In Christ Alone

Hi friends! I'm popping in with a little card I made over the weekend. I purchased a few digital sets from Graciellie Design during their birthday sale a few weeks back and was excited to finally get a chance to play. This sentiment had me signing words of comfort as I put the final touches on finishing up closing out the Verve shop.

For this card I flipped the image in Photoshop so the flower was facing the opposite direction, then resized and printed the flower and sentiment on Canson Smooth Bristol paper. The flower image is watercolored with Arteza real brush pens and a water brush, and I flicked on some extra light tan splatters for both the sentiment and the flower image.  These are cut with pierced square dies and lightly sponged with antique linen distress ink.

For the background, I blended peacock feathers distress ink with the Woven stencil by Prima on cool pool cardstock. I love the soft look.  I finished with a bit of crumb cake seam binding and a crumb cake 4.5" square card base.

Thanks so much for stopping by today. We've got a fun family barbecue we're planning for the 4th, so the boys will be helping me prepare this week. Hopefully I'll have some time to sneak into my stamp room here and there!

Have a wonderful start to you week.

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Stamps: In Christ Alone digi (Graciellie Designs)
Paper: cool pool (Fun Stamper's Journey), crumb cake (SU!), smooth bristol (Canson)
Ink: peacock feathers distress oxide, antique linen distress (Ranger), real brush pens (Arteza), laser printer
Accessories: pierced squares dies (Cottage Cutz), Woven stencil (Prima), crumb cake seam binding (SU!), watercolor brush pen (Prima)

Kindness Cup

Hi friends! Confession time... I *may* have gone a little bit crazy when the new Prima collections came out. I seriously had to have them all, and now I have an entire box full of Prima lovelies that I just want to sit and stare at all day! I just keep pulling them out and flipping through them and then not actually getting anything made! LOL I'm really hoping to make some mixed media canvases soon with some of the goodies... if I can ever stop staring and start creating! {grin}

Anyhow, judging from the sheer amount of Prima paper and ephemera on my desk right now, I'm thinking you're going to be seeing quite a bit of shabby chic creations from me for quite some time.  The Lavender collection brings back fond memories of my Grandma who loved lavender.  Although I really like purple, I rarely have found any purple papercrafting products that I like as much as this collection.  So here's a shabby little card I put together with an image from the Graciellie Design digi I used on yesterday's card and a sentiment from the Coffee Helps clear stamp set that just arrived back in stock.

The image is printed on a laser printer and colored with Copic markers.  I fussy cut it, then accented with a bit of string and a few little mini roses.  I selected a couple of papers from the Lavender 6 x 6 pad, then sponged with first antique linen and then vintage photo.  The sentiment is from Coffee Helps, stamped in early espresso and cut with a stitched circle die cut.  I finished with a bit of lace,  butterfly and ticket ephemera and a bit of foil accents rubbed onto the twine.

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Enabler's List
Stamps: Coffee Helps (Verve Stamps), Coffee & Love (Graciellie Designs)
Paper: Lavender 6 x 6 pad (Prima), white, cream
Ink: laser printer, early espresso (SU!), antique linen, vintage photo (Ranger Distress), markers (Copic)
Accessories: Lavender Ephemera (Prima), twine, flowers, lace, foil, stitched circle die, tiny attacher

Coffee and Love

Hi friends! Welcome to another Monday.  The boys are healthy and in school and I'm sipping an Americano, listening to some soft jazz , editing photos and packaging a restocking shipment of dies this morning. A pretty good start to the week!

Over the weekend, I took a little bit of me time and hit the stamp studio armed with the beautiful new Coffee & Love digital set from Graciellie Design.  I just couldn't wait to color the beautiful flowers and to go cup.  I  imported the individual files into a photo editing software and resized the cup photo to 3" wide, I then added the sentiment, resizing to 1.125" wide, and added a solid 1.5" circle and an inner 1.375" stitched circle, then filled in  the sheet with some of the other sentiments and multiples of the mug before printing on cardstock with a laser printer.

All the coloring is done with Copic markers, and I colored and cut one additional flower image from one of the multiples I had printed, and popped it up to add a little dimension.

I was inspired by the inspiration photo at The Card Concept. Love the look of flowers and wood grain and that combination always makes me think of shabby chic. I pulled in the woodgrain with a bit of Prima Rose Quartz paper and also added in some highlights to the java jacket, giving it a bit of a woodgrain look as well.

The sentiment is lightly sponged with milled lavender and dusty concord distress inks, as is the today 3X4 journaling card from Prima's new Lavender collection.  I added a doily, a rhinestone flourish as the steam and finished off with a bit of glitter and a twine bow.

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope you have a wonderful start to your week!


Enabler's List
Stamps: Coffee & Love Digital Set (Graciellie Design)
Paper: rose quartz 6 x 6, lavender 3 x 4 (Prima), crumb cake (SU!), white (Neenah)
Ink: laser printer, Copic markers, milled lavender, dusty concord, hickory smoke, black soot (Ranger Distress)
Accessories: circle dies, glitter, doily, natural twine, rhinestone flourish, corner rounder, paper distresser