Poppy Stamps Valentine's Day Card

Happy Sunday! I can't believe tomorrow is Valentine's Day already...wh-AT?! What are you doing to celebrate tomorrow? Or have you celebrated already over the weekend!

I made this card for my friend Stephanie last year. I think it turned sooo sweet, don't ya think?   Valentine's Day is my second most favorite holiday of the year (Christmas being first) because I LOVE hearts, red and pink!

How about that cute image in the heart center? Isn't she adorable? Her name is Peggy Polka Dot from Poppy Stamps. I colored her in with my Copic markers. I used a tiny heart stamp from A Muse and randomly stamped it in red and pink chalk ink for the background.

To make the grass on the inside of the card, I took two shades of green (dark and light) Copic Sketch markers and "flicked" blades of grass using the brush tip end. The tree stamp is by Memory Box. It is a two-part stamp where the tree part is one stamp and on the end of wood block, is a teeny tiny stamp of there tiny hearts for the leaves...I absolutely adore it! You can kinda go crazy repeatedly stamping heart leaves all over the branches like I did! 

For added interest, I stamped a trail of leaves on the part of the card where I wrote a message.

Hope you enjoyed this card and have a super duper day!

Supplies:

Stamps: Peggy Polka Dot, Heart Tree (Memory Box), Sentiment (Savvy)

Cardstock: Kraft card base (PTI), Gingham and Polka Dot (A Muse), White (Neenah Solar White)

Ink: Colorbox Fluid Chalk

Accessories: Twinkle Stickers (A Muse), Ribbon (SU!), Heart border punch (Martha Stewart)

Beanie Anya Winter Thank You Card

Hello...yes I am still here! This has been the longest time ever from posting something! I can't believe we are in the month of February already! We sure are zipping right along in the new year, aren't we?

Last Friday, I went to my friend Tiffani's house for an evening of fun, crafts and chatter! My other friend Karen, who apparently reads my blog, gave me a hard time for not keeping up with my blog...hee! So, I thought I better stop in and post something before I suffer anymore wrath!

Without further ado, what do you think of this thank you card I made for my crafty friend, Wanda G.?

I totally love how this card came together! The image is a fairly new one called Beanie Anya from The Greeting Farm. I was itching to use Dave Brethauer's new pattern paper from Memory Box so I decided to paper-piece Anya's hat and outfit with all that yummy paper! I used skin-toned Copic markers for the face and yellows and browns for the hair. 

The woodgrain card base, twinkle gems, and sentiment are by A Muse. The snowflakes are made using a Martha Stewart punch and I popped them up with some foam tape for dimension.

Well, I hope this card will tie you over until my next post! I have been such a busy bee ever since the holidays hit last December! I've finally had a chance to get some coloring in so I'll be back again soon...pinky swear!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Super fun day with Dave Brethauer of Memory Box Co.!

Oh my goodness...I had such a great day at Paper Garden on Saturday taking a colored pencil class with Dave Brethauer (owner of Memory Box) and with my friend Wanda G! Although we have separately taken this class with Dave in the past, we always learn some new technique in refining our coloring skills.

Wanda, Dave and me!

If you ever get the opportunity to take any of Dave's classes, I highly recommend it!  He has so much patience and always stops at each table to demo each technique first hand. Dave travels to various stamp stores all over the States and shares his talent with all who want to learn about colored pencils and water coloring techniques.

Aren't those three birds wearing hats the cutest?!

I took this pic when I was supposed to be paying attention...oops!

These are the five cards we made during class that Wanda colored and took a pic of.

Wanda snuck a pic of me concentrating on coloring the hats on the birds. We used Prismacolor pencils. Oooh...the coolest technique we learned was to take the small end of a stylus (dry debossing) and making designs like stripes or dots on the hats before lightly coloring over the area. We thought it was so genius!

Here's Wanda goofin' off before class started. She's gonna give me a hard time for showing this!

Pic courtesy of Wanda G.

Here are some more card samples from the other class that Dave taught. I love the polar bear in the snow globe easel card...so sparkly! 

After class, Wanda and I went to lunch at a restaurant called Lemongrass in Sacramento and had such a yummy meal!  We saved room for dessert of course and we each had the most delicious coconut ice cream topped with chocolate sauce (for me) and caramel sauce (for Wanda). Oh, it was soooo good!

I hope you enjoyed checking out all the pics of my fun crafting day!

One-Layer Wednesday 14: Square Outlines

It's another weekly card challenge by Susan Raihala on her blog, Simplicity. We were to make a one-layer square card using any outline image stamp and keeping embellishments to a minimum. Here's the card I submitted:

Oy, as you can see, my card is rectangular. I got so wrapped up in making sure I was using outline stamps that I forgot to make a square card...big oops!  Oh well!

First, I stamped the tree branch from the Landing Pad by Kim Hughes directly on the white shimmery cardstock and colored in the leaves with Copic markers. Then, I stamped the branch again on a piece of Birch Wood pattern cardstock from A Muse and just cut the branch part of the image out. The woodgrain was a contrasting white but I used a couple of brown colored Copics to darken it.

Isn't the Tweet Bird from Memory Box so adorable?  I stamped the bird onto a piece of Gossamer pattern paper also by Memory Box and cut it out sans the legs.

I finished off the card by stamping the "Hello" sentiment by A Muse with Adirondack Espresso ink. I love how elegant that font makes the card!

Have a great day and be sure to check out all the other creations for this challenge on the Simplicity blog!