Daisy Birthday

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

I hope you had a nice weekend.  I got in a quick bit of crafty time.....

to do a card using my dear, sweet friend Michele's sketch at

Freshly Made Sketches

The daisy is three pieces die cut from watercolor paper and colored with re-inkers

and a waterbrush.  The smaller square has a light smooshing of the same 

re-inker watered down and picked up with acetate.

The background square was embossed and patted with a white inkpad.  I should

have used a smaller square for the flower so more of the embossing would show.

The Design Team has wonderful inspiration, as always.  Let's see all the

creative beauties in the gallery.

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Handwritten Notes (ret PTI) 

Ink:   Gorgeous Grape, Whisper White

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Fresh Freesia (SU), Watercolor (Alt)

Other:  Dewdrop Daisy (SSS), Pepperberry Bundle EF (SSS), Stitched Squares (SSS), Subtle EF (ret SU), Fresh Freesia & Daffodil Re-inkers

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Attic Ornaments for Friday Fun

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

This week has flown by.  It seems like they go faster and faster.

I started out with this card....

cutting each ornament out of two kinds of glimmer or foil cardstock.

So I had leftover pieces and needed to put them on cards.  So...

and this...

There might have been a couple more, but I'll save those for later.

Have a great weekend.  I hope you get some crafty time.

Card Recipe

Stamps:  

Ink:   

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, various foil & glimmer cardstock

Other:  Vintage Ornaments EF (SB), Greetery Curio  Divider & Details, Attic Ornaments, Ribbon Frame, Pine Bough and Shortbread Shapes Tag

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Sunflower Garden

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

When I saw the mood board at Just Us Girls, I really zeroed in

on the sunflowers.  They are such a happy flower!

Here's the board...

Sunflowers and butterflies make me happy.  Hopefully this card will 

make someone else happy.

I used a stencil that does a whole background.  I even got it lined up right

on the first try!  I added some stamped splatters too and just one butterfly today.

Let's go over to Just Us Girls and enjoy the Design Team's lovely inspiration

pieces and that luscious gallery!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Botanical Silhouettes (ret PTI), Splatters (?)

Ink:   Buttercup, Parsley, Eucalyptus, Rain Forest, Pimento (C9), Chocolate Chip, Early Espresso, Crushed Curry (SU), Sweet Mango (GKD)

Paper:   Hammermill, Neenah Solar White, Buttercup

Other:  Sunflower Garden stencil (PTI), Decorative Sentiments die (Emily Moore), Stitching Butterflies dies (SSS), White Gel Pen

Enjoy!

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Good Luck

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

I have something I think will make you smile.  It made me smile and

I hope my brother will smile when he opens it.

This fun guy was stamped with Memento ink and colored with Ohuhu Alcohol Markers.

I cut the image with a deckled die and used a smaller stitched deckle die to

emboss on it to draw the eye in to the image.

I found this random piece of patterned paper.  I think it's the last of a package

of paper that came with a kit.  All those candles helped me to decide which of

the fun sentiments to use.

I punched some dots from the stripes on the reverse side of this paper.

Challenges:

I.D.E.A.S. - ATG

NBUS #89 - Never Before Used Schtuff (stamp)

Seize the Birthday #332 - Funny/Punny

 

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Still Kickin' (Unity)

Ink:   Memento Tuxedo Black, Whisper White

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Pumpkin Pie, Patterned Paper (?)

Other:  Ohuhu Markers (WG01, WG10, E44, YR19, Y19, BG114), Deckle & Stitches dies (Unity), 1/8" Circle Punch, White EP

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Freshly Picked Just for You

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

I hope you're having a nice weekend.  Even though I'm retired, the weekends

are still something to look forward to.

This week Cécile gave us this sketch to work with...

I used a new die set from Papertrey ink to die cut this flower and the leaves.  I cut

the flower from a light coral pink cardstock and ink blended around the edges with

some darker shades of ink.  The leaves were cut from Eucalyptus cardstock 

and also ink blended.

I arranged it all on a piece of die cut mesh.

Challenges:

Freshly Made Sketches #750 - sketch above

NBUS #89 - Never Before Used Schtuff (flower die)

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Simple Holiday Mini Sentiments (Grtry)

Ink:   Grapefruit, Pimento, Poppy, Sunbeam, Eucalyptus, Parsley (C9), Memento Tuxedo Black

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Nectar, Eucalyptus (C9)

Other:  Into the Blooms: Freshly Picked (PTI), Burlap Texture die (Alt), Subtle EF (ret SU)

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Embossed Daisies

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

A few weeks ago I received an unexpected gift from a sweet, sweet friend.

She had cleaned out her craft room and I was lucky enough to receive the

benefit of her industriousness!  This embossing folder was in the box

along with several others.  I do love embossing folders!

I embossed a piece of my new favorite yellow cardstock and patted my

white inkpad over the raised parts.  I kept turning the piece and patting until

I was happy with the coverage.  Then I took a tiny blending brush and after inking

it, I tapped it on the centers.  Some twine, a sentiment tucked among the flowers

and a die cut bee finished it off nicely.

Challenges:

Can You Handle the Pressure - Use an embossing folder/twist of bees

Double D - Used the colors of the lemons

Triple B - Birds, Butterflies & Blooms 

 

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Just Sentiments: Summer Mini (PTI)

Ink:   White, Pumpkin Pie (SU), Nocturne (VC)

Paper:   C9 Buttercup, Neenah Solar White

Other:  Fresh Daisies EF (SSS), Buzzing Bumblebees die (MB), Sharpies (to color bee)

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Last of the Geraniums

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

Fun Friday uses the last of the geranium die cuts. I think this is my favorite

of all the geranium cards.

I used some more of the Ohuhu colored blooms and a new to me flower pot die.

The pot was cut from a scrap of beige cardstock, colored with an Ohuhu marker

and touched up with Distress ink.

I'm loving the teeny sentiments that fit on a little tag.  Sometimes there's

not a good place for a sentiment and a little tag does the trick.

I hope you have a great weekend without any severe storms or heat.

Craft and have fun!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Market Basket Sentiments (Grtry)

Ink:   Nocturne (VC), Rusty Hinge (DI)

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Pink Pirouette (ret SU), Beige (?)

Other:  Into the Blooms: Geraniums dies (PTI, Pretty Pot die (Grtry), Ohuhu Markers (R22, R23, R28, G310, G410, E46), Mini Label Tag die (SB), Linen Thread, Love to Layer: Sweet Scallop dies (PTI)

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Out to Sea

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

My friend Bobby is hosting the current Just Us Girls Challenge and

as usual, I'm almost too late to join in.  But I think I can make it.

Here's Bobby's challenge...

Bobby's card gave me inspiration for this card.  I die cut and left the die in the

cut paper and used the die as a stencil to color it.

I wonder if it's cool at the beach?

I used blending brushes to add color to the pieces and carefully added glue to

get it mounted to another piece of cardstock.

I chose to make a sunrise scene.  Or it could be sunset.

Check out Bobby's card and the rest of the Design Team.

There's still a few hours to join in at

Just Us Girls

Also sharing with Penny Black Saturday Challenge

and sharing with  The Four Seasons August

Card Recipe

Stamps:  

Ink:   Sea Glass, Turquoise Sea (GKD), Sunbeam (SSS), (pink on brush over the yellow for orange), Spring Rain (PTI)

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Pacific Point (SU)

Other:  Out to Sea die (PB), Ohuhu Alcohol Markers (B111, B114, BGY13), Linked EF (PB), Sentiment is computer generated

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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)

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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)

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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

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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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