Hummingbird Just for Fun

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

I am really enjoying my Betterpress.

I wanted to see how it would look with a second pull from the inked plate

and tried it on a piece of Pebble Betterpress paper that came with my starter set.

I didn't think I'd care for the pebble paper, but I've decided that I need to

use it more often.

I am still experimenting with different coloring mediums and this time I went with

Caran d'ache Supracolor Pencils.

After coloring the different areas, I blended with a damp waterbrush.

The layout wasn't originally intended.  I was experimenting with an 

Elegant Writer and trying to fill in between the leaves and flowers at the bottom

of the design.  It didn't work like I wanted and I cut off the offending portion.

I'm glad I didn't experiment in the middle!

It turned out to be a happy accident and a challenge to figure out how to use the 

image and not have to throw it all away.

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Hummingbird Nectar Betterpress plate (Alt), Magnolia Ballerina (Alt)

Ink:   Betterpress Black (2nd pull)

Paper:   Betterpress Pebble, Black, Neenah Solar White

Other:  Caran d'ache Supracolor Pencils (White, Lt. Lemon, Yellow, Yellow Orange, Khaki Green, Dark Green, Empire Green, Raspberry Red, Dark Carmine), Subtle EF (ret SU)

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Santa and Friends

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

I'll try harder not to post two Christmas cards in a row.

The end of the month is almost here and challenges will be closing.

I searched through my UFOs for an image of Santa and friends but

couldn't find any...

so I made more.  One made it on a card, and my UFO stash is growing again.

It was easy enough to stamp all the images in this set at once and it was fun

coloring them with Copics.  These images always make me smile!

Challenges:

Christmas Kickstart #85 - Santa and His Sidekicks

Rudolph Days - ATG Christmas

 

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Christmas sELFies (MFT), Snow Globe Greetings (MFT)

Ink:   Memento Tuxedo Black

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Clover (ret SU)

Other:  Copics (R24, R29, R37, C00, C0, E000, E21, G14, G46, B000), Square Die (AE), Snowflake EF (MS), Holly Punch (MS), Chunky White EP (Stampendous)

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Christmas Holly

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

I have two Christmas cards today from my December 2023 calendar.

I'm always happy to recycle those calendars and they are making my Christmas stash grow.

The holly is die cut from watercolor paper and colored.

Challenges:

Peace on Earth Christmas #62 - Inspired by jars with holly

Jingle Belles - Recycle

 

Card Recipe (card 1)

Stamps:  Splatter

Ink:   Baked Brown Sugar, Shaded Spruce, Pine Needles (DM), Real Red (SUM)

Paper:   Watercolor, Neenah Solar White, Real Red, DP

Other:  Holly Berry Die (PB)

Card Recipe (card 2)

Stamps:  Christmas Joy (Verve OOB)

Ink:   Shaded Spruce

Paper:   Watercolor, Neenah Solar White, Shaded Spruce

Other:  Circle Die, Circle Thin Frame (SSS), Subtle EF (ret SU), Nuvo Crystal Drops (Simply White)

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Fragrant Floral in Peach

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

I'm joining Darnell with a stenciled card today.  It's the S in I.D.E.A.S. *

Thanks for the push to use a NBUS stencil, Darnell.

I haven't used a lot of layered stencils.  (Confession: they cornfuse me and I usually

am off on the alignment. ) But I had this kit sitting in my NBUS box since last summer

and this was just the excuse to use it and make one of my daughter's a birthday card.

I couldn't decide on what colors to use until I saw the mood board at

Just Us Girls.  The peach colored sunflower inspired me to use shades of peach.

I embossed a piece of mixed media paper and used blending brushes and ink with the

stencil to color.  I was light handed with the colors and used a damp waterbrush to blend.

When I was finished coloring and it was all dry, I used the die in the set to cut out

the design.  I lined it up in the embossing folder again and ran it through to freshen

up the embossing that got lost with the die cutting.

