Olivia's Apple

It's pretty amazing that it's almost July isn't it?  This year is flying by!
And the start of a new month means it's time for another release of gorgeous new stamps at CC Designs.

Today the Design Team are previewing CC Design stamps.  Head over to the blog to see everyone's creations.

I chose to work with this stamp called Olivia's Apple and I think she's really adorable!

The sentiment is a new one too and is from a set called All About Teachers.  I decided to try using the chalkboard technique with it.  My girls have lots of teachers and I always like to make thank you cards for them to let them know how much they're appreciated. So this set, along with the gorgeous Olivia, is wonderful and will get used a lot.

Ingredients :
Stamps : Olivia's Apple, All About Teachers (CC Designs)
Card : x-press it, black, sahara sand, Summer Stories (Teresa Collins)
Ink : memento black, versamark, antique linen DI
Other : woodgrain EF (SU), white crayon, ribbon (SU), white embossing powder, copics

Copics Used :

YG 03, 11, 95

R 24, 27, 29, 30, 59

BG 0000, 000, 11, 72

W 00, 1, 3

E 000, 00, 21, 50, 55

Thanks for dropping by for a look today :)
Kathy

Merry Owl

I saw this cute sketch over at retro sketches this week and decided it would work wonderfully for using up all those little scraps of Christmas paper I have stashed away.



I broke out my trusty owl punch again to make a cute Christmas card. This is another card for my Christmas card making day with friends this weekend :)




Ingredients :
Stamps : Occasional greetings, Tags til Christmas
Card : vanilla, espresso, lime aid, peach, crumb cake, naturals ivory, SU dsp
Ink : espresso, cherry
Other : owl punch, pearls, big shot, woodgrain ef


Kathy

Party Cow

 

This super cute cow is another wonderful stamp from the Whimsy Stamps July Release.  It is by Crissy Armstrong and is called You Moove Me.

I coloured her with my copics and I cut an extra head out and stuck it on top with glue dots so that I could give her a little extra dimension.

The sentiment is from a great set called Birthday Letter Seals.  There are lots of great sayings in this set but amazingly it doesn’t have “Party ‘til the cows come home” in it!!! :)  So I used this birthday wishes seal but I made the cow part myself on the computer and coloured that part in too.

 

Ingredients :

Stamps : You Moove Me, Birthday Letter Seals

Card : x-press it, black, subtles dsp stack (SU)

Ink : memento black

Other : copics, gold spica pen, big shot, woodgrain ef, bakers twine, subtles button, subtles candy dots (SU)

 

I really loved colouring this gorgeous cow.  I think I will be making lots more cards with her and using lots of cow puns too!  If you have any good ones please write and let me know :)

 

Kathy

Guy’s Celebrate

 

This week at still addINKtive we have another sketch and colour challenge for you.

I had a guy’s card to make and I thought these colours would work but I made a torn frame around the square instead of using the scallop. I just think it would have looked too “girly”!

I stamped the world and the log in turquoise and crumb cake and then embossed the ship with choc chip over the top.  I also embossed the sentiment flag. 

I used the woodgrain embossing folder on crumb cake and wiped the white ink pad over it to highlight the grain.

I made the compass embellishment by stamping on starfruit in choc and then again onto white.  I used a little turquoise marker on the points and punched out circles with different sized punches.  The centre (white circle) was cut by hand though.

 

Ingredients :

Stamps : perfectly penned, french foliage, the open sea

Card : choc chip, white, crumb cake, starfruit

Ink : choc chip, turquoise, crumb cake, versamark, white

Other : antique brads, circle punches, square punch, clear embossing powder, big shot, wood ef,

 

Please take a look at what our still addINKtive team have come up with this week and show us what you create using our sketch, colours or both :)

 

Kathy