Turning the Page November 2021

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Time to turn the page on our calendars to a new month.

I make calendars each year for my desk and my family.

I thought I'd set up a regular post on the last day of each month to share them.

I hope you enjoy my “Turning the Page” posts.

Here's our November page using Penny Black Xmas Sprig stamp.

By the way, the calendars are clipped together and can be displayed on an easel

or hung on a push pin or magnetic hook.  We all have a different way to display them.

If you would like a word document with the calendar, email me (bonklass(at)gmail(dot)com.

and I will be glad to send it to you so you can design your own.

If your email address is not in your profile, I have no way to send this to you.

Email link is in my profile on the sidebar.

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Happy Haunting

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A little Halloween fun.

This is a really easy way to do a background.  I used colored cardstock and

stamped one of the grunge stamps with VersaMark.

I hope you get treats and not tricks!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Gorgeous Grunge (ret. SU), Sacred Tree (Lavinia)

Ink:   VersaMark, Versafine Onyx Black

Paper:   Black, Gorgeous Grape, Scraps of So Saffron & White

Other:  Haunted House, Ghost Trio Dies (Frantic Stamper)

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Peaceful Deer

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I used a galaxy background for this die cut woodland scene and just added a die cut frame.

I'm still trying to get the hang of this technique to make it look more realistic.

Challenges:

Jingle Belles - Not a Creature was Stirring

Rudolph Days - Anything Christmas

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Botanical Blocks IV (PTI)

Ink:   Versafine Onyx Black - For Galaxy Background (Mustard Seed, Picked Raspberry, Seedless Preserves, Faded Jeans, Black Soot)

Paper:   Neenah

Other:  White Acrylic Paint (for splatter), Tasteful Texture EF (SU), Elegant Rectangle STAX (MFT), Deer Scene Die (Ali)

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Brayering with Zoom

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I recently Zoomed with friends and visited the brayer technique.

 

I've tried and tried and not had the best results.

But I found if I just looked at a small portion of my brayered piece,

I wasn't as offended.

   

The rest of the Zoom group did some beautiful work that was worthy

of a whole background.

  

This one wasn't so bad.  Maybe I need to stick to one or two colors?

I had fun crafting with friends.  I find it doesn't matter what we do as it's

fun to do something together.

Challenges:

Krafty Chicks - CAS week (card 1)

Card Recipe (card 1)

Stamps:  Nature's Friends (PB)

Ink:   Mustard Seed, Spiced Marmalade, Picked Raspberry (DOX), Versafine Onyx Black

Paper:   Neenah

Other:  Clear EP, Stitched Squares Die (SSS), Clear EP, White Posca Pen, Subtle EF (SU), Berry Branch Die (?)

Card Recipe (card 2)

Stamps:  Wonderland (ret. SU), Holiday Snippets (PB), Waterfront (SU)

Ink:   Soft Sky, Marina Mist (SU), Versafine Onyx Black

Paper:   Coated Cardstock (?), Black, Hammermill 100 lb.

Other:  Wintry 3D EF (SU), Frantage Chunky White EP (Stampendous), Holiday Greens Mini Die (TH)

Card Recipe (card 3)

Stamps:  Nature's Paintbrush (PB)

Ink:   Mustard Seed, Spiced Marmalade (DOX), Versafine Onyx Black

Paper:   Coated Cardstock (?), Neenah Natural, Black

Other:  Birds Die (IO), Wood Veneer

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A Birthday Rose

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Another Happy 5th Birthday wish to The Flower Challenge!

This colored image has been waiting for a special occasion.

I hope you will give us many more years of this challenge and inspiration!

Challenges:

The Flower Challenge - Use a Shape

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Rose (Power Poppy Digital), Cosmo (TT)

Ink:   Versafine Onyx Black

Paper:   Neenah, Blush Blossom (ret. SU)

Other:  Copics (R30, R20, R13, R00, YG 03, YG 17, E33), Double Stitched Oval STAX (MFT), Opulent Ovals Die (Splbndr)

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Fragrant Bouquet for The Flower Challenge

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The Flower Challenge is celebrating their 5th birthday!

