Card Concept Challenge: Bountiful Blessings

There's a new challenge at the Card Concept: Bountiful Blessings.

Hello, and welcome to my post celebrating all things beautiful about

this season; Thankfulness, our wonderful country's abundance and

family! And don't forget the best friends through this passion called 

papercrafting!

Our inspiration photo is full of warm reminders of this season of 

blessings. My card tried to capture some of this feeling of warmth.

I'm calling it's style a mixture of layers and mixed media.

1st off, a layer of colored gel medium through a stencil of leaves by PTI. 

When dry, some sponged inking on the edges. 

Next a die cut of PTI's Mix & Mat: Flourishes, also edge inked, and stamped 

with Year of the Psalms: August.

The ink used for the sentiment is Altenew's Lava Rock. 

Final layers are the pumpkins and gourds from PTI's Simply Gourdeous, and leaves from

Poppystamps' Autumn Leaf set, and Maple Trio. The one red leaf on the bottom of the 

trio is also from Poppystamps and is a 'Whittle Leaf'.

Come join the fun, you have 2 weeks to play along, and we love to see

how you're inspired. 

Hope your season is full of crafty goodness!

Happy Little Stampers September '17 Watercolor Challenge

Happy September to you! Oh yes, it's September all ready.

Kids in school, temperature cooling (Hopefully), and the colors change

from bright pastels to fiery hues! Love it!

And, to launch September HLS has a challenge for all the 

Watercolor fans, Anything Goes with an Optional Twist - Spritz

Here's some inspiration for you, stamping and watercoloring with your water based inks.

My sentiment is from Year of the Psalms April from PTI, stamped in Ranger's 

Archival Waterproof black ink. 

The berries are also PTI, a set called Beautiful Berries: Summer, which allows 

2 step stamping.

The inked images were spritzed with water before stamping on watercolor paper.

While still wet, the 2nd layer of defining stamps were added, bleeding just a bit,

not enough to blur the definition.

Some added color around the berries, and leaves, and then some Lindy's Stamp Gang

Starburst dropped onto the card, randomly.

Hope you play along this month. Remember winners receive a $25. gc to the HLS shop.

See you in the linep!

Psalm 23:2

Every month during release week at PTI, we get to case the design team

and their genius.

As usual, this month's stamps and dies were beautifully showcased,

and it was hard to pick just one.

Dawn McVey hi lighted the soon to be released 

Cover Plate: Mountain Majesty with a

 bright rainbow watercolor.

I loved the frame she featured, with it's die cut mountains.

Trying to come near her color blends, and that space for the sentiment

was a challenge.

Here's what I came up with.

Year of the Psalms: June stamped onto a Made With Love tag 

(Pinefeather ink)

The frame is Sentiment Splits: Curve Verticle

Tree on the left is from Scene It: Mountain View,

and the stars are from Make It Market Mini Holiday Folk.

I absolutely love the way Betsy has designed the Psalms sets, and will 

be sorry to see the year and the psalm releases end.

Proverbs? Just a thought...

Create Along With Us: July 2017

Bible Journaling

Enjoying some Bible Journaling with a whole bunch

of PTI Stamp Sets.

Genesis and 'In the Beginning God...'

What the Doodle: Sun

Little Bitty Bird

Keep Swimming

Comics

Year of the Psalms: February

Songbirds

And one more, with Gran's Garden and Inspired: Mercy

Thank you Dawn McVey!