Coloring Lots of Squares

I got the Hero Arts Hello Grid rubber stamp a while back...it looked cool to me!  For these cards, I thought those little squares in between the sentiments would be fun to color with markers...five cards with different variations later...

Shades of aqua blues

Kind of rainbow

Reds, Grays and Black

More shades of Blue

And lastly, yellow, green, orange and black...skipping some squares from coloring.

Coloring is sooooo theraputic...like being little again:)!!

The cards are all 5" x 4 1/4" and dotted with enamel dots.  OK...FUN!!  Thanks for visiting me today!! Hugs!! Lisa

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A Mother's and Father's Day Cards

Simon Says Stamp came out with a late Spring release today...Mothers and Fathers 2014!  What a wonderful set of stamps and dies honoring moms and dads as well as some cool Spring related stamps and dies...there are stamp sets with sweet and touching sentiments and full card dies that make for simply done, but intricate looking Mother's and Father's Day cards...birthday cards...or use them for any day cards!!   I have made a "Mom" card and a "Dad" card with 2 of the wonderful new full card dies...

I wanted to accentuate the name I call my parents...Dad and Mom, so I decided to cover just those words with patterned paper and leave the others bare card stock.   My dad's favorite color is yellow, my mom's favorite flower is daisy...so I  chose patterned papers that fit MY mom and dad when covering those words :)!!  The daisy paper is from Michael's.   Layered each full card die 3 times to give depth, adhered the patterned paper to the layers and done:).  The DAD card was layered in black AND white, while when putting the dark orange ON dark orange, I had to make all the layers dark orange...I tried it the other way, and it looked a bit sloppy...I wanted the MOM and the frame to be the ONLY white you see on the card:)...

Hope you will check out the cool new release at Simon Says Stamp, and thanks so much for visiting me today!!  Hugs!! Lisa

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Hourglass Die and Rainbows...LOTS of Rainbows!!

Back in February, I made some cards using the fun Simon Says Stamp Hourglass die for the Spring Release 2014 Blog Hop!  You can find that post HERE.  One of the cards I made with the die was rainbow striped.  When using this die, 12 triangles are the leftovers of the full card die.  I have had the striped rainbow leftovers sitting in a bowl, along with a BUNCH of white and other color triangles, and decided to make some cards with the rainbow triangles.  I was having so much fun, I made a couple MORE rainbow striped hourglass die cuts and THEN had a whole bunch of rainbow striped triangles to make more cards with...so it will be a long,rainbow striped, triangular  post:):)!!
There are two ways I placed and then die cut the strips/stripes...
1.

I use 1/4" strips of each color...6 colors...and a 1/2" of the purple or middle strip, so 7 colors all together. This way makes the rainbow radiate from the center...COOL looking for a card!! Placing the strips this way will make all the die cut triangles have the same color patterns, the pink at the wide end and the purple at the narrow end of the triangle, making cards with rainbows... PERFECT(although the "charm"...that's what I'm calling it... is that the stripes of colors in the triangles aren't always perfect due to the strip cutting AND die cutting) ...

 I layered each triangle on each one of these cards with 2 white triangles underneath each for depth...love the layered look of die cuts!!...

Loved the colors on gray with a sentiment that was PERFECT for a rainbow with gray paper(the sentiment, as well as the sentiment from the next card is from My Favorite Things The Great Outdoors...a set I learned after posting these cards does not appear to any longer be available...I have removed it from my original Inlinkz list at the bottom of this post...so sorry!!)...

Radiating the rainbow greater than 180° "around" a sentiment...

 And using the whole die cut (LOVE the large solid strip in the middle for a sentiment)...

Used textured paper for the Simon Says Stamp "you"die cut, layering the full hourglass die cut AND the sentiment...

2.  The second way that I used the strips was to use the same 7 colors, but used a 1/4" strip for each color and simply repeated the rainbow. 

I like the radiating rainbow for a card much better than the repeating pattern, but I thought this was a cool way to use the triangles alone, because...

You can alternate the triangles on a card and the pattern of the rainbow colors will be the same because the pattern reverses on the top 6 from the bottom 6, which I thought was SO COOL...

LOVE this cool looking "HELLO" stamp sentiment from Simon Says Stamp

If you have made it this far, thanks:)!!  Hope you thought it was as much fun as I did:)!!

Hope you have are having a fantastic week!!  Hugs!!  Lisa

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Reverse Confetti April Sketch...Hey Chickie!

It's April 1st...yes, it's April Fool's Day, but no fooling, with the 1st of the month, it's also Sketch for You To Try at Reverse Confetti day:)!  Here's the card that I made for the challenge, along with the sketch...

I used the newly released set, Carton Cuties and it's coordinating Confetti Cuts die set.  I LOVE the little animal images in this set...this chickie is so stinkin' cute:)!!   I die cut the adorable chickie from watercolor paper, stamped and clear embossed the chick and then used a very old Stampin Up ink, Barely Banana reinker( I wanted a really light yellow...and this one was perfect:)!!) with water and a brush and painted the chick:)!  I layered and put him and a  die cut/stamped cracked egg on a Confetti Cuts Tag Me tag with some ribbon.  The grass is a My Favorite Things die.  I cut and layered 3 solid textured paper panels behind the tag and done:)!! 

Head over to the Reverse Confetti blog for  all the details ...join the fun with the sketch challenge this month and have a chance to win a Reverse Confetti gift certificate !!  Thanks to Jen for inviting me to join her designers this month and allowing me to showcase her wonderful new stamps and dies!!  

Thanks for visiting me today!! Hugs!! Lisa