CTMH Clementine Cutie

Hello friends!

I'm back after a couple days off spent with my family travelling around beautiful Washington State.  We traveled up to Levenworth and Wenatchee and visited one of our all-time favorite places Ohme Gardens.  Its an amazing alpine garden created by a family starting in the 1930's and worked on for decades to get it to its present beautiful state.  Each time we go I am overwhelmed by the beauty of the gardens and also by the determination, vision and persistence it took this family to create an botanical masterpiece over their lifetime.  

It was a fun last-minute kind of trip as my husband unexpectedly was able to take time off from work. I love having him home so I didn't mind taking time off from working on my open house but now I need to kick it into high gear!  The kids and I tested out the new cotton candy maker last night - boy howdy that thing is FUN!  If you are in the Seattle Eastside area I'd love to have you come to my Summer Customer Carnival on Thursday, 23 August- see all the details by clicking this link and then send me an e-mail to RSVP!

Now, on to the art you came here to see!  This cutie was made with our new Clementine western themed papers.  Even the big flower embellishment was cut from the bold printed paper for this one.  I made this card before our new burlap ribbon arrived - ours is much lighter and I like it a lot better but this was what I had on hand!

The star shape in one of our Milepost corrugated cardboard shapes.  I simply colored in using cocoa ink on the ridges and white daisy ink inside the valleys and then topped it off with a Baker's Twine bow.

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  I will probably be posting only once or twice a week while I'm getting ready for the open house Summer Customer Carnival but I'll have a TON of artwork to share after the event!

Hugs!

Paige

To make the Clementine Cutie card, click on the following links and get these supplies:

Clementine Paper Pack

Milepost Shapes (corrugated star)

Paradise Baker's Twine

Coming Soon!

Cocoa and White Daisy ink

Foam Tape

CTMH Superhero with Super Powers card

I loved this card so much I made another version with the superhero saying "Happy Birthday" for my son to take to his friend's birthday party a little while ago.  On the inside I wrote "Hope your birthday is as super as YOU are!"

I used our watercolor pencils to color my superhero in and then went over the pencil with our markers.  It gives a nice rich smooth look to the coloring.  For the face I used a Copic flesh tone marker that I bought specifically for images with faces.

If you'd like to make this project, get these supplies:

Paper:  Superhero

Stamps:  Super Powers

Ink:  Sunny Yellow, Black, Markers

Other:  Watercolor Pencils, Durables Metal Squares, Neutral Assortment Baker's Twine, Milepost Coorugated Cardboard Shapes

Thanks for stopping by!

Paige