Water Color Splat

Making a Messy Leaf

It's a messy water coloring challenge at Heart 2 Heart challenge.

Found a left over piece of water color paper so used it to cut some

leaves for water coloring. First, water color the leaf and let dry.

Splat some brown on the leaf and score with embossing tool.

Messy leaf ready for card. Get messy and share at Heart 2 Heart.

CTMH Supplies:
B&T Duos: Sangria
Cardstock: Cashmere, Champagne
Stamps: Count Your Blessings
Ink: Cocoa

Water Color Blocking

With Honey, Poppy, & Cocoa

From the challenge at  Color My Heart.

I found a new CTMH challenge: Between the Folds

and decided to give it a try. The challenge this week was watercolor.

Since we don't currently have washi tape I decided to turn it

into a tool. Use your washi tape to block off the area on your

watercolor paper. Then watercolor the blocked off area the colors 

of your choice. I used Poppy and Honey. I used the script block 

in Universal Backgrounds with Cocoa ink to give it some texture.

So, Check out Between The Folds each Tuesday for a new 

CTMH challenge and be sure to challenge yourself 

each week with the Color My Heart Color Dare.

CTMH Supplies:

Cardstock: Cocoa, Watercolor paper

Stamps: Shower Flowers, Victorian Gratitude

Ink: Cocoa, Honey, Poppy

Sketch Time

With Atlantic Hearts

If you're not trying the sketches at Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge 

then you should give it a try. Each week there is a fun and 

challenging sketch. A new sketch comes out each Monday. 

A thank you card using the Sangria paper pack.

I used this sketch for my card. Check out Atlantic Hearts 

for  the new sketch this week and give it a try.

CTMH Supplies:
B&T Duos: Sangria
Cardstock: Kraft, Colonial White
Stamps: Casual Expressions
Ink: Eggplant
Embellishments: Enamel Hearts

Halloween Treat Bags

Get Your Fun Treat Bags 

Fill these with treats for your favorite Trick or Treater

Embossed brown paper bag

Embossed white paper bag

Embossed brown paper bag

Cookie bag

Clear bag hold 2 Hershey bars

In case you missed the workshop you can order the kit for these bags.

See details Here

Color Dare 160

Black, White, Goldrush and Ruby

The Color My Heart challenge this week is a certain challenge.

Floral bouquet with water color splats and textured

goldrush leaves. To texture the leaves just sand the 

cardstock before cutting out Art Philosophy leaves.

Inside of the card

Take the challenge at Color My Heart and share with us.

CTMH Supplies:
B&T Duos: La Vie en Rose
Cardstock: Ruby, White Daisy, Goldrush
Stamps: Hooray Bouquet, Pretty Petals
Ink: Black, Ruby, Goldrush
Embellishments: Sequins

An Artistry Pumpkin

With An Artiste Face

The sketch at Atlantic Hearts was just right for my

Cricut cut Artistry Pumpkin. 

After filling in the polka dots on the Zoe B&T 

with a pencil eraser and sunset ink I cut 

some face parts from the pumpkin faces 

in the Cricut Artiste cartridge. Put it all

together for a Happy Halloween card.

Use this fun sketch to share your creation with us

at Atlantic Hearts.

CTMH Supplies:
B&T Duos: Zoe, Nevermore
Cardstock: Sunset
Stamps: Tasty Terrors, Pumpkin Chevron
Ink: Black, Sunset
Embellishments: Black Fundamental Assortment

Color Dare 159

The Colors of Sangria

Eggplant Pomegranate Poppy Cocoa Desert Sand Champagne

The new Sangria paper pack brings us bright and cheerful colors of Fall.

Also new this Fall is water coloring of all kinds. I wanted to try coloring the

 stamp with the water color paints and stamping on the CS. The challenge

at Color My Heart helped to make this water colored card.

The Sangria paper packs offers a variety of Fall colors to

make this floral stamp fun to paint. Even though the color

challenge does not name a green the paper has a green in it.

So I used New England Ivy ink pad for the green stems on

my stamp. The flowers are Eggplant, Pomegranate, and Poppy.

So, now, it's your turn to share your Sangria creations with us

at Color My Heart.

CTMH Supplies:

B&T Duos: Sangria

Cardstock: Champagne

Stamps: Paper Garden, Sending Love

Ink: New England Ivy, Eggplant, Pomegranate, Poppy, Cocoa

Embellishments: burlap Ribbon

Water Color Paper

Pocket Scrapbooking With Hello Life

Picture My Life Mini Album

It's so much fun creating PML cards for pocket scrapbooking.

The Hello Life stamp set for pocket scrapbooking  makes the

creating easy and fun. Just pick a paper pack, cut some 4 X 6 CS, 

grab your scraps and coordinating ink pads and get ready to create.

Front Cover of Mini Album

I used the Zoe paper pack for my summer mini album.

I used all the ink colors that coordinate with this pack.

Title Page

PML card with place for photo on the side

I will stamps the names of who is in the photo on the

canary streaked spots.

 Heart Today 4 X 6

 Journal PML card with photo on the right

Journal spot made with Artistry Cricut cartridge

 Photo mat made with Artistry Cricut cartridge

 4 X 3 Journal PML card and B&T used for photo mat

 Add photo to one side of 4 X 6 PML card

 Love this arrow points to the next photos 

Two photo spots

Celebrate National Stamping Month with this wonderful stamp 

set and make your own pocket scrapbooking cards. This

stamp set is only available in September. Order yours soon.

