Craft Roulette ~ Violet Artist Bouquet

TGIF!!  Hope you're having a great week - three cheers for the upcoming weekend!  Today's card is this past week's entry for Craft Roulette.  This will be my 60th submission.

The four parameters that the wheel gave us this week were:

• Project: Thinking of You
• Colors: Fairytale (lots of bold purples this week)
  
• Element: Hears or Ears (the buzz of the bees)
  
• Random: Stamped Background (script and dots stamped in the background)
  

So this week's card features the "Artistic Bouquet" from Power Poppy.  I decided to match the purple hues of my background panel for my bouquet's color palette this week.

For my background I inked it up using some CP Drive-in ink and then used some water to stencil a little bit of the fun Aall & Create stencil through it.  Then I added some dots and gold heat embossed them and also a CP retired script font stamp too.

Make sure to check out Craft Roulette over on YouTube and join us every Friday at 6:30pm CT for a brand new episode! Hope you'll join us tonight for the next episode with Desiree Kuemmerle!

Hope you have a great week!

~ Ally ~

Scrap 'N Stamp ~ Inky Cards

Join me SUNDAY evening at 8pm ET over on the Scrap 'N Stamp Facebook page for a fun Crafty Live.  Click here to visit.

This week, I'll be playing with the alcohol inky backgrounds that we made on Tuesday.  You can view that video HERE.  We're going to make a couple of fun birthday cards!

Hope to see you there! 

~ Ally ~

Sweet November Stamps ~ Apple Harvest Love

Howdy all!  Happy Hump Day!! Today I'm sharing another fun card using the Autumnal stamp "Bountiful Blessings: Apple Harvest" from Sweet November Stamps. 

To begin today's card, I stamped out the sweet little gal, her little squirrel friend and the apple tree branch from the stamp set using a lighter brown ink.  I want a no-line effect to my coloring on today's card.

I decided to pair the image with a specific piece of stripped patterned paper so that's where my color palette came from (note the striped paper on the right side!)

After coloring the whole scene with Copics, I tucked it under my strip of stripped paper and added some machine stitching to the joint.  To accentuate the details of the image, I added some of the finer details back into the image using Polychromo Pencils.

To finish off the card, I stamped the longer sentiment in Jack Black ink and cut it into a slender tag and backed it with another fun polka dot patterned long tag.

Make sure to check out all the amazing stamps over at Sweet November Stamps.  Have a great rest of the week!

~ Ally ~

Scrap 'N Stamp ~ Birthday Hop *Prize*

Welcome to the Scrap 'N Stamp Birthday Bash Blog Hop!

Today's card features the adorable "Myron", a Colorize Thin-lit Die from Sizzix and lots of fun inks!

I began today's card by inking up a whole series of cardstocks using a lot of blue Distress Oxide inks. I die cut each layer of Myron, the frog from each panel and adhered each of them together.  This same look can be achieved by different colors of cardstock.

I did the exact same thing to create the mushrooms.

For the background, I used a variety of Catherine Pooler inks: Melon Ice, Lime Rickey, Martini and Uptown inks.

For the final touch, I added a previously heat embossed birthday sentiment from the Taylored Expressions set "Mini Strips - Birthday" die and stamp combination.

In honor of 16th birthday today, we're having a Birthday Bash SALE!  Save 16% on your order using the code: BASH16 at the checkout.  Coupon expires March 6th. 

If you have happened upon my post, head to the Scrap 'N Stamp blog FIRST and head through all our amazing design team posts:

Scrap'n Stamp (start here!)
Tara
Meghan
Kia
Deepa
Kate
Allison (you are here!)

Now for the GIVEAWAY details...

 GIVEAWAY DETAILS!!

1.  Hop along and LEAVE A COMMENT on each designers blog post.
2.  A WINNER will be chosen by each designer along the hop to receive a $50 gift certificate to the store.
   
3. Winners will posted on the Scrap 'N Stamp blog in late March.  Good luck!

I am at the end of today's blog hop!

Thanks for stopping by and GOOD LUCK!

~ Ally ~