Clearly Delightful

Turquoise Norman Snail

Hello!  

Today is the Clearly iStamp 27 challenge on the CDS blog and random winners are chosen for prizes AND one of those prizes is a cute digital image/digi paper set "Norman Snail".

The theme is to use TURQUOISE on your project.  How easy is that!?!  Come along and play with us and you might be a winner of some goodies!!  The linky to enter is at the Clearly iStamp Blog.

I made these 2 cards using ONE Word document of the digital images and digi papers arranged on it, plus a minimum amount of other cardstock for the base and a couple layers.  So easy!

Now I will say that Mr. Norman's digi set actually has a real turquoise color in it, but my color printer is low on all the colors and so my turquoise printed more like a teal  color. I made do by grabbing from my Taken with Teal stash this time, but I figure that teal is close enough to turquoise to apply to the challenge, right?

LIST OF SUPLPIES (top card):

• IMAGES: Norman Snail Digi at Clear Dollar Stamps
• CS/PAPER: white, teal, digi paper within digi image set
• INK: printer
• ACCENTS/TOOLS: Su button, teal satin ribbon, scallop square dies, pearls, SU foam dimensionals

LIST OF SUPLPIES (bottom card):

• IMAGES: Norman Snail Digi at Clear Dollar Stamps
• CS/PAPER: white, pumpkin, digi paper within digi image set
• INK: printer
• ACCENTS/TOOLS: Kaiser pearls, orange stitch ribbon, scallop square dies, circle scallop dies, circle punch, SU foam dimensionals, EK border punch

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Thanks for stopping in and leaving a bit 'o love today!    Hope to see you play along the challenge this week!  

Wishing you a blessed Mother's Day (if you are a mother and celebrate it) and a wonderful weekend!

Laurie

LIST OF SUPLPIES (bottom card):

Clearly iStamp Challenge 23

Hello!

Today is the Clearly iStamp Challenge 23!    It's a color challenge, soft mint, porcelain pink and white (or cream).

I had trouble photographing my project. I tried different lights and also adjusting the photo in my photo editing program, but it just sort of looks blueish in the background to me, but it is supposed to be white.

It sure is soft and pretty in person.  Hope you can at least imagine it.

I used the New Butterfly digital image over at Clear Dollar Stamps.   I printed it on Canson 90 lb. watercolor paper. I watercolored the image with Tombow markers and a waterbrush on watercolor paper.

SUPPLIES:

• IMAGES: New Butterfly Digital at CDS
• CS/PAPER: 90 lb. watercolor paper, white, CDS pretty porcelain, CDS soft mint, CDS sweet cheeks, MME penny lane tiny pink flowers DP, Fancypants Road show shabby floral DP
• INK: printer, Tombow markers 992, 020, 192, 243, 800, 772
• ACCENTS/TOOLS: waterbrush, spellbinders circles dies, fancy tags die, pearls, SU mini flower punch, EK medium rock fern punch, daisy punch, sewing machine, EK border punches, CDS soft mint ribbon, SU dimensionals, glue dots
• COLORING: watercolor with markers and waterbrush on watercolor paper

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I sure do thank you for visiting today, and I hope you found a little inspiration even if just a small thing.

Wishing you a wonderfully creative weekend!    Laurie

Clearly Inspired Challenge, but I goofed

Haha, well, this months Clearly Inspired Challenge is a sketch, and I goofed... I used the image supplied for that challenge, but I forgot about the sketch!  Good grief.  Oh well, so at least I have something to show you using the LIMITED TIME complimentary image for the challenge, Spring Violets.  It includes black outline and digitally colored images AND digi papers!

Check out the CiC Clearly Inspired Challenge HERE!  Hope you can play along with the sketch!

Below is what I made with the digitally colored images. First is a 3x3 note card set. Second is a 3.25x6.25 card.  I printed all the digi paper and color images used on these 5 cards on ONE 8.5x11 sheet of cardstock!

SUPPLIES:

• IMAGE: CDS Spring Violets Digi
• CS/PAPER: white, digi paper included in Spring Violets digi, CDS wild huckleberry, CDS powder puff, CDS fresh papaya
• INK: laser printer
• ACCENTS/TOOLS: Spellbinders circles dies, various ribbon spools from Hobby Lobby, CDS budding lilac satin, pearls, sewing machine, foam pop hex dots

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SUPPLIES:

• IMAGE: CDS Spring Violets Digi
• CS/PAPER: white, digi paper included in Spring Violets digi, CDS wild huckleberry, CDS powder puff, CDS fresh papaya
• INK: laser printer
• ACCENTS/TOOLS: Border punch, houndstooth embossing folder, gingham check ribbon from Hobby Lobby, pearls, sewing machine, foam pop hex dots

Pretty simple cards today, but they are nice and relatively quick to make. Yes, I know, some say that the color digi's take the fun out of hand coloring, which may be true, but once in a while I just want to get a set of cards done faster than it would take me to hand color them all. So they fit the bill this time.

I hope you found some inspiration to go home and create!

Laurie