Vintage Ornaments

Hi there.  I'm so glad you stopped by!

Are you ready to start another week?

They seem to fly by!

Freshly Made Sketches always stretches my creativity and this week was

no exception.  But I've go to say that I'm always glad I played along and 

have a card design that I would have never come up with on my own.

This week, Jen B's sketch with the angled strip was unexpected.

the Design Team has wonderful inspiration to help.  I loved Donna's 

pumpkins (as you'll see below), but wanted to be a little more original.  So I

started looking through my Christmas dies for something that would be

a good size and found these sweet little ornaments.

Inspired by the colors of Donna's pumpkins, I found some scrap pieces of cardstock

and cut the pieces.  Each ornament has coordination strips etc. to add texture

and dimension.  I added a bit of ink around the edges and touches of gold

I've done a lot of cards with the strip going horizontally or even vertically.  The 

diagonal strip is a little different and I like it!

Then...

since I'm so ready for fall, I had to try to do one with pumpkins.

I stuck to yellow and orange since they are Marcia's Color Hues colors. 

I wish I could say hello to fall, but we've still got some hot summer to get through.

I'll just have to spend more time crafting in the studio.

Do check out the Freshly Made Sketches challenge

and the Color Hues challenge too.

Card Recipe (card 1)

Stamps:  Merry Christmas (IO)

Ink:   Tidepool (GKD), Grapefruit (C9), Dk Orchid (GKD)

Paper:   Sea Glass (SSS), Nectar (C9), Fresh Freesia (SU), Neenah Solar White, Gold Foil bits

Other:  Curio Attic Ornaments (Grtry), Wintry EF (SU), Gold EP

Card Recipe (card 2)

Stamps:  

Ink:   Pumpkin Pie (SU), Warm Cocoa, Butterscotch (GKD)

Paper:   Neenah Natural, PP (?), So Saffron, Warm Cocoa (GKD)

Other:  Stitched Pumpkins dies (LF), Seasonal Decor die (SB), Cozy Fall Trio die (CP), Fall Leaves EF (HB)

Enjoy!

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Soft Petals for Color Hues

Hi there.  I'm so glad you stopped by!

It's time for a new challenge at Color Hues...

This month my dear sweet friend Marcia picked our colors.  She chose....

Aren't these wonderful colors for late summer?

I used a fairly new Penny Black stamp with Memento Toffee Crunch ink

for a no-line watercolor look and colored with Zigs and my waterbrush. The

background has a pale yellow wash.

Now let's go and see what my talented friends and our

fantastic Guest Designer Priscilla have done to inspire you.

I hope you'll create a card using Yellow & Orange and add it to the gallery at

Color Hues.

Challenge ends at 9:00 AM on August 29th.

The winners will be posted an hour before our next challenge and the overall

 winner will have the opportunity to be a future Guest Designer.

Most importantly, just have fun!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Soft Petals (PB), Elegant Expressions Original (Ton)

Ink:   Encore Gold

Paper:   Neenah Natural, Mixed Media (Strathmore

Other:  Zigs, Elegant Rectangles dies (MFT), Texture EF (PB), Elegant Expressions Original die (Ton), Bright Butterflies die (SSS)

Enjoy!

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Thanksgiving Feathers

Hi there.  I'm so glad you stopped by!

I am so ready for fall.  Unfortunately it doesn't seem like fall is

ready to show up.  But, in the studio it can be any season I want.

I had a set of feather dies in my NBUS box and added an older feather die to

make a trio of feathers.  They were cut from some mixed media paper and

smooshed in puddles of watered ink.  I'm not sure what kind of bird they would 

have come from,  Maybe a turkey?  I was in the mood for fall colors and I didn't

even think about a bird until they were done.

I dipped the edges of the colored feathers in VersaMark and added gold embossing

powder and heated. The photo doesn't show the golden edges very well.

They were added on an embossed background and I added some tiny gold punched 

circles into the embossing.

Challenges:

Double D - Feathers

I.D.E.A.S. - Die Week

NBUS #89 - Never Before Used Schtuff

  

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Thankful for Fall (PTI)

Ink:   Warm Cocoa (GKD), VersaMark

Paper:   Fine Linen (PTI), Neenah Natural, Mixed Media (Strathmore)

Other:  Distress re-inkers (Carved Pumpkin, Tea Dye, Spiced Marmalade, Vintage Photo), Jumbo Curiosity Feather die (Grtry), Feather die (HA), Feathers on the side EF (Darice), Gold EP, Linen Thread

Enjoy!

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Fun with Sunflowers

Hi there.  I'm so glad you stopped by!

I do love sunflowers!  And they don't have to be yellow.

This is a CASE of this card I did a week or so ago.  This time I used a lighter 

color for the sunflower, inspired by Tina Smith.  You can see her card here.

and with some left over pieces on the table...

I hope you have fun today and over the weekend.

Card Recipe

Stamps:  

Ink:   Buttercup, Baked Brown Sugar, Sage, Eucalyptus

Paper:   Alabaster, Lemon Tart, Daffodil Delight, Neenah Solar White

Other:  Sunflower Serenade die (SB), Spotlight on Nature die (SU), Infinity Circles die (HA), Bee-cause EF (SB), Argyle EF (SB), Ladybugs made with circle punch

Enjoy!

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Santa's Sleigh

Hi there.  I'm so glad you stopped by!

My Christmas stash needs to grow faster! 

The CAS Christmas challenge is helping to take care of that.  This month, Julia has asked

for Christmas cards with Santa's sleigh.

I remembered this Tim Holtz die that hasn't seen a lot of use and got that out.

The CAS Mix Up Challenge is asking for stenciling on patterned paper.  I found

this piece of patterned paper and cut the Santa and sleigh off to add this one.

First I used stencil paste to add some stars to the paper and sprinkled the wet paste

with fine glitter.

I've added some silver glitter paper for a little extra magic.

Challenges:

ABC Christmas - R is for Rectangles

CAS Christmas - Santa's Sleigh

CAS Mix Up - Stenciling over Patterned Paper

  

Card Recipe

Stamps:  

Ink:   

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Silver Glimmer, Christmas Watercolor (Scrapbook Customs), Black

Other:  Mini Slayering Stencil Set #31 (TH), Embossing Paste (Wendy Vecchi), Dash Away All die (TH), Special Merry Christmas die (MB), Glitter

Enjoy!

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