the many adventures of a painter girl: May 2010

OCL friday design team sketch challenge #13

i may have taken this week's sketch a little too literally...however, in my defense, why mess with something that is fabulous??? yep, i'm stickin' to that!...here's the sketch...

and....my card...

i told you...literal! i LOVE Cosmo Cricket's 'Material Girl' collection...so stinkin' cute...

i used some vintage buttons and fabric to layer with my stamped flowers from Our Craft Lounge's 'Fabulous Florals' set...i stamped them with fired brick distress ink onto ivory card stock, cut them out and inked up all the edges of the papers with walnut distress ink...the leaves were stamped on patterned paper with the walnut ink and trimmed out...the sentiment is from Our Craft Lounge 'Say it with Flowers' stamped with the walnut ink and cut out using a spellbinders die...

click on over to the Our Craft Lounge Blog and play along, you'll be happy you did!!!

chelle

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Bloomin' Fabulous

it was wonderful playing with the new Our Craft Lounge flower stamps all week, i hope you enjoyed the 'flower frenzy' as much as i did!!!

i played with the set 'Fabulous Florals' this time round...creating my own patterned paper using chalk inks. The sentiment is, of course, from 'Say it with Flowers'. Sweet and simple...just how i like em.

Pop on over to the OCL BLog to see the card i made with more of the patterned paper i made...and, tomorrow is a new friday design team challenge!

have a 'bloomin fabulous' day!

chelle

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flowers, flowers, flowers

are you enjoying the 'flower frenzy'??? be sure to pop on over to the Our Craft Lounge Blog to see the matching cards to the tags that i am posting here this week!!!

today's post pairs OCL's stamp set 'Pretty Petals' with Cosmo Cricket's 'Garden Variety'...with a Jenny Bowlin Bingo Card added in for good measure!

finally flower frenzy day tomorrow, see you then!

chelle

Our Craft Lounge 'Pretty Petals'

Cosmo Cricket 'Garden Variety'

Jenny Bowlin Bingo Card, vintage photo distress ink, SU! scallop punch, Accucut tag die

Copics: Y15, Y17, YR15, YG03, YG17, YG67, R22, R24, R27

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fun with fabulous florals

it's day two of my week hosting on the Our Craft Lounge Blog...today, using 'Fabulous Florals'...in a shabby kinda way...

this is the matching tag, be sure to visit the OCL Blog to see the matching card!!

i wanted to show that sometimes you want to use a stamp simply for a shape...no coloring (can you believe it???!!!!)...i got great dimension from the stamped then cut out flowers...the small flower is layered on the large with a small foam square...then a pearl (colored with copic E43...see, worked a marker in there!!!) for the center...

more flower fun tomorrow!

chelle

Our Craft Lounge 'Fabulous Florals' and 'Say it with Flowers'

My Mind's Eye 'Quite Contrary-Little Boy Blue'

walnut distress ink, copic E43, spellbinder dies

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pretty petals indeed

it's my week to do the spotlight on the Our Craft Lounge Blog...i am so excited to have new stamps to play with!!! the theme is 'flower frenzy'...right up my alley!!!

i decided that i would make a tag that matches my card on the OCL site each day so you have something here and there brand spankedy new (yep, i just made that word up)...

i chose the 'pretty petals' stamp set for today and of course i had to use the fabulous floral sentiment set 'say it with flowers'...i can't stop looking at this tag...cute and simple!

more flowers for tomorrow, see you then!

chelle

Our Craft Lounge 'Pretty Petals' and 'Say it with Flowers'

My Mind's Eye 'Quite Contrary-Jack & Jill'

memento tuxedo black ink, vintage photo distress ink, SU! sm oval & label punch, accucut die

copics: Y11, Y13, Y21, Y26, G12, YG03, YG11, YG17, BG72, R21, R22, R24

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OCL friday design team sketch challenge #12

have you ordered any of the new Our Craft Lounge sets yet???? there are a few from the new release that are total favorites already!! i love 'tweet thang'!!!!

so, when it was time to do the friday design team sketch challenge this week...guess which set i chose?!

here's the sketch...