Flowers from Cocoa

Wow, what a gorgeous day here in Buffalo- sunny and 75, sweet! Today I have a Cocoa card to show you- Flowers from Cocoa.



So for my card today, colored with copics, stickles added to flower centers, white gel pen to accent nose, and glimmer mist sprayed over the whole card. The layout was the SCS sketch challenge this week. The colors were chosen because it is SNSS digi day on both Paper Craft Planet and SNR card Universe. If you participate in our challenge (which is a color challenge purple and green), you have a chance to win some of Sweet N Sassy digi stamps- pretty cool! I also participated in the Cute Card Thursday challenge which was touchy feely using textures on your card. So my patterned paper has a texture to it and there are also the flowers, ribbon and stitching. Speaking of stitching this is also a second entry for the stamp something stitch which ends in a couple of hours.

closer look



Supplies:
stamps- SNSS flowers from Cocoa digi, Verve sentiment
CS- PTI plum pudding, SU celery, Neenah white from Paper Temptress, My Minds Eye Penny Lane collection dp
accessories- copics, glimmer mist, pearls, primas, sewing machine, PTI satin ribbon, stickles

Hugs and Blessings,
Janette

My First Magnolia!

Hi there. Now, you have not come to the wrong blog, you hear it correctly- I have given in and used my first Tilda image today. I have been pretty much been resistant to using them until now. So, while I was in PA I was blessed to be able to stamp some images that my friend Kathy had. So without further ado, I bring you my first Tilda card- Princess Tilda....



I was really out of my element for this card because I was going for the shabby chic look. Hopefully I pulled it off. I colored the sweet image with copics and then when over it with a spica pen. I used stickles on her crown. I distressed all the edges with scissors and sewed them. I also further distressed the card base and the image panel with walnut stain distress ink. I used a flower punch for the big flowers and sanded their edges. The smaller flowers on top of them are the Michaels white bridal flowers which I colored pink with my RV10 copic marker. When the card was finished (which took me forever btw) I sprayed the whole thing with Diamonds glimmer mist to give the whole thing shimmer.

close up


can you see the subtle shimmer?


I actually participated in 4 challenges with this card. The first is Cute Card Thursday which was to make a monochromatic card. The second was the Friday sketchers so my layout of this card was their sketch for the week. The third challenge was from the Just Magnolia challenge blog and it was to use punches on your project. The fourth was the Stamp Something challenge was was to stitch/sew on your creation, which is something that I like to do quite frequently on my cards.

Supplies:
stamps- Magnolia Princess Tilda, Verve Circular sayings
CS- memory box dp, white Neenah, kraft
accessories- copics, sewing machine, pearls, flower punch SU, bridal flowers, glimmer mist, grosgrain ribbon, circle nesties

So, what do you think?? Hope you liked my card for today and I am very blessed that you stopped by. Have a wonderful day!