Splashes of Watercolor

Happy Easter

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This is the card that I made for my grandson, Hunter, who is being confirmed today. 

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The design was inspired by the OCL112 challenge to use borders or backgrounds.

Happy Easter to everyone!

 

A Swinging Rabbit for a Tuesday Trigger challenge

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Ok, I know that's a crazy title.  But it's accurate.

I decided that I wanted to play along in the Sweet Surprise Tuesday Trigger challenge over on the Moxie Fab blog as soon as I saw this inspiration photo:

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I just adore baby blue gingham and I knew instantly what I wanted to create!

The April 2012 Club Kit at A Day For Daisies has some of the SWEETEST images and this little "Swinging Rabbit" just HAD to have a blue gingham shirt and shiny white galoshes!  HAD to, I tell ya!

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Here's a close-up of the B34 Copic plaid shirt and the shiny white galoshes (created by adding Ranger Glossy Accents):

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You should check out all the beautiful images from the A Day For Daisies April 2012 Club Kit.  And you should play along in the Moxie Fab Tuesday Trigger challenge!

Thank you so much for stopping by!  I hope you have a wonderful and blessed Easter Sunday!

 

It's a Bunny Garden!

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Hey there!  Are you ready to see another fabulous new release of images from A Day For Daisies?  I'm always so excited to show you the new ones!

This week we've got a collection called "Bunny Love" and the image I'm using is "Bunny Garden!"

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How sweet is that?!

I wanted to use the MOJO235 sketch again too.  It's definitely a different one and gave me the opportunity to use my new Bitty Blossoms die set from Spellbinders for the little rolled flower.

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I pulled out some REALLY OLD retired Basic Grey paper (Perhaps) and some cardstock to coordinate.  The eyelet lace is very old too and from my Mom's old sewing stash.

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I know you want to see more, right?  You can check out all the images at the ADFD shop or the ADFD blog.  And here are the links to the other designers' blogs:

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Alice Wertz   ***  Arielle Gordon   ***   Lori Boyd   ***   Shelly Mercado   ***   Tracy MacDonald

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I hope you all have a fabulous weekend!

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High Flying Bunny - Color Throwdown #186

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Yes.  I'm still making Easter cards!  I think I'm almost through though.  This is the last one for the grandkids, but I still need one to send to my Mom.

Danielle is our hostess this week at the Color Throwdown challenge and here are the beautiful colors she chose:

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I pulled out another The Cat's Pajamas image.  This time it's Take Off.  I know it's not necessarily an Easter image, but hey, it's a bunny!!!  I'm also using the new retrosketches #5.

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ETA: I'm also entering this card in the Twisted Tuesday 2TC1 challenge - The Clouds are Coming!  Check it out!

I had the best time coloring this adorable bunny in his high-flying plane!

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I hope you'll decide to play along with us at the Color Throwdown this week!  Here's some beautiful inspiration from my CTD sisters:

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That's it for today!  Please check back in with me on Friday for another gorgeous A Day For Daisies image reveal!

Flower Bunny - for 2 challenges

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Good morning, everyone!

Here's another card with the Kick Some Grass image, this time using the MOJO235 sketch.

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I'll also enter this week's Basic Grey challenge 65 to make a card for Easter using Basic Grey paper.  I used Out of Print.

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I'm still trying to complete all the Easter cards for the grandkids!  And it seems I'm running short on time!

See you tomorrow for another Color Throwdown challenge!

 

Kick Some Grass! - Color Throwdown #185

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Hey there, everyone!  It's my week to host the Color Throwdown challenge and I'm so excited for you to see this color combo!

I found my inspiration photo on Pinterest and loved how it took me right back to my childhood….the bicycle AND the wall paper!  LOL!!

Here's the photo and the colors I've chosen:

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Great, huh?

I decided to also use this week's Fall to Layout FTL183.  It's just perfect!

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I pulled out this darling bunny from the Kick Some Grass stamp set from The Cat's Pajamas, keeping in mind that Easter is fast approaching and I have quite a few children to make cards for!  I'm sure one of them will adore this little guy!  This also qualifies for the TCPTUES202 challenge to use a grassy product!

