Lighthouse Sunset

Hey Everybody!
Have you seen the new color challenge on the DRS Designs Blog? I love it!!!! Here's the inspiration photo:

 

Maybe it's because I'm the Mother of 2 boys and I see colors like these all the time, but they inspired me to create a masculine card. I coordinated them with DRS Designs Lighthouse stamp (461G) and thought the yellow, orange and blue would make a gorgeous sunset.  I think I was right! ;-)

 

 

I colored the image with Copic Markers and then used Nestibility dies to cut it out and layer it with coordinating cardstock. I embellished it with a spiral clip and tied some twine in a knot around it.  The A2 size cardstock base was made from Navy cardstock and I layered half of it on a diagonal with orange and light blue cardstock as shown.  I stamped the Small Birthday Wishes" Greeting (020B) at the bottom and adhered the embellished image in the center.

 

Too bad I don't have any masculine birthdays left for this Summer.  This beauty will have to wait until next year! ;-)

 

Have a great day!

 

Smiles,

Jennifer

 

 

 

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On Father's Day!

For some reason whenever I see a lighthouse, it makes me think of my Dad. I guess this is why I tend to go with beachy, seaside scenes when I pick my Father's Day cards, and that's exactly how I felt when I received the new Lighthouse stamp (461G) from DRS Designs new release.  Of course, I had to use it to make this year's Father's Day card!

 

 

The colors I chose to make this card with were inspired by the color challenge on the DRS Designs Blog this week.  Here's the inspiration photo:

The light house image was colored with Copic Markers, and I matted it with a red, scallop rectangle.  The back ground was embossed with the Anchor Embossing folder and trimmed in red.  I used a turquoise cardstock base and stamped the "On Father's Day" Greeting (034D) in the lower left corner. I assembled the background as shown and I embellished the matted image with a navy banner, layered with a smaller pink banner before adhering it into place just off center. As with all my cards, I know my Dad will love this!!!
Curious about this Lighthouse stamp and the others from this release? Go check them out on the DRS Designs website! they are now available for purchase!!!

 

Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend!!

Smiles, 

Jennifer

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Happy Father's Day!

I'm pretty sure that all of the people who read my blog are women with interests in stamping and scrapbooking, but in case there are a few dads out there lurking, Happy Father's Day to all of you out there! (and if you are a lurking dad, please leave a comment--I'd love to hear from you!)

Do you have plans to visit dad & family today? We'll be spending time with my dad later tonight for dinner. Here's the card I made for him.

This stamp is new to me. We just had a Hobby Lobby open in our area & all last week the scrapbooking area was 50% off! I couldn't resist a sale like that and had to buy this stamp! I inked it up right away and just knew that it would make a great Father's Day card!

Overall this was a pretty quick and easy card to make. I started by coloring the light house, sand & water with Prismacolor Pencils and blended the colors with Gamsol. I created a Post-It Note mask & sponged blue ink lightly around the light house. I used last weeks CPS Sketch #120 for the layout using my Cuttlebug, brads, ribbon and twine. The ribbon and twine were left over from Christmas gifts we received--I love recycling things like that! The sentiment was 3 separate foam stamps that I had in my stash from a scrapbooking lot I won on eBay a while ago. I can't believe in all of my stamps I don't have a single Father's Day sentiment! Guess I'll have to put that on my wish list, and maybe now that Father's Day s practically passed I'll find one on sale for future use!

I'm very happy with how this card turned out! After my last bout of "lost mojo" which was so severe it was scary, everything about this card fell perfectly in place, just like it was all meant to be. Now, if everything happened like that all of the time, I'd be so much further ahead in creating cards and typing up blog posts ahead of time. But, since it's not, I'm going to continue to strive for it!

Stamps: Stampabilities Beacon of Light, sentiment unknown
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black, Colorbox Fluid Chalk Ink in French Blue,
Paper: Smooth white cardstock by Office Depot, Colored Cardstock by American Crafts
Accessories: Prismacolor Pencils, Gamsol, Cuttlebug and Cuttlebug Divine Swirls Embossing Folder, ribbon unknown, twine unknown, brads by The Paper Studio
Finished Card Size: 4.5" x 6.5"

Thanks for taking time out today to stop by and see my work. I hope you've enjoyed seeing this card today & that you have a wonderful day with family and friends, or just relaxing at home!

Smiles,
Jennifer

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