Red Rose Taverne

Happy Saturday! This one is going live a bit later than usual, but here it is! 

These photos were all taken indoors, at night, so they're a little tricky to scrap. Also I used darker shades which might have made it worse... But of course I had to use a red rose! We didn't eat here, just went inside to look around and get some photos of some movie props, ha! 

Supplies:
Stamps: Fifth Avenue Floral - long retired
Ink: Cherry Cobbler
Paper: Cherry Cobbler card stock
Accessories: Early Espresso quilted satin ribbon - long retired
Journaling Font: Freehand 521 BT

Embossing Daisies

Today was my card class! Here is one of the projects we made - all of the daisies are embossed! I think its appropriate for an orange or autumn wedding or shower gift, a birthday, or anything else a person may send a card for! It was inspired by the CAS sketch last week.
Also, both the Fifth Avenue Floral stamp set (flower) and the Sincere Salutations (words) are retiring soon! If you love them, order them soon!!!

Supplies:
Stamps: Fifth Avenue Floral, Sincere Salutation
Ink: Early Espresso, Versamark, Peach Parfait (for water coloring)
Paper: Peach Parfait, Early Espresso, Just Add Cake DP
Accessories: Blender Pens, Clear Embossing Powder

a wedding rose!

I must be out of my watercolor paper because I cannot find it anywhere. Since I was so sure I had some I didn't order any, and since this was for my class I had to come up with a new plan, last minute. So I decided to bleach the rose, rather than watercolor it! Same idea, just in reverse!

Supplies:
Stamps: Fifth Avenue Floral, Curvy Verses
Ink: Basic Black Craft
Paper: Cherry Cobbler & Very Vanilla card stocks, Timeless Portrait DP
Accessories: Basic Black grosgrain ribbon, Dimensionals, Clear Embossing Powder, Heat Tool, dried out Blender Pen, bleach

You can learn more about bleaching HERE. I embossed the rose on Cherry Cobbler card stock, and then bleached most of the petals. I was hoping for a variegated kind of rose look, but didn't like the way it turned out...I thought the "streaks" were too wide to look natural, and therefore didn't quite work. I just added more bleach til I thought I would like it!

Also, see that awesome bit of black and white paper I used on the card? That is part of the Timeless Portrait DP package- which you could choose for free if you purchase three other packages of DP today!!

Inspiration!

I haven't been very motivated to be creative lately. I was flipping thru the demo magazine and browsing blogs and was totally inspired by THIS POST on Kristina Werner's blog. I made two cards using her basic color scheme and embossing white line-stamp flowers on designer paper, and the second one uses a card layout from the magazine. Handy!

Supplies:
Stamps: Fifth Avenue Floral, Upsy Daisy
Ink: Versamark, Chocolate Chip, Pumpkin Pie
Paper: Crumb Cake, Pumpkin Pie, Chocolate Chip
Accessories: White Embossing Powder, Heat Tool, Peach Parfait Twill ribbon


Best part? I love these cards! They are super autumn-y but I really love them!

Purples & reds...

Apparently I'm on a kick. Isn't it funny how we do that?

This first card uses a sketch from Stamping 411. I made it pretty simply and combines several stamp sets, which is not exactly normal for me.

Supplies:
Stamps: Vintage Vogue, Artistic Etchings, Priceless
Ink: Crumb Cake, Perfect Plum, Real Red
Paper: Perfect Plum, Crumb Cake, Real Red, Whisper White card stocks
Accessories: Scallop Edge Punch, Red Taffeta Ribbon, Brights Buttons
This one is just sort of random.

Supplies:
Stamps: Fifth Avenue Floral
Ink: Real Red, Basic Black
Paper: Perfect Plum, Whisper White card stocks
Accessories: Red Taffeta Ribbon

Other green pages...

Well that was smooth. I mentioned a long time ago that I had tons to share...and I've been posting daily, except that I went thru and pre-wrote them. I wrote up this post the night I scrapped the pages and took the photos the next morning.......and never included the photos on this post! Then I went away for the weekend and came home to see that this post has been sitting all day photo-less. Rats. Well, its fixed now. Enjoy, lol!
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Remember the green-scrapbooking night I mentioned? Here's the other two. These are actually the same weekend, but the park pages are for my son's book and the Mother's Day page is for mine. Just funny to me that I was on such a green kick.

Supplies:
Stamps: Just Perfect Alphabet, retired: Lively Little Ones
Ink: Old Olive, Basic Black, Chocolate Chip marker
Paper: Old Olive, Very Vanilla
Accessories: retired buttons

With this page I started out by using a challenge and then I didn't follow thru half of it so I'm not counting it. But one part was to watercolor with markers- so glad I'd just learned how, LOL! I was super ambitious and thought yellow roses with pink streaks would be cool. Okay, it might be, but four roses later and its just exasperating. *smile
You should also know that cutting around roses on watercolor paper that is still slightly damp is super time-consuming and really hurt my hand, haha. This was a complicated-super-simple page!
I was glad the challenge included black & white photos tho because I had been hit by horrible hayfever the day before these pics were taken and my nose looked quite like a tomato from all the sneezing/blowing. Mother's Day needs moved to a prettier time of year for me, hee hee!

