Hello, hello! Well, we are actually saying "goodbye" to June! Where is the time going, lol?! I have been busying doing other things, but finally got a chance to make a card for Freshly Made Sketches and Color Throwdown. And since the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge is anything goes I will post the card there, too. Let's have a look.
Hello! Today I have two very different cards to share. One is light and bright and the other is rather dramatic. Let's take a look at the first one.
First up is the rather dramatic looking card. This one is for the current Sunday Stamps challenge as well as the April Pinkfresh Studio challenge. The Sunday Stamps challenge is a color challenge and I just fell in love with the bold, dramatic color combo. Pinkfresh is asking for floral themed cards and I did use at least one color from their color palette: olive. I started by foiling the Daisy Wreath with black foil. Once that was done I stenciled image using the majority of the Sunday Stamps colors. My greens aren't as dark, but I think that is okay. All inks used are from Pinkfresh Studio. The wreath was then die cut with the matching die. I cut an additional wreath from scrap white cardstock and adhered it to the back of the stenciled one to give it more stability. The sentiment is a collaboration between Pinkfresh Studio and Scrapbook.com. I don't know if it is available now. I have had it for a long time, but I think this is the first time I have used it. I foiled it using blue foil and die cut it with the matching die. Additional cuts were made and adhered to the foiled sentiment. I decided to continue the dramatic look by die cutting dark blue cardstock with the Sparkling Diamond cover plate die. I then die cut it down further so I would have the white border. I adhered the wreath and the sentiment and then added some Pinkfresh Studio jewels in Stargazer and Pink to finish the card. Here is a close up of the foiled sentiment.
Now for my light and bright card!
Hello! Hope all is well in your world. It has been pretty cold here in the PNW (Pacific Northwest), but thankfully little to no snow! Hoping it stays that way. I'm popping in with two cards today. I'm very proud of myself for making two cards because lately I have not felt like making even one card. Sometimes I think I suffer from "too much stuff syndrome" (I made that up!). Because I have too much stuff I get a little paralyzed and can't decide what to do. Do you suffer from this same syndrome? Let me know! Here is my first card for Sunday Stamps:
Hello! Popping in to share a card that I made for Freshly Made Sketches and Color Throwdown. I have been working on other projects but wanted to take a little time to make "just for fun" card. The colors at CTD are orange, green and white and the sketch at FMS features three of something and a sentiment. Since it is fall and the leaves on the trees are changing color my thoughts turned to a die set that I recently purchased from Poppystamps called Fanciful Fall Leaves. The last time I used the set I had some leave leftover and as luck would have it, they worked perfectly for CTD as well as the Color Hues challenge! Here is my card.
Hello! Hope everyone is well. Popping in with a quick share of a card that I made for Color Throwdown and Freshly Made Sketches. I will be adding it to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge of anything goes, too.
Hello! Hope you had a good week. We have had a crazy hot one, again, but things are supposed to cool down a bit in the next few days. As my blog title indicates I have two cards to share. The first one is for Freshly Made Sketches. I'm also going to add this one to the Flower Challenge as I used several die cuts on the card as well as flowers!
In July I was the winner of a $50 gift certificate from Pinkfresh Studios. This allowed me to get a few products I have had my eye on for awhile now. I was able to get the Daisy Wreath foil plate and matching stencils. I foiled the wreath using Skybright foil from Spellbinders and my Glimmer machine. I then colored in the wreath using the stencils and Pinkfresh Studio inks. I die cut the wreath with the matching die. The background rectangle was die cut with the Pinkfresh Studio Essentials Stitched Scalloped die. I kept all the pieces of the rectangle together by taping up the back and then adhered the piece to a light gray cardstock base. I adhered the wreath and the sentiments that I embossed in white on vellum to the card. The sentiments are from another Pinkfresh stamp set. I finished off the card with Sky Blue jewels from Pinkfresh.
Thanks for stopping by and have a lovely day!
