This is cool - follow up from my sneak peek

This was so much FUN for me last night .... making your own designer series paper and turning it to 5 coordinating cards ... going to be making a lot of these in the near future to prepare for the Run for the Cure fundraiser!

First you choose a 'color scheme' for your card. I chose Blushing Bride, Regal Rose, Melon Mambo and Whisper White ... a think pink theme for the Breast Cancer awareness!

Than you take a 6x6 piece of card stock and choose a stamp set for your background to work with - I chose Vintage Vogue.

You than stamp your background in the lightest color and the largest stamp you are going to use ... so in this case I chose Versamark for the vines from the set for the very back ground.

Next choose your next shade of ink and your next largest stamp image - so in this case I chose Whisper White ink and the flowers from the Vintage Vogue Set.

Than you use the Quarter Wonder page cutting dimensions from Sharon's website http://createdbyu.blogspot.com/2010/06/quarter-sheet-wonder-tutorial.html to cut and prep your paper ... and finally you have fun creating your cards ... so here are my 5 card samples

Finally with a few scorelines and a couple cuts - you can even make a little box out of paper and decorate it up for a little 'gift package' for someone .... project complete ... and in one night I made FOUR of these little beauties to add to my fund raising pile!

Sneak Peek

Tonight I was busy recharging in the craft room for a LONG rain day with the kiddies and created 5 different cards featured from a 6x6 piece of designer paper ... a technique from Stampin' Up! that was shared on the Stampin' connection by Sharon Field.

I made my own designer paper featuring Vintage Vogue Stamp set in shades of pink in preparation for my fund raising initiative for the Run for the Cure in October!

Tomorrow I will have more time to share the steps and stages for this awesome and easy project - that gives you 5 unique cards and a little box to store them in!

Bloomin Beautiful

This is a retired stamp set called Bloomin' Beautiful that retired July 1st with the new catty unveiling - but it is so beautiful for water colouring - I just had to share to show off how great the Stamp Write markers are for the water colour technique ... I LOVE water colouring with the markers and my aqua painter :)

With this card after I water coloured the leaves with Night of Navy and used the same colour for the shading. Then when it was dry - I topped the leaves with Chrystal Effects for that 'fresh morning dew' look for the card!

Reflecting on Daisies

To nice this afternoon to be inside - but I still wanted to do some creative expression to recharge my soul after a morning of cleaning and errands! So I sat on the deck with my ole laptop and opened up the My Digital Studio. Early this week I had seen this 'reflections' technique for the My Digital Studio while surfing Stampin' Up training sections and wanted to give it a try! I think it turned out pretty cool for my first time!

Reminds me of dusk on the water!

To achieve this affect you copy and mirror the stamp image and reduce the opacity of the image until you get the effect you desire! I did this with both the daisies as well as the the rectangle of paper representing the 'water'. The grass is made with a 'tear image stamp' and changing the opacity as well.

Here is the inside of my card as well .... cause I enjoy decorating inside too!

More Artistic Etchings

Thank to my up line mentor Liz Goldhawk for the design of this card - it was a lot of fun to make and use the different products ... am loving the Newsprint Designer Series paper! Colour combination is featuring Marina Mist, Cherry Cobbler and Daffodil Delight card stock! Liz also shared a cool bow tying technique featuring a FORK of all things - quick and easy for a 'smaller' bow that is normally hard to fiddle with!