Category: Cards

Art Inspiration, Cards, Faith Art Challenge, Faith Based Art, For Others Creations

Faith Art Day 2 – Blessing Trellis Cards

Ruth Cooper

Hi Angels!

Our anniversary and my birthday are 4 days apart and this year we will celebrate our 45th anniversary with a big 2 week trip. I will take blessing cards with me to share along the way.

We are called to be the light wherever we go. Blessing cards are a small way of sharing love, kindness & encouragement.

These Trellis cards will be thank-you cards for our Airbnb stays. I will need to create one more as we will stay in 3 total on our trip. I will place a personal thank-you and Bible verse inside each card.

Fun and easy to make the flowers, butterflies & sentiments have a 2 color Distress Oxide blend on them. I used Shaded Lilac, Salvaged Patina, Kitsch Flamingo & Dried Marigold for blending. I did one card in trellis style & the other in picket fence style.

Thanks for stopping by.

Blessings!

Art Inspiration, Cards, Challenges, Lavinia Stamps

Butterfly Blessings

Ruth Cooper

Hi Angels!

I started this challenge card on Thursday when it was posted before we attended Riverdance’s 25th Anniversary show. Finished it on Friday & then ended up with no internet because while laying our new fiber line, they chopped through our existing cable line. Add in a couple of migraines & I think I’m stuck with off & on posting for awhile.

Thursday’s challenge was 2 colors, I chose my favorite combo of purple & green but decided while splattering to add in some gold. For challenges like this, I just start poking through my supplies & playing to come up with a design. It’s actually fun & inspiring.

I had finally picked up a couple of the Lavinia Sticker Stencil sets but hadn’t had a chance to play with them. I used both the positive & negative butterfly to create this card. Partially inspired by Riverdance, I pulled out my Judikins background stamp of the Book of Kells & stamped it into the butterfly center after inking & splattering. The diecut butterflies feature alcohol ink & I opted for a diecut sentiment.

Hopefully I can catch up on Friday’s & yesterday’s challenges tomorrow.

Thanks for popping by.

Blessings!

Art Inspiration, Cards, Simon Says Stamp

Sweet Tweets

Ruth Cooper

Hi Angels!

I hope your Easter weekend has been full of blessings!

Mine was a bit busy including some time without internet service. Long story. So glad it’s been restored so I can post again.

I enjoyed creating these Easter cards for our granddaughters using Simon Says Stamp Sweet Tweets Easter kit.

I love the images in this stamp set and decided to follow one of the designers samples and add the honeycomb eggs to the middle of the cards for a pop-up feature. The images were colored with Prismacolor pencils.

Have a fabulous week!

Blessings!

Art Inspiration, Cards, Challenges, Lavinia Stamps

Whisper Fragile Truth

Ruth Cooper

Hi Angels!

It’s been a minute. Allergies are still trying to win the war here. I have been doing some creating but can’t share just yet.

Eileen Godwin issued a challenge this morning on her group & I love a good challenge & it was just the inspiration I needed after a long day of errands to grab some supplies & create. The challenge was very basic – start with a stencil then add in a stamp or two.

I only have a handful of Lavinia stencils & I picked out Feather Leaf and grabbed some blending brushes that still had ink on them from another project to blend the background. I stamped Mooch in Versafine Clair, the neat part is because I used Distress Oxides, you can see the stencil pattern under the black ink. I decided the Fairy Orb needed color too & blended 3 different colors onto the stamp. The sentiment is an old Post Modern design stamp from my stash that is probably around 15 years old now.

It was so much fun just to grab a couple things, play & design as I went.

I hope you are having a great week!

Blessings!

Art Inspiration, Cards, Catherine Pooler Designs, Lawn Fawn, My Favorite Things, Taylored Expressions, Unity Stamp Co

Hello Spring

Ruth Cooper

Hi Angels!

I had so much fun designing these cards for our granddaughters and I love sending them Happy Mail.

I used Unity Stamp Co’s Spring Mouse for the focal image & colored with Prismacolors and stenciled with My Favorite Things raindrops with glitter paste. The background paper is Lawn Fawn’s Flower Market. The flowers were created with Taylored Expressions Buds & Blossoms dies that we received in our Crop & Create event kit and the sentiment if from Catherine Pooler Designs. Nothing like combining all the companies to create a card.

Thanks for stopping by.

Blessings!

Art Inspiration, Cards, Classes, Concord & 9th

Pretty Petals – Concord & 9th In The Classroom

Ruth Cooper

Hi Angels!

My final share from last weekend’s event. I’m knee deep in this weekend’s event with 19 classes and/or demos. Since I started yesterday with a severe migraine, I threw the live schedule out the window & am working off the videos after the lives.

I love the different style of these stamps & dies from the Pretty Petals set. The small one is notecard size.

This is one of the main reasons I like Concord & 9th, their designs are a bit outside of the box. Once you have a half a dozen companies all coming out with the same thing like sunflowers, they all start to blend together & start looking the same. Concord & 9th produces unique designs.

It’s going to be so much fun when the new colors release next month.

Off to get some rest for tomorrow’s marathon of classes.

Enjoy your weekend.

Blessings!

Art Inspiration, Cards, Concord & 9th

Bold Flowers – Concord & 9th In the Classroom

Ruth Cooper

Hi Angels!

A quick post tonight. The storms brought on a intense migraine & even trying to concentrate on the Crop & Create classes that started today has been challenging. Basically I muddled my way through 2 and not all 4.

Not usually one for large motifs on cards, I wasn’t sure about this big flower die from our Big & Bold class last weekend. Surprisingly I like this card & the variations I’ve seen others do.

What you can’t see in this design is the background die that leaves a stitched outline of all the flowers. It’s so cool for added background possibilities. The layering flowers are a great option. I thought the card needed a little additional pop so I Stickled the flower centers.

I hope you have a great weekend planned ahead.

Thanks for popping in.

Blessings!

Art Inspiration, Cards, Classes, Concord & 9th

Flower Hugs – Concord & 9th In The Classroom

Ruth Cooper

Hi Angels!

The Big & Bold set from our classes came with quite the variety in sizes including cute little flowers that we did cool & warm color cards using the new colors. So fun. I added in the delicate scallop die from the other class to add some more interest to my cards.

The rows are supposed to be a bit wonky & uneven just for fun and these were intended to be 4 Bar note card size cards but I turned them into regular A2 cards.

I am busy trying to prep for the huge Crop & Create event this weekend. It starts on Thursday and has 19 classes or sessions through Sunday. I don’t plan to try & get all done in one weekend but I’m prepping to get quite a few classes in.

Thanks for stopping by.

Blessings!

Art Inspiration, Cards, Classes, Concord & 9th

Spring Wreaths – Concord & 9th In The Classroom

Ruth Cooper

Hi Angels!

I hope your week is off to a great start.

My allergies keep trying to sideline me but I keep trudging on.

This weekend I participated in Concord & 9th’s Color In The Classroom. If you haven’t heard the wonderful news, they are releasing new colors next month! Yay! We got to play with some of the new colors in class.

These wreaths were one of my favorite designs.

We got 8 of the new colors in ink cubes, several quarter sheets of the new color cardstock & a quarter sheet sampler of all their colors old & new combined. I’ll be saving my pennies for a few of the new colors.

This class included the Big & Bold stamps & dies. Can’t wait to play with them some more.

Thanks for stopping by.

Blessings!