Splashes of Watercolor

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Good Monday morning!  YUCK, right?  Well, it's good for me because I'm not working today! YAY!

I decided to play along in the Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge #158 today and pulled out an image I purchased from Taylored Expressions for my 12 year old grandson's birthday.  The sketch turned out to be just perfect to pair with the paper and image!

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I hope he'll like it.  It is, after all, pretty hard to please a 12 year old boy.  Oh wait!  If I add money, he won't even care what the card looks like, will he??  LOL!  You know that's true! 

Thanks for dropping by to check it out!  I hope you have a great week!

 

I've been clowning around!

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He, he!  The May Club Kit from A Day For Daisies is out, and you can see all of the darling images at the ADFD site.

They're adorable!  And they're available to Club Kit members starting today!

I chose to use little Miss Polly Clown and dug out some old Hello Sunshine paper from Cosmo Cricket to use with her.  I thought this was just a perfect pairing!

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Add some twine from The Twinery, a shiny red button, Ranger glossy accents on the clown's nose, and a cut-out sentiment from the paper pad as well, and you've got a super sweet little card!  Easy-peasy!

Be sure to check out the super designs from all the design team members:

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

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There's also a new release called "Love my Bunny".

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More precious images from Tammy!

All the images are available starting today at the ADFD main site and at the ADFD Etsy shop.

Thanks so much for dropping in today.  I'm looking forward to the weekend and the summertime weather we're having!  How about you?  Do you have big plans? 

See you soon!

Tree Wishing You - Color Throwdown #188

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Happy Wednesday, y'all! 

Speaking of "y'all"... did you see this on Facebook?  I just had to share it.

 

It's so true!

This week's Color Throwdown is hosted by the lovely and talented Kerri!  She's chosen a beautifully classic color combo based on a gorgeous floral wreath.

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I love it!  I wanted to use the colors a little differently, so I chose my Every Heartbeat stamp set from Our Craft Lounge to create a multi-colored background.  I trimmed along the zig-zag at the bottom, embossed the top portion, tied a couple of strands of twine around the panel, and adhered it with foam mounting tape to pop it up.

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My little tree was stamped, colored with Copic markers and also popped up on foam tape.  Here's a better view of the dimension:

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Clean and simple and fun!

We'd love it if you played along in the challenge with us!  Can you handle it?

I can't wait for you to see all the other samples from the design team.  Hop on over to the Color Throwdown blog or just click on the links below:

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That's it for me today!  I hope you're all having a good week!  Thanks so much for stopping by!

 

Say It Big Birthday - Color Throwdown #181

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Hey, y'all!  It's time again for another Color Throwdown challenge!  The Oh-So-Talented Lynn is our hostess this week and here is the great color combo that she chose for us to play with:

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I needed another birthday card, and this time I opted for a round card using my Grand Calibur and the Grand Scalloped Circles dies.

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The sentiment is definitely featured here.  It's really BIG!  I love it!  I decided to get a little playful and add the birthday candle with 2 decorative pins too.  I think it all looks great on some of Kristin's Trendy Forest patterned paper and tied up with some Twinery Blossom and Honeydew twine.

We hope you'll join us in the challenge this week!  Here's some great inspiration for you from the design team:

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Thanks for stopping in.  Please check back in a little while for another E-Team blog hop!

Through the Window - a new ADFD release!

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Hey, you guys!  It's time for a new A Day For Daisies release.  I find myself getting more excited with each new release.  These images are so perfect!!

The image I chose to use today is called Bulb Window.   I love these "out of the box" images, don't you?

I wasn't sure what kind of flower this was, so I perused the internet and came up with this photo of Nemophila, a wildflower more commonly known as California Blue Bells.  It looked like a good match to me so I went with it!

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I decided I wanted a very simple layout, simple color palette, and minimal embellishments in order to show off this gorgeous image.  The layout is loosely based on this week's Merry Monday challenge #6 at the Always Playing with Paper blog.

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And here's what I came up with:

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I used a negative cut out of the image box to be able to sponge just inside the box line with an ink blending tool and some Ranger Distress ink in Tumbled Glass.  Again using minimal color.

So what do you think?  Isn't this a beautiful image?  It's available now at the A Day For Daisies shop and there's a challenge going on at the A Day For Daisies blog right now too!  Check them out!  There's even a freebie digi image for you to use in the challenge!

Thanks so much for dropping in today!  Have a wonderful weekend!!

Birthday Banner

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Good Monday morning, everyone!

Did you watch the Super Bowl yesterday?  I did, and I really enjoyed it!

Today, I've got a quick birthday card for a guy using some scrap patterned paper.  4 little pieces of some June Bug 6x6 paper and some Maraschino twine from the Twinery, was all I needed to make this cool birthday banner using the Mix & Match Banner Die-namics from MFT.  I also used the Wonderful Words dies and Wonderful Words Additions stamp set from PTI.

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Thanks for stopping by to take a look!  I hope you have a great week!

Lola has a lollipop!

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Hi, everyone!  I hope your week has started off well.  I'm enjoying my extended weekend, so I'm a happy stamper!

I was browsing Pinterest this weekend and came across this great card which was pinned by the oh-so talented Debbie Corbari.  How cool is that?

Well I wanted to try it, and decided a much smaller version would be easier, perhaps.  It was fun and just perfect for use with my Lola Love stamp set from Our Craft Lounge!

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I used Scor-Tape on a punched cardstock circle, and started in the center of it with my Maraschino twine.  Easy!

I also used this week's CPS251 sketch:

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Well, that's it!  So, I hope you're off today too and having fun!  Thanks for stopping by and have a great week!

