Ten Minute Monday

I originally made this card for the PaperTrey Color Challenge. I used the flourish stamp from the With Sympathy set. I punched the butterflies witha Martha Stewart punch and attached them with glue dots. I then added the small half back pearls to the butterflies. The sentiment is from PaperTrey as well. This card took about 5 minutes to create. Supplies: Stamps - Papertrey; Paper - PaperTrey; Ink - Versamagic Spanish Olive; Misc - Martha Stewart Butterfly punch, Pearl stickers, Glue Dots.

FTL 28

I used my old but loved Cherry Blossom image by Rubber Stampede for this sketch. I stamped it with Black Onyx Versafine ink on PaperTrey white cardstock and embossed it with clear embossing powder. I colored the image in with my stamping up markers. Then I used my Versamarker and went over the colored in areas and heat embossed it again with clear embossing powder. I brayered on Adirondak Aqua and then Sailboat Blue for the background (sky). I stamped the sentiment in Black Onyx Versafine. The image was matted on white PT cardstock and then mounted on a Bazzil textured cardstock. I felt like it needed more balance so I added the 3 small half back pearls. Supplies: Stamps - Rubber Stampede, PaperTrey; Ink - Versafine, Adirondak; Paper - PaperTrey, Bazzil; Misc - SU! markers, pearls, brayer

FTL 28 and Over the Rainbow Challenge

I needed to do 3 things tonight.

1. Make a sample card for my Fall-To Sketch (On a side note, someone asked about what this means. A fall-to layout is something you use frequently, it's kind of like a back-up. When you don't want to do something complicated, you can fall to these simple sketches!
2. Make a card for the amazing PTI Over the Rainbow colour challenge (how yummy is that colour combo!)
3. Make a birthday card for a good friend of mine.

I quickly set out to combine these into one card and I was successful! So first up, here's the sketch. For my main panel I went with 3.25x4.5. Feel free to change that up! The sketch is more like 2.25x3.5.

Here's my card. I see now I didn't quite adhere to the sketch. My panel is much bigger and I don't have all 3 sides of the bottom panel being the same width. Oops! That's the beauty of a sketch, it provides a guideline. For the flowers/branch, I started out with Out on a Limb. Next I inked up the dotty flowers in Pure Poppy. Then I grabbed a flower from Text Boxed, inked that up in Summer Sunrise and went over the dots so it would kind of appear that the dots were the flower centers. Finally I added in leaves, using the small leaf image.

Ten Minute Monday

I am in a monthly alphabet swap and this month is W. I got these 3D stickers at Archivers when I was visiting this swap group in Iowa last summer. W is for WISH. No stamping involved here - I am feeling kind of guilty about that! But I think it is so cute! Supplies: Paper - PaperTrey; Misc - Making Memories 3D sticker.

Ten Minute Monday

I've got two cards for you today. They are barely more than one layer. I really like these flowers and wanted to showcase just that. For my first card I was in the mood for some pencil crayon colouring. To bring a little more pop to the flower I glazed the center with crystal effects. Now I know that it has a drying time of more than 10 minutes, but if it's your last step, then it doesn't add to your total card time :D For this card I wanted to take a stab at watercolouring. My watercolour paints have been highly neglected. I guess I wanted to prove to myself that I could still manage that medium. On both cards I stamped and coloured the flowers and leaves on separate paper, then cut those out and popped them up with pop dots. I was quite pleased with both cards. There's something so satisfying about a pop of colour against all that white space.