Thanks BIG time!

Thanks BIG time for all of you! I appreciate the time you take out of your day to check out the cards that I create. I would love you to introduce yourself when you stop by. A little about myself, I am a Catholic wife and mother of 4 amazing children and one beautiful daughter in law, plus 2 crazy dogs! Oh and who can forget my sweet husky puppy grand dog.  I have been stamping for over 22 years and been a Stampin Up demonstrator for over 21 of those years. I love stamping and pretty much anything with paper, ink, paint, etc. all things crafty! I am originally from Minnesota and came out to Southern California for college (go USC Trojans!)and met my husband and we ended up staying in Southern Cal. Basically that is my life in a nutshell. Now on to the card. What you really came here to see.

This little walrus set is so adorable! Doesn't this guy just make you want to smile? I decided to try a watercolor wash for the background and I really like the way that it has turned out. Colored the walrus with stampin blends. and kept the assembly of the card pretty simple.  Thanks again for stopping by! Below check out some of the specials going on now. Have a blessed day!

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My own kind of masterpiece

Happy Friday! I really wanted to make a ink blended card today. So I started with my white card stock and picked my color combo, calypso coral, crushed curry, pumpkin pie, granny apple green, coastal cabana and blackberry bliss, using my sponge daubers started to blend. I am not the best at blending. I think I get to inpatient. You need to have a soft hand and slowly go over each layer. I tend to want to get the color on right away and push to hard. I was somewhat happy with the results and so I stamped my images from the high tide stamp set with staz on black ink. While I stamped the lighthouse I made a little smudge of the black ink. I should have just left it, but I thought I would try to erase it. Wrong! It took off the color from my ink blending and I was so sad.

However, I decided to try to blend a little of the color back in the spot. You can still see the mistake, yet it now is homemade looking. I still like the card and actually sent it out just the other day. Do you still keep or send cards that you make a little mistake on? I realize that not all my cards will be masterpieces, actually very few of them will be. But it is the thought and love that goes into the cards that I make! Right!?! The joy that feels the person that you thought of to make it for. So don't beat yourself up,  enjoy the process, let yourself make mistakes and embrace them. Next time I will just leave the smudge and not try to erase the blunders that I create. Have a blessed day and take time this weekend to create your own kind of masterpiece! Thank you for stopping by!

CAS(E) this sketch #357

Hi and welcome if you are new to my blog!  When I saw this sketch I was flooded with ideas. There are so many fun ways that you can make the stripes in the background, card stock, watercolor, designer series paper just to name a few. I decided to go pretty simple with this card. Using a piece of watercolor paper I made a quick wash of color. Turned out a little darker than I had wanted but thought it went so  well with the sentiment in this stamp set, high tide. It looked like a big messy storm. I used my stitched shape dies and then stamped the images in black. I used a stamp positioner because of the texture on the watercolor paper, I had to stamp it a few times.

Below is the fun sketch for the week. Check out the website and see all the amazing projects!

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Here is a close up of the center circle. Sometimes it is fun to just put a portion of the image, gives it more interest. I would love to hear what you think of the card. I truly appreciate all comments.  Thank you for stopping by and go check out the CAS(E) this sketch website. Give one of the challenges a try! Have a beautiful day!

Iris thanks

I have not played with this stamp set in such a long time. This stamp set is great for quick and easy cards. Since it is a 2 step stamp set it gives you the opportunity to use the 2 steps or you can color it with any of the coloring options.

These flowers were stamped with rich razzleberry and pear pizazz. The outline stamp was in staz on black ink pad. I used  a little dot of daffodil for the center of the flower. To make the flowers in the background I stamped off the flowers 2 times and then lightly stamped them.

I white heat embossed the greeting and fussy cut it out.  Thank you for stopping by today and I hope that you have a great rest of your week!

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