Bloom and Grow--Flower Girl

I think theis little girl with the wheelbarrow full of flowers, from the newest Artistic Outpost Bloom & Grow stamp plate,  is just precious.  I colored her with copic markers. Isn't she just the cutest?: 

My thought was to color her in vintage colors neutral colors for the hat and pinafore but then I picked this really fun dp and it became what I like to call Modern Vintage.  Now that is a contradiction of visions but I think it works. 

The dp is busy enough I didn't want to add too much other stuffs, so I added a metal butterfly, punched the peachy cardstock with my MS border punch. 

A small half pearl in the upper left hand corner and the wonderful sentiment from the stamp plate which says, :"How does your garden grow?" 

Hope you are enjoying the new stamp plates from Artistic Outpost, I certainly am.

Hope your Memorial Holiday week-end is all you want it to be. 

See you this week with a Riley and Company Challenge on Tuesday.  I am the hostess this week.  The Sassy Cheryl's weekly challenge also on Tuesday.  The Mo's Digital Pencil Challenge on Thursday.  Be sure to stop by  because I have been busy coloring and have lots to show you this week!!!

Let's Color, K

Cathy

Summer Fairy Finna--Mo's Digital Pencil

Happy Saturday!!! I have had a wonderful relaxing day of running errands, cleaning house and just doing what I wanted to!!!  One of the things I "wanted" to do today was color.  I colored this beautiful image Mo had made available as a freebie for a few hours last week, lucky me I was still up when she posted it because I was still asleep when she ended it as a freebie :)  Here she is:

I colored her suit with lavendar's and teal colors as I really like the irridescent effect mixing these colors gives.  I wanted to keep the colors soft and I think I accomplished my goal.

The image was colored with  copic markers and the edges were sponged with Distress Ink..no surprises there :) 

The dp is from my new Pocket Full of Posies paper pack which has wonderful spring and summer prints.

The rhinestones kind of look like water drops...okay use your imagination or just take my word for it LOL.

Two narrow metalic bands of ribbon and this beautiful fairy is ready to go to my office on Sunday.  She looks just like Desiree who sits beside me at work.  I envision this is what Des looked like as a chld and she still has the same hair...Love it. 

Well, I am going to bed now, just wanted to share this little beauty with you.

If you haven't check out Mo's Digital Pencil lately you should she has created the cutes little group of school boys and girls with glasses, this beautiful fairy and a darling toddler girl Lacie with an ice cream cone.  I have that one colored too but still have to make the card...I'll post it in a day or two.

Have a wonderful day and thanks for stopping by. 

Remember a Veteran, or loved one who has passed, this week-end...It's not just a day to get off work!!!

Cathy

Mo's Digital Pencil Challenge--Can You Hear me NOW!!!

Denise is our hostess one last week for the Mo's Digital Pencil Challenge.  Hasn't she had some wonderful Challenges.  I have really enjoyed them.  This week our challenge is Babies.  Well in my eyes under two is a baby so I used a Terrible two for my fun card:

Sometimes I feel like this but can't get away with it anymore LOL 

I had so much fun coloring this little darling having a little tantrum!! I thought the sentiment was perfect so I created it on my computer.  If you can't read it is says, "Can You Hear Me Now!!!"  The image is Mo's Digital Pencil  called Two Toby ws perfect.

I thought the image would look cute in bright colors so being the original person I am I went with blue overalls and a red shirt.  Wow, such originality LOL. 

I colored with copics of course, and sponged with faded jeans distress ink.  The blue polka dot dp is Bo Bunny, the brown is Kraft and the red is Cardinal  

The lattice border punch by MS was used for the top of the matt layer behind the main image. 

The Sentiiment was computer generated and punched with the SU scalloped circle punch.  I punched a second from the cardinal to position behind the white and added a tiny red button.

The red and white checked ribbon was tied behind and 3 spots were added diagonally in the upper left hand corner.  A red and white checked

Hope you all play in the challenge.  Have you been to Mo's Digital Pencil store lately, she has gone nuts with some of the most wonderful new images I can hardly keep up.  I will have coloring to do till the 4th of July LOL.  That's not a bad thing, you know how much I love to color.

Thanks for stopping by,  Check out the rest of the DT creations, you're gonna love them.

Cathy

Artistic Outpost May Release of 3 Fabulous Stamp Plates!!! Wait till you see!

Artistic Outpost is excited to release our newest rubber stamp collections: Beyond the Sea, Bloom and Grow, and Country Life. To us these stamps represent the good life: love, growth, and friendship. (and a pig thrown in just for jazz).

