Cup of Coffee

Hey there. Hope your week is off to a good start. Decided I needed a little stamp challenge therapy tonight. We have been working outside the last few nights. I was going into withdrawal. Lol.

This card has a little magic in store for you. I think it reads pretty clean and simple. Kraft, white, pink and brown cardstock with just a few stamps. But the magic begins when you pull the ribbon up.

It reveals a hidden stamped panel.

I wanted to enter this in the Simon Says Stamp Monday food or drink challenge, Papertrey Ink #293 slider challenge and the Less is More #339 pierced challenge.

 

Thanks for stopping by, Sue.

Celebration Balloons

One more quick card tonight. I was playing with My Favorite Things color challenge and Simon Says Stamp anything goes challenge.

I started with Strathmore watercolor paper and stamped the soft grey dots in the background. Then the small balloons with Distress Ink. I used a water brush to smooth out the color on the balloons. Stamped the celebrate and clear embossed over the blue ink. I then drew the balloon strings with a fine black marker and used Glossy Accents over the balloons for shine.  Last I mounted it on a soft grey card base.

Thanks for stopping by, Sue.

Congratulations

Happy Friday to you all. Congrats you made it to the weekend. Tonight's cards were for a sketch and color challenge at My Favorite Things and a die cut challenge at CAS-ual Friday's. Also entered in the Simon Says Stamp anything goes challenge.

This is the first card I made using a soft grey cardstock base with die cuts out of watercolor paper for the focal point and a teal cardstock for the greeting. I used the sketch palette and Distress Inks to complete the colors. Finally I added the Nuvo silver drops for accent.

The second card I wanted to try the clear Nuvo drops for a less dramatic look.

Thanks for stopping by, Sue.

Card Fusion

Hey all, I am creating a little "hello" card fusion for you again tonight. This was a challenge on the Fusion Card Blog. 

Here is the inspiration photo.

I also want to enter it in the Less is More

"Anything but Stamps" challenge

Supplies:

Cardstock SU or PTI

Hello die Momenta

Thanks for stopping by, Sue

Red, White and Blue Challenge, SPDMIU33

Hello, I wanted to try a challenge that set both my colors and layout for me. Sugar Pea Designs fit the bill this evening. Here is my card.

This is the challenge photo we worked with,

I would also like to enter it the "Anything Goes" challenge at Simons Says Stamp.

So hopefully the card will reflect all they had envisioned. Thanks for stopping by, Sue.

Supplies:

Me Sparkle & Co stamp

PTI kraft & white cardstock

SU ink

White Wink of Stella pen

PTI July Blog Hop

This is kind of down to the wire but I got home from running errands and thought of a quick card for the blog hop. It uses the March stamp from the Year of Psalms series. I copper embossed the verse on PTI white cardstock then stamped the feathers in two shades of blue ink from Stampin Up. This is our inspiration picture.

Thanks for stopping by, Sue.

Rainbow Balloon

Happy Tuesday to you. This was a fun card to dream up. I love playing with the rainbow of Distress Inks on the watercolor paper. The colors moved so easy and blended well.

I wanted to play with a few challenges.

On the Edge Challenge

And the AAA Cards rainbow #95 challenge. 

(I could get their badge downloaded.)

Supplies:

Strathmore watercolor paper

Tim Holtz Distress Ink

Papertrey Ink balloon and birthday die

Simon Says Stamp happy die

Thanks for stopping by, Sue.