Belli Challenge #88 - Spring Cleaning

This week's Belli Challenge is to use a color spray on your card or project. What's a color spray? That could be anything such as Glimmer Mists/Radiant Rain, walnut ink sprays, a mister filled with water and a drop of reinker, or even airbrushing with a copic marker. If it has color and you can spray it, go for it! :-)

The Stamping Boutique is our generous sponsor today, and I chose to use this sweet Audrey Spring Cleaning image for my card. Look closely and you can see all the dust Miss Audrey has been stirring up. Hee hee! That is my color spray - a mini mister filled with water and some walnut ink crystals. The crystals dissolve in the water and you simply shake it up and start spraying. I used Mercy's sketch again (MTSC66) - I'm just in love with this sketch as it works beautifully with so many of my stamps.

Check out what the other Belli Girls created over on the Belli Challenge Blog, then pull out your crafting supplies and join us in this fun challenge. Add your link to the Mr. Linky widget at the bottom of the Belli Challenge Blog post HERE.


Stamps:
Audrey Spring Cleaning from The Stamping Boutique

Ink: none (printed from my laser printer)

Paper:
Orchid Opulence
Whisper White
Sweet designer paper (retired SU)

Other:
Copic markers
flowers
light purple skittles
yellow ribbon (Darice)
mini mister with water and Walnut Ink Crystals

Hibiscus Inchies

The new Emerging Dragonfly-Dream set from Cornish Heritage Farms is a gorgeous set with a dragonfly and a small hibiscus flower as well as a couple of sentiments. The little hibiscus flower stamp is perfect for inchies, and I put three of them in a row on this card. They are all going in different directions to provide a little more interest and dimension to this card, and the top of the card where the white cardstock was peeking out is distressed just a little bit to give the card some texture. The sentiment is from a sweet set called Friendly Kritters Scriptures, which can be found HERE at Cornish Heritage Farms.

There are more samples in the CHF gallery here. You can also see all the gorgeous samples made with the new Emerging Dolphin set here. Aren't these two new stamp sets just gorgeous?



Stamps:
Emerging Dragonfly-Dream (Sara England) from Cornish Heritage Farms
Friendly Kritters Scriptures (Mona Lisa Moments) from Cornish Heritage Farms

Ink:
Watermelon Adirondack dye (Ranger)

Paper:
Simply Smooth White from Cornish Heritage Farms
Simply Heavy Black from Cornish Heritage Farms
Caribbean Breeze (Bazzill Smoothies)
Urban Prairie designer paper (Basic Grey)

Other:
ribbon (May Arts)
pearls (Reflections)
Embossed Curve edge punch (EK Success)
square and scallop square dies (Spellbinders Nestabilities)

Cowboy Up!

Have you seen this adorable little Western Bear over at Cornish Heritage Farms? This is the Stamp of the Month for March, which means you can get this at 20% off. But you only have a few more days left to get this at a discount, so you better hurry up. You can find this stamp HERE (it is also available wood mounted HERE). See that sample next to the stamp? Yours truly created that, and you will get that picture and detailed instructions on how to create that card when you buy this stamp. Remember, you only have til the end of this month, so go shopping now. :-)


Stamps:
Western Bear from Cornish Heritage Farms
Burlap Backgrounder from Cornish Heritage Farms
The Ranch (Scene It) from Cornish Heritage Farms

Ink:
Espresso Adirondack dye (Ranger)
Walnut Stain distress (Ranger)
Antique Linen distress (Ranger)

Paper:
Simply Smooth White from Cornish Heritage Farms
Pinecone (Bazzill Canvas Textured)

Other:
sponge
1/16" hole punch
distress tool
twine for lasso (May Arts)
aged copper brads (Making Memories)
SM and LG Oval dies (Spellbinders Nestabilities)
SM and LG Petite Oval dies (Spellbinders Nestabilities)
Copic Markers

Country Girl Easter

I've been itching to play with my Sarah Kay stamps, and the challenge on the Stampavie blog is to make an Easter card. Since I don't have any of the new stamps yet (they are in the mail from Stampers Dream!!), I pulled out this Country Girl stamp to play with. It has cute little chicks on this stamp, and chicks are Easter-ish, right?