My but that 5 years flew by!  I love this challenge and I think I've played 

almost every month.  I have certainly found a lot of inspiration from their

Design Team and Gallery.

Congratulations and here's to many more years of this challenge!

This stamp has been sitting in my NBUS box for longer than I'm willing to admit.

It was such fun to ink up with Distress Markers and watercolor.  I don't know

why it took so long to ink it up.

Since they want a shape on a card this time, I decided to make a shaped card.

The largest die of this STAX was perfect for the image and I even had

the frame stuck in the pouch with the dies.

Challenges:

The Flower Challenge - Use a Shape

NBUS - Never Before Used Schtuff

Penny Black Saturday - ATG/Optional Color Challenge Use at least 2 colors (see below)

 

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Fragrant (PB), Easy Expressions Original (Ton)

Ink:   Wilted Violet, Seedless Preserves, Ripe Persimmon, Rusty Hinge, Weathered Wood, Pumice Stone, Crushed Olive, Peeled Paint (DM), Aged Mahogany (DI), Tumbled Glass Distress Re-inker, VersaMark

Paper:   Mixed Media, Neenah

Other:  Elegant Rectangle STAX Dies (MFT), Gold EP, Easy Expressions Die (Ton)

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Ghostly Goblins

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A fun Halloween card sent to a grandboo.

Challenges:

Inspired By - Who's Your Boo?

Two Old Bats Halloween - Anything Halloween

 

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Ghostly (Hampton Arts), Spooky Expressions (Whipper Snapper), Hocus Pocus (Whipper Snapper

Ink:   Versafine Onyx Black, Wisteria Wonder

Paper:   Neenah, Pumpkin Pie (SU)

Other:  Square Windeow Trio Die (Honey Bee), 1 1/4" Square Punch, Googly Eyes

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Singing Loud for Christmas

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My friend Marcia is hosting CAS Mix Up this month and she chose....

I was excited to have a good excuse to use my NBUS snowman and sentiment set 

from Stamping Bella.

I've stamped this singing snowman and bird friend with Memento ink and

colored with Copic markers using different shades of gray and red.

I'd been wanting this sentiment for a long time and treated myself when

they had a great sale last summer.

I'll save this for my daughter who loves Christmas music and is known for

singing loud and cheerfully!

Challenges:

ABC Christmas - V for vocabulary (love this sentiment)

CAS Christmas - Gray and Red

Christmas Kickstart - For a Loved One

Christmas Crafts All Year Round - S is for Snowman

NBUS - Never Before Used Schtuff

    

Card Recipe

Stamps:  FaLaLaLaLa, Festive Gnome Sentiments (Stamping Bella)

Ink:   Memento Tuxedo Black

Paper:   Neenah, Grout Gray (MFT), Real Red

Other:  Copic Sketch Markers (C00, C0, C1, C3, C4, W00, W0, W1, R35, R29, R37, YR07), Elegant Stitching Frames (PB), Chunky White Frantage, Dazzling Details (SU)

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Christmas Bear for Inspired By

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I love the Christmas sELFies stamp set and have colored up another one with Copics.

Challenges:

Inspired By Challenge 191 - Christmas Shoes (Well, the bear but his shoes didn't make it into the image. But the turquoise in the scarf did.)

Krafty Chicks - Christmas week

Merry Little Christmas - Anything Christmas

 

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Christmas sELFies (MFT), Mixed Christmas Sentiments (OOB)

Ink:   Memento Tuxedo Black

Paper:   Neenah, Tempting Turquoise (SU)

OtherCopics (C00, C0, C1, G40, G43, R83, R85, BG10, BG11, BG15), Wonky Stitched Rectangle Die (MFT), Snowflake die cut from Glimmer Paper (?)

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More Botanicals for CAS Mix Up

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Have you tried using nature on your cards yet?

