Loves Rubberstamps Inspiration Saturday and Happy Valentine's Day!

Hello Friends and Happy Valentine's day!   I hope you all have some fun plans today...whether you're spending it with one special person, your family or even just doing something special for yourself, I hope it's a sweet one!!! :)  And of course, to celebrate this special holiday, I couldn't NOT make a Valentine's day card, right?!!

So here it is...

You might have recognized that I made a similar card a few weeks ago....well actually the background was similar!  I just love making these water color backgrounds and playing with my distress inks!!!   I took some water color paper and then added lots of water and some fun Tim Holtz distress inks in shades of pinks and purples.  I then took some water droplets to splatter all over my card and picked them up with a paper towel.  The resist effect the distress inks have with this technique is pretty cool.  You can't really see it in the photo but you can really see it up close!  The adorable image on my card is by The Greeting Farm and she is from the Bean collection.  This cutie is called Sweetie Bean and one of my all time favorite images for Valentine's Day!  I had so much fun coloring her up with my Copics.  I added lots of Wink of Stella all over her outfit and her heart garland to give her lots of shimmer.  The sentiment was stamped onto my paper using Versamark Ink and then embossed with some Ranger black sparkling powder.  I finished off my card with some fun colorful sequins.

Here is the full supply list for my card:

Sweetie Bean - The Greeting Farm

Seedless Preserves - Tim Holtz distress ink

Picked Raspberry - Tim Holtz distress ink

Spun Sugar - Tim Holtz distress ink

Shaded Lilac - Tim Holtz distress ink

Black Sparkling Embossing Powder - Ranger

Versamark Watermark Stamp Pad - Tsukineko

Copic Markers

Black Tuxedo - Memento Ink

Multi Multi Liquid Glue - Tombow

Hope you give these water color backgrounds a try!

Have a great  Valentine's Day weekend and thanks so much for stopping by!

Hugs,

Marcy

I'm entering this card in the TGF Farm Fresh Friday Challenge: Love is in the Air

Love is in the Air with "Sweetie Bean"!

Hello and Happy TGIF!!!  Hope everyone had a wonderful week! My week was pretty hectic so I'm definitely looking forward to this weekend for some relaxing time and hopefully some crafting time as well!  Well to start off this weekend, we have a fun Farm Fresh Friday Challenge for you all! This week's theme is "Love is in the Air".  Head on over to the The Greeting Farm Blog where you can find all of the details for this fun challenge!

And here's my card....

So who better for this theme than "Sweetie Bean" flying in the air with her garland of hearts!!!   This gal is really growing on me and I'm having so much fun creating with her!  I decided to do something a little different with this card by coloring Sweetie up in monotone colors.  I used my copic Ws (warm grays) and some touches of light pink.  I also added some tiny pearls to her heart garland and some pretty chiffon lace with pearls which I had in my stash.  I once again used this gorgeous collection of papers called Lost and Found "Heirloom" by My Mind's Eye which is also found at the TGF store.  Please check out The Greeting Farm blog to see the other "Love is in the Air" projects by my fellow DT gals.  Have a fantastic Friday and enjoy your weekend! Thanks so much for stopping by!

Hugs,

Marcy

Copic Colors used:

Hair/Skin: W0, W1, W3, W5

Dress/Heart: RV00

The Greeting Farm Preview Day #3 featuring the sweetest "Sweetie Bean"!!!

Hello, If you are looking for the Loves Rubberstamps "Sensational Sunday" Blog Hop post, please click here! :)

So are you ready for TGF's last day of preview for the January Release?!!  As I mentioned yesterday, this one is a super SWEET one as as the star of today is the adorable "Sweetie Bean"!!!!

And here she is... 

What a sweetie!!!! :) The "Bean" collection has always been a favorite of mine and this one is as adorable as all of the others!  Isn't her garland of hearts too cute?!!!  When I was creating my card, I immediately thought of Valentine's Day coming up  and found this background paper from the collection Love Note by Fancy Pants.  I thought she would look so cute flying from this heart tree like she picked the hearts on her garland from the tree itself!  I decided to paper piece this little gal's outfit and her hearts. I also added some glitter to her wings to give her more shimmer.  I thought she came out so cute!  "Sweetie Bean" will be released at The Greeting Farm store on 1/1/2014.  Please check out The Greeting Farm Blog to see other design team projects for the "Sweetie Bean" preview.  Each day, they will be giving away the preview stamp of that day so make sure to visit the TGF blog and leave comments today so you can own "Sweet Bean"!

Hope you all like my "Sweetie Bean" card and have enjoyed the 3 days of  preview for the new January 2014 release! Tomorrow starts the TGF Blog Hop so please be sure to come back to participate and win these awesome stamps! Have a wonderful day!!! 

Copic Colors:

Skin: E00, E11, E93

Hair: R59, R56, R86, R83