Supplies:
Stamps: Fifth Avenue Floral, retired: Taffy Alphabet
Ink: Basic Black craft ink, Regal Rose, Regal Rose & So Saffron markers
Paper: Certainly Celery, Regal Rose, Watercolor Paper
Accessories: Aquapainter

Different way to color...

I was asked to make some thank you cards. I love this flower, is it a lily? Well, I think it is, lol, and it seems to me it is a peaceful kind of flower. I was having trouble coloring it with ink and blender pens so I tried a sponge. FUN! So quick and its pretty and has that blurred watercolory look too!

Supplies:
Stamps: Fifth Avenue Floral, Occasional Quotes
Ink: Basic Black, Baja Breeze, So Saffron
Paper: Baja Breeze, Whisper White
Accessories: Blender Pen, Stamping Sponge, White Grosgrain Ribbon

Just for me!

Remember I said I needed to fill my display board? I slightly exaggerated. I have 13 on my board. So this card is going on my display board! I used Taylor's Sketch from last week and had some fun! She had circles on her upper section and I wondered what stamps would fit in place of circles.... And I love the result! Supplies:

Stamps: Fifth Avenue Floral, Occasional Quotes

Ink: Basic Black

Paper: Rose Red, Daffodil Delight, Basic Black card stocks

Accessories: Black grosgrain Ribbon, Bitty Buttons

Double Challenge!

WHOO! I got to play with two challenges the same day they were both posted, and I LOVE the result!

The Cinema Challenge was to make a card based on Becoming Jane, and use flowers and pearls. First of all, LOVE the movie! Really. We actually saw it in theaters! Its a sad kind of movie but I love the music, the story, all of it. I can even put up with the ridiculous aging at the end -I like it that much! tee hee! Love Jane Austen, love that time period, love it. And I think this quote works nicely.

I also used Jen's SSFYTT for the design of the card and here is what I came up with....

Supplies:

Stamps: Vintage Vogue, Fifth Avenue Floral

Ink: Chocolate Chip

Paper: Pink Pirouette card stock (returning!), Bella Birds DP (retired)

Accessories: White Taffeta Ribbon, Pretties Kit

Some Girl Pages

I've really gotten so much done, I am loving this! my kids are too- they get to see all these pages that will go in their scrapbooks.......as soon as I get actual albums for them to go IN.......

So here's a page for "Extreme Make Over"... This one is for "What Not To Wear"..... And this is "Canada's Worst Driver" which required metal and distressing...

Peaceful Birthday

So, I've done the watercolored rose card a few times, and I thought I'd like to try it with this flower. I don't know what it is, I think its a lily, and so I also have no idea what it should look like. I envision it a blueish-purply color, so that's what I used! LOL!

I actually watercolored it using Ballet Blue ink, but I had no problem mounting it on Almost Amethyst card stock! These are all colors that are retiring soon, and this stamp set is on sale during April, sooo you might want to look into placing an order! *grin*

Supplies:

Stamps: Fifth Avenue Floral, Upsy Daisy

Ink: Basic Black craft, Ballet Blue, Barely Banana

Paper: Almost Amethyst & Barely Banana card stocks, Watercolor Paper

Accessories: Aquapainter

The Card Class

These are the cards for my card class this past weekend. I did two children's birthday, two feminine birthday and two masculine birthday cards.

Supplies: Stamps: Pun Fun, Teeny Tiny Wishes Ink: Basic Black, Real Red Paper: Real Red, So Saffron & Whisper White card stocks Accessories: Watercolor Pencils, Blender Pens, Black Gingham Ribbon, Real Red striped Grosgrain ribbon

Supplies: Stamps: Fifth Avenue Floral, Teeny Tiny Wishes Ink: Craft Basic Black, Rose Red Paper: Rose Red & Basic Black card stocks, Watercolor paper Accessories: AquaPainter, Black grosgrain ribbon

Supplies: Stamps: Thoughts & Prayers, Teeny Tiny Wishes Ink: Old Olive, Close to Cocoa Paper: Old Olive, Close to Cocoa, Very Vanilla card stocks Accessories: Jumbo Brads, Mat Pack

This weekend is a scrapbook class!! $10 for 3 double-page-layouts (6 pages), my house!

Upcoming Class

I've got a class this Friday {my house} where we'll be making some birthday cards.

heeere is the sneaky peek!

A girls night out, plus six cards and treaty snacks for only $10!

And if you don't want birthday cards, stamp a different greeting!

The rest of the calendar...

Here's the rest of it! Enjoy! January: (retired snowflake stamp, Bundle Up- also retired) February: Fifth Avenue Floral March: Upsy Daisy, Both Way Blossoms (retired)

April: Girlfreinds, Girlfreind Accessories, Its a Girl Thing

May: Under the Stars June: Country Morning

Sketch Twice!

