Hello! Popping in with a card for the current Color Throwdown challenge. For this card I combined a newly released Simon Says Stamp die set with a very old (but favorite) Simon Says Stamp stamp set. Let's have a look.
Hello! Popping in with a quick share of a card that I made for Color Throwdown and the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge to use stencils. The card also works for the current Card Concept challenge using the Thanksgiving inspiration. I think my card would be considered clean and layered. I will explain how I used stencils down below! ETA: At the urging of Darlene from Stencil Fun to enter their November challenge. Thanks for letting me know about your challenge, Darlene!
Hello! I'm popping in with a quick post of an Easter card that I made using products from the Greetery. This is the only card I have managed to make for Easter and I really don't know why other than I thought I had lots and lots of time to make Easter cards (and initially I did, lol). Even though Easter is kind of late this year all that time I had just slipped away. Anyway, here is my card:
The card is very loosely based on the sketch from Sunday Stamps and the inspiration photo from the Card Concept. I decided to not use a shape in the center of the card per the Sunday Stamps sketch as I didn't really like it with the nest and the feathers that I used from the Greetery Curio Spring Findings die set. And the large sentiment from the Empty Grave set sort of served that purpose. Regarding the inspiration photo from the Card Concept I did use some of the colors, but in a muted fashion, as well as the idea of a bird: the feathers and nest. I used distress oxide inks for all the inking. I mainly used Gathered Twigs and Spun Sugar and then added the little pop of green with Mowed Lawn. I guess the best fit for my card would be the clean and layered category.
Hello! Hope you are having a great week. Popping in with a card for the Paper Players, as well as the Card Concept. I have been on a clean and simple kick lately and just had to make a card for the Paper Players clean and simple challenge. I loved the photo/inspiration colors for the Card Concept so I put them together.
Hey there! I just got the Pinkfresh Studio Joyful Peonies stencil set and the Best Wishes foiling plate and used them for my card. I'm hoping to get the Joyful Peonies foiling plate and matching die once they are back in stock. But you can just use the stencils for really pretty results. I used Spun Sugar, Kitsch Flamingo, Shabby Shutters, Peeled Paint and Squeezed Lemonade for the flowers. I then die cut the image with a Spellbinders essential rectangle die and the little insert that creates the tiny dotted openings around the perimeter of the rectangle. I adhered strips of gold foil cardstock behind the dots and then adhered the panel to my card base. The sentiment was foiled using my Glimmer and die cut with the matching die. I cut three more of the sentiment die from white cardstock and stacked them with the foiled sentiment. That was adhered to my card front along with a few gold sequins. I'am going to add this to the new challenge over at the Flower Challenge to use your favorite flower. I love peonies and can't wait for mine to start blooming. Since there is still some time I will also post this over at the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge of anything goes. This also works for the Card Concept so will post it there, too.
Thanks for stopping by and have a lovely day!
Hello! Still trying to make some Easter cards and here is another one I got done. This is for the Revese Confetti Stock Your Stash challenge, as well as the Card Concept and a new to me challenge called Day of the Month Card Club. I found this challenge through my good friend, Greta! Both the Card Concept and Day of the Month Card Club challenges feature butterflies. I pulled out the RC Stained Glass Butterfly stamp and die set and did some Copic coloring using colors from the Card Concept inspiration photo. The buttefly and the leaves were stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black ink before coloring. I used the mid sized RC Lacy Scallop rectangle die to cut white cardstock that I stamped with the sentiment from the RC Easter Blessings stamp set. I then arranged the butterfly and leaves on the panel. I die cut some purple cardstock with the largest Lacy Scallop rectangle die and adhered that to a white cardstock base. The sentiment panel was then adhered to that. I thought about adding some sequins, but obviously didn't in the end. My card would fall into the clean and layered category at the Card Concept.
Hello everyone! Popping in with a couple of cards that feature... yes... leaves, lol! I recently got my Spellbinders small die kit for October and I just had to make something with it. I went with the colors from Color Throwdown and I will be adding it to the current Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge of layering. I did a lot of layering with this one! I die cut the main layer pieces from black cardstock and all the little leaves from kraft and a cranberry red cardstock. I then layered on all the little leaves. That was quite the task! I then linked up all the pieces on a cream colored cardstock panel. The sentiment is from a Spellbinders Glimmer plate set and I foiled it in red on to kraft cardstock. The sentiment has a matching die so I used that to trim it out and popped it up in the center. I added the panel to a kraft cardstock base to finish things off.
