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!!
I don’t do a lot of slim line card or a lot of shaker cards, but one of the classes in my Taylored Expressions Virtual Stamp Joy 2023 class was to make a card using both of these usually don’t dos. The mini slimline card panel was masked off to create an inside portion that was ink blended and then using a Party Popper TE stencil and a heavier hand stenciled the same colors over the ink blended background. The HB sentiment was stamped in TE’s Oreo ink and then the Mini Slim Infinity Shaker panel was added. I actually remembered to add the star shaker bits before sealing the 4th side of the acetate panel. Mounted it on some teal card stock from Michaels to complete my card.
Today I will be sharing my card with the challenge at:
A nice tall glass of lemonade on a warm day sounds wonderful to me. Actually mostly anything lemony works too!! For my card today, I am using the Taylored Expressions Squeeze The Day Layering Stencil and clear stamp combo, Gina K Designs You’re the Sweetest stamp set for my slice and DMD Happy Hour stamp set probably from Michael’s that was in my stash. Stenciled, colored, added a little wink of stella and have an extra panel left over from by 6×6″ stencil for another card.
My card today is for a young couple that are getting married this November. I’m usually not that far ahead with my occasion cards but the wedding theme challenge with Can You Handle the Pressure worked perfectly for me.
My card uses a SimonSaysStamp Circle Rings 3D embossing folder which is the main requirement with CYHTP blog challenge. I don’t have a lot of wedding stamps but the Gina K Designs Always and Forever stamp is a lovely silhouette stamp and simple sentiment in a beautiful script which are my go to wedding stamps. The white shimmer panel was embossed, the image stamped, heat embossed in clear embossing powder and cut using Spellbinder’s classic oval & scallop oval dies. To add a little color to my card, I found the Gina K Designs Watercolor Floral ephemera pack and patterned paper for inside the card with the sentiment stamped on a heart die cut.
It’s the As You Can See It challenge blog’s 300th challenge and their challenge is to share an Adventure: Travel, Extreme Sports, Exploration, Daring. Well nothing can be more daring than chaperoning Kindergartners to a circus inside a college field house! Of course, 6 year olds always need to use the bathroom too. We were in line for the bathroom when the elephants were coming into the building. We had to squeeze against the wall and the elephants were so big they had to crawl under the doors. I’m not a fan of the circus and only hope that the animals are treated humanely but it was an awesome site to see.
Back to my card which uses Hero Arts Leaves & Vines Fancy die, My Monthly Hero stamp & die set, and some lightly inke clouds for my background using Pretty Pink Posh Layered Clouds Stencil.
Congratulations on the 300th blog challenge and my card will be shared with
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