Real Strength

Summer is almost coming to an end where I am.  I am going to miss the long sunny days even though sometimes it's just too hot.  Well, I'll just have to think Spring and perhaps it will come around soon enough..LOL!

Here's a card made for the JustRite Friday Challenge #115, in Cheerful Spring Palette.

I used the stamp sets Coffee Cup and Ribbons & Swags Vintage Labels Seven for this card.  The coffee cup is coloured with Copic Markers.  I love the colours of the patterned paper from BasicGrey Fresh Cut, and I die-cut a piece of vellum and adhere it above the patterned paper so that it does not compete with the sentiment and stamped image.

I hope you have a great day, wherever you are!

Thank you for visiting me.
Kary

Step into the Garden

How did the weekend go so fast?  It seems there's never enough time when one is having fun.  There's still so many items on my list to do!

I'm glad for finishing this card though.  It's my attempt playing along with the JustRite Challenge #113 this week.  I don't usually think about creating background papers, and I don't have any fab methods to share, just some mad colouring perhaps (it felt that way to me, it's hard colouring the same images all at once!).  But it's what I usually do after work, colouring is therapeutic.  But, as you can tell, it's really a challenge for me to keep to some uniformity with the flowers.

I used the stamp set Poppies Labels Twenty Nine, and selected the smaller poppies image to create the background.  The poppies were coloured with Copic markers (R39, R37, R35, R24, R32, YG97, YG93, YG01).  The edges of the cardstock was distressed with Distress Ink Scattered Straw.  I completely forgot I had Labels 29 (grin!), and used various oval dies for the sentiment.  The bottom layer was a vellum die-cut.

Hope your weekend is going great!

Thank you for visiting me.
Kary

Have a Fabulous Birthday

I am new to JustRite Stamps, and this is probably my first card using their stamps.  The card was made for a friend's birthday, and I'm playing along with the JustRite Friday Challenge #112 - Colour Inspiration.


I used the set Grateful Heart Vintage Labels Two together with the Vintage Labels Two dies to create the card.  The flowers were coloured with Copic Markers.  I did some sewing just above the border die-cut and added some pearls to finish off the card.

I hope to play along regularly, so that I get a chance to ink up all my new stamps.

Thank you for visiting me.
Kary