B is for Bird on a Branch with a Bow

Want a chance to win a $25 gift certificate to Purple Onion Designs? There's a challenge blog called Catered Crop with "recipe swaps". The recipe this week is to feature items that start with the letter B on your project.

Here's my card featuring Peep. My three B's are Bird, Branch, and a Bow.

All the images were colored with Copics and I attached the Peep tag to a woodgrain embossed background. The seam binding was hand dyed with Distress inks and the sentiment is by Hero Arts.

Visit Catered Crop for all the challenge details. You have until Sunday, May 12th to link up your card. Give the challenge a go, and you could be shopping with a $25 gift certificate at Purple Onion Designs. Have fun, and good luck!





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My 2 minute Boo Boo card

Hello, hello! I was planning to enter CAS-ual Friday's latest challenge to create a clean and simple card and use a flower or tree on it. I missed the deadline, but thought I'd share my trial and tribulation with you.

Using watercolor paper, I inked up Hero Arts' Large Solid Flower with distress inks and spritzed some water on top before I stamped it. Lifted up the stamp and placed it inked side UP, on the table.

As I was studying the stamped image, I must have tossed another pre folded card over the stamp. I didn't like the result, and thought about stamping it again.

I looked for the stamp and (gasp!) the card was laying on top of it! Just a few seconds and there were trace bits of ink already setting in. Dang! I didn't want to toss the card and thought I'd try to save it. I spritzed more water on the stamp and overstamped where most of the image was and......

I liked it!

I stamped the sentiment, rounded the corner and it was done under 2 minutes! I know it looks like a 2 minute card, but the way it came to be was just too funny! Even if I wanted to, I don't think I could ever replicate it.

And then I saw that I missed the deadline......(Big sigh!) But it made me laugh and I hope you do, too!

Oh, and I want to share a gift bestowed upon by two VERY generous and sweet friends. A Silhouette Cameo! Please excuse the strange shot, but UPS just delivered it after dinner, and the box was huge! The kitchen was the closest (and neatest!) place and luckily, I looked decent, too.

I'll be playing with it this weekend, and I'm so glad that I signed up for A Cut Above. Now to plug it in, and catch up with the tutorials! Wish me luck!

Have a wonderful weekend and thanks for stopping by!

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Meet Freckles

Here's another cute critter from The Sweetest Day by Stacey Yacula for Purple Onion Designs--Freckles the frog. He's quite charming, and I love the expression on his face.

On the first card, Freckles was colored with Memento inks and a watercolor brush on watercolor paper. I added the party hat and sentiment for a bit of birthday fun.

On the second card I paired Freckles with his pal Peep. I ink distressed the background with three shades of distress inks. Freckles and Peep were colored with Copics, trimmed and mounted to the card. Isn't that the perfect sentiment?

You'll find all these stamps and more in the Purple Onion Designs store. Thanks for stopping by, and have a sweet day!

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CELEBRATE

Here's a card that I shared in the Hero Arts Flickr group and I thought I'd share it here today. It's another butterfly card using the template here, and the Dot Flower Pattern stamp from Hero Arts.

The template fit the area of the stamp perfectly. Although it appears a little gray, I used Papertrey Ink's Fresh Snow ink on kraft cardstock. The edges of the butterfly were inked for definition, and the sentiment is from my favorite Hero Arts set.

The cool felt flower was made from a tutorial by the talented Mary Dawn. Watch her video and you'll be popping out these blooms in no time at all.

Have a great week! Can you believe it's the end of April? Hello, May!

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