Hearts and Flowers

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

I've had so much fun with hearts this month!

This time I used a NBUS stitched heart from Memory Box.

(I told myself that I had more than enough hearts, but this sweet stitched set

had to come stay with me!)

I used the heart that cut out from inside the stitched to emboss with the

Heart Bouquet Embossing Folder and popped it back in.

The poppy flowers were die cut from a piece of floating alcohol ink background.

I doodled around the edge for some more black contrast.

The Time Out Challenge is asking for us to CAS a card by my sweet and talented

friend Michele.  Here's her card....

I've been inspired by the stitched heart and used embossing for texture instead of

die cutting, decorated my heart with pink, and stuck with the love theme.

Challenges:

Time Out Challenge #207 - CASEing Michele

Double D Challenge - Shades of Pink

Memory Box #81 - Tickled Pink

NBUS #35 - Never Before Used Schtuff (Stitched Heart Die)

   

  

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Happy Snippets (PB)

Ink:   Versafine Onyx Black

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Black, Tickled Pink (MFT)

Other:  Double Stitch Loving Heart Cut Out (MB), Heart Bouquet EF (MB), Splendid Poppy Stems (MB)

Enjoy!

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Pinkfresh Butterflies

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I had a playdate with my Glimmer machine and a sweet friend.

Another sweet friend had given me a gift certificate to Pinkfresh Studio and these

hot foil plates were ready to get warmed up.

I hot foiled these gorgeous butterflies onto mixed media paper and the

Art Deco plate onto some colored cardstock using gold foil.

I used Distress Markers and my waterbrush to color the butterflies and

cut some hearts out of a piece of the Art Deco.

Here you can see the glow of the gold....

You can't really see the subtle embossed background that adds just a bit of texture

and the frame was cut using some Pinkfresh Slim Rectangle dies.

Challenges:

Pinkfresh Studio February Challenge: All about love

NBUS #35 - Never Before Used Schtuff

I also watercolored the full butterfly and perched it on a full Art Deco piece

to say Thank You.

 

Card Recipe (card 1)

Stamps:  

Ink:   Spun Sugar, Abandoned Coral, Cracked Pistachio, Lucky Clover (DM)

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Mixed Media (Strathmore), Coastal Cabana (SU)

Other:  Butterflies Hot Foil Plate & Dies (PFS), Art Deco Hot Foil Plate (PFS), Everyday Sentiments II Hot Foil Plate (Splbndr), Slim Diagonal Stitched Rectangle Dies (PFS), Sweet & Sassy Framelits (SU), Gold Foil, Subtle EF (ret SU), Gelly Roll Metallic Pen

Card Recipe (card 2)

Stamps:  

Ink:Spun Sugar, Abandoned Coral, Cracked Pistachio, Lucky Clover (DM)
Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Mixed Media (Strathmore), Coastal Cabana (SU)   

Other:  Butterflies Hot Foil Plate & Dies (PFS), Art Deco Hot Foil Plate (PFS), Perfect Sentiments Hot Foil Plate & Die (PFS), Gold Foil, Gelly Roll Metallic Pen

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More Faux Cloisonné for CAS Mix Up

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Just a reminder that there's still time to join in at

CAS Mix Up

My mixed media are Faux Cloisonné, Stamping and Die Cutting

where Susan has challenged us to do a Faux Cloisonné mixed media technique.

I found a tiny portion of a magazine page and a stamp with some detail, but

not a lot.  After stamping the butterfly over the design, I heat embossed in gold

and fussy cut.  I also stamped the butterfly on a piece of vellum and cut it out to

mount the cloisonné piece to for extra body.  (In hindsight, I should have used

a scrap of cardstock as the vellum wants to curl.

Here's a view that shows the shine of the embossing.

There are tutorials at the challenge site as well as wonderful inspiration from

our talented Design Team.

I hope you'll give this technique a try and join us at 

CAS Mix Up.

Card Recipe

Stamps: Flora and Fauna 2 (Wplus9), Cosmo sentiment (TT) 

Ink:   Encore Gold, Tempting Turquoise

Paper:   Neenah

Other:  Magazine, Gold EP, Grand Greenery Outline Die (MFT), Double Pierced Square Die (ret. AvE)

Enjoy!

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Valentine

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Happy Valentine's Day.

I hope you realize how much you're loved.

This is the card I made for my dear hubby.

I was so inspired by this card by Debbie Hughes of Lime Doodle and wanted to CASE it.

I didn't have the chickadee die but I had this sweet bird die from Penny Black in my

NBUS box.  I used a heart die in my stash and used an old embossing plate to add texture  

along with some Chunky White Frantage.

The Love was stamped and embossed on linen cardstock.  I'm not sure I'd do that

again but it works okay for this.

The bluebird was watercolored after it was die cut.  I love the texture in this die!

It's hard to see the trees that are dry embossed in the background.

Maybe you can see it in this photo.

Not really, but you can see the shine from the embossing better.

I added a leaf cut from a snippet of mixed media paper and finished off

the card with some gold Nuvo Crystal Drops.

I'd like to try some of Debbie's mixed media techniques, but that will

have to be for a different day.

Now for some Valentine chocolate!

Challenges:

Hand Stamped Sentiments - Inspiration Challenge #382

Card Recipe

Stamps:  So Much Love (SSS)

Ink:   Encore Gold, Abandoned Coral (DI), Textured White (?)

Paper:   Watercolor (Arches CP), Mixed Media (Strathmore), Smoky Slate (SU), Grout Gray (MFT)

Other:  Nestled Die (PB), Altenew Watercolors, Etched Laurel Leaves (SSS),   Sweet & Sassy Framelits (SU), Chunky White Frantage, Embossing Plate (Lil Inker OOB), So Much Love Die (SSS), Gold EP, Woodland EF (SU), Nuvo Crystal Drops (Bright Gold), 

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Sponging Runoff

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

I made a discovery lately that I thought I'd share.

You've probably already discovered it yourself.

Sometimes I'm slow to pick up on things!

We were adding sponging to the edges of a leaf flourish die cut at my last class.

I noticed that there was a really pretty pattern on the paper mat after the sponging.

So I decided to put a the die cut on a clean piece of cardstock in order to catch 

that pretty pattern.  It's masking, which isn't new, but it's like a bonus to another technique.

So I took some left over pieces that were sitting on the table, added some little gold

hearts and a stacked die cut to make another valentine.

Here you can see the shine of the gold better...

Challenges:

Tic Tac Toe - Used  middle row (Heart, Free, Stitching)

Addicted to CAS - Hearts

 

Card Recipe

Stamps:  

Ink:   Wild Wasabi (SU)

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Gold Foil

Other:  Stitched Rectangles Die (SSS), Simple Leaf Flourish (MFT), Heartfelt Die (PB), Heart Punches (SU), Frame Die (?)

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