Happy Birthday, Grandma!

So I made a quick card for my Grandmother's bday and got it in the mail hoping it would reach her today.  Then I learned yesterday that she's in town, so she won't be getting my card for some time.  So instead, she'll get a preview here :)

Pretty simple one this time around...I wanted to play with some embossing powders.

And I used the color palette from ColourQ #182:

Thanks for stoping by!

Angie

SUPPLIES - 

STAMPS: Simon Says Stamp's Banner Sayings, Impression Obsession's Wavy Lines

INK: Versamark; Stampin' Up! Pool Party, Wisteria Wonder, and Gumball Green

PAPER: Stampin' Up! Pool Party, Wisteria Wonder, and Gumball Green; Neenah Solar White

OTHER: Zing embossing party in Leaf and Powder, KaiserCraft Rhinestones

Watercolored Mae

Today, I put away the Copics and pulled out my new Distress Markers to play along with some challenges.  I'm really liking the new markers ;)  Here's my card:

And a close-up of the watercoloring:

It's really hard to see in the pics, but I added some glitter to the yellow with a Spica pen for a littler shimmer.

This card is for:

Some Odd Girl March Sketch Challenge

  

Thanks for stopping by!

Angie

SUPPLIES:

STAMPS - Some Odd Girl Thank You Mae

INK - Stazon Jet Black, Versamark, Distress Markers in Tattered Rose, Mustard Seed, Black Soot, Tumbled Glass, and Faded Jeans

PAPER - Fluid Coldpress Watercolor pad, Stampin' Up! Daffodil Delight and Night of Navy, Origami Paper

OTHER - water brush, Spica Buttermilk pen, white embossing powder, light blue ribbon

Happy Birthday Spinner

Have you seen the color combo at colourQ this week??

I love the combo (and the owl comforter inspiration is super cute as well!).  I just so happen to need a masculine birthday card and thought these colors were great.  As I got started, I decided to turn it into a tag instead of a full card, so here it is:

I took the birthday spinner from SU!'s Take a Spin set and colored it with markers then stamped it.  I didn't have a gray marker so I had used black, but I didn't like the dark color mixed in with the grean and teal, so I went over it all with a VersaMarker and embossed it with some silver powder... much better!  The spinner itself was a bronze color so while I had the silver embossing powder out, I coated the hardware so it matched the gameboard.  The base, that the twine is wrapped around, is a coaster that I covered with some black fabric tape.  I wanted it to have that game board feel. :)

On the back, I kept it simple.  I used another SU! stamp and the same markers as I had on the front.  Pretty straightforward.  

Here's a  closer pic of the front:

Thanks for stopping by!

--Angie

SUPPLIES:

Stamps - Stampin' Up! Take a Spin and Bring on the Cake

Ink - Stampin' Up! Markers in Gumball Green and Taken with Teal; VersaMarker

Paper - Stampin' Up! Whisper White, Gumball Green, Crumb Cake

Other - Stampin' Up! Game Spinners; Silver Embossing Powder; Stone Twine from the Twinery; coaster; 7 Gypsies Gaffer Tape; silver brads; Rock Candy Distress Stickles; Cropadile

Celebrate Paper Piecing!

I recently just found some of the color challenges out there and I am loving them.  I am finding new combinations of colors, that I wouldn't normally think to put together.  Just like this weeks Color Q challenge:

 I love how those colors look together.  I took those colors and this weeks sketch at CPS - 

 

To make this card -

I used Balloon Kaylee from Some Odd Girl for their paper peicing challenge.  Here's a close up of the paper peicing of her clothes.  This is one of SOG's digital images so I printed the image on the different papers for peicing.  I also printed it on a sheet of glossy paper for the balloons (it's hard to tell in the picture, but there's a little shine to the balloons.when you see the actual card).  I colored her skin, eyes, and hair with Copics.

I finished it off with some SU! brads to match the card base, some thread for the balloons (the thread is actually from my last purchase from Lawn Fawn - their stamps come neatly tied together with this blue thread that matched perfectly for this card!), rounded the cornders, and embossed a Paper Smooches sentiment along the bottom.

--Angie

SUPPLIES -
Stamps: Some Odd Girl - Balloon Kaylee
             Paper Smooches - Sentiments Sampler
Ink - Versamark; SU! Old Olive
Paper - SU! Old Olive and Pumpkin Pie Designer Pattern Paper;
            SU! Island Indigo; the yellow patter is from Studio Calico
Other - White Embossing Powder; SU! Island Indigo Designer Brads; Copics; thread, corner rounder

Different Looks with Same Concept

I'm playing along with a few challenges today and decided to keep the layout and basic idea the same but change the colors up.

Using the sketch from CPS as my layout and the colors from two color challenges, I came up with -

I started with the ColorQ colors - I like how the bright colors look against the black tickets - 

Then I changed the colors to match those of the Color Throwdown and ended up with this more masculine looking version - 

Since I didn't frame the front of this card with different papers, I round three of the four corners to add a little interest.

And here are the challenges I played along with - 

CPS #230

Color Throwdown #154

 

--Angie

SUPPLIES

Stamps - Stampin' Up! Triple treat Flower; Lawn Fawn Sophie's Sentiments

Ink - all from Stampin' Up! - Pool Party, Old Olive, So Saffron, Daffodil Delight, Pumpkin Pie, Pink Passion

Other - White embossing powder, 5 Petal Flower Punch (by SU!), Flower Punch (by SU!), Ticket Punch from EK Success