Flower Garden Fancy

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I had a few minutes to try out a new coverplate die that I got for Christmas.

It cut really well and it makes for a quick card.

Narelle's sketch was still fresh in my mind from the last Freshly Made Sketches

and it worked beautifully to let this die cut show through.

I found this butterfly already cut out and ready to find a place to perch.

It was cut from a piece of smooshed background.

A couple of label die cuts, a quick stamping and some glue and

it was done.

Challenges:

Just Us Girls #804 - Die Week-Use a coverplate die

NBUS #82 - Never Before Used Schtuff

Triple B - Birds, Butterflies & Blooms - Butterfly (I didn't go by the photo, but isn't it pretty?)

 

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Bouquet of Thanks (MFT)

Ink:   Versafine Onyx Black

Paper:  Soft Seafoam, Neenah Solar White, Watercolor

Other:  Flower Garden Fancy Coverplate Die (HA), Stitched Butterfly Trio (PS), Decorative Sentiment Dies (EMD-Emily Moore Designs)

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Daisy Daisy

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It was a busy weekend but I found time to put something together

for Freshly Made Sketches.

Here's Judy's sketch

I had a couple of die cut daisies on my table and used watercolor pencils to

add the color to the centers and bit of gray on the petals.

The butterfly was in the butterfly box.  I think it was cut from some dirty pour

on canvas paper.  The circle was cut from cardstock and topped with a vellum circle.

I used a smaller panel.  I hope that's allowed.

I'll take it over to Freshly Made Sketches and see if they approve.

I'll also link up with Darnell's I.D.E.A.S. where week 2 is Die Cuts.

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Snippets (PB)

Ink:   Versafine Onyx Black

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Vellum

Other:  Wildflower Stems #1 (TH), Envelope Accessories Die (HA), Circle Dies, Subtle EF (ret SU), Arteza Watercolor Pencils.

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Rosebuds

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

I had some die cut rosebuds left from my last class.

I colored these pink like we did in the class.

They were cut from mixed media paper.  We colored them using finger daubers to add

ink then touching with a damp watercolor brush.  It's a good way to get a watercolor look 

for those that are hesitant to do watercoloring.

I added some splattering and added them over a stitched, die cut heart.

There were two more left...

I used the same technique to color them but used red ink instead of pink and

added them over a larger die cut heart.

The embossed backgrounds don't show up well in the photos, but it's there.

Challenges:

Double D - Hearts

The Flower Challenge #99 - Feature the Color Pink

Triple B - Blooms

Card Recipe (card 1)

Stamps:  (?)

Ink:  Versafine Onyx Black, Melon Mambo, Wild Wasabi 

Paper:   Mixed Media (Strathmore), Black, Neenah Solar White

Other:  Bouquet Accessories die (HA), Stitched Up Heart die (Unity), Dainty Diamonds EF (SU), Leaf Punch (MS), Gingham Ribbon (ret SU)

Card Recipe (card 2)

Stamps:  Field Flowers (ret SU)

Ink:   Lumberjack Plaid, Bundled Sage (DI), Wild Wasabi (SU)

Paper:   Mixed Media (Strathmore), Black, Neenah Solar White

Other:  Bouquet Accessories die (HA), Delicate Fern die (MB), Stitched Up Heart die (Unity), Dainty Diamonds EF (SU), Black Twine

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Flamingos

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A pretty bird recently came to roost in my studio.

When I saw the colors for Color Hues #92, I was ticked pink to be able to use this die.

I die cut all the pieces for the flamingo from mixed media paper and added some

color with blending brushes. Then I went over the ink with a damp waterbrush.

While I was adding color, I rested the bird pieces on a piece of watercolor paper. 

  As I blended then watercolored, it added a soft pink to my background.

The sand was made from tearing a snippet of brown cardstock and adding splatters 

of Vintage Photo and White Gouache.

Jack thought it needed a flower.  So I die cut a hibiscus twice and colored

with the darker pink, layered them, added the stamen and popped it on.

A twofer....

This one was cut out of Neenah Solar White cardstock and colored with a 

blending brush.

I stenciled and die cut a background and die cut a frame, then added some

die cut flowers.  Jack liked this one better, thus the flower on the first card.

