Hello! Hope you had a good weekend! This weekend I got the opportunity to make three cards! For me that is absolutely amazing because for months I was lucky if I got three cards made in the course of a week! First up is a card that I have made for the current Fusion challenge. They have a cute inspiration photo of penguins so I immediately thought of the Simon Says Stamp January card kit. The kit came with the super cute Snow Much stamp set that has two different penguin images in it. I used the larger one. Because I used patterned papers that came in the kit I decided to stamp my penguin in dark blue ink (Catherine Pooler Juniper Mist) to coordinate with those colors. A little heart was stamped on the penguin's chest in the same blue ink, colored with a red marker and then covered with Glossy Accents. I added googly eyes, as well. Once everything was dry I trimmed out the penguin. A piece of patterned paper was trimmed and adhered to a white cardstock base per the Fusion sketch. Another piece of the coordinating paper was die cut with a banner die (from Verve), stamped with the sentiment in the same dark blue ink and adhered to the card base. I then adhered the little penguin with foam tape. Also adding this to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge of have a heart.
The second card is for the MFT sketch challenge and the MFT color challenge. I used the MFT Beautiful Butterflies and Amazing stamp sets for my card. The butterfly was stamped using PTI Winter Wisteria and Catherine Pooler Black Jack inks and die cut with the matching die. Black Jack isn't black it is actually a dark gray similar to the gray in the MFT color challenge. Some light pink cardstock was die cut with the MFT Stitched Mini Scallop Oval die set. The sentiment was stamped in Black Jack and then die cut with an MFT fishtail flag stax die. I trimmed some white cardstock per the sketch and adhered that to a light gray cardstock base. The oval was adhered along with the sentiment strip and then I added the butterfly with some foam tape. Super excited that I was actually able to participate in the MFT sketch challenge two weeks in a row!
Hello! As my blog title suggests I have cards to share. Two cards to be exact. First up is a card for this month's Altenew inspiration challenge, as well as Freshly Made Sketches. I did some watercoloring using my Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolors and the Altenew Starry Flowers stamp set. I stamped the image using VersaFine CLAIR Nocturne ink and then did my simple watercoloring. I used the red and scarlet red colors from my palette to color the flowers and then added in touches of orange to deepen the colors. The stem was colored with a turquoise green. When the image was dry I die cut it with the matching die. Some teal color cardstock was die cut with an AJVD rectangle die and then stamped with the other floral image from the set using teal ink. The sentiment was then stamped with the Nocturne ink. I adhered the panel to my card base per the sketch and then adhered the watercolored image. Another super clean and simple design.
Hello! Hope your week is off to a good start! I got the chance to create with some stamps and dies that I recently purchased from Stampin Up! so that means my week is off to a great start, lol! The stamp set is called First Frost and is absolutely gorgeous! I noticed in the die set that there are two dies that both cut out the smaller of the two flowers. I love that I can cut two flowers at the same time! I used them to create my card for the current CAS(E) this Sketch challenge, Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge (clean and simple) and the Just Add Ink challenge to use something new (the stamps and dies). I stamped the leaf image using SU!'s Lemon Line Twist ink and the flowers using SU!'s Berry Burst ink. I stamped the sentiment using VersaFine CLAIR Nocturne ink and then die cut it with a banner die from the Reverse Confetti Beautiful Banners die set. The main panel was die cut, the banner and flowers arranged over the leaf image and the end of the banner trimmed off. The entire panel was then adhered to a light gray cardstock base. 
Hello! Hope you are having a nice weekend! I have a clean and simple thank you card to share today. I used the sketch from MFT (haven't played along with that in ages!) and the color combo from Color Throwdown. Since the card is clean and simple I will also add it to the line up at the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge. The snowflake was created using the MFT Layered Snowflakes dies and cardstock in the CTD colors. I also threw in a little sparkle by die cutting one of the flakes from silver glitter cardstock. Stripes of the same cardstocks were trimmed out. Before adhering them to the card front I stamped the sentiment (from A Jillian Vance Design) on one of the strips with VersaFine CLAIR Nocturne ink. The strips and the snowflake were adhered per the sketch layout and I was done. 
