Santa's Coming

 A happy Saturday hello from me.  The song says Santa is coming to town but as I look around stores in my community, I'd say he's already here! 

I'm not too much into Santa but this jolly guy is newly acquired and he's so cute!

I couldn't wait to feature him in the offering from Freshly Made Sketches. He's paired with a dancing penguin and the vertical word die.  This is also brand new and I know I will often use this in the holiday season. I used Copics to color. For sparkle, there's some wink of stell on his hat, and a few snowflakes.

I love this card layout I hope to use it again as it's so versatile! 

I hope your weekend is going well. It's rainy here, so I may have more crafty time!  Signing off with BIG hugs to you --

Be yourself

         Have delight in your craft 

               Make something beautiful!  

Supplies:  *new
Waffle Flower Overlapping Vertical Merry Word Die*, Gina K  Christmas Cheer stamps and dies*; Word stamp "Christmas is from PB stamps Christmas with Mimi

Challenges: 

Freshly Made Sketches 
NBUS
Simon Says Stamp  ATG, Gina K 
Christmas Kickstart Challenge - Santa
Peace on Earth Christmas Challenge 

Watercolor Flowers

Hello and mid-week greetings to you! 

I love to watercolor, so I jumped at the chance to get in a bit of a project with mine today. 

The Paper Players are asking for Clean and Simple cards using watercolor. I prefer simpler cards for a sympathy greeting, so I left lots of white space. Now I'm wondering if it's TOO simple? I added those three tiny gems just in case. 

After I stamped and white heat embossed the floral spray I used Mungyo 48 set paints in soft shades to watercolor. The sentiment is  from Taylored Expressions. It came out long ago, but I really like the style of the fonts. The flowers are from the Altenew Craft Your Life Kit called Watercolor Flowers. I just used the outline stamps today. I'm aiming for doing just a bit of stamping in random moments when I'm free or waiting for something. It's not quite working out that way yet - but I'm sticking with it! 

Be yourself

         Have delight in your craft 

               Make something beautiful!  

Challenges: 

The Paper Players

Tic Tac Toe across diagonally - Rectangle, Three or More Colors, Embossing

I Spy with my Little Eye #30 - something clean and simple

The Flower Challenge - Use the Sketch I did flip the sketch. 

Cascading Leaves

 Do you ever see a sketch or card challenge and then mull it over for a day or night or two? The simple but fun sketch from Freshly Made inspired today's card. The designers have wonderful samples and a clever variety of images. I went with leaves. 

Using an old set that's no longer available (Ellen Hutson - Pumpkin Season) my leaves were stamped on  a colorful array of Concord & 9th card stock. Clean and simple, done! 

Freshly Made Sketches

Hope you have a wonderful day! 

Be yourself

         Have delight in your craft 

               Make something beautiful!  

Beautiful in Blue

 Here's a mid-week post from me, I can't believe how the days have sped by! 

You know, I don't use blues often, or smoky shades either. But the cards from the talented ladies at Color Hues took my breath away. So I decided to play! 

Using Distress Oxide inks in Faded Jeans and Bundled Sage I did some stenciling with the Magnificent Magnolias stamps and stencils from Pinkfresh Studios in my stash. 

I kept the inking light so there was lots of white to brighten things up.

The card base is a paler blue card stock that I inked to match the flowers. It almost looks soft like suede, I love that bit of texture.  A generous sprinkling of flat opalescent sequins for more shine, and it's done! 

I'm happy to add this to the challenge at the Color Hues Challenge. I hope you'll consider playing along! Have a beautiful day. Thanks for your visit. 

Be yourself

         Have delight in your craft 

               Make something beautiful!  

Color Me Happy

 Hello friends and welcome to my blog. Do you have trouble coming up with names for your posts? 

For this post I began with "Carried Away by Color" and that wasn't quite right. I thought this card was a "happy accident " but chose Color Me Happy instead. All three are true. This happy accident began with an inked background and a background stamp combined.

In the mood to do some blending I combined Oxide inks in Worn Lipstick, Carved Pumpkin and Scattered Straw. Gina K has come out with a grip mat and on the other side are two background stamps, you can see it HERE. It's new to me and I love that it has multiple uses. I stamped with purple ink over top of the blended ink panel to add geometric images.

I looked at that panel for days! Not wanting to cover it up. Finally I decided the leaf images and HELLO sentiment seemed a good mix including gold sequins to dress it up. A bit quirky maybe, but I like it, even the purple!

I can't remember when I've had so much fun playing. Hope you have a great day and enjoy wherever this crafting journey takes you!

Adding this to Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge, Penny Black Saturday Challenge, NBUS and again to The Four Seasons Challenge. 

Be yourself

         Have delight in your craft 

               Make something beautiful!  

Supplies:
Penny Black dies - Dignified, Fall Foliage
Hello from Honeybee Stamps

A Taste of Fall

 I'm breathing some happy sighs this morning as it has been a while since I've been here on my blog and I'm pleased to have something to share! I did some coloring just for fun on these pretty sunflowers! 

Using my Copics this time, I kept it simple and light for an airy feel. I stamped the florals on the lower edge of the white card stock using Archival ink in Watering Can. 

After coloring the flowers I did some masking and ink blending for the background followed by adding a bit of white spatters. Tiny gems from Gina K (Micro Disco Ball Sequins) are very small but add just the sparkly look I love!

The Flower Challenge Sketch gave the creative kick I needed. Thank you so much for being here to visit with me today. Hope it's a good one!

Be yourself

         Have delight in your craft 

               Make something beautiful!  

Penny Black supplies: 
Pure Sunshine Cling Stamp, Enchantingly Clear Stamps (sentiment) ; Background Basics Stencils

Inks: Tumbled Glass, Peacock Geathers

Adding to: Penny Black Saturday Challenge, The Flower Challenge, Stencil Fun Challenge , FourSeasons