Challenges:

Color Hues #92 - Pink and Brown

NBUS - Never Before Used Schtuff (flamingo die)

Triple B - The Birds and Blooms are covered

 

Card Recipe (card 1)

Stamps:  Flamingo (HA)

Ink:   Baked Brown Sugar (ret SU), Kitsch Flamingo, Pickled Raspberry

Paper:   Mixed Media (Strathmore), Watercolor (TH), Baked Brown Sugar (ret SU), Neenah Solar White

Other:  Feathered Friends #12 die (PTI), Palm Fancy Die (HA), Aloha Hibiscus die (FS)

Card Recipe (card 2)

Stamps:  Sending Love Mail (HA) 

Ink:   Versafine Onyx Black, Spun Sugar, Kitsch Flamingo, Speckled Egg, Broken China, Tumbled Glass, Mustard Seed, Peacock Feathers, Twisted Citron (DI)

Paper:   Neenah Solar White

Other:  Feathered Friends #12 die (PTI), Curved Cap Pinpoint Layers die (MB), Layered Waves Stencil (HB), Palm Fancy Die (HA)

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Torn Edge for Group of Seven Cardmakers

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I hope if you celebrate Christmas it was a joyous holiday for you and

best wishes for a creative and happy New Year.

This month we had a Design Element at Group of Seven.

We tore some paper for our cards.

I've done three cards

First up is a birthday card for hubby.

I've layered some torn vellum with torn woodgrain paper on a background from my stash.

Then some torn vellum over snowflakes from my UFO box.

The stamped snowflake as well as the die cut snowflake, were embossed with 

Distress Embossing Glaze.

Finally are some more elements from my UFO box for a Monarch size

slimline card.

The stamped trees were the starting point for some torn snowdrifts edged

with Dazzling Details.  Snowy has a paper pieced scarf and hat and

snuggles in the snowdrift.  I added some snowfall with Chunky White Frantage.

Challenges:

Group of Seven Cardmakers (Torn Edge)

Penny Black Saturday - (Penny Black Products-Christmas)

Double D - (Winter-Snow Scene)

Simply Clean & Simple - ATG CAS

 

 

Card Recipe (card 1)

Stamps:  Easy Expressions Original (Ton)

Ink:   VersaMark, Rustic Wilderness

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Mixed Media, Woodgrain (TH), Vellum, Garden Green, Baked Brown Sugar (SU)

Other:  Botanicuts Pine Bough (Greetery), Easy Expressions Die (ton), Lindy's Magicals Powders

Card Recipe (card 2)

Stamps:  Dazzling Snowflake (HA)

Ink:   VersaMark

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Vellum, Silver Foil

Other:  Speckled Egg Distress Embossing Glaze, Snowflake Duo Die (PB), Many Thanks Die (PB), Stitched Rectangle Die (SSS)

Card Recipe (card 3)

Stamps:  All Things Evergreen, Snowy, Merry Up (all PB)

Ink:   Versafine Onyx Black, Mossy Meadow, Soft Seafoam (SU)

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, DSP (ret SU)

Other:  Frosty's Snow Die (PB), Dazzling Details (SU), Chunky White EP (Stamplorations)

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Golden Snowflakes

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Last month's Group of Seven Cardmakers used stenciling over heat embossing.

I love this technique but my first try was a bust.

The embossing powder didn't stick well to the ink.

I went ahead and stenciled a tree over and if you look close you can see the bits

of white embossing. They do not look anywhere near what the snowflake stamp looks.

(I used a handmade stencil using vellum and a die.)

So I stamped again with gold ink and used gold embossing powder then fussy cut

the tree out. 

I had a gold die cut snowflake in the box and popped that and a sentiment strip on top.

I think it makes a passable Christmas card and used up a discard piece.

Challenges:

ABC Christmas - U is for use it up

Peace on Earth - ATG Christmas

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Hand Drawn Snowflakes Bold Prints (HA)

Ink:   Field (SSS), Encore Gold

Paper:   Neenah Solar White

Other:  Gold EP, Stacking Pennants Die (Honey Bee), 

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Stenciling over Heat Embossing with GO7

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This month the Group of Sever Cardmakers had a fun technique.  I liked it so much

that I did several cards.

First up is actually the last card I did.

I used a music background stamp from Penny Black and stamped with VersaMark on

Neenah Solar White cardstock.  I opted for this flower stencil, also from Penny Black since

it had fairly large areas of stenciling.  A foiled sentiment finished it off.

