My card today is inspired by the July Anything Goes Halloween mood board with the Two Old Bats. Always one to play along with the theme of a challenge but not go overboard on non-traditional Halloween colors this card idea popped into my head! (Less is More) Using one section of Taylored Expressions Create In Quad Halloween stencil and caldron die, I popped it up on my TE Bokeh Layering Stencil panel which was inked in red, white & blue. I added a few MFT die-namics clouds and a few white stars. Sentiment is from a Hampton Arts Outline’s stamp set.
More is Best! That’s the motto of our granddaughter when she makes her cards. So when the challenge of using more than one fold came up with Cardz 4 Galz I felt like this was made for the upcoming eleven year old .
My card is a double gate fold card…two folds folded back on themselves so does that count as four folds? Scored my card, found some cute patterned paper from my stash and then searched for this tropical flamingo image from Great Impressions.
Here’s where the more comes into play with a second Great Impressions tropical foilage circle was included on the right side gate fold.
And yes there is even the most for this sweetie. The inside was stamped using Hula Cat from The Cat’s Pajamas and Aloha Diva from Gina K Designs. The 11th die cut was made using Concord & 9th’s double cut dies. Some bling on all portions completes my card today that will be shared with:
I’ve been working on cards for an upcoming bridal shower. Using Michael’s Shimmery white cardstock and a Sizzix embossing folder for my background panel, then die cut Memory Box’s Enchanted Heart twice for my focal image. I added teeny, tiny, little pieces of foam strips between the two die cut hearts for some dimension, added a tiny flower “layered sticker” to the center and adhered to my card. I wasn’t sure of a sentiment but decided on this red rubber stamp from a Gina K Designs stamp set.
Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. It’s been quite a weather pattern lately with lots of rain/sun/rain/thunderstorms and repeat tomorrow and maybe Wednesday, too. Take care, be safe and stay cool.
Another debossed background using Archival Brilliance Pearlescent Purple ink on the raised portion of the SimonSaysStamp Wildflower Field 3D embossing folder. While attempting this techinque, I, like another stamp buddy made several backgrounds trying to figure it out. The embossed panel is Gina K Designs LemonDrop and instead of adding the same color ink with a brayer I decided to swipe the ink pad in a deeper shade over the debossed panel to cover up the pearlescent purple ink. The butterfly is Taylored Expressions Beautiful Butterflies die & foil combo and sentiment is also a TE that was previously stamped and die cut. Butterflies seem to make everything better, don’t they?
The Father’s Day card for my son this year was made using Taylored Expressions Create in Quads Abstract layering stencils and their Foil It Panels. The Create in Quads makes four different design panels in one pass after using all 4 stencils. An add on item is the Foil It panels which I ran through my laminator with foil. My sentiment is an older wood mounted red rubber stamp from my stash. My son’s in law card was from a different panel but alas I forgot to take a photo of it before mailing.
After watching Jennifer McGuire’s New Embossing Folder Technique on YouTube today, I decided to give it a try. The technique is to use a silver pigment ink on the raised side of the embossing folder, run through your machine and then brayer ink of the same color as your cardstock on top. I didn’t have any silver pigment ink so I tried Archival Brillance Pearlescent Purple ink which gave me some shine and lightness on the debossed sections of the panel. The 3D embossing folder is SimonSaysStamp’s Floral Field, SSS Cosmo Flower Petals and Script Hello dies and Gina K Designs Wild Lilac ink completed my card.
My card today will be entered into the Color Challenge with:
Ready, set, wait…..think, plan and then go! It’s speed stamping challenge time to create a card project under 10 minutes and this month’s theme with the As You Can See It Challenge group is Seashells.
I gathered a piece of Recollections designer paper from my stash, fern/foilage stamps from Taylored Expressions’ Simple Silhouettes and Gina K Designs Warm With Love stamp sets. Chose a sentiment from GKD’s Gifts from the Sea stamp set, Hero Arts Seashells fancy dies, Spellbinder’s Classic circles nestabilities die and a piece of vellum. Now Ready Set Go!
After stamping using my Misti and GKD Dark Sage ink, off to my die cutting machine to die cut the shells and vellum circle., back to my desk to use whatever inks were on some brushes for my shells and then decided the background needed something extra and picked up a spray…why oh why did I not take time to chose something different than Tart Cranberry Mica Stain. The first shot hit my sentiment and then decided to try again on the bottom left corner. Too late to do anything else as the clock was ticking. Added my seashells on the vellum circle, then decided I needed a black layer so cut down the focal layer much to my cutters dismay as it now has tart cranberry on it. Layered the focal on black then on card base and added three cute little turquoise shells from Recollections Mermaid Mix sequins mix. Completed the challenge in 9 minutes and 24 seconds and only took 30 minutes to clean everything up.
My card will be shared with the always fun timed challenge with:
The local farms’ strawberries are ready for picking which inspired me to make this card. Taylored Expressions Berry Sweet layering stencil and clear stamp combo was used for my focal panel. Distress Oxide inks was use for my stencling which worked very well on the light pink colored cardstock. The card base which is the same color as the focal panel was stamped using SimonSaysStamp’s Gingham background stamp and the three fussy cut berries and sentiment are Gina K Designs You’re the Sweetest stamp set (still on my desk from 2 cards ago…LOL). A little bit of wink of stella for sparkle, a few enamel dots and the Waffle Flowers Lacy Layers A2 dies complete my card today.
The optional June theme with Stencil Fun is layering stencils. I’ll be sharing my card with:
Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. Take care, be safe, stay cool. We enjoyed the beautiful rain yesterday and fingers crossed for more tomorrow.
The June color of the month challenge is PEACH! YUMMY!! However instead of using the fruit I decided to just use the color peach. I decided on a Catherine Pooler/Gina K Designs collaboration Stamp of Approval Beautiful World stamp to create my focal in GKD’s Peach Bellini ink. My cardstock is also GKD’s Just Peachy but was too lightweight for a card base so die cut it after stamping it with Taylored Expressions Linen background stamp in the peach bellini ink I added it to a white cardbase. The TE sentiment was stamped and die cut and off set slightly with a little Just Peachy cardstock, too. Then I colored a little Color Me Crazy dragonfly that was a prize from a Double D Things that Fly challenge.
Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. I think I spent more time in my “Elf Room” the past few days then I have in quite awhile. Take care, be safe, and stay cool. YAY for some rain!!
