My Favourites

Anyone else slightly over-committed this week? I'm feeling it for sure. I am throwing a baby shower for my sister-in-law and my niece this weekend and still have to finish the banner with her name, the diaper cake, plus clean my house, help make the food (though my mom is doing a lot of that) and still be a mom, wife...human being! There are many moments where I have to choose to sit back and be still - even if something doesn't get done.

Alright...on to the cards....

Today, I wanted to show you some of things that are my favourites...favourite techniques...styles....stamps...any guesses?

Basically Friends

Today's color challenge (my favourite challenge :) )...was Pink Pirouette, Rose Red and Basic Gray...a really nice contrast between soft and deep colors.

My favourite parts here...cutting and popping up images, sponging, overstamping on designer paper, beautiful embellishements, a little coloring and off center alignment on the card :) (what does that say about me?! lol).

The bird and some of the flowers are popped up. My Rose Red ink pad was really juicy today and I must have gotten some of ink on my fingers (don't you hate that!) and it smudged on the oval panel, so I had to add some creative embellishing with the flowers to cover it up....you can just see it in this closeup. Haven't you heard that saying "mistakes are opportunities for embellishment!"

Mom's Flower Garden

Well this card was supposed to be done yesterday for our 20th of the Month Dirty Girl/Dirty Girl Alumni challenge, but there was just no way I could have accomplished it. Our challenge was to put together our new and old favourites to create for our mom or dad or someone significant to us who lives out a special role like that. The other challenge was that the creation not fulfill any design team committment - it was just for fun!

Well, these are Flourishes stamps, but they are my favourite for this technique...and it was just for fun. I've been thinking for a long time about combining a number of Flourishes Florals in one card like a flower garden. My mom loves flowers, and she has a piece of art in her sewing room with these colors that I've long admired and knew at some point I'd incorporate into a creation.

My favourites here? Well, you're not surprised - it's watercoloring :) my bestest medium, my most favouritist (I'm talking like my 5 year old here). But really, there's nothing that gives me more joy artistically. I also love masking, I love my NEW Sizzix Texturz plates (can you believe I didn't add texture to anything until I got my Big Shot?), I also love sponging to give the paper depth, and I love cutting images to give it the out of the box look. All favourites of mine. Oh yeah...and piercing...a happy card is a pierced card!

Thanks for dropping by today...let me know some of your favourites too!

Recipes:

Basically Friends: Stamps: SU - Friends 24-7, Friendly Wheel; Ink: Basic Grey, Pink Pirouette, Rose Red; Paper: Rose REd, Pink Pirouette, Basic Gray, Whisper White, Bella Birds DSP, Walk in the Park DSP; Accessories: Coluzzle, Organza Ribbon, Dimensionals, Sponge, SW Markers, Piercer, Scalloped Oval Punch, Cordoroy Brads

Mom's Flower Garden: Flourishes - Violets, Poppy Patch and Siberian Iris; Ink: Black Stazon, MEllow Moss, Sahara Sand; Paper: Watercolor, Mellow Moss, Sahara Sand, old Bravo Burgundy SU DSP; Accessories: Big Shot, Texturz Plate, Mellow Moss Ribbon, SW Markers, Aqua Painter, Word Window Punch, Sponge, Piercer, Black Brads

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My Favourites