Sharing on the Birch Press Design blog today!

 Hello, hello!  I have a post up on the BPD blog today and here is a little peek of what I created:

Hope you will head over to the blog to see the full design.  Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Autumn Blessings...

 Hello!  Popping in to share a card that I had wanted to enter in the Freshly Made Sketches and Just Us Girls, but I'm only making it into the JUGs challenge which is to use die cuts using acorns.  Let's see what I made.

PaperTrey Ink's Into the Blooms:  Acorns die set is one that I have had for a couple of years.  I was determined to use it this year and thankfully the JUGs challenge gave me that opportunity.   There are more pieces to the acorns than the ones I used, but I wanted to get the card done so I kept things simple.  I did add a little bit of color to the acorn bodies using residual ink from the blending brush I use for brown oxide inks.  Once I had all the pieces assembled I added some sparkle with Rock Candy glitter and a panel of kraft cardstock that I hot foiled with PTI's Merry Motifs hot foil plate.  Finished with the sentiment that is from a Simon Says Stamp set called Sketched Leaves.  It was die cut with a SSS rounded oval die.  I just checked and I can also enter this one in the SSS Wednesday challenge to bling it on. 

That's it for me.  Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Simon Says Stamp Joy for You Release!

 Hello, hello!  Simon Says Stamp has a new release called Joy for You.  You can find the entire release by clicking here.  SSS generously sent me several products to create with for this release.  Thank you so much SSS!   Let's have a look at what I made.

First up is a card that I made using the super adorable Round Robins stamp set.  I stamped the two robins on watercolor cardstock and then watercolored them with my Jane Davenport watercolors.  I let them dry and then stamped the little birdhouse on to an additional piece of watercolor cardstock and watercolored it.  Once everything was dry I die cut the birdhouse image with a Simon Says Stamp Sparkler Scallop rectangle die.  The two little robins were fussy cut.  I adhered the robins on the birdhouse using thing foam squares.  Since the die cut rectangle did warp a bit as it dried I used foam strips to adhered it to the card base.  Finished with the "Tweet Tiding" sentiment that I stamped on watercolor cardstock to match.  So simple, yet so sweet!

This card was a fun one to create!  I used the new String o' Lights embossing folder and die set.  There are two little lightbulb dies with the embossing folder so you can die cut the lights from colored cardstock and attach to the embossed background.  I decided to use Copic markers to color each lightbulb.  I had a plan when I started out of repeating the colors, but somewhere along the line that plan went off the rails, lol!  I still love how it turned out, though.  The sentiment is from the Stacked Holiday Sentiments 2 stamp set.  I stamped it on vellum, heat embossed it in black and the die cut it with a Simon Says Stamp tag die.  I adhered the embossed panel to a light gray cardstock base with double sided tape and then added the sentiment tag with thin foam squares.  I finished the tag off with a little white snowflake.  I think this card is so fun and festive.

This card features the new Curious Deer die set.  Isn't that little deer just so sweet?  I die cut it from kraft, cream and red cardstocks.  I colored the antlers with a dark brown Copic marker and used that same marker to color the nose and eyes.   I assembled the little guy and set him aside.  The remainder of the card uses products from recent Simon Says Stamp releases.   The sentiment is from the Round Robins stamp set.   Again, I love how this turned out.  Simple, but so very sweet.  I decided to add this one to the CAS Christmas challenge of reindeer.  

This last project was a bit of a challenge to make.  I used the new Fluted Frame Tags die set.  The dies die cut out the frame, but don't create a tag.  So, what I did was die cut the tag from the dark red cardstock and then applied tape to the back to keep everything in place.  I die cut additional frames from white cardstock (I don't remember exactly how many, but it was enough to build up the wall I needed.) and adhered them together.   I stamped the sentiment from Stacked Holiday Sentiments 2 with watermark ink and heat embossed it with white embossing powder.  I glued the thick frame to the tag and added the silver shaker balls (another new product).   To create the window for the shaker I glued a piece of acetate to the tag lining one long side of the tag with the edge of the acetate.  I was a bit of a trick to glue the acetate down as the shaker balls kept attaching themselves to the acetate, but I got it done.  I trimmed off the excess acetate and layered final white frame on top.  I finished the back by reinforcing it with a piece of cardstock that I cut smaller than the tag and a final layer of the dark red cardstock.  I adhered that cardstock the same way I did the acetate and then carefully trimmed off the excess.  I finished with the twine bow and snowflake embellishment.

Well, that's it for me.  I hope you enjoyed what I created.  Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day.

I Appreciate You...

 Hello!  Well, October has flown by, hasn't it?  Fall here in my area of the Pacific Northwest has finally arrived.  That means rain, lol, but not too much.   I'm popping in to share a fall inspired card for two challenges:  Freshly Made Sketches and the Altenew October challenge.  Let's see what I made.

I'm a sucker for leaf dies and when I saw a card made using the Altenew Fall Pickings layering dies I had to get it.  I purchased it from Scrapbook.com and got a pack of pretty papers (say that three times fast, lol!) from Paper Rose for free.  I love that!  I checked out what the graphic was for the Altenew October challenge and decided to look through my collection of mixed media scraps.  I found two that would work (the leaves and stem) and then found a scrap of cream heavy stock to use for the purple berries.   I have a pretty good collection of distress mica sprays and those were used to create the panels that I die cut the leaves, stem and berries from.  I only know for sure that I used Fortune Teller distress mica spray for the berries.  Think I'm a little too purple for the color combo, but oh well, lol!  I finished with a sentiment from an older Altenew sentiment set (from 2023 called Sincere Sentiments) that I diecut with a die from the Fragrant Flowers die set.  Hopefully you can see the FMS sketch in my card.  I did a very loose interpretation for sure, but I did get the sentiment in the right spot!

Well, that is it for me!  Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day.

On the Birch Press Design Blog Today!

 Hello!  I'm up on the BPD blog today sharing a Christmas card made with several knew products.  Here is a little peek:

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Peace I Leave with You...

 Hello!  Popping in with a card that I made for the current Just Us Girls challenge which is anything goes with stencils.  I recently purchased two different stencil sets from PaperTrey Ink and really wanted to get something made with both and I actually did!  I'm thinking I will share the other card for the November JUGs stencil challenge.  Anyway, let's look at what I made.

Another recent PTI purchase was the Reflections:  John 14 stamp set.  I thought it went perfectly with the background that I stenciled using the PTI Leafy Garden stencil set.  I used Altenew inks in Frayed Leaf and Sugar Kelp.  Sugar Kelp is a dark green with a brown undertone that I thought would look good with Frayed Leaf and I was right.  I love it.   After all that stenciling I didn't want to totally cover it up so I used vellum for the verse and heat embossed it in gold as I thought that would look nice with the green inks I chose to use.  The stenciled panel and the embossed panel were die cut with PTI Rounded Rectangle Stitched dies.  For additional interest I wrapped a piece of twine around the larger panel and secured it in place with washi tape.  I then tied a bow with the same twine and glued it in place.  The vellum panel was place on top using foam squares which I discovered don't show through when placed behind the lettering!  Love this verse and love how the card turned out.  Simple, but effective!

Thanks for stopping by and have a lovely day!