Last Post...I've moved.

After almost seven years and over five hundred posts, I've decided to continue my creative journey on a new blog HERE. Thank you for being so supportive and I hope to see you over at my new blog! Hugs! 

Little Tangles Challenge #39- Watercolor

Hello! Today I'm back with the latest challenge over at Little Tangles. I thought it would be fun to create a challenge all about watercolor. It's all the rage right now so I decided to jump on the bandwagon...

I did a lot of "watercolor layering" on this card, which means I applied watercolor and let it dry and then added more on top. I continued to layer until I achieved the results I desired. I used Pumice Stone, Peacock Feathers and a very small amount of Chipped Sapphire Distress Inks with some water. After all the layers were completely dry, I went back in with a stencil, a blending tool , and some Peacock Feathers Distress Ink to add the pattern.

To finish off the card, I punched several circles out of white cardstock, layered them together to create an embellishment and heat embossed the sentiment from THIS set with silver embossing powder. I also flicked on some Pewter Perfect Pearls to the card base for some shine.

I hope you can play along. Click HERE for more info. and to see the other design team member's awesome cards. Thanks for stopping by!

Danielle's Special Delivery Blog Hop

Hello and welcome to my stop on the baby blog hop. I'm so excited to be a part of this. I just love Danielle and am so happy to celebrate this special time in her life. Here is my card I created for her and sweet baby Everly....

I have to admit that it was SO fun to use all that pink! I'm surrounded by boys in my house so I knew I wanted to make a bright pink card for her little girl. I also knew that I wanted to use some Neat and Tangled Stamps so I heat embossed the circle from the You and Me Stamp Set repeatedly in white and did some watercolor on top. Then I flicked on some pearlized water drops and added some sequins, hearts, and stamped a few sentiments. Here is a closer look...

Welcome to the world sweet baby. A big congratulations to Danielle and her family!

 Click HERE for the next stop on the blog hop. To start at the beginning of the hop, click HERE. Thanks for stopping by!

All in the family...

Hello. Today I wanted to share about my niece, Taylor. She is ten years old and LOVES to craft. I wonder where she got that from? LOL Anyway, she recently came over to do some creative play with her aunt. While she was here, I introduced her to Kristina Werner's videos. She was mesmerized by her coloring videos and saw that she had Mail Call videos and wanted to participate. The Mail Call theme last month was birthday so she made a few birthday cards to send in....

 Here is a close up of one of her cards....

 

Is that awesome coloring or what!? She got a little ink under the happy birthday sentiment so that inspired the dot pattern...she was covering a mistake. Gotta love that she knows how to make it work! She is such a fun girl and was so excited when she saw her cards on Kristina's video HERE. 

Yep. Craftiness is in our genes. :) 

Thanks for stopping by! 

Inspiration Photo Challenge

Hello! We announced a new challenge today over on the Little Tangles Blog. It is all about pulling inspiration from this photo...

I decided to do something a bit different and decorate an envelope. Yes, an envelope...

Oh, before I forget, Danielle added two new FREE digi images HERE. I used the sweet summer one to create a tag. You can use these digi images to create a project and play along with the challenge!

Okay back to the envelope...I chose to decorate the front of an envelope because my mom's birthday is around the corner and she wants pictures of our beach vacation from last year. I chose some fun photos to put inside. Here is a peek at a few of my little guy at the beach...

...and THIS stamp set is the perfect sentiment to stamp on the back of the envelope, on the flap...

Easy peasy. I hope you enter the challenge HERE. Thanks for stopping by. Be back soon.

Watercolor Week Wrap Up- Day 6 and 7

I hope you're enjoying all the watercolor ideas over the past week. Today is the last day and I will share Day 6 and 7 cards. Here are the links in case you missed any posts this week...
DAY ONE
DAY TWO
DAY THREE
DAY FOUR
DAY FIVE

The first card is one of my favorite cards I've ever made. I just love the colors and how the die-cuts flowers pop against the white card base...

I layered two very bright and bold Peerless Watercolors on top of each other onto an embossed piece of watercolor cardstock, drying in between each layer. I cut some flowers out of THIS die, added THIS sentiment and some black thread onto an embossed white card base. A closer look...

HERE'S A TIP: Make good use out of the hard work you did. There wasn't much watercolor paper left from this project but I used my heart border punch to punch out several hearts from the negative space for a future card. You can also use the entire negative piece on another card and layer some patterned paper behind it...

Now it's time to share the last card of the Watercolor Week Series. This is a card I created for my hubby for Father's Day...

This card was inspired by Tim Holtz in Watercolor Class. He taught us how to stamp with a stencil using Watercolors created with Distress Inks. I didn't have lots of water on my stencil so it gave a dry look, which I like for the masculine feel of this card. A closer look...

The sentiment stamp set I used is birthday themed but I think this greeting would work for any occasion, even Father's Day. I finished off the card with a wood heart and some twine. 

Thanks so much for joining me this week. I hope you had as much fun as I did. Have a great rest of your weekend! 

Watercolor Week- Day 5

Thanks for joining me. Today is Day Five of Watercolor Week. Here are the links to the other four days in case you missed it...

DAY ONE

DAY TWO

DAY THREE

DAY FOUR 

Today's card features a super fun technique that I learned from Jennifer Rzasa in Watercolor Class. You add salt to the watercolor while its still wet and it moves the color around and gives great results. I tried it for the background of this card...

I used some Light Green Peerless Watercolor and water and added it to my cardstock to create a background. Then I sprinkled on some table salt in different areas and let it air dry. Once dry, I rubbed the salt off with my fingers. It does all the work for you and I LOVE the results. You can also see where I put the salt. It gives it an "oxidized" look with tiny, brown specs...

I wanted to keep the card simple and keep the focus on that amazing background so I die-cut a Papertrey Ink Speech Bubble die in the matching watercolor cardstock several times and glued them together, creating an inlaid, raised embellishment. I stamped the sentiment on top with THIS stamp set as well as those stars. I mounted the piece onto a black card base.

Now because I cut the speech bubble from the watercolor piece, I had an awesome little die that I just had to use on a card so I thought I would share a bonus card with you...

I did the same raised embellishment as the other card by cutting out several more of that speech bubble image and adhering them together. I decided to place the stars in the same spot as the first card but use silver embossing powder...

Here's a great tip I've learned-EMBRACE THE IMPERFECTION! When I heat embossed my first star, The embossing powder showed up in areas that I did not intend it to. So instead of ditching the card and starting over, I embraced the imperfection. I decided to add more Versamark with a pen and create a messy, faux spray mist look. I like how it turned out! 

Okay, I'll be back tomorrow with yet another watercolor card. Thanks for stopping by!