Summer Card Camp 2011

Color combination:  Week 2

Stamp:  Hero Arts (Large Blossom; Thinking of You)

Paper:  Basic Grey (Out of Print, nook & pantry

Faber-Castell Pitt artist pen big brush (deep scarlet red, orange glaze, light green, permanent green olive)

Twine (colored with copic G14) & Button

Technique:  embossing

 My friend's card for his birthday.  He has a Harley and loves the beach.  He was amazed.
Stamp:  Motorcycle-Stampin' Up digital; Palm tree (a stamp I've had for years)
Ink:  Tumbled glass, scattered straw, frayed burlap distress inks.
Coloring:  colored pencils on palm tree; copic and colored pencils for motorcycle
Technique:  DTP
Paper:  whisper white-stampin' up and other various paper
Hardware:  Stampin' Up kit

 My Dad turned 90 this June...and this was the card I made for the occasion.
Stamp:  Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous "The journey"
Die:  Fancy tags two; Labels Ten
Paper:  Basic Grey

Mama and Daddy's anniversay card.  They've been married 64 years.
Stamps:  Hero Arts "Peeking Posies"
Color:  Colored pencils
Paper:  Basic Grey "Curio"; black & White CS
Baker's Twine

New Cards

 Got this idea from Jennifer McGuire's blog.  I stamped twice and cut some flowers out and mounted them on deminsions.
Stamps:  Flower Burst Pattern/Hero Arts; Holiday Labels #14/WaltzingMouse; Sentiment-MFT
Ink:  Distress Inks-Spiced Marmalade & Rusty Hinge
Die:  Spellbinders Labels Ten
CS:  Whisper White/Stampin'Up

 I tried out the new Faber-Castell big brush artist pens.  Think I'll need to keep playing with these, but I think I like 'em.  I watched a couple of videos on this...Gina K, Jennifer McGuire.
Stamp:  Leaf Cluster/Hero Arts; Friend background/Hero Arts
Ink:  Faber-Castell PITT artist pen big brushes cobalt green 156; permanent green olive 167; scarlet red 118; Old paper/Distress Ink
Die:  Labels Ten
CS:  Aqua Mist/PaperTrey Ink
Ribbon:  Joann's

Boy Gone Fishing

This is the cutest image....I just love that little boy!  My nieces baby wears the same kind of cap, so when I saw "Boy Gone Fishing" from Lili of the valley, I had to have him (along with several others).
Stamp:  Boy gone Fishing/lili of the valley
Paper:  Basic Grey
Pearls:  Hero Arts (colored with copics)
Hardware:  from stash
Sentiment:  handwritten; die-Spellbinders scallop circle

I found this poem somewhere, but thought it was great to describe little boys.

Challange

Simon Says Stamp Challange Blog....I'm in!
Stamp:  Unity/"Together We Bloom" April 2010 Kit of the month
Paper:  Basic Grey/"kioshi (just love these papers)
Ink:  Memento Rich Cocoa; Tim Holtz Distress Ink spiced marmalade
Ribbon/button/floss:  misc. from stash

Couldn't resist the inside of the card......just think it's too cute.  I'm making these cards for my Alanon group, so I changed the Unity stamp (i'll pull you through) to be more appropriate for the senders.

Learning photoshop elements

I'm taking a Elements class with Jessica Sprague.  I did Photoshop a long time ago and am trying the trail of Adobe Photoshop Elements 9 (can't find that link right now, but I'm sure you can google it).  My first assignment was to post a layout to the web...thus.  I'm having a little trouble cause I'm trying elements 9 and she instructing in elements 8, she's on a PC and I'm on a Mac.  Oh well.  I do love a challange.  To post on the web, the size has to be changed from the printable LO (lots of ppi) to web LO.  I'm learning a lot.

My Grandchildren:  Eoin (pronounced Owen); Kyla; Liam.  I love doing digital scrapbooking.  When there's doctor's appointments or other places that I'll be waiting, idle.  I don't have Photoshop Elements yet, but I am getting closer.  In the meantime, I enjoy My Digital Studio from Stampin Up.  Aren't they cutie-pies?!!!