oh, happy day...

 Hello!  Popping in to share a card that I made for Freshly Made Sketches, Color Throwdown and the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge.   Also going to add this to the Flower Challenge to use layers. Let's have a look!

The CTD colors are aqua, teal and olive.  I went with light values for my aqua and teal and did some simple Copic coloring.  The aqua flower is the one on the right and the teal is the one on the left.  The stamp set I used was the collaboration set by Memory Box and Simon Says Stamp for Stamptember 2023 called So Kind.    I tried to find cardstocks that were a fairly close match for the colors in the magnolia flowers.  I used the Memory Box Arched Capped Pinpoint dies for the elements from the FMS layout and then added the magnolias and sentiment on top.  Very simple, but I like how it turned out.

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

you are always on my mind...

 Hello!  Popping in with a quick share of a card that I made for Color Throwdown and Sunday Stamps.  I used some pretty papers from the P13 Four Seasons: Spring pad that feature all the colors from the CTD combo.  And just wondering, but who is now singing "You Were Always On My Mind" by Willie Nelson, lol?!  Anyway... here is my card.

Scrapbook.com always has some kind of freebie that you can get with purchase.  About a month ago they were offering this cute little set of flowers from Spellbinders.  I couldn't resist and ever since they arrived at my house I have wanted to make something with them.  There are actually four layers to the flower, but I decided to only use two, the top layer and the bottom layer.  I die cut them from pink patterned paper and the leaves from a sage green patterned paper from the P13 pad.   I just love that pretty creamy yellow and white polka dot paper!  The floral strip is the reverse side of the polka dot paper and features all the CTD colors.   More patterned paper was die cut with a circle die for a place to arrange my flowers. I used the same pink paper for the sentiment strip that I stamped the sentiment on using brown ink to bring in more brown.  I finished the flowers with yellow Nuvo drops in the center of each flower.  Since my card is full of pastel colors I'm going to add it to the May Flower challenge of pastels! 

Thanks for stopping by and have a lovely day!

merry & bright...

 Here with a quick post for a card that I made for several challenges:  Freshly Made Sketches, Color Throwdown and the Flower challenge.  

Recently my sweet friend, Greta, purchased the Tim Holtz/Sizzix Seasonal Sketch die set.  She was so kind and gifted me with several die cuts and I was determined to use them on a card.  The cuts Greta sent me were white so it was easy to use some ink cubes in the CTD colored to add the color to the solid die cuts and the overlays.   Once they were dry I adhered the overlayed on the solid cuts.  I created the background panel by adding black cardstock to a piece of white cardstock and then die cut it.  I die cut another piece of white cardstock per the sketch and then adhered the poinsettia and the holly leaves to this panel.  I added dots of black Nuvo drops to the center of the flower and then adhered the sentiment that I hot foiled during the Pinkfresh Studio Perfect Sentiments: Holiday foil plate.  

Thanks for stopping by and have a lovely day!

a few cards...

 Hey there!  I'm popping in to share a few cards.  One card is for two challenges and the other two cards are ones that I made last week, but only shared on Instagram so I thought I would share them here, too.  First up is the card for the challenge and that challenge is Freshly Made Sketches and the Flower Challenge.  Will also add this to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge to put a sentiment on your card.

Back in July I purchased a Hero Arts card kit that is available only through the Joann's website.  I couldn't resist the gorgeous floral image and the fact that it came with lots of beautiful cardstock and a dot palette of Daniel Smith watercolors.  After stamping the image in black on watercolor cardstock I watercolored the image with the Daniel Smith colors.  When it was dry I die cut it with the matching die.  I used the layout from FMS, but obviously didn't make my card square.  To get the triangles in the layout I scored the cardstock panel  in opposite corners and then using the score lines as a guide wrapped the panel with this pretty variegated hemp twine that I have had for ages.  A small bow was tied with another piece adhered.  I stamped the sentiment in black ink and die cut it with an AJVD labels die.  That was popped up on the card front along with the bouquet and then I finished with some sparkling clear sequins from Pretty Pink Posh.

This card came about because I wanted to use some Stencil Butters that I had gotten from A Jillian Vance Design and I don't think I had ever used the Tumbling Leaves stencil from Simon Says Stamp.  Their current Instagram challenge is to do stenciling and so I made this card.   Since I had never tried the stencil butters before I got just two of them.  One blue and one green.  As you can see I used both and they really spread just like nice soft butter!  I really need to get more.  After my stenciled panel was dry I trimmed it down and adhered it to my card base.  The butterflies were trimmed out of some patterned paper that I had and adhered along with the sentiment from Pinkfresh Studio that I foiled in black.  I finished by adding some Trinity Stamps Rainbow Fish pearls to the bodies of the butterflies. 

This card is a simplified version of the card I submitted to the Freshly Made Sketches challenge last week.   This card happened because when I started making the other card I made what I thought at the time was a mistake.  I had foiled the wreath and then started to do the stenciling.  Unfortunately I started stenciling the leaves with the blue ink!   So I put the first wreath aside and foiled the second one and finished that card.  I almost threw this wreath away, but I learned that the challenge at Less is More was shades of blue so I finished off the wreath in shades of blue, foiled the sentiment, added it to my card and posted it to Less is More through Instagram!   

Well... I hope you enjoyed seeing my cards today.  Thanks for stopping by and have a lovely day!

best wishes...

 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!

washi flowers...

 Hello!  Popping in with a card that was super quick to put together thanks to some pretty flowers die cut from washi tape.  I have my friend, Greta, to thank for the washi flowers.   She had purchased the Painted Fantasy washi tape and the dies that can be used to cut the washi from Altenew.  I  had purchased the Calming Bouquet washi tape from Altenew and so we did a swap!   This card will be heading to Freshly Made Sketches, as well as the Altenew monthly inspiration challenge.   The inspiration photo for the Altenew challenge features bold flowers against a dark blue background.  I did incorporate the dark blue color into my card by die cutting the banner element from dark blue cardstock.   I adhered the washi tape flowers with foam tape to the banner and then added the banner to a white cardstock base.  The sentiment is from the Trigonometry stamp set.  I stamped that on a white banner strip using VersaFine CLAIR Nocturne ink, trimmed down and adhered to the card front.  Love how quickly this card came together!  Decided to add this to the Flower Challenge to put a sentiment on it.

Thanks for stopping by and have a lovely day!