Layers…and Plenty of Them

We had the most beautiful double rainbow so close to us yesterday! One side was in the field across the road and the other end touched down in the field opposite! Had we been able to get out there quickly enough we felt we could have touched it! The colors were so VIVID and definite. It was interesting as we watched it move East…one second in the fields, the next just beyond the trees!

When we went outside the rainbow was in front of  the flowering tree in the fence row, but by the time I took the picture it had already moved to just behind it!

Had I been able to catch this side where I first saw it it would have been awesome! Just to the left of the end you see is some brush, the rainbow was ON that brush pile and it looked like the Pillar of Fire in the Ten Commandments!

Jared hopped on the 4wheeler and snapped these from out in the field. Notice how far it has moved on since the pictures I took! Already into or past town!

And fading….

A shot to the West.

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And how appropriate that the challenge today on Splitcoast should be lots of layers… just like the rainbows!

Man, I wish I had a porch like this sit and watch storms and rainbows!

This is a new set coming May 1 from Our Daily Bread designs, Porch. It’s colored with Copics and white gel pen highlights. The Vintage Border is also a part of the set and has a compatible die. There is also a Vintage Border Embossing Plate, hard to see in this pic, but I used on the background pieces and tag.

Copics used

 

Enjoy your day… thanks for stopping!

Dawn

Friends Along The Way

Life’s truest happiness
is found in the friendships
we make along the way.

A fun sketch today on Splitcoast and I decided to use an image I haven’t colored in a looooong time! Puppy Love  (and sentiment) from Inky Antics.

It’s colored with Copics, doodles with a Multiliner,
faux cardstock layers (white cs colored with Copics around the edges). DP is DCWV The Pet Stack.

Hope your day is going well… we’re still inundated with T-storms! Tornado sirens went off while I was making this card… I’m so tired of rain and mud! The bright spot is it’s a great time to STAMP!

Thanks for stopping!

Dawn

The Great Outdoors…#61 Sassy Challenge

Our Sassy Challenge today, brought to us by our ever Sassy Jeni, is “The Great Outdoors”. You can Play along, just make sure you use a Sassy Cheryl’s image.

Well, the great outdoors in my neck of the woods is MUD, RAIN, MUD and more RAIN! Lucky for me I can brighten my mood with this cheery Spring Flower Pot!

I managed to take this during the brief time it wasn’t raining!! It’s colored with Copics on Spellbinders Fleur de Lis Motifs and fun Cosmo Cricket Garden Variety paper!

For more Sassy inspiration,
see what the other girls have done!

 Cathy Edgar
Heather Huggins Kim Rhead
Jeni Tidwell Peggy Marsh
Jackie Mooney Judy Kreucher

Thanks for stopping!

Dawn

Light & Airy, Clouds and a Color Block

Being on the Creative Cuts and More design team allows me to use CCM’s wonderful products and still create with any images… the best of both worlds!

This particular card today is a Color Block, from Bazzill Blue Jean Criss Cross cardstock.

I used the set I designed, Bird Border and Corners, and Faith from Our Daily Bread designs.

Here’s how I put it together along with how to make your silhouette image different colors!

I inked up the border with Adirondack Meadow, took a rag and wiped off the butterflies and some of the flowers, then took Adirondack Mountain Rose and Butterscotch and carefully dabbed onto the butterflies and flowers. Don’t worry if you don’t get all the ink wiped off before adding new color, it’ll give a nice variegated look.

I laid the block over my base and lightly traced the openings. I put sticky notes to mask each area, then inked my images like above, adding in Adirondack Espresso for the birds.

For the clouds, you can see how I do them here.

Thanks for stopping!

Dawn

#60 A Sassy Sketch!

Our Sassy Challenge today is a sketch, always a favorite of mine! It takes all the guess work out of making a card! You can play along too, just make sure you use a Sassy Cheryl’s image, you could be a winner!!

Speaking of Sassy Cheryl’s, she’s having a sale that will run through midnight on Saturday, April 23rd. Take 20% off ALL images, both colored and digi stamps. Commercial Licenses will also be discounted 10%.

Now, on to the sketch…

I used A Mother’s Day Flower for my card. Spellbinders Lacy Ovals, DCWV Sweet Glitter Stack, Polka Dots embossing folder and Copics to color the image.

Isn’t she a cutie!

She also happened to work for the ICopic Challenge this week!

For more Sassy inspiration,
see what the other girls have done!

Ann English Cathy Edgar
Heather Huggins Kim Rhead
Jeni Tidwell Peggy Marsh
Jackie Mooney Jodi Ann Lee
Judy Kreucher

Thanks for stopping!

Dawn

Papers & Pixels… Check It Out!

To see how to make this card…
see the April issue of Paper & Pixels.
You’ll be seeing more of ME there as a regular contributor!!

thanks for stopping!

Dawn

A Really Reasonable Challenge… in Yummy Colors!

Really Reasonable Ribbon’s challenge this week is
Violets and Lilacs and Plums, Oh My!
Three of my favorite colors, flowers and fruit!
You’re already saying WOW, right?!

Our Daily Bread designs is the sponsor this week also, so be prepared to see some awesome creations!!!

Here’s mine. I used Birds & Butterfly Labels with the verse from Daffodil Tag Set. Adirondack Purple Twilight is the ink… love it! Spellbinders Labels 18 and ovals were used (and of course my Grand Calibur too!) along with a Martha Stewart border punch. The DP is SEI Couture. It’s all spritzed with Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer Mist too.

