Just Us Girls #722

Hi crafty friends, this week at JUG's is word week and the word is RAIN!

I have had my fill of winter and wet weather and it's a beautiful sunny day. For my card I wanted something happy while still using the word RAIN. I used Concord & 9th Brighter Days and Taylored Expressions Over the Rainbow for my card.

I stamped using Catherine Pooler Inks. I always get a good impression with those. I used Do-Si-Do, Catching Rays, Garden Partty and Cummerbund.

A sparkly heart finishes it off.

Thanks for stopping in and have a wonderful day!

Color Hues #85

Welcome back! We have a new colour duo starting today at the Color Hues for Color Challenge #85! 

My plan for today's card was to have yellow on the top and pink on the bottom with them blended together in the middle. I used Distress Oxide Inks in Wild Honey, Scattered Straw, Picked Raspberry and Kitsch Flamingo. It made a lovely peach shade where they blended over one another in the middle. Then I laid a stencil over the ink blending once dry and sprayed Picked Raspberry Distress Oxide Spray. The nozzle did not spray smoothly and the first panel as set aside.

I ink blended another panel and did the same thing but this time I cleared the nozzle before spraying on my panel. and it turned out...BUT...although I haven't done it in along time, I glued the better panel upside-down on the card base! 

The decision was made to make two cards!

The 'good' panel was now upside-down with pink on the top and yellow on the bottom. I used an older stencil by Birch Press Designs called Ring Tiles. There are other companies who have a similar stencils but really you can use just about anything. Graphic designs would likely work the best!

The sentiment in the centre is Waffle Flower Crafts Oversized Thank You Print. I cut it out three times in black and glued them together for a chunky sentiment!

To finish off the card I attached some Studio Katia Sparkling Round Gems that have a stripped pattern on them. You can see it in the photo below:

So the second card, the panel I made first, is the reverse--yellow on top and pink on the bottom. When it came to photographing the cards I realized that both panels actually turned out quite well

 

Please visit the Color Hues blog for even more inspiration from my fabulous teammates and I hope to see you play along!

Thanks for stopping by, have a great day!

Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge #28

Hi there friends, it's been a while. I got up this morning and decided it was time to make a card for the Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge #28. I purchased the Concord & 9th Cup of Kindness Stamps & dies back when the set was introduced and today it finally got some love. I have been trying to use what I have because their are so many sets that I had to have but have not gotten much love.

My background was stamped with Ellen Hutson's Fa La La stamp with Catherine Pooler's Rockin' Red ink. The same stamp was used to stamp and white emboss the red cardstock for the coffee cup.

The holly on the cup sleeve is from Ellen Hutson's Holiday Sprigs stamps & dies. I coloured it with Copic markers--R08, R17, R27, YG25, YG17.

This is also the first card I have made for Christmas '24! I have a few more to make--lol!

Thanks for dropping in today!

 

Color Hues #84

Welcome back! We have a new colour duo starting today over at the Color Hues for Color Challenge #84! Peach & Green makes me think of warmer days ahead! I used Altenew's Book Engravings stamps and dies. 

I stamped and die cut the two flowers using peach inks. On a 5 1/5" x 4 1/4" panel of white cardstock I stamped the leaves. The smaller flower was attached to the panel directly with glue and the large flower was attached with foam squares.The happy birthday sentiment is from an old Papertrey Ink birthday set.

 

I am also submitting this to Seize the Birthday #280 Spring Floral Challenge...

If you haven't already been there, please head over to the Color Hues blog to see the fabulous designs my teammates have made for this challenge!

Thanks for stopping by, have a great day!

Just Us Girls #720

Hey crafty friends! I'm back again with my final card for my March Guest Design at Just Us Girls! This challenge is a stencil challenge and anything goes. So with that I pulled out my Papertrey Ink Wild Blooms stencils because every time I use it? I love it more!

I started off picking lighter and darker shades of my greens, pinks and yellows. All my inks are Catherine Pooler inks and I listed them all in the supply list at the bottom of my post.

Wild Blooms comes as a set of 6 stencils. I worked my way through each stencil using first the lightest shade and then adding my darker shade from the base of each image and then finally finishing it off by going over the stenciled pieces again with the lightest coloured ink.

Once I had the whole piece stenciled I went around the edges of the panel with blue ink to give the panel more dimension and reality. Next I cut the panel with the largest die from the Lawn Fawn Small Stitched Rectangles dies. It was adhered to the card base with foam tape.

I have been trying to use some older products that I have lately. The word spring is from a Neat & Tangled die called Spring, how apropos! The die comes with the word and a shadow. I cut the shadow with vellum and then I cut the word spring three times with black cardstock. The words were glued together to make a thick word, it was then glued to the vellum base.

TIP: I dotted glue on the back of the vellum piece behind the letters so it would not show through to the front.

I stamped and white embossed Happy & Birthday from yet another older MFT Stamps set and those were adhered around the word 'spring' with thin foam tape.

Thanks for hanging out with me this month as I was guesting with the Just Us Girls Challenge. I've had a really fun time and I hope to see your cards in the gallery. Break out those stencils, this challenge is a fun one!

Color Hues #83

Welcome back! We have a new colour duo starting today at the Color Hues for Color Challenge #83! This week we have a unique colour combination chosen by teammate Carol. I love this subdued pallet of cream and blue! I decided to make a birthday card that is masculine and yet it ended up very generic!

I used A Colourful Life's Rippling Squares to stencil on a 5 1/2" x 4 1/4" panel of cream cardstock using Catherine Pooler Ink--Tranquil. Be careful this pattern is a bit funky, but so very fun! 

I trimmed the panel down to 5 1/4" x 4" and adhered it directly to a cream coloured cardbase. I decided to make this card one layer to make for easy mailing. 

 

I made my own cardstock with Catherine Pooler Ink--Cove Blue. I simply pounced the ink pad over white cardstock panel and let it dry completely. The panel looks blotchy at first but with these inks it settles out as it dries! Now I have coordinating colour cardstock for my background.

Once dry, the sentiment Simon Says Stamp's Happy Birthday was cut from the cardstock.

If you haven't already been there, please head over to the Color Hues blog to see the fabulous designs my teammates have made for this challenge!

Just Us Girls #718

Hey crafty friends! I'm back again with m second card for my March Guest Design at Just Us Girls! This challenge with are having a Collaboration Challenge with Time Out Challenges for challenge #718. 

We are doing a two week challenge running from March 14th - 27th. At JUGS it's a word challenge and the word is Birds! I don't have many birds in my collection but I have MFT Stamps Seaside Seagulls and pulled it out to play!

I created a cloud background with the MFT Stamps Clouds stencil, then I cut it into a panel with the MFT Stamps Wonky Stitched borders. 

I used a bright blue cardstock for my background and I have gone through all my cardstock and still do not know what company makes it. 

I added some foam tape/dots to add some dimension behind the white panel and behind the bird and die cut clouds!

This is the now, sadly retired, stamp set I used, MFT Stamps' Seaside Seagulls!

All the images were coloured with Copic markers.

 I hope to see you play along with us!