Seattle Girl in the Rain

I love how this card came out but this is the reason I am a clean and simple stamper!!  This was the result of the SCS inspiration challenge.  We were to be inspired by Audrie's Rain Pinterest board.  This was my inspiration piece:

I had the perfect image for this challenge - Amuse Art Stamps Seattle Girl.  After several failed attempts at creating the "rain" I figured out I would have to use the masking technique.  I used Hero Arts shadow inks and some Memento ink.  I wanted the girl to look like the inspiration piece (no line art) so I stamped her with Antique Linen distress ink and water colored her with water color pencils and an aquabrush.  The little "raindrops" are from Winnie & Walter's Big Bang Confetti stamp set.

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I created this for several challenges:

Less Is More 161 - Yellow and Green
CAS(E) This Sketch
Little Red Wagon - Spring
The Card Concept - Floral Theme - Clean and Simple
The Friday Mashup - Spring Flowers
Virginia's View - Watercoloring
The Paper Players - Spring Thank You card
CAS On Sunday - Color Me Pretty - use markers, pencils....


This was also made for the SCS Inspiration challenge and Featured Stamper Challenge.

Wow I've never made one card for so many challenges before!  I colored this Rubbernecker 4 step stamping image with Distress markers, spritzed them with water and stamped them onto Tim Holtz Watercolor paper.  The sentiment is from Amuse.
The style of this card according to the Card Concept is CAS (Clean and Simple).  Here is their definition:

• One main image
• Lots of open space (uncluttered)
• Limited layers & embellishments
• Quick & easy to recreate

Here is the CAS(E) This Sketch:

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HYCCT - Pinterest Inspiration and Punch It Out

This card was inspired by a Pinterest photo of a yummy ombre cake.  It was also inspired by the MUSE challenge - I was inspired by the slanted panel.  I first stamped the Unity flowers with Versamark ink and embossed it with white embossing powder.  Then I sponged various hues of pink for the ombre effect.  Lastly I used a dark pink ink on the script background stamp and stamped over the whole panel.  I then wiped off any ink from the white flowers.  

This card was made for the HYCCT challenge to use punches or dies.  I combined this challenge with the SCS F4A189 which was to use texture on your card and fall colors. This layout is from this week's CAS(E) This Sketch. I used felt in fall colors and die cut it with a leaf die from Sweet 'N Sassy stamps.
The sentiment is from Amuse Studio.

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Sweet Little Baby

Wow I have been so busy with helping my friend Sara on her school board campaign and the Jewish high holy days that I haven't had much time for stamping!  I did take some time tonight to play in the SCS CAS189 challenge which was a sketch from Smoatsmom.  I used the background stamps from PaperTrey's Background Basics: Hearts in Raspberry Fizz and Scarlet Jewel inks.  The sentiment is also from PaperTrey - Sweet Bitty Baby set.  I used the bird dies from Wplus9 and Scarlet Jewel paper and used heart rhinestones from Amuse.
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This is for a few challenges - FTL191:

Cas-ual Fridays - CFC53:

Paper Players - PP96:

Dynamic Duos - DD#3:

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Supplies: Stamps - Amuse (sentiment); Paper - Mark's Finest papers, PaperTrey; Ink - Memento; Misc - Memory Box Poppy Die, Cuttlebug Embossing Folder, MS 3-D Daisy Sticker

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This was created for the SCS color challenge this week - the colors were Pumpkin Pie, Wild Wasabi and Pool Party.  I had to substitute the colors.  The blue polka dotted strip is Washi Tape that I just purchased a couple of weeks ago - I have been wanting to try it.  It is easy and fun to use.  I used the Memory Box Poppy die for the flower and the sentiment is from Amuse.
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Not much stamping here.  This is for the CAS162 challenge which is a sketch.  I tried to create a scene of wild poppies (they are all over where I live in California).  I used the Memory Box Poppies die and the MFT Grass Die-namics die.  The sentiment is from Amuse.
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Here's a Great Scoop!

This week's Featured Stamper (FS) on SCS is Scoopy - aka Emily.  She is a CAS stamper and I have many cards from her gallery in my favorites!  Here are the three cards that I created:

This is a case of Emily's Daisies in a Row.

My second card is a case of Emily's Scoops! card.

And my last card is cased from Emily's Beautiful Marigold.  I made a one layer card (OLC) with the sentiment stamped over the flower image for Susan's (Simplicity) OLW6 challenge which you can find here.
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Supplies: Card#1 - Stamps - Anita's; Ink - Versafine Onyx Black; Paper - PaperTrey; Misc - Amuse Micro Twinklers, SU! markers;  Card#2 - Stamps - PaperTrey; Ink - Versafine Onyx Black; Paper - PaperTrey; Misc - Nestabilities, Water Color Pencils, Aquabrush, Amuse Mini Heart Twinkler;  Card#3 - Stamps - PaperTrey; Ink - Versafine Onyx Black, Summer Sunrise, Raspberry Fizz

Everything is Coming Up Roses

This week the featured stamper on SCS was Judi Rose (jovialjudi). I am so excited for Judi - she has an awesome gallery and always leaves the nicest comments on our gallery cards! I love her style cased 4 cards!

This is going to be a short post because it is late.  Thanks for coming by!