Pinspired Challenge #5

I like doing challenges as a way to find inspiration.  Pinspired Challenge #5  is the first of their challenges I have tried, which is awful of me because my sweet friend Jen is on their Design Team and I adore her talent, especially with stamps. She is seriously one of my stamping heroes. This particular challenge was tough for me because I have a love/hate relationship with rainbows. I felt like this was a great way to challenge myself to use their selected pin to work with something that I don't normally do. Of course, a heart had to sneak its way onto the card, and I am going to hand-letter if I get a chance. I can't change everything that makes what I do mine, right?

I used a 7 gypsies paper, that was black and white patterned and used my Prismacolor Colored pencils to color in the swirls.  Then, I punched the heart, and added a doodle to mimic the swirls. I was happy with how it turned out, and it is always fun to get to play along with friends. There's still time for you to play too!

 Have a sweet day!

~Venetia

 

My Valentine Card

I wanted a simple sentiment this year for my Valentine Card for my husband. I decided that a graphic heart image on a plain Kraft background would be perfect.  I sketched out the heart, and then used a Stadleder marker to darken the lines.  I tried filling the heart with a Prismacolor Artist Marker, but the colors ran, so I ended up using Prismacolor pencils instead.

 I know this isn't the fanciest card. I like the retro feel with the saturated color against the neutral cardstock. I like drawing my cards, it makes it personal, because they are truly a unique creation for the recipient.

Happy Valentine's Day.
~Venetia

 

Valentine

Oh Yes! There's a sketch! Keep Reading!

My youngest is a Girly-girl. She adores pink and all things pretty. We call her the pink princess, and she lives up to it. I enjoy this because my oldest is not at all girly, so I know my youngest comes by it naturally, despite, not because of, her mother. Of course when Valentine's comes into play, the pinker the better. I decided to make her a beautiful Valentine for tomorrow.  Budge is so funny when she gets any sort of card or gift because she is always extremely positive and excited.

Card- Glamorious

 I made this birthday card for my dear friend Heather. I had been saving this "Glamorious" embellishment since CKC Seattle, when I found it at a vendor.  When I picked up the packets with these little accents, the sales person informed me that they were so cheap because they were misprinted. So I ended up buying two because that's how my humor works.  I like made-up words and slang. I add syllables to words to make them sound fancier.  I AM GLAMORIOUS. And since Heather tolerates me, she gets to be glamorious too.

My humor also delights in the "She puts the "high" in maintenance" writing, because it is just wrong enough to be unclear whether they mean the pretty-princess-buy-me lots-of-things of "high" or maybe the illegal sort of "high". I am a dork because I deeply ponder what a misprinted made in China embellishment means.

Did you notice? The lady is nekkid except a bra- a nekkid lady card is awesome. Yes, I am juvenile. I own it.

A glamorious card deserves a little bling, so I added rhinestones, of course.  I also doodled up the envelope, because it made it much, much more glamorious.

Who doesn't need a reminder that life is sweet sometimes?  I have been lucky to have people in my life to remind me that life is sweet. Sometimes, life doesn't always seem so lovely, and it is do easy to get bogged down in the things that are upsetting, depressing, or just uninspiring. 

My biggest cheerleaders are my dear husband, my beautiful girls, and my very best friend, Heather.  Each of them have brightened a dark day for me at some point, and I am so grateful to all of them for helping me to see the bright side of things, and to remember to spend time working on things I love.  So, what makes your life sweet? What makes you smile?

This little card is Jillibean Soup. I love roses on anything.  So, I adore the blue paper on this card.