I spend most of the morning uploading the Scrapbooking purse I posted earlier here, on SCS and the Creative Imaginations gallery. I knew I wanted to do today’s challenge. It was a relativ easy limited supply challenge. We could use anything we wanted, but we only had 45 minutes. I was using every single second of that, but I think I stayed in the limit.
By the way….Jen70, our Limited Supply challenge hostess has her birthday today! What’s up with all of us being born in April? Those July nights….LOL I have Jennifer’s address if you would like to send her a birthday card!!!
When I first started stamping, I hardly ever ventured out of the Earth Element group. That is definitely my comfort zone. Bold and Brights….very much not! LOL I did change and learned to love the Bold and Brights…at least some of them…but Earth Elements are my roots!
I started with watercoloring paper from Stampin’ Up! and these cute birds from Crafty Secrets. (Yes, I got another sweet box in the mail and yes, my husband doesn’t know about it. Yes, I am broke….but boy oh boy….is it sweet to have new stuff! If you dare to look at my new loot, click on more.) You can purchase Crafty Secrets merchandise at Sweet Miss Daisy’s store Sassy and Sweet Crafts. She is out of the bird stamps right now but already ordered more and should have them back in next week.
I stamped the birds in black Palette and sprayed the watercoloring paper with my water mist bottle. Then I used aqua painter and lots of different Stampin’ Up! classic inks (So Saffron, More Mustard, Really Rust, Close to Cocoa, Sage Shadow, Always Artichoke and Bashful Blue) to color the birdies in. Usually I don’t like my watercoloring at all. But I do like it this time. When I was done coloring, I turned the paper around and scored a 1/4″ border around the image. I then used the paper piercing mat, a ruler and a stylus to make that scoring deeper and let the image appear dry embossed.
I used the cutter tool kit from Stampin’ Up! to distress the edges of the watercoloring paper and it’s chocolate chip mat. Then I ran a 4″ x 5 1/4″ piece of Really Rust through the cuttlebug machine.
I used a cuttlebug die to make the little buckle and stamped the saying on it with palette ink. Next I watercolored it with the same colors I used on the birds.
The patterned paper is from the Wanted collection of Cosmo Cricket. I distressed the top border and taped it onto the rust background. I then taped the birds on that and ran a ribbon with the ribbon buckle underneath the bird image. I held the ribbon in place with brads.
Last I layered the whole thing on chocolate chip cardstock.
Psh…..don’t tell my man. But look at it! It needed to come home to me.
Beate
Stay at Home Mom of Three, Splitcoast Team Member and Copic and Spellbinders die Lover.18 Responses to “Limited supply challenge – back to my roots”
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This card is very beautiful! I love those birds. Thanks for sharing it with us.
Preachin to the choir re: supplies. ;D
That is one gorgeous card! I LOVE the colors! I think I’m an Earth Elements kind of person too! You are too funny! My husband doesn’t know about a lot of the “packages” I get either! If he really read my blog, though, he’d realize that I talk about my “new stuff” that the project is made with all the time! LOL
This card is so sweet!
Oohhh, you bad girl! LOL! If I keep seeing cute cards made with that birdy set, I’M going to be broke, too!! I love that little buckle you made.
Gorgeous card. Those beauties would have had to come home with me too!!!! I have no self control.
OH I know what you mean..this week has been HORRIBLE for me. I visited the scrapbook store!!! UH OH…I gotta post my “new friends” on my blog sometime this weekend!!
xoxo
ronee
I love this card – what a great vintage look! Your watercoloring is fabulous! I’m also an Earth Elements gal, so I can completely relate. And I also relate all too well about the packages (and keeping them somewhat hidden from the hubby!) – I’ve had quite a few of those lately. And everyone is making me really want a cuttlebug as well – not sure how much longer I can resist the urge…!
Beautiful card Beate! I really like those birds.
I love the Earth Elements and I have coveted it ever since Anna blogged about it. Oh no, Beate…you are going to enable me again (thank gawd for Mother’s Day prezzies!)…
Wow! I love that watercoloring – someday I will be brave enough to break mine out of the drawer! And, your secret is safe with me – I went to five, count ’em five stores this week and brought home BIG bags from each! Shhhhh……..
Wow, Beate! This is gorgeous! I can tell you’re in your element with these colors. I love it!
Beate, you are TOOO funny girl! But I must admit, I do the same thing when I start ordering. I have an order waiting for me in California from Ellen’s store that I just can’t WAIT to play with!!!
Beautiful card, those little birds are adorable.
Have a wonderful day!
Huggs,
Jana
This is just so beautiful and evocative, lovely!
Beautiful card! I love the colors and your watercoloring looks gorgeous!
Beautiful job Beate, only 45min? Fantastic! Love what you picked up too….I won’t tell a soul!
Beate, I know what you mean about the colors AND these birds!! LOVE them and what you did with them!!!
You did an AWESOME job, this is a wonderful creation!!! I love those birds too. I won’t say a thing about your “STUFF” ssssshh. Do you know whether or not your DH reads your blog? LOL & TFS.