Cherry Blossom Birthday

 CASology Week 96: FLOWER 

Springtime presents a most magnificent array of blossoms that make it easy to be inspired for spring birthday cards. I love making flowers. I wish that I had the patience to paint them. So, my compromise is to messily watercolor the center of the flower, the buds and the stenciled section (spritzed sponge). I'll try to be neater next time.

 Card Ingredients: Momenta "cherry blossom and branch" die, the Crafter's Workshop stencil, Memento London fog ink and liquid pearls for buds and stamen tips. 

The stamen is a snowflake punch by Punch Bunch.

Egg-stra Special

CT0313  MARCH GALLERY THEME 
Fan Club members at Splitcoaststampers are bringing in springtime!
The CENTRAL THEME: Just Hatched - Spring has sprung

I chose an easter theme using the INSPIRATION this photo 

I selected four colors from the Inspiration photo and die cut with chevron die and fussy cut the Verve stamped eggs and hatching chick. The flowers are made with the Martha Steward daisy punch (my favorite).

Ombre Hello

The challenge this week at SCS is to create something that has light to dark colors.....this technique is also called Ombre which is defined as "graduated colors from light to dark on a surface". Starting with the lightest shade of a color (any color), use light, medium, and dark shades of the same color to create a background or main image. 

I'm finding this particular quilt pattern intriguing these days. First of all it's easier than most and you get some wonderful movement with colors. I found instructions on Nancy Riley's blog. Now I can't stop making the squares. I think it works so well with the graduating colors in purple (or any) colors. The daisies are a favorite of mine to make. Big impact with not much fuss. I used Martha Stewarts daisy punch and a Punch Bunch small sun punch. Each daisy has four layers plus one in green. The Verve small "hello" sentiment fits nicely in the one inch square.

Peace Lily

Splitcoaststampers Challenges

Color Challenge CC379 - A CRAZY, BREEZY, COBBLER - 6/12/12  by Karen Barber  who keeps us on our creative toes/fingers

Sketch Challenge CS389 {6/13/12} by Korin (sweetnsassystamps) – beautiful sketch!

I love all sorts of flowers and I wanted to find one that has the CAJUN CRAZE and CHERRY COBBLER colors. I used the closest color I had to BAJA BREEZE and LUCKY LIMEADE.

I used a punch bunch Mega Lily Petals (which has four sized petals) punched six times and used the largest ones for my lily. I used a large stylus to stir and cup each petal, painted with spiced pumpkin twinkling H2O, and distress ink fired brick to get as close to cajun and cherry as possible. The stamen is lucky limeade card stock.

Here is the inspiration for my lily (from google images) 

Inspiration for Color Challenge Card

Lilly ingredients
punch bunch Mega Lily Petals
punch bunch large snowflake e Punch
twinkling H2O
EK six petal flower punch
water brush, marker for dots,  water based super glue