Field of Flowers - Moxie Fab Style

Can you believe it?? Me?? I made a one layer card!!! It's not something I do very often at all but when I saw this stamp called Ranunculas Field from Stampendous, I had to have it!!! It wasn't a want... I NEEDED this stamp!! Ranunculas are some of my favorite flowers, they are gorgeous and always come in such wonderful colors. I made a card earlier in the week for the Moxie Fab Trigger Tuesday so I decided to make a second card using the same colors as inspiration. I've watercolored the image with my Tombow markers and then keeping it simple, I added some black sheer ribbon to finish it off.

And that's all there is to it...

SSSC72 Enjoy the Flowers

Wow! What a day!!! It's been stamping goodness in so many ways!!! Why you might ask??? I went to a garage sale at our local stamp store, Crafty Capers, and I scored some amazing finds!!! I bought some Stamping Bella, Sugar Nellie, Unity, some DP, felt flowers, Flower Soft, Maya Road chipboard!! WOWEE!!! It was great!!! And to top it all off, I met a local stamper Patricia Rose (aka kokirose from SCS). Now how exciting was that??? Meeting Patricia was the best part!!! My friend Janice was also at the garage sale so we headed out for lunch afterwards (Thanks Janice!!!) and chatted about card making, stamping, SCS, our addictions!! (all stamping related of course!!!).

Oh wait... you're here to see my card aren't you??? I made this card using Karen Giron's latest sketch, SSSC72. Loving this sketch!. Of course, I had to use one of my new stamps that I bought at the garage sale today "Anise Ketto" from Stamping Bella. I've colored her with my Tombow Markers of course. I did a little bit of dry embossing using some Cuttlebug Folders and there you have it. Hope you like it and thanks for dropping by!

If you knock it will be opened

I made this card using the set called Jesus is Knocking from Clear Dollar Stamps from it's June release. This set also comes with a beautiful door (which I showed during sneak peeks) but I wanted to make something that shows the versatility of the set. I know that the recipient of this card will love it (I love how girly it turned out). I'm such a girly girl.... My inspiration came from the Crate Paper DP that I've had for over a year now. I stamped the sentiment in Rose Red and Versamark and then embossed it with clear embossing powder. I also sponged the focal image with Tea Dye Distress Ink. The flourish is one I bought over the Christmas holidays from Michael's. You have to love when you buy something from the "Christmas" collections that you can use all year long!!! The scalloped flower was made with my Scallop Circle Punch and a button placed in the middle.

Bellarific Friday meets Sweet Sketch Sunday meets That's Krafty Thursday

Bellarific Friday meets Sweet Sketch Sunday #71 meets "That's Krafty Thursday". I've been a fan of Karen Giron's Sweet Sketch Sunday but haven't had the opportunity to play until this week. So I decided when I saw this week's Bellarific Friday Challenge to make a summer inspired card that I just had to take the plunge and combine the two challenges. I'll definitely be using Karen's sketches on a regular basis and will be trying to make cards for her challenges. Jeanie Witmer also has what she calls "That's Krafty Thursday" so I decided to incorporate this into my card as well. I've had this Bella since last summer and sadly this is the first time it has seen ink! Crazy I know... I have so many stamps that I don't get the opportunity to use as often as I'd like so while I'm on a summer break from CDS, I plan on getting use out of my un-inked stamps before I'll allow myself to buy more. Now if that isn't incentive to make cards I don't know what is! Who doesn't love new stamps right? For some reason this Bella makes me think of "Itsy bitsy teeny yellow polka dot bikini" so I pulled out some of my Cosmo Cricket yellow polka dotted DP and paired it with some DP from October Afternoon to create a more monochromatic look. I've used bits of color but not too much and I'm loving how it turned out. I decided to add the "sun" (which isn't part of Karen's sketch) to create a bit more interest to finish off my card.

Here's to dreaming of a beautiful summer!!! (now if only I looked like that in a bikini.... To tell you the truth, I hate bathing suits altogether and no - I'm not a nudist!! I'd scare everyone away).

MTSC76 Blooming Happiness

I'm dreaming of Spring!! It's been so wet and rainy here on the West Coast that I needed a bit of sunshine and happiness in my card. I've made my card for Mercy's Sketch Challenge this week (which I ended up turning). Can you believe I'm participating 3 weeks in a row? I'm extremely pleased with myself on that one! I'm patting myself on the back - can you tell? I've also made it for this weeks' Moxie Fab Tuesday Trigger. Have you seen it??? Love the colors!!! Can I just say the Hot Pink and Green were also my wedding colors?? Oh how I loved that day. I wanted to keep the card fun and fresh just like the inspiration photo. I'm trying to figure out how to load the inspiration photo into this post as well but haven't got it to work yet.

I had this DP from WeR Memory Keepers sitting out on my coffee table (I was searching for something else and found this one instead) and to me it just screamed Spring and cheer. I've used the Hero Arts sets called Big and Small Flowers for the stem of the flower which I watercolored with my Tombow Markers. I then made a Scalloped Circle Flower which I am still addicted to. I've been seeing the rolled flowers popping up in blog land and will be trying that soon too. These make for such easy quick embellishments. I haven't stamped any sentiment on this card so that I can use it for any occasion. It's always nice to have a spare card on hand for those emergencies when you need a last minute card.

Hope you like it! I'll be back on Friday with a fun card.

SSD027 Mmmm... Starbucks!

WOW! My blog has been busy the last few days with sneak peeks! But a new month is upon us and it's Tuesday so you know what that means!!! It's Skipping Stones Sketch Tuesday. Every month we have a new sketch artist and this month is amazing!!! We have stamping and papercraft royalty!! Teri Anderson of Papercrafts!!! WOW!!! How exciting and what a privilege to be working with someone so wonderful!

I've been using Kraft a lot more lately and I love the look of it. So many colors seem to pop from it. The circles inspired me this week (although I realized I left one off - oops!). For some reason, the color of Kraft made me think of the sleeves on a Starbucks cup so out came the set, Funny Coffee and black and green cardstock. This card was fun to make and I love how it turned out - I might have to make a few of them to keep on hand. Maybe even make a few gift card holders...