Papertrey July Blog Hop Challenge

Blog Hop

Wow where have I been...finishing homeschool, going to a conference, going to Oregon, and because I'm 38 weeks prego taking naps when I used to create!  I'm sure I will have another MIA time when our little surprise arrives. I was happy to get to join today!

Here was our lovely inspiration photo:

I was inspired by the triangles, colors, and gold accents:

I dry embossed a triangle background, painted 'happy' with a little gold paint, then added gold sequins or thread.

Supplies:

One Big Happy set

Thanks for stopping by and happy hopping!

Noelle

SAF 2016: Starry Night

Papertrey Ink is such a fun company. It's time for their Stamp-a-faire day! I had grand plans of getting a babysitter and participating this year...finally...then life happened. We have two parties to attend this afternoon. But before the kids got up this morning I got to squeeze in the Starry Night challenge:

I ink blended, splattered water, silver and white paint as Amy showed us.

Then added black silhouettes (inspired by one of Betsy's recent cards) and sentiments. 

What a fun project and I enjoyed learning more about Van Gogh while creating.

Supplies:

Petite Places Mountain dies

Life is Beautiful stamp set

One Big happy set

Star sequins from Shakers and Sprinkles kit

Have a great Stamp-a-fair day!

I hope to play catchup and join in more challenges later.

Noelle

Papertrey May Blog Hop Challenge

May 2016 Blog Hop

Here is our lovely inspiration photo:

Its soft watercolors and popsicles just make me smile =)

I've always wanted to take a watercolor class, maybe one day! For now I'm glad I have cute stamps to help me 'cheat watercolor' =)

I used my PTI inks, Fancy That set, Folded Tag Die, and my Summer Sweetness set (the first PTI set I every bought!) to make a set of tags:

a little card:

and my daughter made a card too:

Happy hopping!

Noelle

MAKE IT MONDAY #248

INK BLENDING THROUGH DIE CUT MASKS

Trying to sneak this in before I need to go make dinner =)

Oh ink blending...defiantly need more practice with this!

I did some partial die cutting at the top. My stencil was made from 'Life is Beautiful' and ink blended with Summer Sunrise and Berry Sorbert. The sentiment is from 'Graceful Greetings'

I was happy to get to spend a little time crafting!

Hope you get to too!

Noelle

Make It Monday #247

WATERCOLORED CARD SETS

Melissa wowed me with how she used the watercolor sheets! What beautiful cards she made. And she had a neat way of watercoloring.

I recently bought my self big-girl watercolors...bye Crayola =) So I wanted to practice with those:

I tried two no-line watercoloring cards and two I clear embossed and then filled in with watercolores. My lovely stamp is from the 'Fancy That' set and my card base was made with the Quilted die.

Happy Mother's Day!

Hope you have a great week.

Noelle