Hello, I have a CAS card for you today that goes along with the word over at CASology. The word is Feather. I just love this older Stamp set from Papertrey Ink and I knew right away that I was going to watercolor it to bring it to life. I finished it off with a blue Victorian style strip down the side and some pretty turquoise sequins. The sentiment is from Verve.
Have a terrific day, Nanc’
Hello, I have been really taking advantage of the heat this summer by playing in my studio where it’s cool and comfortable .;) It’s been a scorcher, to say the least. I have no desire to even go to the beach during the day, only late-night walks for this girl. The card I have for you today is for The Flower Challenge and its challenge is to use Pretty Pastels. I hope they consider peach as a pastel color…I do.
I have a friend whose 32-year-old daughter has breast cancer and this card is for her. Dave and I have known this family for quite some time, and in fact, Dave taught Sarah when she was in Elementary School. I hope this card brings a smile to her face and lets her know that others are thinking and praying for her. And here I am whining about the heat! 😦 I still had three flowers that were already watercolored on my desk that I really wanted to use and that’s where I started for this card. Then the flowers needed some leaves, so I decided to go a different route and make some yellow ones.
Details: Flowers / leaves-Stampendous, Hugs die-Paper Smooches, enamel dots-SU, and MFT-Stitched Rectangles
Today I chose to be grateful and hopeful, Nanc’
Hi Friends, I know…I am on a role with posting! Right? It’s been a great week for sure! I have one more card for a challenge that I have been eyeing all month long and is nearly ready to close. I made it, right under the wire. The card is for the CAS Watercolour Challenge where the challenge is something blue. I sure hope my card qualifies for CAS. It was very simple to make and still has a lot of white space, but I am a bit afraid that I added one too many layers. Fingers crossed! But if that one is a no go….. I am also linking my card up at Inkspirational Challenge where the word is Garden.
Here are a few details: The flower and leaves are from one of my all-time favorite Stupendous sets called Bouquet for You, and are obviously heat embossed and watercolored. They are then fussy cut, which was not hard at all. The white leafy swirl is from MFT and I have had it for YEARS! The double square frames were gifted to me from my friend Barb, so I am not sure whose they are. Love the look of them doubled and titled! The sentiment is from SSS. Added some sequins and I was done.
Thanks for all the love as of late, I enjoy each an every visit and comment. Nanc’
Hello, Although we don’t quite have Autumn here in Florida and the temps are still in the 90’s, it didn’t stop me from making a couple of Autumn theme cards over the weekend. One is made of the colors you would traditionally expect, and the other one …not so much. I love how they both turned out!
I am linking up these cards to two different challenges. The first one is The Twofer Card Challenge which I am totally thrilled not to miss out on this month, and the other one is The Color Throwdown, which I have been following since its inception.
The stamps I used for these cards are from Verve, with an exception of the larger leaf on the autumn colored card, who knows where that one came from, but it’s a keeper. On both cards, I heat embossed the leaves with either white, silver, gold or red. On the fall colored card, I used my oxide inks to blend the background. The leaf punch is from SU and dry embossed, and the tag and wonky rectangles are from MFT. I splattered some white paint to help hide some of my stray embossing powder on the black card. Finally, I got to use my new Rectangles with the rounded corners from MFT. I just love those patterned leaves from Verve, and I knew they would make a fun fall card. The black card is so very shimmery in real life! If you have any other questions…let me know!
Hope you have a really awesome week! Nanc’
Hello, Hope you are having a great day! If you were in the path of Hurricane Michael, I hope you are safe and with minimal damage. Mother nature isn’t being kind lately and I hope it stops very soon. It breaks my heart to see the devastation it left behind. Feeling very blessed as I write this post. Other than some rain and gusty winds, all was well here on the west coast of Florida. I am sending this card to my son ( whom I adore and miss, more than you can even imagine) and I can’t say exactly why I am sending this card, but I hope he doesn’t happen to check my blog before he receives it. You will have to trust me that it looks even better in person. I had so much fun creating my celestial background with my oxide inks, starting with a piece of white card stock. It was a ton of blending!! The letter dies are from MFT and the “so proud of” is from SU. That wooden moon stamp is something I have had for eons and is white heat embossed. The stars were heat embossed too and made with a SU stencil as well. Some splatters, and I was done.
Please come on over to Just Us Girls and check out my fabulous teams designs! Nanc’
There is a fabulous color trio over at The Color Throwdown and I wanted to make sure to play along. Not only did the colors inspire me the picture of the Fireworks did too.
