Moxie Fab World's Spectacular Spectacle Challenge was perfect to inspire me to create a card for our daughter.  She recently had a promotion and we couldn't be more proud!
The peacock feathers are a Flourishes stamp and I stamped them in PTI aqua mist and Hawaiian shores, then added some Spica blue, green and turquoise pens here and there.  I fussy cut them out and bent the "quills" around some frames that I fashioned from black wire.  I thought the patterned (an old K and CO.) paper appropriate and layered it onto a Bazzil textured card stock.


Thanks for taking a peek!


Happy Mother's Day to all mums out there...hope you have a most special day!
Chriss

Another feathered card

• Hi everyone!  Hope your week-end was grand.  I spent most of it in the garden and the yards and beds are shaping up pretty good!
• I made another card using some feathers for the Moxie Fab World challenge, this time adding them to a Memory Box sentiment label where a ribbon should be.  It's a very subtle use of the feathers, but I think it adds a little something when using this little wooden bird that I pulled off of a little clothes peg that I bought at World Market.  The sentiment is from the PaperTrey Ink set Bird Watching.   I layered this beautiful Theresa Collins paper onto a wide grosgrain ribbon, a perfect colour match!  The little croched flower has a circle of the same paper and a button finishes it off.  I love this paper and the colour combo is one of my all-time faves and go-tos.  Thanks for taking a peek!
• Chriss

Layered feather fantasy echinacea

The Moxie Fab World
Fascination with Feathers challenge...have you participated in this one?
I couldn't pass this one up.  I had a great time making this fantasy echinacea flower in shades of blue and green feathers and added a smaller ring of yellow feathers to mimic what I think a feather echinacea flower would look like.  The flower base is a stamped image from a Magenta stamp that I have.  I cut out a portion of it, coloured the leaves with a Copic marker and added some stitching down the centers of the leaves.  I added a fun aqua center that I think is perfect for this whimsical flower!   I placed the decorated flower onto a cut up doily with some green stitching around the center of it and wrapped a fun polka dotted ribbon with the same greens and blues in the feathers.  The stickers are from Cosmo Cricket and the sweet label die is a Memory Box.
Do you have plans for this week-end?  I hope to have some time to create some more cards for the other challenges going on in the Moxie Fab World, and, I hope to get into the garden too.  We are supposed to have such great weather here in Austin.  Until next time,
thanks for taking a peek today!
Chriss
  

Moxy Fab Blue tulip

Hi everyone!  Hope that Spring is right around the corner in your neck of the woods.  I made another card for the Moxie Fab World's 
Cure for the Winter Blues challenge.
I started by embossing my card front with a SU tulip fram embossing folder.
I "fashioned" this tulip from angel wings...it's true, I used Papertrey Inks's die from the holiday 
Love Lives Here set.  I cut 2 left and 2 right wings out from some tiny floral paper that I had in my stash (not many blue papers in my craft space to choose from)and then 2 more from a chipboard product.  I covered the set of chipboard wings with the paper, sponged with a navy ink and layered together to form a tulip bloom.  I drew the stem and leaves free hand with copics,  I also free hand cut the tulip pot,  sponged it and adhered with dimensional foam over the tulip leaves.  I added a tiny sparkly dragonfly with navy eyes and added Cosmo Cricket alphas to a wooden tag.  A button with some bakers twine finishes it off. That is it, a CAS card from me AND it features navy blue!

Hi there! Hope your weekend is off to a fabulous start, mine is with this card that I made for the Moxie Fab World challenge "Cure for the Winter Blues Challenge in the Moxie Fab World ".  Not a colour pallette that I use often...if ever, but I wanted to play along and I was inspired by this little piece of fabric that I had on my desk.  The fabric was a little bag that I got with an Anthropologie purchase a while back when I joined a shopper club (of some sorts) and the tracker card was presented to me in the fabric bag.  I cut it into two and used one of the halves for today's card.  I stitched it onto a punched frame of sorts and layered onto a curry yellow layer and then backed it all onto the teal blue linen texture card front.  The challenge is to use navy and the two main flowers on the fabric panel are a true navy.  I used a SU punch on the canvas flowers, stamped the letters in navy ink, edged them in PTI Ocean Tides and placed foam behind each flower for some dimension.  The canvas shape at the bottom of the card was made with one of my Nestability label dies and I stamped a SU sentiment in black ink.  I added the K and Co. bird and some feathers from my stash of feathers.
I hope your winter weather is being kind to you today, the weather here in Austin is sunny!
Thanks for stopping by,
Chriss  

Another couple of Foxes

Good Morning!  Hope your week-end was grand and you had time to relax and create!

I have been having a lot of fun with this little fox from Hero Arts.  I made a couple of cards for a challenge that a few friends of mine issued.  I was to use blues, a colour that I rarely use and NOT use florals.  This is what I came up with and I really think that this little creature is adorable!  I paper pieced parts of this cute creature, gave him sparkly whiskers and coloured some white Maya Road heart stick pins with my Copic markers.  I made the sentiment on the computer.

Thanks for taking a peek today,

hope you have a great start to your week!

Hugs,

Chriss

Birthday girls

Hello again!
Two posts in a day...whoa!
I have been having some fun with this other new Hero Arts stamp and made two cards with different colour combos.  The skirt is paper pieced and the presents are coloured with Copic markers and Spica pens, they have a nice sparkle to them IRL.
The top piece of patterned paper is cut with a Spellbinder label and cut in half and I added some Maya Road vintage style buttons threaded with some embroidery floss. The second card has a textured background that I made with a PTI embossing plate.  Again, some really easy cards.
Thanks for taking a peek!
Chriss