More is More

Happy Monday!  So are you ready for my big announcement?  I sure hope so because I’m more than ready to share!  I’ve been invited to be a Whipper Snapper Featured Designer for Anna Wight’s (a.k.a. SweetMissDaisy) July and August stamp set releases!  How cool is that?

I’ve been a huge fan of Anna’s from the first time I saw her creations in the SCS gallery.  I was lucky enough to get to work with her in the SCS Dirty Dozen AND I even got to meet her at CHA in January.  She really is a doll!  I’ve always loved the images she has created for Whipper Snapper (her birds, dogs and chickens have especially been favorites) so when she announced that she would be creating sets (as opposed to just single images) I knew they would be adorable.  Imagine my excitement when I got the e-mail asking me to be on the rotating team for the Summer – WooHoo!!!! 

Anna is releasing FOUR new sets today – click here to see details on her blog!  I have two cards to show you utilizing two of those sets – Blossoms & Butterflies and Blooming Expressions.

For my first card I inked up the flower with my SU markers and stamped on white cardstock.  I highlighted the bloom with a Spica Glitter Pen and then I colored around the entire flower with a yellow copic marker softened with the colorless blender.  The safron panel was first stamped with a small single blossom from the set and then run through my Cuttlebug.  The little flower in the lower left corner is a Prima Hydrangea that I trimmed down with scissors to be a better scale for my card.  The flag/banner for the sentiment was inspired by cards created by Anna as well as the amazing JulieHRR.

card deets:

cardstock: Regal Rose, So Saffron, white, Prisma Razzleberry Dark

ink: Old Olive, markers in Old Olive and Rose Red, Spica Glitter Pen, Copic Marker

other: SU ribbon – Regal Rose grosgrain and stitched pomegranate, Prima hydrangea, Adorn it yellow jewel droplet, plum Taylor Tots, Marvy punches, Cuttlebug

For my second card I stamped the poppy in Basic Gray ink on watercolor paper and colored it using an aquapainter with ink from the SU pads squished onto a cd.  I used the new colors Pink Pirouette, Riding Hood Red and Kiwi Kiss along with Old Olive knowing that I wanted to use some of this yummy new SU Bella Rosa dp.  I was going for a rich and elegant look this time.  The sentiment is actually all on one line, so I just inked one word at a time and used a Stamp-a-majig for placement. (I guess I could have cut the words apart, but I thought of that later *eye roll*) I love that Anna included basic sentiments like Happy Birthday and Thank you in this wonderful set.  Plus she has used really beautiful fonts!  (Do you love fonts as much as I do?)  I doodled around the edge of the image panel and clipped the corners with a ticket corner punch before triple layering onto Riding Hood Red, Kiwi Kiss and Old Olive cardstock. The element in the lower left corner is a rub-on from SU’s Eastern Elegance adorned with Karen Foster adhesive rhinestones in light green.

card deets:

cardstock: Old Olive, Black, Kiwi Kiss, Riding Hood Red, Bella Rosa dp, watercolor paper

ink: SU Basic Gray, Palette Hybrid Noir Black

other:  Old Olive grosgrain, Old Olive brads, ticket corner punch, Eastern Elegance rub ons, Karen Foster rhinestones, foam tape, aquapainter

As if being on the team wasn’t exciting enough, I just about came unglued when I saw who was going to be on the team with me.  I admire every single one of these ladies and couldn’t be happier to work side by side with them (just hoping I can keep up! LOL!).  I’m off to see what each of them has created…wanna come along with me?  This is going to be some fun blog hopping for sure!

Carol Halvorson
Happiness Blooms

Leslie Miller
Running with Scissors

Pam Hooten
Iris Garden

Trudee Sauer
Follow Your Bliss

In all the excitement I almost forgot to mention…at the Carson Rubber Stamp Convention on Saturday, besides almost having dinner with Tim Holtz (oops – did I drop a name?), I won a drawing for $10 worth of free product at Auntie Amy’s booth.  We had just walked up to look at the booth and they asked if we wanted to enter because they were about to draw.  Well of course we wanted to enter!  About 2 minutes later the lady was shouting my name!  Very cool!  I got some Crafty Secrets Cotton Scraps (been wanting some for a long time) and some Kaiser Craft pearls in bright red.  FUN!  Now if I could just win that Spellbinders drawing – I actually managed to enter all 14 days so I have my finger crossed!  Looks like this could be my lucky week!

Thanks for stopping by.  If you have a minute please leave a comment to let me know what you think of all of Anna’s new sets.