Welcome Spring Card

Hello and welcome!

I love to do ink smooching! Here I layered Mermaid Lagoon and Peacock Feather Distress Inks for one of the many fun challenges over at Winnie & Walter's 3rd Birthday Bash celebration. There is all kinds of creativity, inspiration and prizes over at Winnie & Walter this month. (see the links below).

For this card I used Winnie & Walter's In Bloom: Anna's Flora stamp set for the sunflower which is colored with Zig Clean Color markers. I also used Winnie & Walter's The Big, The Bold, and The Seasons stamp set for the sentiment, which is heat embossed.

The leaves of the fussy cut sunflower are "off the page," and I also added springs.

This card is entered in:

• Winnie & Walter's 3rd Birthday Bash

 

• The Three Challenge with Shay - 3 leaves, 3 small sequins, 3 large sequins
• The Ink Smooshing Challenge with Heather H.
• The Mood Board Challenge with Heather P.
• The Sequin Challenge with Kate
• The Off the Page Challenge with Keren
• The Bright Colours Challenge with Lydia

• The "Make Your Own Background" Monday challenge at Simon Says Stamp

-june

So Tweet Card #2

Hello and welcome!

Winnie and Walter is celebrating their 3rd Birthday Bash with ten challenges and lots of other inspirational fun! I love their products, so this is going to be so fun. Here is one of my entries for their creative challenges:

I used Winnie & Walter's So Tweet stamp set and Noelle Cutaways. This card is based on a sketch by My Favorite Things.


This card is entered in:

• Winnie & Walter's 3rd Birthday Bash
• The Cute Critter Challenge with Gayatri
• The Three Challenge with Shay - 3 flowers
• The Mood Board Challenge with Heather P.
• The Sequin Challenge with Kate
• The Bright Colours Challenge with Lydia
• The Pattern-Making Challenge with Mayuri

• The "Make Your Own Background" Monday challenge at Simon Says Stamp

• Wednesday Sketch Challenge 322 at MFT Card Challenges

              
Thanks for stopping by,
-june

Wishes Card

Hello and welcome!

I am loving this new stamp call Bed of Roses by Winnie & Walter. It can be used both in the foreground or background. Today I wanted to show it off with beautiful Zig Clear Colors and Princess Gold embossing powder (Ranger). What do you think?

The pink scalloped background was diecut with Winnie & Walter's Noelle Cutaways and the sentiment was diecut from Winnie & Walter's The Big, The Bold and The Party Cutaway.  I layered all of this on DCWV gold embossed vellum. To finish off this card I added 3 pink sequins and a ribbon bow.

This card is entered in:

 

• Winnie and Walter's 3rd Birthday Bash
• The Three Challenge with Shay
• The Mood Board Challenge with Heather P. 
• The Bright Colours Challenge with Lydia
•  The Sequin Challenge with Kate

• The "Tag You're It" Wednesday challenge at Simon Says Stamp

Thanks for stopping by,
-june

So Tweet Card

Hello and Welcome!

I recently got Winnie & Walter's So Tweet stamp set and just had to use those adorable chicks. What do you think?

 

I blended Quick Quote's Powder Puff Chalking Inks in Green Leaf, Sunset and Buttercup for the background. These inks go on so smoothly and effortlessly. Then, using Zig Clean Color markers, I colored and fussy cut the Winnie & Walter trio of chicks. To finish off this card, I added sequins.

This card is entered in:

• Winnie & Walter's 3rd Birthday Bash

 

• The Cute Critter Challenge with Gayatri
• The Sequin Challenge with Kate
• The Three Challenge with Shay
• The Ink Blending Challenge with Vanessa
• The Bright Colours Challenge with Lydia

• The "Based On A Book" Monday challenge at Simon Says Stamp (from Three Little Birds by Cedella Marley)

Thanks for stopping by,
-june

Blue Bird Of Happiness Card

Hello and Welcome!

I am in one of those creative jags. Lots of fun projects getting done, but my craftroom looks like it exploded. Here is my latest card:

I was inspired to use aqua and gold with a black contrast. The "hello" diecut is from Winnie and Walter's The Big, The Bold and The Happy set. The cute birdie is from W&W's So Tweet stamp set. He is colored with Zig Clean Color marker, fussy cut and popped dot. The gold background was created with Ellen Hutson's Wonky Backgrounds and Ranger's Princess Gold embossing powder. The 3 sequins are from Simon Says Stamp's Witches Brew.

