Garden Trio with Butterflies

Hi there.  I'm so glad you stopped by!

I'm excited to be Guest Designing for the Penny Black Saturday Challenge

this month.  Here's my mid-month inspiration.

Penny Black Saturday is always Anything Goes using Penny Black Products.

This month it's optional to use 'Your Favorite Penny Black Stamp'.

I'm not sure whether this was an easy choice or a hard one.  I have a lot of 

favorite Penny Black Stamps, and I really, really love the Garden Trio set.  All three

of the flowers are lovely and so fun to color!

I stamped the flower on mixed media paper with Memento Toffee Crunch ink

and colored with Distress re-inkers used as watercolor.  

It's always a pleasure to Guest Design with the Penny Black Saturday team.

Now lets go see what they've done to inspire us.  Then pull out your favorite

Penny Black stamp and join us at the

Penny Black Saturday Challenge.

 

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Garden Trio (PB)

Ink:   Memento Toffee Crunch, BP Black (SB)

Paper:   Mixed Media (Strathmore), Neenah Solar White

Other:  Garden Trio Die (PB), Texture EF (PB), Hexagon Frames die (PB), Subtle EF (ret SU), Cheers to You BP (SB), Butterfly dies (PB)

Enjoy!

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Shortbread Shapes Spring

Hi there.  I'm so glad you stopped by!

It's a Fun Friday with play with the Greetery's Shortbread Shapes Rectangles: Spring series.

I really enjoyed playing with the dies and embossing folders so it's a long post.

After die cutting and embossing a piece of Pool Party cardstock with the

Shortbread Shapes: Rectangles Spring embossing folder, I patted over the top with a 

white pigment ink pad to let all that texture show.

The flowers were die cut from Neenah Solar White and colored with Copics.

The shaped card was made with the Shortbread Shapes: Rectangles die and embossed, 

then the pool party embossing.

Another shaped card.  This time I die cut and embossed some watercolor paper

with the inside die and watercolored all those itty, bitty flowers.

The colored squares were added on top of the matching die cut background.

Since I didn't use all the colored die cuts, I made another card using three of

the leftovers.

I placed them on a piece of textured cardstock that a friend had shared with me.

It's a divine shade of yellow and just right for a spring card.  (I used the same

cardstock for the bow on the card above.)

I had one more colored square and an embossed panel that combined to make

another note card.  Super simple.

I hope you've enjoyed all of these spring cards.

I really enjoyed creating them.

Thank you for hanging out with me today.  I hope you have some fun too!

Card Recipe (card 1)

Stamps:  Fun Birthday Sentiments (HLS OOB)

Ink:   Memento Tuxedo Black, Whisper White

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Pool Party

Other:  Shortbread Shapes: Rectangles die, Shortbread Shapes: Rectangles Spring EF, Bigger Botanicals: Genista, Wax Flowers (all Greetery), Copics (RV55, RV66, Y13, Y15, Y18, G20, G21, G24, G94), Label dies (ret SU)

Card Recipe (card 2)

Stamps:  

Ink:   

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Watercolor (Canson), Textured Yellow (?)

Other: Shortbread Shapes: Rectangles die, Shortbread Shapes: Rectangles Spring EF, Distress re-inkers

Card Recipe (card 3)

Stamps:  (?)

Ink:   Blueberry Bushel

Paper:  Neenah Solar White, Yellow Texture (?), Watercolor (Canson)

Other:  Shortbread Shapes: Rectangles die, Shortbread Shapes: Rectangles Spring EF (Grtry), Distress re-inkers

Card Recipe (card 4)

Stamps:  

Ink:   

Paper:  Neenah Solar White, Bashful Blue (ret SU), Watercolor (Canson)

Other:  Shortbread Shapes: Rectangles die, Shortbread Shapes: Rectangles Spring EF (Grtry), Distress re-inkers, Subtle EF (ret SU)

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Bluebird Note

Hi there.  I'm so glad you stopped by!

We've had beautiful weather here lately.  We desperately need rain, but I am

enjoying the balmy temperatures and the mosquitoes haven't appeared yet.

Between the nice weather, yard work and good books, I haven't spent much

time in the craft room.  But I took a few minutes this afternoon to do this.

The Just Us Girls Challenge

that's about ready to close and I wanted to get a card in there since I had a 

word edger die that has not had nearly enough use!

The sweet bird die hadn't been off the shelf for a long time either.

Let's go see all the die cut sentiments at Just Us Girls.

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Note Builder (PB)

Ink:  Milk Chocolate (MFT)

Paper:  Neenah Natural, Warm Cocoa (GKD), Watercolor (Canson)

Other:  Note Edger die (PB), Subtle EF (ret SU), Cracked Large EF (TH), Nestled die (PB), Distress Re-inkers (Faded Jeans, Prize Ribbon, Tattered Rose, Spiced Marmalade

Enjoy!

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On Your Special Day

Hi there.  I'm so glad you stopped by!

I've been busy doing yard work and spring cleaning. (I hate to think how

many springs have gone by since I did that!)  I did find a bit of time in

the craft room though.

I recently got the Shortbread Shapes Rectangle: Spring embossing folder and die.  So

when I saw Kim's sketch at Freshly Made Sketches, this set popped into my mind.

Here's the sketch...

except my squares were bigger.  So I adjusted and I hope that's okay with Kim.

I embossed and die cut some Crisp Cantaloupe cardstock and swiped over the raised parts with

a white inkpad.  The squares are on top of a Subtle embossed piece of Blushing Bride.

This flower die found it's way into that order and was cut from a snippet of 

Neenah Solar White and colored with Ohuhu markers.  I pulled out a Betterpressed sentiment

to put on top.  Oh, and I added a bit of glitter to the flower.

Let's go over to Freshly Made Sketches and see what the 

Design Team and participants have done.

Card Recipe

Stamps:  

Ink:   Whisper White

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Blushing Bride, Crisp Cantaloupe, Watercolor (Canson)

Other:  Shortbread Shapes: Rectangle, Shortbread Shapes: Rectangle Spring EF, Bigger Botanicals: Genista (all Grtry), A Little Message BP plate (SB), Subtle EF (ret SU), Ohuhu Markers

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Little Guy

Hi there.  I'm so glad you stopped by!

I hope you've had a nice week and have a good weekend on tap.

This card was done with an image that a sweet friend stamped and sent to me a

couple years ago.  I pulled out some Zigs and colored it.  The background is kind of

free handed.  Nothing special but a fun image to color.

Challenges:

Double D - Watercolor

Cardz for Guys #385 - CAS

  

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Little Guy (PB)

Ink:   VersaMark

Paper:   Watercolor (Canson), Neenah Solar White, Black

Other: Zigs, White EP, Triangle Pattern EF (PB)

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