Catherine Pooler inks make me smile!!

Hey friends!  I'm back today to share with you a couple more cards I made using the Zen Garden Collection from Catherine Pooler Designs. 

For my first card I focused on creating multiple shades of each ink color   I started out by stenciling a background with the Split Chevron Stencil.  I only used one color ink for this background:  Stone Blue, blending with a light hand for a soft blue.  Then I repositioned the stencil and blended the Stone Blue with a heavier hand to create a darker shade of blue.  Is it just me or does this color remind you of denim?  So pretty!

For this card I used the following supplies from the Catherine Pooler Designs store:

• Stamps:  Love Grows
• Dies:  Zen Feather Dies
• Inks:  Polished, Shea Butter, Spruce, Stone Blue, Midnight
• Paper: Premium White Cardstock
• Accessories:  Split Chevron Stencil

The Love Grows stamp set has these cute little layered flowers that I stamped using the new Zen color: Polished.  Catherine Pooler inks are great for generation stamping.  Here I created two tones from the same ink by just stamping off once to achieve a light shade of Polished then I stamped a fully inked stamp over it for the outline.  I stamped the green Spruce stems the same way.

For my next card I created a background by stamping the Chevron Cheer stamp set multiple times in different colors.  To add some depth and interest I sliced this stamped panel creating vertical strips, then popped up two of the strips using dimensional tape.

For this card I used the following supplies from the Catherine Pooler Designs store:

• Stamps:  Chevron Cheer,  Love Grows
• Dies:  Smile die
• Paper:  Premium White Cardstock, Premium Midnight Cardstock
• Inks:  Polished, Sugared Lavender, Rose Petal, Seafoam, Skylight, Versamark
• Accessories:  Opaque Bright White Superfine embossing powder (WOW!)

The Smile die flows perfectly along the bottom of the Chevron Cheer stamp.

Finding my healing Zen.....

Hello friends. I'm so sorry I've been a little MIA lately but I had a little accident in my craft room a few weeks ago.  I was pulling one of my fun all night crafty session, working on some cards for a blog hop.   I guess  sleepy eyes and clumsy feet got the best of me and I tripped over a cord.  I went down pretty hard and ended up having to be whisked away by ambulance to the hospital, only to find out I dislocated my ankle, tore the cartilage and broke it in three places.  Crazy huh?   Needless to say, I've been a mess ever since!

 

 

  But now, as I'm recuperating from surgery I'm feeling the crafty pull.  I need to work myself back into the game!    I thought a good place to start would be the blog hop I missed out on the Zen Garden Blog Hop by Catherine Pooler Designs.  I have a couple cards to show you today from that release.  Catherine displayed these in her booth at Creativation last month so you may have had a peek at them already.

First up is a card featuring that fabulous Zen Feather stamp and coordinating die set and the Chevron Cheer Stamp set.  And of course I used some of these gorgeous new inks from the Zen Garden collection!

I loaded up this Zen Feather stamp with three different colored inks and created an ombre affect.  Then I covered each feather with some of Catherine's sparkly Wanderlust embossing glitter by WOW!    I stamped the Chevron Cheer oval stamp directly onto the card front then I curved a border stamps to outline the oval.  And that sentiment....Oh how I love that sentiment!!

For this card I used the following products from the Catherine Pooler Design store:

• Stamps:  Zen Feather, Chevron Cheer
• Dies:  Zen Feather Die set
• Ink:  Shea Butter, Sea Foam, Skylight, Midnight
• Paper:  Premium White Cardstock
• Accessories:  Wanderlust embossing glitter (WOW!)

 

For my next card I got a little whimsical with the Love Grows stamp set.  I had so much fun stamping this one!   Using some of Catherine's brand new stamping blocks I just old schooled some layered stamping with the flowers and stamped a wavy border using the flower stems from the same stamp set.   The little ink splatters were super easy using stamps from the Eat, Sleep, Create stamp set.  What better way to control your ink splatters than to stamp them!

 

 

A little bit of diecut fun with the Create die!

   

 For this card I used the following supplies from Catherine Pooler Designs:

• Stamps:  Love Grows, Eat Sleep Create
• Dies:  Create die
• Ink:  Polished, Sugared Lavender, Stone Blue, Spruce, Shea Butter, Midnight
• Paper:  Premium White Cardstock

 

 Well, that's all for today.  I'll be back soon with some more of my Zen Garden creations.  Thank you so much for stopping by.

Happy Stamping!!