I really need to fill my display board, so I was looking for sketches. This sketch comes from the Whiff of Joy challenge blog. To qualify for these challenges, you have to use a WOJ image...but I REALLY liked the sketch and need Stampin' Up! images for my board! hee hee! So, I used it twice and left off little bits... Supplies:

Stamps: Fifth Avenue Floral Ink: Bravo Burgundy, Regal Rose Paper: Basic Gray, Regal Rose, Bravo Burgundy, Whisper White card stock Accessories: Jumbo Brads

Supplies: Stamps: Pun Fun, Upsy Daisy Ink: Basic Gray, Real Red Paper: Yoyo Yellow, Tempting Turquoise, Whisper White card stocks Accessories: Spiral Punch, Real Red striped grosgrain ribbon, Watercolor Wonder Crayons, Blender Pens

Father's Day Cards!

So. here is *one* of the Father's Day cards from the other day's post. Blogger is not being cooperative and keeps loading one photo sideways. why???

I found this actual lighthouse online and colored it to match! I was very happy with how it turned out! (I don't know where the lighthouse image comes from, beyond very kind people on Wish-RAK.) Anyway, enjoy! :)

Supplies: Stamps: Unknown Ink: Black Paper: Really Rust, Pacific Point, white card stocks Accessories: Black grosgrain ribbon, Silver Brads, Mat Pack, Colored Pencils

Here is the final late Father's Day card we mailed out. This one mostly used Jen's SSFYTT for this week!

Supplies:

Stamps: Sense of Time, Fifth Avenue Floral Ink: Basic Gray Paper: So Saffron & Basic Gray card stocks, So Saffron Prints DP (retired) Accessories: Wide Oval Punch

May Stamp News & Roses!

May is National Scrapbook Month, so Stampin' Up! has some really great things going on! I've attached the flyer, but here's the run down on the three great deals!

• Did you ever want to be a demonstrator?? Well, if you love scrapbooking, you can sign up for ONLY $75!!!! You'll get less of the basic stamp supplies, but you'll be set for scrapbooking, and you'll get all the business supplies you need! Awesome!
• Even if you don't scrapbook, if you just love using patterned paper, this next promo is for you! During May, for every three packages of patterned paper or textured 12x12 card stock, you get a fourth package free!
• Want a sneak peek to the new Catalog coming in July? Here's an attachment for the new Jumble Alphabet set! You can buy it (during May only) for 20% off! Yeay!!! There are a lot of fun possibilities with this set!

Since its National Scrapbook Month, I have to do something fun too, right? So later in May I will be having a mini-scrapbook class! I'll send out more details when I have dates set and everything!

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Now, isn't THIS one pretty?! Yes it is! The watercolored roses were 100% inspired by Patty's fabulous blog and her impressive (and easy!) techniques! The card layout is inspired by a sketch on PCP.

Supplies: Stamps: Fifth Avenue Floral Ink: Real Red, Ruby Red, Versamark, Basic Gray Paper: Riding Hood Red, Basic Gray card stocks, Watercolor Paper Accessories: Clear Embossing Powder, Heat Tool, Aquapainter, Riding Hood Red taffeta ribbon

A THREE-fer!

Wow! I got THREE Saturday challenges done, in one card, on the same day it was all posted! YEAY!!! lol! So! I took Lauren's color challenge, Jen's SSFYTT and this week's Cinema Challenge plus layers, and made one fancy card! haha!

The only problem is we are having a rain storm that thinks its a blizzard so the sun hasn't come out yet today. The dining room light is the best I have and it makes everything too shiny...So here's the less shiny shot...

And the straight-on shot that is weird colors and too-shiny buttons...

Supplies: Stamps: Fifth Avenue Floral, Fresh Cuts

Ink: Real Red, Basic Gray Paper: Basic Gray, Baja Breeze, Whisper White card stocks, Real Red Prints DP (retired) Accessories: So Saffron Poly Twill ribbon, Button Latte, Button Bouquet, Mini Glue Dots

I totally agree with Lauren, these are not colors I would normally put together, but it works! I loved Jen's button cluster idea and even had buttons that matched! I haven't seen To Catch A Thief (tho I will put it on my list!) but I figured if Cary Grant is in it, red roses are probably applicable, one way or another. *wink*

35 Card Class Part 1

The title says it all, I believe... lol

Since I cut the supplies for 350 cards in the last week and a half, I thought I'd share THAT! So here I have some...more tomorrow! (a few of these have images I did not offer in the class becuase they are so long retired. However, these exact cards were made for a gift and since they are stamped, I am posting those, rather than all blank ones!)

Supplies: Stamps: Many, many misc greetings, current and retired! Ink: Bordering Blue, Chocolate Chip, So Saffron Paper: Bella Birds DP, Bordering Blue, Chocolate Chip, So Saffron, Pink Pirouette & White card stock Accessories: Corduroy Buttons, Button Latte, Jumbo Brads, White Organza Ribbon, Chocolate Taffeta Ribbon, Pretties Kit