Frilly and Funkie

The Funkie Junkie, Linda Coughlin, has started a new challenge called Frilly & Funkie.  The first challenge was yesterday, and I couldn’t wait to play!  Although I love vintage style creations, they do take me forever to do!  Thankfully, their challenges are every other week once they get started!  I printed out a vintage Easter postcard, mounted it on Pool Party card, and added some vintage embellishments:

Most everything was a little scrap from here & there!  There is a little bit of stamping, and I dyed the seam binding with some Pool Party ink.  Here are a couple closeups:

  

If you have any questions about anything on the card, just shoot me an email (be sure to include yours as well so I can answer!). And how about some gymnastics?

 

Thanks for visiting today!

Retrosketches 4 & 3

Well, I am still having LiveWriter issues today but hopefully this will post through Blogger!  I am just not computer-savvy enough to figure out why things happen the way they do!  Anyhoo, I needed a quick thank-you card, and the RetroSketches sketch#4 was perfect to get me started:

And here is my card, done in monochromatic shades of Wisteria Wonder:

I used Butterfly Prints, Short & Sweet and Style Beautiful, along with a Label Framelit and Adorning Accent Embosslit.  Here's a closer view:

I also did a card for the RetroSketch #3, but never got a chance to post it:

I used one of Arielle's digital images, colored with Copics.  I don't have a picture of Cassidy to share today, but how about one of Pumpkin, sleeping in one of her favorite places.....a SU box!

Enjoy your day!

Troubles.....

I had some email/hacking issues last night, so I am trying to get them resolved. Hopefully my post will be up shortly!!!

ColourQ130

Arielle is tempting us today with some lovely Easter colors for the ColourQ:

Wouldn’t you love to have a handcrafted fabric basket like that?  So sweet!  I had to make do with a stamped “basket”:

For some reason, my Certainly Celery just doesn’t look right in the photo, but  that’s what it is!  I used the sketch from the Card Monkey challenge this week:

They always have such fun challenges!  I did some watercoloring and embossing on my card and used a few diecuts as well:

Hope you’ll play along with these fun, bright colors!  This palette can be interpreted in so many ways!  We can’t wait to see what you come up with; please share it with us at the ColourQ blog and make sure you see what the other designers have done as well!

Little sleepyhead!

Merry Monday 13

 

Just a quick post today as we have a funeral to attend.  Lesley’s Merry Monday sketch was perfect for a little piece of DP I already had sitting on my desk:

and here’s my quick card:

Card base is Riding Hood Red, accent is Always Artichoke.  I stamped Santa on textured Very Vanilla and just colored him in with markers and added some Dazzling Diamonds glitter!  Easy peasy!

Thanks for the visit!  Be sure to come back tomorrow for the next ColourQ challenge!

A bazillion toys and she plays with coasters!!!

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Happy Sunday!  Ann has a wonderful Paper Players sketch for us today:

I love this sketch!  I hope it will inspire you too! Here’s what I came up with:

I used the Rosemary image from Herb Expressions, stamped in Stazon on watercolor paper and watercolored with Marina Mist and Wild Wasabi.  I gave it some “antiquing” with the waterspot image from French Foliage in Sahara Sand and antiqued all the edges with SS as well.  I added a little felt border cut with the Tasteful Trim die, and the little spade is from a retired set called Garden Pleasures (thanks, Wanda, for that idea!).  The piece of First Edition DP, which I grabbed out of my folder willy-nilly, just happened to have information on herbals!!  A nice tie-in!  Here are a couple closeups:

This card also qualifies for:

• Hand Stamped Sentiments Challenge 100:  watercoloring and
• Raise the Bar Challenge 97:  gardening

We can’t wait to see what colors, images and embellishments you use on your creations this week!  Share them with us at the Paper Players blog, and while you’re there, be sure to see what the other designers have come up with!

The first popsicle of the season!

F4A109 Mermaid Birthday

 

A friend asked me to make a second birthday card for her granddaughter, and she likes mermaids.  This is what I came up with for her:

 

This is probably one of my favorite cards I ever made!  I just love the colors, the digital image and the background paper!  Of course, those little starfish are cute, too!  The three of them allowed this card to also qualify for the Free 4 All Challenge yesterday at SCS—Three or More!  It’s hard to see, but there are little sparkles on her “scales”:

She was colored with Copics, and I used the SU colors of Pool Party, Peach Parfait and Calypso Coral for ink and cardstock.   Thanks for visiting today!

DH made Cassidy a really nice little sandbox!