Category: Art Inspiration

Art Inspiration, Cards, Classes, Taylored Expressions

Flower Market – Stamp Joy

Ruth Cooper

Hi Angels!

I get to spend a crafty weekend with Taylored Expressions Stamp Joy. Today’s classes featured 4 cards from the Flower Market Stamp set & All Together Occasions 2 sets. Some of this weekend’s products will remain exclusive to the weekend & some may release at a later date.

Today’s classes focused on coloring with different mediums. Because of my asthma I did not use alcohol ink markers or Gamsol. I simply used Prismacolors & a regular blending pencil for those 2 cards.

Card 1 was the alcohol ink class. I switched up my colors a bit & used my pencils. Card 2 is the watercolor card and again I switched up my colors. Card 3 is color without coloring and is a fun interactive card too. Card 4 was the Gamsol card and again I just used my Prismacolors.

Another full day of classes tomorrow.

Have a Great Weekend!

Blessings!

Art Inspiration, Bible Journaling, Faith Based Art, Pinkfresh Studio

Rooted & Grounded Fruit – Bible Journaling 7

Ruth Cooper

Hi Angels!

It’s been a week already & we’re only halfway through. Planning on creating when we got home from our short getaway, however home care, groceries & appointments took priority. I started this Bible Journaling page on our trip & finished it up today.

One of the ways we know we are firmly rooted & grounded is by the fruit we produce in our daily lives. Today’s verse is the Fruit of the Spirit. Galatians 5:22-23 TLV

But the fruit of the Ruach is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control — against such things there is no law.

The blessing in disguise on this page came from my last event with Pinkfresh Studio as they had included one of their wonderful Washi sets called Fruitalicious, perfect for this page. Stay tuned I am sure they will release the set sometime in the future.

I used some mixed media stencils for the background, added the die cut washi tape & my verse & easy Bible Journaling.

I have events & classes every weekend for the next 3 weekends so…..there will be plenty to post & share soon.

Enjoy your week!

Blessings!

Art Inspiration, Bits & Pieces, Cards

Celebrate White on White

Ruth Cooper

Hi Angels!

I hope you are enjoying your weekend.

We headed off for a weekend getaway & I brought a wee bit of art supplies. More specifically some items from the infamous Bits & Pieces box.

I was messing around with some extra die cuts & decided to throw them in a bag with a card base, a pack of bling & I grabbed some scrap holographic paper & die cut a couple quick sentiments to choose from. A little bit of creative fun while relaxing.

Thanks for stopping by.

Blessings!

Art Inspiration, Bible Journaling, Faith Based Art

Rooted & Grounded Separate – Bible Journaling 6

Ruth Cooper

Hi Angels!

I hope you are looking forward to the weekend. We are heading out for a short getaway to relax a bit.

I had this idea for a couple of weeks for this Bible Journaling page & finally worked on it the past couple of days. I only have a couple of verses left to journal from my Creative Retreat Rooted & Grounded devotional.

These verses remind us that when we place our faith & hope in God, nothing will separate us from His love.

For I am convinced that neither death nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Messiah Yeshua our Lord. Romans 8:38-39 TLV

A quick ink blended background with a stencil, die cut hearts for a hidden journaling spot, a bit of computer work for the center & corner hearts and some die cut letters/words to finish off. Working in this small travelers notebook is a great way to use up some scraps from the scrap files.

Remember you are beloved child of God!

Blessings!

Art Inspiration, Bits & Pieces, Cards, Scrap Attack

Smile – Scrap Attack

Ruth Cooper

Hi Angels!

I’m playing with a few projects that aren’t complete yet so grabbed some Bits & Pieces & scraps for this Scrap Attack card.

The background scrap is an old piece of paintable wallpaper I created eons ago and I took the negative cutout from the smile & added a scrap of watercolor background to the back to make the focal image. A few more of the new Pinkfresh Studio Ombre Glitter Drops & card created in about 5 minutes.

Thanks for popping in.

Blessings!

Art Inspiration, Cards, Classes, Pinkfresh Studio

Pure Joy – Pinkfresh Studio Create & Connect

Ruth Cooper

Hi Angels!

I hope you are having a great week. We have much to be thankful & praise God for this week already.

Our week started off with a severe storm & tornado that hit our town late Sunday night, about 10 hours no power & 38 hours no internet. We are fine, our town had no serious injuries but there is quite a bit of damage. In Oklahoma we are used to such weather but it’s a couple months early this year.

I finished up my 2nd Pinkfresh class & again I absolutely love this Pure Joy stamp/stencil/die combo.

The first 2 cards are just stenciled for the images and card 3 is stamped, embossed in gold & then die cut. The versatility of the dies is fabulous. For card one I just cut the outline shape, card 2 the individual images are die cut & card 3 has both with the outline color blended by itself then the images die cut & place within the outline.

Thanks for stopping by.

Blessings!

Art Inspiration, Cards, Classes, Pinkfresh Studio

Farm Fresh – Pinkfresh Studio Create & Connect

Ruth Cooper

Hi Angels!

I hope you are having a great weekend. A couple days of migraines this week meant I got very little creating done. I am so happy that was not the case today for the start of the Pinkfresh Create & Connect event.

It is always fun to get to play with new products before they are released for general sale & I absolutely love the Farm Fresh Collection we got to design with for our first class.

I love how these cards have a fresh modern feel while hinting at a bit of vintage too. A mixture of stamping, ink blending, embossing & die cutting then embellishing with the new ombre Glitter Drops releasing Monday and I have a gorgeous collection of cards to brighten someone’s day.

Stay tuned for more class reveals. I will only get through half my classes this weekend because of scheduling but I have plenty of time next week to finish up all 6 classes.

Thanks for stopping by.

Blessings!

Art Inspiration, Cards, Lawn Fawn

Hay There Pop-up Card

Ruth Cooper

Hi Angels!

I’m back with the 2nd card from our pop-up class. These cards are a little bit of work to put together so 2 seemed the perfect number for a class.

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I thought the “down on the farm” theme was perfect for a birthday card so the Hay There & You Goat this were the perfect sets to complete this card. If you’ll notice the grass is the same paper as yesterday’s card. I was able to cut the grass for both cards from one card base piece, using to different grass border dies. I always love maximizing supplies.

I’m definitely going to need to pencil in some more time with my Lawn Fawn sets. They are so cute.

Thanks for stopping by.

Blessings!

Art Inspiration, Cards, Lawn Fawn

Dandelion Wishes Pop-up

Ruth Cooper

Hi Angels!

I had fun designing 2 cards for a class using Lawn Fawn’s Peekaboo Pop-up die set. And no, I’m not back to teaching full time just an occasional class here or there.

Here is card #1:

These mice are so very cute & I used mice from Dandy Day, Bubbles of Joy & Scripty Bubble Sentiments along with the Dandy Day 12 x 12 paper pack.

I hope your week is off to a fabulous start.

Thanks for popping in.

Blessings!

Art Inspiration, Bits & Pieces, Cards, Scrap Attack

Beautiful – Scrap Attack Card

Ruth Cooper

Hi Angels!

I hope you’ve enjoyed a blessed Sunday.

I’m in the middle of designing and after I stopped tonight, I started looking at what I had out on my work surfaces that would make a quick card and created this:

This is literally some leftover scraps & die pieces from other projects that didn’t make the cut along with some extra flowers from my recent flower cards. It took maybe 15 minutes to pull together & that was mainly because I was deciding on the flowers & the 3rd mat layer. Now I have a pretty card for my stash to brighten someone’s day.

I hope you have a great week ahead.

Thanks for stopping by.

Blessings!