Peace on Earth tag - Color Throwdown #171

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Hello!  Can you believe we're only a little over 2 weeks away from Christmas?  Where, oh where did this year go??

Before I panic even more so than I am now about not being ready for the holidays, let's get to the business at hand…..this week's Color Throwdown color combo (chosen by our sweet new DT member, Wanda):

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Isn't that a wonderful combo to use for an elegant Christmas card?  Well, I went for a little elegance but I didn't make a card.  Inspired by T!m, I chose to use these colors to make a tag - a very glittery, shimmery tag!

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It's sort of the toned-down, masculine version of my sweet, sugary Christmas tag!

The manila tag was sponged with several different Ranger Distress inks - bundled sage, tea dye, gathered twigs and tumbled glass.  I also added a little Adirondack Cranberry ink to the mix.  I brushed Perfect Pearls over the tag as well while it was still damp from the ink.  The edges of the tag were coated with Claudine Hellmuth Studio gesso and the sheet music paper was covered with rock candy Ranger Distress Stickles.  I also used burgundy stickles for the tree decorations and the bottom scallop.  You can probably see that I doused almost everything with Martha Stewart crystal coarse glitter!  Oh yeah, the seam binding was colored with Adirondack lettuce ink.

I wanted you to see a little of the shimmer up close…and check out the bokeh effect created by the glitter!

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Whew!  Now it's time for you to try your hand at using these great colors!  I hope to see lots of entries this week!  If you need some more inspiration, please visit with our super-fabulous design team:

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Thanks so much for stopping by!  Gotta run and get some more done….more shopping, more decorating, more card making, more gift wrapping…..

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Critter Christmas - Color Throwdown #170

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Hello!

It's time for this week's Color Throwdown challenge and lucky for us, our newbie Lynn chose a fabulous color combo!  Just the right colors to make a happy and fun Christmas card.  Hmm, maybe this one will go to one of the grandkids!

Here's the combo:

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I also wanted to play along with this week's Our Craft Lounge blog challenge OCL93, which is to use Cute Critters.  I'd say my adorable little penguin from the Snow Place Like Home stamp set qualifies!

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And how about one more challenge?  Karen's Sweet Sunday sketch challenge SSSC145:

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Now how about a look at the Cute Critter Christmas card which combines these challenges?

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Well, that's it for me.  Now's the time for you to move on to see all the gorgeous creations from our wonderful design team:

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And please take a little time to play along with us.  This is a great opportunity for you to get one more Christmas card done for your stash!

Thanks so much for visiting!

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E-Team Blog Hop - Be Merry (Tag Series #3)

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Hi everyone!

Daisy's issued a brand new challenge to the E-Team:

Make an ATC or Tag (ie., ornaments, gifts, packing) using any of your favorite holiday stamps and/or papers.

Hmm.  It took me only a few moments to decide to use the Tim Holtz Mini Holidays stamp set.  I love every image in it!  And they're the perfect size for tags and ATCs!

Here are few more details about the blog hop before I get started telling you about my projects:

* Going to randomly give away 3 Be Merry Goody boxes
* Comments can be left Nov 15 - Nov 17 on all participating blogs
* Winners will be chosen and posted on eP Blog, Fri Nov 18th
* Also going to give away two $20 eP gift vouchers on the eP blog.  Commenters should leave comments about what their favorite Thanksgiving dessert is.

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For my projects I decided to go for 2 completely different looks.  The tag is pretty & feminine, and soft & sugary sweet.

{Be sure to click on all the images to see them larger and in more detail.}

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I started with a manila tag, of course, and used an old index card to draw out a pattern for a little house and roof.  After I was happy with the size of the house, I cut it out, scored along the lines.

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I embossed the tag with the Sizzix Snowflakes folder, painted it with Gesso, then sponged on some Ranger Distress ink in Tumbled Glass.  I decided to keep the seam binding the original ivory color, but still spritzed it with some water using a Ranger mini-mister, then scrunched it up to get the wrinkled look.

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I used a paper dessert doily (from Olive Garden), some old eyelet lace, gesso and glitter for the background of the house and tree.  The tree was cut with a Quickutz die 3 times and all 3 pieces were layered on top of each other. Star Dust Stickles were dotted onto the top layer.  And don't you just love those beautiful Maya Road decorative pins?

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The tag was cut using a Spellbinders Fancy Tags die and sponged with Ranger Distress ink in Spun Sugar while still in the die.  I guess you've noticed that EVERYTHING has been covered with some Martha Stewart Crystal Coarse Glitter!

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I added a double bow using the scrunched seam binding and topped it with a bow using Caribbean, Blossom, and Honeydew twine from the Twinery.  I also added a small jingle bell, flanked by 2 tiny ones.

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For my ATC, I went with a more masculine, rustic look.  I used a sticky-back canvas ATC and attached it to a piece of soft suede cardstock.  I stamped the snowflakes from the same Mini Holidays stamp set in Versamark and heat embossed it with my Heat-It craft tool.  Then I stamped them again  and embossed them with white detail embossing powder.  I stamped the evergreen bough a couple of times using Ranger Distress ink in Bundled Sage.

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I added some seam binding and the mini calendar from the same stamp set (which was stamped on some soft patterned paper).  The corrugated numbers are from Jillibean Soup.

The reindeer was stamped in Versamark and clear embossed onto soft suede cardstock.  I cut it out by hand.  Everything was adhered using Scor-Tape and foam mounting tape.

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Ok, now it's time for you to visit the rest of the awesome E-Team and see the fabulous creations they've come up with for your viewing pleasure!

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Thanks so much for visiting with me today!

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