Pals Paper Arts challenge #311, Small things

It's my week! How about that. I love serving on the PPA team more then I can tell you. It's fun, it makes me want to do my best work and it pushes me to try new things.   So, here are the colors I have selected for my week.

It is so hard to choose a favorite new set/bundle in this years annual catalog! I have never seen such a fabulous catalog in all the years I have been buying Stampin Up.   I did think Swirly Birds was my fav, but this jar set is so neat. So many different things you can do with a killer stamp set and die set.

Then there are the flourish sets, but that is another day and card. LOL

This is the medium sized jar in the stamp set, there is a little stamp for the water or whatever you want in there, but I enjoy watercoloring my own in.  I used the Shimmer White paper as you can do some watercoloring on it without problems.

Since I always seem to leave a mess behind, I have left one on the bottom of the card. Some leaves and flowers just fell out.  And I love the bow on the jar.

The sentiment is from Layering Love. It's so nice to have a set with large and sometimes more meaning ful sentiments.  I used the new Layering Ovals that I just got.  I LOVE these layering shape sets, all of them.  I think this card would make a great new baby shower card, what about you?

Not that anyone in my family is having any more babies anytime soon.  I have 6 grandsons, 3 are old enough they could have kids, but they do not.

I do hope you have enjoyed and I have left behind a bit of inspiration.  If so that makes me very happy because so many blogs have given me plenty.

If you would like to purchase or just check these out further, please click on any image below.

Layering Love Clear-Mount Stamp Set

$16.00

Layering Ovals Framelits Dies

$35.00

Shimmery White 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

$8.00

Jar Of Love Photopolymer Bundle

$52.00

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Stampin Up, GDP040, Case the designer

This week at GDP is a Case the designer, and this week the designer is one of my favorite people, Shawn De Oliveira. 

Isn't this little fishy just too cute in his little jar?  I had a lot of fun with my far and fishy.
Colors:Calypso Corral, Island Indigo, Crumb cake, Pool party.

Island Indigo is my card base, I stamped on my piece of Calypso using the same color ink, with my starfish and sea shell stamps for a bit of texture.   I added one of the new doilies and wrapped the edge around to the back.

To create my jar I stamped the jar and lid on Shimmery White CS, it takes some watercoloring pretty well without coming apart.   I wanted the water to be Pool Party, so after stamping my fish, bubbles, starfish ect, I put a small amount of alcohol in my Aqua brush, (TIP: if you are stamping with dye ink and need to watercolor or sponge over some of the ink, use either an alcohol marker or use alcohol in your brush then add some color. That way the die ink won't run.).

So, I squeezed a bit of color onto the lid of my Pool Party lid and with the alcohol used my Aqua painter to gently brush a bit of color inside my jar to make it look like water.

I used dimentionals to pop up my jar a bit.

The pretty swirles on the side were make using a die and DSP from the By the Shore DSP.

I hope you enjoyed this card and directions. If I wasn't clear, just leave me feedback and I'll post my reply in the comments as well.   Thanks for stopping by.

Shimmery White 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

$8.00

Delicate White Doilies

$3.00

Seaside Shore Clear-Mount Stamp Set

$21.00

Swirly Scribbles Thinlits Dies

$27.00

Jar Of Love Photopolymer Bundle

$52.00

Table by StampinBuddy. Try it FREE.