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I'd like to take a moment to thank my dear friend, Bev, for agreeing to be this month's Guest Designer.  It's much appreciated, sweet lady!!

Now it's time to hop on over to check out all the gorgeous inspiration from the design team:

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Thanks so much for stopping by!  If you can, please come back on Friday.  I'll have a project using a new A Day For Daisies image (so fun!), and that's also the day for the next E-Team blog hop!!  Woo hoo!  This month we're doing Faux!!

 

Hippity Hoppity with May Arts!

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Good Tuesday morning, everyone!  I'm really excited that the Our Craft Lounge  design team gets to work (ok, so it's really play) with beautiful May Arts  ribbons & trims this week!  Thanks so much to May Arts  for being so generous and sharing so much delicious goodness with us!

You'll want to check the OCL Blog  each day for the rest of this week for everyone who is playing along.   Now don’t forget to leave some love everywhere each and every day this week because there will be FIVE prize packages of blog candy this week!

I chose to use the adorable Hippity Hoppity stamp set today to create a frilly, girly Easter card.

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I used the gorgeous wide striped grosgrain, cut on the ends with pinking shears and layered into a flat bow, as the base for my circles and lacey circles, topped with Easter bunny fun!  There's also some of the yummy sheer/ombre ribbon tied into a bow directly beneath the lacey pink circle.  Mr. Hoppity is colored with Copics; and everything is layered atop a paper doily.

Now here's some info about how you can enter to win some of this May Arts  yumminess for yourself!

There will be 5 Prize Packages given away this week.  You have lots of ways to enter EVERY SINGLE DAY this week + one BONUS entry!

Daily leave 1 comment on each…
1. the OCL Blog (please leave contact info),
2. each designer’s blog playing along that day, and
3. our Facebook page.

BONUS ENTRY: If you “LIKE” OCL on Facebook, you’ll get a bonus entry (as long as you tell us you did it) ~ if you've already "liked" us, let us know that too!

There will be 5 random comments chosen this weekend and the winners will be announced next Tuesday, March 20th on the OCL Blog.

Thanks so much for stopping in today.  Be sure to check in again tomorrow for another OCL card along with the latest Color Throwdown challenge!

 

Lambs Playing - a new A Day For Daisies release!

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Well, it's almost spring!  And doesn't that mean there will be new babies in the barnyards?  There are certainly some precious new baby animals at the A Day For Daisies shop!  And they're all so adorable!

You can see all the new releases - On the Farm - at the ADFD blog and at the ADFD Etsy shop.

There's also a new challenge starting today… "Dress It Up With Gingham".  Quite fitting for the release, don't you think?

I chose to work with "Lambs Playing" and I have to confess that I wasn't sure just how to color them.  So I googled lambs and found this perfect photo of 2:

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How cute is that?  Well, you can see how stippled their wool looks, so that's how I tried to color my lambs.

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I didn't have any flowers that were just the right color, so I used my R81 and R83 Copic markers to color one up!  I used some narrow pink gingham ribbon for the centers and then scrunched some wider gingham across the bottom of the card.

I also used the square version of this week's MOJO230 sketch:

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Have you checked out the creations of the awesomely talented design team?  You can see them on the ADFD blog.  You will NOT be disappointed!!

We'd love it if you played along in the "Dress It Up With Gingham" challenge with us!

Thanks so much for stopping by on your way to the weekend!  I am SO READY, how about you?!!

A Marbled Easter Egg - A new E-Team blog hop!

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Hello again!  I usually don't have 2 posts in one day, but today is special because we've got a new E-Team blog hop for you!

We decided to celebrate this leap year with a technique hop!  Today we're showing you how we create faux marble.  Our fearless leader, Daisy, gave us no specific instructions, so it should be really interesting to see what each E-Team member comes up with!

Let's do the business details first:

• Leave comments on each E-Team member's blog post.  You have from today, February 29th, through Friday, March 2nd.
• 2 winners will be chosen to receive $25 eclectic Paperie gift certificates, and will be announced on the eP blog on Saturday, March 3rd.

