Color and Case Thanks

Hi there-

Thought I would get a card made this evening. So I scrolled through my challenges to see what was closing soon.  I love the colors at Color Throwdown -pink white black and gold, and the sketch at Cas(e) this Sketch is fun. 

So here is my card:

I used a gold pen for the flower branch and flower centers and then topped the centers with gold nuvo drops. The sentiment was heat embossed with gold.

  

Hope you all had a good weekend and are managing to stay cool, or warm depending on your hemisphere!

Thanks for visiting.

Happy Birthday

Hello -

I recently made several male themed birthday cards to give away.  I made them in one sitting, and used nature themed stamps from Stampin up.  It was mentally draining, but I got them done and they were well received.  I'll be sharing them at Seize the Birthday, no toppings,  Fusion Card Challenge - Ombre, and AAA Cards Maxi White Space no option.

                                                             Going to Fusion Ombre

 

                                                     Going to Seize the Birthday

                                                 Going to AAA Cards






Thanks much for stopping by.

Coloring

Hello -

I sat down tonight to do some coloring, its been a few days since I did anything crafty.

This lil Lawn Fawn fox with her (see those lashes?) mug of hot chocolate is sending along warm winter and holiday wishes.  This one is going to Just add Ink - Season, and Christmas Kickstart - Hot Beverage.

 This one is going to Casology - Citrus, I have no citrus fruits but how about citrus colors?

This card is going to Double D - Tropical and Stamping Sensations - July The Earth Laughs in Flowers.


       
 

Enjoy your weekend!

Twofer Card Challenge 18

Hi there,

I am so excited to be joining the Design Team at Twofer Card Challenges.  Thank you to Darnell and the talented team for the opportunity.


This is one of my favorite challenges because I have to THINK before I start working on my two cards to make sure they are two different designs. That's the basic concept of Twofer.  

Anyone who's visited my blog probably has seen that my go to card design is a flower or image in the lower right corner, CAS style more often than not and maybe a little inking around the image.  I know this because I had a discussion with my pal Peggy about design.  She told me she loved all the different cards I made...and I had to laugh...I told her to look again...just because I had different images or sentiments the great majority were THE SAME DESIGN. That is my comfort zone and I like that Twofer makes me step out of my comfort zone.

The Twofer Card Challenge asks us to make two DIFFERENT DESIGN cards for DIFFERENT occasions from the same stamps, die or stencil.

So on to this months prompt, it is GARDEN. You can click on the badge below and be taken to the challenge.

As I sat down to design my cards,  I first selected my stamp set. Then I thought about how I could use the images and which image/s would work for  both cards keeping with the garden theme. After narrowing that down, I drew a few sketches to make sure I was creating different designs.

Can you see how the designs differ from one another?  The occasions (not just the actual sentiment) must differ as well. There is a handy list of occasions on the right sidebar of the Twofer Blog.

Satisfied they were different designs, I set about making the cards and came up with these two.

I used Lawn Fawn's Gleeful Garden stamp set.  My common stamps are the little grass and the snail. I colored everything very simply.   The veggie garden card is a hello to my Dad, since to me it has a masculine vibe.  The second card is going to a friend fresh out of knee surgery.

If you have any questions about these designs or any of my past designs for the Twofer Challenge, please feel free to ask me.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope to see you in the Twofer Gallery.  While you're there stop and visit our two guest designers this month Robyn of Waterlily Cards and Kathy of My Aspirations.

CIC473 and Stamping Sensations July

Hi there,

I'm popping in for a quick post.  I had to play with the Penny Black bunches for you stamp one more time.  I made several more cards for my thank you stash.  This one is in my favorite color YELLOW.

It's hard to be sad around yellow, the color alone makes me smile. It is my happy place.

I used several shades of yellow in the flowers, the envelope, and the card base.  I am hoping the gray will count as a neutral.

I am entering this at Cupcake Inspirations Challenge - Shades of yellow  and at new to me Stamping Sensations Challenge - The earth laughs in flowers.

    

Thanks for stopping by.

Envelope of Thanks

Hello -

I'm back on vampire time...so this time instead of binge watching tv, I cleaned up my space and organized my out of control die collection.  Nothing like a clean organized space to invite the creative process; at least for me.

We had quite a deluge of rain this morning...but it was after I went to sleep. Thankfully hubs woke up and closed the windows.  I saw on the news our area got the a month's worth (July average) of rain in 3 hours.  I also saw some flooded areas in our town.  Hubs mentioned seeing rivers of water running down our street, thankfully we are on higher ground.

So on to the card, it was inspired by these challenges:

CAS on Friday,  Penny Black and More Challenge and Time Out Challenges

Stamp - Bunches for You, Copic Coloring, Die Penny Black Elegant stitching.  My trick for nice sharp outlines is to color my image while it its in my mini misti, so then I can just stamp it again after coloring .

    

Thanks so much for stopping by.

The Card Concept 118

Hello!

Hope everyone had a nice weekend.  We started with some heat and today its quite  nice out after the storms passed through last night.

Tonight I have a  clean and simple card for the Card Concept.  I have one cactus stamp, from Lawn Fawn and the images are small so I made a square card.  I stamped and masked the pot and cactus topper three times using ink.  I then took a pencil and added some purple to the cactus.  Its subtle.

I used a computer generated/printed sentiment and added a few clear gems to finish the card.

Thanks for visiting.

Happy Birthday Rose Cluster

Hello-

I've been wanted to play with this Paper Smooches die, I have had it for at least a month.

I die cut it 3 times, retaining two outlined and one full die cut.  Luckily one of the cuts stayed intact. I quickly added tape to the back so the pieces remained seated.  I colored with red and green and blue wink of stella markers.  I added 1 out line layer, filled the colored spaces with some glaze, then added the final outline layer.  I love this stained glass look.

 The stage for the bouquet is created from a partial stamping of the radiating dots background stamp from MFT.

This card goes to Watercooler Wednesday - Feminine Anything Goes and to  Paper Smooches -Anything Goes.   
     
       

Thanks so much for visiting.

AAA 143 Less is More 398 and Anything Goes at Paper Smooches

Hello-

My design is inspired by AAA Cards - One Corner with the optional twist of flowers and Less is More One Layer card with spots and of course the sweet image from Paper Smooches which is going to Paper Smooches July Anything Goes Challenge.  As soon as I saw the little lady bug on the rose leaf I knew this was my image for the challenges.

I stamped the image and sentiment from Rosy Posy in onyx black ink. Once dry, I colored the image with Spectrum Noir sparkle pens.  I do hope that lady bug qualifies as my spots!

Thanks for visiting.

Happy 4th of July

Greetings -

I love that this week has a holiday and Addicted to Stamps has a holiday theme.

The stamp set is Kaboom from PTI, the sentiment is from Stampers Anonymous and the inks are from Simon Says Stamp and Hero Arts.

Hope that those celebrating the 4th do so with wonderful not too hot weather and clear skies for the fireworks.

Thanks for stopping by.