Copics
Hair: E21, E23, E25, Star: Y15, Y35, Dress: BG11, BG23, BG34, Ribbons: YR12, YR15, YR16, Shadow: W3
Products:
Lili of the Valley, Grace Faith
Button & Bed, Decorative Lace Edge Rectangle
Pear Blossom Press, T Square Ruler
Copics
Hair: E21, E23, E25, Star: Y15, Y35, Dress: BG11, BG23, BG34, Ribbons: YR12, YR15, YR16, Shadow: W3
Products:
Lili of the Valley, Grace Faith
Button & Bed, Decorative Lace Edge Rectangle
Pear Blossom Press, T Square Ruler
Guess what image is back today on my special card? Probably my favorite flower for 2025 from Unity Stamps ~ this single partially opened large petal flower from Unity Stamps, 'Blow Your Mind' package. While it doesn’t appear to be huge, believe me – you can’t stamp two of them on a 6” square! It's big, bold and beautiful!
My
close friend made the decision to move to assisted living
last month and today's card is one I made for her.
You know if you’re a follower of my blog that she loved her flowers and
loved to ‘try’ to teach me how to care for them. Her flowers didn’t go with her to her new
home so I guess I’ll have to fill her new shelves with Copic colored flowers and
funny sentiments to brighten her day.
Although I’m happy to say she is having a blast, enjoying the food,
games and of course a whole new world of friends... I do miss her.
For
this card, I stamped the flower image with black Versa Fine Clair and heat
embossed it. I used Copic markers for
coloring the flower in several shades of red. I
found a coordinating background paper that looks like paint brush strokes with colors from yellows, oranges and reds
and even a bit of aqua. I also came across this mint
green lacey cut oval doily in my stash and started building the card front
by securing it in the center first. Then
I die cut on large leafy stem out of dark green and trimmed it into several
pieced to fit around the bottom of the flower.
After adding a layer of foam to the embossed flower, I secured it to the
card front, overlapping the doily, and secured the leaf stems around the
bottom. I also added a foam strip to
the sentiment, then secured it across the image to complete the card front
design. Once I added it to the 6” card
base it was ready to go to my friend's new home.
Thanks
for stopping by to see what I’ve been coloring. Come back soon!
Pam’s
Pearls
I will
be entering this card in the following challenges:
Allsorts ~ Challenge 830 ~ I Spy Something with B= Big Bloom
Creative Inspiration ~ August ~ Challenge 29
The Sisterhood of Crafters ~ August ~ Card of Encouragement
Beautiful Blossoms ~ Optional Board #32
Copics
Flower:
R35, R37, R46, R56
Products
Today I'm posting with the All Dressed Up Digital Stamp Design Team as we revisit this month's new images. Check out all the design team post on the ADU Blog Challenge.
For my project card, I selected Flamingo Splash and made this summer pool party card that could be used for any occasion.
After printing the image on Neenah 110# cardstock, I used my Copic markers for coloring. The image of this flamingo was fun to color in the traditional bright fuchsia shades, followed by the tiny little girl floating away with her ice cream cone!
Then I started adding my own personal touch to the image. Once I started adding the water around the float, I decided to make the area a pool versus an ocean or lake outside area. I drew in the horizontal pool wall line for the water's edge and then another line about 1/2" above for the sidewalk edge. From there I continued the scene upward with the many shades of a sunrise or sunset and adding a few darker clouds also.
When the coloring was complete, I tried out several of my fence dies to find one small enough to work for the pool background area. I settled on the Spellbinder, Wrought Iron Fence die. I cut several and trimmed a couple of pieces to fit around the images, then secured to the background of the image.
I trimmed up the rough edges, then double matted with black then orange and put aside. For the card base, I added a black matting and then a pink patterned matting. Once secured I added the completed image with mats to the card base and secured. I added the Happy Birthday sentiment on the right bottom and the 'cool in the pool' bottle cap sentiment on the left side and the die cut beach ball near the flamingo to complete the card design.
Thanks for stopping by to see what I've been coloring.
