The Flowers and the Bees

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

Some of my sweet, sweet friends shared their Betterpress images with me.

I love coloring them and it's a good day when I can pull one out.

This time it's an Altenew image colored with Tombow Markers.

After I colored it and die cut it, I realized that the design had way too much on 

the top and not enough on the bottom.

I tried my hummingbird dies but they were either too big or facing the wrong direction.

Then I thought of bees.

After searching my stash, I landed on these bees from the Greetery.

Life IS beautiful with friends like you.

Challenges:

Just Us Girls #823 - Word Week

Inkspirational #367 - Visual Prompt (Flowers)

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Dainty Flower Garden Pressplate (Alt)

Ink:   Betterpress Black

Paper:   Betterpress Porcelain, Neenah Solar White

Other:  Tombow Markers (055, 985, 126, 245, 723, 817), Curved Cap Pinpoint Layers Dies (MB), Curio Summer Findings (Greetery)

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Deer in the Pines

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The challenges are starting back after the holiday hiatus.

The pile of pieces that didn't get on a card is calling to me and I 

managed to work one into last week's Freshly Made Sketch.

The trick is to use those pieces without adding to the pile.

Now that's a challenge!

Challenges:

Freshly Made Sketches #718 - Sketch by Amy

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Fun Birthday Sentiments (HLS-OOB)

Ink:   VersaMark, Crumb Cake, Brushed Corduroy DI

Paper:   Betterpress Porcelain, Baked Brown Sugar, Natural

Other:  Deer to Me die (PTI), Night & Day Pines Press Plate (SB), Copper EP

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Joy to the World

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Challenges:

Stencil Fun - Use stencils with option of Winter related

Word Power - Make the sentiment the focus of your card.

 

Card Recipe

Stamps: PP Copperplate Joy to the World (SB) 

Ink:   BP Black, Mint Macaroon, Strawberry Slush

Paper:   BP Porcelain, Neenah Solar White, Black

Other:  Holiday Floral Swag EF (SB), Holiday Sprigs Stencil (SSS), Caran d'ache Pencils (Scarlet, Spruce Green)

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Open if You Dare

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

It's class week so it's pretty busy around here, but I squeezed some time to

put this Betterpress image on a card.

It was pressed with Betterpress ink on their paper and cut with an arch die.

I backed it with the next larger arch cut in black.

It's colored, rather sloppily (but it's for Halloween and doesn't need to be 

pretty) with Zigs.

I added a bat and spider for a little extra fun.

I'm thinking I'll add a skull on the inside to pop up when opened.

Challenges:

Freshly Made Sketches #703 - Sketch by Karren below

Just Us Girls #792 - Word Week - Container (trunk)

Two Old Bats Halloween - ATG Halloween

 

Card Recipe

Stamps:  PP Open if You Dare (SB)

Ink:   Betterpress Black, Whisper White

Paper:   Betterpress Porcelain, Going Gray, Black

Other:  Essential Arches dies (SB), Airy Greetings Die (SSS), Zigs, Spooky Boo dies (SB)

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Take Care

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

I have ignored my Betterpress for too long.

But before I press more, or buy more plates, I need to color all those

pieces I've already pressed and some that friends have shared with me too.

This was at the top of the pile.  The hummingbird was pressed on a leftover

piece of Betterpress paper.  After I colored him, I fussy cut him out and popped

him up for added dimension.

I love coloring on this Betterpress paper!  It takes the water so well and

works as well with Copics.

Challenges:

Triple B - I have birds and blooms.

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Hummingbird Nectar PP (Alt), Sentiment (Alt)

Ink:   BP Black, Versafine Onyx Black

Paper:   BP Porcelain, Black, Neenah Solar White

Other:  Arteza Twimarkers (Ruby Red, Moss Green, Lemon Yellow, Apple Green, Fern Green, Raspberry Red), Essential Arches Dies (SB)

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JOY

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

How are you coming on your Christmas cards?

When my sweet friend Michele came to visit, she brought her night and day pine press plates 

and they were the first things I dug into.  I had a new set of ink cubes from 

Pinkfresh Studios and we found that they worked beautifully with the Betterpress system.

This was my absolute favorite of the two plates.  It inks the background and leaves the

pine boughs looking white and snowy.

