Summer Blooms and Blossoms Challenge

This week the challenge on the

Eureka! Stamps Blog

is "Summer Blooms and Blossoms"

I chose to make a project using several different stamps from

Eureka! Stamps

"Butterfly and Sunflower" (#20801) flower, blue butterfly and grass

"Butterfly Background" (#58501) for that little purple butterfly

"Eureka Butterfly" (#9702) yellow butterfly

"Sunshine Day" (#15003) sentiment

I also used 2 stamps from

QKR Stampede,

sister company of Eureka! Stamps.

"Sunflower Border" (#17501) and

"Flower Border (#17915)

These 2 image are the same, but different sizes.

I used red rubber for all my images,

but they are all available in digital format.

I started with a 6 pack pop carrier

and covered it with card stock.

I then stamped all my images onto white card stock.

I colored them with FlexMarkers and fussy cut them all.

The Sunshine Day sentiment was stamped

directly onto the card stock on the carrier.

 

I thought this would make a cute carrier for utensils when I have a picnic.

 

I hope you will stop by the

 Eureka! Stamps Blog

 where you will find all the details about the challenge.

Come and join the fun of our weekly challenges!

Our design team has lots of inspiration for you,

so pop over and take a look.

 

Thanks for stopping by today,

leave a comment if you will and come again soon.

 

Until next time, Happy Crafting!

 

Mother's Day challenge

Mother's Day is almost here and this week's

Eureka! Stamps Challenge theme is

Mother's Day.

I chose to use 2 different images from

Eureka! Stamps

"Tulips" (#28502)

"Butterfly and Sunflower" (#20801)

I stamped the tulips across the bottom of a piece of white card stock

and colored them with water color crayons.

I then stamped them again on some scrap white and colored select tulips.

These tulips I fussy cut and adhered them over the tulips on the background piece with foam tape. I also cut some random tulips and added them with foam tape to give more feeling of depth.

The butterfly was colored and cut from the stamped image of

Butterfly and Sunflower as I only needed the butterfly.

Here is a close up picture that shows the layered tulips.

The blue background was created with water color crayons

and a good amount of water.

The sentiment is printed from my computer.

 

For all the details about the challenge, be sure to go to the

Eureka! Stamps Blog

I hope you have been inspired in some way

and will create something for the challenge.

 

Thanks for stopping, I hope you'll leave a comment

and come again soon.

 

Until next time, Happy Crafting!

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!

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!

Out of the box Butterfly and Sunflower

Hello stamping friends!

Today I'm showing you a card I made with

"Butterfly and Sunflower" (#20801) from Eureka! Stamps

I used water color crayons to color this lovely image.

I then used the "out of the box" method to cut it to size. I love the look of those bits that are fussy cut on the outside of the image.

My design team friend, Roxie, has a couple wonderful tutorials that explain how to do this technique.  If you follow the link to her blog and scroll down the right side to her Tutorials, there are 2 different methods for

"out of the box" cutting.

If you like this image, you should go check out all the wonderful images they have in the Eureka! Stamps Shop.  Every time I look I find something that I missed last time I was there.  There are so many wonderful stamps, rubber and digital!

Thanks for stopping by today.  Come again soon.

Until next time, Happy Crafting!

Tender Thoughts from Eureka! Stamps

Hello!  Hope you are having a better than average day today!

Eureka! Stamps has a wonderful line of stamps called "Tender Thoughts"  These images are a set of 3 that work together.  The stamps can be purchased individually and used separately or together.

 Today, I am showing you just one part of the set, I have used "Butterfly & Sunflower" (#20801) on 2 different cards.

This image from the set can be used as a "stand alone" image or when used with the "On My Heart" (#55901) it would be used as a layer over the "On My Heart" image.  The third part of the set is a sentiment for the inside of the card.

These Tender Thoughts sets are very versatile and absolutely beautiful.

For both these cards I stamped onto watercolor paper and colored with watercolor crayons.

I used the "out of the box" technique to cut the purple image. 

You can find a couple great tutorials on my fellow design team member, Roxie's blog (Here or Here)

She does a great job of explaining 2 different ways to achieve this look.

The sentiment is "Just a note" (#6505) also from Eureka! Stamps

On this 2nd card I added a little "Niji Pearlescent Watercolors" that gives the butterfly some shimmer and shine.

I decided to make this card simple, I cut the image to size and rounded the corners.  A simple but beautiful card, ready for any occasion. 

To see this "Tender Thoughts" image and all the others that Eureka! Stamps has to offer pop into the shop, click on the "go shopping" link at the left side of the page and then the "Tender Thoughts" link.  There are several different sets, one more beautiful than the next.

Thanks for stopping by today.  I hope you enjoy my cards as much as I enjoyed making them.  Leave a comment if you wish.

Until next time, Happy Crafting!

Same stamp different looks

Hello! 

Tonight I was straightening my craft room and found these 3 cards on my table and realized I'd never shared them with y'all.

All 3 are made with the same stamp, but colored differently and made into different layouts. They are made with the "Butterfly and Sunflower" stamp (#20801)  from Eureka! Stamps.

I stamped them all onto watercolor paper and colored them with watercolor crayons.

My favorite crafting motto is "There are no mistakes, just opportunities to be creative."  This card is a perfect example of that motto.  I had the front of the card all done, had put some "Liquid Pearls" on the lower corner and put it aside to dry.  If you have ever worked with them, you know that Liquid Pearls take a while to dry.  I set them aside and went on to work on something else.  About 15 minutes later, I realized that I had put something right on top of that card.  What a mess, so I cut the bottom of the front off. 

Now I had a card front that was short.  My solution?  I punched out the swirls and flowers with an edge punch and added them to the bottom of the inside.  I like how it turned out.  Sometimes 'goofs' are a good thing.

I have been wanting to make some cards with lace on them and I was pleased with the way this one turned out.  I love the look of lace and think this is going to be used a bit more from now on.

This third card doesn't show in the picture as well as I would like it to, that blue layer is actually glitter card stock.  I got some wonderful colors of glitter card stock when I visited my friend, Mary and we went to Crafts 2000 in Michigan.  I haven't used much of that glitter card stock, but it's another supply I think I will be using more.

I hope you have enjoyed my cards today.  Leave me a comment and let me know what you think of them, become a follower if you like.

And be sure to stop in to the Eureka! Stamps shop and see all the fabulous images they have to offer. 

Until next time, Happy Crafting!