Digital welcome

Hi everyone,

Today I have a double page digital scrapbook layout.

The layout on the first page is from a class I took at Jessica Sprague.com called photoshop friday #3, I really love her classes and templates.

Then I modified the same template to make the second page:

All the papers and elements are from the Springtime collection from echo park co. papers.

For those of you who can read french here's the journaling :

7 octobre 2009 18h09, 8 h de contractions, 1 épidurale, 40 min de poussées, 8 lbs et 8 oz d'amour, 21 ¼ pouces de délicatesse, ma précieuse petite fille, TOI.

Have a nice stampin' day !!!

sitting amongst the tulips

Hi everyone,

Today, I got to play with a different color combo: perfect plum, dark pink and fluorescent green. My inspiration was the polka-dot paper in the background. This is my last Easter card made for a customer and I'm itchin' to move on to another theme. It was fun while it lasted but I'm so done with it now :-)

 

The girl image is a Magnolia stamp borrowed from my friend Angelle and the bench and flowers are two of my own stash, all from Magnolia. I love the fact that they have sitting characters that are separate from other elements making it easy to layer the images. The tulips were stamped directly on the white CS and the bench and girl were stamped separately, colored, than cut out.

When coloring the hair, I ran into some problems with my brown Copic marker so the left side of her hair is a little bit muddled. Instead of fiddling around with it by using the colorless blender, I decided to leave it alone. I'm going to investigate to see if other people have had a similar problem... it seems that my E49 started pooling on the paper but only after I've finished coloring the bench and the right side of the hair. hmm.... So this image is entirely colored with Copics except for the shadows under the bench and the grass line -- those were done with Prismacolor pencils and OMS.

I accented the stamped flowers on the hat by adding 3 punched flowers out of my homemade glitter paper and added a rhinestone in the middle. This card is definitely very dimensional.

This is how I've added the sentiment inside the card. It's from Stampin' Up!'s Well Scripted set. I added some rhinestones for interest.

Have a nice stampin' day !!!

color Q flowers

Hi everyone,

Today I decided to play along with the Color Q challenge # 76, here are the colors I had to use:

Here's my creation:

A very simple card. Whenever I do a lot of coloring, I always love to keep the layout very basic and the card clean, because it emphasise even more the hard work I put in it...

I stamped this flower pot from a gift for you hostess level 1 stamp set from SU! in brown stazon on watercolor paper and then simply added life by using my watercolor wonder crayons and an aquapainter.

Have a nice stampin' day !!!

congratulations

Hi everyone,

Sometimes I feel the need to do monochromatic work. But monochromatic doesn't have to be boring. I quite like the big polka dot paper -- it's fresh and funky! 

The house stamp, though, was too uni-dimensional to me. So I first stamped it with Pear Pizzazz ink on Pear Pizzazz cardstock. Then I stamped the same image with VersaMark ink and embossed it in white. By cutting out just the houses and adhering it over the 1st stamped image with Stampin' Dimensionals, it brought the image to life.

A few rhinestones and Poppy Parade ribbon brings the eye directly to the focal image. It came together in a snap!

Have a nice stampin' day !!!

little easter egg girl

Hi everyone,

Another Easter card for you today. This is a little Magnolia girl and I love her so much. I kept it simple because I wanted the image to be the focus.

The paper in the background is from Stampin' Up!'s Nursery Suite Specialty DSP but I thought the little bunnies were so appropriate for an Easter card. The ruffle around the image is actually a retired ribbon that's glued from behind with a hot glue gun.

The image is almost entirely colored with Prismacolor pencils. Of course, I added a bit of Dazzling Diamonds Glitter.

Have a nice stampin' day !!!

X-mas !!

Hi everyone,

Today I cased myself and used the same layout as for this page. Since the photos were kind of busy, I kept the pages very clean and simple.

Have a nice stampin' day !!!

Card for a Friend

Hi everyone,

Once in a while, you make a card that you're really proud of.  I really like to make cards with a white background --  I don't do it often enough.

The starting point was to white emboss the script image (Tim Holtz "Shabby French") on watercolor paper. Then I added blobs of Distress ink in Bundled Sage on an acrylic stamping block, spritzed it with water and stamped over my whole piece of watercolor paper. I love that effect. 

The leaves and butterfly (Stampin' Up!'s Great Friend stamp set) were stamped using a mix of Vintage Photo, Peeled Paint and Wild Honey and some water. Another great effect! I saw this technique on the Hero Arts website this week. The stamped sentiment is also from Great Friend.

Here's a close-up of the butterfly. Because the butterfly a little lost amidst the leaves and background, I took a marker and went around it. I also added some pearls for a softer look. 

Have a nice stampin' day !!!