Custom Flower Soft

An idea hit me today. I haven't seen this before, but surely someone else has tried this too. I picked up some Ivory Flower Soft today. I would love to get more colors, but the price adds up so quickly. Then it occured to me to try to custom color it. Guess what? It works! I put some of the Ivory in a small container with a few drops of different alcohol based ink refills. I used Copic ink, Papertrey Pallette ink, and Tim Holtz Alcohol ink. All if them had nice coverage. And now I have colors that match my projects! Here's a photo:

Bag Challenge

When I read about Nichole's challenge, I knew right away what I wanted to make. I decided to keep it simple, in a paper grocery bag style. But I don't usually sew. So that in itself was a challenge!
I cut white muslin using my rectangle scalloped Nestibilites. I lined up all the quilt squares on one block and stamped them using Noir Pallette ink. I added color in the square using my Copics in a spring color scheme. I also went over white ribbon with my pink Copic to make it match. Here's my finished mini bag. It's about big enough to hold a bar of soap. Thanks for looking!

My poor neglected blog

... is finally getting some cards uploaded! First, Here is my Christmas card. I only made about 30 of these. They are much more glittery in real life. Stamps from Papertrey.

A Valentine project...

Tim Holtz stamp for Halloween with Papertrey sentiment...

More Papertrey halloween...

More valentine's...

Nestibilities oval and Papertrey stamps. I got the floral background stamp at a garage sale this summer for 25 cents and glittered it!

Glittery cocoa (from Papertrey) on my fave die from Stampin' Up with Cuttlebug embossing...

My Mind's Eye paper, Kaiser flower and pearls, Purple onion Stamp, Making Memories flourish...

I got this Stampin' Up set just for this baby stamp...

More Purple Onion...

I made these for my husband to give as thank you cards. He's a mailman and got a lot of treats this Christmas season...

I wish I had more time to use this Papertrey quilt set...

Papertrey border with Stampin' Up butterfly on MME paper...

Papertrey again...

New Basic Grey Bittersweet paper and Angel company stamp sentiment on Papertrey Kraft...

Purple Onion Birthday stamp...

And I love how this one turned out. I love the Basig Grey butterflies!

Must stop...

...painting houses. Tiny little houses that is. I'm having too much fun with these. I sneak off to the craft room in 5 minute breaks when I can. And I have several little houses painted now. These are from PTI's Boards & Beams set. I even got a couple of color swatches for hose paint colors at Wal-mart today for more inspiration. Really must stop...no, really. I have so much other work I need to do first...

Flowered card

This is my take on Debbie's design, simplified, but I still like it!

My pretty find

Vintage buttons in a vintage Land O Lakes box at a local garage sale. $1 each for the 2 boxes, and the colors are spectacular! The picture shows half of them. I love finds like this!

Thank You Card

This one uses Kraft paper from Papertrey Ink, that I embossed with the Cuttlebug. I ran across the dots with Robins egg blue pigment ink. The flower center is SU, with ink and marker. I added a dew drop center. The sentiment is from PTI's Bee set, and the ribbon is vintage bias tape I picked up at a garge sale last weekend. Just wait until you see what else I got!