Lilac Daisies

Good morning!

I love this Sizzix daisy die I bought from Stampin Up several months ago and how easy it is to make a card with it! I cut the daisies with the Sizzix daisy die out of watercolor paper and painted the die cuts with a pale purple shimmery watercolor paint. Then I layered them together and used a couple of layered circle punchouts for the centers.

The photo above shows the shimmer a little better than the first photo.

Here's the inside of the card...

Sorry for the weird photo - but I think you can see it okay. I used GinaK's Notes to Mom for the inside sentiment and Asela's Friendships Garden for the sentiment on the front of the card.

Have a wonderful day!
Jessica

Gold Daisy Blessings

Good morning!

Today is my parent's 40th Anniversary - Happy Anniversary, mom and dad!

I wanted to share another Daisy card today - this time, I painted the daisies with a gold shimmer watercolor paint onto the watercolor die cut-outs. They are so sparkly and rich looking in person.

Unfortunately though I wasn't able to get a great full card shot of the card ... this is the best one I have...

I was tilting it so the camera would pick up the gold shimmer. I used SU's brushed gold cardstock along with some retired designer paper from my scrap basket that coordinated with the gold. I used an EK Success border punch for the edging and the scrap punch-outs for the opposite corners.

This photo shows the shimmer even better...

And, the super strange photo of the inside...

Thanks for bearing with me through these strange photos... lol!

Have a great day!
Jessica

Painted Daisies...

Good morning!

I am sharing a couple of cards today that are very similar. I wanted to make some Daisy cards using up my Brilliant Blue paper scraps from last week as well as my new Sizzix Daisy Die.


To make the flowers a little more special, I cut them out of watercolor paper and painted ArtQuest's pearl white and light blue watercolors over them. They are really shimmery in person, but I'm not sure that the camera picked that up very well.

Because I am adding these to my Etsy shop, I went all out and decorated the entire inside of these cards...


For each of these cards, I used Notes to Mom and the Eclectic Summer Sayings sentiments for the insides of the cards. The outside "for you" is from Notes to mom as well.

Here's the second card I'm sharing today...

and a closeup shot to see if you can catch the shimmer on the flowers...

and, finally the inside view..

I have a couple more daisy cards to share tomorrow. If you are interested in purchasing these cards, check out my Etsy shop for more details.

Have a great rest of your day!

Jessica

Birthday Sunflower...

Good morning!

Today's card was made using some more of this gorgeous Stampin Up Brilliant Blue patterned papers. I colored these fun Magnolia stamps to match - once again using my Toner Gray Copic Markers. I used all the colors I have on these images... T-0, T-2, T-3, T-5, T-7, and T-9. I just may have to get T-4 and T-6 because... well, just because! lol!


Because the images were so large, there wasn't much room left to embellish the card, so I kept it pretty simple. I paired two sentiments from Gina's Eclectic Summer Sayings and her Notes to Mom stamp sets to finish off the inside of my card...

Have a great rest of your day!
Jessica

Summer Flowers

Good morning!

I have a bright card to share this morning with you made with some of my favorite Stampin Up designer papers for summer - I love the bold colors these papers have! I paired them up with Carolyn's Framed Flowers stamp set and some prima flowers. The sentiment is from Gina's Autumn Leaves stamp set.


I used some Memento markers to ink up the grass and flower stamp set and then dabbed some Mono multi adhesive on the flowers and added some Prima flowers. I love how this looks. I used the large Rectange Deckled Nestabilites (the 2 largest dies in this set) for the main image.

Once again, I combined two of Gina's stamp sets for the inside sentiment (Notes to Mom and Eclectic Summer Sayings)...


I'm the hostess this week for our sketch challenge over on StampTV and this is my card sample. I hope you'll have a chance to play along and share your card with us over on StampTV.

Also, I've added several more cards to my Etsy shop. I hope you'll have a chance to check them out. If there is a specific card that you've seen here on my blog recently that you would be interested in purchasing, send me an email. I can add it to my Etsy shop.

Have a wonderful day!
Jessica