Hello, hello. This post is going to be heavy on photos and light on the chit chat. As you will see, I had some BIG FUN in my craft room this week.
First up is a card using some fabulous CASual Fridays stamps gifted to me by Tracey when I went to see her in Canada earlier this month. They are called Floating, and I don't know how she knew that this stamp set had been on my wish list for so long. I pulled out my Inktense Water Color pencils for the first time in forever, to color some of the flowers in the challenge color scheme. I am entering this card at CAS-ual Fridays 198: April Showers bring May Flowers, Calling All Sistahs #12 and Addicted to Stamps and More #289: CAS.
I stamped the Concord &9th floral image while I was at Tracey's and colored it with Copics at home yesterday, and I am entering this next card at Where Creativity Meets C9 #20: Spring. I am also entering this card at Simon Says Monday: Flower Power.
My next card is inspired by the sketch at Freshly Made Sketches #334 and the challenge at CAS on Friday #131: Black, White & Pink.
I did not have to look far to find a card I wanted to do over for this week's PTI Transformation Tuesday. It is the card above. I wanted to try to play around again with die cut words and colors, and came up with something else that I think works better on my next card.
I think that the die cut word I used for the MIM card was too small, and it was getting lost in the busyness of the image. I played around with the idea, and ended up using Doodlie Do to stamp an all over background pattern, then inlaid a solid die cut word into the pattern, and used a Copic marker to color all of the non-stamped area. I am much happier with how this second card looks.
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Joyce I love your crafty weekends! So many delightful cards, I love how you coloured your hot air balloon! I am hoping to CASE some or all of your cards. Thank you for sharing with us at Freshly Made Sketches this week!
ReplyDeleteYou sure did!! That's such a pretty hot air balloon and I love the card with the lush green ferns. These are all wonderful cards Joyce!
ReplyDeleteLove your gallery of cards! Thanks for sharing those sweet pink dresses with us at FMS!
ReplyDeleteAnother amazing crafty weekend, Joyce! Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeletecrafty weekend indeed! Your cards show a lot of ideas and variety of style. The floating balloon is perfect for spring! I wasn't fond of this week's MIM process as most of the samples are too busy for my tidy mind and difficult to read. Good job on the TT!
ReplyDeleteO my goodness, ALL of these are stunning!!! I especially love the Concord & 9th card, and the floral hot air baloon card! Such beautiful coloring! Love your take on Betsy's challenge too!
ReplyDeleteYou were really on a roll, Joyce, and I imagine part of it was the impetus from your crafting pals. Love your makeover card, the the little pink dresses and one of my favorites, Meadow Greens. The C9 flowers are beautiful and that flowery hot air balloon is darling. Thanks for sharing that card with us at Addicted to Stamps and More.
ReplyDeleteWow Joyce you were on a role!
ReplyDeleteLove all the flowers in the balloon; that is my favorite (love flowers and balloons, so...) The leaves card is one that looks so fresh...beautiful! A treat to see all these projects... Hugs, Gerrina
A ton of fun, Joyce... it's obvious your Mojo was working on overtime... and you earned triple-pay! Love seeing one of them in the CTS gallery! xx
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ooh woooww so many adorable card cant tell you which one is beautiful than the other but the one for ATSM with your coloring the Balloon with flowers is so cuutee Joyce and the Dress Card I love it much
ReplyDeleteMany thanks for joining us at ATSM this time
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Monika
It's always fun to see what you've been working on over the weekend...and you never disappoint, Joyce! A beautiful collection of cards, especially those gorgeous ferns and fabulous inlaid die cut alphas! Thanks for the eye candy :)
ReplyDeleteAll your cards are so pretty ;)
ReplyDeleteThank you for joining us at CAS on Friday!
Been catching up, Joyce ... sorry I've been mostly MIA in blogland for the last couple of weeks. So many gorgeous cards to enjoy this morning ... including all these beauties ... I especially love the outline image with the inlaid coloured sentiment! Happy Birthday, my friend! Hugs, Anita :)
ReplyDeleteLove all the inspiration and photo's. Your cards are wonderful. Thanks so much for joining us at the CAS-ual Fridays Challenge.
ReplyDeleteSo many beautiful "eye candy" cards! It looks like Spring has sprung on your blog. <3 Thanks for playing along with the Calling All Sistahs challenge! I hope you'll join us again with a new one starting on the 18th.
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