Coloring partial images

Hello and welcome!

Today's card is made with

"Butterfly and Sunflower" (#20801)

from Eureka! Stamps.

I wanted to do something a little different with this card and decided that I would do this technique where you only color part of the image.

I stamped the image onto a piece of white cardstock cut to a strip smaller than the image.

I colored the image with FlexMarkers.

I then stamped the image onto the peach colored cardstock and adhered the colored image over it to line up exactly.

I think it could be a much more dramatic look with a narrower strip of white, but I wanted to have the entire butterfly colored.

Next time I will probably use a taller image that will have more uncolored on the background cardstock.

The ribbon I used is some lovely satin ribbon from May Arts.

I'm pretty pleased with how this card turned out.

Why not pop into the Eureka! Stamps site and see what images you might want to use this technique with?

Thanks for stopping today, leave a comment if you will

and come again soon.

Until next time, Happy Crafting!

Scored Tulips

Hi!  Hope you are having a lovely day!

Today I have a card that I made with

"Tulips" (#31705) from Biblical Impressions.

I stamped the image onto white cardstock with Memento black ink and colored it with FlexMarkers.

I then used the "out of the box" technique to cut the image

and outlined the box with a journaling pen.

The background paper was scored using my Score Pal

and sanding with a sanding block.

The fiber was some from my stash.

This card could be used for any number of occasions or just to say hello.

Thanks for stopping by today.  I hope you have been inspired to make something pretty.

Come again soon.

Until next time, Happy Crafting!

Eureka! Stamps Blog Hop

Hello and welcome to my post for the

 Eureka! Stamps Blog Hop

If you have just happened upon the hop you'll want to start at the beginning so you can meet all the design team ladies and see what wonderful inspiration they have for you. This is a very talented group and I am pleased to be working with them for the next 6 months.

We are introducing our new Design Team

and our theme is "anything goes"

If you arrived from Katie's blog, you are right on track.

Now for my card.

Today's card uses two different stamps.

"Butterfly and Sunflower" (#20801)

"Hybiscus and Bee" (#21001)

from Eureka! Stamps

I stamped both images onto white cardstock and colored them with FlexMarkers.

I love the butterfly from the Butterfly and Sunflower stamp and wanted to use it without the sunflower, so I simply colored and fussy cut the butterfly and used it seperatly.

The Hybiscus and Bee was also fussy cut to be put onto the card.

I love using pages from old books on cards and this time simply used one as a background for my card.

Thanks for stopping by today, leave a comment if you will

and come back soon.

To see these and so many more wonderful images, visit

Eureka! Stamps.  I'm sure you'll love what you find.

Now it's time to hop on to Sara's blog, where I'm sure she will have some great inspiration for you.

Until next time, Happy Crafting!

Chubby Chums, the stamp set I won.

Hello!

I've been pretty lucky lately and about a week or so ago, I won a prize on the Simon Says Stamp Blog.

I was so excited that I won an adorable set of stamps called

Chubby Chums made by Paper Smooches and sold through

Simon Says Stamp.

Thank you Simon Says Stamp for this wonderful prize!

Here are the cards I made with the set.

Is this cow just the cutest little thing or what?

Don't you just want to sMOOch her?

I made a little dog house for the chubby little puppy.

Here is the inside of the dog house.

All of the animals were colored with FlexMarkers and fussy cut.

Isn't she too cute with the little hair bow I added?

I think she is 'purrr-fect'

This little chickie is soo 'tweet' don't you think?

I think I love this owl card the best.

The branch was cut on the Cricut, but I'm sorry I don't remember which cartridge I used.

These cards were a delight to make and the images were fun to color.

Thanks again Simon Says Stamp!

Thanks for stopping by today, leave a comment if you will

and come again soon. And take a minute to stop into the

Simon Says Stamp Blog, they have some wonderful inspiration there!

Until next time, Happy Crafting!

Pear

Hello and welcome to my blog.

Today I'm showing you a card I made with

"Pear" (#3801) from QKR Stampede.

I stamped the image randomly on white cardstock with black ink and also stamped one image onto cardstock to be colored with FlexMarkers.

I cut down the strip and layered it onto green cardstock, and did the same with the single colored image.

I used some ribbon from my stash that I thought went well with the image.

I like how this card turned out and I think this would be a lovely card for just about any occasion.

I hope you have enjoyed my post today and will leave me a comment and come by again soon.

In the meantime, pop into the QKR Stampede online shop and see what images you might like to work with.

They offer unmounted red rubber as well as digital format stamps.

Until next time, Happy Crafting!

Celebrate

I'm working on those Christmas cards again!

Today I have a Christmas card that I made using

"Round Ornament" (#83405)

from Biblical Impressions.

I stamped the image onto red cardstock and cut out only the ornament part of the image.  I used a silver pen to color in the top and design on the ornament and a bit of embroidery floss for the bow.

I have had this printed vellum in my stash for ages, I have always loved it, but just never found a project to use it on. So glad I pulled it out for this card!

This picture shows the pine sprigs on the vellum a little better.

I thought the pine sprigs were a perfect background for the ornament.

I had the 'celebrate' bling in my stash and thought it would be a nice festive touch for the card.

Well, one more down in my quest to get my Christmas cards done early!

Hope you enjoy it and have gotten some inspiration here.

There are loads of great Christmas stamps at Biblical Impression, why not check them out and join me in trying to get some of those cards done early?!?!

Thanks for checking in. Leave a comment and become a follower if you will and come back soon to see what else I'm working on these days.

Until next time, Happy Crafting!

Little Miss Liberty

Happy 4th of July!

"Liberty Balloon Holder" (#19601) and "Firecracker Balloon" (#9401)

can be ordered through either QKR Stampede or Eureka! Stamps.

These companies are sister companies along with Biblical Impressions.

These balloons and holders are in both the QKR and Eureka! shops, along with a huge variety of other holders and balloons.

I love working with these stamps!  The images are versatile and interchangable.

I stamped the Liberty Balloon Holder onto white card stock.  Then I stamped another  and fussy cut it to make a mask. I used removable adhesive to put it onto the card over the stamped image, then used water color crayons to color the sky and land.

Once I removed the mask, I colored the Liberty Balloon Holder.

The Firecracker Balloon was stamped onto white card stock and colored, then cut out and adhered to the card.  I used a brown Zig pen to draw the string from the balloon.

I think she turned out quite cute, what do you think?

Leave me a comment and tell me what you are doing to celebrate Independance Day.

Thanks for stopping by today, I hope you are having a wonderful day!

Until next time, Happy Crafting!