Poinsettia Joy

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

I had some leftover strips of embossed vellum and I knew if I tried to put them

back in the paper box, they would get messed up.  Solution: put them on a card.

But them what to put with them?  One of my many poinsettias of course.

This poinsettia is from Concord &  9th.  The set has a background and this

layered poinsettia as well as berries and greenery.  It's a fantastic set of dies!

For this card I used the poinsettia and berries.  The silver sprig was already a

leftover from one of my friend's gatherings.

I cut the poinsettia from Neenah Solar White and ink blended with

red and green ink.  It's popped up on the front with a dimensional.

The sentiment is always the hardest part for me.  Nothing was working.

Then I thought of a tag.  That was the best solution.

It turned out to be one of my favorite cards.  And the pretty silver embossed

vellum found a happy place.

Challenges:

CAS Christmas - Poinsettia (A great challenge, Col)

Darnell's I.D.E.A.S.- 1st week of the month get inky

 

Card Recipe

Stamps:  

Ink: Real Red, Garden Green (SU)   

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Embossed Vellum (ret SU), Silver Foil, Gold Foil, White Glimmer

Other:  Festive Blooms (C9), Pinpoint Main Street Tags (PS), Joy die (Elizabeth Crafts)

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Sunflower

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

Cooler weather has finally arrived and it looks like we'll be enjoying it for

more than two days.  Yay!

This is a shameful CASE of Bobby's inspiration card for CAS Mix Up.  I changed the colors and

sentiment.  I also added an embossed background.  Thanks for the awesome inspiration!

I used the same stamp that Bobby used which has been retired.  Papertrey ink has

another stamp set that is similar called Framed in Flowers. 

I've stamped and heat embossed in gold and used Tombow markers and my

waterbrush to color the sunflower and stem.  The background was done wet on wet

with Distress Re-inker.

To add a gold frame, I tapped the edges in VersaMark and heat

embossed with gold powder.  It's subtle but adds so much.

The design piece is popped up with foam.

I did another for Craft Group using a colored background like Bobby did only

I used yellow.  The camera turned that yellow much darker than IRL.

Everyone had fun adding ladybugs, bees or butterflies to their cards.

Challenges:

CAS Mix Up - Watercolor Sunflower

Darnell's I.D.E.A.S. - Embossing

The Neglected Stuff - Sunflower stamp not used in years

Triple B - Birds, Blooms or Butterflies

  

 

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Botanical Blocks (PTI)

Ink:   Encore Gold, Chocolate Chip

Paper:   Mixed Media (Strathmore), Neenah Solar White, Crushed Curry

Other:  Gold EP, A2 Rectangle die (WF), Tombow (062, 025, 947, 879, 126, 158), Burlap EF (HB), Molded Frame EF (SB)

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Happy Fall

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

I'm so excited that Fall is here!  I love the colors and the smells of fallen leaves.

Not much color here but leaves are falling.  They're mostly yellow and brown. Hopefully

some cooler weather will encourage brighter colors.

I recently had a gathering of stamping with friends and this was one of the cards

we did.  I added a butterfly to this one since it will go to my aunt.  She loves butterflies!

I used a new to me pumpkin die from Penny Black and die cut from  yellow cardstock 

and cut the flowers from the same piece.  We brushed color around the edges leaving

it lighter in the center.  It was all placed on a new to me embossing folder.

I'm so glad to lighten the load in the NBUS box!

Challenges:

Can You Handle the Pressure - Use an embossing folder

Four Seasons - Fall

Darnell's I.D.E.A.S. - Embossing Week

NBUS #90 - Never Before Used Schtuff

Penny Black Saturday - Use Penny Black items/option of die cuts

 

 

Card Recipe

Stamps: Mum's the Word (PTI) 

Ink:   Warm Cocoa, Pumpkin Pie, Crushed Curry, Granny Apple Green

Paper:   Natural (MFT), Neenah Natural, Lemon Tart (PTI), Granny Apple Green (SU)

Other:  Pumpkin Blooms (PB), Stitching Butterflies (SSS), Tomei Branch die (PS), Oak Forest EF (SB), Tiny Tendril die (MB)

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Cheerful Flowers

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

My friend Nance came to play recently.  She always brings a stack of 

her new goodies to share.

