’s also the monthly Dirty Dozen (past and present) design challenge at Splitcoaststampers.  This month Christine has asked us to use watercoloring in a design that is […]

When it came time to make a birthday card for my DSIL, I was at a loss. I thought I could surely use something from one of my Kittie Kits, but alas, he’s not much of a farm type person.  Then I remembered this post from Sherry, and decided to go with her great idea!  I […]

Wednesdays are always fun!  We get to have another Wacky challenge!  This week sweet Juliana presented us with a really cool inspiration piece, and let me tell ya, I studied this piece for quite a while before I came up with what I wanted to do.  Being an accountant, I’m usually quite literal with any […]