Coffee Wednesday with AJVD...

 Hello!  This post is a little late... hee hee!  Anywhoo... you probably didn't even know that, ha ha!  This week the Coffee Lover's fall/winter blog hop is taking place and AJVD is a super sponsor.  That means I have a coffee themed card up on the AJVD blog today.   Here is a little peek:

So... I hope you will head over to the AJVD blog to see the full card.  Before you go I just want to let you know that there is a  buy one get one free sale going on over at Spellbinders.    Click the link in my side bar or right here to be taken to the sale.   Thanks for stopping by and have a lovely day!

a card and a tag...

 Hey there!  As I write this post the weekend is winding down.  I always love playing along with Color Throwdown so I just had to make a card.  Since I wanted to get the card done quickly I pulled out one of my favorite stamp sets from Stampin Up! Kinda Eclectic to get the job done.   This set has lots of fun images that are great for layering and it is one stamp set that I do not think I will ever get rid of.  Once I had everthing stamp I die cut the panel and adhered it to a white cardstock base.  All the inks are from Catherine Pooler.  Because the brown I used seems to be a little dark, almost black, I decided to add some brown sequins that I found in my stash to the card to finish things off. 

Now for my tag.  I think every year around this time I often mention that I don't make many tags.  The only reason I usually make a tag or two is because of Tracey's 25 Days of Christmas Tags.   I haven't been following along closely with all of the festivities, but I did happen to see Tracey's tag from day 3 on Instagram and I couldn't get it out of my head.  I had recently purchased a stamp set from Stampin Up! called Joyful Holly and thought it would be perfect to use for a tag.  I used the color combo from The Paper Players for my little tag so I will be posting it there, as well.  I die cut the tag and then stamped the outline image in VersaFine CLAIR Nocturne and then added the layers using Altenew Hunter for the leaves and Velvet for the berries.  The sentiment was stamped in VersaMark watermark ink on vellum and then heat embossed in silver.  I die cut the sentiment with a sentiment strip die from AJVD and adhered it with rolled up glue dots.  I finished off the tag with some red ribbon that I tied with hunter green twine.  Before tying the bow I added red and green bells.  

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!

Wednesday with AJVD...

 Hello and happy Wednesday everyone!  I have a post up on the A Jillian Vance Design blog today and here is a little peek:

I hope you will head over to the AJVD blog to see the full card.  Thanks for stopping by and have a lovely day!

celebrate...

Hello!  Hope things are well in your world.   Things are going well in my world... I got a card made!  I don't think I have done this much coloring with Copic markers ever.   As I started out I was coloring only a two or three petals at a time.  By the time I got to the end of the coloring I was coloring the entire flower with one color then moving onto the next one and so on!   The colors are from Color Throwdown so I will be entering the card there, as well as at the Just Us Girl challenge to use a word die on your card.   After I finished all of the coloring I die cut a piece of white cardstock with the largest Stitched Dot rectangle die from A Jillian Vance Design.  The daisy stamp is also from A Jillian Vance Design and I die cut all of them with the matching die.  I then adhered them to the panel.  The ones on the short sides of the panels were adhered flat to the panel and the ones on the long side were adhered with foam dimensionals.  I then trimmed off the excess and adhered the panel to a kraft cardstock base.  I die cut the word celebrate (from one of the AJVD slimline die sets) from lime green cardstock four times, adhered them together and added them to the front of the card.   While it took a long time to make this card I'm super pleased with how it turned out.  Also going to add this the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge.

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

creating with fun stampers journey...

 Hello everyone!  Today I'm popping in with a card that I made with some lovely products from Fun Stampers Journey/Spellbinders.   These products are from the newly released FSJ Buzzworthy collection.  My card uses the lovely Sweet as Honey stamp set and the Sweet Honeycomb stencil.  I started my card by inking up one corner of a white cardstock panel using the stencil and Squeezed Lemonade distress oxide ink.  I then scored a line at an angle from one side of the panel to the other.  It is hard to see so I included a close up photo.   I then stamped the flower and a leaf on Tim Holtz watercolor cardstock with VersaFine CLAIR Nocturne ink and then I did some simple watercoloring.  Once the flower and the leaf were mostly dry I trimmed them out.   By doing this I allow some natural curling to occur that lifts up the edges of the flower to give it dimension when I adhere it to the panel.  Before adhering the flower to the panel I adhered the second leaf behind the flower and let that dry.  When it was dry I placed the flower on the panel so I could place the sentiment where I wanted it and then stamp.   The flower was then adhered to the panel with glue.  I added some yellow Stickles to the center of the flower for a little sparkle.   I based my card on the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches so I will be posting it there.  I'm also going to send this off to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge of anything goes.

Thanks for stopping by today!  I hope you will check out these new products from Fun Stampers Journey/Spellbinders.  And don't forget about the opportunity to save 30% off select Spellbinders kits.