Happy Pride!

 Wishing a very Happy Pride to all those who are celebrating today.  I love that rainbow cards are such a popular trend right now.  Thanks to Gina K for her wonderful partial stencil/ink blending idea!  I may make a few more of these:

Father's Day

 A couple of Father's Day cards to share today.  One was quick and easy, as I can't pass up a pun with our last name when I see one... for my husband.  The second card is one I stamped when my niece let me borrow her Reflections stamp set from The Greetery.  Love this!  Luckily I stamped a few of them, so I'll be able to put together a few more cards just like it:

Happy Father's Day to all the Dad's out there :-)

A Little Something Tropical

I came across a fun, brightly coloured illustration that inspired today's card (scroll down to see my inspiration)  It took me out of my comfort zone, using more orange and purple in today's card than I normally would.

I coloured my image from 5121 - WC Garden Shed Set in #969/565 and stamped it in the middle of my Canson XL Watercolor Paper.  Using my stamp positioner, I added the small boat from5057 - WC Boat Set and the trunk of the tree from 5120 - WC Palm Tree Set coloured in #623.  I sketched in the shoreline with #992, and used the small sprig in 5009 - WC Mini Flower Set to add the shrubbery in #126/177/993.  A wash of #443 was added to the sky, and painted in as the water.  Using all of the fronds in the Palm Tree set, I coloured them in #993/126/177, then used a damp brush to blend the colours.  I used my #933 marker directly on the paper to add the oranges that suggest coconuts, and darkened it further with my Chocolate Twintone marker.  #373 was painted on the hut, with #993/933 for the trim.  Flowering shrubs were added around the hut in #623/676/725, and $565 was painted on the boat and added as shadows throughout the scene.  I darkened up the water and sand with several colours, and used the grass from5372 - WC Mini Foliage in #177

The sentiment is from the Exclusive Daisy Set.  I used my sewing machine to stitch the panel to some contrasting cardstock, and mounted it onto my blue base with 3D foam adhesive.  The finished card is 5 1/2" square.  Be sure to check out the Ai blog on Saturday to see what Dot & Tricia have created!

Lawn Fawn Fun

 My niece and sister invited me to craft along with Jenn Shurkus & Kelly Marie Alvarez tonight in their Lawn Fawn Create-Along-With-Us online class!  Such amazingly cute cards!  Here's what we put together:

A Pinkfresh Studio Rainbow

 I am playing along with the Pinkfresh Studio June Challenge today - the monthly theme is 'Rainbow'.  A perfect theme for Pride Month.  Mine aren't classic rainbow, but I think my first one qualifies, as I did a blend of Copic markers in a rainbow pattern to colour the Charming Floral Border stamp:

My other two versions were ink blended using the coordinating stencil, and my Pinkfresh Studio inks.  The Stitched Rectangle Coverplate provided the backdrop, and I gold embossed the Perfect Sentiments stamps.

I stitched across the top of each card with some metallic gold thread, and added some gold pearls to complete them.  

You are Simply Amazing

 I love this sentiment and word die from Verve!  I am making a couple of cards to donate today - using this pretty yellow/taupe/blue floral from my stash of old CTMH papers.  I kept them simple, due to the busy print. The butterflies are die cut from a shimmery tan cardstock, with a little Pinkfresh Golden Pearl to finish them off.

You're a Peach

 I made two fun, bold thank you cards today, again using the Fruity stamp set from Pigment Craft Co., and I got to borrow the wonderful Hole in My Heart Fillers Dies to create my card.  What looks like black is actually a lovely deep green!  It was hard to capture the true colours with my camera.