Fall In Love

I have fallen in love with fall! The color is dancing on the leaves around these parts and the views are spectacular! It truly is my favorite season!
Just some simple stamping for me today......after a long and delightful weekend I felt like just playing a little in my studio. Have you seen the Tuesday Trigger at Moxie Fab World? It is really pretty and the colors inspired me.
This is a clear background stamp from Hero Arts called "Birds and Butterflies". You can find it at Ellen's shop HERE. I inked it up with some pigment ink and then sponged the edges of the stamp with my chocolate brilliance ink before stamping.
I then used my R19 copic marker to color in the birds and outlined them with my sepia multiliner pen.
The pretty little chipboard accent is from Basic Grey and the satin ribbon was in my stash (I think it was Making Memories).
Thanks for stopping by!

A Moxie Monday!

I was so inspired by this month's Moxie challenge that I not only made a card but a fun matching layout too! HERE is the challenge on Moxie Fab World if you want to check it out...
Ahhh, never too old 4 bubbles! This is my daughter playing with the bubble wands that were set out for her younger cousins....but she couldn't resist! I used LOTS of Melissa Frances goodies from their Vintage Posey Collection. The big beautiful blooms on the page matched the very pretty roses in the photo. You can see I went with the circle (bubble) theme using a mix of my Spellbinder dies and large circle cutter by EK Success.

I am also LOVING the new Banner Alphabet that was just released at My Favorite Things....what a nice clean font....it is the "NEVER TOO OLD" segment on my layout.
I had a leftover photo that I made the card from. The scraps of the circle cutouts were what I used in my card to carry out the circle theme. I also had my Melissa Frances rub-ons follow the curves of my bubble.
A couple of notes:
All these photos were printed in black and white on my home printer....I then took my water painter and filled it full of copic blender solution and colored selected sections of the photo. In this instance I colored her swimsuit, bubble wand and the green in the shrubbery.
Here is a close shot of just the page.
Again...this photo WAS black and white. I love the vintage flavor just coloring sections of the photo gives. See the roses (I colored them) and the green in the shrubs....I think this draws your eye to my daughter (whom I left in black and white).
Close ups of the other random photos. I used the vintage posy labels to back them.
I didn't have the right colors of letters so I used the negative portion of the glittered letter sheets from MF for the "B". The rest of the letters are Cosmo Cricket where I painted them with white crackle paint and then airbrushed them with R85 to match my page.
I loved this little sentiment rub-on as well, framed with another vintage posy label.
Lastly this little tag detail.....love this sentiment too! Tied on with a little vintage posy ribbon!

Thanks for coming to look today! I had so much fun first of all taking the photos (with my new camera) and then converting them into a page....My daughter now has this tacked up on her wall....
Enjoy your MOXIE day!

Moxie Monday!

Happy Monday! Today I just felt like stamping.....not much else. I wanted to throw retro/vintage images together with a modern layout design. Kinda fun! This is the "Bicycle Life" set from Cornish Heritage Farms. I love these vintage bikes! I stamped them randomly in gray, orange, turquoise and ultramarine versacraft ink on light blue card stock.
Sometimes these clean design are the hardest to get the balance right. I tried to make sure that my darkest color (ultra marine) showed up 3 times. The sentiment, bike and the chipboard button (one of my favorites from Jenni Bowlin).
When doing a clean design you also want to keep in mind where your eye moves on your layout. Here I wanted my eye to start in the top left and keep moving down to the bottom right...this is why I stamped my lightest color in the middle so that my eye would keep moving.
I played along in the MOXIE FAB WORLD challenge.....as I couldn't pass up on playing with the bicycle theme!
Hope you all had a great weekend!

Clean and Simple with Fabric

Playing along again with Moxie Fab World's fabric challenge....today I decided to go quite clean and simple. This is some fun Moda fabric cut with my spellbinder shapeabilites and then run through my xyron for adhesive to stick them to my card.
The sentiment is from the "For the Men" set from Cornish Heritage Farms...I loved the kind of homemade looking font and I stamped it in Clover green pigment ink from Ranger.
Finishing touches were the messy stitching along the edge a wee bit of ribbon and an apple green button.

Here is a little close up of the fruit...I did color the stems with my copic markers (G14) was perfect!
Off and running today as there seems to be a lot to do....my lil' guys birthday today!
My baby is 12.....ACK! Where does that time go?

Come back tomorrow for sketch friday!

Moxie Monday

Leave it to the last day to play along in the Moxie Fab World challenge "Three Cheers for Chairs"! I just received the fabulous new paper line from Cosmo Cricket called DeLovely! I knew that retro-vintage chair would go great for this challenge and I loved the ruffle skirt on the chair so I ruffled up my ribbon to go on my card.
I was looking for a cool "doily" like image it set my chair on but couldn't find any in my stash so I decided to airbrush one with my Copic Airbrush System. This template is from crafter's workshop and I use these in my certification classes when I am demoing airbrushing. Love this look with the B49 marker to match my sentiment on the card. I didn't want the whole template so I masked of the area that I didn't want with some post-it notes.
Here is the finished look after airbrushing.
A final little touch of going around the edges in a stitch pattern with my colored multiliner pen and then I wanted my pearls to match so I airbrushed them in an RV19....perfect match for my chair!
Looks like a beautiful day here! Hope you enjoy your Monday!

PI Day!

Yeah...it is my favorite day of the teasers! PI (Pure Innocence) day!
I have a couple of new PI peeks for you today. You will be able to find these girls at My Favorite Things on March 3rd. Yes, it is already March today!
I'm leading off with this "4 leaf clover" PI girl....I colored this sweet lil' girl with my copics and then cut her out. I was inspired to pull out my embroidery floss due to a challenge on Moxie Fab World.
Here is a close shot of the clover. I used my spellbinder heart die to make the impressions using the embossing mat and then pierced holes to string my floss through. I love that you still see the embossing even after my stitching!
Here's a look at "Happy Mail"....this was a fun little scene that I paper pieced as well as colored with my copics. I used the modern vintage sheets from graphic 45 for this creation.
My image was on a plain white sheet of Neenah card stock to start...by the time I was done coloring and airbrushing it fit in with my patterned paper really well. Lots of stitched layers here...and yes, that is some more twill....The postage stamps are from this patterned paper line as well that I decided to cut out three of them.

Make sure you check out all the peeks today....as I'm sure you will be FILLED with sweet eye candy! Start on Kim's blog for the complete list of teasers!

Teaser Day!

Today is "teaser" day at My Favorite Things....I adore this new sentiment set that will be released March 3rd....called "Clearly Sentimental About You"! There are a lot of SWEET sentiments in this set, all of which have a mix in fonts like you see here.
I was inspired by the TUESDAY TRIGGER at Moxie Fab World when I made this card. The design in the patterned paper spoke to me. I used a spellbinder die to cut these shapes out of Melissa Frances patterned paper, lightly sanded the edges to reveal the white core and popped them up with dimensional foamie.
Why not stamp on twill! I used versacraft ink (which is intended for fabric) to stamp on my cotton twill. I liked how the sentiment speaks of "light", when I think of "light" the color that comes to mind is definitely yellow.

Here is the original inspiration from Kimbery Crawford!


















To check out and see the other MFT teasers check out Kim's Blog for the entire list!

Have a great day!