Happy Mother's Day (a wee bit early)

Blogger has thrown me for a loop. I'm still getting used to the re-design of posting, but this too shall pass.
Below are my Mother's Day Cards for my Mom and my SO's Mom. Hopefully neither will peek at my blog before Sunday.
For both cards, i've used paper from Graphic 45 & Club Scrap Celestial & Concrete Jungle Kits. 
The Silhouette was (oddly enough) cut on my Silhouette from an image I found online and traced as was the oval cut out and oval frame.

 

I'm submitting this first one for the following challenges:
PP94 (The Paper Players Challenge Blog) - In Celebration of Mother's
MMSC 138 (Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge Blog) - Sketch
PPA134 (Pals Paper Arts Blog) - colors: Calypso Coral, Baha Breeze & So Saffron
   

          

Here's the 2nd one...similar but different and using the same papers and shapes, etc.

  

Way late in posting this

My sister had a birthday last week and altho i sent my card on time, i didn't get a chance to post it in a timely fashion. She is an avid bike rider and I thought this was perfect for her. I took inspiration from several different google images and it came together almost exactly as I had envisioned (which never happens!).
I used an actual map of California (where she lives) and the rest of the papers are from Club Scrap kit called "Expressions". The girl on the bike image is a shape I actually purchased from the Silhouette online store. I cut it out of white paper (with my silhouette) and then inked it with black soot distress ink and sprayed with perfect pearl water mixture. I made the card into a z-fold with a window so the girl would pop off the front. She is mounted onto a transparency that was also cut with the silhouette. I found the quote online and built everything else around it. I just love it and it was soooo perfect for a cyclist!

Happy birthday sis. I love you and miss you bunches. Can't wait til we ride together again. kiss kiss.

Color Throwdown & Club Scrap Sketch

Details will be brief as its getting late. I'll update the post later, i promise.

Sketch is from my sister Jen via a Club Scrap Challenge she hosts.
Colors inspired by Color Throwdown (#188).

Papers from Club Scrap Kits: Birds of a Feather, Private Eye, Lotus Pond. Hero Arts Stamps (zig zag and dots and flowers). Flowers, leaves and edge cut on Silhouette.

Play Date with the Squirrel Girls

I combined a couple challenges with this "no particular occasion" card. Nancy at Squirrely Art tasked us squirrel girls with trying the TJ technique called cascading images and Play Date Cafe offered up a beautiful & bright color challenge this week (PDCC128). Instead of "cascading" my images, i decided to stamp and mask the bike wheel several times to create a frame. I used a white card base with an bright orange panel from the Club Scrap kit "Salsa" and a Flamingo Pink panel from the Club Scrap kit "Dream In Color". The bike and sentiment stamps are from the Club Scrap Kit called "Wheel & Sprocket".

Along with white

this week's suggested colors are:

Creative Chemistry 101 Day 8

• Paint Dabber Resist Technique
• Crackle Paint Resist Technique
• Shattered Stains Technique
  
  
  
  
Club Scrap stamps from Nature's Wonders, Versailles, Dashing, Papillon

Creative Chemistry 101 Day 6

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Creative Chemistry 101 Day 7

• Nostalgic Batik Technique
• Rusted Enamel Technique
• Distress Powder Resist Technique

Club Scrap stamps from Raku, Comfort Zone & Versailles kits

Creative Chemistry 101 Day 5

I don't own any kraft resist, so I made do with what I do have which is a wonderful paper stack from DCWV called Ciao Bella (which has varnished accents on many of the pages).

For stamping with stains, i wasn't getting very good results with my picket fence stain but i'm using what came out of it anyway. Marbled stains wasn't very cooperative with me either, but i think the way the stains play on the surface of the paper depends greatly on the paper you're using, but I refuse to buy "specialty stamping paper"...seems ludacrous to me. Guess i'm cheap.

• Stained Kraft Resist Technique
• Stamping with Stains Technique
• Marbled Stains Technique

Creative Chemistry 101 Day 4

Happy with the two flower ones. HATE the other HM (hot mess). I should have used a mask rather than a stencil on the 3rd, but too late in the evening for me and i have to work tomorrow :(.

• Watercoloring with Re-inkers Technique
• Layered Misting Technique
• Custom Stamp Pad Technique

Love and Patience sentiment & rose from Club Scrap

Sunflowers (or whatever they are) are from Impression Obsession

Crown and aztec sun & art are from Club Scrap stencils.

Creative Chemistry 101 Day 2 & 3

Day 3: Today is the first chance I've had to play. I made a 2 versions of 2 of the techniques shared. Didn't like the middle one enough to do it again and I didn't really have the proper stuff.

• Alcohol Ink Agates Technique
• Archival Resist Technique
• Stamping with Reflections Technique

Club scrap stamps used on left 2 and middle. Not sure who is the designer/manufacturer of the ones on the right.

Day 2:

• Blended Spritz & Flick Technique
• Brushless Watercolor Technique
• Wrinkle-Free Distress Technique