I decided to try and mimic all the streaks and colors in the sky with the splash watercoloring technique. At first I thought the flowers came out a bit too bold, but as I put the card together it started to grow on me. I made my heart background with this very cool SU paper that works so well with Oxide inks. It does an ink resist. I LOVE IT, but sadly I don’t believe it’s still available. I heat embossed my leaves with gold EP and punched them out with the coordinating SU punch.
I’m also linking this up over at The Paper Players where they have their 400th Celebration going on with prizes too. Congrats to The Paper Players for being around so long. We appreciate all your efforts and inspiration!
Finally, Once again over at CAS Watercolour where they have Splash Watercoloring technique challenge going on.
Thanks for stopping in…makes my day! Nanc’
Card Details: SU Flowers, leaves, and Punches, MFT Happy die and Heart die, Neat and Tangled Birthday stamp, SU background paper that I colored with Oxide inks, Nuvo drops and pink pearl accents.
Hello Friends, I have another Christmas card to share with you today and it’s for the CAS Christmas Card Challenge. The word they have for us this month is Poinsettia. I have this intricate poinsettia stamp from Verve that I just love and thought it might do the trick. I heat embossed it with Gold Embossing Powder. I decided to pair it up with this bold Alcohol ink paper that I made a few weeks ago. Besides being bow challenged it came out alright. I am going to put my Christmas greeting on the inside. The one inch stitched square die is from SU. The outer rectangle is from MFT.
I am also linking my card up over at Addicted to Stamps and More where it’s time for Clean and Simple.
Here is another one I made in a different color. 
Thanks for stopping in! Nanc’
Today over at Just Us Girls we have a new challenge starting and the Trend Sue has chosen for us is to make a Galaxy Background or Night Sky. What a fun idea! This was something I had not done a lot of, so I enjoyed pushing my creativity. Thanks Sue!!
When putting this card together I had some complications along the way but I do believe they turned out to work in my favor. I love to do emboss resist and this is where my card began. The inspiration behind my card you can find HERE. The only thing I wish I would have managed to have done differently is make the center of my moon mostly white. That is a challenge for me, as I tend to be a heavy handed ink blender. As much as I love the Oxide Inks I am still struggling with them. The other thing that worked out well is, I couldn’t find my bottle of white paint so I decided to try Gesso for my stenciled stars. It worked, as the stars became more muted and I think it looks awesome that way. Last, I had to tilt my panel as my sentiment didn’t stamp straight. LOL
The stamps are a miss match of this and that picked up at Local Stamping stores.
Hope you will consider trying your hand at a Night or Galaxy background as well and join us over at JUGS! Nanc’
Hello friends, Just Us Girls is back from our nice long break and are ready to get back to it! Vicki is our hostess this week and she has started the year off with a terrific challenge. It’s Anything Goes this week, so I sure hope you will consider joining us! While you are over at JUGS, I sure hope you will take a minute and help us welcome our Newest Design Team member! She is so well known in the card making world that I was over the top excited to find out she was joining us! Carol Mayne from Just Me:c! Yes I know! Can you believe it? Now you know why I was so excited! Welcome Carol!! Can’t wait to work along side you!
We also have a new Guest Designer with us this month that I would very much like to Welcome! Cathy McCauley [cathymac].
Now a little bit about my card! If you stop by my blog regularly you know I don’t often make one layer cards. However, I did enjoy putting this one together. I had to be very patient as it started off kinda terrible and I just kept working with it, and it began to grow on me. It was made with two Altenew sets; Beautiful Day and Botanical Garden. It is done with watercolors after I heat embossed the flowers and stems with white EP. Next, I splattered it with the same tones of colors from the flowers and finally dotted with some Nuvo drops. Don’t examine it to closely as it has some major faux pas’. LOL
Before I go I am linking my card up over at Stamp Ink, Paper where they have asked us to use Embossing of any kind.
Hope to see you at JUGS! Nanc’
Hello Friends, It’s Wild Card Week at Just Us Girls and Ina has selected a fun and easy challenge for us! All you have to do is to use Something Old and or Something New on your card and or project. I have done both…sort of! My stamp set is very Old as I have had it for YEARS and it’s New as it has never had INK on it until now. Now that I think about it, the sentiment is New as well as I have never used it before.
Before I go I want to say Thanks to Aileen for being such a terrific Guest this past month! HUGS, Nanc’
Supplies; Stamp-Inkadinkado, Watercoloring, Gold Embossing powder, MFT-heart, Sentiment-Stampin UP.
