Stampin' Up! Growing Green and I create a Sympathy card using a Brayer

Hi guys! I had a lovely weekend with my family, as it was my niece (Brianna 4 months old) and Samuel (22 months) had their Christening, and my lovely older sister asked me to be their Godmother! I was so humbled that she and her husband and asked me. I don't have any photos yet of the day... Hopefully soon! So, I didn't get much of a chance to craft over the weekend... Although, I do have a card to share today :)

Ok, so this is a Early Espresso card base, which has been layered with Very Vanilla (the littlest bit poking out) I then got out a piece of Gloss Card stock and with my brayer coloured it in using Certainly Celery, Pear Pizzazz, Lucky Limeade, Wild Wasabi and Old Olive. Once I'd got the colour variation I wanted, I stamped the leaf from Growing Green in Early Espresso and the sentiment from Because I care.
I am entering this into the CAS-ual Friday Almost Monochrome challenge.
Thanks for stopping by!
As always, Happy Stamping!

Stampin' Up! Growing Green isn't just for watercolouring

Growing Green is one of the stamp sets I inadvertently grab for when I need to watercolour (I find it so calming...) And, I admit, I don't actually do a whole lot else with it... so, when I saw the challenge colours over at The Play Date Cafe, it wasn't the first set I reached for....

I have actually cased myself on this card. I needed more cards for the Mothers Day card drive for the Troops... I also need to be able to mass produce them... this worked, I can get a lot of little squares out of an A4 piece of card.... and if I stamp and heat emboss in large quantities, it makes it even easier.... just saying... hehe...The challenge colours for The Play Date Cafe are as follows

Thanks for looking, and happy stamping!

Stampin' Up! Growing Green is perfect for colouring!

Since discovering how to use my Stampin' Write markers to their advantage, I've fallen in love with colouring images....
Last night, after I'd crawled into bed, I had a brain wave.... My Growing Green set would be perfect for a Mothers Day Card (for the Troops), so up I got.... pulled my markers out and my stamp set and played...

The first one I'm most happy with, I love the fact that the little flowers came out looking like pansies, so thats the way I coloured them. This is the first time I've ever actually inked up that stamp in the set! Once I'd coloured my flowers, I made the rest of the card. I wanted to bring in some of the yellow from the flower centres, so I tied some bakers twine (love this stuff) with a yellow scallop circle tag. The sentiment is from a retired hostess set. The second card is using the leaf from the Growing Green set, which I have coloured before... but never in this style... I love the layering of the colours, really makes it pop... the rest of the card, I'm not to fussed on... :P 

Thanks for looking and happy stamping!

Jess

Colouring with your Stampin' Write Markers

I'm forever on a quest to learn how to utilise one of my favourite tools.... My Stampin' Write Markers...There are lots of cool ways of using these, but I wanted to learn how to colour an image nicely with out it piling the paper.... In steps google, and its wonderment of suggestions! The best walkthrough I found was this one by Cee Cee. She suggests stamping on Kraft (Crumbcake) cardstock, and instead of blending as you would with Copics, you layer your colouring. Stampin' Write markers are water based, so they behave differently than alcohol based markers, such as Copics. Instead of blending you will get shading that is visible (which looks just as good)

Here is the overall card I made, and below, a close up of one of the flowers! 

I absolutely adore this, and it is something I will do again, and again I'm sure... I'm entering this into the Moxie Fab World Marker Challenge. 

Thanks for looking.

Jess

Cards

Hi All! Hope you all had a fantastic Australia Day! I know I did, we had a few friends over for a barbecue... We had good intentions of sitting outside to eat, but it was just much too hot! It was still 36 degrees Celsius (about 97 in Fahrenheit) at 2am when I was trying to sleep.... thankfully not long after, a southerly change came through, cooling the place down a little...
Now, onto some cards!

The first I made a few days ago, but didn't get round to posting. It is for the ColourQ challenge, which this week was an interesting colour combo for me! You all know how much I love orange... or in this case 'peach'...

The second card was for a couple of challenges...

The first challenge was the Colour Throwdown, which was to use 

I don't have any thing with Kiwi Kiss, so I substituted with Pear Pizzazz. It's hard to tell in the photo, but the trees do actually have Old Olive leaves... I swear! The other challenge I'm entering this into is the Stamping Vacation White Space challenge... while my card has a lot of empty space.... it's not exactly white.... but before doing this card, I did double check the meaning of White Space, and this qualifies.... The other pre-requisite of this challenge was to use three of anything... and that is my 3 trees... 

I love the sentiment stamp, (it arrived in the mail today!) I don't have enough "just because" stamps.... So, this Basic Grey one was a welcome addition.... 

Thanks for checking in.... 

Go check out some challenges, and as always have fun!