Hello Stamplings!
How are you? I hope you had a wonderful week!
I'm starting to picture the days of the week as bowling pins being knocked down by some rapid-fire world-class bowler! You have to admit it's hard to suck every ounce of fun out of each day when you're ducking bowling balls! 🎳
Sorry, there was no need for such a violent analogy. I'll just stick with the gentle art of card-making! Haha, we all know how violent that can be what with scissoring, squashing, slashing, stamping, scoring, stapling, stitching, and schplattering!
Onefer
For this card, I CASEd myself using a card I made back in May 2020. The stamp is Banners & Blooms from Concord & 9th. After white heat-embossing the image, I painted the flowers with my Ziggies. The simple sediment is from Avery Elle.
In an effort to use more pp, I chose this watercolor plaid as a perky background. No winking of the flowers this time because the lads are staying with the neighbors while we are whooshing around and drinking at the famous bar, Hither And Yon.
Twofer
And here we have a very QACAS card. I found the skyline stamped on a white panel in BOB. I have no idea what stamp I used at the time and I no longer own it. Just to be different, I masked the panel with a strip of tape and ink-blended a rainbow-colored sky. A sediment and some bling and walla: Rainbow City!
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Watch out for flying bowling pins!
As always, thank you for coming by to visit the Playhouse and special thanks to you if you take the time to join as a follower!
*Life is too short!
20 comments:
Your watercolor card is just beautiful, Darnell! Perfect background paper, too. :) Fun find in your BOB pile on the second card. Got a good giggle at your joke, too. Happy start of the week and the month, my friend!
Loving your tranquil pastel first card and the clean and graphic lines of your second.
I don't know where the days are going either!!! Last time I looked it was May! I'm all behind with my 2024 Christmas card quota!!
Happy Monday
Kathyk
Those flowers are so feminine and pretty and play so well with the plaid paper! How beautiful! And your rainbow city is looks like a happy place to live! Enjoy!
You come up with the most amazing analogies, and I totally relate to the bowling pin image! I love that plaid paper and the way you used it as a narrow frame for that beautiful floral arrangement. I'm taking note of that design detail. Your ink blended sky is amazing--not sure I could ever get such straight and even stripes! Have a great week!
Two fab cards Darnell, love the DP for your first, a perfect fit for those pretty watercoloured blooms. Masking off the panel to create the rainbow was a stroke of genius! :)
Both such light and happy cards, Darnell - love the colors and your coloring!!
Those pretty little flowers are a wonderful way to say happy birthday! Love your rainbow city too. Two marvelous makes, Darnell!
Oh dear, how dare the boys desert their posts to go visit the neighbours...
Loving that first card - such a beautiful image, and I love how you have used it with the white embossing and the toning paper
The rainbow city is fabulous!!
Blessings
Maxine
First you made me laugh, then you made me oooooh and aaaaaah at your fab cards, lurve the pretty fleurs, and that’s a fun striped city too! Mind the gap…my balls always drop into the gutter 😂 xxx
2 beautiful cards, Darnell xoxo
Your pun meme at the end had me chuckling, Darnell. Great way to start my day. Love your Zig painted panel and the patterned paper looks great with it. Great idea to make a rainbow background for the cityscape. Who wouldn't love to see that.
The cheery colors in these cards made me smile the moment I saw them. Love your Ziggy art work. Those flowers are gorgeous. But I love the rainbow sky, too. Oh how lovely it would be if all our cities had rainbow skies...
Darnell you always make me smile , it's just so good to read your posts and the fun you give to card making... also your super wonderful cards - glad to see the BOBs and PP are being used at your place too. Have a most wonderful day, hugs Robyn ps love the hole joke
Your cards are fun and perky, just what one needs instead of dodging bowling balls! Pretty water coloring, and fabulous rainbow sky, Darnell. And as for walla, I made a side-trip to Walla Walla (yes....) yesterday to craft with a friend - just what the Dr ordered!
Both your cards Darnell are stunning l love the backgrounds and the colours the rainbow background is brilliant and l just love the cityscape and the flowers totally gorgeous xx
I gasped at your first card, it's so gorgeous! Love that watercolor plaid to go with your beautifully watercolored flowers. Wowie, you sure did get inky for your second card, and BOB came through for you again with the cool skyline. Have fun on your meanderings!
AMAZING watercolouring of those pretty flowers on your first card. I love the plaid paper for the background. Your second card is so clever. I love your idea of masking strips to create a rainbow background. xx
I love the first card with the pretty flowers white embossed and some beautiful colour added, and the watercolour look to the plaid paper background is just divine. The second with the rainbow stripes of bright colour over the outline skyline is such a great idea Darnell, and the added gems and sentiment are perfect finishing touches. I do have a card for this weeks I.D.E.A.S., but I know that you are probably too busy to be thinking about anything to do with cards..enjoy the break. x
I just had to pop in and tell you how beautiful your first card is - I used to have a blog but found it took too much of my time. I am addicted to Art Impression little water colors but your beautiful card is calling me "Sandy, make this card!" Bravo Darnell!!
Sandy xx
wow! Your flower stamp looks amazing, so very pretty with the background paper too. Love the rainbow city too.
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