Summer memories

My inspiration for this card was from a place we use to go when I lived in Maryland. My grandparents had a summer house there in Chesapeake Isle and we use to spend time there during the summer. I have such fun memories of playing with my cousins at the beach, and exploring Turkey Point and the lighthouse there. We use to have some wicked games of badminton too! : ) On the drive out to the summer house, along the road were tons of the wild orange daylilies. They were so pretty, and to this day they are still my favorite color.

This card started off by embossing on cream cardstock in clear, and then coloring the image with copics, Then I covered the image with versamark and spritz the image with some glimmer mist in orange tones and embossed again with clear. I repeated this several time until I was satisfied with the look. The background was stamped using hero hues in poppy, and then misting with the glimmer mist again. Thanks for stopping by, your comments are so appreciated! 

Masked butterfly flowers

 

Last year I took a class in Raleigh by the lovely Michelle Zindorf, beginning and advanced brayering. In that class she showed us also how to mask with clear embossing powder. I love the technique and had forgotten about it until I started working with the butterfly flower stamp. The first thing I did was stamp the image in each corner with versamark on manilla paper. I embossed in clear and then used my copics to color the image in. After coloring I used my versamark pen and colored over my copic coloring and embossed in clear again. Then I stamped the large script stamp in shabby shutter over the image and distressed it with the same color over top. The butterfly and dragonfly were stamped in black again and cut out and colored with copics. 

I have another card to post on Friday, hope everyone is having a great day! 

Artsy blooms

The flower stamp on this card is from Cornish Heritage Farms, the Shady Tree Studio collection. I received an email last week saying they were closing the company. They have really pretty stamps, but the flower ones I love. I stamped the rustic background from Studio 490 in shabby shutter. Then I stamped the flowers in black and colored with copics, R24, 27 & 27, YG93 and 95. The butterflies from PTI, are stamped in ripe avocado as well as the sentiment from Hero Arts. Have a great Tuesday!