Purple Love

 

I wanted to use my new Swallowtail stamp again and I found a great sketch at Freshly Made Sketches to inspire me.  I did change it a little and made mine a square card instead so that I could fit the whole butterfly on.

I stamped and embossed the Swallowtail with Elegant Eggplant onto crumb cake card and painted over it with white ink.  Then I used wisteria, eggplant and calypso coral markers and a blender pen to colour it.

Ingredients :

Stamps : Swallowtail, Curly Cute

Card : wisteria, white, crumb cake, grey

Ink : stazon, white, versamark, eggplant, markers (eggplant, wisteria, coral)

Other : big shot, elegant bouquet ef, white pen, blender pen

 

When my 11 year old daughter saw this card she begged me to give it to her for her birthday this year.  She is a “purple girl”! :)  Her birthday isn’t till August but she just fell in love with this pretty purple butterfly. I’ll save it and give it to her, hopefully she’ll forget about it and be surprised and in love with it all over again!

 

Kathy

Happy Diamonds

 

This is the last of my cards for the Diamond and Pearl theme at the Dirty Dozen.

 

 

I punched squares from two different papers from the neutrals dsp stack  and arranged them in a diamond pattern for the background. I coloured the "diamonds" with a permanent marker to make them black and made a flower from red satin ribbon.

Ingredients :

Stamps : Curly Cute

Card : black, red, white, neutral dsp stack

Ink : stazon

Other : red satin ribbon, rhinestones, antique brad, square punch

 

Kathy

Thank You Nature

This week at still addINKtive we have a colour and sketch challenge.



You can choose to do both or just the sketch or just the colours.  We’re flexible like that :)

I stamped the bird onto watercolour paper with stazon and used my aqua painter to pick up some raspberry ink and colour the breast.  The rest of the bird was coloured the same way with crumb cake and then I went over the top of that with some wisteria for the feathers.

The sketch really called for a doily but amazingly I have none! I’ve resisted the doily craze so far :) There are doilies for the big shot, pre made ones and doily stamps.  There are also various circle stamps that could be used like a doily, but I don’t have any of those either! So I just went with the scallop trim edge and I also decided to add a sentiment in place of the ribbon. I have just bought some flower trim though and I cut one flower off and used some wisteria ink to dye it.


Ingredients :
Stamps : Nature walk, en francais, curly cute
Card : white, wisteria, basic grey, watercolour
Ink : stazon, white, wisteria, crumb cake, raspberry
Other : big shot, lacy brocade ef, stripes ef, scallop trim punch, festive paper piercing pack, flower trim, labels framelits


Please take a look at what the very talented design team at still addINKtive have created this week …. and please play along with us.


Kathy :)

Pop-up Greetings

Well amazingly I am entering a challenge this week!  I just haven’t had time for any extra lately, with my design team work for Just Add Ink and the Dirty Dozen.  But I have missed them.

My club hostess this month asked if we could do a Christmas Card and so I went searching for a good sketch and found this great one at one of my favourite sites Freshly Made Sketches.





 


I coloured the girl with watercolour crayons and sponged the card a fair bit for an “antique” look.  I used the core’dinations card stock for the first time too and I was happy with how it turned out.

I always like to teach my club something new and so I made it a Pop-up Gift Card Holder.  This is how the card looks on the inside.
There is a great tutorial for this on Splitcoast here if you’d like to give it a try.  I did change mine slightly though.





Ingredients :
Stamps : Greeting card kids, Curly cute
Card : watercolour paper, vanilla, crumb cake, cherry core’dinations, festival of prints dsp stack
Ink : stazon, crumb cake
Other : sticky strip, aqua painter, watercolour crayons, linen thread, big shot, petals a plenty ef, square punch


This card was lots of fun to make and nowhere near as hard as I thought it was going to be :)

Kathy

Romantic Polka

 

At Just Add Ink this week we have a challenge to Just Add Polka Dots.

 

I decided to use the flowers from Bordering on Romance again and of course lots of dots.

I was a bit “mmmm maybe” about this set when it first came out and I didn’t buy it straight away.  But I’m so glad I decided to get it.  These flowers are just so pretty and they are great to colour.

I coloured the flowers with markers on watercolour paper again and I love this colour combo too.  This time I used wisteria, island indigo and elegant eggplant with lucky limeade for the leaves.

 

Ingredients :

Stamps :  Bordering on Romance, Curly cute

Card : concord crush, vanilla, watercolour paper, in colour dsp stack (ret)

Ink : stazon, markers (wisteria, indigo, eggplant, limeade, bashful blue)

Other : limeade ribbon. mat pack, tasteful trim, big shot, pearls

 

The JAI design team have made some gorgeously dotty cards this week.  Please take a look and join us in this (not very hard) challenge.

 

Kathy

Baby Hedgehog

 

The challenge this week at Just Add Ink is to Just Add Pearls.

I made this baby card for my daughter’s teacher who just went on maternity leave.  We didn’t know whether she was having a boy or a girl so I tried to go neutral with yellow. This card was from all the families in the class and we bought her a little present as well.  She absolutely loved it :)

I’ll admit there are only a few pearls on there but they are still an important element of the card.

Ingredients :

Stamps : In a nutshell (Penny Black), Curly Cute

Card : basic grey, going grey, white, x-press it, daffodil delight, saffron, neutral dsp stack

Ink : memento black, stazon

Other : copics, big shot, nesties, daffodil taffeta ribbon, mat pack, white pen, pearls

 

Please take a look at what the rest of the design team created this week and play along with us.

Kathy

Thinking of Paisley

 

My club hostess asked me if we could make a card with this Spiced Paisley set tomorrow.  So I looked at some of my favourite challenge blogs for inspiration.

Well ColourQ have an amazing combo this week and I decided to give it a try.

I thought they were pretty weird colours to put together actually.  I never would have chosen them, NEVER!  But Arielle has a great “eye” and isn’t scared of unusual colour combos obviously! LOL

 

Ingredients :

Stamps : Spiced Paisley, Curly Cute

Card : vanilla, calypso coral, vellum card

Ink : bravo burgundy, pool party, pumpkin, stazon, versamark

Other : white embossing powder, square punch, big shot, polka dot ef, everyday enchantment brads

 

The “flower” is actually white embossed onto vellum cardstock and I cut a piece of calypso coral in the same shape to place behind it.

I actually love how this turned out.  The colours really do work well together and I think the hostess will love it too!  Thanks ColourQ!

 

Kathy