GIRLY it is!

Kristina Werner's Color Challenge #44!!!

I saw this Girly combination, and thought it was so sweet! It reminded me of a candy store with lots of Chocolate! So, I took out my Big Shot and decided to go for a "cookie" shaped card this time. I got to play with all of my new goodies! I just love the Sizzlits tag dies, and the new eyelet "lace" punch. A yummy little Chocolate Chip button was just the right topping. Feast your eyes.....new stamp sets coming out in April-there on the tag!! I love being a demo, and I love this company and all the fun coordinating stuff they come out with. This card was as sweet and simple! THanks for looking!


Supplies are all Stampin' Up!
Paper: Textured Chocolate Chip and Close to Cocoa, Whisper White
DSP-Bella Rose
Die Cuts-Big Shot, Sizzlits lots of Tags
Punch-Boho Blossoms, Eyelet
Stamps-Friends 24-7, Matchbox Messages
Button-latte
Ink-Close to Cocoa

Watercolor Toile

Totally addicted to watercoloring with Reinkers. I started stamping some mini cards for a friend of mine who had purchased some stamps awhile back. I used the Bella Toile, and had some extra pieces to use up to make her a card. So.....I have been spending any free time I get with Stampin' Up!'s watercolor paper and Stazon making up pictures/cards to watercolor. Once you drip some precious drops of reinker in your inkpad lid, and juice up that Aquapainter-all that color lust(like wanderlust, except for color) just overcomes you and-you paint every piece of paper anywhere near your reach.

I caught up on all the LOST episodes I missed while in Cali visiting my sis-in-law/downline and painted all night for several nights. If you are a friend or customer of mine you will probably get something watercolored. If I know you or consider you an acquaintance, I may give you a handpainted picture. If I pass you in the street, I may just tell you how the sunset looks like it has been watercolored, and invite you over to stamp and watercolor with me. Watch out people-I have a new obsession! If I stare blankly at you while you are talking it is probably because I am thinking about watercoloring your sweater. If I stutter when you invite me to coffe(which is my first love that I'll never get over) it is because I am probably imagining if I could color you what colors you would be.......etc. By the way, I am most definitely a Cameo Coral melting into Tempting Turquoise with lots of white area, and some black defining the edges. Yes, I have painted myself. I will happily paint you if you are interested..Back to my post. I was making this card for my friend who is definitely a Black Toile if I have ever met one. Then I started to watercolor in some Riding Hood Red-which is exactly the color of her lipstick, and other things she really likes-like her phone and Pottery Barn $50.oo napkins or whatever. Yes, this is what I like about her. A little Kiwi Kiss for that perfect balance, some very regal River Rock, a Regal Rose here and there for good measure-and some Pink Pirouette just to show I made it-and voila! I love the way it turned out-it looks like her as a card. A little bling, very neat polished sides, a lovely tapestry.

I should do this more often. Very cathartic. I wonder what my DH would be. He's Italian, so- lots of black there also, Rough around the edges, very manly. No frou-frou at all. Metro he is not! Yet, he never gets his hands dirty-and he's incredibly snobbish(in a good way?), so smooth and solid images, like Organic Outlines. I would paint him in Kiwi Kiss, Blue Bayou, Going Gray, and almost no white. He is dark and lovely and I could draw his face from memory. It is my favorite face.

Anyhow, this watercolor/painting thing really brings the poet back out in me. I may just share some of that next post. Thank you for looking. I love your comments!! Come back anytime. Oh yeah, one of my new favorites also is Heat and Stick powder-which I used on the sentiment and then added the Black Glitter!!! It is so beautiful in person. Love that stuff.

KWerner Color Inspiration

Another Color Challenge



Visiting my family out in Sunny California! Had to fit in a challenge though. This was a new style for me, hope you like it!


My sis-in-law and I were the last 2 on the Challenge. With 5 kids we barely finished in time. So fun!