Strawberry time

 These days, you can buy strawberries at almost any time of the year, but I still prefer them in the spring, when there's a chance they are somewhat "local" and tastier. 

The TimeOut challenge is to be inspired by items inside your home. I have a set of prints featuring different fruits on my kitchen wall, and one of them is a print of strawberries.  The image is a very old one, stamped on watercolor paper, then misted before laying down the first color layer.  After it dried, I added more concentrated colors on the strawberries, leaves and flowers.

 After that I added splatters, an embossed sentiment (meeting TimeOut's twist to add embossing), and baker's twin before matting the image.

 

This card is for these challenges:

Time Out: inspired by something in your home

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday: anything goes

Word Art Wednesday #493: anything goes

Pammie's Inky Pinkies #2121: anything goes

Ice-skating bird

 I have a Christmas card for you this time, featuring an adorable Bugaboo image of a bird on skates. How cute is that? The bird is colored with pencils (with the coloring sort of loosely based on a tufted titmouse).  There are white Stickles to signify the ice. The sentiment is from the same mat stack as the woodgrain background paper. The card uses the current Stella Sketch from Bugaboo.

This card is entered in these challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Monday: Things with wings

Winter Wonderland -- winter sports

Time Out #187 -- "move" (any kind of movement, like skating)

ABC Christmas-- K is for kid's card

Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge 541 -- anything Christmas

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge -- use patterned paper

Word Art Wednesday #491 -- anything goes

Pammie's Inky Pinkies #2119 -- anything goes

Pattie's Creations #182 -- anything goes

Catch the Bug Stella Says Sketch #910

Catch the Bug -- biweekly anything goes

Doodled birds

 The technique challenge at SCS this week features watercolored, doodled birds and they are so much fun to make. Basically, put down a blob of watercolor and let it dry. Then use a pen to outline and add features like beak, tail, legs, whatever your heart desires.  For the backgorund, I found some patterned paper that has itty-bitty blobs that almost look like watercolor splatters. How perfect.

The birds look so goofy and cute -- I hope these cards will make other people smile as much as they make me happy.

I'm entering these challenges:

Pammie's Inky Pinkies #2118 -- anything goes

Word Art Wednesday #489 -- anything goes

Catch the Bug -- bi-weekly anything goes

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge -- use patterned paper.

Butterfly ballet

 Happy May everyone.

I have owned this awesome image for a long time, with every intention of using it for Mrs. A's butterfly challenge. Today is finally the day.

The digital image is called Ballet de Papillon by Katerina Koukiotis. It is very detailed, so I felt I had to use it fairly large. The image is colored with pencils, layered on a snipped of maroon cardstock, then on a white tentfold card. The sentiment is white-ebossed on a snippet of moss-colored cardstock, and I like how it fits perfectly so that the butterflies are fluttering around it. (I know a lot of people don't keep snippets that are small strips, but I use them all the time for sentiments.)

 For embellishment and contrast, I have added two metal photo corners, plus an acrylic dot on the sentiment panel. 

Do you agree it turned out to be a very feminine card?

The card is entered in these challenges:

Butterfly Challenge #156 -- meets level 2 requirements of theme (metal) and color (maroon and moss) plus butterflies

Simon Says Stamp Monday -- feminine

Pixie's Snippet Playground #402 -- use snippets.

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday -- anything goes

Catch the Bug -- biweekly anything goes

Word Art Wednesday #489 -- anything goes

Pammie's Inky Pinkies #2118 -- anything goes