Happy Birthday

Dusting off the cobwebs in this blog. Had a little bit of spare time on my hands last week and decided to join in on the new challenge over on the wherecreativtymeetsc9 blog. The theme for their first challenge is 'celebrate'.

I pulled out my Happy Day stamp set and chose to work with the main cake image.


  

I began with heat embossing the image using white embossing powder onto a panel of watercolor paper. The color was applied by using the 'smooshing' technique with Distress Inks. After that dried I went in and applied more concentrated color onto the flowers and leaves.


  

To finish off the card I used a Wink of Stella glitter pen and colored over the flowers and leaves to make them sparkle and went in with my paintbrush and some grey paint to add the shadows. Topped it all of with a few sequins.


  

Thanks for stopping by and taking a peek!

Supplies:

Stamps: Concord and 9th- Happy Day
Inks: Distress Inks - Picked Raspberry, Ripe Persimmon, Mustard Seed, Peacock Feathers, Twisted Citron, Wilted Violet

My Favorite Things Weekly Sketch

Time for another weekly sketch challenge with My Favorite Stamps...

I received these adorable little piggies just a couple of days ago and decided to put them to use for this one.

  

I started with a Pierced Square die cut and went around the edges with a light pink Copic, then I stamped and colored the three little pigs. I fussy cut the flying piggy so that  I could pop him up with some foam tape (he needs to be in the air since he is flying, right?) I then die cut a sun using the Radiant Sun die and die cut some clouds. 

I heat embossed the sentiment onto a piece of vellum which I then layered over a strip of cardstock that is the same color as the sun. The tiny little hearts were die cut using on of the pieces from the Blueprints Tag Builder 5 set.

Lastly, I took a clear Wink of Stella pen and went over the wing, the sun, and the heart.

Thanks for stopping by to take a peek!

                                                              Tonya

My Favorite Things Color Challenge #49

Whoop! I received my recent order of new stamps from My Favorite Things and decided to participate in their current color challenge.

I pulled out my Brusho pigment powders and the stamps/dies from the Celebrate with Cake set.



I embellished each layer of the cake with some iridescent glitter and some white liquid pearls.
Then added some flowers with some jewels centers.



For my sentiment I heat embossed a red banner strip in white and then added some smaller banners on each side in contrasting colors.

Thanks for stopping by to take a peek!

Tonya

Papertrey Ink Blog Hop

Good morning everyone! After seeing the photo prompt for this month's PTI blog hop I was super excited to join in on the fun. This photo is so artsy and I think it will be super interesting to see what everyone comes up with! This is the photo...a piece of artwork by the artist Yellena James.

I knew right away that I wanted to use my Color Burst pigment powders. So I started layering and then taking away some color. I focused mostly on the colors and those anemone or flower like looking things. 

The anemone/flower like things were made by using big droplets of water that I let dry and then I stamped the flower inside and drew in the lines. Super fun to do as this was a look that would never have come out of my brain without the inspiration photo!

Products:

Stamps: Make It Market - Color Pop Florals

Bloomin' Cute

Dies: Bloomin' Cute Sentiments

Thanks for stopping by today and taking a look see!

Tonya

Color Throwdown

Wow, it's been a while...a little dusty here! I've had some spare time lately and thought I would use that time to join in on some fun challenges is the card making world.

First up is a card that I made for the latest Color Throwdown challenge, challenge #398. Here is the latest color scheme and inspiration photo.

I had some "leftovers" sitting on my desk from a previous card that I had made, so I put those to use and just added a little bit of that lime green. Here is the card I came up with...

I used the One Big Happy stamp and die set from Papertrey Ink for this. The background panel was made by using all of the images in the stamp set and some yellow ink. The frame was one of the pieces from the Pretty Frame Die, also from PTI. The rest of the flowers and the sentiment were all just die cut and stamped and then layered together. Lastly, I embellished with some sequins and a little green gem in the middle of the heart.

Thought I would also share with you the card that I first made (the one that the leftovers came from).

Thanks for stopping by and taking a peek. Hope you all have a great weekend!

Tonya

Sparkle & Shine Challenge #29

It's May 1st which means that it is time for the new challenge over on the Sparkle & Shine challenge blog. Today's inspiration is all about spring time flowers.

                  

I started this by using three different floral stamp sets from Altenew and stamped, masked, and heat embossed to create the flower arrangement. Then I watercolored in the images with my Peerless watercolors.

                    

The sentiment is from a Papertrey Ink set and I heat embossed that with gold and finished the rest of the card off with some Pretty Pink Posh sequins.

Here is the inspiration photo for this challenge...

Click HERE to come and join us over at Sparkle & Shine. One lucky winner will receive a gift certificate to the Create A Smile stamp shop!

Products:

Stamps: Golden Garden, Wild Hibiscus, Beautiful Day (Altenew) 

Keep It Simple Mother (Papertrey Ink) 

Sparkle & Shine Challenge #28

Hey all, it's time for another challenge over on the Sparkle & Shine challenge blog. Here is our inspirational photo for this time around...

 

For my card I pulled out my Color Burst pigment powders. I started with a blank panel of watercolor paper and sprinkled pigment powders onto the surface of the dry paper. Then I saturated the paper with water using a Mini Mister. 

After that dried then I used the Altenew Oriental Orchid stamp set to stamp the images. Then I pulled out some bleach and painted in the images with the bleach to turn it all white. It was pretty amazing seeing the magic happen. Those flowers and leaves were all just as dark purple as the rest of the paper. I would recommend using a better quality watercolor paper for this though. I used a really cheap one and you can see where the bleach bled beyond the borders of the flowers in some spots. With a good quality paper the water will stay only where you put it.

We hope you come and join us in the challenge. One lucky random participant will win a $15 gift certificate to the Right at Home online store. Click HERE to be taken to the Sparkle & Shine blog.