The image is stamped on watercolor paper and I used various dye inks to color in the image with an aquapainter. The flowers are from sprigs of fake flowers at Walmart and the sentiment is from Stampin Up. I used this week's sketch from Mercy's blog to put this all together. It was so nice to sit and watercolor and just have fun today.

Thank goodness it is Friday! I hope you have a great weekend!


Stamps:
Country Girl (Stampavie)
A Good Egg (Stampin Up)

Paper:
Kraft
watercolor paper
Whisper White
Brocade Blue
blue gingham paper (something I bought from Tuesday Morning a long time ago)

Ink:
Black Stazon
Pretty in Pink
Orange
Real Red
YoYo Yellow
Blush Blossom
Bashful Blue
Brocade Blue
Celery
Cocoa
Caramel
Summer Sun

Other:
sponge
oval punch
scallop oval punch
ribbon - May Arts
buttons - Rusty Pickle
linen thread
flowers - Walmart
aquapainter

Blossom Tin project

Are you ready for Spring??? It is gorgeous here in Texas with 75 degree weather this week, ahhhhhhhh......... My thoughts always turn to flowers and butterflies and gardens when I think of spring, and I created this Blossom Tin project to usher in the gorgeous spring weather.











I used the Rectangle Mini Album Tin Set from Creative Cuts and More to start this project. I chose to use smooth cardstock because I wanted to stamp on these. The brown accordian layer (called Album on the website) is Carob Cream Bazzill Smoothies cardstock, and the little panels (called Mats on the website) are White Bazzill Smoothies cardstock. The metal tin comes with this album and they fit together beautifully. The Killer Red Tacky Tape is the only adhesive that keeps the cardstock on the metal tin. Everything else just popped right off, but the cardstock is NOT moving since I used the Killer Red Tacky Tape.

All the stamps used here are from Verve. I just pulled out all of my Verve stamps and had a blast picking and choosing which stamps to use. I laid out all of the cardstock pieces and set the stamps next to them to get a feel for how this project would flow. I love the way it turned out!

Die Cuts from Creative Cuts and More:

Rectangle Mini Album and Tin Set
---- Album (brown accordian paper) in Carob Cream Bazzill Smoothies cardstock
---- Mats (white rectangles with flowers and sentiments) in White Bazzill Smoothies cardstock

Stamps: all from Verve
Fairy Tales
Feel the Sun
Beautiful You
Love's Flower
Let it Shine
Believe
Miracles Blossom


Ink:
Regal Rose (Stampin Up)
Summer Sun (Stampin Up)
Celery (Stampin Up)
Pretty in Pink (Stampin Up)
Timber Brown Stazon

Paper :
Regal Rose designer paper (Stampin Up)- (used to paper piece some of the flowers)
Celery designer paper (punched leaves)
white (punched butterflies and various flowers)

Other:
Spica Atyou glitter pens
pearls (Basic Grey)
Star Dust and Yellow Stickles
sponges
butterfly punch (Martha Stewart)

Spring Blog Carnival!

I've been featured on Craft Critique's Spring Blog Carnival today! Whoo hoo! You will find the link to my Spring Bees card listed in the post. Here is what it says:

"Holly's Spring Bees card has lots of details of spring."


There are lots of other links to Spring projects on the Craft Critique blog. If you haven't seen my bee card, go check it out. For those of you shivering in the snow, this will be a sweet reminder of the days to come. :-)

In the past 36 hours, I have created 10 cards, but I can't share them with you yet. I have 5 more cards to make today, so I'm hoping to get those done before I have to go back to work tomorrow. I'm getting inky!!

Have a wonderful Sunday!

Peacock Masterpiece

Cornish Heritage Farms is releasing this new Peacock Scene backgrounder today, and I wanted to show you one of the cards I created with this gorgeous stamp. For this card, I decided to go soft and lovely with some pastel ink colors. Basically I just smooshed some inks onto my craft pad, rubbed the stamp around in the ink, and then stamped it on white cardstock. No two cards are alike as the ink would change each time I inked it up.

Go check out what the Design Team gals have done with this Peacock Scene backgrounder over in the gallery. The other card I created is the opposite of this - bright and bold and shimmery. :-) Enjoy the eye candy today on this gorgeous spring day.