Next up...

I stamped a snowflake background stamp from Hero Arts with VersaMark and used

white embossing again.  I made a homemade stencil with a pennant die and vellum and

blended some Simon Says Pawsitively Saturated Ink through the stencil.

After adding some snowflakes from my stash, I stamped and used red powder to 

emboss the sentiment. You can see the embossed background better in the next photo.

 

Then....

I used a Christmas script stamp for the background and a Tim Holtz stencil with 

another foiled sentiment. (Sorry for the glare.)

And using the same background stamp...

I used gold embossing powder for this one and another Tim Holtz stencil.

I wasn't expecting to like this as much, but I think it's my favorite.

I found this funky bow in my twine box.  I'm not sure what I was trying to do

when I tied it, but I thought it looked good with this card.  It's always nice to get some

of those UFOs on a card!

There are tutorials and a linky on the Group of Seven Cardmakers blog if you'd like 

to try this and share your results with us.

Card Recipe (card 1)

Stamps:  Music Background (PB)

Ink:   VersaMark, (Festive Berries, Candied Apple, Rustic Wilderness (DI)

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Real Red (SU)

Other:  White EP, Flower Dance Stencil (PB)

Card Recipe (Card 2)

Stamps:  Hand Drawn Snowflakes Bold Prints (HA), Botanical Blocks IV (PTI)

Ink:   VersaMark, Field (SSS)

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Vellum for stencil

Other: White EP, Red EP, Stacking Pennants Die (Honey Bee)

Card Recipe (card 3)

Stamps:  Christmas Story Background (PB)

Ink:   VersaMark, Festive Berries, Lumberjack Plaid, Mustard Seed (DI)

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Real Red (SU)

Other: White EP, Poinsettia Duo Layering Stencil (TH)

Card Recipe (card 4)

Stamps:  Christmas Story Background (PB)

Ink:   VersaMark, Lumberjack Plaid, Barn Door, Rustic Wilderness (DI)

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Gold Foil (SU), Vellum

Other: Gold EP, Poinsettia Layering Stencil (TH), Red Twine (stash)

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Grateful Pumpkin for JUGS

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It's week number two of October and this is my Guest Design for the

Just Us Girls Challenge #701.

It's word week and the word is...

 

I love the different colors of pumpkins I'm seeing, but I seem to always stick with

the traditional orange color.

I've stamped a border design over the die cut pumpkin and heat embossed it then

daubed a little Tangerine ink over the edges.  An embossing pen and more gold 

embossing powder made for an elegant stem.  And a little embossing and random gold 

on a tiny leaf die cut topped this pumpkin off.

The leaf sprig was die cut from a background colored with re-inkers on a wet piece

of mixed media paper.

I hope you'll join in the Just Us Girls challenge this week.

I'm heading over at first light to see the pumpkin patch there.

Card Recipe

Stamps:  

Ink:   Encore Gold, Tangerine Tango

Paper:   Black, Tangerine Tango, Gold Foil, Mixed Media (Strathmore 400 series)

Other:  Gold EP, Jack o Lantern Fancy Dies (HA), Etched Laurel Leaves Die (SSS)

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Halloween

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I was never much for Halloween, but it's Jack's favorite holiday (I think mostly

because he gets lots of candy).  Needless to say, his excitement is contagious and we're

already talking about it.

 

The Color Hues colors were perfect for this new witch's hat die that found it's way

to me.  I was a bit disappointed the it's all on one die.  I had in mind to cut the extra

strip of the hat and the ribbon on the brim in a different color.

It was simple enough to cut the whole thing from two different sheets of glitter paper,

It works well for my Halloween stash, but sadly that won't work for a class.

It did give me a twofer though.  One scary one and another more generic.

 

Challenges:

Color Hues #71 - Tangerine & Violet

Two Old Bats Halloween - Anything Halloween

NBUS #54 - Never Before Used Schtuff (Witch's Hat)

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Hocus Pocus (Whippersnapper)

Ink:   Encore Gold

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Black, Tangerine Tango, Black Glitter (SU), Purple Glitter (MB)

Other:  Spider Web EF (ret SU), Vine Canopy EF (SSS), Large Witch Hat (MB), Jack-o lantern Die (HA), Dangling Spider Die (ret MB), Gold EP

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