wednesday with ajvd...

Hey there friends!!  Hope your new year is going great!  Popping in to let you know that I have a post up on the AJVD blog.  Here is a little peek of my card:

Hope you will head over to the blog for a look and to let me know what you think.  

floral thank you...

Hey there!!  Hope your week is off to a good start!  I got some crafting in this past weekend and have a card to share that I made during that crafty session.  This one is for the Altenew January inspiration challenge as well as the current Time Out challenge.  The inspiration card is supplied by the super talented Erum.  Her watercoloring is always so gorgeous!!  I recently purchased the Altenew Flower Arrangement stamp and die bundle so I used that for my card.   I stamped the largest flower in the set using two orange inks (SU! Pumpkin Pie and Memento Tangelo) and the medium sized flower using to yellow inks (Memento Dandelion and MFT Daffodil).  Because green isn't one of the main colors in the inspiration challenge I stamped the leaves using just one green ink, Memento New Sprout.  Because the leaves were multi-layered I was able to use only one ink, but get the variation in color that I wanted.  I did the same thing with the two smallest flowers.  Once I had everything stamped I splattered a piece of white cardstock with Picked Raspberry distress ink mixed with water.   Once that was dry I die cut it and then arranged my flowers and leaves.   I love that the die set includes this thank you sentiment as well as the word hello.  I adhered the sentiment, added some dark pink enamel dots and adhered my panel to the card base.  I will also add this to the current Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge of something new since my stamps and dies are new.

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI white and black; Stamps:  Altenew; Dies:  Altenew and AJVD; Inks:  Memento, Stampin Up!, Ranger, My Favorite Things; My Mind's Eye Enamel Dots

butterfly shaker card...

Hello!!  Stopping in with a card for several challenges:  MFT sketch challenge and  Color Throwdown.    The color combo at Color Throwdown is black, gray and ivory and so I wasn't sure I was even going to play along.  Then my son told me that his teacher's father died over Christmas break and I thought those colors would be perfect for a sympathy card for her.  I decided to pair it up with the MFT sketch using the MFT Beautiful Butterflies stamps and dies.  It took a bit of planning to get everything to come together, but I think the time and effort were worth it.  Once I had finished the die cutting and stamping I had to take a little break and get a few things done around the house.  As I thought about the card I decided to turn it into a shaker with each butterfly being its own shaker element.   The shaker mix I used is one that has clear, white and silver seed beads, along with iridescent sequins.  I added in a few 4 mm black sequins from Pretty Pink Posh in keeping with the color theme.  The sentiment is from a Hero Arts/Simon Says Stamp collaborative stamp set and was embossed in black on vellum, die cut with a MFT Slanted Sentiment Strip and adhered to the card.

Hope you have a wonderful day!!

Supplies: Cardstock:  PTI Rustic white; Stamps:  MFT; Dies:  MFT and AJVD; Inks:  SU! Smoky Slate, VersaFine Onyx Black, VersaMark watermark; Embossing powder:  Filigree black; Sequins:  Pretty Pink Posh; Sequin Mix:  Lucy's Cards

a galaxy card...

Hey there!!  Hope your new year is going well and you are finding time to craft!  I got sometime the other day and created a card I have been wanting to make for over a month!   The idea was all built around a die I purchased from Simon Says Stamp called Tickle Breeze.  How fun is that name??? Anyway my idea was to create a galaxy background, but not in the way that most galaxy backgrounds are created (or at least not in a way that I have seen!).   All the inks used for the background are distress oxide inks.  I just love their blending ability!  I was trying to create the look of the Milky Way and so wanted my colors to be concentrated in the center of my card.  To get that look I used Q-tips to add the color to the center in a narrow band.   Some of the colors used include Wild Honey, Spiced Marmalade, Fired Brick, Wilted Violet and Peacock Feathers.  Once I had the colors laid down I used my foam blending tool and added Broken China and Salty Ocean to the panel making sure to not completely cover up the narrow band of color.  I then finished up with Black Soot.  As I was doing the blending with the blue and black inks I was sure that I had created a disaster, but I love how the finished product turned out.  Once all the blending was done I die cut the Tickle Breeze die twice into the panel and then backed the piece with silver cardstock.  I then splattered on white acrylic paint mixed with water.  The stars and the word you are from the SSS Seeing Stars stamp set and were embossed in silver on vellum and then the rest of the sentiment in silver on black.  I adhered everything and then mounted the panel on a black cardstock base.  I made this for the last Simon Says Stamp Flickr challenge and wasn't going to post it on my blog, but when I saw that the new SIP challenge is to use embossing I decided to post it here.

Have a wonderful day!

Supplies: Cardstock:  PTI white, black and vellum, MFT brushed silver; Stamps:  Simon Says Stamp; Dies:  Simon Says Stamp and AJVD; Inks:  Ranger Distress Oxide inks, VersaMark watermark ink; Embossing powder:  Ranger Silver

wednesday with ajvd...

Hello friends!!  Popping in on this 3rd day of the new year to let you know that I have a post up on the AJVD blog.  Here is a little peek of my project:

Have a wonderful day... I hope you will take the time to head over to the blog for a look and to let me know what you think.  And if you haven't already done this make sure you get your entry in to win two of the new INKboss Inkpression plates that AJVD recently released.  They are super cool!!  All the details can be found here.

I'm back...

On the Precious Remembrance Shop design team that is and I'm super excited!!   To celebrate the reveal of the 2018 PRS design team we are all sharing projects made with the fun PRS Love Coupon stamp set.  I stamped the ticket image in pink and gray and then added in the sentiment using letters from the Sketchy Alphabet stamp set and the word love from Love Coupon.  I added the red hearts and then die cut the panel with an AJVD stitched dot rectangle die.  Finished things off with two black hearts from the Love Coupon Bits & Pieces kit.    This card would be perfect for the guy in your life.

Precious Remembrance Shop can be found on social media platforms so make sure you follow them on Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest and YouTube! Here is the list of the 2018 Precious Remembrance Shop design team:

Lisa Elton
Greta Hess
Helen Gullett
Kelly Lunceford

To celebrate the new year and the new team you can take 10% off an order of $30.00 or more by using this code: DTROSI10.  The code is good until January 31, 2018!  Can't wait to share my Precious Remembrance projects with you here on my blog, on Instagram and on the PRS blog in the coming year!!  Adding this to the current Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge of anything goes and to the current Dies R Us challenge.

Supplies: Cardstock:  PTI rustic white; Stamps:  Precious Remembrance Shop; Dies:  AJVD; Bits & Pieces:  Precious Remembrance Shop