Easter Daffodils

 

There's a new color challenge on the DRS Designs Blog this week.  The inspiration photo is below and it's all about Spring with pinks and greens!

 

I thought the Easter Daffodil Oval (663L) was perfect for this color combo.
 

The entire image was colored with Copic Markers. I used RV000, RV02, and RV23 on the daffodils.  The leaves were colored with G00, G02, and G05. Y17, Y15, and Y02 were used for the background. I used RV23 to colored the image divider and the bottom was colored with YG06.

I built up the card front by layering green and pink cardstock.  The green panel was embossed for texture and the pink panel was layered with a scallop border and some light green and white twine tied in s knot.  Finally, I added some pearls around the matted image and ta da, it was complete!

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you'll be back soon!

Smiles,
Jennifer 

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On Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day to all you Mom's out there! I hope you are having a wonderful day! 

I created this Mother's Day Gift Card Holder a few weeks ago during my girls weekend, but didn't want to show it until I gave it to my Mom.  Way back in the day I posted the tutorial for these gift card holders and you can find it HERE.  All of the stamps seen on this project are by DRS Designs. 

I used the Flower and Butterfly Address Frame (002K) to decorate the front.  Nice thing about this stamp is how versatile it is.  You can use it as I've done here or use it as a true address frame for a return address or even to decorate an envelope with the recipient's address.  


I colored it with Copic Markers and then cut it out including the center.  I stamped the "On Mother's Day Greeting (035D)" on light purple cardstock and then used foam tape to adhere the address frame over top so that the wording was centered in the frame. The added dimension really makes the frame stand out.

This is how it looks when opened.  I stamped it with the Script Gift Card Greeting (013D) and then hand wrote my personal message below it.  I hope Mom enjoys the Amazon Gift Card I bought her! :-)

Smiles, 

Jennifer

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Easter Blessings Butterfly

Now that Lent is upon us, it's time to start those Easter cards.  Here's one of my first for this year using a new image called the Daffodil Butterfly Circle (1073L).  This image was fun to color.  I used Copic Markers and I also used twine to dress up this layout rather than ribbon.  It was a nice change and I love how it pulls all the colors together.  I added a self-adhesive pearl on either side of the Easter Blessings Sentiment (1029D). 

In case you need a bit of inspiration to get you started on your Easter cards, take a look at the Easter stamps by DRS Designs or check out all of the Easter cards made by their Design Team in the DRS Designs Card Gallery.  I'm sure you'll find something to jump start your mojo! 


Have a great day!

Smiles,

Jennifer

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Get Well Soon

A few weekends ago I went to the Stamping and Paper Arts Festival in Novi, Michigan put on by Heirloom Productions.  I met up with Sue from DRS Designs and helped with the Make n' Take project, which was a lot of fun.  I also walked around gathering ideas and doing lots of shopping myself!  One of the projects I was inspired by was stamping on vellum, coloring the image with water color pencils and blending the colors with a Dove Blender Pen.  Last year at the show I bought a package of vellum that I had yet to use, until now! It was a nice change to use something other than my Copic Markers. 

Here's my card using this technique. 

I created this Get Well card using stamps from DRS Designs.  I first stamped the Daffodil Frame image (104P) with Versamark ink and then heat embossed it using Black Sparkle Embossing powder.  Next I used Watercolor EcoPencils by Faber-Castell to color in the image and then used my new Dove Blender pen to blend the colors. I adhered the image to white cardstock, cut it out, and matted it as shown. 

The background was stamped with the Polka Dot Background stamp (688P) with Versamark ink and I used "Get Well Soon" from the Blooming with Good Health Greeting (055G).  I simply embellished this card using a few brads and a turquoise organza ribbon to match.    I love the way the image looks a bit like stained glass.  I hope you like how this card turned out, I do!

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Smiles,

Jennifer

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Easter!

Happy Monday friends! Hope you all had an enjoyable weekend! I was busy in my stamp room this weekend and one of the cards I created was this Happy Easter card for today's post.  Are your Easter cards done yet?  One of the best things about this card is that it looks really involved, but honestly since I had colored the image previously, just putting the layout together didn't take me long at all!

