Sparkle

Snow and ice hit the mid-south again this past week. A good time to play with stamps! It's been too long since I've played with the ladies at Unscripted Sketches. I flipped their sketch this week to create a card loaded with sparkle. Rarely will you see a project without distress inks here, but here it is!

I used stamps from the February card kit from Studio Calico and some of the newer embellishments from Maggie Holmes. I adore that doily embossing folder! The bows are from Freckled Fawn.

Celebrate

It's Monday!  Today there's a new challenge at Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog.  This week is special for me because it's my first challenge submission as a design team member and I am so excited!  This week the theme is "Celebrate".   I  celebrated by creating a vintage inspired party hat. 

Creating this was so much fun!  I started with a plain cone, some paint and stamping. I used a Tim Holtz Alterations die to create the crest and wrapped it with crepe paper. That Glitz crepe paper is so fun.  I know it's not a "newer" product, but I fell in love as I was working with it and I wish that I'd purchased it earlier. I'm quite pleased with myself that I was able to use sequins and glitter together in one project.  Bling it on! The fringe ball at the top of the hat was made using Martha Stewart fringe scissors.  The scissors are pretty awesome.  I should use them more often.  We all need a little more fringe in our lives, right? :)   

 

My hat is a lovechild of a Martha Stewart/Tim Holtz product union.  I think that they go together quite well.

Join the celebration at Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog!  Participate in the "Celebrate" challenge this week and you could be the lucky winner of our weekly random drawing for a $50.00 gift voucher.  We will also chose some of the entries to put in the spotlight and award a special badge too!

Sweet As Honey

One of my treasures is a small, vintage children's book that is tattered and ripped.  It has outlived its usefulness, but it still has a few fun pages with interesting text.  I adore the little poem on this page.

Hundreds of bees in the purple clover,

But only one mother the wide world over.

 

 

Isn't that a sweet sentiment? I had to bring this page back to life!  So I pulled out my stamps and inks and some Crate Paper papers and...voila!  A card for my Mother.  I used the current sketch at Unscripted Sketches, but it doesn't look like it at first.  I flipped the sketch completely upside down.

 

 

Don't forget that there is still time to join in on my blog candy giveaway here.  Go enter!  It's super-easy. 

 

Watercolor Inspiration

Today is Mother's Day!  I had to go to work for awhile today, but I still found time to play. I was inspired by a gorgeous stamped scene that Shari Carroll made with these Claudine Hellmuth stamps.  I first saw it about a year ago. She did an entire street scene in watercolor. I only did a few elements, but I really enjoyed playing with different watercolor mediums.  I found that I like water coloring with the Ranger distress inks the best.  They're sooo easy to use. (note lesson #1:  Shari Carroll is much better with watercolor than I am!)

I am linking this to the Simon Says Stamp and Show "Inspired by" challenge.  Thanks for the inspiration Shari! I am also linking this to the Moxie Fab World "The Wonder of Watercolor Challenge".  As well as the Twisted Tuesday Free for All.