Distress Water coloring

Hello!!

I'm pre-posting today because I'm still hanging out with the ohana.  I have a couple of water color Distress ink cards to share.  Seeing these cute backgrounds on Eva's blog (Hi Eva!) really inspired me to give it a try for a quick and easy background.  Thanks again for the inspiration Eva!!

This first one uses some fun Spring like colors.

I added the kawaii stars from The Greeting Farm a grouping of stars from La-La Land Crafts, and a Walter & Winnie sentiment.  All were inked with black Versafine ink and embossed with clear powder.  Here's the inside, just a simple detail, but totally cute and fun!

I'll write a message in white with my new white gel pen.  The next one is a simple Congrats card I made for one of my co-workers who just celebrated her 25th anniversary!!  Dang!!  I hope I'm there that long.  (lol)  She likes pastel colors and Hello Kitty so thought this was a fun card for her.

Sorry about the picture, I took it at work prior to giving her the card.  I added some of my enamel flowers and found that cute HK with a paint brush in my stash.  Thought it looked like HK just finished painting that.  haha!  I used another Walter and Winnie sentiment with Versamark and wet embossed it.  Loved the pretty brush strokes.  Sorry no picture of the inside, I just printed a nice sentiment on some paper and adhered to the inside.

Definitely going to do this kind of cardmaking again.  They make great quick cards for any occasion. Thanks again Eva for all the inspiration!!

Okie dokes, have a great Saturday doing something fun and relaxing!  Thanks for stopping by!

Challenges: TGF FFF - Spring colors

Happy Easter - Part 4

(Yes this is part 4 don't worry it's the last one. You can view the other three by scrolling down)

Hello!

How's everyone doing?  I'm wrapping up the rest of the Easter projects and getting ready to start on some swap projects and birthday projects.  Hopefully I'll be able to get to some graduation projects as well.  Oy so many things on the list, if I didn't have a full time job I think I could tackle them all, isn't that what we all say?! hahaha!

Anyhoos, here are the last of my Easter projects using the soon to be retired Easter Bun collection from Kitty Bee Designs. Get them while you still can.

First up is a tag using this adorable Sleeping Bunny Easter Basket 

I attached it to a green and white polka dot bag.

The next two are small cards using another cute Kitty Bee Designs image, Easter Egg Bunny.

Since this is a digital image I flipped the image to face the other direction.  See that pretty Easter egg paper? Yep it's the same one from the last post. I bought just one 12x12 sheet of it and I'm trying to use it up for all the projects.

 

This is the last one using a Kitty Bee Design image, Easter is Here Bunny and for this card I used some older pattern paper and a hardly used Spellbinder die. 

I thought this sentiment was funny, so I added it to the card front.  Don't the ovals around the die look like eggs?

I had a little bit of that Easter egg paper left and made this card using recycled cardboard from a box of Yo-Bo candy...

The Happy Easter sentiment is actually part of the paper, I fussy cut the HK and the Hello Kitty words from the box.  Glad I saved it, it really pays to recycle sometimes. :)

 

Well I hope that wasn't too boring for you.  It's time to put away the Easter supplies and get ready for the new projects that are waiting.  Thanks a lot for stopping by, I hope you were inspired.  Wishing you all a safe and happy Easter Sunday, until next year.. 

LAISA

Hello!

Thanks for stopping by today.  I had a friend at work who commissioned me to create a set of letters for one of her friends who was having a baby shower.  She asked for the name LAISA (pronounced Lah-ee-sah), Hello Kitty and the colors pink and green.  Here was my photo inspiration:

Here's what I came up with (apologies in advance for the bad photos, I took them at work):

 Here are close-ups of the letters (thank goodness these were a lot clearer):

 

I used 3 different types of embossing folders, 5 different types of cardstock, including two different patterned papers.  I used an old Sizzix die to create the Hello Kitties.  The wood chip butterflies are from Recollections.  The letters themselves were purchased from Michaels.  I used Mod Podge to glue and seal the paper to the wood and then used a Glossy sealant spray to give it a nice shine.  The ribbons and butterflies were then glued on last.  It's been while since I attempted one of these and I"m proud to say it only took me a couple hours to put together and longer to dry.  The best thing about the whole process was when I showed it to my friend, she said, "It turned out just how I pictured it would!"  I was over the moon!  Love it when a customer is happy with the results.  I have another set of letters that I need to work on, but the name isn't as short, I guess that's why it's taking me so long to finish.  Oy vay! 

Thank you for stopping by!  Hope you have a terrific day and I might have something to share again tomorrow.  Not sure yet.  lol!

Hugs,
Leanne