Fifth Avenue Fairy

I needed to make my little niece a card for her birthday and I was in the mood to watercolor so I pulled out one of my cute retired sets...Fairy Nice and paired it up with one of the flower images from Fifth Avenue Floral.

The fairy and the center of the flowers are nice and sparkly because I painted them with Dazzling Details after I finished watercoloring them. The Wisteria Wonder background design is from the new Love Blossoms wheel which is in the Holiday Mini Catalog...it's such a cute wheel! (The matching stamp set is super cute too!)

Stamps: Fifth Avenue Floral, Fairy Nice, Pennant Parade & Love Blossoms wheel
Card stock: Bashful Blue, Wisteria Wonder, Concord Crush & Whisper White
Ink: Black Stazon, Wisteria Wonder, Concord Crush & various to watercolor
Accessories: Dazzling Details Aqua painter & Jewelry Tag punch

I also made her a name frame to hang in her room.

I used various patterns of retired DSP, and again used the Love Blossoms wheel on the Concord Crush background to make the letters pop. I used the Serif Essential Alphabet & Tasteful Trim dies along with the Beautiful Wings Embosslit and Boho Blossoms punch and of course some Basic Rhinestones to add some bling.. The ribbon is just something I had in my stash. Her favorite color is purple, so I'm sure she'll like this.

Have a great weekend!

Woodland Walk With Fifth Avenue Floral

I had not used my Fifth Avenue Floral set in quite some time, but when I had to make a sympathy card last week I wanted to use something besides my go to set...Thoughts & Prayers. It's such a pretty set, I should really use it more.

The rose was stamped in Basic Brown and watercolored using Blushing Bride ink. The paper used was from the Woodland Walk collection. I layered Victoria Crochet Trim over some wide Chocolate Chip Satin Ribbon. The sentiment is from a retired set called Brighter Tomorrow.

We were hit hard with our first snowstorm of the season. It sure looks beautiful outside. The roads were pretty bad last night when I was out...glad I get to stay home today. Time to finish my Christmas cards!

Doin' the Fifth Avenue Wasabi Mambo

Oh what fun to pull out a few of my favorite past In Colors...Baja Breeze and Wild Wasabi! I mixed them with one of my favorite In Colors from this year...Melon Mambo. The result is a fresh and springy color combo that I'm sure I'll be using again since these colors will soon be regulars in the upcoming new Color Collections.

The sketch I used is this weeks sketch over at Mojo Monday. The challange over at Stamp Something this week is to stitch something...so I did that too!

Stamps: Fifth Avenue Floral & Baroque Motifs
Card stock: Melon Mambo, Wild Wasabi Textured, Baja Breeze, Whisper White & Razzleberry Lemonade DP
Ink: VersaMark, Wild Wasabi & various to watercolor
Accessories: White EP, Beautiful Wings Embosslit, Mat Pack, Paper Piercing tool, White Gel pen, Dew Drops & Baja Breeze Striped grosgrain

The Fifth Avenue Floral set is part of Stampin' Up!'s Two-Step into Spring Special. This month you can get 20% off this and four other 2-Step stampin' sets including a brand new sneak peek set from the upcoming IB&C called Awash With Flowers. (shown above)

Have a wonderful evening!

Autumn Lillies

Wow! I guess it's been a while, huh? I've been super busy and unfortunately just haven't been able to find a whole lot of time to stamp or blog recently. I have been doing some painting around here and what I thought was going to be a small job ended up being much bigger...I'm sure you know how those home improvement projects can go! Well, enough excuses, right!? I want to share a card I made for a friend and I think the colors are perfect for an Autumn birthday.
I started by embossing the lillies in gold (which doesn't really show up in my photo) and then water coloring them. The Really Rust layer is dry embossed using the Perfect Details Texturz plate and then a window was cut using the Movers & Shapers die.

Stamps: Fifth Avenue Floral, Teeny Tiny Wishes
Card stock: Pumpkin Pie, Really Rust, Soft Suede & Whisper White
Ink: Really Rust, Pumpkin Pie & Ruby Red
Accessories: Soft Suede Polka-dot Grosgrain, Modern Label Punch,
Perfect Details Texturz plate, Movers & Shapers die & Dew Drops

Have a wonderful weekend! I know I'm looking forward to heading up north with a group of friends for a tour of the local vineyards. I'm hoping for NO RAIN (at least tomorrow) and some beautiful fall colors.

Birthday Somethings

It's Friday again...and that means another Stamp Something Challenge! This week you must stamp something with a birthday theme, so I pulled out my new set Fifth Avenue Floral and stamped a feminine birthday card.
I embossed the ruffly cosmos images with White Embossing powder and water colored with my Aqua Painter and re-inkers to match the colors of the Razzleberry Lemonade papers. The "happy birthday" greeting is from the Teeny Tiny Wishes set.

I hope you can play along with us this week at Stamp Something...so get busy and stamp your birthday something. Enjoy your weekend!

Watercolored Blooms

It took me a while, but I finally broke down and got this beautiful floral set. I loved it from the start, but figured I already had lots of floral stamps, so I resisted. After seeing so many beautiful creations and realizing I didn't have a floral set to watercolor...I couldn't resist any longer! I had so much fun water coloring these flowers, so I'm sure you will see me using this set a lot.

I stamped the flowers with VersaMark on Whisper White card stock and embossed with white embossing powder. Then I used my aqua painter and re-inkers to watercolor the flowers and the background.

Stamps: Fifth Avenue Floral, Oval All
Ink: VersaMark, and various to watercolor
Card stock: Melon Mambo, Bermuda Bay, Whisper White
Accessories: Bermuda Bay Polka-dot Grosgrain, Scalloped Oval punch, white embossing powder, heat tool, aqua painter & X-acto knife (to cut slot for ribbon)

Sorry I've been posting so irregularly lately, but I've been busy enjoying the beautiful weather we've been having. Need to take advantage while we've got it, right? Thanks for stopping by to visit. :-)