Hello Friends!! How has your week been? I am pretty excited to be invited to celebrate Pretty Pink Posh’s new product release blog hop. Hops are fun and they always have prizes for you guys and I love that 🙂 To start at the beginning of the hop go here. If you are coming from the amazing Nicole Magourik’s blog you are in the right place.
There are so many great and versatile products in this release and it was hard to decide what to use and how much time do I have to create. Lately one of my blog readers …one of you…has been hit with some pretty bad news so that was weighing heavily on me when I was creating these clouds.
I wanted to color up some pretty clouds that were dark but, had some light too and hopefully meaning would come from the clouds. Here is a shot of them in progress.
Here are the colors. When I was finished coloring I hit up the clouds with my rag and some ink blending solution. Honestly if you haven’t tried this I ask what are you waiting for lol. Just kidding 🙂
To beautify the clouds I added Rock Candy Distress Stickles to each cloud. I stamped the sentiment on a large piece of vellum to balance the darkness of the clouds. To jazz it up I added a thin strip of yellow card stock on the front and on the inside. The bow die cut was the prefect little cheerful touch for my card.
I loved that little touch with the bow on my other card I just had to give that die cut center stage. It’s always great to have a blank card on hand especially for Jennifer’s #sharinghandmadekindness campaign.
This is such a super fun stamp set I wanted to try and create something different. I am a sucker for plants and succulents that I decided to use the mug as a planter. I hope you found something today to inspire you and I am always grateful for your visit. The last stop in the hop is The Pretty Pink Posh blog here. Have a happy weekend, Kathy
Just a note…I am away on a boat and can not link any of the supplies. You can find everything at the PPP blog.
 P.S. Simon Says Stamp is having another Copic sale 25% OFF using “FALLCOPIC” WOO HOO 🙂
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Really pretty cards and your coloring is amazing as alway! Love the mug as a planter for the cute penguin, so clever!
the clouds came out great, I will try that rag technique!
The clouds are beautiful. Even though they are dark, I am sure they will bring cheer. I love that bow die. Those little critters are all just adorable.
I love the card, the clouds are beautiful
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh your cards are amazing!!!! Love the clouds!
Pretty Pretty Pretty. I love the clouds…
Where can I find that adorable bow die….
“The bow die cut was the prefect little cheerful touch for my card”
That is a must have!
Pretty Pink Posh has this bow die cut.
Beautiful cards!! Your coloring is awesome as always!!
I love your cards. Your clouds are colored so perfectly and the details on your last card are so you – colorful and stunning.
Love the clouds!
Absolutely adore these card Kathy!! Super bummed the bow die is currently out of stock in the PPP store! I’m going to have to keep checking back!! Hope your having fun on the boat and partying like a rock star!!
Those clouds are beautiful! Fantastic idea to use the blending solution and a rag because it really did add even more dimension! Love it! I also love your idea of putting the tree in the mug! So cute!
Love those clouds. So beautiful.
wonderful card but especially love the “bows’ card!
Love the cards!! I am glad Pretty Pink Posh is creating stamps now! Thanks for the ideas!
Gorgeous! Love the clouds. The colors are so impactful!
Lovely cards-thank you for the great inspiration!
Your cards are beautiful, even with the dark clouds (so sparkly, they’re beautiful) Your coloring, as always, is really perfect. I am in awe of your talent. I have a rag that I use now with my copics, so very thankful to you for that tip. May you, also, have a happy weekend.
Treasure that rag and keep it handy. Blending solution and a rag does so much for creating texture. Also try other items with blending solution. 🙂
Three beautiful cards (and LOVE your amazing clouds)!!
Gorgeous cards. The clouds are especially enticing! Thanks for the inspiration!!!
Have a wonderful trp. Nice of you to leave this gorgeous post for us to see…that way we don’t go through Racoosian withdrawal.
Kathy these cards are awesome!!! I love those clouds.
WOW….. Those clouds are AMAZING!!!! Love all of your cards, Kathy!
Your cards are beautiful as always Kathy. How fun you are on a boat, I’m so jealous! I did a cruise a few years ago, and rocked for a year. Not a good idea for me to be on a boat again, it could come back. While on the boat, the more it rocked, the better I felt, it was afterward it was a problem. I hope and pray that does not happen to you! Thanks for all that you do, have no idea how you have time to get it all done. I’m so excited, my Nov Hero arts kit and kindness stamps arrived in the mail yesterday, plan to use kindness stamps on the thanks cards I’m making for week 2 (plus I needed to thank some folks) and told myself no opening the Nov kit till I get that done and in the mail. Safe travels!
Love the Cloud encouragement card…wonderful take on it! All the cards were amazing and wonderful!
Really cute creations. My favorite is the clouds. I love the tutorial. I need to try the Rock Candy. The clouds really are gorgeous.
