Elegant Tulip

Its a grey, wet day here in the Pacific Northwest so I thought I'd share a bright and cheery card we made at our Spring Fling last week.

This card features the Impression Obsession Elegant Tulip that was stamped with Onyx Black Versafine on Watercolor paper and painted with Twinkling H2Os. Oh how I wish the shimmer would show on the photo. It truly is very stunning in real life.

The Kraft die cut was made from Spellbinders Floral Ovals S4-356 (and I just realized that I forgot to poke out a few cutouts--oops!) and the embossed panel was done with a Cuttlebug Embossing folder.

I think this card is going to sit front and center on my desk today to help combat the dreary rainy day we're having!

Hope your day is full of sunshine and happy times!

Think Spring!

Woo Hoo! Spring begins today! Happy is me!!!

For today's celebration creation, I thought I would use Impression Obsessions Dogwood 3 stamp and paint it with Twinkling H2Os. (Ooooh, can you say shimmer!)

The background image is also Impression Obsession. Its one of their Cover-A-Card. I love using those stamps for backgrounds. And the spring sentiment is one of my all-time spring favorites by Amuse and was stamped with Distress Forest Moss.

And the texture on the pink mat is Dreamweaver's Flower Quatrefoil.
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Both dies are Spellbinders and the punch is EK Success.

Since tomorrow is Thursday I will be featuring my Dreamweaver Bloomin' Spring challenge so I hope you'll pop on over.

Until then, I hope your day is a wonderful one.

Get Inky and Win a Stencil!

Welcome to September!

Now that summer is "unofficially over", I can get serious again about blogging! And I am so excited because this month's Dreamweaver's challenge really helps to motivate me.

It's a very wide open challenge so there really is no excuse to participate. Are you ready to:

GET INKY WITH STENCILS?

Yes, that's right, time to get inky! And being a stamper at heart and a lover of techniques, this month's challenge is right up my alley (and hopefully yours as well).

PLUS this month we will have just a bit different twist on our monthly challenge ...we are letting you choose any stencil you would like as your prize if you win. Yep, any Dreamweaver stencil you "so desire". We will still have two winners, one for best interpretation of the challenge and one for best usage of Dreamweaver products.

So to start of my INKY month, I thought I'd share a very easy, CAS card that is really quite stunning.

This is one of the cards we will be creating in my October classes at Stampin' Cat Studio and also at Karen and Friends Creations.

I started by first creating a watercolor wash background using Twinkling H2Os and then using the Faux Letterpress technique, machine-embossed the LG745 Tree Line stencil over the painted background.

I love the way this came out. It reminds me of a end of summer sunset!

Please join along with this month. There really is no excuse not to because the theme can be interpreted in soooo many ways.

For additional inspiration, please check out the Dreamweaver blog and the other Dream Team blogs:

Dream It Up! blog

Pam Hornschu

Laura Drahozal

Louise Healy

Terrece Siddoway

Kristi Van Doren

Georgia Sommers

Lee Kellogg

Jessie Hurley

Liz Martin

Cyndi Bundy

I hope you'll stop by next week when I'll be posting not only on Thursday but also on Tuesday and Saturday as well!

Have a great weekend, happy crafting and may the ink stains on your fingers bring out the child in your heart!!!!

Twinkling Magic

For my last CAS card of the week I thought I'd leave you with a thought to ponder over the weekend!

Another of my "go to" techniques when my creativity is in a slump is to pull out my Twinkling H2Os and make watercolor backgrounds to be used a later date. Playing with color and shimmering color at that just seems to rev up my mojo.

And that is exactly how this card originated.

All I did was take some background papers I had in my stash, stamped a very empowering sentiment on it. I then stamped, gold-embossed and painted the flower embellishment with Twinklings as well.

Very simple but a great encouragement card!

Hugs and have a great weekend. Mine is filled with teaching, househunting and normal weekend chores. I actually think I am looking forward to Monday so I can rest!!!

Cherylynn