This next cards also features leaves and I will be sending it off to CAS(E) this Sketch (thanks for the Honorable Mention!), the Card Concept and the Reverse Confetti Stock Your Stash challenge. Whenever I can (which isn't often!) I tried to pick up something from Reverse Confetti when they have a new release. I was able to get the new In All Things stamp and die set so I used that for my card. I stamped the wreath using VersaFine Acorn ink and then watercolored very simply using the Altenew 12 pan watercolor set. Once I had enough layers of color and it was dry I die cut it with the matching die. For the vertical element in the CTS layout I used dark green and gold twine. I created a little bow for the wreath out of the same twine and attached it at the top. I stamped the sentiment from the RC Fall Foliage set (I only used part of the sentiment) in Acorn ink and then adhered the wreath using foam dimensionals. I guess my card would fall into a clean and layered category for the Card Concept. I pulled different colors from the inspiration photo.
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Hello! Hope you are getting lots of creating done as we stay inside to stay safe! I have a couple of cards to share today that feature dies from Spellbinders. I am a Spellbinders affiliate and they have been kind enough to send me product to work with and some of my favorite Spellbinders dies are their kaleidoscope dies. They have a wide variety of these dies and I happen to have all of them (I think!). My first card was made using the newly released Kaleidoscope Tile dies, as well as the Kaleidoscope Triangle dies. Both these dies sets are perfect for making more masculine cards. For my card I die cut the tiles and triangles from black, dark gray and medium gray cardstocks and then adhered them together. I trimmed down a piece of white cardstock to fit a card front and then adhered the triangles to the panel as you see. The tile was placed on it's point between the two triangles and adhered using foam dimensionals. I foiled the sentiment with silver foil using my Glimmer machine, die cut it with the banner die and adhered it to the tile. The finished panel was adhered to a medium gray cardstock base. 
The second card uses the new Kaleidoscope Strip die set. This die set is very unique in that there are two dies that can be used to die cut one of the layers or they can be used separately to die cut a piece of cardstock to create a place to layer your die cuts. For my card I opted to use the dies to create the three layers of the kaleidoscope border. I die cut the middle layer from a pretty bright pink foil cardstock and then top and bottom layers from white cardstock. I cut an additional piece of the foil cardstock to adhere to my card base. The border was then adhered to that. I added a sentiment from the Spellbinders Stay Wild stamp set and then added white jewels to the top of the border strip. I'm going to add this to the current Card Concept challenge for my clean and layered card that focuses on the bright pink color in and the detailing in the tray in the inspiration photo.
Hey there! Popping in with a card I made for the Card Concept. I used the Concord & 9th Wonderful Florals bundle and lots of distress inks. I stamped the image with Antique Linen because I was originally going for a no line look, but in the end I outlined all of the flowers, leaves and berries because it was a bit challenging for me to achieve the no line look with some of the flowers. But practice makes perfect so I will definitely be taking on coloring this image using the no line technique in the future. I was inspired by all the colors in the inspiration photo for my card that I think fits into the clean and layered category. After coloring the main image I die it with the matching die and then die cut the word wonderful using that matching die. The letters were colored with distress ink and then popped up. I adhered the piece to a kraft cardstock base and then added the rest of the sentiment by embossing it on vellum using Imagine Crafts black embossing ink. Compensated affiliate links used where possible at no cost to you. Please see list of additional supplies below.
Hello! I have two cards to share today and both cards use the phrase 'for you' thus my blog title. First up is a card for the current Fab Friday challenge. Back in December I received the a limited edition Gina K Designs tiny wreath builder set when I made a purchase from Simon Says Stamp. I finally pulled it out and used it to create my card. It is super easy to use the wreath builder template. I was a little bummed when I discovered that one of the circular sentiments in the set has a huge flaw in it so I won't be able to use it. I used four of the colors to create my wreath and the fifth color for the circular sentiment. The squares were die cut with Spellbinders square dies and the circle with a Spellbinders circle die. I layered everything up on a rectangle die cut from white cardstock and then adhered to a white cardstock base. I finished the card with some black and white baker's twine.
