Amethyst Mother Card

This is another Sunshine Designs stamp I've had for a long while. Perfect for a Mother's Day card. Paired with SU's DSP, colored with my colored pencils, and some gorgeous Iris colored seam binding ribbon. I added some dimension around the large flower's center with Liquid Pearls. Love those little bottles of shimmery paint!

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Stamps: Sunshine Designs, Papertrey Ink

Ink: Palette, Paper Salon

Paper: SU, PTI

Accessories: Stickles, Liquid Pearls, colored pencils, OMS, ribbon, brads, Spellbinders Labels Trio

The Groovy Bunny

I've posted a bunch of cards and notebooks/journals on Etsy, check them out if you're interested!

I've been putting off getting some stamps from The Greeting Farm for a while. Sometimes I do this to make sure I reeeeaalllly like them. A lot of times, I do impulse buying, without thinking, and later regret buying. So when I find something new I like, especially from a new company I've never purchased from before, I will wait for a while. If I still want them a couple of weeks later, then I'll allow myself to get some. If I end up using the stamps over and over, they'll have a long time customer, LOL. Well, I liked them so much, when they had a DT call a couple of weeks ago, I applied. But, it was not meant to be, boo hoo! Oh well.
The only thing I regret about this stamp is that it was part of a set, and I wasn't really crazy about the other stamps in the set. The bunny is what sold me. I love the bunny!
Yeah, yeah yeah, tell me you've never purchased an entire stamp set just for one stamp! In my case, I liked two of the stamps. The mushrooms and the bunny.

Of course, these images were made for the mushroom paper by K & Co.! Bright bold colors that remind me of the 60's. Grooooovy!

Stamps: The Greeting Farm

Ink: Palette, Paper Salon, Adirondack

Paper: Bristol Vellum, PTI, K & Co., Bazzill, SU

Accessories: Sheer lime ribbon, Stickles, colored pencils, OMS, Nesties, Buttons, MS leaves punch

Gorjuss For Everafter...

Sorry for the corny title, but I couldn't resist! There are so many adorable character stamps out there lately, it all started with Magnolias for me. Then the Rachelle Anne Miller stamps, then Sara Kay and Elisabeth Bell, now Gorjuss girls...with more on the way. Sigh...I am always broke. Just yesterday I received my adorable stamps from The Greeting Farm. I'll be posting one of those cuties soon.

I used the new Cosmo Cricket paper collection Everafter for this card. I had a heck of a time trying to line up those scallops though! Went through a couple pieces of the DP till I got it right. I hate when that happens!

Hope it inspires!
Samps: Sugar Nellie
Ink: Palette, Distress
Paper: PTI, Cosmo Cricket, SU
Accessories: PTI ribbon, colored pencils, OMS, McGill flowers punch, glass glitter, self stick pearls

Gently Falling Fairy

Well I was digging through my wood mounted stamps the other day, and came across this uninked from Stamps Happen. Now, I don't really mind using wood mounted stamps, they're nice to have, but I just don't have the room for them. I try to avoid buying them because of this. I end up having to store them in a box buried under other boxes of supplies I use everyday, so I forget about them, LOL. This one is a perfect example. I actually have two very similar stamps like this (unintentional, I meant to buy another one instead of this one). They are beautiful, though. I love most of the designs from Stamps Happen. This is a large stamp, too. The card measures 5" x 7" to give you an idea.


FYI, to answer a question left in my comments yesterday. I have many different brands of colored pencils, the whole set of Prismacolors, many Faber-Castell Polychromos, some Lyra's, old Spectracolor, Walnut Hollow oil pencils, Raffine, Design Spectracolor and a lot of Derwent. I usually use my Polychromos and Prismacolor's the most, since I have most of those colors. But I do use the others as well. I rarely just use one brand of colored pencils. HTH.

Thanks for looking, see you soon!

Stamps: Stamps Happen
Ink: Palette
Paper: Papertrey Ink, My Mind's Eye, SU, Bazzill
Accessories: Button, Seam Binding ribbon, Stickles, colored pencils, OMS,

Berry Sweetest

When I first saw PTI's new Melon Berry collection last month, my first thought was 'Strawberries'. I haven't done anything with it until I remembered the little strawberry stamps from 'Green Thumb'. So I quickly colored Lola holding her little kitty in matching colors.

I like the strawberries so much, I'm going to have to do it again, maybe devote a whole card to them, LOL.

Thanks for looking, see ya later!

Stamps: Stampavie, Papertrey Ink

Ink: Palette, Perfect Match

Paper: w/c paper, PTI

Accessories: Nestabilities, Liquid Pearls, Stickles, colored pencils, OMS, PTI ribbon

Fairy Flower

It's almost 60 degrees today, and I am stamping flowers and more flowers! There's no sign of flowers around here yet, but in my paper crafting haven, they're everywhere!
I've had this stamp from Sunshine Designs for a long time. I think it's one of the first stamps I purchased, right at the beginning of my stamping hobby a couple of years ago. I love their designs, but unfortunately, they're hard to find around here. I used my favorite colors on this one, a combination of periwinkle, pale violet and lime greens. I wish I had a little fairy stamp, because it looks like it should be the home to a tiny little fairy! LOL.

Colored with my Prismacolors and Polychromos & OMS. Added some glittery sparkle as well.

Thanks for looking, come back soon!

Stamps: Sunshine Designs

Ink: Palette

Paper: Bristol, Memory Box, PTI

Accessories: Stickles, self stick pearls, Liquid Pearls, colored pencils/OMS, Stickles, MS scallop punch, PTI ribbon

Gorjuss Girl & Porcelain

Paired up this sweet Gorjuss Girl with some Porcelain paper from the Basic Grey collection. The colors are so beautiful, I love the watercolor washes they included in this kit instead of the usual solid color papers. I punched the flowers with a McGill flower punch I picked up at Michael's a little while ago, embossed them to give them dimension and glittered them up with Stickles. Who needs Primas?!! LOL.

Well, I'm off to enjoy the warm temperatures, resume my daily walking routine now that I won't get frostbite!

Till later!

Stamps: Sugar Nellie

Ink: Palette

Paper: Basic Grey, Papertrey Ink, Bristol, Stardream

Accessories: PTI ribbon, colored pencils, OMS, McGill flower punch, tiny buttons, Stickles