Just wanted to let everyone know that I will be away the week of May 31/09 to June 07/09. I will see you then.

Pansies Abound

This is my card for the Friday Follow the List challenge at the Stampin'B's blog. www.stampinbsdesignteam.blogspot.com

Why don't you go and have a look and play along. We love it when there are lots of participants. To play along you just have to make the card using the "follow the list" suggestions and then upload you card to scs and be sure to use the keyword "StampinB" that's all there is to it.

For the challenge this week we were suppose to use flowers. I chose this pretty image and sentiment by Penny Black. I love pansies as they look like cute little fairie faces. I stamped this image onto Whisper White with Palette Noir ink and watercolored with re-inkers.

The cardstock used were Summer Sun, Perfect Plum and Whiper White. For the 1st layer I used Perfect Plum and Whisper White which I embossed with the CB folder Textiles. For the main panel I used Nestabilities in the squares "plain and scalloped. The finish is very simple just a pretty sheer purple ribbon.

Let me know what you think and I hope you visit the Stampin'B's it's so much fun and no rules.

Nicole

Bashful

I hope that everyone had a wonderful Memorial Day weedend. This is my card for the CC220 challenge at SCS.

The image is by Penny Black and I love her, she is so cute and shy looking. The colors for today's challenge are: Bashful Blue, Pumpkin Pie and So Saffron.

The image was done in watercolors and piecing. The dp's are from a stack that I got at Cosco. I stamped the image four times, the first onto WW and watercolored the skin, the boots, shadows in the dress and the flowers, the second onto a yellow dp for the hair and touched up in CC, the third and forth are different dp's for the dress.

I used a MS punch for the borders, the cut flowers are by K&C Company and finished with a satin ribbon that I threaded thru 2 punched holes. I also cut and popped-up the flowers at her feet.

I really like how this one turned out, I wasn't fussy about doing an orange toned card again. I really would love to see some Spring colors for the CC challenge.

Tell me what you think of my card? Hugs, Nicole

Baby card for Emily

This is my card for the FS120 at SCS, the FS today was Merci. What a wonderful gallery that she has, I had quite a time picking a card to case. Here is the card that I chose to case: http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/1174753?cat=500&ppuser=77686

For the image I used a digital by Doodle Palace. I made three copies, one to color cut and paste to the WW panel, second one was for the head and gate/bushes which I popped, third was just the bushes which I popped once more.

I used Copic markers for the coloring. The cs was Sage Shadow and Whisper White. I used Nesties/rectangles for the main image. The three bg layers were embossed with embossing folders. The first was Swiss Dots, the second was D'vine and the third was a border from Frills. I cutaway part of this border and I really like the look.

To finish I added assorted pearls to the gate posts, the embossed border and the dot in the !. The sentiment was by Rubbeneckers.

I hope you like this one? Thanks for stopping by and please come again, Nicole

Stampin'B's challenge #7

This is my card for today's challenge at the Stampin'B's Design Team blog.

Joanne's challenge to us was to use : a border punch, circles, leaves and 2 brads.

For the main image I used SU markers to load my stamp image and then spritzed it with water. I then stamped the image onto watercolor paper. I stickled the bluebells at the bottom of the image for some contrast. I mounted the image onto a piece of bordering Blue that I had added the punched edging to. For the circles I used a plain embossed circle and a scalloped one. I stamped a butterfly in Bordering Blue, added some stickles to the wings and used 2 glass brads for the body.

I wanted this to be a clean and simple card. The main layers are: WW, Bordering Blue and Sage Green "you really don't notice the color change". The sentiment is simple also "enjoy life" which I accented with some pretty light blue dew drops.

To play along in this challenge visit us at the Stampin'B's Design Team blog: www.stampinbsdesignteam.blogspot.com

We have lots of fun so come and see us.

Nicole

Wild Roses/A hint of pink

Where ever you live I hope that your weather is as nice as ours is today. Warm and sunny...

This is my card for the SC229 challenge at SCS. For my card today I used an image and sentiment from Penny Black. I thought that this would also fit the CAS card for Monday's challenge. The challenge was to use black and white with a hint of color. VV is the other white right? LOL

I colored this image with Copic markers three times and cut the whole image out and then parts that I wanted from the other two. After coloring I added some MS glitter to some of the crook and crannies.....

The paper is by DCWV/LA CREME. I love this paper it is scrumptious...

Thanks for stopping by to have a look and I hope that you like my cards enough to keep coming back for more.

I'm still new at blogging so if you see me doing something wrong please let me know. There are still some things that I can't figure out but I will get there eventually.

Bye for now, Nicole

Friendship

This is my card for the SCS TLC221 challenge.
The challenge was to make a Tri Shutter card.
There were two examples in the tutorial and I chose to use the one with the full front panel.
My cs is Chocolate Chip, Pirouette Pink and the dp is from the dollar store.
The sentiments are by MSE.
I found this card quite simple to make once I got over the initial shock. LOL
This card would be perfect for any occasion and I will used it over and over again.
Thanks for stopping by and please come and visit again.
Nicole