two cards...

 Hello, hello!  I'm popping in to share two cards that I made recently.  First up is a card for Freshly Made Sketches and Color Throwdown.  Let's have a look.

I used the pretty CTD combo of light blue, kraft and cream with the Greetery Bittersweet Bouquet stamp set.  I thought it would look pretty stamped in the light blue with a light brown and I was right.  Once stamped I die cut the panel with a rectangle die and then trimmed the panel into three pieces.  They were adhered to my card front using foam squares.  I die cut the Greetery bow from the same cardstock used for the panel (PTI rustic white) and then blended some of the light blue ink in the center.  I finished with a sentiment from a Simon Says Stamp set and a few light blue and clear sequins.

This card is for the Pinkfresh Studio August challenge to use washi tape and for the JUGs challenge of anything goes with stencils.  Now, you might ask where is the washi tape?  Well, the entire background is washi tape!  I adhered it to thin white cardstock and then die cut it with a rectangle die. You can't see it in my photo, but I added some glossy accents to the fur on Santa's hat and sleeve, to the tree he is holding and some of the leaves on the left side and then added Rock Candy glitter.  I stenciled the Pinkfresh Studio Berry Branch image, stamped over the stenciling with the coordinating stamp and then added Rock Candy glitter to the berries.  The sentiment is from the PFS Folk Snowflake (I think that is the name) that I stamped in the same light green I used to stencil the berry branch and die cut it with the matching die.  I added the panel to my card base and then adhered the stamped image with glue.  Another Christmas card to add to my stash!

Well, that's it for me!  Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Bee thanks...

 Hello, hello!  I'm back with a card for this week's JUGs challenge.  My bloggy friend, Lisa, is the host of this week's challenge and she put together a fabulous mood board featuring bees!   I pulled out the one stamp set that I know I have (I could have others, lol) that has bees in it along with another stamp set and got to work.   Let's look at what I made.

Both of the stamp sets I used are from Hero Arts monthly card kits from back in 2021.  The one kit featured a beautiful floral image and the bees, but the floral image from that kit didn't fit with the idea I had so I used the image (above) from the other kit.  I stamped the image in Memento London Fog and then added just a light wash of color to the image using Copic markers, except for the center of the flowers.  For that I used the stencils that came in that kit and used a light brown ink for the stenciling.  Since the bees were already a little bit bolder than the background I colored them with a bolder yellow combo.  A light gray was added to the wings along with some Rock Candy Stickles.   I also went bold for the sentiment using glossy black cardstock to die cut the word thanks and then layering it on the shadow layer that was die cut from thick vellum.    Going to add this to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge, too. 

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

hello... friend

 Hello, hello!  Popping in with a quick share of a card I made for Freshly Made Sketches and Color Throwdown.    Will also be adding this to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge.  Let's have a look.

I got a "bug" to do a little organizing the other day and went through many of my craft supplies.  One of the things that has been sitting around for way too long was a Simon Says Stamp card kit that I bought LAST YEAR!   The kit has a fall theme to it, and I think I got it at the last minute.  Obviously once I got it I didn't make a card with it, lol!  But now that has been remedied... YAY!   I inked up the leaves with yellow ink, stamped them.  I then used a blender brush to add green ink to the stamps and added that to the leaves.  I finished with the veining that was stamped in brown.  Die cut with the matching dies.  The kit came with a set of three tag dies.  I used the middle sized die for the label element in the sketch and added some twine through the hole and then the leaves.  Before adding the leaves to the tag I did apply glue to the veining and then added Rock Candy distress glitter to the leaves.   During my little organizing stint I found a couple of pieces of burlap and decided to trim off a piece for the background strip to add a little texture to the card.  The card is pretty clean and simple so I really love that little bit a added rustic texture.  I thought about stamping the sentiments in black, but decided to keep with the colors from the CTD palette.  

 

I'm in a card making mood, so I may be back with another one!  Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day.

August Birch Press Design Post

 Hello, hello!  I'm up on the Birch Press Design blog today sharing a card made with one of the beautiful new products Birch Press Design released recently.  Here is a little peek:

Hope you will head over to the blog to see what I made.  Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Joyeux Noel...

 Hello!  Hope you are staying cool in your part of the world.  It has been pretty warm in my corner of the world, but things are supposed to cool down a bit this week.  I hope so!   Anywhoo, I have a card to share for Freshly Made Sketches and Color Throwdown.  Let's have a look.

In a recent order from Scrapbook.com I got the super cute and very tiny Waffle Flower die and stencil set called Postage Poinsettia so I just had to use it.  And given that the CTD colors are red, yellow and green it was absolutely perfect for the challenge.  I stenciled it three times, stamped each one with postage images from the Waffle Flower Postage Collage stamp set and then die cut each one with the matching die.  I embossed a white cardstock panel with the Simon Says Stamp Holly Branch embossing folder and then used my Waffle Flower 0+ blender brushes to add green to the holly leaves and red to the berries.  I turned the sketch on it's side to create a landscape card rather than a portrait one and attached the three "postage stamps" using thin foam squares.  I finished with the sentiment that I found in my stash that I foiled several years ago using red foil.    Now I have one more Christmas card to add to my small stash!

Well, that's it for me!  Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day.

two cards...

 Hello, hello!  Can't believe that it is already August!   Where is the time going?  Anyway, I'm here to share two cards that I made.   Uusally I combine my two favorite challenges into one card, but this time I have a card for Freshly Made Sketches and a separate card for Color Throwdown.  Let's have a look at the FMS card. 

My love affair with 49th and Market's Summer Porch line of products continues, lol!  I recently purchased a package of their laser cuts.  I used several of the laser cuts, as well as pieces of patterned paper to create my card.   Not much to explain other than I cut the pieces of paper to fit the sketch and adhered them to the front of my card base.  I then chose the laser cuts I wanted to use and adhered them together using liquid adhesive.   I stamped the sentiment down in the lower corner and then added the focal element using thin foam squares.   The leafy branch and the berry stems are separate laser cuts that I layered together for a fuller look.  Going to add this one to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge of anything goes, as well. 

Now for the Color Throwdown card.  This color combo was a little bit of a challenge for me, but I decided that stamping was a good way to go.  Take a look.

I used a very old Concord & 9th stamp set called Beautiful Branches.  I stamped the branch and leaves using light brown and light gray inks.  I then stamped the little flowers in the challenge colors of purple, orange and yellow and arranged them on the panel after I had die cut it with a rectangle die.  I then stamped the sentiment using the light brown ink.  I finished with the little bow and enamel dots in the center of each flower.   

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