Miss Bryony and Miss Willow

This will be a bit quick, but I wanted to get these sweeties up. I've had Bryony since before Thanksgiving and have just had the guts to attempt to present her. I saw her sweet little face and fell in love! She's just sitting there, sweet as can be, keeping watch over her domain. I see a sweet, strong, silent nature to her and she so reminds me of my great niece, Madeline. She's quiet because she can't get a word in edgewise with our Paige, but she's very strong in her will and personality. I wouldn't try and take one of Madeline's toys no more than I would try with one of Bryony's mushrooms!

She's stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black and colored with my copics. I used this gorgeous paper from the Fantasy Paper pack from Dovecraft (Exclusively sold at Susana's Custom Art and Card Design!), outlined a bit of it with my Spica Glitter pen and used some Bella Baubles on the corners. I wanted to give her a softness so I rounded a couple of Bryony's corners. The ribbon is of my own making - using my copics on white satin ribbon! Suzanne, you'd be proud of me! I made my own ribbon when I was working with Cindy Lawrence at Stamp New England and loved the effect it had. Plus I get whatever color I want that way! And Christine, I popped her wings up!



Miss Willow kept calling out to me and I found this paper and knew it had found it's place on this card! I love the red and yellow on the blue background. So soft and delicate, but not fragile colors. Willow Kneeling is from the Spring Whiff of Joy Collection and her face so reminds me of one of the kids here at school. I love this kid and she's the sweetest thing. I'm thinking about giving her this card just because every time I look at it, I think of her. I colored her with my copics and cut her out with my oval nestibilities. I used my dotted swiss cuttlebug embossing folder and SU ticket punch for the corners and added some baubles in the corner and some ribbon and a hatpin. I adore her!

Hope you enjoy these two as much as I enjoyed presenting them. I'm off to finish up some scheduling and then to work for a while at the bowling alley. I'm off to get a new cell phone, a Blackberry so I can text. My kids say my old Razor has to go! Hope everyone has a great weekend and I'll be back tomorrow with another card. . I think I feel a Bella or Hanna or Shy Bear coming on!
Card Ingredients:

Bryony from Faerie Song Art, Bella Baubles, Fantasy Paper from Dovecraft, copics, nestibilities, ribbon, hatpin, Atyou Spica Glitter pen in clear, stickles, SU ticket punch.

Willow With Sunhat

I've been in a soft color mood lately. I think it's all the wishing for spring weather that's doing that to me. When I received my Spring Collection from Whiff of Joy, I fell in love with Willow With Sunhat. She looks so pretty with her hat with the fresh spring flowers on top and her satin bow. I so wish I could wear hats but if it's not a baseball hat, I can't carry it off.

I stamped Willow with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored her with my copics. I added some Bella Baubles to the corners and to the middle of the Prima flowers and spacers. This background paper is one of my favorite pieces and I must have 5 or 6 sheets of it. I'm stingy when I use it and it only goes on my favorite cards! The ribbon is from my stash. For the ribbon on her hat, I used some Glossy Accents to make it look smooth and shiny. Her flowers are highlighted with my clear glitter pen. I think she looks very fresh and springy.

This Willow image is so beautiful on it's own that it doesn't take a lot of doctoring to make her stand out. Sometimes I think less is more and this is one of those cases. I so wish for spring weather and that's what I had in mind when I was putting Willow together. Yep, less is more and I want warmer weather!

Card Ingredients:

Willow with Sunhat from Whiff of Joy, Bella Baubles, copics, Prima flowers, spacers, ribbon, Memento Tuxedo Black Ink, Atyou Spica Glitter Pen

Out of This World and some Whiff of Joy!

I love a man in a uniform! Can't resist them. But the thought of an astronaut sends me over the edge! When I was little, I remember sitting outside with my dad at night and I would lay at the edge of our small porch and gaze up at the sky and try and count the stars. Every child has done that. But I was lucky to be born in a time when the space program was just formulating and I was so excited about the possibility of space travel. How exciting to be off of earth and out in the vast outer space! I went as far as to write to my congressman and ask how I got into the space program. He wrote back and I'm the proud owner of some of the original NASA promotional information that was sent to those inquiring minds who wanted to know about getting into the space program. Well, actually my mom still has it. That and my Chatty Cathy doll, but that's another story! I wanted to go up so badly and still would love it. Every space movie that comes out, I see. Love it!

