Oh Fig!

Oh Fig!

Well hello from the “High Desert of Central Oregon”!  My craft space is workable finally and I have a card to share with you.  I love figs and have been nurturing two fig trees that I have in two large pots for 3 years and this year they are loaded with fruit.  My worry here is that the nights are getting cooler and I’m afraid they may not ripen.  OH NO!  This is my first card since the big move back in June and it took me most of the day to do this very simple card, I made one that was colored in…didn’t like it and finally settled on this style to use the pretty Figs and Pomegranates stamp set from Flourishes.  I have figs on the brain.  Unfortunately that didn’t translate to well to the card stock.  I think somewhere along the way in this big move, my mojo took a left turn and I took the path to the right, hopefully my mojo and I will go full circle and reconnect soon.  I am entering this card in the Mod Squad challenge, the theme is fruit or harvest and I'm hoping to harvest these figs shortly, there are some gorgeous entries over there you should check out. 

Anyway it’s good to be back.

I had some pretty fall papers from Graphic45 and watercolor paper that I stamped the fig images on using Tim Holtz Distress Inks and traced the images with Sakura Clear Star, added the green stones for accent. 

Thank you all for checking in on me from time to time, I am so fortunate to be surrounded by such talented caring ladies.

Birthday Wishes

This card highlights the pretty lemon cluster image from Flourishes called Life Love Lemons (not sure this is still available) and was illustrated by Marcella Hawley and one of my favorite birthday sentiments from Theresa Momber’s stamp set at GinaK Designs, StampTV, called Elegant Florals.  I stamped the image using Memento’s Gray Flannel ink and colored it with Copic markers.  The background paper was made using a background stamp from JustRite stamps called Dotted Fronds, which as it happens is just one of many stamps that I won from a blog hop in January from the very talented Sharon Harnist.  I used a stamp pad from VersaMagic chalk inks called Key Lime to ink up that pretty background stamp.  Cut the focal image out using two sizes of oval dies from Die-namics called Pierced Oval Stax, love the pierced look.  I inked all around the oval on the image piece using the same ink that I used for the background stamp.  Used dimensionals to pop the images and a little ribbon from my stash to complete.  I had a pearl in the center of the flower, but as luck would or wouldn't have it is not in the picture.  Found it a little later attached to my finger, it was so tiny I didn't notice!

Thinking of you and smiling

I needed to add a thank you card to my card stash and the Flourishes stamp set Birds and Vines, illustrated by Marcella Hawley came to mind, it’s such a pretty set.  I stamped part of the largest vine on paper from my stash using Memento Potters Clay  and then with a Copic marker of the same color, colored in just a few of the leaves.  The “white” flower tops were made using a white Sukura pen.  I used this pretty sentiment from GinaK, called Elegant Florals and illustrated by Theresa Momber, I really love the sentiments in this set.  Added a Martha punched border and some pearls to finish.  Think I’d like to try this again but use a more pastel color palette.

Wishing you all a fun Friday and a wonderful weekend ahead.

Cheers, my friends!!!

 

With Deepest Sympathy

Sometimes seems that the older we get the need for a sympathy card comes around a little more often.  I have this beautiful set of stamps from Flourishes called Ferns and Fiddles, illustrated by the wonderfully talented Marcella Hawley who just today brought her new stamp company Power Poppy on line and boy does she have some gorgeous new stamp sets.  Anyway Ferns and Fiddles have such an elegant feel and I think works well for the occasion, but would also work well for a thinking of you or a birthday card too.  That beautifully designed sentiment comes from GKDesigns and was illustrated by the fabulously talented Theresa Momber and you can find it in her Elegant Florals stamp set.

 Hope you enjoy the card and also hope you are making it through April Fool’s Day unscathed.

 

 

Birthday Wishes

I love this sentiment from GinaK and StampTV and illustrated by the very talented Theresa Momber from her Elegant Florals stamp set, its perfect size works beautifully when you are trying to make a clean and simple card.  If you haven’t already you should check out Theresa’s beautiful stamp set.  I decided to try the whitewashed watercolor technique that so many of my card making friends have been making.  Love that look.  So for this card I used this beautiful floral image from Flourishes LLC Stamps called Passion Flower and is illustrated by Marcella Hawley.  Love this gorgeous stamp.  I really like the way it turned out and it was fun using my watercolor brush again.

La bella vita

This card is for the Timeless Tuesday #251 ~ Vellum challenge at Flourishes.

For this card I used the sentiment from Flourishes Italian Garden stamp set, it has such pretty images.  I added the stamped vellum tag to an embossed panel using the Cuttlebug embossing folder Swiss Dots, one of my favorites.  Topped that panel with a frame made from Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics dies.  Then topped that off with the gorgeous Tim Holtz Poinsettia die from Sizzix.  Poinsettia’s are one of my very favorite Christmastime flowers and I thought it fit that pretty sentiment beautifully.

 

 

Season everything with Joy

One more card for the Flourishes December release challenge “Flip It”.  I chose to use sketch FLLCDEC13B.  Lots of fun but really had to concentrate and THINK before cutting, nearly strained my brain on this one, as a matter of fact I did strain my brain.  This would have called for a glass of wine if it hadn’t been so early in the day!  Onto the details…I used my newest stamp set from Flourishes called Italian Garden, so many lovely images on this set, but I chose the potted Rosemary and the “season everything with joy” sentiment.  Colored the Rosemary and pot with Copic markers and shaded the focal and sentiment with Memento Toffee Crunch.  Added some small black brads and that was it.

A Cup of Thanks

Flourishes December Release Challenge, FLLCDEC13B / Flip it Sketch Challenge

 

I made this thank you card using the brand spanking new, gorgeous set of Flourishes “Grab a Cup” stamp set.  I was sold as soon as I laid eyes on that latte’ cup and the fun sentiments.  I colored with my Copics and layered per the challenge design on Graphic45 papers, love that paper.  I angled the sentiment and stamped using Memento Espresso Truffle.