Iridescent Dragonfly

Man, the days are just flying by here!  It occurred to me that I hadn't done a card with my beloved Awesomely Artistic dragonfly in a while--oh my gosh it's been an entire month!--so I had to fix that today.

I stamped the dragonfly with Night of Navy ink and then again with Versamark, then embossed with Iridescent Ice.  Which is of course nearly impossible to photograph, check out my first effort:

Well, you can tell it sparkles, right?  And you can kinda see the stamped background on the card front; I used the splatter stamp and stamped it off twice so it's very subtle but just gives an extra little bit of texture.

I used the colors from this week's Color Throwdown:

I added in Smoky Slate for the card base; I couldn't use more Crushed Curry or Whisper White because it would have been too much of either of those colors.  Balance, y'all.

And here is this week's Freshly Made Sketch:

I think buttons are cute, but sometimes the post office gets all picky about that so I used the dragonfly instead of the button element on the sketch.  My card is eminently mailable, it doesn't even have Dimensionals.  Speaking of mailable, it's already in an envelope and ready to be sent off today, so that qualifies it for the SUO challenge to make (and mail) a card to a friend.  Oh while I'm at it, I should send out the two cards I made for Tuesday's Nacho challenge...off to go do that now, so cheers peeps!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Awesomely Artistic, Six-Sided Sampler
Ink:  Smoky Slate, Crushed Curry, Night of Navy, Versamark
Paper:  Smoky Slate, Night of Navy, Whisper White
Accessories:  Iridescent Ice EP

Watercolor Friend

Monday morning again already!  Well, let's try to start this week off on a good note.

I was searching through my scraps when I came across that lovely watercolor flower pattern and I thought bingo!  I can use that for the Freshly Made Sketches challenge.  I think this card looked a little better in my head than it does on paper though, I can't quite figure out what needs tweaking on it.  Here's the sketch:

Maybe I needed some other teeny accent like where the button is on the sketch.  Oh well!  I do like the colors though :)

Thanks for stopping by today!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Six-Sided Sampler, Summer Silhouettes
Ink:  Basic Black, Calypso Coral
Paper:  Gumball Green, Calypso Coral, Basic Black, Whisper White, Watercolor Wonder DSP
Accessories:  Hexagon punch, Dimensionals

Happy Hexagons for the Nachos

Happy Tuesday!  Are you ready for another awesome Nacho Average color challenge?

Well, I suppose I coulda done some non-traditional fall leaves or something, but instead I went with hexagons:

Just a bit of fun with Six-Sided Sampler : )  This would have been even easier if I'd just punched the hexagons out of patterned paper, but I liked the mix of hexagon stamps and the bold sentiment stamp from Hello, Lovely.

So now it's your turn!  Post your creation on the Nacho Average Challenges blog and have fun!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Six-Sided Sampler, Hello Lovely
Ink:  Marina Mist, Melon Mambo
Paper:  Early Espresso, Whisper White
Accessories:  Hexagon punch, Dimensionals

Floral Fall

I've been so busy tearing through The House of Hades that I almost forgot to do a blog post today.  Oops.  So here's a nice fall card I made not too long back.

The flower was inked up with Summer Starfruit and then rock 'n' rolled in Cajun Craze, and then I used a Q-Tip to take the ink off the stem and colored it with a Soft Suede marker.  I also thumped more Cajun Craze in the middle of the bloom but oddly it doesn't show up nearly as much as I thought it would.  But I like having multiple colors on the flower.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Blooming with Kindness, Six-Sided Sampler
Ink:  Summer Starfruit, Cajun Craze, Soft Suede
Paper:  Summer Starfruit, Cajun Craze, Soft Suede, Very Vanilla, Comfort Cafe DSP (retired)
Accessories:  Oval & Scalloped Oval punches, Regals Candy Dots, Summer Starfruit stitched satin ribbon, Dimensionals