A few splatters with left over ink and water and a gold die cut sentiment 

with tiny punched gold dots sprinkled around, finished it off.

Challenges:

I.D.E.A.S. - Stencil Week  (Oops! This week is ANYTHING GOES. I'm cornfused after all.)

Just Us Girls - Mood Board (inspired by peach flower)

NBUS #61 - Never Before Used Schtuff (embossing folder and die)

Stencil Fun - Use a Stencil

 

Card Recipe

Stamps:  

Ink:   Melon, Cantelope, Peachy, Sherbet, Field (SSS)

Paper:   Mixed Media (Strathmore), Neenah Solar White, Gold Foil

Other:  Fragrant Florals EF, Stencil and Die (Alt), Let's Have a Word Love (Grtry), Copic Multiliners (.03, .05), Caran d'ache Supracolor Pencils (Brown, Dark Green, Moss Green)

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Pink and Yellow

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I recently found a box of flowers stickers deep in the cupboard.

In it were several different styles and sizes of daisies.

Pairing one (or two) up with a salted background in my stash, came

together for a card for the Color Hues challenge.

This is an A6 size and a bit larger than I usually make.  

I'm trying to use up some envelopes.

The salted background was made by wetting a piece of cold press 

watercolor paper and sprinkling Color Burst Powders over it.

When it was completely blended and still wet, I sprinkled some coarse salt

over top and let it dry.  When dry, I brushed the salt off and it left this fun design.

I stacked a smaller daisy over the top of a larger one for a little more depth.

I'm not sure if I'm crazy about it, but it's not coming apart.

Challenges:

Color Hues #85 (Yellow and Pink)

Krafty Chicks #712 - CAS week

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Handwritten Notes (ret PTI)

Ink:   Versafine Smokey Gray

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Watercolor (Arches cold press)

Other:  Colorburst Powders (Razzle Berry, Lemon Drop), Coarse salt, Hemstitch Rectangle Die (Spl), Daisy Stickers (?)

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Happy Anniversary Leaves

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

This week Darnell's I.D.E.A.S is Embossing.

She's come up with this fun way to start off the week with a starting point

for a card.

I've embossed a piece of Black Mixed Media paper and added a bit of

watercolor with Metallic Watercolor Paint to the raised parts.

I thought it made a very dramatic background and added some die cut leaves

over top. I love how the die embosses the leaves as it cuts.

Challenges:

Can You Handle the Pressure - Use Embossing

Card Recipe

Stamps:  BP Fancy Sentiment Strips Plate (Spl)

Ink:   

Paper:   Black, Mixed Media, Betterpress Porcelain

Other: Vine Canopy EF (SSS), Metallic Watercolor Paint (Alt), BP Fancy Sentiment Strips Die (Spl), Privet Branch Die (SSS)

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Red Poinsettia

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

Today's card came from my UFO box.  It was from this calendar page.

I'm not sure if it was from the actual calendar or if it was a test piece.

It's been in there for a long time.

I didn't like the colors and with nothing to lose, I decided to color over it with my

Ohuhu markers to see if I could improve it.  I was glad I did.

I added some gold foil mini dots to the center and some gold splatter and

a sentiment from the stash.

The background piece had been set aside because I got overzealous with splatters.

I decided it wasn't so bad if I covered most of it up.  

Another Christmas card added to my stash.

Challenges:

ABC Christmas - I is for Inky

Jingle Belles - Use something recycled (calendar page)

Krafty Chicks - Christmas week

Peace on Earth #61 - STG  optional mood board below

 

  

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Red Delight (PB), Easy Holiday Expressions (Ton)

Ink:   Versafine, Scattered Straw, Festive Berries, Peeled Paint)

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Gold Foil, Real Red

Other:  Ohuhu Markers (R4, R7, R8, G1, G2, GY3), Gold Color Shine (Heidi Swapp)

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Kitty

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Challenges:

Color Throwdown #788 - Pink, Green, Yellow

Double D - Cute Little Animals

 

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Bubbly (PB)

Ink:   Memento Tuxedo Black

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Regal Rose

Other:  Copics (W0, W1, W2, W5, RV02, RV13, Y18, YG07, G14), Wonky Stitched Rectangle Die (MFT), Stitched Swirls Cover Plate (LI-OOB), Mini Everyday Sentiments Foil Plate (Spl) Black Foil (Spl)

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Bright Blossoms

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

I am loving the colors that Cindy chose for Color Hues #84, Peach and Green.

