Struck by Inspiration

What are ya gonna do?  When inspiration hit ... you gotta be creative! Right?

Here are a couple of cards I made while waiting for a friend to pop by for a visit.  It's a new stamp set from a recent order; Water Colour Trio stamp set (I just love it - so pretty!)  I used a combination of Bright Bold and Rich Regal colours to make these pretty cards.

This one is Very Vanilla on Rose Red card stock with accents of Tempting Turquoise punched with the Pinking Hearts boarder and corner punch, the Scallop Oval, Large Oval and Oversized Oval punches too.  I used my markers with Rose Red and Regal Rose from the Rich Regals and Green Galore and Gable Green from the Bright Bolds.  The butterfly was done in Basic Brown, Brilliant Blue, Only Orange with a tiny touch of Yoyo Yellow from the Bright Bolds - but as it was the 3rd stamp without a reload, it's very VERY subtle (touched up the body and added the antenna after stamping).


Note: Rose Red & Regal Rose will both be with the New colours in the "Colour Renovation" but both Gable Green and Green Galore will be retiring at the end of June *sniff sniff*  I have been a bright bold girl since day one and I hate to see any of "my" colours retire!  But there will be some of the past "In Colours" that will be back as part of the upcoming Colour Renovation.  Stay tuned for more on this - or email me for a list of the New Colours and the list of colours that will soon be gone.

This card was just one accident after another! *chuckle*  I had intended to put the mounted stamped image with the Tempting Turquoise background on this card front but once I put the ribbon in place, I hadn't left enough room for the edge of the ribbon on the left hand side.  I had stamped 3 different image one after the other on a piece of Very Vanilla card stock, and this image was in the middle.  For some unknown reason, when I was cutting the 3 images apart, I wasn't paying attention when I lined up my cutter for the right side of this one and cut through through the butterfly!  After a moment to think about it, I decided to cut the remaining image in 3 so I could spread them out as I did above.  At first I was going to mount them on another piece of cardstock but once I had made the error with the width of my ribbon bubbles, I knew that the solution was to slip the one piece INTO the bubble to get the spread that I wanted... and it worked!

Regal Rose Ribbon, Very Vanilla & Green Galore card stock, Ice Pink Rhinestone brads (same markers as above - 2nd stamp off of the butterfly).

I just love happy accidents, don't you?

I did have one more image but I haven't finished that card yet ... I'll post it as soon as it's finished, I promise!