I'm in the know.....

.....or am I on the go?.........

Actually - I am "On the Grow".........LOL!!!!  Yeah - that is the best I could come up with today ;)  I bet you are wondering where I am going with all this nonsense talk about what I know, where I go and what I grow..........

Well - You know - Create with Connie and Mary has a new challenge this week - a color challenge - check it out:

I immediately thought about flowers in water - you all have seen pacific point water, right?  lol!  Well - maybe they are in a tinted vase or jar ......AND, it just so happens that I still have new goodies in the house from the upcoming Summer Mini......and I thought you all might want another sneaky peeky.....

So, here is what I have to share with you today:

Still wondering where all the know, go, grow talk is coming from????  Well.....I am in the "know" since I am a demonstrator and I have the new mini catalog in my hands and Stampin' Up! allows us to preorder new merchandise.  I am on the "go"....well......that just rhymed!  LOL!!!  But -  this is "On the Grow."  The stamp set is called On the Grow!!!  {{luv}} that!  It actually screamed out at me when I was browsing through the mini - I had to get it.  (wink)

Do you see more sneaky peeky things here?????......Well, one more thing?  Really?  Look again:

Now do you see it?????  OH my word!  that is another triple layer punch - it is called the Doily Triple Layer Punch.  One punch.  Three different punched out images with just a slide of a lever - GENIUS.

Lets' start with the card base layers.  The card base itself is pumpkin pie.  I dropped my black staz on pad on it.....so we went with black staz on swiped on all edges.  crisis solved.  lol!!!  The printed dsp is newsprint.....listen all you stampers - if you don't have First Edition DSP yet - you really need to get it - this month before the current mini goes bye bye......I pull this out as my go to paper - lol!  I ripped off a corner and adhered some real red designer series paper from the brights pack behind just where the tears are - great way to use up some scraps :)

Like the ribbon?  It is actually a piece of wide striped pumpkin pie ribbon that I cut in half and frayed the edges to make a narrower striped ribbon - not my original idea - but genius,  just the same ;)

The jar of flowers comes from that new stamp set I was talking about earlier called On the Grow - absolutely darling, huh?  I stamped it onto watercolor paper with black staz on.  I stamped the image twice so I could color twice as much - JUST KIDDIN' - I stamped it twice so I could cut some of the flowers out to give it more dimension - see?

Some of the flowers were cut out and just adhered down with mini glue dots, others were cut out and adhered down with stampin' dimensionals.   so pretty {{sigh}}

I watercolored the images with classic ink refills and an aquapainter.  When you color an image like this, I find it takes on a whole new look if you "ground" it persay.  I am not an artist, by any means.....but I do think watercolored images need some shadows and a horizon if it is an object that would sit on a table or something.  you know what I mean?

Did you get a look at the jar?  I gave it a coat of crystal effects to make it look like glass.  Everyone need some of this in their goodies.  really. 

Oh yeah - one more thing.  The sentiment comes from the level one hostess set, Because I Care.  Another must have.  ;)

Well, I think that is enough of my rambling.  I would love to know what you think of this.