SIP117 Watercolored Jack

Hi peeps!  Tuesday brings us another Stamp Ink Paper challenge, and we've got a watercolor one for you today!

My friend Debbie bought this cute little Jack-o-Lantern image for me last summer and I just had to ink him up with some Stazon ink and color him in with some ink and reinkers:

I used the sketch from Fab Friday and the colors from Just Us Girls:

I used Crushed Curry, Pumpkin Pie and Cherry Cobbler to color him in, then added a sentiment from Newton's Nook.  The DSP is Painted Autumn, cardstock is Thick Very Vanilla!  Since my weeks have been so busy, it seems CAS is the only thing I can do these days!  Hopefully I'll get to play with some of my new goodies soon!

I hope you'll stop by the Stamp Ink Paper blog and see what the other designers watercolored...then be sure to share your creation with us too!

We went to Longwood Garden's Fireworks and Fountains show Saturday night; the musical theme was Over the Rainbow.  I was blown away by ALL of it!  You can see a video of the fountains here (scroll down to see the video portion) but to see a half hour of amazing fireworks in addition to the fountains was almost too much...we didn't know where to look first!  We had to go early and set up chairs on the lawn, but then we got to stroll the gardens and go to Cassidy's favorite part, the children's gardens!!!

There are little water jets that are timed just right to spit out water up and down this little incline...the kids love to "chase" them!

And little hidey-holes:

and lots of funny sculptures spitting water!!!

Finally, it was time for the fireworks and fountains!  I didn't take any photos, but Dana took a few...it's really hard to capture how amazing they were!  And amazingly, with about 2000 people, we got out and on our shuttle buses very quickly!  They really know how to move us!!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Medium Jack-o-lantern (Rubber Cottage),Spooky Street (Newton's Nook)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Painted Autumn DSP
Ink	Stazon Black, Cherry Cobbler, Pumpkin Pie, Crushed Curry
Accessories
Tools	Aquapainter, Big Shot, Stitched Shapes Framelits, Banner Dies (Nestabilties)

Mojo Monday 468 & Retro Rubber 48

Well, I seem to be in full-on pumpkin/jack-o-lantern mode here, it's all I've stamped over the last few days!  Today's card uses the Mojo Monday sketch for this week:

and another jack-o-lantern stamp given to me by my sweet friend Debbie!  It's by Rubber Cottage, and he has a bit of a vintage feel, I think:

He's stamped on Very Vanilla cardstock with Stazon ink and I colored him loosely with ink and an aquapainter....I think he looks a bit streaky, might have to fix that, LOL!  I am on a kick with background stamps; this time I used the retired Weathered stamp, in Sahara Sand:

And the challenge this week from the designers at RetroRubber is to "Tie it Up":  to use twine or ribbon....so here is my burlap ribbon, (SU) along with a tag stamped with a Papertrey sentiment from Autumn Abundance:

And the sentiment at the bottom is from My Creative Time's Mixed Holiday Sentiments:

All the patterned papers are from BoBunny's Farmer's Market collection...warm and rich colors!  And I am not quite sure that a jack-o-lantern and "autumn blessings" go together, but at the time, it seemed like a good idea...so that's my story and I'm stickin' to it!  And since the girls at Retrorubber like to know how "retro" my stamps are:  the jack-o-lantern is from 2013; the Papertrey stamp is from 2009; the Weathered stamp is from ??? 2010, and the My Creative Time stamp is from at least 3-4 years ago!!!  I don't really know their exact ages, but they've all been around for a while!  Thanks for popping in, too!

A little wedding smile:

Enjoy your day!