I colored the Easter Daffodil Oval (663L) with Copic Markers.  Even though daffodils are one of my favorite flowers, I get bored coloring them yellow all the time.  I thought they looked pretty in pink! There are pink daffodils in real life,right? LOL! Hopefully so, but if not, I'm really happy with the soft pastel colors on this card!

I created the card front using light yellow cardstock, and stamped the Blooming Easter Greeting (660F) in the upper left corner. Then I embossed it with a Cuttlebug folder and added 2 score lines between the sentiment and the embossed dots.  To add a bit more decor to this card front, I created a small vertical panel from pink cardstock that I matted with blue and then added 2 yellow brads and yellow plaid ribbon.  After adhering it to a pink A2 cardstock base, I was done, and so pleased with the results!  

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful Monday!

Smiles,

Jennifer

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Easter Daffodils

One of my favorite things about Spring and Easter is daffodils.  Next to the Sunflower in the Fall, they are one of my favorite flowers.  I especially enjoy coloring them and creating cards using images of them.  The picture above is a sneak peek of what I created for today's post on the DRS Designs blog.  I hope you'll run over there to see it.

Hope you all have a wonderful Monday!

Smiles,

Jennifer

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Think Spring!

Today is my day to post on the DRS Designs Blog.  Here's a sneak peek of the "Think Spring" card I have posted there.  I hope you'll stop by to check it out.

Have a great weekend!

Smiles,

Jennifer

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Sunshine and Daffodils!

Here's a sneak peek at what I've made for today's post on the DRS Designs Blog.  Run over there to check it out.  It'll cheer you right up...Promise!

Happy Friday to you!

Smiles,

Jennifer

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Friends ATC

I decided to take the plunge into the world of ATC's! I thought I'd never get into them! The cards I tend to make are always large--I have a hard enough time trying to stay within the limits of an A2 size (4.25" x 5.5") that I never thought I'd ever have interest in 2.5" x 3.5"!

Boy, how quickly things change! LOL!

The one I have to show you today is for a swap titled "Memories of Shackapolooza." Shackapolooza is a get together we do with members of the Stamp Shack every year in April.

I decided to go with the "Friends" theme for my ATC. I thought that was perfect because we are friends, online friends, that we talk to everyday, but only see each other once a year or so if that. (Lucky for me I have a few Shack friends who live close to me that I see quite often!)

Stamps: Brush Daffodil image by DRS Designs, Sentiment by Rubbernecker
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black, Colorbox Fluid Chalk Ink in Yellow Ochre
Paper: Smooth white cardstock by Office Depot, Colored Cardstock by The Paper Company
Accessories: Prismacolor Pencils, Gamsol, Brads by All My Memories
Finished ATC Size: 2.5" x 3.5"

I've recently joined several ATC Swaps--Pumpkins Pumpkins Everywhere, Sunny Sunflowers, Wacky Witch, and Candy Corn! You can bet you'll be seeing more of them from me in the near future.

Have you joined the ATC craze?

Smiles,
Jennifer

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Best Wishes on Your Retirement

Did you order stamps from DRS Designs latest release? If not, or if you haven't seen the new stamps click here to see them. I created this card using the new Best Wishes Retirement Greeting. The Summer is just beginning and it's that time of year when people start retiring in order to enjoy the nice weather. Do you know any one retiring this year?

I used DRS Designs Brush Daffodil image along with this sentiment. I thought it was perfect because I find it to be a very peaceful image when softly colored like I've done here with pencils and Gamsol.

I used Beeswax Shimmerz on the Daffodil flower petals. A little difficult to see but it helped to really give this card the subtle elegance I was looking for.

Stamps: DRS Designs- Brush Daffodil (H846 ), Best Wishes Retirement Greeting (D942)
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black, Colorbox Fluid Chalk Ink in Yellow Orchre
Paper: Smooth white cardstock by Georgia Pacific, Colored Cardstock by American Crafts
Accessories: Prismacolor Pencils, Gamsol, Shimmerz, Green Ribbon by The Paper Studio, Yellow Satin Ribbon by Offray, Brads by Making Memories, EK Success Border Punch

I love how this card design and layout are simple enough to give it quite a bit of versatility. Just change up the sentiment and you have a completely different card. It could be a Birthday, Get Well, or even "Just a Note" card.

