Periwinkle Blossoms with Concord & 9th

 Hello!  I felt like colouring something really special this week, so I pulled out an older set from Concord & 9th called Blended Petals.  I chose not to use the stencil, and instead pulled out my Copics and some coloured pencils to bring it to life.  

I chose to go monochrome, even adding in blues to the greenery.  Then I created tone on tone texture and colour in the embossing folder, dies, and accents, including a little strip of glittery periwinkle paper.  

Love how it turned out!  I’m eagerly anticipating flowers this Summer...maybe not periwinkle coloured...but beautiful regardless!  

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Periwinkle Blossoms with Concord & 9th

Oh Happy Day with RAM Stamps

 

Hello!  How about a cuteness overload?  I’ve got this adorable little Balloon Girl from RAM Stamps today, and she’s just darling!  She has the cutest little dress, which is where the inspiration came from to create the feeling of eyelet for the background.  

I took strips of cardstock in white, Tidepool and Juniper (from Concord & 9th), and pulled out some of my older Spellbinders Dies to create eyelet sections, then I ink blended in varying layers to give the feeling of ombre and distressed colour.  

She’s coloured up with Copics, and I gave her a cute little scalloped frame.  

The die cut sentiment is from Concord & 9th, and I inked a few wood veneer stars with white ink to accent.  I think she’s really sweet!  

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Oh Happy Day with RAM Stamps

The Sweetest Surprise with RAM!

 

Hello!  I’m back after a month away on a combined work mission trip to Romania and a dream trip with my husband through Europe!  It was a truly amazing experience on all levels.  And I’ve come back today with a little surprise!  Before I left for Europe, Rachelle of RAM Stamps (Rachelle Anne Miller) connected to ask if I’d be interested in joining her design team!  With the sweetest storybook style illustrations and the ability to colour them to life on cards, it was an easy decision for me.  So, today we’re kicking things off with the new November Release of images!  This precious cutie is called Santa’s Little Helper.  

I started by colouring her up with Copics, and finishing the details with coloured pencils and a white gel pen.  Isn’t she darling with her little pup reindeer?  After die cutting the image out, I placed her on a striped background of cardstock colours to coordinate.  

With a few die cut snow accents and some sparkly sequins she’s ready for gift giving, and looks adorably festive in the process.  

I’m excited to show you more RAM designs in the future!  Here’s my affililate link if you’d like to go shopping,  I appreciate your support!  

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The Sweetest Surprise with RAM!

Hummingbird Harmony with Crafty Meraki

Hi There!  I have a project that I haven’t shown yet which I created for the latest Crafty Meraki Release.   It uses two new stamp sets called Hummingbird Harmony and its coordinating die, and Flower Fest Stamps with its coordinating dies.  I took a selection of beautiful tropical flowers from the set, and a little bitty hummingbird and coloured them up with Copics using lots of saturated colour.  

After adding some shimmery pen to the hummingbird, I arranged the flowers on an ink blended cardbase and frame, popping up some elements for lots of dimension. 

All that was left was some iridescent sequins to add to that sense of shimmer.  It’s a burst of tropical colour for the last days of Summer.  

Thanks for joining me!

 

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Hummingbird Harmony with Crafty Meraki

My Mama the Seamstress with TCP

 

Hi!  I hope your Labour Day was great (if you’re in North America).  One of my core memories as a kid was that of my Mom sewing.  She was a gifted seamstress, and had that as a job full time or part time throughout her life.  I can’t tell you how many garments she sewed for me or for our kids over the years.  She was so gifted at it.  I remember her teaching me and her favourite phrase was “rip it out”.  It always mattered to her that I did it right.  She was always dressed beautifully and almost always something she had sewn.  

So this cute design is in honour of her.  It uses a new digi set from TCP called One Stitch.  It features all kinds of textile arts, embroider, crochet, knitting and sewing.  I coloured the image up with Copics, with some coloured pencil blending added.  

 I used a lot of fun colours to coordinate with this pretty plaid paper, and added little stitching themed dies and buttons from retired TCP dies.  She’s definitely got her fashion on!  

And, just like my Mom - a “you’re amazing” sentiment.  She truly was, and I miss her greatly!  Glad to have a sweet memory of her to celebrate with you today!

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My Mama the Seamstress with TCP

Beautiful Floral Note with The Stamp Market

I’m excited to show you a few of the goodies I picked up recently from The Stamp Market!  Their style is really clean and graphic and they have some really creative ideas.  This beauty which just had to get in my cart is such a pretty and large blossom called Floral Note.  I decided to go really deep and rich with this one and pick a very moody palette - coloured up with Copics.  