There's a lovely gallery of examples at CAS Mix Up.

Here's two more.

For these cards, I plucked the end of a branch from my arborvitae,

put it between two pieces of watercolor paper and put it through my big shot.

That yielded two pressed pieces and I thought a pretty cardinal would work nice on one.

The cardinal has been cut from Real Red card stock and I've sponged Cherry Cobbler ink

along the edges of both pieces.  His "mask" and beak were colored with markers. 

I decided to add some watercolor to the other one.

And it became a lovely Christmas tree for this alcohol inked ornament that had some

foil rubbed on the sticky places.

Now you can see that foil.

My mixed media are Botanical Prints, Watercoloring, Stamping, Die Cutting and

 Alcohol Ink with Foiling

There's still time to find some of nature's bounty and use it on a card.

There are tutorial links at the challenge site and some awesome inspiration

from our Design Team.

The CAS Mix Up Challenge ends on the 24th.

Card Recipe (card 1)

Stamps:  Season's Wishes (PB)

Ink:   Christmas Pine (GKD), Cherry Cobbler (SU)

Paper:  Watercolor (Arches cold press), Neenah Natural, Christmas Pine (GKD), Primitive Cream (MFT) 

Other:  Arborvitae, Small Cardinal Set Die (Dee's Distinctively), Holiday Greens Mini Die (TH), Subtle EF (SU)

Card Recipe (card 2)

Stamps:  Scribbly Christmas (TH)

Ink:   Rustic Wilderness (DI for watercolor, DOX for sentiment)

Paper:   Watercolor (Arches cold press), Primitive Cream (MFT), Yupo

Other: Arborvitae, Alcohol Ink, Deco Foil, Classic Ornament Die (MB)

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Pink for Jingle Belles

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It's Breast Awareness Month and Jingle Belles is having their annual

Pink Challenge and that for each card that gets linked up, they (Stephanie and Lauren) each donate two dollars to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation (yep that's $4 total) for each card linked-up.

 

This die cut ornament was all that was left in a package of watercolor paper and

I figured it was easier to use it than to move it.

I used an old poinsettia stamp, inked with pink ink and

stamped it onto the ornament.  After coloring the flower with ink and my waterbrush,

 I added color to the background then dotted with a white gel pen.  When it was 

completely dry, I smooshed the ornament into a VersaMark pad and heated

with clear embossing powder.

The sentiment is heat embossed with gold and I added a wispy leaf die cut to

an embossed background to finish.

Challenges:

Jingle Belles - Dreaming of a Pink Christmas

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Christmas Blessings (ret. SU), Signature Christmas (ret. PTI)

Ink:  VersaMark, Blushing Bride, Picked Raspberry 

Paper:   Watercolor (Strathmore), Neenah

Other:  Heirloom Ornament (Spllbndr), Airy Die (PB), Clear EP, Gold EP, Caran d'ache Supracolor pencils (Carmine, Rose, Yellow, Olive Green), White Gel Pen (Signo)

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Grateful for You

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This stamp has three pumpkins and it's a brushstroke or silhouette stamp.

I tried to make it into an outline stamp and only one of the pumpkins

made the grade!

I used Distress Markers to ink the stamp then added some watercolor by

smooshing ink on my palette and picking up with a waterbrush.

This was my inspiration

Challenges:

Inspired By #190- Pumpkins Rock

Krafty Chicks Week 1 - Must have stamping

and a new to me challenge...

Modsquad Challenge Blog - Pumpkins, Pumpkins Everywhere

 

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Pumpkin Patch (PB), Bountiful Harvest (Verve OOB)

Ink:   Weathered Wood, Spiced Marmalade, Rusty Hinge, Crushed Olive, Peacock Feathers (DI & DM), Cajun Craze (SU)

Paper:   Mixed Media (Strathmore, Cajun Craze, Textured Gray (?)

Other:  Timeless Texture 3D EF (SU), Linen Thread (SU)

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