Runway Inspired

Hey all, hope those of you that have spring break this week are enjoying yourselves. We just got back from Central Oregon where we spent some great family time. Today I have a card to share with you that was inspired by the latest challenge over on the Runway Inspired challenge blog.

The background was made by "smooshing" some watered down distress inks onto a piece of watercolor paper.  Once it was dried I directly stamped the red butterfly onto the watercolor paper.

For the 'hugs' sentiment I cut it out three times in dark grey and adhered those together to give it some dimension. Then to kick it up a notch I cut the bottom half of the word out of a sheet of coral card stock and then adhered a cherry red iridescent glitter to it.

The aqua butterfly and brad  that are in the center of the stamped butterfly are from an older My Mind's Eye collection.

This is the image that was the inspiration for the challenge...

(source: vogue.co.uk)

Products:

Inks: Distress Inks (Tumbled Glass, Black Soot, Festive Berries) Versafine (Onyx Black)

Stamps: Papertrey Ink (Beautiful Butterflies, Big Hugs)

Dies: Papertrey Ink (Big Hugs)

Brad: My Mind's Eye (Follow Your Heart)

Thanks for stopping by!

Tonya

A brand new look!!!

I'm so excited! The look of my blog has been so outdated for so long! Check it out…brand new and updated!!!! I've dusted off the place and hope to get back to posting projects on a much more consistent basis!

I have a list a mile long of things that need to be shared with you all. Thought I would start doing so today with a card.  A couple of months ago I sustained a minor injury while playing tennis. One of my sweet tennis friends came over to visit with me, brought some wine, showed some rehab stuff, and commiserated with me. Fortunately I was only out for a few weeks and am back and playing! Made this card to thank her for her thoughtfulness!

Started with a blank piece of watercolor paper and painted on some orange, yellow and pink. Stamped the feather with a grey ink.

Heat embossed the gold specks on the feather.

I die cut the sentiment out of watercolor paper and painted the same colors as the background only using an ombrè effect here. The sentiment was also die cut out of some pink card stock and then the two were layered together slightly offsetting them for some added dimension.

Topped it all off with a scattering of sequins and enamel dots.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Clear Scraps card

Today I have a Clear Scraps project to share with you. I started with the Restoration line from Crate Paper and the Clear Scraps Decorative Frames. Using one of the decorative frames, I trimmed off two of the ends and used these ends as a way to draw your eye to the focal point of the card. Using Timber Brown Stazon ink I stamped a flourish at the point of each the Clear Scrap pieces and lightly inked around the edges with the same ink.

Thanks for stopping by. We finally have a little sun, so hopefully we'll get some baseball in this week!

Other products used:

Stamps: Papertrey Ink

Markers: Copic

Bling: Mark Richards

Seam Binding: Hand dyed 

Ribbon: Vintage Findings from AMillionMemories.com

Make It Monday...

I haven't been able to get a card done for the Papertrey Ink Make It Monday challenge done in a few weeks. I couldn't pass this one up. This week was all about ink blending. So, I grabbed my Distress Inks and my PTI Delightful Doilies stamp set and went to "work".  I started out by heat embossing the doilies with Versamark onto my white cardstock. Then I blended my Distress inks over the top. Lastly stamped over the top of it all with a text stamp. Lastly, I wiped my embossed doilies off with a baby wipe to get rid of the extra ink and to make them nice and white again.

Then since I had the stamps out already I decided to make a similar card with a completely different look. Used Jenni Bowlin inks for this one (except the purple, because she doesn't have a purple :( )

 The sentiment on this one is from Scattered Showers.

Hope you are all enjoying a fabulous weekend!