Wildflower Meadow

Happy Nacho Tuesday Stampers!  If you had the day off yesterday, hope you had a fun day! Welcome back to another fun Nacho Average Challenge!  Today we have a sketch for you to play along with us. Thanks to all of you who have been playing along with us, we love to see your creations.

I flipped the sketch and I inked up the Wildflower Meadow background stamp and embossed it with white embossing powder onto our watercolor paper.  I watercolored the background with Crushed Curry. I think I need to practice my watercoloring strokes. Either that or anything to purchase more supplies. :) 

Thanks for stopping by, until next time.

I'm hosting this week's Sunday Stamps Challenge

Good morning Stampers!  Welcome back to another fabulous Sunday! I'm hosting a color challenge at Sunday Stamps this week and I hope you can play along with us.

I came across this cool technique called Traced Doodling from Splitcoast Stampers, and I wanted to try to try out. You can find the instructions here. It such a cool technique and I think it looks great with the Wildflower Meadow background stamp.  Can you tell I love this stamp!

I inked up the Wildflower Meadow stamp with our white craft ink pad, and once it is stamped onto Sahara Sand, it creates a nice subtle background. Sahara Sand is such a nice light color. I used our Watercolor Pencils to trace around the image (very slowly).  Can't believe they are being retired as well! I haven't tried this technique with our markers yet, but I'm sure it will also work. I once again used our Banner Greetings hostess stamp set for my sentiment.  Told 'ya I would be using this set a lot, lol. 

Hope you have a great Sunday.  If you're browsing through the new Annual Catalog, what will you be ordering first?

Thanks for stopping by today, until next time!

Create with Connie and Mary Challenge

Hello Stampers! Happy Tuesday to you.  I'm back with another creation featuring the Wildflower Meadow background stamp set. I used the Black Magic technique with it. I used our blender pens with reinkers since our Watercolor pencils are being retired. It's been awhile since I used this technique, but I'll be getting lots of practice as I have signed up for a techniques swap for convention featuring this technique. Have you tried this technique? If so, let me know what you think.

This is the sketch I used for my card. It's the current challenge at the Create with Connie and Mary blog and I love the banner! The base of my card is Raspberry Ripple and the Summer Starfruit DSP is from the Patio Party DSP. The Gumball Green DSP is from Epic Day This & That.

Thanks for stopping by today.  Hope you have a great Tuesday! Until next time.

More Sneak Peeks...

Hello Stampers.  Happy Monday. If you have the day off today for Memorial Day, hope you are having a great Monday. I spent part of the weekend working on some swaps for my sideline group.  We were to use new stamp sets from the upcoming 2013-2014 Annual Catalog so I have some sneak peeks for you today.

For the first card, I used a new background stamp set called Wildflower Meadow, which is gorgeous!  And it coordinates with an embossing folder also called Wildflower Meadow. Such a great combination! I didn't use the entire background, just part of it.  Can you see the embossed part of the card? Isn't cool! So many possibilities with this combo.

My color combo for this card was Melon Mambo, Pumpkin Pie, Daffodil Delight, Whisper White and Basic Black. I layered the Melon Mambo with the Pumpkin Pie Polka Dot DSP. I also used a new Hostess stamp set called Banner Greetings. I know it will get used a lot. The sentiment reads "Thankful for you". A little bling on the flowers adds a nice touch.

This card is very different from the other one, but I love the simplicity of it. I wanted the banners to be the focus of the card. I paired Banner Greetings with the Hearts of Flutter banner stamp set. So happy this stamp set is still in the new catalog! I used the similar color combo from the card above, except I added Pacific Point.

Two different cards using similar color combo with new stamp sets. Did I tell you the new Annual Catalog goes live next Friday, May 31st at Noon (MT). I can't wait! Thanks so much for stopping by. Until next time.