This card is entered in:

 
 Winnie & Walter's 3rd Birthday Bash

• The Cute Critter Challenge with Gayatri
• The Three Challenge with Shay
• The Bright Colours Challenge with Lydia
• The Sequin Challenge with Kate

• Ellen Hutson's February Pin-Sights Challenge 

• The "Based On A Book" Monday challenge at Simon Says Stamp- this card was inspired by the book Blue Bird Of Happiness

• The "Anything Goes" Wednesday challenge at Simon Says Stamp

Thank for stopping by,
-june

So Romantic Page

Hello and Welcome!

My husband is the best. And I think, after you have been married for almost 2 decades, love and romance can be seen in many different ways. Here is one:

This page is based on a sketch and song challenge by the Scrappy Friends. I used pattern papers by Bobunny and Amy Tan. The gears and hearts are diecuts by Sizzix. I chalked all the paper edges with Quick Quotes Powder Puff Chalking Ink "Mocha Mama."

This page is entered in:

• Brenda's February "Scrap the Lyrics" Challenge at GrandDiva's Creative Corner

              

• Rochelle's February Rewind Sketch Challenge 

               

• The "Anything Goes" Wednesday challenge at Simon Says Stamp

Thanks for stopping by,
-june

Getting Inky with June

Hello and welcome Quick Quote fans.

I am so excited to share a new passion with you! It's POWDER PUFF CHALKING INKS!!!!

Recently I have been experimenting with Powder Puff Chalking Inks and they are amazing. These inks work so well with all kinds of techniques. Over the next few months, I hope to show you just how great Powder Puff Chalking Inks really are and why they are my new favorite colored ink.

Powder Puff Chalk Inks are a unique, creamy, smooth ink that come in dozens of yummy colors - including 12 new colors for 2017 (you can check them all out here). Today's project highlights some basic uses of these inks.

 One great property of Powder Puff Chalk Inks is that they stamp well on many surfaces like canvas, vellum, chipboard and paper. They are mostly opaque (like pigment inks), yet also have a slight translucency (like dye inks), which allows you to stamp colors on top of each other to get a richer blended look.  I did this with the yellow "yum," stamping first with Buttercup Yellow then with Orange Slice. These inks dry fast, so you don't have to worry about smearing.

The green hill was created by blending with Green Leaf and Limeade Powder Puff Chalking Inks together. These inks blended better than any other ink I've ever used. The soft texture allows the colors to glide on smoothly and mix without streaks.

Organization Tip: I add velcro dots to the back of my ink pad to store the blending pad.

Of course, Powder Puff Chalking Inks are best know for chalking the edges of paper, which I did here with Quick Quotes new Winter Bliss papers and Pixie Pink ink. Chalking paper adds depth and ties papers together. I especially love that Quick Quotes perfectly matches its paper and ink colors, so you know they will always go together.

Quick Quotes Products:
Winter Bliss Paper Pack *New!*
Powder Puff Chalking Inks: Pixie Pink, Green Leaf, Buttercup, Fuchsia, Orange Slice, Limeade, Baja Blue & Caribbean Blue

Other Products:
stamps: Gerda Steiner (pig), Stampendous (sentiment), Elle's Studio (yum)
sequins
copic markers (pig)
Versafine black

So get out your Powder Puff Chalking Inks and start experimenting! If you do try some of these ideas with Powder Puff Chalking Inks leave me a comment and a posting link, I'd love to come over and check it out!


I have a silly little bonus project to show you too!

Wanting to jazz up our homemade Valentine's Day cake, I used colored sugar and the "LOVE YOU" banners from February's Club Q kit as stencils.

Ok, ok, I'll stick with paper crafting. But my guys liked it and the cake was gone in minutes.


This card is also entered in:

• The "Based On A Book" Monday challenge at Simon Says Stamp - inspired by "If You Give a Pig a Pancake!"

• The Share Your Designs challenge at Gerda Steiner Designs

              
Thanks for stopping by,
-june