Beautiful Bouquets Dahlias

Playing around with my new Wplus9 Beautiful Bouquets Dahlia stamp. I embossed the image in white and coloured it in loosely with my ZIG's. I added a few clear sequins and called it done. I love this image and I can't wait to try it out with different kinds of watercolours and Copics.





I am submitting this to the Simon Says Stamps Wednesday Challenge: Make it Girlie!

Have a wonderful day!

WPlus9 Birthday Celebration Week 1 - -Comfort Zone

Right in at the tail end of WPlus9 Birthday Celebration week 1 challenge.  IMy favourite WPlus9 stamp set is Fresh Cut Florals, but for some reason I was always having difficulty lining up my images.  I went back to a post Dawn did on lining the images up and it helped so much. So my card is actually a CASE of Dawn's card, dangerously close to a copy. So credit where credit is due. It is really hard to perfect--perfection.

The challenge was to create a card based on our own comfort zone.  My comfort zone is CAS and although but if you notice that my design is also clean and layered--that is my alter-ego!  LOL  I love a white palette and lots of breathing room in my designs.  With the Fresh Florals stamp set I love to play, I love using the die cut and adding layers of ink.  So this may not be CAS it is definitely in my comfort zone.





Have a great weekend.

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Happy Birthday Kara Blog Hop

Happy Birthday Kara!

This hop's for you...

If you know Kara, of Kandrdesigns, you know that she is super talented, sweet, kind and extremely artistic. She is not afraid to get messy and her designs are always executed beautifully.  Kara was one of my first blog crushes! I always enjoyed going to her blog for inspiration and I still do! You may also be familiar with Kara's Friday Inspiration Files, like Joyce said a great source of inspiration. Over the past couple of years I have had the opportunity to get to know Kara while working on colourQ and currently The 12 Kits of Occasions!  

Joyce from cards-by-the-sea, has organized this blog hop for you Kara.  So sit back, grab a coffee, a slice of cake and enjoy going through your cards and most importantly have a very happy birthday my friend!

Here is a list of all the participants:

Joyce

Cathy

Christina

Jeanne

Jill

Kelly G.

Kelly S.

Kim

Leigh

Lisa

Lynn

Marybeth

Michelle

Nancy

Renee

Sharron

Tracey (that's me)

Cardstock:  White, Aqua Mist (Papertrey Ink)

Stamps: Fanciful Feathers (WPlus9)

Ink:  Hawaiian Shores, Winter Wisteria (Papertrey Ink) Memento Tuxedo Black (Tsukineko)

Dies: Tag Sale 5 (Papertrey Ink) Fanciful Feathers (WPlus9) Sentiment Flag (Lil' Inkers)

other: aqua twine, burlap, foam tape

Cloud 9 Blog Hop - February & Cards Blog Challenge

Very excited to be able to participate in my very first Cloud 9 Blog Hop.

This month we were given this inspiration photo:

I am also entering this into the Cards Magazine Blog Challenge.

and this is what I came up with.

Cardstock:  Kraft, White, Aqua Mist, Sweet Blush, Hawaiian Shores, Pure Poppy (Papertrey Ink)
Patterned paper: Raspberry Fizz Patterned paper pack (PTI)

Stamps: A Pocketful: Valentines
Ink:  True Black (PTI)
Dies: Parisian Doily (PTI)
other: foam tape