Means the Most

The prettiest sight in my "crafty closet" (due to space, I have a table and some shelves set up in my son's room...his closet, actually!) in my Catherine Pooler Designs ink all lined up on their shelf arranged by colors. Today's card features the three new, saturated colors!

I started with a card base made from Ultra Smooth White Cardstock-which really is the best cardstock for ink blending, in my opinion! Onto it, I ink blended a few "loose circles" in Minted, Oh Boy, Sixteen Candles, overlapping each color just slightly. I then splattered some black ink...love the little detail this adds!

I then stamped in Midnight Ink a dragonfly from the Flight of the Dragonfly Stamp Set and die cut a frame from the corresponding Flight of the Dragonfly Dies. The wings I colored with the new inks as well, using a Dove Ink Blender, and then I covered them with a shimmer pen for some sparkle. I adhered the dragonfly to the card base by the body only of the dragonfly, and so that the wings are slightly lifted. I finished the card by stamping a sentiment, also from Flight of the Dragonfly.

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In Focus/Out of Focus Flowers

I was so drawn to the in-focus, out of focus, bright flowers of the Altenew January 2022 Inspiration Challenge image, I wanted to try to recreate the image!

I used a variety of Catherine Pooler inks and outline and solid images from Altenew's Peony Bouquet, Remember This and Beautiful Day stamp sets to recreate the scene. I filled in blank areas with sponged ink. Then I cut the panel and adhered the two pieces to a cardstock base. I stamped the single sentiment from Bright Blossoms Stamp Set in the blank area.

I finished the card with a few white gel pen accents. The experimenting of layering inks and stamps was really very liberating and fun!

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Candlelit Lanterns

Whew! What a week! I started a new job this past week-in an office setting-so it's been trying and draining. I think I'll like it though, despite the driving. I've been working at home since the pandemic started, so it is a new adventure again to go back to being with people.

  

I wanted to share one of my favorite cards I made for the  Catherine Pooler Designs Global Adventure Pt. Duex release. This is the release that also included the three revamped ink colors too. I tried my best to make the lanterns look glowing!

The items on my card today are part of the Adventure in Asia Bundle. I started by die cutting each lantern from the Lantern Festival Stamp Set with the corresponding Lantern Festival Dies onto Ultra Smooth White Cardstock. I then inked them up with Rouge and Glitz inks. I added my own details with a black pen, following the actual stamps as a guide as to where the lines went.

I then adhered them to a white cardstock base, stamping the hangers and tassels  in Midnight, along with a sentiment from the Origami Cheers Sentiment Stamp Set. I love the look of the bright lanterns against the crisp, white background.

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