I just finished some French inspired Pink and Blue toile cards today for my Mum in Law! I used Rubber stamped images from Somerset Studio and Stampin’ Up on each card. I also adore the retired Country Living cards by Stampin’ Up, I used those for the 3 smaller cards. Thank you Carol and I hope you enjoy these!

Just updated some more of my original cards to my Etsy store! I hope you can check out Alice in wonderland set of 3 cards! Featuring Alice and the Caterpillar, The Queen of Hearts, and Drink Me Teapot. Check out my Pinkdilla store on Etsy.

On sale now in my Etsy store, these One of a Kind Archival quality base cards have been lovingly made and decorated in Vintage patriotic girl style! Check them out HERE

It was my friend’s birthday on Tuesday so I got to make this sweet tag art card for her. I loved the Marie Antoinette image so much because of the big blue bonnet and it inspired me to do complimentary colors Blue and Orange! Yes Again! I know I am on some kind of crazy Orange color lately, but it really pops in so many ways. Especially paired with blue! I aged the tag with Colorbox pigment ink just swirled over the top with the ink pad. I used Close to My Heart ribbon and the Country Living card from Stampin’ Up. I stamped the Inkadinkado Dress stamp by Dawn Houser in black pigment ink on retired Rust colored paper from Creative Memories. The ladies and gentlemen image is from Somerset Studio magazine.

Here is my next submission for Helga’s online Twinchie Challenges that she has been hosting on Facebook and her blog. This time the theme is to choose between warm colors or cool colors. For my Twinchie I chose warm colors with Red, Pink and Brown. I had fun using up some stamped images and inked paper I had as well as using one of my new Brown German scrap wings for the girl. Happy Art-ing!

I just finished up my Marie Antoinette ATCs for the May online swap at CollageStuff. I met Lisa online looking for swaps and was so delighted when she told me her swap for May is Marie Antoinette. The Challenge is to use at least one Collage Stuff image and make 4 artist trading cards postmarked by May 31st. For my cards I used watercolor paper as the foundation and then painted, dye inked, collaged and chalked the background and images in shades of pink and blue. As well as using vintage paper and trim on the cards. I had so much fun I’m going to make more and definitely delve into Marie-mania!

This week Art Chix Studio posted another Twinchie artwork challenge. This time instead of monochromatic this week’s theme is complimentary colors. For my 2" piece of artwork I used a glossy piece of cardstock and inked up the background with the blue and orange-red dye based inks. The colors made me think of red mountains so I used a vintage stamp as a house. If you want to see my Previous Twinchie entry check out my earlier post HERE. Next, is a quick sketch I did, I’m trying to work on more artwork lately and doodling is always great for getting the juices flowing. Hope you like them

Just thought I would share my entry, Heavenly Bodies, to Helga’s monochromatic Twinchie challenge. Twinchies are 2" square pieces of artwork and for this challenge they needed to be in one color family. I just got done reading one of my favorite books by C.S. Lewis Out of the Silent Planet so I was inspired to make my Twinchie with planets, moons and stars. I hope you are inspired to create something heavenly today

Speaking of Heavenly, I also got to make this sweet baby card for a neighbor of mine that is a new mom, Little Angel. I used a Stampin’ Up card and some of the beautiful paper from my Paper Source card contest.

Hurry over to Paper Source online to check out the Mother’s Day Card contest! I hope you are also able to vote for my card, Here’s Looking at you Mom. It was a neat opportunity to create a card from 100% Paper Source products, and also a challenge, to stay in that perimeter. I got inspired to use some family photos and created 2 cards, one of my Mom and one of my Grandma, both in the same colorways, but with different styling.

I just got my pretty goodies in the mail from Paper Source for the Mother’s Day Card Contest on Facebook! The entries have to be received by this weekend by uploading to the Facebook page and must be 100 percent Paper Source products. You may also include a photo of mom if you wish to share that on your card! Public voting begins May 3rd, please make sure to Vote For me Claire Selby – Pinkdilla.