Turquoise and Coral Flowers

The  Color Hues challenge always makes me leave my comfort zone a bit and use colors that I normally might not use together.  I was surprised how much I liked Turquoise and Coral together. I used the Harvest Flourish stencil by Gina K Designs brushed with Sea Glass. The flowers were created with stencil from the Little Hello Bundle, brushed lightly in Coral Reef, then used the coordinating stamp also in Coral Reef. The center was stamped with Sea Glass. The flowers were cut with the matching die. For the center flower I cut two additional flowers from scrap cardstock for dimension. The stenciled panel was matted with Coral Reef on a Sea Glass card base.

Cruisin’

Cruisin’ is the theme at Retro Rubber. What better way to go cruisin’ than in a 1957 Chevy from the Classic Dad set by Dare 2B Artzy from 2018. The Chevy was colored with Copics and a silver Sharpie for the trim. The mat is the Plaid Stencil from Taylored Expressions in Blue Denim and Kraft. This is for a friend that is truly a class

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Pink Roses

It’s Color Week at Just Us Girls. The colors we are challenged to use are Yellow, Green and Pink. The rosebuds are cut with a die from the Hero Arts January 2020 kit, cut with Bubblegum Pink and Grass Green for the stems. The pitcher is from Impression Obsession, cut twice for dimension. The PP is from Delicate Essentials, sponged with Sweet Corn to enhance the yellow. The oval background PP is from Made with Love. The scalloped Oval is Lemon Drop, the card base is Bubblegum Pink. After it was all assembled I thought it would have been cute to stamp a small greeting on the pitcher, but I did leave enough room at the bottom for a sentiment strip that I can add depending on the occasion.

Fall Recipe

This week’s challenge at As You See It is A Recipe for a Fall Farm. The recipe is in the graphic below. Kraft card stock is the closest I have to Crumb Cake. I embossed a panel with a brick EF and matted it with Sweet Mango on a Kraft card base. I got the idea of using the wheat with a pumpkin from Stamp Buddy Diana. The wheat was cut from Honey Mustard; the pumpkin from Sweet Mango, sponged with a bit of Tangerine Twist. To ground the pumpkin, I created a “tablecloth” from orange gingham PP. The finishing touch was the tiny twine bow. The sentiment is from Beyond Baskets, cut with a flag die.  

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CASEing Bonnie!

Just Us Girls Challenge #597 – Trend Week

And the trend is: Black and White. My card for the Just Us Girls Challenge is a CASE of one of our Bonnie’s cards

Taking inspiration from Bonnie’s card but keeping to the black and white theme, I layered a piece of patterned paper from Gina K Designs’ Petite Patterns onto black cardstock. Stamped my image which is an older red rubber stamp and maybe from DRS Designs in black ink and heat embossed in clear embossing powder. Using a Spellbinders square nestabilities die which was positioned to leave room for my sentiments, it was die cut and layered once again on black cardstock. I really wanted to add the diagonal stripe layer however it just didn’t seem to work for me.

Bonnie’s Card

Thanks for the inspiration Bonnie!

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Driving!!!

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A girlfriend’s grandson just passed his driving test and is hitting the road so i decided to send this card to him as well as play along with The Paper Players masculine clean and simple week challenge. I think I got the masculine correct with this sports card however if you take away the layers to create the car it would be clean and simple 🙂

I pulled out my Spellbinders’ Sunday drive die set to create my car, then stenciled Tim Holtz Hocus Pocus layering stencil onto the background adding a little more ink blending to it. The stamp in the trunk is GKD’s Party On and the message bubble is also a GKD stamp set “Let’s Talk”.

Hopefully the young driver will pay attention to the road and concentrate on his driving as much as I needed to concentrate making his car.

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Tall and Proud

The theme at As You See It is Zoology. They are asking us to fill in the blank with our favorite animal. My favorite animal is the Giraffe – it stands tall and proud, head and shoulders above the rest and is not afraid to stick its neck out. My Giraffe is from Wild About You a retired set by Theresa Momber for Gina K Designs. I colored with Copics, stamped the sentiment in Dark Chocolate and die cut with a deckle edge die and mounted on a mat of Dark Chocolate. I stenciled the Palm Frond by Honeybee Stamps in Fresh Asparagus for a jungle like background. Always good to add another masculine card to my stash. I’m also entering this in the challenge at  Sweet Stampin’ to feature an animal.

Sentimental Friend

Gina K Designs August 2012 Monthly Mix Challenge

Just Add Ink #567 Inspiration

Trying to complete my August birthday cards and running a little behind schedule when I decided to play along with the GKD’s August 2012 Monthly Mix Challenge hosted by Rema to add sentiment strips to your card project and also with the Just Add Ink #567 Inspiration challenging you to use the photo below as your inspiration

I was drawn to the colors and primarily the rug with that gorgeous large orange flower and the teal accents. So I smooshed some GKD inks (Turquoise Sea and Coral Reef) after spraying with water and created my background. I wanted to add some golden accent so added some gold mixative and blending solution. This didn’t work out quite how I expected it but to me it looked better after adding the flowers and covering up some of the area. The flowers and sentiment strips as well as the stamped sentiment are all from the Gina K Designs’ A Little Hello stencil layering bundle. My flowers were stenciled using GKD’s Coral Reef, Peach Bellini and Dark Chocolate. I did add a Nuvo’s crackle mousse to the centers of two of my flowers. All were die cut using the die included in the bundle.

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