Loonie Stampers #39

It's Loonie Stamper Challenge time - #39! I have not been able to do LSC's lately but was ready to play again. This week's colors intrigued me - I do love black and cream together (Wendy I don't know why that's hard for you - you talented Diva!) and why not add a "POP" of color with Hibiscus Burst.


I needed an anniversary card so went for a romantic floral look. Kept it pretty simple - the rose is from Gina K's Year of Flowers set, colored with copics. The rest was created with Cuttlebug, nesties, punches, ribbon and a couple of fun black Glitter Dots for just a little "bling".


Thanks, girls for letting me play along.
Check out the amazing projects from my Loonie Friends:

Wendy Char Dee Regan Jewels Maria

OMS Tutorial by Gina K

StampTV - another tutorial was posted today by Gina K. (By the way - I was SO excited - my card for the Stamp TV Kissing Technique Challenge (posted yesterday on my blog) was randomly chosen as the winner this week! Woo hoo! I win a Gina K stamp set! Can we say grate-ful! Meanwhile, this week's technique challenge was to create a card using the OMS and colored pencil coloring technique. I learned this technique on the stampin' cruise in October and it is one of my favorites. I think that Gina K said it best at the end of her tutorial - you feel like an artist when you are done!

I am in love with the Year of Flowers set and turn to it again and again. I needed a very special thank you card and thought nothing's more beautiful than roses as a way so say thanks. SO I got out my Koh-i-noor pencils, my OMS, my blender stumps and got to work. Since the images were fairly large and certainly dominate the card I chose a very simple layout with some complimentary colors (Summer Sunrise and Berry Sorbet from PTI) and simple words from two different Gina K sets (I love how I can mix and match the sentiments! YES!) I could not tie a bow tonight to save my soul so I used a folded bow instead. Had the perfect button to finish it all off :-) Coloring with OMS and pencils or with my copics is total relaxation for me!

Stampin Cruise and a BD Rose for Gina K

For those of you who don't know - I was blessed to be able to go on the Stampin' Cruise to the Western Caribbean in October where I met three AMAZING women - Nichole Heady from Papertry Ink, Gina Krupsky from Gina K Designs and Emily aka Emmabella from Stampin' Bella. That cruise and those women changed my stampin' life! I also met an entire community of other women who share my passion for stamping and papercrafting. This picture is my BF Barbara and the AMAZING goodie bag we each received from the 3 companies! Can you say WOW?!?


I've been so focused on the PTI challenges that I've not posted some of the work with my other stamp sets. Gina K is one special lady and she recently celebrated a birthday - since she just lost her dad we were asked to send cards to Gina for her BD. This is the card I made for Gina using A Year of Flowers stamp set. I used my colored pencils and OMS to color the rose - I have not yet purchased Copic markers although they are near the top of my list. :-)

The ribbon and card stock are from PTI and so are the birthday words. The words are on clear, flexible material so you can curve them on your acrylic block which is what I did here to make them sort of follow the curve of the oval. (I didn't get it perfect but I will, with practice.)