Colorshine Cards Part 2

Hey paper peeps! Welcome to the continuing saga of my Colorshine Card adventures ;) I have a couple more cards for you today, both of which are Valentines woohoo! My first one is using the new heart shaped Color Shine card by Heidi Swapp, find them at Michaels! Here is what I came up with!

 

Seriously I know we hear this all the time, but the possibilities are really endless. I'm sorry. I had to go there. I used the Blush Color Shine which is my absolute favorite. It's just so soft and purty!

 

I wanted to jazz up the heart with a word cut out, but I don't have the Silhouette or anything like that (I've been dreaming of owning one fo-evuh now!) so I just used some regular letter dies, opened it up and ran it through my big shot like this;

 

Turned out pretty cute, but just be careful that you plan out your letters first and make sure you have room for all of them lol I kinda scared myself a little, thought I was gonna run out eek! I added some glittery paper behind the letters to make them pop!

 

On the inside I used a new Heidi Swapp background stamp with white heat embossing powder, and I love how it turned out! For some reason the pics are super dark but the card is really light and pretty in real life?

 

 

I did a light coat of the Blush Color Shine first, then laid down the heart negative from the heart stencil set and sprayed it again, which left this faded looking heart there. I love it!

 

I love making the inside of cards look pretty too! Especially if I'm not putting money in it ha!

 

Okay for my next trick I have another Color Shine Card, a super simple one using a mixture of the Coral & Blush shines.

 

 

I used the card with the adorable heart already cut out, and a Pink Paislee watercolor paper tag with the word LOVE cut out ;) The little hearts can be found in the Color Magic Ephemera Pack which I would suggest buying more than one...just sayin...

 

I just attached the tag by punching a hole at the top of the tag and the front cover top of the card, and tied some dyed ribbon in it.

 

So fun and it was a super easy and fast card!

 

If any of you would like to send me a Valentine I wouldn't be mad.... ;)

 

Have a beautiful day and get scrappin!

 

Love, Rah

 

So Lucky To Have You!

Hey happy happy Sunday! I woke up to a beautiful landscape of rolling snowy drifts sprinkled with tiny specks of glitter, one of Gods greatest gifts to me lol! I love that! It's so pretty it makes up for the coldness ;) I finally got my mitts on some of the new Colorshine Cards at Michaels by Heidi Swapp. I spent the whole darn day a few hours playing in the midst of shiny clouds of color yesterday and came up with some fun idears for them! The first one I'm going to show you is kinda weirrrrrd, being that it's just now turning February. I had this stinkin St. Patty's Day card in my head so I just bit the bullet and made it lol!

 

I do have the regular green Colorshine called "Chartreuse" but I didn't want it to be that dark, so I sprayed the Mustard & Teal together and let it sit and pool together, then blended it with my paper towel, which seems to be what made the magic happen.

 

The rest is just fun little details! I ran the little journaling die cut spot through my big shot with the word "lucky" die cut which is from Papertrey Ink. I love these new letter stamps from Lawn Fawn, so cute!

 

If you're wondering where the clovers came from, they are the back petals of one of the Colorshine flowers at Michaels, just tore them babies right off and sprayed them down! Cut them in half and you have yourself some clovers ;)

 

If you;ll notice on the tab below, there are some subtle music notes...

 

 

I wanted to add some visual interest without it being too busy, but don't freak if you don't have the perfect color ink to match, this is a quick fun tip that will work EVERY TIME!!

 

All you need is a stamp and your Versamark Watermark Stamp!

 

 

All you do is after you Colorshine, stamp your image in the watermark ink, then just let it sit and dry, don't do anything to it! It will dry just a tad bit darker than your background color, and it's the perfect color every time ;)

 

 

Isn't that awesome?! Love it!

 

I have some more cards to share, so stay tuned! Thanks for stopping by!

 

Love, Rah xoxo

 

 

You sparkle

Good morning! How are you today on this chilllyy Saturday morning? I have something that will warm you up just a little ;) It's my turn over at the Marion Smith Designs Blog, and I made this wintery layout of my adorable niece Kassidy using the Garment District line and a white resin rose from Marion Smith!

 

I also used some other products I had on hand like papers by Fancy Pants Designs, some polka dot vellum, Thickers, and some Papertrey Ink snowflake dies cut out with white sparkly paper!

 

I used Marion's new white resin rose, isn't it gorgeous? They have new gigantor ones coming soon, I cannot wait to play with them! 

 

Make sure you get your hands on some of this Garment District Line before it's gone, it is so beautiful!

 

Thank you for stopping by and have a wonderful weekend!

 

LoVe, Rah

xoxo

 

 

Be Soulful

Woah it's already Wednesday?! Woohoo for the short work week! ;) I'm sure you've seen the latest craze in altering paint brushes, and that's what our challenge for today was over at the Marion Smith Designs blog. It was so much fun! It was like working with a blank canvas, doing whatever popped into my imagination is what came out onto the brush. Here is what I came up with, using some of the beautiful papers from Marion Smith's shop!

I just love angels, so anytime I can throw a set of wings on something, that's what's gonna happen lol!

Some fussy cut flowers all nestled in from Marion's stunning new Nirvana collection coming out soon!

Wings from Prima Marketing, word stickers from Melody Ross, metal word is a jewelry finding from Michaels,

Hope you like it! I think my girl slid down a little so I was debating on adding a small crown above her, what do you think?

This would be a great swap or a gift for an artsy friend to hang in their studio! Maybe attach a little frame with your picture? Or have your kids decorate their own brush with their picture and hang it in your studio?! Ugh so cute!

I love art! And it's even more awesome when it has a special meaning to it, yes? I put the words "be soulful" to remind me to create things with a purpose, not just for the sake of making something pretty all the time.

Have an amazing artsy day and don't forget to go check out the other stunning brushes from the rest of the design team over at Marion's blog! What a fabulous team!

Love, Rah

xoxo