From the heart - Floral card

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Hello! It's sunny today, it's so exciting. I spent a few minutes outside yesterday afternoon in my flower gardens. Picking up the leaves and dead flowers from last season and found many flowers starting to poke through the soil! Warm weather is really almost here! This weekend is supposed to be beautiful and I can't wait and I saw that early next week it may hit 70! And on my journey's today I actually saw GREEN grass. Can you tell I"m excited for spring to actually be here?
So in honor of spring and warm weather and the sun being out, I have a floral card for you to look at.
I used razzleberry and garden green with whisper white and a touch of soft suede for a couple of the flowers. I used my blender pens and ink pads to color in the flowers. This is a 3x6 card when it's folded. I used a 12x12 piece of cardstock for this card and cut it in 1/4's.

 I used lots of rhinestones on this card to give it an extra special touch. Here is a close up of the coloring. I love the way the ferns came out. I used wild wasabi first as my lighter color and then came back and added touched of garden green to make it look more realistic.

 This card is for a newer friend whose been a huge encouragement to me in the last couple of months and I wanted to let her know how much it's meant to me. All the flowers are "popped" up on dimensionals to give the card more interest.

Just a simple strip of razzleberry taffeta ribbon and a 1 1/2 of garden green cardstock and there you have it! I really enjoyed making this card. Coloring is one of my favorite things to do. I find it soothing.
I hope you like it.
Have a great day and happy stampin!
Angela

Christmas time with the greeting card kids

Ok I promise today will be the last day I post a card using the greeting card kids stamp set for a little while anyway. This one is the little Christmas girl pulling her sled with a tree in it. Such a precious image! Today I used my watercolor crayons and aqua painters to mix it up a bit. It gives her a softer look! I also used the greenhouse gala designer paper again. I didn't have any current Christmas paper yet, but look how nicely this greenhouse gala dsp lends it self to this card!
Do you love that paper flower embellishment in the top left hand corner? It was super easy to make! I added smooch spritz to it and shimmer paint to make it look vintage and antiqued!

This next one is a close up of the paper flower! If you where to buy these in the store you'd be paying $4 - $5 for a pack of 6 of them! I used a build - a - brad in the center with matching dsp from the bottom of the card.

This photo is a close up of the watercoloring!

That's it for today everybody. Enjoy your day!

Happy Stampin!

Angela

Back to school - greeting card kids!

I have another greeting card kids card for you today! I'm enjoying this stamp set a lot! This time I used the school kids. They are so cute! I water colored them with my aqua painters and inks again, like I did on yesterday's card! I also used some of our new designer paper "greenhouse gala" I love this paper. Beautiful prints and colors!
          Can you see a "peek" of the inside of the card? See how I used the same designer paper on the inside.

This last picture shows more of the detail of the water coloring!

I'm enjoying this stamp set so much, that you should be on the look out for an upcoming water coloring class!

Have a great day and happy stampin!

Angela

Isn't she cute?

Stamp club starts in just a few weeks! Have you signed up yet? If you would like me to save a spot for you, let me know asap!

Now I'm not much into Halloween but I had to have this stamp set and I think that this little "witch" is just super cute! I love to watercolor, I wouldn't say I'm great at it, but it's very relaxing for me. I used aqua painters and my stamp pads to color her in. I colored her dress, wild wasabi because the leaves where the same color and I didn't want to put to many extra colors into this project. After I finished watercoloring her I also add "highlights" with my white gel pen. It really gives that finishing touch to her. I also added glitter on the other side of her, which if I where to do this project again, I would not add the glitter. I think I liked it better without it. I used 3 different colored glitters, orange, green and black with my 2 way glue pen.
I'm not going to show you what project she's on, because I will be making a very similar project for hostess appreciation day and I want them to be surprised!

I hope you like my little witch!

Supplies used:

ink: wild wasabi, basic black, pumpkin pie, blush blossom, crumb cake, daffodile delight, staz-on black

stamp set: greeting card kids

accessories: aqua painters, white gel pen, big shot, circle #2 die, scallop circle #2

cardstock: watercolor paper, wild wasabi, pumpkin pie

Well that's it for today! have a great day and happy stampin!

Angela

Another great feature of MDS

I know 2 posts in 1 day can you stand it!


Another great feature of the My digital studio program is this..............

We went apple picking Thursday afternoon and it's Friday night and I already have the scrapbook page done. You don't have to wait to print the pictures. I really like this feature. Just upload the pictures to your computer and your ready to use them! Just a click of the button for an embellishment and a click for a designer paper and don't forget the words and you're good to go. I also love that I can change the size of my pictures that way if I have a great picture and I want it to dominate the page I can do that!

And here is a card sample for those of you not interested in MDS. This is a birthday card that I did for one of Kayla's classmates for his party last Saturday. We got him this great gift that he can make aliens with, by squirting all different color gooey stuff into these molds so I thought I would make him a card to match.

I used my aqua painter and my ink pads to color in my aliens. I really wanted them to have a bold, bright look to them. I think it worked. I also used some retired SU designer paper that I thought worked well with the look I was going for.

Alright that's it for today.

Have a great day and happy stampin!

Angela