Love your glittery clouds! The tiny bow ties die is adorable. I wondered how it would look. Thanks for the sneak peek.
As usual, your coloring skills are over the top.
Love how you used the mug as a planter.
So sweet!
Wonderful cards! Those clouds look amazing!
These are all wonderful.
pretty clouds!
pretty cards! maybe you could make a video one day of how you made the
Wishing You Sunshine card
I love your cloud colouring. Just fantastic! Thank you for sharing. 🙂
Such beautiful cards. I just love the clouds card. Definately going to be making one for my sis. I’m always looking for ideas to send cheer up cards. My sis suffers from depression so the first one I will make for her. Thank you for sharing your great ideas.
The clouds are fantastic.
I love the ribbons wrapping the card. Using several shades of a color
was a fun idea.
thanks for sharing some wonderful cards.
Great technique … pretty cards. What a fun new release from PPP.
Gorgeous ethereal cloud card! Love the bow tie layered card too… Would be great for thank you cards!!!
Amazing as always… love the bows!
I love your fantastic clouds. That is amazing coloring. Thank you for the inspiration.
Your card with the mug and tree is adorable! And I love your clouds!
Have fun on your sail, Dear. Aren’t we glad PPP has made stamps and dies now. Love the simplicity of the bow tie card.
All three cards are terrific! I really love those clouds.
Love your cards!
I love the bow die cuts on your cards. I have that die and it’s so great for so many different uses!
Super cute card, I need to try this technique on my clouds I really like how they turned out. Using the mug as a planter was an awesome idea! Thanks for the wonderful inspiration.
Your cards are so gorgeous for being so simple and loving PPP’s new stamps and dies!! Bon voyage!
Ooh, these are all fantastic!
Your cards are amazing! It is my first visit to your blog–it is so inspiring!
Chris L.
Love your coloring. The clouds are gorgeous.
Beautiful!
Great cards, Kathy. that little peeking penguin is so adorable!
Fabulous cards–as usual! I love your work!
Your cards are perfect. I love the clouds. You did such a nice job of coloring and adding some sparkle to them. I love that bow die too. (Using it on my Christmas cards.) And the little critter card is adorable. Is the geometric design an embossing folder or stamp! I love the look it gives the card…almost like an igloo. Great designs. TFS
These are beautiful cards! I especially love the clouds
As much as I LOVE your coloring, surprisingly the bow card stole my heart in this post. They are all beautiful. Have fun on your trip.
Great cards. I really like the sparkly clouds.
Fabulous cards! Love your stormy clouds! Wonderful coloring!!!
All are so cute…loved your idea to use the mug as a planter….very clever. Love the bow, too….I love bows. . . . ribbon bows or die bows. Have fun on your boat trip.
ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS cards Kathy, SO HAPPY that you are part of the PPP Blog Hop!!!
Your bows are SO PRETTY and SO ELEGANT, LOVE IT and LOVE your ADORABLE penguin scene too!!!
As for your DELIGHTFUL sunshine card, your clouds are STUNNING and your design GORGEOUS – LOVE IT ALL!!!
THANK YOU for sharing your INKY AWESOMENESS and CREATIVE INSPIRATION 🙂
Hope you’re enjoying your time on the water!!!
Kathy, hope your enjoying your time off. I totally love the concept of the clouds card, and the coloring is superb but of coarse. Cute idea using the mug as a planter, now that’s thinking out of the box. Thanks for sharing and always inspiring.
Well, since you asked, my week has been kind of rough, but seeing your cards made me feel better. Great job!
Thank you for sharing your techniques. I really like the encouragement cloud card.
WOW, Kathy! These are ALL amazing! LOVE the clouds in the first one. ♥
Well deserved break for you! Look forward to your emails daily. I really loved the way you colored those clouds – they were mesmerizing. That little bow die cut really steals the show. Fabulous release – and beautiful job Kathy.
Ok, your cards are simply amazing! I love clouds anyways, but the coloring on that card and techniques used is not only phenomenal but truly inspiring! Thanks for sharing with us : )
Like the clouds w/ vellum. Like the bows.
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
Your cards always brighten my day!!!!
Really pretty cards and your coloring is amazing!!!
Great cards. Love the clouds!
Oh my – your cards are simply wonderful!
Beautiful cards especially the planter you created.
love the clouds! they look distress-y!
Beautiful cards made! You never disappoint Kathy!
Lovely cards Kathy! What a fabulous array of ideas, love them all, TFS!
Love your beautiful cards!:))
Beautiful cards Kathy, very clever how you used the clouds. They sure looked good in the end and I love that bow die. Can see I need/must have that one. Hope your enjoying yourself.