One of the things she brought was a stencil and die set from Waffle Flower and

some pretty arched dies.

I went very simple with the stencil and just used one color so I could concentrate

on the visit and not the stenciling.  The whimsical flower was die cut from Neenah

Solar White and I used brushes and ink to color it.  The die set is 2 pieces, an outline

and the solid flower.  I tried to keep the outline a bit lighter on the flower.

The sentiment was cut from a scrap of Nectar cardstock and brushed with 

Grapefruit & Pimento ink for ombre look. I kept the shadow background white.

Challenges:

I.D.E.A.S. - Stencil Week

Just Us Girls - ATG using a stencil

Seize the Birthday - Dies Only

Stencil Fun - ATG using a stencil

  

 

Card Recipe

Stamps:  

Ink:   Blushing Bride (SU), Eucalyptus, Parsley, Buttercup, Pimento (C9)

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

Other:  Cheerful Flowers Stencils & Dies (Kristina Werner for C9), Sweet Sentiments (Alt), Make a Wish Arched Labels, Essential Arches (SB)

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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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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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Holly Jolly Snowman

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

I've been lax about making Christmas cards and I don't want to

be caught short in November.

This Holly, Jolly guy is a cousin to Snowy by Penny Black.  He's smaller

but just as cute.

He's been stamped on watercolor paper and colored with inks smooshed

unto my palette and picked up with a waterbrush.

He fit beautifully in this Cut & Stitch circle.

Challenges:

ABC Christmas - H is for Hat

Christmas Kickstart #109 - Hats

Darnell's I.D.E.A.S. - Anything goes week

Penny Black Saturday - Use Penny Black products/option of pastel colors

 

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Jolly Friends, Believe (PB)

Ink:   Memento Tuxedo Black, Eucalyptus (PFS), Worn Lipstick, Festive Berries (DI)

Paper:   Watercolor (TH), Mint Macaroon, Neenah Solar White

Other:  Cut & Stitch, Circle (PB), Circle Thin Frames (SSS), Leaf Punch (EK)

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Slender Tulips

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

I've had fun playing with a new to me Penny Black Slender Tulips stamp set.

I arranged the stamps in my Misti and inked the stamps with Distress ink cubes

and markers.  After stamping on mixed media paper, I used a damp waterbrush

to smooth the color.  Then added some darker color along the edges, stamped

and blended again.

The first card has some light inking and stamping in the background and framed

with the medium frame from the Waves die set, also Penny Black.  The embossed

background was done with an old and much loved embossing folder.

This one used  the Border Bling Tin Stitched frame from Papertrey Ink

along with an A2 Thin Frame from Simon Says.

And one using Penny Black's Classy Frame.

Lastly using the smallest of the Wave frames with a single bloom and tiny tag.

All the sentiments are Papertrey Ink and the little butterflies are from

Simon Says Stamp.

And all are on their way to let some of the support staff in a nearby Elementary

School know how much we appreciate them.

Challenges:

Darnell's I.D.E.A.S. - Week 3 Emboss

Just Us Girls #814 - Word Week Emboss

Triple B - Birds - Butterflies & Blooms

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Pink Roses

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

A birthday card for my sister.  She loves roses.

I still have some Betterpress images to color.  This one was sent from a sweet friend

I colored it with Arteza Twimarkers.

Challenges:

Darnell's I.D.E.A.S. - Week 1 of the month, Ink/Color Mediums

Krafty Chicks #810 - Birthday

Time Out #308 - Happy 12th Birthday (Inspired by Stef's beautiful big pink flowers)

 

 

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Beautiful Roses PP (PFS), It's Your Day PP (SB)

Ink:   BP Black 

Paper:  BP Porcelain (SB), Neenah Solar White, Black

Other: White Foil (SB), Arteza Twimarkers (Blush Pink, Fuscia, Green, Moss Green), Dainty Diamonds EF (ret SU), Graceful Butterflies EF & Die (SSS) 

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