I hope you've enjoyed this design today. Don't forget to check out all of DRS Designs new images!

See you again tomorrow, right here at Ink N Scrap Habits!


Smiles,
Jennifer

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Sweet Bunny Easter Greetings!

So, have any of you noticed that I changed up my blog again? I really liked the blue color that it was, but every time I viewed my blog I was having a hard time reading the typed font. If I was having trouble, I'm sure many of you were having trouble too. So, I decided to get rid of it! We're back to plain Jane today. I've been browsing backgrounds on The Cutest Blog on the Block and nothing there is really catching my eye right now. If any of you know of other blog background sites that are easy to use and don't delete all of your widgets when you install them, please let me know. I'm not too experienced in that department. Let me know if these changes are for better or worse. I'd be interested in your opinions. Ok, enough chit-chat for now, lets move on to today's project...

Today is the big reveal day!! All of the new designs the DRS DT has been showing you all week are available now! Click here to see all of their new releases! Did you all enjoy the first DRS Designs Blog Hop? I loved seeing what everyone did with the new designs.

Unfortunately, I'm not showing any of the DRS Designs new images today, I will tomorrow. While watching reruns of Grays Anatomy and Private Practice the other night, I put this weeks CPS Sketch into play and created this Sweet Bunny Easter Card. I wanted to post this before the week was up and they changed the sketch.

Isn't this image just too cute? This cuddly little rabbit is the Praying Bunny image by DRS Designs. I used 2 different stamps for the sentiment, the Easter...The Promise of God's Love stamps and the Easter Greetings with Cross image.


I colored the image with Prismacolor Pencils and blended the colors with Gamsol. I also used green ink to distress the edge of the image where the grass is located.

Stamps: DRS Designs- Praying Bunny, Easter the Promisr of God's Love Sentiment, Easter Greetings with Cross
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black, SU! Handsome Hunter
Paper: Smooth white cardstock by Office Depot, Colored Cardstock by American Crafts
Accessories: Prismacolor Pencils, Gamsol, Nesties, Brads by Making Memories, Ribbon is Dashes, Dots and Checks by Michael's
Finished Card Size: 7" x 4"

Last night, I realized that I never mentioned anything about my 4 layer Fun Filled Friday Challenge Card yesterday. I guess I got so wrapped up in the DRS Designs Blog Hop that it totally skipped my mind. I figured that I could just consider the card I posted yesterday for it, but are you supposed to count the card base when counting layers? If so, that card had 6 layers and today's card isn't any better with 5 layers. Perhaps we won't count the card base on this card & say it has four major layers, ok? I promise to do better with next week's FFF Challenge. Don't forget to check out Kimmy's 4 layer card and leave some comments!

So, any big plans for this weekend? This is my weekend to work both Saturday and Sunday mornings, so it will be early to bed and early to rise for me, but I do hope to catch the MSU Final Four game later this evening.

GO SPARTANS!

I'm off on Monday, so that will have to be my play day!
Hope you have a great weekend!

Smiles,
Jennifer

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Sympathy Is Many Hearts Sharing One Sorrow

I'm still not done playing with all of my Cutie Pie Kid images from DRS Designs. I have been extremely exhausted this week and haven't done much card making. I'll get to them soon I promise! So, unfortunately, no new Cutie Pie Kid cards today, but I do have another sympathy card to share.

This card idea and layout came very easy to me. This was the first card I've ever used clear embossing on, and I'm so pleased with the subtle beauty in this card. Sweet and simple, just like a Sympathy card should be!




Here's a close up of the Daffodil image that I clear embossed. It's kind of difficult to see in the picture above.




I stamped the sentiment with SU! Handsome Hunter ink, and decorated the empty space with dark green eyelets. Eyelets is another one of those embellishments that I have a ton of and don't use very often--glad I could put 4 to good use on this card!

