Hello!! I decided to join in the Just Us Girls’ Challenge for this week hosted by Nancy and her inspiration photo
which is very nautical. I decided to focus on the striped and the colors to create my card today. My stripes were created using the Pretty Pink Posh wide stripe stencil and some Tim Holtz Distress Oxide ink. The SimonSaysStamp Painted Friend die was cut 3 times from a navy cardstock which was also used as a layering piece. And my Concord & 9th Hello is from their Triple-Step Blooming Heart stamp set was stamped in Gina K ink.
Thanks for stopping for a peek. Hope everyone is enjoying their day. Stay safe out there!
I am sharing my card for the Challenge Your Stash group at Splitcoast Stampers. I will also enter this card in the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge.
The background is watercolor with pigment powders from Stampin Up. I used Bristol Smooth paper for all of the watercolor pieces. The gold die cuts are using MFT Floral Focus Card kit dies. I found the best way to cut these dies is with the die face up and add waxed paper between the die and paper. The theme for the Challenge Your Stash is watercolor, so I used watercolor pieces from my stash.
I found this idea on Pinterest. I added more water than the one I found and use different inks and a different sentiment, but the rest is the same. The stamp sets used are High Tide by Stampin Up and sign4words by The Stamps of Life. I used Lawn Fawn inks for the water, birds and greeting, and Memento ink for the sky. The gems are from Hobby Lobby.
The challenge at the ModSquad Challenge group is to create a sympathy card. For the past six years, I’ve been sending a card to a dear friend in remembrance of her granddaughter who was born asleep. I guess you can still call this a sympathy card for their loss.
On my card, I used the following stamps from Gina K Designs: Dreams Take Flight, Hugs and Prayers illustrated by Nina Brackett and Hello Sunshine. My clouds were a combination of a SimonSaysStamp and Bonnie stencil inked in GKD’s soft stone ink.
Thanks for stopping in for a peek. Take care and be safe!
Sadly I’m often in need of sympathy cards and struggle with making them right when they’re needed. The sentiment is from Extra Grand Sentiments by JustRite, stamped in Stormy Sky ink. The butterfly is from the Beautiful Butterflies Kit by Simon Says Stamp and is stamped in Soft Stone ink. I like using a butterfly on a sympathy card because it is a symbol of immortality. The card base is Stormy Sky with a white sentiment panel attached on the inside. Quick and easy to duplicate. I’m entering this in the Mod Squad With Sympathy Challenge.
Since I already had the strip from Holiday Tapestry on my MISTI and the sentiment on my mini MISTI, I decided to make some more Christmas cards – this time in landscape mode. I used a Blue Denim card base with silver EP. The sentiment is also embossed in silver on Blue Denim and matted with Metallic Silver CS. It is nice to have several of these made up for my stash. I thought the blue would make a nice masculine card so I’m entering it in The Male Room Christmas in July Challenge. I’ve also been inspired to enter this July Rudolph Days Challenge.
Little by little I’m adding to my Christmas stash so maybe I won’t be so rushed come December. The strip from Holiday Tapestry was stamped in VersaMark on Plum Punch CS and embossed in silver. The sentiment from the same set was also embossed in silver on Plum Punch with a Silver Metallic mat. I’m entering this in Perfectly CAS and The Sisterhood of Crafters. Both challenges require embossing – either heat or dry. I enjoy heat embossing and need to do it more.
Hot, hot, hot days of summer! What best way to deal with the heat is to enjoy those bright colors and have a nice cold umbrella drink! My card today is for the Double D Challenges – Colors of Summer taking inspiration from their mood board:
and focusing not only the colors but also the pretty cocktails on the bottom right. My background was rainbow inked using Distress Oxide inks and white heat embossing Taylored Expressions Summer Vibes Background stamp. The umbrella drink is an Impression Obsession stamp and the sentiment is from a DMD clear stamp set that I found on clearance at one of the big box craft stores.
The hot, hot, hot weather will return next week so we will enjoy the less humid weather while we can….west coast smoke and all! Thanks for stopping in for a peek.
With inspiration from buddy Gayle, I pulled out several bee stamps and ideas began flowing. My card is a bit different for me, as I rarely create cards using several company stamp sets and/or dies.
I started with Paper Smooches stamps. The bee came from Courteous Cuties and the greeting “hapbee birthday” came from More Courteous Cuties. I decided to stamp the bee near the top, so I cut the greeting apart and placed it around the bee. I saw an idea where the hexagon was cut with a number 2 on it, so I used my hexagon dies from The Stamps of Life along with the stamp set minihexagons4backgrounds, where I heat embossed it with white embossing powder. The number 2 is from graduation2celebrate and matching dies, also The Stamps of Life. The word “you” is alphabet stamps from Hero Arts. I felt the card front needed something else, so I began with the stitched rectangle die from The Stamps of Life, but that wasn’t enough as it still looked too plain. Out came the Cuttlebug Hexagon embossing folder. I like the embossing as it looks like a bee hive.
This will also be added to the MISTI challenge at Split Coast Stampers. This month’s challenge is to use numbers and/or alphabet.
I like how the card came out. It was fun creating.
