CR84FN39 Color challenge

Hi all and happy Sunday to you!

I decided to play along this week in the CR84FN color challenge.....I haven't had time do a challenge in quite a while but who can resit these awesome colors! Love using orange, yellow and brown combo's. I like to add a little bit of red when I can sneak it in too...he he!



  I decide to use a new Penny Black stamp for my main image here. It just screamed to be colored using my favorite color combo!


Supplies used: Penny Black 4202L
Hero Arts ST508, Verve sentiment from Harvest Blessings VS-09-036
Assorted brown, orange, cream cardstock
distress inks antique linen, scattered straw, broken china, tumbled glass, brushed corduroy
Marvy & Bic markers: hemp twine & yellow gem


The image was stamped with antique linen distress ink- then I came back over the entire image and colored it in using markers. I used some scattered straw distress ink and a bit of brushed corduroy to make the ground- and used broken china and tumbled glass to make the sky. I really had fun coloring this image- all those little berries/leaves were a blast!! I used a few shades of orange, yellow, a few different browns, and a tiny bit of red.  I don't have very many Copics, so I mainly used my assortment of Marvy markers and (gasp!) some plain old Bic markers. The card base pattern was stamped using a new stamp from Hero Arts/Studio Calico- set ST508, and the sentiment is from Verve. The gem on the little twine bow is yellow...but it didn't show up very well in the picture....darn it! 

I'm loving these colors and the trees here in Wisconsin are in "full fall bloom" right now- they are amazing. Before you know it they will all be falling off and then it will be time to rake them all up.

Thanks so much for stopping bye and have a great day!

Inky Hugs..................................Anne 

The Most Wonderful time of the year....

Happy Sunday everyone!

There's a new fun challenge going on over at the Wee Memories blog this week- the theme is "Holiday Music Inspiration".


I just happened to have a great digi stamp set from Verve called "Winter mittens" that goes along perfectly with one of my favorite holiday songs "The most wonderful time of the year".



I paper pieced the mittens using some Basic Grey paper and also used my white Signo gel pen to add a bit of color- added a little pearl to each mitten as well. The backround was made starting with a pink piece of cardstock and clear embossing the snowflakes- then coming over it with barn door distress ink. The cute winter scene paper is by Basic Grey as well. Used my new EK Success punch for the sentiment and SU border punch as well. The snowflakes are from Stampin up and Hero Arts.

I hope you can all play along with the fun challenge- there are so many options you could do with the many great holiday songs to choose from.

I need to seriously get going on addressing my Christmas cards and getting them ready to mail. We are off this Thursday to New Jersey and New York- I'm getting really excited to go see the big apple for the first time! I hope my mother in law can handle babysitting my son for 4 long days......and yes it's going to be hard to be way from him for that long- I'll miss him terribly.

Thanks for stopping bye and have a great week!

Anne

Religious Easter Card

Hi there stamping friends! Well I've been busy cleaning up my craft area and going through stuff (weeding out the scraps and things that will never get used) and job hunting- so little time to craft lately. Jessie is hosting this weeks challenge over at ISC and it was to make an Easter card. I purchased this fantastic set of stamps from Verve back at Christmas time and finally inked them up to make this card. I'm not a religious person but I know most of the people I send my cards to appreciate these kinds of cards. I also loved the cross as it can easily be used for a sympathy card as well. I used some more of my new Stampin Up designer papers and folded a large paper flower in half and added the pearl. I paper pieced the cross as well.

Other exciting news- I won 2 blog candies this past week also- I'm so excited as I've never won any blog candy before! I won some beautiful papers, ribbons , and stamps from Carol (you must check out her blog she is amazing), and a whole set of Copic glitter markers from Sally's blog too! Wow- I'm feeling awfully lucky- I think I better run and buy a lottery ticket! So I will have to come up with some blog candy of my own soon- my way of saying thanks to all you generous stampers!

Thanks for stopping in and have a great day!  Anne