Stampscapes - Playing with 'New Stuff!'

I'm back home from another work day in Nanaimo.  Seeing as I've been such a good girl lately I thought that a few 'little' special treats were in order!  These are the secret special treats that are smuggled in when nobody's looking because.. I've probably gone over my nonexistant budget as it is!  These purchases will be blamed on Victoria at Crafty Capers!  All she has to do is post on her blog what's new in the store and I turn into someone on par with a heroine junkie!!  Ever have those days when you swear you're 'just going to look??!!'  I have them all the time.

So... Today I picked up another BIG and Juicy stamp pad in 'Soothing Sunset.'  It's gorgeeeeeous!  When I arrived home I put everyone's appetite on hold and ran into my little room and started brayering.  WooHoo!  Loved it!  Once I had that done I picked out a stamp that was wide enough for my paper and voila!  There you have it!  Simple and I think it looks pretty kewl.  There are no embellishments other than Stickles on this card.  The colours are so bright and strong that the patterned paper I had hoped to use made it look like the I-5 during a nuclear evacuation.  The top stamped image is popped up.  Here's a closeup so you can see where I put the Stickles...  They show up much better in person.  Actually the colours are all quite bright and really don't show as well as I had hoped due to my terrible photographic skills on automatic!

Stamps:    Stampscapes - 023A     Duck Trio in Flight

                                       295C     Lilly Grass

                                                    Country Stream - Nature Sheet #1

                                                    Sentiment - Scenic Sentiments Sheet #1

Ink:          Ranger Big and Juicy, Archival Black

Paper:      Recollections Soda Pop, Stampin' Up! yellow, Recollections Black

Stickles:   Lemonade

Pop Dots

            

Thanks for looking!  I'll try and get some more done up this weekend if the rain shows up like they are forecasting.  Second thought.. I should get back to work on the Arc!

Hugs,

Sheree



Stampscapes - Father's Day

I'm Back!!!!

Sorry about the delay in posting but, we finally have had a couple of days of sunshine!  I watched the blue sky all day at the shop and for once it hasn't rained from 3 p.m. on so I was able to get a bit of yard work done!  Now I'm getting yard work done and haven't had much time to hibernate in my favourite room!

This is a quickie card I threw together just to see how it would turn out.  I've had this paper on the brain for a while and did a small Stampscape just to see how it looked.  I found a small roll of twine in my stash and took a cue from Karen at Feline Creative.  (I'd love to create like her when I grow up!!) 

Stamps:       Country Stream Small - Stampscapes; Sentiment - Stampin' Up!

Paper:          s.e.i.  Moonrise (moss) from Crafty Capers; Kraft and Black from

                   Recollections

Twine:         Can't remember (I'm actually too tired and lazy to run upstairs and look!)

Inks:            Adirondack Dye Ink pads:  Lemonade, Aqua, Pool, Meadow, Mocha

                   Distress Ink pads:  Frayed Burlap

Diamond Stickles. Pop dots

Anyway... just thought I'd post this to see what happens.  Thanks for looking!!

Hugs!

Sheree

Flourishes Mother's Day FLLCMay11

I know Mother's Day is overwith but... Flourishes is having a challenge and the winner receives all four sets of new release stamps!  I LOVE Flourishes stamps and would LOVE to add these kewl new sets to my collection!!

For this card I used a stamp from the Sweet Peas set.  This was coloured with Copics along with one other impression to be cut out adding dimension with pop dots.  The background is glossy paper smooshed in Ranger Alcohol Inks.  It's rather abstract but I think its a good contrast with the image.  Happy Mother's Day was stamped with Versa Mark and embossed with Tinsel Red.

Here's a close up view...

The recipe for this card is as follows:

Stamps:      Flourishes Sweet Peas, Stampin' Up! Sentiment

Papers:      Glossy and White Stampin' Up!

Inks:          Versa Mark Yellow, Stampin' Up, Copics, Ranger Alcohol Inks in

                  Sunshine Yellow, Red Pepper, Cranberry

Stickles     Yellow, Diamond

Doily         Wilton - Michael's

Other         Recollections bling, Pop dots, Red Tinsel embossing powder

Thanks for looking.... Hope I win those four new sets!!  One is a fisherman's set and being that I have all boys who fish it would be the perfect aquisition!

Hugs,

Sheree

Flourishes Birthday

Happy Mother's Day to all my new friends!!

I worked on this card earlier this past week but was changing this and that all the time until it was finished two evenings later.  The shop was so busy this week that I didn't have time to post a thing!  I was up early this morning with my pups so headed down to the old computer to upload and post while the rest of the world lay sleeping.

I've loved this stamp for a long time now and finally sat down with my Copics to colour it in and bring it to life.

Stamps:             Flourishes; Just Rite (Greeting)

Papers:              K&Company; Stampin' Up!; Recollections

Inks:                  Stampin' Up!; Distess Old Paper

Doily:                Wilton from the Michael's baking aisle

Ribbon:             Satin Pink - WalMart; Seam binding from FabricLand

Flower:              I made after following Nancy's tutorial

Stamens:           Michael's - Wedding aisle

Pin:                   Lindy sent to me!  Here is her tutorial!

Highlights:         Jelly Roll Star pen in gold

Pop Dots

Thanks for looking!  Hope you all have a wonderful day!



Stampendous Happy Birthday

I had another hard day at work last Thursday so decided that I needed to treat myself (once again)!!  I found this gorgeous paper from My Mind's Eye 'quite contrary collection at Crafty Capers in Nanaimo, a few sheets of coordinating cardstock along with a new stamp Stampendous! called Agapanthus Cluster.  This is the picture I imagined on my drive home and it finally came to fruition last night!  If you look closely in the photo you can see that I stamped one lighter image and then embossed a darker ink in the foreground.  I didn't have any darker ink in that hue so went with this and like the softness it exudes.



Papers:      My Mind's Eye; Unknown cardstock (help me out Victoria); Misc. cream

Stamps:     Stampendous!; Just Rite greeting

Ink:           SEI; Versa Ink Spot

Pearls:       Dollarama

Ribbon:     Sheer cream from WalMart

Embossing Powder: Clear Pearl (I'll run back upstairs and check that one!)

Pop Dots

Circle punch for ticket corners

Thanks for looking!