Retired Butterflies!

In continuing to make thank you cards for my recently graduated daughter to send out, I keep trying to make challenges work and then thinking "thaaat's not really her..." I finally asked her to choose ten of her favorite shades from my ink stash, and then pulled out some retired stamp sets that *are her.

So for today, I used a sketch that ended last week but I still liked, from Inspire.Create.Challenges and two totally different, old butterfly images. Same sketch, same colors, different images. And while the colors are current, everything else is retired. 

Supplies:
Stamps: Butterfly Basics, A Touch of Ink
Ink: Boho Blue, Fresh Freesia, Starry Sky
Paper: Basic White & Fresh Freesia card stocks
Accessories: forgotten Paper Pumpkin gems 

Supplies:

Stamps: A Touch of Ink
Ink: Boho Blue, Fresh Freesia, Starry Sky
Paper: Basic White & Fresh Freesia card stocks
Accessories: forgotten Paper Pumpkin gems 

Blue Hummingbird

Happy Friday! Only two days left to get your hands on the Sale-A-Bration freebies!! There is a chance this might be my favorite card I've made with the Sale-A-Bration 2021 products...
This card uses the sketch from Fusion Card Challenge. I used ink pads and blender pens to color the bird, leaves and flowers. I intended for bright pops of pink flowers but I loved how it turned out with this subtle color so I left it. You can't see it at all, but the bird is highlighted with Wink of Stella which looks super cool. 

Supplies:
Stamps: A Touch of Ink
Ink: Stazon Black, Pretty Peacock, Just Jade, Bermuda Bay, Flirty Flamingo
Paper: Flirty Flamingo, Whisper White
Accessories: Flowers for All Seasons ribbon, Wink of Stella, Glue Dot

Colorful Hummingbird!

Today's card is a lot more bright than I typically create, but I think it's happy-bright and I like it. I'm putting this with the TGIF Challenge to feature Sale-A-Bration products...which is what I've been doing this week and last. For this bird, I used the Watercolor Pencils and Blender Pens, and images of hummingbirds on google. I also covered the whole bird with Wink of Stella, which is perfect for a hummingbird, but you can't see that at all, haha. Oh well. 

Supplies:
Stamps: A Touch of Ink
Ink: Stazon Black, Bermuda Bay
Paper: Daffodil Delight, Bermuda Bay, Whisper White card stocks
Accessories: Watercolor Pencils, Blender Pens, Wink of Stella 

Don't miss out on this pretty stamp set! I think I like coloring it in even more than the filler stamp!

Colored Butterfly!

Just a few more days to earn this set FREE! Today's card uses the color challenge from Sunday Stamps, along with the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches.
To me it feels like late summer, looking at this card, but it is lightly snowing today and I hope it snows a whole lot more than that! Eastern and Mid-West United States: we want your snow!!

Supplies:

Stamps: A Touch of Ink
Ink: Stazon Black, Cinnamon Cider, Pumpkin Pie, Crushed Curry
Paper: Bumblebee, Very Vanilla card stocks 
Accessories: Bumblebee Ribbon, Blender Pens, Subtle embossing folder, Dimensionals, Big Shot (retired)

Butterfly Page

Happy Friday! Once again, showing off this stamp set, but this time on a scrapbook page! Very simple, but I think it turned out nice. AND it's another page done, and that is important. I thought the butterflies made a nice symbol of freedom on this page, haha. 

Supplies:
Stamps: A Touch of Ink, Skinny Mini Alphabet (retired)
Ink: Highland Heather, Gorgeous Grape
Paper: Purple Posy
Accessories: Opal Rounds

Here's a close up of these pretty butterflies. The outline is in Gorgeous Grape and the fill in is Highland Heather. Then I topped his face with an Opal Round, found in the Mini Catalog. They're so sparkly! 

Hello Hummingbird

Today I have another card using A Touch of Ink, which you can earn for FREE before the end of February! I used the color combo from Inspire.Create.Challenge, and the sketch from Fusion, which is now over. 

With the color fill stamp on the flowers I inked in Blushing Bride, and then did the "rock and roll" techinque to add some Rococo Rose ink to it. Finally I used a sponge to add a bit of Sahara Sand to the edges of the Whisper White card stock. This card is soft and pretty and I kinda love it. I'm deciding if it will be a birthday card or a thinking of you card, but either way it's nice. 

Supplies:
Stamps: A Touch of Ink
Ink: Memento Black, Sahara Sand, Blushing Bride, Rococo Rose
Paper: Blushing Bride & Whisper White card stocks
Accessories: Rococo Rose scalloped linen ribbon, Circle dies, Dimensionals, Glue Dots, Stamping Sponges 

Butterfly Birthday

Good morning! Feels like a Monday here, since everyone was home yesterday, but it isn't! Also, we are FINALLY getting some of that winter the rest of the country has been dealing with. The difference is, we're supposed to have winter from Nov-March and we haven't since Christmas. At all. 

Anyway, I started the morning off with some stamping. There's less than two weeks to get your FREE Sale-A-Bration items, so that's what I wanted to feature this week. Today's card uses the color combination from SUO Challenges, (almost...I don't have silver foil, but I do have silver ribbon...) the sketch from TGIF Challenges and is now all set to go to a birthday girl in a couple weeks! I'm doing good so far (mid-Feb, haha!) with sending birthday cards on time, I just have to keep making them in plenty of time to mail out! 

Supplies: 

Stamps: A Touch of Ink, Well Said
Ink: Memento Black, Melon Mambo
Paper: Melon Mambo, Basic Black, Whisper White card stocks
Accessories: Well Written dies, Fine Tip Glue Pen, Big Shot (retired), silver ribbon (retired!), staple