Space Ian from Summer's great store, Roses on Paper, is from The Greeting Farm line (gosh, I adore this line of stamps!) and I had to make him up! I used a glitter pen around his shield and used Glossy Accents to cover his face and I love how it turned out. Looks like you could knock on his shield and never touch his face! I added a moon and embossed the star background to give it a bit of dimension. I colored him with my copics and love how he came out!


And then there's Spring, on of my favorite seasons! I love when everything goes from white, grey and brown to green, pink, lilac, and yellow! Here is Willow with Flower Basket from the new Spring Collection of Whiff of Joy. I've had her done but haven't had the opportunity to put her together yet. I was organizing my craft things and found the small pack of paper from Making Memories called Sabrina and it was perfect. I colored Willow with copics and used Glossy Accents on her band and isn't the Flower Soft just perfect for her basket? I used Bella Baubles on the corners and some ribbon from my stash. I wanted to keep her as non fussy as possible and just show her off!

It feels good to be back and I hope everyone has a great day, be in dreaming of space or of the new spring season we're trying to get to!

Card Ingredients:

Space Ian from The Greeting Farm, Willow with Flower Basket from Whiff of Joy, Glossy Accents, Jelly Roll Clear Glitter Pen, Center Kisses Round, Spots and Dots Cuttlebug Embossing Folder, nestabilities, Bella Baubles, ribbon, Flower Soft,

Here's My Heart

This next Roses on Paper Design Team was created by our incredibly talented Peta, and what fun it was! It was masking with a Valentine's theme and she wanted us to all use a rose somehow on our card, because it's Summer's favorite flower.

I love Melinda Hugging a Heart by Whiff of Joy and couldn't resist using her for this challenge. I masked her and stamp one single rose from a set from Inkadinkado after I sponged the background. Below is a close-up of the flower masking. I love the soft effect it gave my card.



You can pick up most of what was used for this card from Summer. Everyone can use a Valentine's Day card so take a stop by our Roses on Paper Design Team Blog and see all the other great cards created by my extremely tallented Design Team Sisters.

Card Ingredients: Melinda Hugging a Heart, Prima flowers, Dew Drops, Blue Moon Charms, Ice Stickles, ribbon, Bittersweet paper from Basic Grey white opaque pen, clear glaze Jelly Roller, SU ticket corner punch.

Hey Cupcake and WOJ Challenge

Cupcakes, Tilda, pink, greens, browns, glimmer, glitz, flowers. It just doesn't get much better than this! I love this Tilda and even though this is from one of the Winter Collections, she's perfect for Valentine's Day sitting on this big, adorable cupcake! Who can resist a big, chocolate cupcake with pink frosting? I can just taste the sweet, creamy frosting and that soft, melt in your mouth chocolate cake. And Valentine's Day wouldn't be complete without the candy hearts instead of sprikles! You can get everything for this card from Summer at Roses on Paper. She's got a great selection of Tilda's and such fun supplies and embellishments!


Another of my favorite things is reading and Melinda from Whiff of Joy. What's the perfect story for the big V Day? Love Story, of course! I'm going to date myself, but I remember getting this book when it first came out from my book club and I've lost count of how many times I've read it and don't ask about how many times I've seen the movie. It's criminal! The Whiff of Joy Challenge blog thsi week is to create a valentine and I went with the most romantic story I could think of!

While you're looking around, stop over at PCP at Susana's Custom Art and Card Design and take a look at her great giveaway. She's got a $25 gift certificate for her sore and some fun, sassy Rubber Romance stamps signed by the owner and illustrator, Robyn Ireland. You have to stop by and check out all the details! I hope you enjoy both of these. I've had such fun working on them.

Card Ingredients: Magnolia Stamps, Hey Cupcake by Alota Rubber Stamps, Melinda Reading Book by Whiff of Joy, Bittersweet by Basic Grey, Prisma Flowers, Iced Stickles, Dew Drops, Distressed Inks, Copics, Sweet paper from DCWV, Pearls by Kaiser, spacers, beads, ribbon, nestabilities, Glitter Stack by DCWV, Glimmer Mist, Heart charms by Blue Moon.