Stamp Ink Paper 115 Color Challenge

Happy Tuesday to you all! Stamp Ink Paper is back with a fun end of summer color challenge for you to play along with! 

Did you have a good weekend? We spent most of the weekend inside. We have had terrible smoke around here due to the fires in Montana and surrounding areas. Although, my intention to get housework done didn't really happen, my craft room is almost clean. 

Obviously after a 3 day weekend with the WHOLE family I was thinking wine when I went into my craft room yesterday morning!

I used the Shimmery White card stock to watercolor my Tag and Wine glasses from the new set in the Holiday Catalog called "Half Full". It was designed by Million Dollar Achiever Linda Bauwin, and of course a must have on my list. The glasses of wine are water colored with Soft Sky and So Saffron with the Aqua Painters. I added some Wink of Stella for sparkle. I decided to fussy cut the tag and color the grapes with So Saffron, however the leaves I used Always Artichoke with my Blender Pens. I used Basic Black Archival for all of my water coloring. The Tag is popped up over the abstract script from Background Bits in the Smoky Slate ink with a nice strip of the 3/8" Classic Weave Ribbon in Soft Sky to coordinate with the tags top that also used the same ribbon. I few silver Faceted Gems and this card was good to go!

I hope you enjoy my glasses of Pinot!

I can't wait to see what you make for this challenge!

Stamp Ink Paper 100 Card Makers Choice

Happy Tuesday! Today is Stamp Ink Paper's 100th Challenge!! Kids just got on the bus for their last FULL day of school. Where does the time go? There are times where I really wish I could just press pause and enjoy them being young/little. I will have a 6th grader which earns me at least 20 new gray hairs and to think that Joshua will be in his LAST year of elementary school is mind boggling! Where does the time go? I kind of want to cry...



For our 100th challenge we have no rules!! It is truly a love hate relationship when we have these challenges... I chose to use one of the new hostess sets available June 1st!



Now... If you know me, you would say "Oh!! There is the Andrea I remember!!!". This style of card is something I would always fall back on although it seems like lately that I have gone completely rouge and not honored the Shabby Chic style that got me into my love of card making.

My card started with a base of the new in color Powder Pink with a rich matte of Soft Suede card stock. My Very Vanilla stamped layer is stamped using the new hostess set "Background Bits" which will be available on June 1st. There some soft script in Powder Pink, a nice rich border of Soft Suede and some fun Pear Pizzazz bursts all from that set. My Powder Pink stamped butterfly is from the returning Butterfly Basics set and was so lovely to use with this great hostess set.

Thank You so much for stopping in! I can't wait to see what you come up with... The possibilities are endless!