The second card is for this month's Reverse Confetti Stock Your Stash challenge, Freshly Made Sketches challenge and the Card Concept challenge (clean and simple). I used an older Reverse Confetti stamp and die set called Beautiful Banners along with the two heart dies from the Love Notes Confetti Cuts die set. I cut the hearts from the following RC colors: Piggy Bank, Rose and Salsa. The were the colors that I pulled from the inspiration photo. I arranged the hearts on white cardstock per the sketch. The banner and sentiment from the Beautiful Banner set were stamped using VersaFine CLAIR Nocturne ink. The banner was die cut, I adhered all the pieces to a white cardstock panel and adhered the panel to a card base made from Rose cardstock. I finished with some Pretty Pink Posh sparkling clear sequins. Realized that this would work for the current Time Out challenge. 
Hello! The weekend is upon us and I have a card to share that took me two days to make! I will be sharing it at Freshly Made Sketches (layout), Color Throwdown (colors) and Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge (thanks/thanksgiving). I am in love with the October Spellbinders small dies kit and just had to make another card using the dies that combine to make an acorn. I have another card that is in the works using the fun wishbone die and I still haven't made anything with the insert die for the acorn that says "hello fall"! To make my acorn I used a combination of cardstock and patterned paper. The background is also patterned paper. I die cut the body of the acorn from the patterned paper and scrap cardstock and then adhered them together to give the piece more stability. The acorn cap was die cut from dark brown woodgrain cardstock and scrap patterned paper (4 times) and then all the piece adhered together so that it would have more height than the body of the acorn. The word happy was die cut from white cardstock and twice from orange then adhered together so that when you see the card at an angle you can see the orange peeking out. I adhered the acorn pieces to my die cut panel of patterned paper and then added the word on top. The word thanksgiving (part of the sentiment happy thanksgiving from the AJVD set Best of Fall) was stamped on white cardstock in VersaFine CLAIR Acorn ink, trimmed down and layered with orange cardstock. After adhering the sentiment strip I realized that the card was just a little too plain so I added some brown leaf sequins that I had in my stash and that did the trick! I'm going to add this to the current Card Concept challenge as I think the colors are very similar to those found in the inspiration photo. I believe this would fall into the clean and layered category.
Hey friends!! The door was going to close soon on the SSS flickr challenge so I got to work this afternoon and made this card using two different SSS sets (Friendship Blooms and Spring Flowers). I used the color combo for the new Card Concept challenge and I think my card fits into the freestyle collage category (?) and I used the new Freshly Made Sketch for the layout. I watercolored my background using Salty Ocean distress ink and since I wanted to get the card done before tomorrow afternoon I speeded up the drying process by using my heat tool. The flower was stamped in VersaMark watermark ink, white embossing powder applied and then heat set. Once that was done I watercolored it using Picked Raspberry distress ink and once it was dry trimmed it out. The stem was stamped using Mowed Lawn distress ink. Because I decided that I wanted to add this to the new Simon Say Stamp Wednesday challenge (doing the polka) I tried in vain to find even a scrap of light pink polka dot patterned paper. Given all the patterned paper I had I thought it would be easy, but... nope! Then I remembered I could stamp my own polka dots...doh!!! Stamped the dots using SU!'s Pink Pirouette ink and then trimmed off a strip. I have had this paper doily border for ages and hardly used it. It reminded me of the crochet trim in the inspiration photo so I cut off a piece, trimmed it down and adhered the to the strip of polka cardstock to create the second strip in the sketch. I adhered that piece along with the flower using pop dots, stamped the sentiment and then added a few Pretty Pink Posh clear sequins. 
The second card uses the Good Work stamp set. No one does scripture sets better than Julee does and Good Work is no exception. The verses and and images in this set are just beautiful and it has a coordinating die set that can be used to create beautiful flowers and tags!! I didn't use any of the dies on my card today, but stay tuned for later in the week as I will be sharing more projects including one that will use some of the dies. For this card I did some simple collage stamping using the colors from the current Card Concept challenge so I will be posting my card to that gallery in the clean and simple category. In addition to the Good Work stamp set I used an image from the Better Together stamp set. That image was stamped in pink on cream cardstock and then I added the images and sentiment from Good Work in the burgundy and espresso colors. A few sequins from the Verve Signature sequin mix were added to finish off the card. 
