Date Night Sky

Are you enjoying your Catherine Pooler Designs Date Night Party Inks as much as I am? Love these colors! I have a card today based off a previous card I made. I created an ink blended sky using the Date Night Party Inks.

I started with a card base made from Ultra Smooth White Cardstock, then ink blended the following new colors from top to bottom: Drive-In, Pucker Up, Catching Rays, and Chiffon. I used the new Catherine Pooler Designs Blending Brushes-they are fabulous!

I stamped with Drive-In the mountains from Mountain of Thanks Stamp Set and die cut with the corresponding Mountain of Thanks Dies. I added some clouds, also from  Mountain of Thanks Dies and then a sentiment from Mountain of Thanks Stamp Set.

These colors are so rich and vibrant!,What new ink color is your favorite?

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Moody Flowers

I've been drawn to images I see of moody flowers...weddings, paintings, home decor. I love the bright spots popping out of a dark background, almost like beginning to live again after a rough period in life. The January Altenew Inspiration Challenge reminded me of moody flowers, I tried to mimic the foggy background.

I started by masking, stamping and white heat embossing on dark cardstock various blooms and foliage from Dahlia Blossoms and Peony Bouquet, coloring in with colored pencils. The dark pink shade got a bit more purple on me than I wanted, but I still like the colors. I then deepened the background with ink, and added silver splatters and white splatters of  paint. The colored wax from my colored pencils transferred to the embossing, which I think is a fun accident!

I finished the card with a strip of darkened silver glitter tape, and a sentiment from the Many Thanks Stamp Set.

Bundle of Joy on the Way

My mom requested a card for a baby shower and truth be told, I don't have a lot of baby stamps in my stash! It was a grand coincidence as well, that the current LawnFawnatics Challenge #92 is all about Outstanding Occasions. What better occasion than a new baby on the way!

I am lucky to be the owner of an older Lawn Fawn stamp set called Plus One, and was able to feature this cute buggy on my card. I created a custom, dreamy background with the smaller stamps in the set along with ink blending of soft yellows and greens. I bordered the background with small scallops and then popped up the buggy over a sentiment banner and sentiment, also from Plus One.

Love the greens and yellows, and it worked out perfectly that the new mother-to-be doesn't know if she is having a girl or boy yet.

Date Night Kittens

Catherine Pooler Designs is kicking off 2021 with a sweet little Valentine mini-collection. Love-N-Hearts has a sushi date theme for all the cutesy, pun-loving peeps and a hip hearts theme that anyone will love. The release will also have the eight (8!) new Date Night Party Inks all hitting the shop! Do-Si-Do, Catching Rays, Chiffon, In the Park, Cummerbund, Serenade, Drive-In, and Pucker Up are the colors, and they are fabulous!

(photo credit of Catherine Pooler Designs)

 I have another card featuring the Date Night Inks that my son also helped out with. He saw the cat from the stamp set On The Windowsill and declared a card was needed for his aunt, who is a vet. So we set about creating the grid on the card base and he stamped out the cat in the following new colors: Drive-In, Chiffon, In the Park, Do-Si-Do, Twilight is in the middle (but this is not a new color), Pucker Up,  Catching Rays, Cummerbund and Serenade. The sentiment, stamped in Midnight Ink is from the super versatile Thoughtful Phrases Stamp Set. We finished the card with a heart stamped from the His & Hers Stamp Set.

What new ink color is your favorite?

The inks are available in a bundle of pads and refills, just ink pads, just refills, and individually as well!

Catherine Pooler Design's newest release, Love-N-Hearts will be available soon! (January 12th TOMORROW for StampNation Members, January 13th for general public). 

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Grass and Gates

 

The MFT Wednesday Sketch Challenge #523 reminded me so much of a comic book page layout, so I took inspiration from those kind of graphics and colors as well for my card tonight.

I stamped, cut and Copic colored four dogs from the retired MFT Puppy Kisses Stamp Set. I then die cut two sizes of rectangles and squares, coloring each with a bright light blue marker. Each also received some grass, die cut from the Grassy Hill Die-Namics and colored with Copics as well. The rectangles also received a fence cut from the retired Frightful Fence Die-Namics. A dog was tucked behind the fence or in front of the grass. 

I finished the card with a sentiment stamped from the also retired Woodland Friends Stamp Set from MFT and die cut from the Skinny Strips Die-Namics from red cardstock. I thought this was a fun, bold take on the sketch. I love looking at the gallery, there are so many fabulous, soft, ink blended shapes to match the sketch challenge!

Catherine Pooler Designs:: Date Night Ink

Catherine Pooler Designs is kicking off 2021 with a sweet little Valentine mini-collection. Love-N-Hearts has a sushi date theme for all the cutesy, pun-loving peeps and a hip hearts theme that anyone will love. The release will also have the eight (8!) new Date Night Party Inks all hitting the shop! Do-Si-Do, Catching Rays, Chiffon, In the Park, Cummerbund, Serenade, Drive-In, and Pucker Up are the colors, and they are fabulous!

(photo credit of Catherine Pooler Designs)

Today's card features the Date Night Inks in all their glory! This has to be one of my most favorite cards, ever, even though it might be simple.

1. My youngest son (he's 14!) declared one night that he wanted to stamp with me. He chose the deer image from Catherine Pooler Designs Wild About You Stamp Set and we worked together on the simple design. He set up the MISTI and we stamped together.

2. This simple design showcases the amazing versatility of these inks when the stamps overlap, as well as the vibrancy and solid images you get when stamping with these inks.

The new colors showcased from top left to bottom right are: In the Park, Serenade, Drive-In, Cummerbund, Chiffon, Do-Si-Do, Pucker Up, and Catching Rays. I added a double stamped sentiment from the Sincere Thanks Stamp Set in Midnight Ink.

What new ink color is your favorite?

The inks are available in a bundle of pads and refills, just ink pads, just refills, and individually as well!

Catherine Pooler Design's newest release, Love-N-Hearts will be available soon! (January 12th for StampNation Members, January 13th for general public). 

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