fall and winter...

Hey there!!!  I have a couple of cards to share!  I don't remember the last time I was able to make two cards in one afternoon, lol!!   I just haven't had the time or the inclination to make a lot of cards lately, but hopefully that is changing!  First up is a card for the current PTI Make it Monday challenge.  I don't often do the MIM challenges... not sure why... but there it is.   I actually wanted to play along with last week's MIM challenge, but never found the time so when I saw Stephanie Gold's fun technique I just had to give it a try.  Yes... my card is a rather shameless CASE of her gorgeous card, but I just loved her design!!  I changed it up a little bit by using the sketch from the current Stamp Ink Paper challenge.  I die cut and stamped the wreath using the same set Stephanie used (Twig Wreath), but all my bits and pieces also come from that same set.  After wrapping my wreath with twine and layering on all the little pieces I die cut the word bountiful (from the Color Pop Autumn Make It Market mini kit) from kraft cardstock and adhered it to my wreath.  I stamped the word blessings on PTI vellum (the best vellum to heat emboss on), heat embossed in copper, trimmed it down and adhered.   Some PTI bitty dot basics paper in Terra Cotta Tile was trimmed down and adhered to some PTI Rustic White cardstock.  Once everything was dry on the wreath it was adhered to my panel and then the panel was adhered to a kraft cardstock base.   I do really like how this turned out.  Also adding this to the current Dies R Us challenge... anything fall.  So that is the fall part of this post... now on to winter!!

The second one is for the current MFT sketch challenge.  I had one snowflake left that I created when I made the last two cards using the beautiful MFT Snowflake Splendor card kit and when I saw the new MFT sketch I knew I had found my way to use that snowflake!  I die cut my banner from Sno-Cone cardstock and silver glitter paper from the kit using a MFT Jumbo Fishtail Flag Stax die and then layered together.  The sentiment (from Snow Globe Sentiments) was stamped on vellum, embossed in silver and then trimmed down.  I adhered the snowflake to the banner and then added my banner to some MFT Sweet Tooth cardstock die cut with an AJVD die.  That piece was adhered to a Sweet Tooth cardstock base and then I adhered the sentiment strip.  Still have more ideas for ways to use this gorgeous kit... so stay tuned!!

Hope you have a wonderful day...

Supplies:  Card 1:  Cardstock:  PTI kraft, vellum and Rustic White; Patterned paper:  PTI; Stamps and dies:  PTI; Inks:  PTI (Terra Cotta Tile, Summer Sunrise), VersaFine Vintage Sepia, VersaMark watermark; Twine:  Recollections; Embossing powder:  Stampin Up! copper

Supplies:  Card 2:  Cardstock:  MFT Sweet Tooth, Sno-Cone, silver glitter, vellum, PTI vellum; Stamps and dies:  My Favorite Things; VersaMark watermark ink; Embossing powder:  Ranger silver

two cards to share...

Hello!!   As my blog title says... I have two cards to share today.   First up is a card for a couple of challenges:  Color Throwdown and CAS(E) this Sketch.  I recently got a new stamp and die bundle from Stampin Up! and have been wanting to use them.   I thought the CTS was perfect way to give them some love!  The die set comes with this really cool die that you see behind the two leafy stems.  I centered the die on my white cardstock and then die cut the piece.  Some red cardstock was die cut with the same die.  covered the back side of the white panel with washi tape and then inserted all the little red pieces.  The leaves were stamped in blue and yellow and then adhered to the panel.  The sentiment is from the AJVD Happy Birthday stamp set and was heat embossed in white on black cardstock.  The sentiment was trimmed down and adhered along with a little white twine blow.  Mounted the panel on a light gray card base and I was done.

Second card is for the current PTI MIM challenge of combining stenciling and masking.  I usually take a look at the MIM challenges and often think that I will play along, but most of the time don't ever get anything done.  But I had some time today and decided to give the technique a try.  Early this year I finally was able to buy the PTI set Deck the Halls and thought I would use it for the challenge.  I created my rectangle stencil using the middle die from the Double Up die set and obviously the wreath using the wreath die from Deck the Halls.  The panel was inked with Ranger Distress Oxide ink in Fired Brick and then splattered with water.  I stamped the wreath using olive and artichoke colored inks and the sentiment in black.  I then die cut the panel down with the largest die in the Double Up die set.  The bow was die cut and then stamped with a ruby red ink and then adhered with a little piece of foam dimensional.  The panel was then adhered to a kraft cardstock base.  I'm going to add this to the Merry Monday summer link up.   They had a previous challenge to use a wreath on your card.

Have a wonderful day!

Supplies:  Cardstock:  white, kraft, light gray; Stamps:  Stampin Up!, AJVD and PTI; Dies:  Stampin Up! and PTI; Inks:  Ranger Distress Oxide; VersaFine Onyx Black, SU! Old Olive, Always Artichoke, Ruby Red, Memento Blue Danube and Dandelion; SU! white baker's twine; Hero Arts white embossing powder

and... another two cards!!

Hey friends!!   Popping in with a couple more cards that I managed to make today.  Actually got both of them mostly done this morning and then took off to spend the afternoon at the Billy Frank Jr./Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge.  Boy was that a long walk out to the end of the boardwalk that spans a good portion of the delta!   But that walk was worth it as it is so pretty down there!   Anywhoo... on to my cards!  First up is a card that I made for the current Ellen Hutson Pin-Sights challenge, as well as the current CAS(E) this Sketch challenge.  I used three different Essentials by Ellen stamp sets for create my card:  Mondo Hydrangea, Mondo Poinsettia and Bokeh Dots.  For the Pin-Sights challenge I pulled some of the colors from the inspiration photo to create my card. A small leaf from Mondo Poinsettia was stamped twice on watercolor paper using VersaFine Vintage Sepia.  The same was done for the single hydrangea images from the Mondo Hydrangea set.  Once stamped I colored them with Zig Clean Color markers and then die cut them with the matching dies.  The largest circle image from Bokeh Dots was stamped in kraft ink on watercolor paper, some light brown Clean Color marker was brushed on and then blended out with water.   A bit of gold shimmer was added by stamping the same image in Delicata Golden Glitz.  The sentiment was stamped and then everything was adhered.  Finished with some light pink, light blue and gold 4mm sequins from Pretty Pink Posh.

The second card is for the current PTI Make it Monday challenge.  I often think I will play along with the each week's MIM, but most of the time it never happens.  I was really intrigued by the technique that Ashley featured I decided I wanted to give it a try.  Like my good friend, Greta, it took three tries to come up with one that I liked.  I'm not super happy with it as the yellow re-inker I have is Stampin Up's So Saffron and so the yellow is a bit too much brown in it... not the bright sunny yellow I was thinking of for the rays.  I used one of the stencils from the Sunshine and Rainbow mini Make it Market kit.  I did not want the rays to cover the entire card front so the molding paste was only spread to a certain point.  Coloring everything was a bit of a trick, but it was fun giving it a try.  Once the molding paste had dried I glued on the die cut sunshine and the two little banners that I stamped with "wishing you" and "today".   I'm also going to add this to the current Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge of anything goes.

Thanks for stopping by today...

Supplies:  Cardstock:  white and light grey; Stamps:  Essentials by Ellen and PaperTrey Ink; Dies:  Essentials by Ellen, PaperTrey Ink and A Jillian Vance Design; Inks:  SU! So Saffron and Crumb Cake, VersaFine Vintage Sepia and Onyx Black; Pretty Pink Posh sequins; Golden molding paste