Marshy Bog

I dug into my distress inked papers and found this lovely orange background. I thought of clouds and decided to create a marsh scene. I am thankful that I don't need a sympathy card right now and just decided to add that sentiment based on the serenity of the scene.

The background was created by inking up my craft mat with the spiced marmalade and corduroy brown (sparsely) and adding lots of water. I made 3 or 4 papers from the ink on the craft mat and this was probably towards the end as there is not much ink.


I added the yellow on the bottom after I stamped my images to create the illusion of a sunset or sunrise.

Products:

• Penny Black
• B Line Design Birds Cube
• Versafine - Vintage Sepia
• Ranger Distress Ink - Spiced Marmalade, Mustard
• Signo - White Gel Pen
• Color Pencils
• Hero Arts - Everyday Sayings
• Hero Arts - Friend Definition Cling Stamp

Thanks for stopping by...

Have a lovely Sunday...

Suzz

Golden Brown....

Anytime I hear the words golden brown I think of something delicious. I think that might have been part of my inspiration for this card. (All that good thanksgiving cooking.) Daria sent me this Hero Arts Antique Map Background stamp which I love! (Thank you Daria!) She did this as a lovely surprise for me... knowing that I had admired it. What a wonderful gift to find in the mailbox yesterday along with a lovely card.

I thought I was going to make a masculine card but the butterfly showed up and some flowers. :)

Products:

• Hero Arts - Antique Map Background
• Hero Arts - Everyday Sayings
• Hero Arts - Dandelion
• Hero Arts - Heart Winged Butterfly
• Versafine - Vintage Sepia
• Ranger Distress Inks - Broken China, Brushed Corduroy, Shabby Shutters
• Nestabilities - Label 8
• Inkadinkado - Dream
• Impression Obsession - Inspire
• Krylon - Gold Pen
• Ranger Stickles
• Recollections - Pearls
• Twine, Vintage Book, Buttons

Well the house is clean and now we have all the Christmas boxes out to make a disaster which hopefully will be cleaned up before family stops by.

Have a lovely day!

Suzz

Happy Birthday Uncle Paulywog!

Second of my birthday cards for this weekend. Uncle Paul (BIL) is having a birthday too! The kids will call him Uncle Paulywog sometimes which I think is funny. He is a great uncle and the kids love to see him. (He has 3 dogs which doesn't hurt his fun factor either)

Paul's birthday sometimes falls on Thanksgiving. Don't know how that was a child... We always get birthday cake at Thanksgiving which is alright along with the pie.

This card was so easy to create as the paper I used is from My Minds Eye Bohemian. The background was this lovely washed out background and the dragonfly was part of the pattern. I decided to use that as my focal point and just add some branches and leaves.

I cut up the edges of the dragonfly to give it dimension. The stamped leaves where accented with a touch of color pencil. The dragonfly wings and body have some stickles (rock candy) on them.

Products:

• My Minds Eye - Bohemian
• Versafine - Vintage Sepia, Habernero
• Watercolor Pencil
• Ranger Stickles - Rock Candy
• Twine, Buttons
• Inkadinkado - 98793-MM
• Penny Black - Japanese Maple
• Stampers Anonymous - U1 - 1334

Happy Thanksgiving! I hope you are spending the day with family. Special blessings and hugs to you and all your family near and far.

Suzz

Happy Birthday Lexi!

This weekend I have to create 3 cards... I finished 2 of them and am still working on the third. I also want to send off a few packages which need a few cards too. The first card is for our niece Lexi. She is turning 12 and I am hoping she will enjoy this card as much as I enjoyed creating it!

These colors were inspired by the Basic Grey Urban Prairie paper. I have this lovely Inkadinkado butterfly stamp and had never inked it up but thought how perfect it was for this paper. The other background I had in my scraps pile an it seemed to work well with the color scheme.

I love these colors together. The yellows, pinks and turqouise are such fun colors.

Products:

• Inkadinkado - 993113-P
• Basic Grey - Urban Prairie - 6x6 Pack
• Hero Arts - Black and White Flowers
• Hero Arts - Birthday Messages
• StaZon - Fuschia Pink, Teal Blue, Yellow
• Memento - Rosebud
• Watercolor Pencils
• Stickles - Crystal, Blue

Thanks for stopping by...

Suzz

Tag Tuesday # 27

Louise's Challenge is to create a holiday tag with the colors red, green, gold-yellow.



I had a santa already stamped in a gold yellow color and decided to emulate that on the tag and build the tag around him.

The images are mostly from a Stampers Anonymous Letters To Santa set. The Ho Ho Ho is stamped from a set of letters from Stamp Craft.

Inks include: Versamark, Ranger Distress Ink Aged Mahogany, Versafine Toffee, Olive Green.

The edges are created using a Gold Krylon Short Cust Paint Pen.

I hope you are having a wonderful day...

Suzz

Willow, Juniper, and Citrus

I decided to pull out my alcohol inks last night and lined them up in a semi-circle around me. My daughter walked by and said "Got ink?" Which I thought was pretty funny.





I laid them out so I could decide on which colors I wanted to mix together. The willow and juniper was such a beautiful combination I decided to pull them out and lay them down first and the citrus lightened up the combination.

The shape is from the nestabilities label 8 template. I used it for each shape except the sentiment. That is the QuicKutz die.

Everyting was embossed with either a white embossing powder or the Zing Chestnut powder. I added a few highlights with the uni-ball signo white gel pen.

Products:

• Hero Arts - Antique Flower Background
• Ranger Alcohol Inks - Willow, Citrus, Juniper
• Hero Arts - Cling - Thinking of You
• Hero Arts - Everay Sayings
• Zing - Chestnut Embossing Powder
• Signo - Uni-ball White Gel Pen

Thanks for stopping by and hope you are having a great day!

Suzz

Trimmings...

We are getting prepared for Thanksgiving.. Part of that is planning to pull out all the Christmas decorations and setting up the tree.

In that spirit.. I created this ornament for the Trimmings challenge on the HA blog. I apologize up front because I am sure this has been done and I have seen it somewhere but can't credit the site I saw it on. (Probably Spellbinders Blog)

I shared two versions of the picture one without contrast:

One with the contrast applied:
Really simple. Stamp the design block background (Hero Arts - Antique Flower Background) on white card stock. Heat emboss with Enchanted Gold Embossing powder. Die cut 5 Pendant shapes (Spellbinders - Shapeabilities -Fleur De Lis Pendants) with the smaller pendant shape centered in the middle.

After all the die cuts are cut and all the little pieces are knocked out (Very tedious and time consuming) you can assemble. Fold the large and small pendent shapes with the plain white side facing out in half. Glue together white surface to white. Continue until the last piece which you glue to the ornament.

The only thing to remember is to run your string through the center before you close out your final pieces.

I would have to redo mine as I didn't get clean cuts on my dies for all the pieces but wanted to share how it will look. :)

Hope you have a fabulous day!

Suzz