I fussy cut the design out, added in a few extra teal blossoms popped up and then placed it on a deep teal background, which I had already added in some coordinating 1/2” and 1/4” cardstock strips cut withdies from The Stamp Market as well.  I think it ties the colours together so nicely.  

The sentiment is included in the set, accented with my go to enamel dots.  I also added in some white gel pen to the flower stamens to help them pop.  Gorgeous floral isn’t it?  

 

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Beautiful Floral Note with The Stamp Market

The Bunny is a HS Grad with TCP

 

Hello!  Today I’ve got a High School Graduation to celebrate.  Our niece is graduating and I thought it would be fun to create a card to celebrate her with new TCP Goodies!  Our favourite bunny is created with a new set called Change the World!  I looked up her High School colours and used them as my guide for the whole card.  So, he’s got a maroon cap and gown, and I drew in a little big of his hood with a Copic Multiliner pen.  

A lot of the design is just paper striping, including a fun sentiment banner from a retired TCP die and stamp, gold embossed on the banner.  I also added some cute wood veneer stars to the design giving them a bit of Copic colouring to coordinate with his brown bunny fur.  

I think she’ll get a kic out of it.  He’s definitely cute and ready to celebrate!  

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The Bunny is a HS Grad with TCP

Zesty Cards for TCP May!

Oh I’m just overflowing with joy to bring you the new cards for TCP’s May Release!  Seriously, there are SO many fun new digital sets that are so fun and full of delight, I’m going to have a hard time limiting myself this month!  Today, I have two fun designs for you that are both colourful and punny!  

We’ll kick it off with these wonderful lemons called Cute Citrus or Not.  What I love about this one is that it has cute kawaii style images with cute little faces - or you can go the route I went and use the fruit without the faces.  So, the lemon branch with blossoms is what I chose to work with.  I LOVE fruit images!  It has lots of vibrant lemony Copic colouring with some added pointillims dots to give you the texture of the fruit.  

After colouring, I trimmed the image out and placed it on a watercolour panel that I painted a pretty teal and green watercolour background.  it really makes the lemons pop!  

Then its a few enamel dots and a punny sentiment from another new set called Citrusly that is HILARIOUS in it’s punny sentiments.  

Next it’s a little more earthy...with these cuties called So Mushroom! 

For this mini-slimline design I printed the mushrooms stacked behind each other in a row so that I could  colour them with Copics and trim the out.  I placed the trio on a gold foiled woodgrain background to capture that cozy forest floor feeling.   

I added a retired TCP die grass border to anchor the image and really give you the feeling of dimension between the mushrooms.  The sentiment is a cute one for a husband, son or guy friend, and a woodgrain arrow accent accents it just right.  

 

Thanks for popping by, and I hope you had as much fun as I did checking out these new stamps!  Here’s a peek at the new sets below. 

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Zesty Cards for TCP May!

Slimline Bouquet Duo with Crafty Meraki

 

Hi Friends!  I’ve had such fun with today’s cards from Crafty Meraki!  This week we’re focusing on Slimline designs and I chose to work with the amazing mega stamp Birthday Bouquet, which is so big and beautiful you can create 2 mini slimlines from one stamp.  So, I have two designs to show you again today.  

I started by colouring the gorgeous florals with Copics and coloured pencils in a fun coral and purple palette, then cut the image down the middle and fussy cut the image out.  I focussed on a different colour background for each card.  For this design its all about gold and green accents.  I added a rich green background with intricate detail from the Mini Slimline Parisienne Para-Dies.  

Then to give it some glitz and glamour I added sparkly gold paper die cut with the Olive Leaf Para-Dies,  and then a bold gold foiled sentiment with Meraki Moments Hugs Hot Foil Plate and Die.  

For a little more glam, I completed the design with gold sequins.  

Next I created a mini-slimline easel fold with the other half of the coloured image.  

For this design I showcased the beautiful coral colour in the background.  To create the easel, I cut the cardstock to be 6 1/4 x 8 1/2, and scored on the long side of the cardstock at 3 1/2 and 7.   Then I cut a number of coral die cuts from the Olive Leaf Para-Dies, ink blending them with soft purple, then placing them throughout the card base as a backdrop for the flowers.

  

I added a sentiment from the stamp set, as well as an enamel heart to be the “stopper” for the easel.  A few enamel dots accent the sentiment.  It’s a fun explosion of colour!  

Appreciate you joining me today!  