The Immense Joy die cut was a fun surprise in the mail and I thought they went

together beautifully paired with my favorite Nativity die.

I used a little chunky gold embossing powder on the center of the O and heated 

from the back for a "starry" backdrop and layered the white die cut slightly offset

from a gold die cut.

I'm hoping to find these press plates half price one of these days (wink)!

Challenges:

Just Us Girls #753 - Word Week (Joy)

Card Recipe

Stamps:  BP Day and Night Pine plate (SB)

Ink:   Sage (PFS)

Paper:   Watercolor (Canson), PB Porcelain, Gold Foil

Other: Immense Joy die (PB), Nativity die (?), Chunky White & Gold EP (Stmp)

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Happy Halloween

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Or Happy Boo-Day as a friend of mine calls it.

This is a variation on this card.  I guess you could say that I CASEd myself!

When black cats prowl

and pumpkins gleam,

may luck by yours on

HALLOWEEN!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  BP Pumpkins & Ghosts (SB), Best Witches (ret GKD)

Ink:   BP Black, Calypso Coral, Granny Apple Green

Paper:   BP Porcelain, Granny Apple Green, Glitter Paper

Other:  Frightful Things Dies (TH),

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Halloween Fun

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

When Michele came, she brought a her Betterpress plates and I pressed and pressed.

I pulled one out and brushed ink in the colors of the Just Us Girls challenge for this week 

(chartreuse, light blue, gray). Actually adding the ink turned the black writing gray. 

 But for good measure I added gray ink around the edges.

I thought the witches hat and spiders would make this even more fun, especially

with the sparkle and being popped up on dimensionals.

Challenges:

Just Us Girls #747 - Color Week (Citron, Light Blue, Gray)

Memory Box #112 - Happy Haunting (Spiders and Witches Hat are Memory Box dies)

 

Card Recipe

Stamps:  BP Pumpkins and Ghosts (SB)

Ink:   BP Black, Twisted Citron, Tumbled Glass (DOX), Morning Mist (VFC)

Paper:   BP Porcelain, Black, Black Glimmer

Other:  Dangling Spider die (MB), Large Layered Witches Hat (MB)

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Peace on Earth

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

When Michele came, she brought lots of Betterpress Plates.

I did a lot of pressing!  Here's the results from one of the plates.

Actually it results from two of the plates.  The trees were pressed with a LDRS

press plate, die cut and popped up with foam tape.  I've used chunky embossing

powder, heated from underneath to make a snowy scene.

Of course I had to press another and it resulted in my favorite.

I pulled out my Nativity dies and this was in the envelope.  It was done long ago

and not used.  What a nice surprise and a perfect fit.

Challenges:

Word Power #9 - Make the sentiment the focus of the card

Sparkles #164 - Make the sentiment the focus

Darnell's I.D.E.A.S. - Inspired by Anything Goes this week

  

Card Recipe (card 1)

Stamps:  Press Plates: Peace on Earth (SB), Evergreen Row (LDRS)

Ink:   Betterpress Black, Lush Forest (PFS)

Paper:   Betterpress Porcelain, Christmas Pine (GKD)

Other:  Hemstitch Rectangle (SB), Evergreen Row Die (LDRS), Chunky White EP (Stampendous), 

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Press Plate Peace on Earth (SB)

Ink:   Betterpress Black

Paper:   Betterpress Porcelain (SB), Neenah Solar White, Watercolor, Gold Foil

Other:  Nativity Circle Die (MB), Infinity Circles (HA), Inka Gold

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Special Crafty Time

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

A few days ago I mentioned  that I had a special visitor.

What a treat to meet Michele in person!

I am really honored that they would drive all the way from Michigan to visit!

She's as much fun as I expected and a great hugger.

Thanks for the hugs from my Michigan friends.

I sent some back to you too.

Our sweet friend Nance was able to come visit with us for an afternoon.

We shared lot of press plates, stamps and dies and I have lots of

things to color and put on cards.

Does it look like we're having a good time?

It was the best time!

Bruce and Tom had a good time too.  The timing was perfect to keep Bruce's mind

off his cataract surgery today.

I have a card made from a press plate that Michele brought to share.

I pressed this pretty tree using some Stampin' Up ink and added a bit of coloring

at the bottom, some sparky stars and chunky embossing powder.