Hello! Popping in with a card for Color Throwdown and Freshly Made Sketches. This is a clean and simple mish-mash of products from different companies. Mostly Reverse Confetti, but a little Simon Says Stamp, Stampin Up! and A Jillian Vance Design thrown into the mix! I used my very favorite Reverse Confetti tag set (and the very first one released by RC!) to make my little tag. The little leaves come from the Simon Says Stamp Eucalyptus Leaves die set and were cut from red and light blue cardstock. The sentiment is from RC and was stamped using Stampin Up! Real Red ink, then die cut with a label die from AJVD. I added a bit of light blue twine to my tag, popped it up on the panel (die cut with another RC die), added the leaves, the sentiment and I was done. Clean and simple!
Hey there! Hope you had a great week. We are having AWESOME weather here in the Pacific Northwest! Sunny and warm temps! Absolutely love it! Of course, the lovely weather is scheduled to be gone in the next week... replaced by rain! But I will take this beautiful weather while I can. Even though the weather is lovely I really can't go anywhere because... child has school at home. So I spent part of my day making a card for Color Throwdown, Freshly Made Sketches, Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge and the April Reverse Confetti Stock Your Stash challenge. That challenge is mom, dads and grads. I have a niece who is graduating in June and going to Texas A&M Corpus Christi on a full golf scholarship in the fall (so very proud of her!), but I don't have any RC stamps that fit the grad or dad theme so I went with mom. I used the pretty Tulips stamp set from RC and colored it with Copic markers in the CTD colors. The layout based on the FMS sketch, of course. The SSS Wednesday challenge is clean and simple and while this isn't super simple it is still pretty clean and simple with all the white on white. All the dies except for the circle die are from Reverse Confetti. Sketches like the FMS one are a bit tough for me, but I think I pulled this one off!
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.
Hey there! Well... we survived our yearly two days of snow here in the Pacific Northwest! The snow is pretty, but I really don't like driving it in. Since I didn't go anywhere except the store because of the snow I had some time to spend making a couple of cards. Both feature the word hello. First up is a card for the Inspired By challenge. It is a lovely inspiration photo of a pink pitcher full of what look to me like tiny purple flowers and greenery. It was so pretty I just had to play along. I thought I had an image in my stash that was similar, but I don't so I used some images from the Reverse Confetti Tall Blooms to create my little bundle of flowers. I stamped the images with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored simply with Copic markers. I then die cut all the images with the matching die. I die cut the Reverse Confetti cover panel from pink cardstock and then several times from thin white cardstock. Everything was adhered together and then attached to a white cardstock card base. I arranged my floral images on the panel and then added the sentiment from the Tall Blooms set that I stamped with VersaFine Clair Nocturne in and die cut using a banner die from Reverse Confetti. I finished off the card with some little pearls from Trinity Stamps. I will also add this to the Reverse Confetti Stock Your Stash challenge for February.
The second card was made just for fun and I used the sweet little stamp set called Happy Mail from Honey Bee Stamps. I stamped the image on watercolor paper and did simple watercoloring with the Altenew 12 pan watercolor set. Once everything was dry I die cut it with the matching die. Before I watercolored the envelope that the flowers are coming out of I had colored a patch of the cardstock to determine if I liked the color I had mixed up. I used that little patch to die cut the tag from and stamp the hello sentiment from Happy Mail on it. The tag was a little freebie from Trinity Stamps! I embossed the kraft panel with a swiss dot embossing folder and then adhered the envelope image to the panel. I finished off the card with some little jewels that I had also purchased from Trinity Stamps. I'm really loving the pearls and jewels I bought from them and can't wait to buy more!
Thanks for stopping by and have a lovely day!
Hey there! Hope you are well and are ready for Christmas. As usual I'm really not ready for Christmas, but that's okay. Have a couple of cards to share. First up is a card for Freshly Made Sketches and the Reverse Confetti stock your stash challenge. The challenge this month is thank you cards. I was still feeling in a aqua/red mood so I used those colors along with the Reverse Confetti Thank You stamp and die set, as well as the Sketched Florals stamp and die set. I created a wreath of sorts on the main panel of the FMS sketch from two of the images from the Sketched Floral stamp set. I stamped the large Thank You from the Thank You stamp set in aqua ink and then die cut it with the matching die. The shadow layer was die cut from red cardstock. I cut additional thank yous from white cardstock to layer behind the stamped one and then adhered them to the shadow layer. I nestled the thank you into the main panel and adhered that to the card front.
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.
Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!
