Ink & Share Blog Hop: Occasions Catalogue

     Hello and welcome to another Ink & Share Blog Hop with this month's theme being the Occasions Catalogue! 

As I was sorting and organizing my stamp sets, I was disappointed to see so many of my stuff are retiring, and most of them are from the Occasions catty. The sad thing is that I haven't even played with two items from my retiring sets...the We Must Celebrate and You're Inspiring sets. So to remedy this, I decided to challenge myself and use both sets for my card for this month's blog hop. And this is what I came up with!

To make this card, I used the masking technique to stamp my three layers of images...one row of daffodils at the bottom, masked using my favorite masking tool: Magic Cover from the dollar store. Then I stamped my second layer which are my cute critters, masked again before stamping my last layer of flowers at the top. 

Hard to see in the picture but here are the masks I used. 

Also, because these stamps were rubber stamps, I used my handy-dandy Stampa-ma-jig to help me position my images. Now it's just a matter of colouring these images in! I used both watercolor pencils and markers to color these. Just like a good ol' coloring book!

I wanted to frame in my art piece, so I cut a frame out of a piece of Basic Black cardstock   (4 1/4 x 5 1/2), leaving a half inch border all around. Then I thought that this was too plain so I decided to gold heat emboss a pattern around my frame, and I chose the stamp from Southern Serenade for this. I adhered my frame onto my art piece using adhesive foam strips for dimesion, and then I just put this whole piece onto a Whisper White card base.

To finish my card, I just gold heat embossed my sentiment from We Must Celebrate on a strip of vellum, then outlined it with a black pen to make it stand out better. For embellishments I just added some glitter enamel dots on my sentiment piece, some Wink of Stella on my flowers, and a gold ribbon bow at the corner.

And that is my card for today's blog hop...I hope you guys like it. It was fun and challenging for me to combine these two stamp sets, and I like the outcome too! A very 'springy' card.

Thank you so much for stopping by and please continue hopping along and sharing in everyone's creativity! Have a lovely day!

Lisa Kmiec

Laura Kate Mackie

Sandrine Jse

Rhonda Waechter

Deb Naylor

Sandra Roberts

Joanne Hodge

Ingrid Heijnen-Hermens

Ginger Rabesa

Kirsten Aitchison

Shirley Merker

Linda Handford

Cindy Mitchell-Clark

Karen Pearmain

Tricia Butts

Amy Grendel

***Phoebe Borromeo-Carr***

Jacqueline Bobeldijk-Schilder

This card will also serve as my entry for this week's Global Design Project theme challenge: Show me the Sunshine, since I think that this card fits the theme perfectly! :)

Coloring Southern Serenade

     Today I felt like doing a little bit of coloring so I started to play with my Southern Serenade stamp set again. I didn't have a plan in mind as to how my finished card would look like, all I knew was that I was gonna use my markers and just color my images. So here's what I came up with...

     To make this card, I started with a Very Vanilla card base (A2 size), and a layering piece of Whisper White cardstock (4 x 5 1/4"). I stamped my flowers all around my layering piece using my Memento ink pad, and then colored my flowers in. After that I colored the whole background in using my grey marker. 

     Once I was done coloring I moved on to my sentiment. I punched out a piece of Tip Top Taupe using my Pretty Label Punch and then stamped my sentiment from the Birthday Blossoms stamp set. This set was one of the first sets I ever owned, and it's awesome that I can still use it to this day!

     Moving on, I die cut swirls using my Swirly Scribbles Thinlits dies on Lemon Lime Twist and Old Olive cardstock. To put my card together, I first wrapped a piece of mini-stripes tip top taupe ribbon around my art piece and then layered this piece on top of my card base. I then glued my swirls on and then stuck my sentiment piece using dimensionals. For a finishing touch, I added some rhinestone jewels.

     And that is my card for today, I hope you liked it. Thanks for stopping by and hope to see you next time! Have a lovely day!

Southern Serenade

     It is the end of the week (thank God!) again, and it is time for another Global Design Project challenge. This week, it is a colour challenge...using the fun combination of Melon Mambo, Daffodil Delight and Dapper Denim.

     For me, this color combo is a bit intriguing as I would never have thought to put these three colors together. I must say though that after looking at my finished card, I think this combo is brilliant! It is fun and playful, and I sure had fun playing with these colors.

     For this challenge, I decided to use my Southern Serenade stamp set because I just love this stamp set and I can't wait to play with it. Not only does this set have gorgeous images...it also has a lot of lovely sentiments. I think it's an awesome value because you can certainly create beautiful cards with just this one set.

     Starting with a Whisper White cardstock (4 x 5 1/4") I stamped my flowers in my Basic Black ink pad and then clear-heat-embossed it. Then I moved on to doing my background using the lacy flower stamp in the set with my Melon Mambo and Dapper Denim ink pads. I did not bother masking my flowers because I decided to go for a textured look for this card. The flowers were then simply coloured in using my blender pen and my Daffodil Delight ink refill.

     I stamped the sentiment on a die-cut circle piece of Basic Black cardstock using my Versamark pad and then gold-heat-embossed it. For embellishments I used my Flourish Thinlits Dies and die-cut a few blooms on a piece of gold foil sheet. I also used a piece of Daffodil Delight circle die-cut, and a strip of the glittery gold washi tape (from last year's SAB) that I coloured with a black marker. 

      So here is my finished card...thanks so much for stopping by. I hope you enjoyed my card as much as I did creating it, and I hope to see you next time. Have a lovely day!