Really Reasonable Ribbon ribbon and trim is just yummy!  I used a pretty crocheted lace behind my labels with a lovely variegated scalloped trim on top, then topped it off with a beautiful diamond satin bow tied on my Bow Easy.

 

Be sure to check out both Really Reasonable Ribbon
and Our Daily Bread designs for your crafting needs!

 

Thanks for stopping!

Dawn

Coffee Filters?… What Next!

I didn’t get a chance to do the sketch challenge on Splitcoast yesterday, and today the challenge was to use a “person” on your card. I had this cutie-patootie new digi, A Simple Gift of a Flower, from Sassy Cheryl’s,  already partially colored so I combined the two!

My colors are really wonky today! No matter what I did in PSE I couldn’t get the colors to come true to the actual card…so use your imagination! Think salmon or peaches and you’ll be close!

Anyhoo…. she’s colored with Copics and some white gel pen accents. I’m loving my new Spellbinders (labels 21 and blossom 3) and of course the Grand Calibur!

*Designer Tip*
I did some faux cardstock too… that means I took a piece of white and just colored the edges with a Copic to match the image!
To get a mat that fit the image, I traced around the outside edge of the same die used to cut the image, then cut around that line!

The sentiment from MFP’s new In My Mother’s Garden was perfect for the card too!

Here’s where the coffee filters come into play! I took one filter, folding it in half then half again, in between the fold I tucked a folded piece of fine tulle and ran it through, all together, the Grand Calibur. I took my Tattered Rose Distress ink and dabbed it to the filter flowers, spritzed with water to spread the ink, crumpled a bit and heated with my heat tool to dry. Then I layered the filter flowers with the tool, glued together with Zip Dry glue and attached my sentiment with a thick glue dot (I sponged the edges of the sentiment with the same ink). The entire flower is popped up on a dimensional.

It’s gloriously SUNNY here today!!
I hope it’s beautiful where ever you are!

thanks for stopping!

Dawn

THINK SPRING!!! Sassy #59

Our Sassy Challenge today is Think Spring! I know it’s been officially “Spring” for a few weeks, but our weather changes every 5 minutes! We’ve seen it all… snow, tornado warnings, thunderstorms and more snow! Happy though, my Daffodils, Grape Hyacinths and a few other early flowers are BLOOMING!!

You can play along with us on this challenge, just be sure to USE A SASSY CHERYL’S  IMAGE! You could win a $5 gift certificate from Cheryl!

Spring…. new life as the earth wakes from its Winter sleep. Cows start calving, sheep are lambing…I love to see a field of babies!

So I picked this image, Bear Pulling Toy Lambs, for my card today!

It’s colored with Copics and sponged with Tumbled Glass Distress ink. I used Spellbinders Labels 19 for my image.

I did something interesting with the Garden Gate (Martha Stewart) punched piece. I spritzed it first with Rose Red Glimmer Mist, then took Tattered Rose and Victorian Velvet Distress inks across it…ending with a spritz of water which blended the colors into this mottled effect! I like it!

I double punched the fence and stamped Happy Spring in Victorian Velvet (old stamp, and no clue who made it!)

For more Sassy inspiration,
see what the other girls have done!

Ann English Cathy Edgar
Heather Huggins Kim Rhead
Jeni Tidwell Peggy Marsh
Jackie Mooney Jodi Ann Lee
Judy Kreucher

Thanks for stopping!

Dawn

Making a Straight Curve…What?? and a Continuous Border Tutorial

How can something straight be made to curve! Well in today’s Technique Challenge on Splitcoast, Joan did just that! Use a straight edge punch and make a border for circles and ovals! Cool!

Here’s my card. I used Mother’s Day, Poppy Die, Fancy Labels, and Bird Border & Corners, all from Our Daily Bread designs.

I stamped the largest of the Fancy Labels twice, in Adirondack Juniper and using a craft knife, cut out one of the ovals. Don’t forget, these Fancy Labels coordinate with Spellbinders Labels 17… and using my Grand Calibur makes my job so much easier!
Using Martha Stewart’s Butterfly Border punch, I punched one long strip about 1/2 x 11 inches, then snipped in between each of the butterflies being careful NOT to cut all the way to the edge. This let me “bend” them around the backside of the oval, making my straight line CURVE! I just snipped off the extra butterflies where it met.

 

I actually toned down the stark white cardstock with some Old Paper Distress ink to better match the Bo Bunny Vicki B Collections DP. (although it doesn’t look like it in this pic!)

I’m just loving this new Poppy Die too, so quick after coloring the image to cut them out!

these are the Copics I used

I left one of the Poppies whole and cut apart the other for my arrangement.

and the inside

both inside and out were spritzed with Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer Mist!

stamps: mother’s day, fancy labels, bird border and corners

ink: memento tuxedo black, adirondack juniper, ranger old paper

paper: georgia pacific white, bo bunny vicki b collection

other: copics, spellbinders labels 17, poppy die, martha stewart butterfly punch, dazzling diamonds glimmer mist, craft knife, dimensionals, tulle, gold cording

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Now, here’s a Designer Tip…

Ever want to stamp a continuous line image or overlap images for a scene, but get frustrated because it looks like you stamped several times instead of having your image flow. Here’s something I learned when I first started stamping… I hope it helps you too!

You can see here, I wanted to make a border the entire length of my cardstock, but my stamp is only is so long! What to do!! Ink it and stamp again and you get that ugly overlap line… ewwww!!!

I hope I’ve been some
inspiration to you today… go create!

Thanks for stopping!

Dawn