Spring is coming!

This beautiful spring mood board for the Double D Challenges inspired me to use some new lilac dies I recently acquired from The Greetery! The shades of purple in the photo especially jumped out at me. I chose a lattice die for the background and cut it from Fine Linen paper from PTI. I splattered it with white Gouache paint. The sentiment was stamped using Villainous Potion distress ink (it looks black in the photo). I found a deep purple scrap in my stash and die cut a border.

I have a long list of friends and family with birthdays in the spring, so that prompted me to use the sentiment. I used olive green and purple distress markers to "dot" the centers of some of the flowers.

STAMPS: Birthday Blooms (The Greetery).

INK: Milled Lavender, Shaded Lilac, Villainous Potion, Peeled Paint, Rustic Wilderness, Forest Moss, Crushed Olive, Antique Linen distress inks.

PAPER: Stampers Select White, Fine Linen (Papertrey Ink); Dark purple (unknown source).

DIES: Birthday Blooms, Square Dance, Macrame Borders and Tassels, BotaniCuts Lilacs (The Greetery).

OTHER: White Gouache paint; Oval word punch (Stampin' Up).

Thanks so much for stopping by! It's a glorious sunny spring day here in VA with temps to go up in the 70's! Yippee!   ~Wanda

 

Hatbox and Gingham

A fun card using a backdrop of gingham with this great new Reverse Confetti image from their newly released Hatbox Florals stamp set with matching dies! I'm using the fun new sketch by Jacquie for Freshly Made Sketches and am also playing along with the gingham theme on the Double D Challenges blog. 

Images were colored with Copics: Y00, Y02, Y06, Y08, YG21, YG25, YG25, YG93, YG95.

The tiny black squares are from My Favorite Things' Stitched

Square STAX Die-Namics.  The sentiment (Thanks and Hello Word Duos by RC) was cut three times and adhered together to give more dimension. I again used a pop of yellow (one of my faves!) with the black and white gingham paper from Bazzill Basics 'Licorice' patterned paper pad.

Thanks so much for stopping by and commenting... 

Spring Berries

 

I'm playing along for the first time with the Double D Challenges where there is a pink and white theme happening spurred by this retro mood board! I needed a thank you card for the radiation oncology staff after I completed my 30 radiation treatments yesterday (the last step in my battle against breast cancer)!  Woohoo!  The ceiling in the treatment room was also an inspiration for my card.  In spite of the frequent cold

and rainy weather outdoors, I knew I would see the sun shining in the treatment room! I took the photo on the right while lying on the exam table.

I wanted a very subtle light tan coloring to my brick background, so I added a couple drops of EOO Copic reinker to a dab of Liquitex light modeling paste.  I applied it using the English Brick Wall stencil from My Favorite Things.

The berry branches are from Papertrey Ink's Beautiful Berries: Spring set which involves two-step stamping that has a more successful outcome if you use a MISTI.  I then adhered the Grand Madison Window die by Poppystamps with foam tape.  The sentiment is from The Stamp Market's Handwritten Thanks stamp set.

I'm also entering this into the new CAS(E) This Sketch challenge.

Thanks so much for stopping by!  I'll leave this post with a photo of the ceremonial bell ringing that happens when either chemo or radiation treatments are completed!  Three of the wonderful radiation oncology staff are celebrating with me! I bravely kept my scarf off and am showcasing my slowly growing, very gray hair that is growing back! :-)