Pearly Bella Beautiful Borders

Bella Toile is a gorgeous background. I paired it with Beautiful Borders for some quick cards to send.

This is the first I've used Beautiful Borders and I love it!!! Now I need to make some cards with it using the actual words that it comes with.

After stamping the border strip on Shimmery White, I sponge daubered the Baja Breeze over it.

Sets: Beautiful Borders, Bella Toile, All Holidays

CS: Baja Breeze, Chocolate Chip, Shimmery White

Ink: Chocolate Chip, Baja Breeze

Accessories: Sponge Daubers, Tool Kit, Scallop Square Punch, Square Punch, Small Oval Punch, Scallop Edge Punch, Chocolate Chip Taffeta, Pretties Kit

Watercolor Wonder Crayons-October Tech Class

For my October class we worked with the Watercolor Wonder Crayons. These are my favorite way to watercolor and are very easy to work with.

This card was basic watercoloring. Just stamp a lined image and use the crayons to color and then spread that color by using the aquapainter. I also added shadow around the image.

Stamp sets used: Crazy for Cupcakes on the card and Bloomin' Beautiful for the tech card.

Ink: Black StazOn

CS: Certainly Celery, Pretty in Pink, Barely Banana, Close to Cocoa, and Watercolor paper

Accessories: Ribbon, Chunky Sprinkles, Crystal Effects, Aquapainter, WWCrayons

This card was done by coloring with the crayons directly on the rubberstamp. I LOVE the looks of this. Start with coloring your image with the lightest color you are using. Then keep coloring using colors lightest to darkest. Then spritz the image with water and stamp. Beautiful!!!

Stamp set: With Gratitude, Bella Toile

CS: More Mustard, Old Olive, Watercolor paper

Ink: Old Olive, Chocolate Chip

Accessories: WWCrayons, gold brads, Riding Hood Red ribbon

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Sooo, if you have the Watercolor Wonder Crayons you need to use them!!! And if you don't have them, you should really get them. *grins*

Christ is born!

The Christ is Born set is just lovely!!! I hope to use this for my cards this year. We will see. I am thinking I might not send cards this year.

When I saw the sketch challenge the result you see is what popped in my head. See the challenge here.

Set: Christ is Born

CS: Old Olive, Baja Breeze, Shimmery White, Holiday Treasures DSP, Vellum CS

Ink: Chocolate Chip, Pink Pirouette, Ruby Red, Old Olive

Accessories: Filigree Brads

The markers were used on the poinsettia to give it a softer look and so that the Christ is Born would show. The coluzzle was used to cut the vellum as well as the half circles.

HeartLIFE Missionary Christmas

HeartLIFE is a girls program at our church. They have a missionary that they encourage through the year with cards and such. I was asked to prepare some Christmas cards for one group of girls. They are 15 years old so a nice age group to do this. There were only 3 of them so I let them each make all 3 cards. They were delightful to work with.

This card used:

Snow Swirled

Cs: Certainly Celery, Riding Hood Red, VVanilla

Ink: Certainly Celery, Riding Hood Red

Accessories: Snow Blossom Punch

This card used:

Scandinavian Season (my FAV Christmas set)

Scandinavian wheel

Cs: Real Red, Baja Breeze, Choc. Chip, WWhite,

Ski Slope DSP

Ink: Choc. Chip, Baja Breeze, Real Red

Accessories: Twine, brad, dimensionals

This card used:

Bella Toile, All Holidays

Cs: Always Artichoke, Bravo Burgundy, Kraft,

VVanilla

Ink: Bravo Burgundy, Always Artichoke

Accessories: Bravo Burgundy grosgrain, 1-3/4 circle punch, 5-petal flower punch, non-SU punches, zigpainty

I did not use any glitter or bling and that is a total shocker!!!

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Bloom with the Fruit of the Spirit

I am in a Bible study called Living Beyond Yourself by Beth Moore. This Bible study is about exploring the Fruit of the Spirit. I decided to make bookmarks for all of the ladies participating. Living in the Spirit is very relevant to the believers life. I want to daily change my day and not just my life. I need to live in the Spirit to have purpose beyond me. To live in the Spirit, I need to not be self-absorbed. We all live self-absorbed don't we? I want to have abundant living in the fulness of the Spirit.

Here is the bookmark. It is honkin' HUGE isn't it!!! LOL I used chipboard coasters for these and colored the edge with Chocolate Chip. I used the set Bloomin' Beautiful because it has flowers and because of the word "bloom" and the blossom definition. I just had to use it and I sure had a lot that I wanted to cram on this bookmark. I wanted the Fruit of the Spirit printed on there and I just used the computer to do that. I covered the chipboard with a chocolate piece of Bella Rose DSP. The scalloped edge piece is Riding Hood Red and the green over that is Old Olive. Shimmery white was used to stamp the blossom definition and the flower. The flower is stamped in Chocolate Chip Craft and embossed with clear EP. I colored with inkpads with the aquapainter. The hardware is the Vanilla HPH sponged and wiped off with chocolate chip ink. I also added the Filigree Designer Brads.

The ladies will get these next Wednesday.

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Michelle's Swap

This is the card for Michelle's (SDiegoGal) Swap.

I used the set Inspired by Nature. It is a silhouette set that © Stampin' Up! has come out with. I used the Craft White and Blush Blossom to create a silouette embossed look. For the "live with passion" piece I stamped in Blush Blossom and used a sponge dauber to add color. LOVE those daubers. Colors used are Blush Blossom, Tangerine Tango and Chocolate Chip. I added paper piercing at the top to add some balance.

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Jami's Swap

These are my contributions to Jami's Swap for the new catty. You had to use a new set and then there were specifics you had to follow.

This card was in Round 1. We had to use a punch and I chose the new Wide Oval Punch. The new set is A Rose is a Rose. This is my favorite set out of the whole catalog. The colors used are Pink Pirouette, Riding Hood Red, Kiwi Kiss and the "Thank you" is stamped with Chocolate Chip. This set is a 2-step stampin' set and it is easier to use if you have a stamp-a-ma-jig. I inked the solid image with Pink Pirouette and then added a bit of the Riding Hood Red with a sponge dauber. Then I used the red in the 2-step. The base is Pink Pirouette and the DSP is Bella Rose.

This was my Round 2 contribution. We had to use hardware in this round and I chose the Mini Library Clips. The set used here is Flight of the Butterfly. This is a free set that I got at convention. Isn't it cute!?!?! The colors used are Basic Grey, Baja Breeze and Not Quite Navy. This is another 2-step stampin' set. Again the stamp-a-ma-jig was used. (I love that thing)

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