Brick Wall First Attempt

I have been waiting for the Brick Wall embossing folder and it finally arrived~~yeah!  I have watched quite a few videos on techniques for coloring the bricks and here is the first sponged brick wall I created.  Now I saw the bike and tree on one of the videos I watched and Frenchie's tree and sun showed up very nicely.  The sun and tree were supposed to be a shadow on the wall while the bike is leaning against the wall.  The tree and bike is from Sheltering Tree; the sun from Kind of Eclectic and the sentiment from the Watercolor Wishes stamp set.  At any rate, the wall itself turned out pretty darn good, if I say so myself.  I embossed the bricks on Crumb Cake cardstock and sponged using Tip Top Taupe, Soft Suede and Chocolate Chip.  The brick color is pretty realistic looking.   To tell the truth there are so many color variations of brick I think a number of color combinations could be used.  I know one thing and that is no two "walls" will ever look alike!  I have already created the next brick wall and I will post that card tomorrow.  I pretty much think that I will be making quite a few cards that will have a brick wall of some sort on it!  Have a great day and find yourself a little stampin' time!

Lavender Lace Birthday

One of the things I really wish Stampin' Up presently offered is a pretty purple ink and cardstock.  I mean we do have some pretty purples but not exactly what I am talking about.   So, I decided to use a retired purple that I really like, Lavender Lace. The cupcake is from the Avery Elle stamp set, Make A Wish while the sentiment is from SU's Cottage Greetings. The Lavender Lace cardstock was run thru the Big Shot with a Sizzix embossing folder that I have had for quite some time.   The idea for the card layout came while watching a Jennifer McGuire video.   I knew I wanted to use the cupcake from Make A Wish and I just had to top it off with a little cherry created with the Build A Cupcake punch.  I also made this same card using Tempting Turquoise, but I did not assemble it in time to post.  This card is a great card to make multiples of in a variety of colors.  Have a great day!

Watercolor Words

Happy Monday!  Today's cards were quick, simple, cute and stamped using the Watercolor Words stamp set.  On the Bermuda Bay card, I used the Watercolor Wash Background stamp before stamping the sentiment in Bermuda Bay ink. The card base is actually cardstock from Amuse Studios.   The little flower was stamped in Melon Mambo with an enamel dot from Doodlebug in the center of the flower.  Doodlebug has a line of these self-adhesive enamel dots in a variety of colors and sizes to match any project.  The "you're the best" card was stamped on a stitched rectangle left over from another project I created, layered on SU DSP.  Now on this card I used Stampin' Up! candy dots~~yellow in the center of the flower and a couple Melon Mambo candy dots on the lower right corner of the card.  Watercolor Words is a very cute stamp set with the sentiments being large enough to take up a nice part of a card front.  Have a great day! 

Happy Haunting

Another Halloween card!  Actually, I saw something similar on the internet and thought it was cute enough to create my own version.  A square framelit was used to cut the square in the black cardstock.  After cutting a doily to fit in a portion of the square, I glued the doily down and stamped the little spider on the white card base.  The sentiment is from the stamp set that came with this month's My Paper Pumpkin and was stamped in Versamark and embossed with white embossing powder.    Before adhereing the black layer to the white card base using dimensionals, I wrapped black and white twine around it.  This is another card I think is just adoreable!  Have a great day and enjoy the first  Fall weekend of the season.