Stamps: DRS Designs- Many Hearts One Sorrow Sentiment, Large Brush Daffodil
Ink: SU! Handsome Hunter
Paper: Cardstock by The Paper Company
Accessories: Rubber Stampede Embossing Ink, Clear Embossing Powder by Creative Beginnings, Eyelets by Joann's Scrap Essentials, Ribbon by Michael's
Finished Card Size: 5.25" x 6"

Tomorrow I will share my Fun Filled Friday Dog themed card with you. Did you get a chance to play? Have you made a dog themed card recently? If so, make sure to share the link with me, I'd love to see your work!

Thanks for stopping by today. I hope your day is wonderful!

Smiles,
Jennifer

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CPS Sketch Challenge

I've about had it with the freezing cold temperatures and snow here in Michigan. Now that the Holidays are over, I'm ready for Spring and Summer! With thoughts of warmer weather stuck in my head, I created this card for this week's CPS Sketch, sponsored by DRS Designs. Unfortunately, I don't have my own sketch challenge for you to see, but that will continue again next Wednesday.

I colored the main image and the butterflies with pencils, and shaded the background behind the flowers with blue chalk. Then, I went on a 3D-frenzy and colored the entire image several times in order to mount all 3 flower blooms and all 4 butterlies on foam tape! That turned out to be a bigger job than I thought, but so very worth it for the final outcome!

Stamps: DRS Designs- Framed Daffodil
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black, Colorbox Fluid Chalk Ink
Paper: Smooth white cardstock by Office Depot, Colored Cardstock by The Paper Company and Bazzill
Accessories: Prismacolor Pencils, Gamsol, Brads by Recollections, Chalk by Inkadinkado, 3d-Dots, Nesties, Dashes, Dots, and Checks Ribbon by Michael's
Finished Card Size: 5.5" x 6.25"


Hopefully you have a chance to participate with this CPS sketch challenge. If you do, please post a link to your card on this post from the CPS blog by Friday at Noon to be eligible to have your name entered into a random drawing to win something great from DRS Designs!

How cool is that?

I can't wait to see your project!

Happy Stamping!

Smiles,
Jennifer

PS: Don't forget DRS Designs has another Blog Candy Opportunity for you this week...

Creating any project using any type of ribbon slide image and posting a link on this DRS Designs Blog Post will get you entered to win several Ribbon Slides by DRS Designs. You'll get an added bonus if you create your project with a DRS Designs Ribbon Slide. The winner will be selected on Sunday January 25th.

Good Luck!

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Just a Friendly Note...

Hope everyone is having a great day today. I'm excited because I am off of work tomorrow! Yeah! I have a full day planned relaxing & working on some new cards in my studio. Gotta love a day like that!

Well, for those of you who have been following my blog you've probably guessed that one of my favorite flowers to make cards with are Daffodils. I couldn't pass them up when I was contacted by Samantha from DRS Designs for the DRS Designs DT finalist round. Here's one of the cards I made using their Framed Daffodil stamp (P104) and the "A Friendly Note" (D586) sentiment.





I used my Prismacolor Pencils to color the image and blended the colors with Gamsol. I used light blue chalk to color in the areas around the flowers. I then, cut out the image and traced the edges with a black Sharpee marker. Next, I layered it with yellow and green cardstock and adhered it to a light blue cardstock base. I stamped the sentiment under the image





After I colored the main image, I created a 3-D look with the butterflies. I stamped the image again 3 more times & colored only the butterflies. I cut all 3 butterflies out. I layered a second butterfly on top of the one already in the upper portion of the image, by placing adhesive only on the center of the butterfly. Once I had it in position, I "fluffed" up the wings, to make it look like it was flying!






I layered the other 2 butterflies the same way and adhered the butterfly set to the bottom of the image, just above the sentiment. Here's a close up picture. See how the butterfly looks real! I loved how it looked!

• Stamps: DRS Designs
• Ink: Versafine Onyx Black
• Cardstock: Bazzill
• Accessories: Prismacolor pencils and Gamsol, Black Sharpee Marker, chalk by Inkadinkado

Have you see DRS Designs new blog? You can check it out here! Make sure to check it out daily as there will be lots of inspiration, sneak peeks on upcoming images, and weekly challenges starting in the next few weeks. In the future you can also look forward to daily posts from the design team members, like me!

Stay tuned for tomorrow when I post my next Card Sketch Challenge.

Until then,

Smiles,

Jennifer

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