Guest Stamper - Color Throwdown

I've been so excited to share this card with you. 

 I was able to be the Featured Stamper at Color Throwdown this week and that allowed me to get to play along with their team with this weeks challenge.

 When I saw the color combo for this week I was so happy and really couldn't wait to start creating a card for it. 

 I wanted to be able to really feature that amazing blue so I turned to a Stephanie Barnard Clearsnap spray ink in Blueberry.  I sprayed it on a piece of watercolor paper. I actually used quite a bit of the ink so I had enough to be able to move it around.  I used an acrylic block to smudge it abit and I also gave it a spritz of water.  The sentiment is a stamp from Printworks Rubber Stamps.

I used some flower stamps from a set by Altenew.  I stamped the flowers with white ink and embossed them with white embossing powder.  In order to get that bright, strong yellow, I sprayed some Stephanie Barnard Clearsnap ink in Banana on my stamped images.  I did this in order to color my paper so I made sure to completely cover the paper and the images.  After this sat a bit I gently wiped off the excess ink and left it to dry.  The middles of the flowers were colored with a Copic marker.  A Martha Stewart paper doily was used to anchor my flowers plus I thought it gave a nice accent of white since that is one of the colors. 

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

You Are Amazing!

Another fun card to share with you...

 I went to the Freshly Made sketch and some great stamps from Avery Elle.  I am so in love with creating watercolor looks so this card is no exception.  I so love the way the Distress Stain color ran with the water.

 I took one of the image stamps, inked it each time with Distress Stain, gave it a spritz of water before each stamping and created a background with that image.  I then added a smaller image in a different color to the middle of each of those images.  Next, I used a frame stamp, inked it too with Distress Stain, spritzed it with with water and stamped it.  I stamped this great sentiment on the label and then cut out the label. The leaves were also inked with Distress Stain, stamped and then cut out with the matching die. I just love the resulting soft colors. The doily is from Martha Stewart.

Here is the Freshly Made Sketch.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

Distress Stains

Oh how I love Distress Stains! There is so much that can be created with them.  

 For this card, I simply used the color combination at Colour Q.  They are so pretty and springy.  

 I took three colors of Distress Stain and made "splats" of stain on my paper.  I think that look is just so much fun and pretty much unpredictable.  The butterfly is cut from paper that I also colored with that yellow Distress Stain.  The die cut words are new to me from a set by Die-Versions. 

Here is the Colour Q combination.

My card also fits the "three" challenge at CAS-ual Fridays.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

The little birdie says Hello!

I had so much fun with this card!

 I used the Freshly Made sketch as my launching pad.  I felt the sky was really the limit with this great sketch.  I started with one of my embossing folders, the bubble background. I made sure to not emboss the entire front of the card.  This embossed piece was then accented with a spray of two different colors of ink. 

 My main focal piece is a little birdie digital image from A Day for Daisies.  After I printed it out, I added some real simple coloring. The little dots were added with a stencil.  The doily looking piece is a Martha Stewart anywhere punch. I punched it once and then cut that out. I added it to my card, going "off the page".  That makes it fit the CAS-UAL Friday challenge.  The word "hello" is a Paper Smooches die cut.

Here is the Freshly Made sketch.

Here is the CAS-UAL Fridays challenge.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

Butterflies and bike riding

I wanted to play along with the Colour Q combo for this week so I pulled out a brand new set of stamps I just picked up from Tim Holtz. 

 I love the design of these stamps so I picked this set. It has something for Valentines day, Easter and Fourth of July not to mention other holidays.  I was pretty sure this butterfly would fit that color combo well.  The banner and sentiment are from Paper Smooches.

 The background is a stamp from Fun Stampers Journey, I just didn't ink it thoroughly so it looks a little distressed.  The butterfly is colored with Copic markers and that yellow accent is punched with a Martha Stewart anywhere punch.  I added some Glossy Accents on portions of the butterfly.

 Here is the Colour Q combo.

This also fits the Addicted to CAS Summer challenge.

 I also have several new stamps from Hero Arts so I sat down and did a whole bunch of playing.  I'll be showing off more and more of that playing along the way. 

I used the Brush Strokes set and just stamped randomly.  I used this little strip for a background for the bicycle stamps.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

Encourage a Friend

I love using scripture verses on cards to friends.

 I did make this to tell a friend "Thank You" but I wanted to share it with you before I put it in the mail.  I love this verse and there is a song that goes with those words so I am finding myself singing that now that I have stamped it. The verse is from a new set of stamps by Layers of Color stamps. 

 The flower and leaves are stamps from PaperTrey, Ink. This just might be my most favorite flower stamp.  I colored that with Copic markers.  That great doily is from a set of doilies by Martha Stewart that I found at Joanns Craft store and those papers are new from Die Cuts With a View. The entire collection is soooo cool.

And for some photos...

 We stopped along the California coast - this view is at Fort Bragg.  I loved the color of the water. 

 Another view

 And, the reason we stopped at Fort Bragg is the wonderful and amazing Glass Beach.  Yes, the sand is more polished glass then sand.  The pieces are really small, but fun nonetheless.  The story goes it was an old dump or something.

And, how is this for a weathervane? LOVED it.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)