Kristina Werner's Color Inspiration #34

It's Wednesday, so that means I finally get a chance to post a couple of cards I've made, lol! I've been sick with a sinus infection on top of a nasty head cold. No energy, no interest in anything. I'm hacking all night, and sleepy all day [sigh].

I love how soft the colors are for Kristina Werner's Color Inspiration Challenge...those skeins of yarn are of the most gorgeous hues!


I have got to get some more patterned paper...none of what I have would work with these colors, so I did a little stamping with Versamark to make a small background, and I guess it worked. The patterned paper that I did use, well I'm not sure it's the right color blue, but hey!, I got blue on the card! It's harder than it looks!


It's not my best card, but I did manage to restrain myself enough not to use one of my fairy stamps, lol (I still think I over used those stamps).


And geesh! Let's not talk about my pictures!!! It's storming outside, so having to take the pictures inside, well no place in my house is "properly" lit, lol! Sorry about how bad they are!

Happy Holidays card details:
Stamps: Snowflakes (Inkadinkado)
Paper: Pale Plum, Perfect Plum, Sage Shadow, Certainly Celery, blue dsp (SU!)
Ink: Versamark
Accessories: snowflake punch (fiskars), brad (random), embossing powder

I hope you like my card! And thanks for looking!

I hope...

I hope ya'll all had a great Thanksgiving. I think all the food is just about gone, thank goodness, 'cause I can't eat leftovers much more, lol.

Today I have a few cards I've made ready to post. I'll get them up as quickly as I can, but I have Mia today, so it's gonna be hit and miss, lol!


I started this card with the Mojo Monday sketch from Poetic Artistry. I love her sketches, and I love her stamps! But nothing spoke to me, nothing but the sketch. I teamed the sketch up with the colors from this week's colors from Paper Craft Planet, Baja Breeze, Tangerine Tango, Riding Hood Red, Chocolate Chip and Whisper White.

And then, Our Creative Corner had a challenge that we were to use snowmen or snowflakes! WooHoo! Three challenges in one card!


I used my new Martha Stewart embossing punch, I love it!, and some old SU! vellum. Inkadinkado stamps always work and I just love how it came out! I chose not to put a sentiment on the front of the card, it's inside.

Snowman card details:
Stamps: Warm Holiday Wishes (Inkadinkado)
Patterned Paper: old vellum (SU!)
Cardstock: Chocolate Chip, Baja Breeze, Tangerine Tango, Riding Hood Red, Whisper White (SU!)
Ink: Chocolate Chip, Baja Breeze, Tangerine Tango, Riding Hood Red (SU!)
Accessories: Versamark, embossing powder, embossing punch (Martha Stewart)

I hope you like my card! And thanks for looking!

Gone With the Wind

WOW! Gone With the Wind has got to be my all time favorite novels (yes, I've read it) and one of my favorite movies! And being a "southern girl", it's a must in our reading and viewing pleasures. I was so excited when I figured out this week's movie for the Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge #6 was Gone With the Wind!!!

I based my creation on a fan, one of many, that was in my grandmother's trousseau. The fan is ivory (yes, I know, that's a huge no-no today) and it is carved with snowflakes. I asked my grandmother why, and she told me that she loved snow and that her father bought it for her on a winter trip he took to New York before she married.


Fans were an absolute must for a southern girl...it's hot down here in the summer! And a "proper" southern girl doesn't sweat. She "glows" or "mists" and the hand fan was the only real form of cooling for a woman. The fan was also VERY important in the world of romance. Imagine, flirting with your eyes across the room with Rhett Butler, lol!


I found the template for the fan at Mirkwood Designs, and the directions were very easy. I can see making more of these! Her design was very simple and direct. Check it out!


I think my only problem was shading the fan "blades" with the blue ink. Shading it really wasn't the problem, getting it to show in the pictures was! I think I took 20 pics, and not one really showed good. I promise the fan is much prettier IRL.


After my grandmother passed away, my mom took all of her fans and had them put in shadow boxes. She made sure they were protected as best as we could. The fans are all gorgeous, and I'm so glad I asked Grandma about them. Each of her fans has a little story.

Fan details:
Stamps: Snowflakes (Inkadinkado)
Paper: Very Vanilla
Ink: Versamark Watermark, Bashful Blue (SU!)
Accessories: ribbon, embossing powder, cosmetic sponges

Now for a little fun fact of my own...my grandparents were at the Atlanta premiere of Gone With the Wind in 1939. My grandmother only spoke about it briefly, saying that Clark Gable was very handsome, and she thought that Vivien Leigh was not as pretty as she thought that Scarlett needed to be, lol!

I hope you like the fan! And thanks for looking!

Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge #5

Everyone knows how much I enjoy all the card challenges out there. I consider them a test of how well I'm learning and how far I still need to go.

So imagine how excited I was on Saturday when I surfed to the Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge and saw that this week's movie selection was Memoirs of a Geisha! Love that movie!!! So I'm sitting there thinking what kind of card I could do and, BLAM!, I realize I don't have any asian themed paper, stamps, nothing! HUGE BUMMER!


Anywho, I was at my local Michael's store yesterday and I walked down the aisle to see what rubber stamps they had, and what did I see but a Inkadinkado stamp display and there was this asian stamp set yelling at me! I scooped it up, and as soon as Mia fell asleep last night, I put together a simple card.


I kept it short (and since Mia doesn't sleep for long periods of time) and sweet. It's an okay card, I'm not in love with it, but I think it came out ok.

Asian card details:
Stamps: Asian Influences (Inkadinkado)
Paper: Real Red, Basic Black, Whisper White (SU!)
Ink: StazOn Jet Black
Accessories: Versamark, embossing powder, ribbon

I hope you've enjoyed my card. Thanks for looking!