How about an encouragement card for someone who wears neckties?
Supplies: Stamps – Hero Arts, Lawn Fawn, paper – Neenah Classic Crest Solar White, Stampin’ Up! Bermuda Bay, inks – Stampin’ Up! Bermuda Bay, Island Indigo, Pool Party, Tempting Turquoise, VersaFine Onyx Black, embossing powder – Ranger Super Fine Detail clear.
OK, one foot in front of the other here.
Step one in rebuilding inventory of cards for HorseSpirit Arts Gallery – pick a favorite image & color. Make a card.
I found a video on Facebook that shows how quickly and how high the water rose in Ellicott City on May 27, 2018. This camera is UPHILL from where HorseSpirit Arts Gallery is located, looking west towards the parking lot where I usually park (I would be parked at the top of the screen). This is only one of the water sources – the Hudson. The Tiber is on the opposite side of Main Street, and the Patapsco crosses under Main Street at the eastern end.
Not sure if this will work for everyone (I am signed into my Facebook account in another window), but here it is:
Supplies: Stamps – A Muse Artstamps, Hero Arts, paper – Neenah Classic Crest Solar White, Poptone Razzle Berry, Stampin’ Up! Basic Black, inks – Hero Arts Unicorn, Tim Holtz/Ranger Distress Oxide Picked Raspberry, die – Lawn Fawn, embossing powder – Filigree Fine Art Powder white.
The last time I posted a card using this house stamp, I asked for suggestions on how else to color it (I seem to see it as a tan stucco house…ALL.THE.TIME.). Miss Hammie suggested that I try coloring it like the Painted Ladies in San Francisco. Great suggestion. I was prepping for vacation, never executed the idea.
Fast forward to this weekend’s flooding in Historic Ellicott City. Offspring3 told me (on Messenger from Spain…) that I needed to get my house stamp out and create an Ellicott City card.
I stamped the house on watercolor paper using different colors of dye ink, then used an aqua brush to move some of the color around.
Supplies: Stamps – Hero Arts, JustRite, paper – Canson watercolor, Neenah Classic Crest Solar White, Stampin’ Up! Basic Black, Basic Gray, inks – Stampin’ Up! Marina Mist, Pear Pizzazz, Red Riding Hood (retired), Wisteria Wonder, VersaFine Onyx Black, die – Taylored Expressions, embossing powder – Filigree Fine Art Powder clear.
This is from a cute little set by Sunny Studio.
And all I could hear (playing in my head) while working on this card was this:
(I stashed this note in Offspring3’s suitcase as we parted ways on Friday (I flew home, she flew to Spain).)
Supplies: Stamps – Sunny Studio, paper – Neenah Classic Crest Solar White, Stampin’ Up! Basic Gray, Cherry Cobbler, inks – Copic C3, C5, R39, R89, YR68, VersaFine Onyx Black, embossing powder – Ranger Super Fine Detail.
Not sure why Lorenzo the Llama needed to be in a photo for the spit happens card, but that was the design that was in my head.
I added Glossy Accents to the spit drops to make them appear wet.
Supplies: Stamps – Technique Tuesday, paper – Neenah Classic Crest Solar White, Stampin’ Up! Basic Black, Tangerine Tango, Tempting Turquoise, inks – Copic B0000, B02, E23, E33, E51, R81, YR09, Hero Arts Unicorn, VersaFine Onyx Black, dies – Taylored Expressions (photo frame), Technique Tuesday (spit), embossing folder – Provo Craft, embossing powders – Filigree Fine Art Powder white, Ranger Super Fine Detail clear, twine – Stampin’ Up!
I pulled out the Essentials by Ellen’s Rustic Botanicals stamp set to work on a Mother’s Day card.
And got hijacked by this circle stamp that reminds me of sliced citrus fruit.
So, I went with it. Happy. Bright.
Supplies: Stamps – Essentials by Ellen, Hero Arts, paper – Neenah Classic Crest Solar White, Stampin’ Up! Only Orange (retired), YoYo Yellow (retired), inks – Stampin’ Up! Green Galore (retired), Only Orange (retired), YoYo Yellow (retired), VersaFine Onyx Black, embossing powder – Filigree Fine Art Powder clear, twine – We R Memory Keepers.
This looked like a good card to post for a Friday!
Have a good weekend!
Supplies: Stamps – My Favorite Things, Taylored Expressions, paper – My Favorite Things Bundles of Blossoms, Neenah Classic Crest Solar White, Stampin’ Up! Pacific Point, Pool Party, Real Red, inks – Copic B05, E33, R29, Hero Arts Unicorn, VersaFine Onyx Black, dies – Lawn Fawn (stitched hillside), Spellbinders (circle, rectangle), Taylored Expressions (dog), embossing powders – Filigree Fine Art Powder clear, white.