Challenges:

ABC Christmas - P is for Pink

Peace on Earth #71 - See upper right below

 

Card Recipe

Stamps:  BP Continued Joy (SB)

Ink:   Strawberry Slush (SU), Peeled Paint (DI)

Paper:   BP Porcelain (SB), Strawberry Slush

Other:  Red Sharpie, White Gel Pen, Confetti Stars Punch (ret SU), Star of Wonder Die (MB), Chunky White & Chunky Gold Frantage (Stampendous), Bakers Twine

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Birthday Posies

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When I saw the challenge at Double D, I immediately thought of this Betterpress

plate in my NBUS box.

I had so much fun watercoloring it!

I didn't use a basket in this design, but they said a basket full of posies or just posies

so I'll carry these posies in my hand and just keep singing "A Tiske, a tasket....

The sentiment is part of the Betterpress set.

By the way, a big thank you to all of you that sent me birthday cards and

good wishes.  I may or may not have remembered to thank you individually.

My memory isn't too good these days.  Too many birthdays I think!

Challenges:

Double D  - See mood board below

Try it on Tuesday - In the Garden

NBUS #65 - Never Before Used Schtuff

  

Card Recipe

Stamps:  BP Mirrored Arch Blooms (SB)

Ink:   BP Black, Tumbled Glass Re-inker

Paper:  BP Porcelain  

Other:  Altenew 36 pan watercolors, Caran d'ache Supracolor Pencils, Mirrored Arch Dies (SB), Gems (Dreamtime Creations)

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Cosmos Garden

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I colored another pressing of the Cosmos Backdrop.

This is my favorite so far.

I pressed this one with the Betterpress black ink and colored with

Arteza Twimarkers to make another A6 card.

Challenges:

Inkspirational #314 - Inspired by middle image of bouquet

Seize the Birthday #282 - Off the Edge

 

Card Recipe

Stamps:  BP Cosmos Backdrop plate (Spl), BP Fancy Sentiments Strips (Spl)

Ink:   BP Black

Paper:   BP Porcelain, Black, Neenah Solar White

Other:  Arteza Twimarkers (Wild Pink, Hot Pink, Lemon Yellow, Cantaloupe Orange, Marmalade, Sage Green, Olive Green)

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Pressed and Stenciled Cosmos

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

I think I'm on the right week now!

After being cornfused last week about which week we were on with 

Darnell's I.D.E.A.S, I pulled out another NBUS stencil to

color a pressed design.

The Betterpress Cosmos Backdrop plate is NBUS too and I pressed it a couple of 

different ways.  This first card was a second pull and evidently there was no ink

left on the plate.  It left a nice debossed image though and I was able to line the

stencils up easily.  There are 5 stencils with this set.  I used the same ink for both

layers of the petals and leaves.

After stenciling, I tore a piece of vellum to place the die cut beautiful and 

heat embossed you.

I had also pressed it trying Versafine Clair Morning Mist ink.

I started out with yellow flowers and wasn't happy with the colors.

So I went over them with Distress Marmalade.  Didn't like that either.

Out came the Stampin' Up Tangerine Tango and Old Olive.

Good enough though not great.

This new die set was handy for covering up most of it.

Thanks again, Darnell for inspiring me to get out those stencils.

Challenges:

Just Us Girls #724 - ATG Stencil

Stencil Fun - Use stencils with option of Spring Flowers

Card Recipe (card 1)

Stamps:  Betterpress Cosmos Backdrop (Spl)

Ink:   Spun Sugar, Saltwater Taffy, Mustard Seed, Bundled Sage (DI), Encore Gold

Paper:   Betterpress Porcelain, Gold Foil, Vellum, Black, Neenah Solar White

Other:  Yana's Wonderful Scripted Sentiments Die (Spl), Gold EP

Card Recipe (card 2)

Stamps:  Betterpress Cosmos Backdrop ((Spl), Brushed Calligraphy (Inky Antics)

Ink:  Versafine Clair Morning Mist, Memento Tuxedo Black, Tangerine Tango, Old Olive

Paper:   Betterpress Porcelain, Tangerine Tango, Neenah Solar White

Other:  Mirrored Arch Labels Dies (Spl)

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