Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to create a birthday card. I love the new Lemon Lime Twist color! It's perfect for making fun bright cards. For this card, I did a simple watercolor background on which to put my die cut ice cream cone. It's a simple card, but I'm loving it!
Reading: A Trail Through Time by Jodi Taylor. Continuing on with the Chronicles of St. Mary's series. Really loving it so far.
Watching: Arthur loves to watch an episode or two of Pink Panther before bed. I think we've seen them all at least three times.
Listening: Quentin's new favorite thing is blowing raspberries. Cute but now I am covered in baby spit...
Making: Working my way through May's memory planner spreads.
Feeling: After having sick kids start the week, I'm feeling very behind and frazzled about everything else.
Planning: Trying to get our weekend in order.
Loving: IIn the middle of a heat here in Northern California, but I can't give up coffee. Switched to iced coffee. So much better!
Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to create a card using the image below as inspiration.
I pulled out my trusty Seaside Shore stamp set and started layering on some pieces. I stamped the seaweed and fish separately, colored them, and cut them out. I was going to adhere them to an embossed piece of white or Pool Party paper but it just wasn't right. After staring at the card for a while, I finally figured out how to make the background piece: watercolor it! I did a simple watercolor wash using Pool Party ink before stamping on some bubbles, starfish, and a sentiment. I layered it on a piece of Pool Party to repeat the color and them adhere it to a Lemon Lime Twist card base to repeat the seaweed color. Such a fun card!
Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to create a card using a favorite new stamp set. I had to have the new Hostess Stamp Set Feathery Friends. I love to color and these little birds are so much fun to color! I love this set so much that I ended up making 12 of these babies for a swap.
While including lots of pictures (of course!), I tried to write more stories. I even played around with the columns to fit in stories and pictures I wanted. The best example of this is the last weekend of the month when I had SU bingo during the day and a big live show at night on Saturday. This was the month that I decided color schemes didn't really matter and I started decorated with what called to me.
Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to create a card for Father's Day. I don't like traditional Father's Day cards, but I thought the Paisleys and Posies Stamp Set with the right colors would be perfect. Tranquil Tide is the perfect color for a more masculine card. Pairing it with Basic Gray makes it look more green than blue. After stamping a random pattern, I added a ayer of Basic Gray and an embossed piece of Tranquil Tide. I love repeating layers on my cards. I chose a simple sentiment and embellished it with a silver doily.
Watching: J and I started watching Supernatural. While it was originally airing, I made it to Season 4 or 5 before life interceded. J has never watched it. We've been meaning to start from the beginning and finally decided to do it.
Reading: Finally got our June book club selection, Born a Crime by Trevor Noah. I just started, but so far it is intriguing.
Listening: So many podcasts! I binged the last 10 episodes of The Simple Show. I also caught up with Here to Make Friends (about The Bachelorette) and One Bad Mother. And I started catching up on What Should I Read Next even though I am like 6 months behind.
Making: Working on catching up with Memory Planner pages and Project Life spreads. I a bit behind on each of those projects, but I should have some time to tackle them this month.
Feeling: The twins arrived last Wednesday. All that prep and now we are in a bit of calm.
Planning: We need to do a big grocery visit soon including trips to Costco, Target, Sprouts, and Safeway. This takes some planning on my part...
Loving: While it's nice to have good chats with the twins, my favorite moments are when we are hanging out together being quiet.
Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to create a card using the card sketch below:
I decided to feature the new Color Theory DSP stack. I love this crackle look paper so I made it the focus. I simply picked two complimentary colors and repeated them throughout the simple card. The card gave me a chance to use my new Thoughtful Banners Stamp Set and Duet Banner Punch.
Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to create a card using our favorite 2017-2019 In Color. Hands down my favorite new In Color is Berry Burst! I love love love this gorgeous pink-purple color. To highlight this awesome color, I made a monochromatic card. The new Color Theory DSP has these gorgeous ombre sheets that really set off the stamped sentiment, ribbon, and butterflies. It's hard to tell in the first photo, but I Wink of Stella-ed the cut out butterfly.
Detail of the shimmery butterfly:
Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to create a quick and easy card. My idea of quick and easy is something can be completed in less than 15 minutes. This card, while it may look complicated, only took 10 minutes to complete. The longest bit was fussy cutting my flower. I really love this simple card!