Getting Ready for Fall

With Sangria

The new Sangria paper pack has some wonderful

colors of Fall. The purples, oranges, browns, and golds

were just right for this sketch at Atlantic Hearts.

A little zig zag stitching and Pomegranate tipped

flower petals bring this card together.

Use this sketch to make a card to share with us at

Atlantic Hearts.

CTMH Supplies:
B&T Duos: Sangria
Cardstock: Cashmere, Pomegranate, Kraft
Stamps: Say It All
Ink: Cocoa, Pomegranate
Embellishments: Opaques

Coloring Fun

With Markers, Water Colors, and Ink Pads

The coloring challenge at Heart 2 Heart inspired these 3 X 3 gift cards.

Using the stamp set Reindeer Bells I stamped each image with

Archival Black ink. After the ink dried I colored each one with

a different media.

Reindeer and background colored with water color paints.

Packages water colored using ink pads and a wet paint brush.

Santa colored with markers. Face is colored with water color

pencils. Nose and cheeks are also accented with the pencils.

Each card is accented with the bitty icons from Countdown.

Fun to color but more fun to water color.

Share your coloring tips with us at Heart 2 Heart.

CTMH Supplies:
B&T Duos: White Pines
Cardstock: White Daisy, Ruby, Goldrush, Topiary, Desert Sand
Stamps: Reindeer Bells, Countdown
Ink: Topiary, Ruby, Goldrush
Embellishments: Sparkles
Water color paint

Poppy Color Challenge

 Gift Tags for All Occasions

The color challenge at Heart 2 Heart is 5 fun colors from this

 poppy photo: Topiary, Lagoon, Glacier, Sunset, and Cranberry.

For this challenge I made an assortment of gift tags for all occasions

using the gift boxes from Reindeer Bells and water colored with ink pads

For a Housewarming: Lagoon, Glacier, Cranberry

For Christmas: Glacier, Cranberry, Topiary

For a Birthday: Lagoon, Sunset, Topiary

A fun part of making these tags is adding the tiny icons

to enhance the packages. These tiny icons come from 

the stamp set Countdown. 

Now it's your turn to share your "Poppy" creations at Heart 2 Heart

CTMH Supplies:
B&T Duos: Zoe, Scaredy Cat. Snowhaven
Cardstock: Glacier, Cranberry, Topiary, White Daisy
Stamps: Reindeer Bells, Countdown
Embellishments: Bakers Twine

I Just Couldn't Wait

To Play With Water Color Paints

Remember these water color paints. They are CTMH circa 1998.

This was my first water color paint set when I first became a CTMH (DOTS)

consultant. The set has 2 color pallets, a mixing dish, and a water

bottle with brush inside the water bowl. Water Colors for traveling.

So when I saw these cards on Amy's Art From The Heart 

I just had to give it a try. Since my paints aren't here yet 

I dug out my 1998 set and went to work.

I cut some water color paper 4 X 5.25 and used my CTMH 

brush to swipe come colors on the bottom of the water color paper. 

After it was dry, I attached some B&T, stamped a greeting from 

Hello Life that coordinated with the paint color. The best part

is the doodling. I tried some different doodle designs that we

doodled in 1998. Doodling was popular in 1998 and now it's back.

After the art piece was finished I attached to a standard card base.

Thanks Amy, You're always an inspiration!

CTMH Supplies:
B&T Duos: La Vie En Rose
Cardstock: White Daisy, Water Color Paper
Ink: Canary, Sky, Lagoon, Cotton Candy, Black
Water Color Paints circa 1998

Hello Life - Pocket Scrapbooking

Welcome Summer

You all know how crazy I am for pocket scrapbooking. 

Each little pocket card is like a mini craft creation 

and a fun way to use scraps. When my  "Hello Life" 

stamp sets arrived this is the one I played with first. 

Ashley, Carrie, Laney, and Zach at Mission bay on their paddle boards.

Had so many pictures so pocket scrapbooking came in handy. This page 

has more photos and pocket cards on the back and it will be the center

page between a two page layout titled "Away We Go"

This "Hello Life" pocket scrapbooking stamp set is easy

and fun to use. I made a Welcome Summer mini album which

I will post later. I intend to make one for Autumn, Winter, and Spring

using this same stamp set. If you like pocket scrapbooking you

will want this stamp set. Don't forget it's only available this month.

CTMH Supplies:

B&T Duos: Zoe

Cardstock: White Daisy

Stamps: Hello Life

Ink: Canary, Glacier, Slate, Black. Thistle

Design #3 Memory Protector

Oh, Hey

The Ladies are Back

Lovin' these ladies from the new Artistry Cricut cartridge.

They really like hangin' out on this branch from Artfully Sent Border Card.

And of course.. a few Artistry clouds hangin' around.

National Stamping Month presents the 

Hello Life Card making stamp set. 

Paper Garden Water Color

A Fun Water Coloring Technique

I used the CTMH directions that were used on the SOTM Card in the 

New Holiday Expressions page 33. A few exceptions: I don't have my 

water color paints yet so after stamping the image on Whisper CS 

with Whisper ink I colored the image with my water color pencils. 

I used the new CTMH water color brushes to blend the pencil colors. 

CTMH Supplies:

B&T Duos: Nevermore

Cardstock: Colonial White, Whisper, Thistle

Stamps: Paper Garden, Victorian Gratitude

Ink: Thistle

Water Color: Pencils

Embellishments: Thick Twine, Enamel Hearts