You're too tweet...

Hello friends!

I was feeling a bit nostalgic yesterday and started flipping through my binder of Pure Innocence stamps. It's still hard to believe that My Favorite Things is no longer in business. It makes me feel even more grateful for the stash of stamps that I have from them, and there are plenty that are still waiting to get inked up. This Important Peep set caught my eye and I thought she would be cute as a colorful Easter card. So I colored her in a rainbow of candy coated colors and added some length to her pigtails. The sentiment is from an old Ellen Hutson sentiment set and I thought it worked well in this simple spring scene. This was definitely a fun one and I will have to ink up more Pure Innocence sooner rather than later.  :)

Talk at'cha later!

Supply list:
cardstock- Papertrey Ink and Catherine Pooler
stamps- My Favorite Things (PI Important Peep), Ellen Hutson (sentiment)
ink- Memento tuxedo black and rich cocoa
Papertrey Ink medium scallop frame die
Sharpie extra fine white pen
Prima flowers
Kaiser Craft pearls
Copic markers:
skin- E000, E00, E11, E04, R00, R20
hair- YR31, YR14, YR27, E29
clothes- RV10, RV52, RV55, V04, V12, V15, V17, Y11, Y13, Y15, Y18, BG11, BG53, E81, E43
chicks- Y00, Y11, YR30, YR31, Y26
dirt/grass- E31, E55, E43, E44/YG00, YG01, YG03, YG25, YG61, YG63, G43, G94
sky- B0000, B000, B00, B01, C00, C0, 0

 

You're the best present...

Hello again!

I needed something quick to color yesterday and as I flipped through a little pile of recent stamp purchases still sitting on my desk, this Pure Innocence from My Favorite Things caught my eye. I've been collecting these sweet PI images for years but I definitely don't get them inked up as often as I would like. So I made sure that this Christmas Sweetheart would at least make it onto a card before Christmas this year. To keep things quick and easy I limited my color palette to a simple three part color combo of red, pink and teal and created a very light and abstract winter background. It felt great to color up one of these cuties again and I'm so pleased with how this CAS card turned out. 

Laters! 

Supply list:
cardstock- Lawn Fawn, My Favorite Things and Catherine Pooler
stamps- My Favorite Things (PI Christmas Sweetheart)
ink- Memento tuxedo black and rich cocoa
My Favorite Things double stitched rectangle stax
Sharpie extra fine white pen
Wink of Stella clear glitter pen
Copic markers:
skin- E000, E00, E11, E04, R00, R20
hair- E35, E57, E49
clothes- C0, C3, C4, C5, C6, C7, C9, W00, W0, W2, W7, R43, R46, R59, RV10, RV21, RV02, RV32, RV34,
background- B0000, B000, B00, BG02, B52, B14, 0

Oceans of love...

TGIF!

It's been a long while since I've participated in an MFT sketch challenge and since I really wanted to ink up the new Oceans of Love set by Rachelle Anne Miller I figured it wouldn't hurt to check it out. I was sold as soon as I saw that the sketch looked like a bunch of waves flowing across the card... talk about perfect! So I set about stamping and masking everything into place. There are so many cute accessory stamps in this set and I'm pretty sure I used them all on this card, LOL! I then began coloring in the background, breaking the wavy sections into four parts... one of sand at the bottom then three sections of water graduating from dark to light as they move up the card. I did end up moving the placement of the sentiment from the bottom right to the upper left because I had more empty space up there, but otherwise I followed the sketch pretty faithfully. And just like that I had a super cute card ready to send out.  :)

Have a great weekend! 

Supply list:
cardstock- My Favorite Things and Catherine Pooler
stamps- My Favorite Things (RAM Oceans of Love set)
ink- Memento rich cocoa and Studio Calico blue sky
My Favorite Things A2 stitched rectangle stax set 2
Wink of Stella clear glitter pen
Sharpie extra fine white pen
Copic markers:
skin- E000, E00, E11, E04, R00, R20
hair- V01, BV11, BV02, BV04
top/tail- RV00, RV10, RV52, RV55, RV34/BG10, BG11, BG53, BG72
sand- E30, E31, E33, E42, E43
water- B0000, B000, B00, B01, B02, B04
rocks- C2, C4, W3, FYG1, FYG2, YG23, YG17, BG99
starfish- Y35, YR04, YR09, R22, R27, R89
coral- Y02, Y26, YG01
turtles- YG00, G43, G46, YG21, YG13, G94, G99, YG91

Sweet Celebration Wishes...

TGIF!

I was missing my Dreamerland Crafts stamps yesterday as it has been a while since I got crafty with them. I was just about to reach for my binder of stamps when I remembered that I have a few already stamped and sitting in a stack of images on the corner of my desk so I checked that first. I found this cute It's Your Birthday Cake image, which was perfect since I will be needing a birthday card next week. I started coloring her up and it felt like she needed more going on with her so I grabbed the SY Sweet Shop stamp set from MFT and did some selective inking to add just the table full of baking ingredients behind her. Once that table was in place the rest of the simple scene just fell together. The sentiment comes from another MFT set called Sweet Celebration Wishes and I framed the whole thing using this cute die from Heffy Doodle.    

Enjoy your weekend friends!  :)

 

Supply list:
cardstock- My Favorite Things and Catherine Pooler
stamps- Dreamerland Crafts (It's Your Birthday Cake), My Favorite Things (SY Sweet Shop and SY Sweet Celebration Wishes)
ink- Memento tuxedo black and rich cocoa
Heffy Doodle scalloped imperial frames die
Sharpie extra fine white pen
Pear Blossom Press silver pen
Copic markers:
skin- E000, E00, E11, E04, R00, R20
hair- E35, E57, E49
clothes- W00, W2, W3, W6, W8, RV00, RV10, RV11, RV32, RV34, C5, C7, C10, Y11, Y02, Y18
cake- C1, C4, E23, E25, E27, E29, RV13, Rv14, Y11, Y02, Y18, Y17
floor- N0, N1, N2, N3
chair rail/wall- E40, E81, 0/C0, C1, Y11, Y21
table- E31, E33, E34, E44
flour bag/flour- E81, E84, 0, B21, B45, YR31, Y23/ W0, W2
sugar/butter/measuring cup- E81, E84, B21, B45, RV42/Y11, Y21, Y26/C2, BG10
mixing bowl- C0, C2, C4, Y11, Y21, Y26, E34, E25, E27
cupcake tin- T3, T5, T7, E23, E25, E27