I was going through some of my dies a while back and found this die that I'd forgotten about.

So I put it in my "need to use" pile.  These colors worked perfectly for it.

I had the outline already cut from white cardstock in the envelope and cut another

from a scrap of mixed media paper, keeping the inside pieces intact.

I love coloring die cuts and one of my favorite ways to do it is sitting on a piece of

mixed media paper so my over-wash gives me a perfectly colored background.

I used the left over watered ink for splatters and let it all dry.

I snipped off the flowers from the white die cut and glued over the base piece.

The sentiment is from my favorite Betterpress sentiment set.

Challenges:

Color Hues #84 - Peach and Green

The Flower Challenge #90 - Add Layers (2 layers for the flowers, frame and sentiment)

Seize the Birthday #281 - Any Color and Green

  

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Fancy Sentiment Strips Pressplate (Spl)

Ink:   BP Black, Peach Parfait, Certainly Celery re-inkers (SU)

Paper:  Mixed Media (Strathmore 400 series), BP Porcelain, Neenah Solar White

Other:  Bright Blossoms Die, Essential Arches Dies, Betterpress System (Spl)

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Soft Stems

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

It's color week at Just Us Girls and the colors make me think of Halloween,

but I went in a different direction.  The colors? Purple, Orange and Mustard!

I pressed some Wilted Violet on my craft mat and spritzed with water to smoosh the 

bottom portion of a mixed media panel, dried it and smooshed some more.  Then I 

pressed Villainous Potion on my mat and repeated for a little contrast.

I used the same technique on the the top portion with Mustard Seed and Spiced Marmalade.

Then to figure out what to put on the piece?

I've had this Soft Stems stamp set in my NBUS box for some time.  I picked a stem and

stamped on top of the dried smooshed piece with SSS Iris ink.  I had to stamp again to 

get good coverage and used a damp waterbrush on each flower head to blend the color.

The butterfly is from an experiment using a hot foil plate with ink, putting on

my Betterpress and just pressing the top plate with my hands.  It doesn't stamp as

crisply as pressing it with the machine, but that could be due to the fact that I

foiled the plate instead of the paper one time. Oops!

Challenges:

Just Us Girls #721 - Color Week (see below)

Krafty Chicks #710 - Stamp Week (use stamps)

NBUS #61 - Never Before Used Schtuff

Penny Black Saturday - ATG

 

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Soft Stems (PB)

Ink:   Mustard Seed, Spiced Marmalade, Wilted Violet, Villainous Potion, Rusty Hinge (DI), Iris (SSS), Memento Tuxedo Black

Paper:   Mixed Media (Strathmore 400 series), Small Butterflies Foil Plate (& Die PFS), Clear EP

Other:  

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Blossom Vine

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

While I had these flowers out for this card, I colored a few in pink.

I love the detail on these etched dies and they're fun to blend ink on the pieces.

I die cut twice and cut the second piece apart so I could get a group of three

on the arch.  The last flower is on the inside for a little extra surprise.

I have been enjoying some azaleas in our yard that are this color.

Challenges:

The Flower Challenge #90 - Add Layers (sentiment, 2 layers in each flower, arch and embossed background - 5 layers)

Darnell's I.D.E.A.S - This week is die week

 

Card Recipe

Stamps:  

Ink:   Guava (SSS), Gumball Green (SU)

Paper:   Neenah Solar White

Other:  Blossom Vine Die (SSS), Anytime Tag Die (LI - OOB), Criss Cross Motif EF (Spl), Whte Gel Pen

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