A Green Spring

Happy Thursday everyone! I am posting a card today for a challenge blog that is new to me, though I have admired it from a distance on occasion through others' posts. The blog is Our Creative Corner and the challenge of "How Green is Your Spring" is to create a paper craft inspired by the photo above.

I selected this clip art image by Crafty Individuals for the green tones in the mother's dress. The Victorian Pink card base was layered with a mostly green designer paper. Green lace was wrapped around the bottom followed by a light green ribbon by Martha Stewart. The clip art image was layered over a paper doily that was distressed lightly with Peeled Paint Distress Ink. Scroll work corners, compliments of Crafty Individuals, and the sentiment by Art Declassified were also stamped with Peeled Paint DI. I added two German Scrap bunnies in grass and some vintage buttons that are filled with Opal Liquid Pearls by Ranger Products.

Well I must hop like a bunny as I still have so much to do to prepare for the weekend. Have a great day. Best, Yvonne

Put on Your Easter Bonnet

This is my second post today. Please scroll down if you would like to see the first. This post is for this week's PanPastel UK Challenge, which is "Easter Week." I immediately selected this image from Crafty Individuals as I thought she looked like she was in her Easter Bonnet. She was mounted onto gold metallic paper, and before adding black paper, I blended PanPastels in pinks and yellows onto white card stock and distressed the edges heavily with Dusty Concord Distress Ink. The top portion of the card was layered with a sparkly butterfly paper before adding the matted focal image. Vintage caramel seam binding was wrapped around the bottom of the designer paper and another piece was fashioned into a bow. A bird feather was tucked into the bow. On the bottom portion of the card, "Happy Easter" by Art Declassified and a new born chick by Paper Inspiration were stamped with Black StazOn ink. Embellishments include Vintage buttons, including a vintage fan button highlighted with Ranger Distress Stickles in Scattered Straw. Thanks for stopping by! Best wishes, Yvonne

It's a Guy Thing!

Hello! Today is Wednesday and it has been a gorgeous sunny, mild day around here. Good for the soul! I have a card to share with you today that I made for a challenge over at Make My Monday. During the month of April, we have an overall theme of "Men and Boys." Specifically this week , we are to create a guy project with "Wheels." Using a light gray card base, I stamped various images from the Industrial Backgrounds plate by Artistic Outpost in Black StazOn Ink onto the card front. I also stamped a number of images from the Diesel Punk plate, also by Artistic Outpost in Festive Red Distress Ink or Black StazOn ink. Several areas on the images were watercolored in Pumice Stone Distress Ink and the card base and the images were distressed with Pumice Stone Distress Ink as well. Simple embellishments include a memo holder and sprockets, and a ticket, all by Tim Holtz. Fibers are re-purposed from my stash. Thanks so much for stopping by. Best wishes, Yvonne

Botanicals in Red

Greetings! I hope you are having a great Tuesday! I have a card to share with you today using Artistic Outpost's recently released Flower Market stamp plate. I have always been drawn to botanicals and I was really psyched when this plate of images was released by Artistic Outpost. It will be one I reach for over and over. The individual images were stamped onto white card stock with Festive Berry Distress Ink, trimmed, distressed with Antique Linen Distress Ink and mounted onto black paper, which was mounted onto a red card base. Portions of each image were accented with Glossy Accents. The sentiment in the middle is raised with dimensionals. Simple accents include vintage buttons, a philosophy tag from Ideology and vintage seam binding and a bit of Baker's Twine. Here's hoping you have time to get inky today! Best Wishes, Yvonne

Think of Me!

There's a new challenge over at Stampsmith Challenge Blog! During the month of April, we are challenged to make a project with a theme of the Colors of Spring. I was fortunate to have won a complimentary sheet of stamps of my choice from the challenge recently and was anxious to use one of my new images for this project. I began with a Vintage Rose card base. I layered a designer paper from the Springtime pad from Crafty Individuals to the card base followed by a white paper doily. A tag from CI was layered next. My Stampsmith Image from the "Won't You be my Honey" stamp sheet was stamped with Black StazOn ink onto Glossy Paper and watercolored with Milled Lavender Distress Ink. The image was matted with leftover card stock that was colored with PanPastels in spring colors. The sentiment is from the "Say it with Flair" Stampsmith stamp sheet. Finishing touches include a vintage earring, pearls, vintage seam binding and a snippet of white ribbon embroidered with gold stars. Looking forward to seeing what others submit. If you have not checked out the challenge for April, wait until you see what the Design Team has come up with! Thanks as always for stopping by. Yvonne

Hope is a Thing with Feathers...

Greetings! I hope you are having a great Monday! I have a card to share with you today that features one of the quotes from the recently released Quote and Quotables plate by Artistic Outpost (AO). When I saw this quote, one of my very favorites, I immediately thought of pairing it with a number of images from the Birds of a Feather stamp plate. Starting with a sea salt colored card base, the edges were framed with cream colored lace. The script in the background was stamped with Rich Cocoa Memento Ink, as were all the other images, onto Kraft Card Stock. As I was placing the quote over the eggs that are toward the bottom of the script, I chose to stamp additional eggs on cream card stock to add elsewhere to my card. Several birds were also stamped and trimmed. The eggs and birds were watercolored with Tumbled Glass Distress Ink and lightly distressed with Vintage Photo Distress Ink. The bird at the top of the card has hand-dyed cheese cloth behind it. The numbers are from the Whimsical Melange stamp plate, also by AO. Simple finishing touches include vintage blue buttons and a seam binding bow. Speaking of birds, there is a new challenge over at Artistic Outpost for April. The theme is "For the Birds. " Why not pull out your own AO stamps and submit an entry for a chance for the prize draw? There is a lot of inspiration showing many of the birds available through AO at the top of the Artistic Outpost April Referral Challenge page. I hope you will give it a go! Thanks for dropping by my blog today. I really value each visit and comment. Take care. Yvonne

Magic Man

Greetings everyone! Today is Sunday and I am hopefully traveling back home as you read this post. I wanted to share another piece I made using a number of images from the new March Release by Artistic Outpost. It also includes images from several older releases. I actually got my inspiration for my card while my husband and I were at one of his conferences in Washington, DC recently. I was taking a walk through a lovely neighborhood adjoining our hotel and came across a beautiful old home. It had a white stucco exterior and to soften it, the designer lined up squares of colored tiles in red, blue, green and yellow around various areas of the perimeter. I immediately knew when I returned to my hotel room that I would make this card inspired by those colored tiles! The alphabet is from the new Secretary Pool plate. It was stamped four times with Festive Berry, Crushed Olive, Faded Jeans and Scattered Straw Distress Inks. Letters were randomly cut out from the various colors and applied over one of the uncut alphabets. The edges were distressed with more distress ink. The young man from the Think and Wonder stamp plate was stamped in Faded Jeans Distress Ink, trimmed and mounted to an Ideology Ticket Stub with dimensionals. Before adding the young man to the card front, I hand-dyed some cheese cloth with Crushed Olive Distress Ink and layered it to the card front. Words from the Huck Finn stamp plate were stamped in matching ink colors, distressed and scattered over the front of the card. The quote from the new Quote and Quotables stamp plate was stamped in Faded Jeans, distressed and mounted to several layers of distressed matting. A light bulb, wrapped with Baker's Twine, some vintage buttons, more cheese cloth and a silver luggage charm complete my card. This would make a wonderful card of encouragement for a special man in your life. I'll be sharing more cards from the new March Release in the upcoming days. I hope you will stop back. Thanks for dropping by. Best wishes, Yvonne