Eloise Greengrass in Raspberry Tart

Look at this sweetie from Stamping Bella! Love her name! I looked through my stash of paper and SU's Raspberry Tart was the unmistakeable choice. It's perfect for her pretty flower petal dress.

I colored her with my colored pencils, and OMS. I always use a combination of Lyra, Polychromos and Prismacolor pencils. I think I like the Lyra's the best, and look at this price at ASW! You will NOT find a lower price anywhere, LOL. They are an awesome colored pencil, but unfortunately there aren't as many colors available as Faber Castell Polychromos, or Prismacolor. I hope they will expand the set some day.

Well, my sweetie is bugging me to decide where I want to go to dinner today (early Mother's Day), since we are visiting our mothers tomorrow, but I'm not hungry, so I can't decide!

Thanks for stopping by!

Stamps: Stamping Bella

Ink: Palette

Paper: SU, Bristol vellum, Papertrey Ink

Accessories: Nestabilities, Prima flower, Dew Drop, PTI ribbon, Stickles, Colored pencils, OMS, piercing tool

A Gift

I Forgot about this beautiful Elisabeth Bell image by Sugar Nellie I got with my last order, so I inked it up quick and made this card with it. I love the little girl's polka dotted dress. I decided to pair it with this paper from Cosmo Cricket's Everafter collection. Very unusual color combinations that were a little hard to work with. But I like the result, very sophisticated and subdued.

The flower flourish in the upper left corner is a Verve Visual stamp that I stamped on a scrap of DP and painstakingly cut out. Pheww! That took a while! But it sure is pretty.

Our new puppy Ollie is going for his first Vet visit today! I have tons of questions for the vet, particularly why his breath is so bad! He has serious skunk breath! It's so bad it wakes me up in the middle of the night. He likes to plop his fat little self right next to my head on my pillow and breathe right on me, yuck! He's adorable and a pretty good pup, but something is not right with his breath!

Well, I'm off--thanks for stopping by!

Stamps: Sugar Nellie, Verve Visual, SU

Ink: Palette, Distress

Paper: Bristol vellum, Cosmo Cricket, Bazzill, PTI

Accessories: Spellbinders megabilites, MS arch lattice punch, Stickles, self stick pearls, striped ribbon, colored pencils, OMS

Princess Maisy Ketto

How's this for adorable? This is little Maisy Ketto, fluttering around with her little crown. I love coloring these sweeties, with all their different patterns and little details.

I'm sure you're noticing how much I'm using the border punches lately! I don't know how I made cards without them! They add such a wonderful touch to everything. Plain and boring to fantastic in a few strokes. I used the Martha Stewart Arch Lattice punch on the edge of this card, I love the effect. Shhh...don't tell but I plan on collecting all these suckers! I just hope they don't go the way of decorative edge scissors...

Thanks for looking, have a great day!

Stamps: Stamping Bella

Ink: Palette

Paper: Bristol vellum, Basic Grey, Papertrey Ink, SU

Accessories: Nestabilities, PTI ribbon, Stickles, Liquid Pearls, MS lattice punch, Scribbles 3D paint, colored pencils, OMS

CPS114 Sketch Challenge

I haven't played along with a sketch challenge in a long time, so I popped on over to the Card Positioning Systems blog to see what they had going on for the week. Sometimes I get stuck in a rut using the same basic layout for my cards over and over, so using someone else's sketch sometimes helps me dig myself out. Freshens things up and gives me new ideas to work with.

Here's my pretty simple take on the sketch. I saw it as a perfect opportunity to use my new Papertrey Ink buttons! All those lovely colors that I've never used yet. The colors are Aqua Mist, Fresh Snow and Hibiscus burst.

Hope it inspires!

Stamps: Verve Visual

Ink: Perfect Match

Paper: Papertrey Ink, vellum

Accessories: Nesties, PTI ribbons & buttons, corner rounder

Adorable Ketto!

Aren't these the most adorable little fairies?!! I love them! They're so funky and whimsical! I just may have to get the whole collection of them from Stamping Bella...
Of course I had to use pretty sherbet colors, because that's what colors fairies are, right?! In my mind they are, LOL. This DP is actually from a K & Co. baby mat pad. Perfect colors , IMO. Not your typical baby pastels, they do actually remind me of sherbet ice cream.

Thanks for looking!

Stamps: Stamping Bella, SU
Ink: Palette, Perfect Match
Paper: Bristol vellum, K & Co., Bazzill
Accessories: SU scallop oval & oval punches, Spellbinders flower dies, Stickles, Liquid Pearls, colored pencils, OMS, Martha Stewart Lace punch, yellow seam binding ribbon, Copic Spica pens

Tilda the Butterfly

Here's a rather funky Tilda card, with a kind of pop-art, retro feel to it, doesn't it? It wasn't what I was planning at all while coloring the image, but I love the big polka-dot paper Magnolia sent to me, and it just kind of took off all on it's own after I decided to use it.

Tilda's wings are all sparkly and glittery of course, just as a butterfly's wings should be. It was a lot of fun coloring this one, acutally all Magnolia images are great to color! Not too detailed so that it's a pain in the neck to get in to all the tiny places, but not too simple either. Just right! And I think they have the largest variety of Tilda images in every pose, outfit and season. That's what I love--I can always find the perfect image for whatever kind of card I'm creating.

Hope you like it, and thanks for coming by!

Stamps: Magnolia

Ink: Palette

Paper: Bazzill, Bristol vellum, unknown DP

Accessories: Pink brads, Basic Grey buttons, yellow satin ribbon, colored pencils, OMS, Stickles

Mother's Day Teapot Card

I needed to take a break from coloring for a change. I think this is the first time I've ever let Papertrey Ink new releases sit in their box uninked for more than a day! I didn't play with these for over a week after I got them. Not like me!

I do think my style is changing though, and I use my PTI sets less and less. :-( Although I always reach for the sentiment sets, oh--and the background sets! I will always love those! I used four colors for this background, Aqua Mist, Ocean Tides, Spring Moss, and Avocado.

The teapot was stamped first, then I masked it off with a post it, and used the flourish from Silent Night to stamp the design on the teapot. Not bad, huh? LOL.

Thanks for stopping by!

All supplies from Papertrey Ink, & Cuttlebug EF