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Slimline Bouquet Duo with Crafty Meraki

Garden Paths with Concord & 9th

 

Hello!  I just love pretty floral stencils!  Today’s design from Concord & 9th is such a charming one called Garden Path Bundle which incorporates both the stencil and coordinating sentiments that fit in the “pathway”.  It is all things Spring and beautiful, so I had to go with a pretty Spring palette of soft corals and soft blue greens together.  So delightful!  

To keep some detail in the stencil, I added in details with coloured pencils and then used Concord & 9ths Quilted Card Front Die to add texture to the design.  

Just a few enamel dots complete this really clean and simple (but oh so darling) card design!  Thanks for stopping by!  

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Garden Paths with Concord & 9th

Hydrangea Hi with Power Poppy

Hi!  Today I’m bringing you a Spring beauty from Power Poppy from the Hydrangea Hype digital stamp.  It’s just such a gorgeous blossom!  Blue hydrangeas are always my favourite, so I couldn’t help but colour them in blue-purple to soft green shades.  

Then to coordinate the background to the card, and the ombre style I coloured the letters, I ink blended the background of the circle card in blue to green shades, with some white acrylic paint splatters.  A pretty die shape accents the shape of the blossom branch.  

 

Just a couple of enamel dots accent the top of the design.  Clean, crisp, simple and full of vibrant Spring colour!   

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Hydrangea Hi with Power Poppy

A Crafty Meraki Surprise!

Well,  Hi there!  Today I’ve got a sweet surprise for you!  I was asked to hop along with Crafty Meraki’s  #MerakiCheer New Release of 5 gorgeous new pattern papers to play with!  And if you follow along on the hop on Instagram you could have a chance to win these delightful papers!  So, please pop on over to my instagram account @christinecreationsart and follow the hop with the instructions.  I’d love to see you win!

Today I’m playing with the new Rainbow Reverie patterned paper and a beautiful stamp called Reason to Smile.  It’s a gorgeous floral arrangement that was a delight to colour no-line style with Copics and coloured pencils to coordinate with this awesome pastel rainbow patterned paper.  It feels so springy!  

I die cut the image out with the coordinating Crafty Meraki Reason to Smile Para-Dies and used foam dots to pop it up on the patterned paper which I die cut a white frame to showcase the florals.    Then I stamped the sentiment layers with coordinating inks and added them to the bottom corner.  A few enamel dots in the matching blues accent the design.  

Smile friends!  You are beautiful!  Thanks to Crafty Meraki for letting me play along today!    

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A Crafty Meraki Surprise!

Happy Day Florals with Alex Syberia

Hi There!  Today I’m bringing you another oh so lovely floral from Alex Syberia Designs.  It’s another Digital Image from them with such amazing colouring potential!   Because they are in the process of moving, I can’t locate the design on the shop, but it’s called Flower Garden Card Panel.  

One of the things I’m loving lately is finding unique colour palettes, whether through other cards I’m inspired by or products I see, and then swatching them with Concord & 9th’s colours so I have an inspiration jumping off point for cards.  This was a fun one with the warm shades on the petals and the cool shades in the leaves.  

I’ve combined Copic colouring with coloured pencils to finihs off the design.  Because the flowers are so vibrant I wanted them to take centre stage, so I added a small sentiment from Concord & 9th’s cutie patootie dies Short and Sweet.  They are stacked 3 x to get some added height, and then it’s really simple embellishments to accent the sentiment, and coordinate with the colours.  

All layered on a 3D embossed card base with Spellbinder’s Embossing Folder.  

It’s a great day to have a happy day!  

 

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Happy Day Florals with Alex Syberia

Inky Blossoms with Alex Syberia

Hello!  I hope you’ve had a great day today!  Do you ever rediscover a technique after not using it for a while?  The most recent Instagram Challenge at Simon Says Stamp is ink blending, and I’d forgotten how wonderful it is for adding colour blends, especially with emboss resist!  

I started this lovely design with Alex Syberia’s digital stamp Full Bloom (from May 2020).  Coloured up the blooms with Copics and coloured pencils.  

 

Next, I tooks the background stamp from Simon Says Stamps called Lace Heart Kaleidoscope embossed it in white and then used ink shades that coordinated with the colouring to create an ombre background.  I love the pops of colour and blends between the colours, and it makes such a nice background for the card.  I also cut a few Big Branches: Ruscus Die from The Greetery onto white cardstock to ink blend as accents.  The leaves coordinate well with the stamped design.  

I also foiled a pretty sentiment onto vellum from Spellbinders Slimline Confetti Background doing some fussy cutting to trim it out.    

Vibrant and saturated.  Just how I love my flowers!  Thanks for joining me today.  

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Inky Blossoms with Alex Syberia