Beyond the Sea was inspired by the Bobby Darin song, "Beyond the Sea". It features interchangeable main images including the perfect lighthouse, alluring couple, and longing clam digger. Perfect for cards, shadow boxes, and scrapbooking your seashore visits.

I personally love lighthouses and so when I first saw this set I knew I would use this image first :)

I always love to color them with a light beam as that is what I remember from the Lighthouses of the East Coast.

Bloom and Grow and Country Life represent are two halves of one whole. Bloom and Grow features more feminine elements including a perfect seed frame that you can use with so many of our stamps. Country Life includes a little more fun boy imagery including the cutest little pig, chickens, and little boy. Mix and match both of these collections together or with our other collections such as Lovely Day and Home.

I also love to color flowers so this set was a favorite as well.  Here is a card I created with the flower form Bllom and Grow:

I thought it would be so pretty in pinks and pearls, what do you think?

Country Life reminds me of the years we enjoyed the County Fairs with our children.  They showed horses but we always went to look at the exhibits and animal judging.  The pigs reminded me of the litter judging:

Isn't this fun!!!???

How about a cover for a Recipe Book? Or a Chicken Recipe Card!

I have lots more projects to show you, but I will spread them out over the next few weeks. These sets just had so many possibilities I couldn't stop creating!!!

Looking for more inspiration using these new releases? Be sure to visit the other Designers to see what they've created

Lisa* Gerrie * Cathy * Judy * Lynn * Shelly * Toni

Enjoy all three collections together for a special price. From now until June 4th, purchase all three sets together for $36, that's a savings of 15%. Simply use coupon code: SUMMER2010 at check-out

                                                            Beyond the Sea

Bloom and Grow

Country Life

Thanks for stopping by.  Now I am going to see what the rest of the DT has created :)

Cathy

Sassy Cheryl's Challenge--Use Punches!!!

This week our hostess, for the Sassy Cheryl's Challenge is Kim. Kim chose the challenge to use punches on your card!!  That is an easy one for me...the hard decisions are which ones?!?  Here is what I came up with....

I have just been in the mood for Sassy Cheryl's wonderful snowmen lately so I colored a couple and used this darling Jump Snowman for the punch challenge today.  The main image is punched with a Spellbinder label 4 nestie.  The corners of the blue and white layers  were punched with the corner rounder punch.  The Blue Bayou layer was run through the cuttlebug dotted swiss embossing folder to look a little like snow flakes...okay, use your imagination...work with me here!!! LOL

The edge was sprayed with my copic airbrush system to highlight the border which I like to leave white.

The flowers were punched with an EK big flower punch and a QuickKutz flower die cut set.  A rhinestone was placed in the middle of the nested flowers and 3 additional rhinestones were placed in the upper right hand corner of the card.

A MS border punch was used for the band behind the snowman image going vertically.

The edges of all of the punched flowers and band were sponged with broken china distress ink.

The dp is from the My Mind's Eye Delightful paper pack

Be sure you stop and see the rest of the dt projects, I know they will be awesome as always. 

As of my posting I do now know who the Guest Designer will be for the week of June 1 but it will be posted on the Sassy Cheryl's Challenge Blog.  The projects were all so wonderful  and it is not going to be an easy task to choose one Guest DT member.  Do not be discouraged if you are not chosen this time I know that there will be other opportunities when you least expect it to be the next Guest Designer.

Thanks for stopping by and be sure to check out the new images from Sassy Cheryl, I haven't even peeked at them yet this week, I may go do that right now!!!

Have a great day.  You think it is hot where you are,  color a snowman, it will cool you off!!!

Cathy

To Celebrate Summer!!!

Here is a card I created with a Sassy Cheryl's image to celebrate the fact that it is officially summer in Omaha and I turned the Air Conditioning on!!!  Ready......

Doesn't Sassy Cheryl's have the cutest snowmen!!! 

I just wanted to post a quick card before I went to work so you all didn't think I had fallen off the face of the earth. 

I have one more big release this week and I have been working very hard on that so of course I haven't been able to show you what I have been up to  :)

Have a great day and hope you are celebrating Summer with me. 

Have a great day!!!

Don't forget to stop back tomorrow for the Sassy Cheryl;s Challenge tomorrow.

My winners from the Riley and Company Blog Hop

Hi Ladies, Just letting you guys know I have drawn the winners from all of the comments on my Riley and Company Blog Hop and they are:

Card-ologist --- winner of the limited edition sentiments

Leanne---winner of a new Riley Stamp of your choice, except the Yellow Brick Road/

Please contact me with your mailing address so we can get your stamps out to you right away!!!  My email address is:  cledgar1@gmail.com


Thanks to everyone who came to the Yellow Brick Road Blog Hop!!!

Cathy