Lavender Thoughts
I am painting again, this time with an ACN LAVENDER ILLUSTRATION as my primary sketch. The colors were inspired by today”s SCS color challenge: Lavender Illustration Digital Stamp Image
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Goddess Tape Spring Card
My sweet friend recently gave me several rolls of Goddess Tape! Lucky me!! I had some time to play today, and made a Spring card. This Decorative Tape is gorgeous! It’s called Turn a New Leaf; I just love the pretty Spring colors and leaf pattern. TIP: To get a nice clean punched edge and not have the tape stick to your punches, 🙂 stick the tape to white cardstock, then punch out your border and shapes.I also made some super simple magnets. All you need is the decorative tape, a magnetic sheet (Elmer’s or Avery) and some paper punches… Hear what others are saying about this card! Read more here: http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/2513175#ixzz30K2HdiXd Have a creative day! Deena
Watercolor Flowers for Mother’s Day
Have any of you tried Corel Painter? I am playing with digital water coloring in the 30 day trial version of Corel Painter X3 right now and I have to say that I love the ‘real watercolor’ brushes! I was inspired to play in this week’s SCS IC438 so I painted these flowers to get a feel for the different brushes and I’m happy with the results. What do you think? I am really a beginner of course so don’t judge to harshly! 🙂 I have a lot to learn, but I still think it’s pretty! Traditionally, I’ve painted with acrylics, but I just love the look of water colors and painting and blending colors is so soothing to me, so I thought this was a great time to practice. I used my new digital stamp illustration as a starting point for the painting and this is what I ended up with. Now, if only I could afford to buy the software! Here’s the Mother’s Day CAS card I made with it too… and finally, here is …
Color Blossom Thank You Card
I thought it would be fun to design some colorful blooms for SPRING. Ahh, Spriiiing. Where are you? I really REALLY miss you. In fact, I. can’t. wait. until you get here. Believe me. I will thank you for it! I gave my blooms a digital pencil crayon coloring and resized and arranged them here for a cheerful printable digital THANK YOU CARD. I was debating whether or not to make these blossoms available as pre-colored digital image downloads….what do you think? Have a creative day my friends! Deena
Inspired CASE Study
Hello friends! March is finally here. The sun kindly came out this weekend and just in time for my birthday which I celebrated Sunday! Although it’s still cold, and will be for a little while yet here in Montreal, I am hopeful that Spring is not too far off in our future! To share my hopeful spirit with you, I have another CAS card to show you today. I’ve combined two challenges; CASE STUDY #180 and the Inspiration Challenge on SPLITCOASTSTAMPERS. First up is Danielle Flanders‘ card inspiring us at CASE STUDY this week…SO PRETTY! I chose this photo as my inspiration from the IC430 site POLYVORE : and fell in love with the colors! and here is my card that is a result of being inspired by both challenges… I hope it puts a little hope in your hearts for the forthcoming Spring! Have a wonderful day! Deena
Coffee With Friends
Hi everyone. I have a quick CAS card to share that I’ve made for three CAS challenges. Yay! They got my mojo going today! First up CAS(E) this Sketch: and Addicted to CAS: Code Word COFFEE and last but not least CASology code word: JUMP (as in…coffee jump starts my day! And if I have too much it makes a little jumpy :)) I used A Creative Need LOVE ME A CUP OF COFFEE image and digital dp. I colored the cups with copics. Thanks for stopping by today! Deena
Wild Thing Challenge Wolves
Hello friends! I thought I’d share how this ‘Wild Thing’ CAS card for this month’s A Creative Need challenge was made. I was playing with a masking/paint technique. I masked the moon with a circle punch and painted over it with two shades of yellow, then while still a little wet, stuck clear wide packaging tape over it and peeled it off again to give it a worn look. When dry, I scanned it so I could use it as a digital element, as seen here. Using My Memories Software I simply placed my A Creative Need Wolves image and resized it to the size I wanted, then added in the image of my masked moon and layered it over the wolves. All that was left was to add in my sentiment. So simple, and I’m very happy with the result! Thanks for stopping by and have a creative day!! Deena Read more: http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/2484555#ixzz2t9eDd200
Over the Edge
CAS-ual Fridays’ challenge this week has gone OVER THE EDGE! And I just had to join in! I colored the ACN LOVE BIRDS image with copics and cut them out. I placed the birds on a watercolor background that I painted using Corel Painter Essentials. Then, I punched a simple border for the bottom and added a splash of color with the felt foam flowers and buttons. I also added a tab ribbon in the bottom right for Splitcoaststamper’s challenge ‘tags &tabs’ that I think helped balance out the over the edge look of the birds at the top left. Challenges: CAS-ual Fridays– ‘Over the Edge’ Addicted to CAS– LoVe I’m so glad you stopped by! Deena
Forever
I have a guilty conscience…and just have to admit…that I spent an ENORMOUS amount of time perusing LilyBean Paperie’s blog today! Melissa’s cards are so inspiring! I probably should have been doing laundry or sweeping, but I just couldn’t help myself! Although I know I could not make a card that comes close to her beauties, I do take some comfort in knowing that I can take a few elements of her gorgeous style and incorporate them into my CAS style. I loved the look of her ‘Speak love’ CARD and I took the element of key and banner and made a little tag to mount on on this lavender 4 1/4 square card. The CAS challenge at Splitcoaststampers this week is ‘tags & tabs’ which also helped inspire this card. The vintage key was a gift form a fellow blogger and the paper is digital dp that I created using my own Pear Blossom stamp. I paper punched the heart and used a metallic gold paint pen and glitter pen to give it a golden …
Case Study Cherries
This week’s Case Study caught my eye! This is my take on it. Instead of a painted backdrop, I made a sponged grunge frame in green and added my cherries image. I painted the CHERRIES using Corel Painter. I created the sentiment (computer generated), printed it on canvas textured card stock and finished with a little red button . Have a creative day and thanks for stopping by! Deena
A Creative Need 