Pam's Pearls
I'll be entering this card in the following challenges:
Creative Crafters ~ Challenge 91
Daisy Chain ~ Challenge 99 ~ Girls
Unicorn Challenge ~ Challenge 112 ~ Girls
Copics
Flamingo Float: RV04. RV06, RV09, YR23, YR15, YR16, N4, N6,
Girl ~ Hair: E41, E42, E43, Bows: YR04, Ice Cream Cone: E84, Y15, RV02, YG05, YR02, Bathing Suit: YR04, YG05, YG06
Water: B63, B34, B32, B37, BG11, BG49, C3, N3, Sky, YR65, E95, R11, Y11
Products
All Dressed Up Digital Stamps, Flamingo Splash
Spellbinder, Wrought Iron Fence
Today I'm giving a big shout out to my friend Lisa Jones on her special birthday and sharing the card that I made for her.
Knowing that Lisa's favorite colors are yellow and orange really helped with my decisions throughout this card as I kept getting pulled more to the aquas and purples.
I had decided I wanted to use the Floral Seahorse from Technique Junkies and to emboss with white, then Copic color the image. Little did I realize how hard that was going to be to see the lines and tiny spaces on this very detailed image.
But here's the finished card and just a few details following ~
I'm back this afternoon to share one adorable puppy basking in the sun under his umbrella. It's the new challenge for All Dressed Up Digital Stamps and I've selected 'Beach Time' to use for my Design Team card for this posting.
I hope you'll hop over to the All Dressed Up Challenge to see all of the Design Team cards and enter your card made with a ADU image for the challenge. Thanks for stopping by here!
Pam's Pearls
I'll be posting this card on the following challenges:
Alphabet Challenge ~ August ~ Ink Blending
A Place to Start - August ~ Summer Things
Products
Today I'm posting with the Design Team for the Classic Design Challenge as we open the August/September challenge. Our challenge is always Anything goes and our Twist for this month will be 'Happy Birthday'.
A big thank you goes out to our sponsor, Mirtillamente Digital Designs. For my project card, I've selected their Lisa LeGine Happy Birthday and made a 'wobbler' birthday card.
I started by printing and coloring the image with Copics in bright neon colors to match the flowery glitter paper I'd selected. I colored about a 1/4" border on the outside of the image with the green neon and then cut out the birthday girl and set her aside. Next I die cut the black background mat using Gina Marie Designs Pierced Nested Die. I trimmed the flowered print to fit the 5 3/4" square card base and secured it. Then I added the black mat on the left side, near the fold.
For the sentiment I used the words that came with the digital package but I retyped the work BIG and enlarged it to fit the card theme. After trimming each word, I doodled around and added the green neon to the edges then added to the card base on the right side.
To attach the birthday girl, I used a 'wobbler' spring, which is a purchased plastic spring with adhesive on both ends. One attaches to the card base and one to the object you want to move or wobble. Here's a short clip ~
Today the Word Art Wednesday Challenge is opening for Weeks #712-713. The new sponsor is Stix2Anything and our featured scripture is from Deuteronomy 32:4.
For my Design Team card today I have used a generic mountain image and added the selected scripture.
I don't know about you but 'MY Momma' taught me to always say thank you and to do it promptly. When I came home from Stamp Camp 2025, my husband was having hip replacement surgery two days later and thank you notes for the girls and gifts were the last thing on my priority list.
The longer time past the worse I felt about not getting my little notes in the mail until finally I just had to stop everything and get them done! I honestly was so tired from taking care of my patient that making a choice of what image to use for 10 different ladies was mind boggling....especially when I wanted each card to have uniqueness specific to the receiver.
After a good bit of searching I finally ran across the Cherry Blossom Monogram Alphabet and knew I'd found exactly what I wanted to make to send to each of the Stamp Camp 2025 ladies. Here's a peak of the starting day..
This beautiful floral alphabet would be perfect, especially since we all have a list of each other's favorite colors. I colored each one with my Copic markers, die cut with Penny Black's Elegant Stitching Rectangle Die and mounted on coordinating card bases. The butterflies additions are from various manufacturers.
It was wonderful to be a part of Stamp Camp 2025, to see old friends and to meet a few new ones. Our hostess is always the best and finds the most unique locations. We each showered our crafty friends with so many cute gifts and amazing crafty projects. Thankfully, I finally got all my thank you notes in the mail!
The finished products ~
When I attended Stamp Camp back in June, Ginger taught two different types of Eco prints techniques. The 'Leaf Spraying' technique was a lot shorter method to get to the beautiful results than the method of using rusty nails and boiling a wrapped bundle of several prints. Both methods however produced beautiful Eco prints for backgrounds.
Today I'm sharing the first card I've made using the sprayed Eco print I made at camp. I am grateful for the gals that gathered the assortment of leaves for all of us to have an amazing assortment to work with.