Birthday Wishes: CASEing Stamp Girl Tanja's Beautiful Tag

Isn't Tanja's tag (shown to the left) an absolute dream?  I love the soft background and the delicate flowers...and pinks and purples are my favorites!

I set out to CASE her tag...and couldn't find my package of tags, so I die cut a scrap of watercolor background.  A red rubber script background stamp and YNS's Flower splatter are stamped in Desert Sand ink as is the sentiment from Verve's Joyful Blooms.  The flowers are "practice pieces" from a new Reverse Confetti set, Banner in Bloom.

Thanks for the inspiration Tanja, and Happy Birthday, Stamplorations!Happy Birthday, Stamplorations!

Thanks for visiting, Christine

Happy Birthday, Stamplorations!

Vickie Dutcher's  card is absolutely stunning!  I just love the bright bouquet with the cheerful dotted paper, so it was easy to decide to CASE her beautiful project.

While I love her vivid color scheme, pencils are my coloring medium, and tend to be much paler.  I aimed for a soft blue and white polka dot for the panel, but the flowers image looked washed out, so I selected this more intense paper in a green-blue tone. I used Floral Bliss from Simon Says Stamp.   The panel is cut with a  Reverse Confetti Lacy Scalloped Frame die, and the word die was layered three times for a bit of dimension.  

Vickie's original card is shown below.  Thanks, Vickie, for sharing this beauty.  It was fun to CASE!

 Thanks for taking a look,
Christine

Linking to:
Stamplorations Fifth Birthday: CASE the Stampgirls

Sunday Stamps --Tropical

The card "recipe" includes Reverse Confetti's Build a Bunch, MFT's flamingo dies, and Frames and Flags from Newton's Nook.  The sentiment inside:  "Tickled pink it's your birthday".

Linking to: Sunday Stamps ((Inspiration photo)

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Thanks for visiting,

Christine

Hugs and Smiles

It's so much fun to combine color and sketch challenges!  To pick up the colors from the CAS-ual Fridays encouragement challenge photo, I applied Prima Pastel Dreams watercolors in teal, pink and blue to watercolor paper and die cut them with MFT's Stitched Flowers.  The frames were cut with MFT Stitched Squares Die-Namics.  A few enamel dots and a sweet sentiment from Verve's Kind Words finished off the card.

Thanks for taking a look,
Christine

Linking to:


CAS-ual Fridays Encouragement Challenge
MFT Sketch Challenge
SSS Wednesday Challenge:  Bright and Cheerful
Crop Stop
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"Time Out" to say "Happy Birthday, Stamplorations"

Wishing Stamplorations a very happy fifth birthday!  I so enjoyed reading Shery's story of how she started the company, and I could feel the dedication of the designers as she shared how so many of them started with her five years ago.  Congratulations on your courage, creativity and success!

I chose to case Kathy's amazing card shown at the left.  Love the sizable coffee sentiment she used...I imitated this with a stamp from A Jillian Vance Design centered on a watercolor panel using Prima Pastel Dreams.  The coffee cups are my favorites....from Verve's Coffee collection.  The patterned papers are all MME scraps.

Thanks so much for visiting,
Christine

Linking to:
Stamplorations Birthday Celebration Casing Kathy Schweinfurth
Time Out Challenge (Warm....coffee and these colors are certainly warm!)

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MFT Sketch Challenge: Ham it up on your birthday!

Love how the MFT sketch lends itself to tiny vignettes and had so much fun using Hog Heaven to create the little scenes.  I used stitched squares and stitched mini scalloped squares for the shapes.

Thanks for stopping by!
Christine






Linking to:
MFT Sketch Challenge
Word Art Wednesday

Build a Bunch: A Bright Hello

This is my second card using a collection of watercolored blooms from Build a Bunch.  This time, the softly colored blossoms are layered over a vivid floral panel which was muted with a vellum frame.  A script-y hello from W Plus Nine completes this  card......now I must be off to cook dinner.

Thanks for visiting,
Christine




Linking to:
Reverse Confetti Stock Your Stash
Word Art Wednesday
SSS Wednesday Challenge--Bright and Cheerful
Four Crafty Chicks