Yellow Blossoms

 I can’t believe it’s almost the end of February. It seems like time just flies by anymore.  Here in Ohio had some warmer days this past week, I’m sure they won’t last but it was nice.  Warmer days and spring coming, that means it’s getting closer to gardening and flower time. I live in an old farm house that has a covered porch.  Each year I like to hang flowerpots.  They don’t get very much Sun though so I have to be careful what kind of flowers I plant in the pots.  I often use everblooming begonias they come in a nice assortment of colors.  Okay enough of my chit chat here’s my card.  

I went with yellow as the main color because I like yellow flowers, added a bit of pink and blue to the background by coloring alcohol markers on the back of Vellum then spreading the color some with alcohol. I did add a couple frilly springs of  Vellum behind the flowers, I know you can’t see them well in the picture but they show up just the way I wanted them to-subtlety is but adds a nice look.  Thanks for stopping in to see my Vision.              

TSOT 595 our theme-Stripes

 It’s good to be back, I missed getting a card up last week thought I might try to make it up but I’ve been busy getting ready for a card class. This is the set we’re going to be using. It’s in Stampin Up‘s spring mini catalog, it’s the sweet citrus bundle. Do you have Stampin friends who share,  I have a friend who is so sweet. She let me borrow this set so I could use it for our class. I don’t know, after using it for a couple days I may have to get it! That happens often you don’t really think you want it but then after using it…….😊 This set has some sweet goodies, not only does it have the stamp set with 11 stamps. Two of the stamps used together make the rind of the citrus and the inside. Then!!!! You can fit that piece into the embossing folder to give it dimension. The stamped images line up perfectly with some of the fruit in the folder!! That’s not all😳 there is a die to cut out the 4 pieces fruit all at once.   The die will also fit inside the embossing folder, it sorta snaps into the embossing folder to cut and emboss at the same time.  

I used 2 colors when I stamped the oranges.  Inked with the lighter color - calypso coral then used a sponge to add pumpkin pie. 

The leaves were done the same way with parakeet party as the base then adding pear pizzazz at the base of the leaves.  

I embossed a white panel and adhered it to a mango melody card base added a strip of the free dandy designs DSP from the SAB catalog.  

Positioned my oranges and  leaves in a pleasing way then added a heat embossed vellum sentiment.

Thanks for popping over, I’m not so sure my card follows the sketch real well but I do have the stripes, just in a different way.  How will you interpret this card sketch and theme? We’d love to see😁.  Have a great day!

TSOT 594 furry friends

 

 

Family Valentine’s

 I was a busy crafter today, decided to use some of my art impressions valentine animals that I water colored earlier this week.  I paired them up with The Bam box mechanism (Karen Burniston).  These are fun but they do take a while to get everything put together after you figure out what you want to use.   The third picture shows the 4 cards closed. Three of them have magnetic closures and the 4th has a belly band. When opened the critters pop up as you can see.  

TSOT 593 Love in the Air

 Valentine’s Day do you enjoy it? I decided to try a real Showing that love is in the air!  35 years of joyful, loving, high in the sky ride- sure do love my man!!  

As you can see below we’ve joined up with Double Trouble challenge 131.  Make a valentine and join us with two challenges, ours and double trouble!!😁

 

TSOT 592. Soaring with Ink blending

 A sketch and a challenge you know what that means, Try Stamping on Tuesday. I like this sketch I’m not sure I’ve ever done a card with this layout before. It’s an easy one I’m sure many of you will want to try it! The challenge- ink blending  is easy also, you can do it with so many different mediums.  My background clouds I added watercolor pencils to the sky area and blended with a aqua painter with alcohol in it. Have you ever tried that before it works the same as water and the alcohol dries a lot faster. It’s my go to for any type of water coloring look.  The butterfly was done with ink. Blended it again with the aqua painter.  Picking up ink with the aqua painter is so easy, you can scribble on a Cool Whip lid with your markers and pick it up that way, or squeeze your stamp pads and get some of the ink in the inside of the lid to pick up.  I usually scribble a little on a piece of scrap paper just to get the initial darkness off of the bristles. You can always go back and add more color but it’s not very easy to get it off once you put it on.   The sky is the limit with this type of challenge. I do hope many of you will give it a whirl. Thanks for stopping by if you have some time you could leave some comments we all love comments. I know some of the platforms have changed, I have a hard time leaving comments on some of your posts something to do with the Google sign in or I don’t know what, it just doesn’t let me do it. So I understand but if you could I would love to know what you think. Have a lovely day - it’s snowing here in Ohio🥴- I think I’m ready for spring.😊

 

Optional Theme: Ink Blending

Beautiful Blossoms-Snapdragon

 Found a new challenge group, they started up just this Year. The first challenge runs from January15 to February12th I believe. It’s all about flowers on this one, and I do love flowers. So I thought I’d give my hand a try and see if anyone would like what I’ve done. 

I made a funfold card, It has quite a few layers and a belly band that goes around the front where I added the flowers. The sentiment is written on the inside on the white that you see. I have not added that, usually when I make a card I wait until I’m going to use it before I add the sentiment.  

Thanks for stopping by and seeing my vision of this snap dragon beautiful blossom card