Kathy, these are all so amazing! I love the colours you used to create the clouds, they are so beautiful. And your simple CAS design with the bows is brilliant. And your Xmas scene for your final card is so adorable. Your amazing!!!
your cards are terrific! thanks for sharing
stamping sue
http://stampingsueinconnecticut.blogspot.com/
Wow! What amazing cards – I love the coloring (and can see why you are the coloring master). I especially love that bow die card – so CAS and striking! I’m a new follower now!
I adore that cloud card. The trick with the ink and rag is fabulous. I’m going to have to try that ASAP.
What great cards and I love the technique for the clouds. The bow card is so simple and effective.
So much fun inspiration!!!
Love your sparkly clouds and the tree in the mug is adorable!!!
Such cute cards and beautiful coloring and blending!!
That penguin is just too cute for words! And I love him peeking… I also really enjoy that ef.
Those clouds! Those Glorious clouds!!
Do you know how many of your pages I have bookmarked in a “Cool Techniques” folder?!! Now I have another one there!! : )
Kathy, those clouds…wow!!! I will have to try that!
Kathy, love the cloud card!!! Hopefully that’s the beautiful sky you are seeing on the boat.
Beautiful cards!!!!! You’re great!
Love those clouds… And everything else featured in your post today! Jo x
Lovely cards and
great designs!
Carla from Utah
Wow really great and awesome designs, love your coloring.
Love them all but I have to say the last one is amazing…
I love and admire your talent so much Kathy your truly an inspiration. Thank you for coloring and making it fun!
Wow, those are really stormy clouds. Great card.
Gorgeous!!
Your clouds look beautiful!
Oh what great cards! Thanks for sharing your creations!
Kathy,
I don’t think there is not her card maker, or even paper craft artist out there who can do color like you can! I love the combinations you come up with, things I would never think to put together, but then I see you use them and they look fantastic! I love the first card and know it will be a pick me up to whomever is lucky enough receive it. The addition of the yellow bow adds the right amount of “sunshine” to the whole thing. I also thought using the mug as a planter on the last card was genius, and the way you colored it and gave it such pattern, amazing! I think you are right about that die that makes those bows, the second card is perfect for a handmade kindness card, simple, elegant and beautiful! I am still at Mayo, going through a lot of testing and appointments. I hope to have more to tell you soon. I miss my kitty sooo much and pray I will be back home it’s home with him soon and maybe we’ll enough to create. I can’t afford t purchase from this release but I love it all, so thank you for the chance to win a gift certificate. I hope you are enjoying your boat trip and will be back soon.
Hugs,
Maureen
I hope you get home soon to your kitty. Hope all is well and sending you healing hugs. 🙂
Love the way you used the clouds Kathy. What a great way to symbolize that things will become brighter as time passes. Thanks for sharing.
Of course I always love your coloring and the projects you create. The clouds card is STUNNING! Peaceful and calm but strong and solid too. Anyone would love to be encouraged with a card like this. Thanks!
Hi Kathy! You just have a magical way about making cards! Love those clouds. I would not have thought they could have went from stripes of color to so cool! Great cards and great release! Thanks!
love your clouds!
Your clouds do have a message, as does your yellow bow…beautiful card!
Someday I am going to do clouds like this but I am going to make them rainbow colored instead of blue and that’s because I can! LOL Someday I will make the background yellow which is my favorite color instead of blue. Leave it to me to change things up but that’s what’s great about being creative. By the way, I love your clouds even if they aren’t rainbow colored. Blue is nice too. Love your other cards! I will do the blog hop tomorrow. Its late and time for bed. Catch you on the flip side.
Amaizing projects for this blog hop.. Fabulous products in this new release like always from PPP.Thank you for sharing and inspiration!
Lovely cards Kathy. Love the clouds.
beautiful coloring and use of the PPP products.
Those are probably the prettiest gloomy clouds I have ever seen. ♥
Love your cards. I especially like the card with the bow die. Simple but elegant.
Great coloring used on this card! Thanks for being part of the PPP Blog Hop!!
Great cards…love the sparkle on the clouds, use for the bow dies and the cute last one!
Love love love your cards! Thank you for the coloring tips, those clouds looked amazing and I’m so scraplifting your card with the twine and bow die cuts 😀
love these so much. great inspiring work you do
Kathy!!! Love the cards you created! Going through coloring challenge withdrawals! LOL!
Those clouds look amazing! I’m loving this new release. 🙂
AMAZING INSPIRATION!! THANKS SO MUCH for sharing and for the chances to WIN!! Have a FABULOUS WEEK!! =)
Great cards! I love how you colored the clouds, they look fantastic!
Gorgeous cards! I love the pretty simplicity of the bow card though.
Fabulous cards. Love the vellum across the clouds. TFS
So very pretty!
Pretty cards! Great job!
They are all so very pretty!!