Three Birdies for Color Hues

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

It's time for another challenge from Color Hues!

This month Carol picked one of my favorite combination!  She chose....

My first thought was to go with bees.  But I'd done a bee recently.  Then I saw my 

friend Leslie's adorable birdie card.  It sent me shopping immediately (thanks for the

enabling, my friend.  Like Leslie, I die cut the birds from patterned paper.

The dies cut six different birdies and I only used three here.  You'll be seeing

more of them pop up from time to time.  I had such a good time playing with them!

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

fantastic Guest Designers Barbara Campbell & Diana Karlova have done to inspire you.

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

Color Hues.

Challenge ends at 9:00 AM on June 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:  Nature's Dance (SB)

Ink:  Versafine Onyx Black

Paper: Neenah Solar White, Black, PP (?)

Other:  Birdies die (SSS), Leafy EF (SB), Nature's Dance die (SB), A2 Thin Frames die (SSS)

Enjoy!

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Deer to Me

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

Ooh, it's been hot.  The air conditioner is having trouble keeping the heat

at bay upstairs in my craft room.  But I managed to get a card done.

Michele's sketch at Freshly Made Sketches nearly stumped me.

I think I made it harder on myself because I needed to make an anniversary card

for my DH.  We have been married a l-o-n-g time and that anniversary is looming!

Here's the sketch

I remembered a pad of decorative paper that has some pretty scenes in it and looked

through to see if I could find one that would work. 

It took a couple of tries, but I found one that worked and cut it up and rearranged it

to make some hills with a sunrise/sunset over the hills.

Then there was the problem of finding a die cut to go with it.  My only tree die 

didn't work, but these deer did.  I had to do a little surgery on one of them as one is

supposed to be me and she deer don't have antlers.

Once I got the hills figured out the rest was easy.  A little sponging on the deer

was all that was needed.

In the end, I'm happy with the card and enjoyed the challenge.

Thanks, Michele!

Now I'd better get it over to Freshly Made Sketches before they lock the door.

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Bouquet of Thanks (SSS)

Ink:   Whisper White, Brushed Corduroy, Gathered Twigs (DOX)

Paper:   Thoughtful Journey DSP (SU), Natural (MFT)

Other:  Deer to Me dies (PTI), White EP

Enjoy!

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CAS Christmas Birds

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

I am so happy to see that my dear friend Loll has brought back the

CAS Christmas Challenge!

I was so excited that I made two cards with this new to me Alex Siberia set.

First up, I also used a NBUS Molded Frame embossing folder.

I die cut the bird and greenery from mixed media paper and used Distress Re-inkers

to color the bird and Twi-markers and my waterbrush for the greenery.  

The berries were punched from a scrap of red cardstock.

This time I die cut the bird from Real Red cardstock and sponged a darker

red on the edges.  The leaves were colored with a sponge dauber and Distress Ink.

I die cut a label and used a pierced cover plate die with a frame to

mount this one.  Kind of the same but different and a good addition

to my Christmas stash.

Challenges:

ABC Christmas - J is for Just Enough (CAS)

CAS Christmas - Bird

CAS on Friday - Bird

NBUS #87 - Never Before Used Schtuff - Bird die

 

Card Recipe (card 1)

Stamps:  Sparkle & Shine (GKD)

Ink:   Real Red, 

Paper:   Neensh Solar White, Real Red

Other:  Garden Tweets, Winter Foliage (AS),  Molded Frame EF (SB), Distress Re-inkers (Candied Apple, Barn Door, Fired Brick), Arteza Twi-markers (Sage Green, Olive Green, Pine Green, Moss Green)

Card Recipe (card 2)

Stamps:  Sparkle & Shine (GKD)

Ink:   Garden Green, Cherry Cobbler (SU), Bundled Sage, Rustic Wilderness (DI)

Paper:  Neenah Solar White, Real Red 

Other:  Garden Tweets, Molded Frame EF (SB), Elegant Rectangle STAX dies (MFT), Spring Leaves Cover Plate (HB)

Enjoy!

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Graduation

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

It's graduation time around here and our Luke is among the high school graduates.

Here's the card I did for him.

The graduation cap embellishment was included in a gift from a former

card maker who is no longer able to craft.  Knowing this graduation was

coming up, I set it aside.  His school colors are purple and gold so that

made the color choice easy.

I used a star die and a my sunburst card front die for a base and some

alphabet and number dies to complete the design.

Our next door neighbor is graduating too.  A friend had brought her graduation

cap embossing folder when she visited a while back and I used the cap sticker

from Luke's card to make a pattern so I could add one to this card too.

It seems like yesterday that these kids were babies!

The time has sure flown!

I hope you have a great weekend!

Enjoy!

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Butterfly Trio

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

I hope you're having a nice week and you're able to get some crafty time in.

Just Us Girls is have a die week and the theme is butterflies.  Ha! That's not a

problem for me.  The biggest problem is which of my sweet butterfly dies do I use!

I did a smooshed background, die cut some windows and die cut the butterflies

to go in the windows.  They are already in flight to someone who needs a lift.

Challenges:

Just Us Girls #826 - Use a butterfly die

I.D.E.A.S. - Die Cut week

 

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Words of Encouragement (Stamp Simply)

Ink:   Nocturne (VC)

Paper:   Watercolor (Strathmore), Mixed Media (Strathmore)

Other:  Stitching Butterflies die (SSS), Square Window Trio (HB)

Enjoy!

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