Turning the Page August 2022

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

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 August page using Greenery Invites by Art Impressions.

 By the way, the calendars are 4 ½ inches by 7 inches.

They can be 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.

Enjoy!

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Your Choice for Twofer

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

It's time for another Twofer Challenge!

This month's challenge is a little different.

 

My choice is WREATH.

First up is a New Home card.

I inked the leaves on this NUBS wreath with different colors of Distress Markers and

used a damp waterbrush to pull the color into the leaves.  I followed up with some

watercolor pencils and splatter.  Of course I stamped the sentiment crooked.  So I tried again

and die cut it to pop over the boo boo.  The Whittle birds was watercolored with some of

the same markers and my waterbrush.

I recently bought some more patterned paper to hoard. Wonder of wonders, I actually

let myself cut into a piece of it!  And I die cut the design piece to show off a bit of the paper.

For my twofer...

I stamped the wreath off the edge of Mixed Media paper and heat embossed with gold powder

before watercoloring the leaves with Arteza Twimarkers.

What?  Where's the shine?

Oh, here it is...

What will you choose?

Be sure to tell us what your choice is and make two different designs for two different

occasions using the same stamp, die or stencil.

Check out what our fantastic design team and Guest Designer, my dear friend Nancy,

have done to inspire you.

I hope to see you in the Twofer Gallery.

Challenges:

NBUS - Never Before Used Schtuff (wreath stamp)

Twofer #36 - Wreath

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe (card 1)

Stamps:  Greenery Invites (Art Impressions), Take Care (ret. SU)

Ink:   Shabby Shutters, Crushed Olive, Peeled Paint, Mowed Lawn, Evergreen Bough, Pine Needles (DM), Shaded Spruce (SU)

Paper:   Mixed Media (Strathmore 400 Series), Gingham-linen rainbow petite prints paper pad (Doodlebug), Neenah

Other:  Scallop Borders Die (Pretty Pink Posh), Whittle Birds (PS), Double Pierced Rectangle Die (AE), Caran d'ache Supracolor II pencils

Card Recipe (card 2)

Stamps:  Greenery Invites (AI), Sentiment (?)

Ink:   Encore Gold, Real Red Marker (SU), Arteza Twimarkers (Forest Green, Olive Green, Moss Green) 

Paper:   Mixed Media, Christmas Pine (GKD), Gold Foil (SU), Neenah Natural 110 lb. 

Other:  Gold EP, Corner Rounder Punch (?), Chunky White Frantage (Stampendous), Gold Twine (ret. SU)

Beach Front

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

Today I'm dreaming of the beach.

A sweet friend gave me this stamp by Art Impressions.

I'm so glad she did.  It's the closest I'll get to the beach this year.

It was hard getting a loose watercolor look on something this small,

but I think I managed pretty well.  The scene looks quite welcoming.

The image was stamped on mixed media paper and watercolored with

my Koi half pans.

I've used an embossing plate to give some texture to the background and

distressed the frame a bit to make it more masculine.

Challenges:

CAS Mix Up: Watercoloring-Beach

Krafty Chicks: Stamp Act

NBUS #17: Never Before Used Schtuff

  

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Island Window (Art Imp.), Handwritten Notes (PTI)

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Baked Brown Sugar (SU)

Paper:   Naturals Ivory, Baked Brown Sugar (SU)

Other:  Koi Watercolors, Linen/canvas Embossing Plate (PTI)

Watercolour Garden

Hello.  It's time for a new challenge at
CAS Watercolour

Here's my card....

Loll is our host this month and she chose

Must include a garden (not just a flower)

It was just the push I needed to get out these stamp sets that had
been sitting in my NBUS box for ?*!? years.

I used various distress inks to build my garden using some water
on the flowers after stamping.

I don't know why it took me so long to use these stamps!

Hopefully I will have an excuse to use them again soon.

We have a new designer on our CAS Watercolour team
Marcia Hill has joined us and we know you will be
as happy to see her there as we are!

Our fabulous Guest Designer is Nonni.
She was the winner of the January challenge.

We're sad to say goodbye to Christine as a designer for CAS Watercolour.
We'll miss her wonderful watercolour designs although she promises to join in these challenges.
And we're super excited to have Christine join us as a designer at
CAS Christmas Card Challenge.
Our very first challenge starts tomorrow.

Whew! A lot going on.

Hope to see your gardens at
CAS Watercolour


Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Flower Set, Foliage Set (Art Impressions), Snippets (PB)

Ink:   Soft Suede (SU), Wilted Violet, Shabby Shutters, Peeled Paint, Mustard Seed, Dried Marigold, Worn Lipstick, Faded Jeans)

Paper:   Solar White 110 lb. (Neena), Watercolor (TH)

Other:  Waterbrush, Stitched Rectangles dies (SSS)

Cheers

Hello, dear friends.

As we say goodbye to 2017, I thought this card would be appropriate.



Our craft group played with some of these fun stamps one night.

Sadly, this is the only one I've got colored and onto a card.

It's been a very busy year and I apologize for not getting to visit you as often as I would like.

In fact I've been a sorry friend!

I'm hoping to do better in the new year.

I do love your comments and often hit and run at your blogs.

I wish you all a happy, healthy and enjoyable new year.

Cheers to 2018!

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Art Impressions

Ink:  Colored with Copics

Paper:   

Other:  Glossy Accents

Shakin' with the Elves for Merry Monday

Good Merry Monday morning!

Linda chose our fun challenge this week

I found this cute elf at Art Impressions and thought he would be perfect for a shaker card.

and he even has a backside!

so you can see him coming and going.

I used some of my shaving cream marbled paper cardstock and colored the
little guy with Copic Markers.

I used my Fuse Tool to make the shaker bag.

I had lots of fun making this card!

Now I hope you'll have some fun finding an elf to put on your Christmas card.

The Design Team has some fantastic inspiration pieces
so go check it out at Merry Monday.

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Elf and Reindeer (Art Impressions), Christmas 2 (Art Gone Wild), Mixed Christmas Sentiments (HLS), Peaceful Pines (SU)

Ink:   Memento Tuxedo Black, Garden Green, Whisper White (SU)

Paper:   Solar White (Neena 110 lb.), Marbled, Whisper White

Other: Copic Markers, Fuse Tool (WRMK)