Now that wasn't so bad, was it?  Short and sweet!

On to the project!

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I decided to use a tried and true method to create my Faux Marble, using alcohol inks on glossy cardstock.  I love this look and usually I'll do it with deep, rich colors, but today I decided to go soft and spring-like with the colors.  I chose Adirondack Alcohol inks in Shell Pink, Willow and Cloudy Blue.  Here are the supplies I started with:

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I used a felt applicator to apply the inks to the paper, dabbing over the entire piece several times until I got the effect I liked.  I did this on 2 separate pieces of cardstock and then on one of them, I applied some pearl metallic mixative to see what the colors would look like in softer shades.

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Since I had wanted a fresh spring color palette I decided to use the piece that had the brighter colors to create a marbled Easter egg.  (I'll save the pearlized one for another project.)

I brought out my Fancy Fringe stamp set from Our Craft Lounge and my Adirondack acrylic paint dabber in snow cap and used them to stamp a border "around" my Easter egg.

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I printed an egg template from the internet, cut it out, traced around it onto my marbled paper with a pencil, and then cut my egg out.

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I sponged around the egg with some Ranger Distress ink in frayed burlap and added some beautiful May Arts lacy trim and some rhinestone stickers to the egg.

My card base is white; then there's another die cut layer of white topped with a piece of patterned paper.  I backed my egg with a paper doily, tied a piece of dyed seam binding around the card front, then added the egg using foam mounting tape.

My felt rose was die cut using the MFT Rolled Rose Die-namics die, and the leaves were cut using the Spellbinders Foliage die set.

And FINALLY, here is my Marbled Easter Egg:

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I'm seriously thinking of doing this marbled look on my REAL Easter eggs this year!  I love the way these colors look together!

Well, it's time to move on to the other E-Team members' blogs to see what they came up with using a Faux Marble technique.  I can't wait!!

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Thanks so much for taking the time to drop in (again) today.  I hope you liked my project and I hope you'll try this Faux Marble technique too!  I'd love to see it if you do!

Happy crafting!

Easter Chicks - Color Throwdown #180

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Hi, guys!!  Today's the day for a new Color Throwdown challenge!  The fabulous Lori is our hostess this week.  The colors she chose threw me a little to begin with, but as soon as I saw my new Nature Babies 1 chicks from Angels Landing I knew what I was going to do!  (Thanks so much, Judi!)

Here are Lori's colors:

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I paired the MOJO229 sketch with our color combo.  What a great combination this was!

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Now here's my sweet little Easter Chicks card:

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Isn't that just the sweetest image?  The sentiment is from another Angel's Landing digital stamp set Nature Bunny & Violets 1.  (It's the set with the REAL Easter bunny!!)

I hope you'll play along with us this week.  As always, if you don't have the exact colors, a close substitute will work just fine.  Link your creation at the Color Throwdown blog, and we'll stop by your blog to take a look! 

Now how about some beautiful inspiration for you from our fabulous team?

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Thank you so much for stopping by today.  I'd like to leave you with a couple of photos from this past weekend.  I was in Richmond, VA, with several of my CTD sisters for an Intermediate Copic Certification class, taught by the fabulous Debbie Olson!  It was a blast and we all learned so much! 

I LOVED meeting Wanda, Teresa, Danielle, Kristin and Michele in person for the very first time, even though I felt like I'd already known them forever!  And it was fabulous to get to spend some more time with Lori, Barbara and Debbie!  A couple of these shots were lifted from Wanda Cullen's blog and a couple are from Danielle Kennedy.  Thanks, ladies, for sharing!

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Lori Tecler, Barbara Anders, me, Teresa Kline, Wanda Cullen

Michele Boyer (who assisted Debbie) and Debbie Olson

Kristin Eberline, Lori Tecler, me, Danielle Kennedy, Barbara Anders

Lori, me, Barbara, Debbie, Danielle

Kristin and Danielle (are they too cute?)

I had a great time and can't wait until we all can get together again (but with the rest of the crew next time, right, Tammy?)!!

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