... of me showing more of the cards I made using this Chatterbox Soft Flowering Vine paper! (you can see the other cards I made using it here and here).
I used GinaK's Make a Wish set for this card - the main image was stamped onto watercolor paper (Brilliance Black ink heat set) then watercolored with Stampin' Up! classic ink refills.
It's hard to tell on the bigger picture but I added Lime Ice Ice stickles to the image - I took another picture on an angle (you can click on it to get a pop-up with a bigger image) so you can see the shimmer - SO pretty in real life!
I recently ordered a MM Tag Maker and several tag rims from Papertrey and of course had to try them out. The tags come with a little plastic template that you use to cut your card stock/patterned paper/etc to the right size, then you pop it into the tag rim, and use the Tag Maker to flatten it. It is SO easy to use!! I think I'll actually start using tags now that I have this thing!
I used the actual tag shaped rim in the largest size for this card. The silver finish was too bright in my opinion next to the pewter-style finish of the MM brad so I used a Copic marker on the tag rim to darken it a bit - cool eh?? I adhered the tag to the card with mini glue dots then tied on the Pomegranate stitched ribbon (from the SU! catty) to make it look like the tag was hanging from it.
STAMPS: Make a Wish stamp set by GinaK Designs. CS: Watercolor Paper, Bashful Blue, River Rock, Chatterbox Patterned Paper. INK: Brilliance Graphite Black, River Rock, Mellow Moss, Bashful Blue, Bravo Burgundy, Copic marker (Warm Gray No.7). ACCESSORIES: MM Tag Rim, Silk Road Prima, MM Brad, 3/16" Corner Rounder Punch, Pomegranate Stitched Ribbon, Sponge Daubers, Paper Piercer, Watercolor Brush, Lime Ice Ice Stickles.
I pulled out my Love You to Pieces set for this card - I thought the hearts would go great with this patterned paper!
I also pulled out some of my Cranberry Crisp (retired from SU!) CS - I LOVE this color and so wish it hadn't been retired (good thing I stocked up!).
I stamped the hearts onto the CS with VersaMark ink then embossed them with Iridescent Ice embossing powder and cut them out - the picture captured the "sparkliness" somewhat but it's even nicer in real life!
I used more Silk Road Primas - and FYI the green one matches much better in real life - it's not the exact same shade as the moss ribbon and CS but it's not the wonky green that it looks like in the picture! It was originally a cream colored flower but I used a Copic marker (YG63 Pea Green) and colored over it to make it match (which it DOES in real life!) - I LOVE using Copics (Prismacolor markers will work great too) on things like this b/c they dry REALLY fast and you really can't tell that a marker was used to color them!
I used more Karen Foster thumbtack brads for the flower centers, and the brads in the corners are by Making Memories.
The sentiment (which I'm pretty sure is in GinaK's own handwriting - I WISH I had handwriting that nice!) was stamped in Brilliance black ink, then I rounded the edges and sponged them before adhering the patterned paper to the card base.
STAMPS: Love You to Pieces stamp set, and sentiment by GinaK Designs. CS: Cranberry Crisp, Mellow Moss, Chatterbox Patterned Paper. INK: Cranberry Crisp, Mellow Moss, VersaMark, Brilliance Graphite Black. ACCESSORIES: 3/16" Corner Rounder Punch, Marvy Mega Circle and Giga Scalloped Circle Punches, Iridescent Ice Embossing Powder, Silk Road Primas, Copic Marker, Karen Foster Thumbtack Brads, MM Brads, Ribbon, Sponge Daubers, Dimensionals.
For those wondering I DID have a great time last night - it was so nice to get out and spend time with Tim and be just the two of us!! We got to do some shopping and went and saw a movie (we saw Superbad - it was REALLY funny but had absolutely awful language! I don't mind that kind of stuff (and Tim and I have a warped sense of humor) but I could see it being insanely offensive to a lot of people! Think of it as along the same lines of American Pie but with even worse language! So definitely NOT a family-friendly movie) and even travelled out to see the new Dakota Dunes Casino that opened recently outside Saskatoon. The Casino was really nice but I'm not really into that sort of thing and there were SO many people out there and the road out there was a mess! In a lot of places it was just a dirt track and yet the traffic was insane! Tim said it wasn't really worth the drive out there and I agree but at least we can say we've been there and it was OK. It was fun to watch some of the slot machines (they have a HUGE Wheel of Fortune one that was pretty cool) but I was happy to leave and come home!
We of course got the girls a few things - namely a couple of ginormous coloring books and a table that I'll be setting up for them in my studio area so they can sit and "craft" with me. They pretty much will sit right at my desk and watch everything I do so I thought I better give them their own little spot where they can create and make a mess (Veronica is pretty good but since Josie is not yet 2 she has more fun making messes then actually sitting still and crafting - which is to be expected!).
