Merry Christmas Ornaments

| Lisa K

The following card is being submitted to the Gina K Designs July Challenge.

https://www.ginakdesigns.com/2020/07/01/june-monthly-mix-challenge-2/?v=7516fd43adaa

I used the stamp sets Merry & Bright for the ornaments and Home for the Holidays for the greeting. The colors used are SU Rich Razzleberry, Seaside Spray, and GKD In the Navy. I added the gold embossing and splatter for the Christmas gold.

This card was created as part of the Split Coast Stampers Color Challenge 800 celebration. Here is the link for my card at SCS: https://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/2996036?&cat=500&ppuser=301308

Always fun to add another Christmas card to my stash. Thanks for looking.

Christmas In July with Dies

| Gayle Chrvala
DRU Challenge #149

It is Christmas in July with the Dies R Us Challenge Blog to create a project using a metal die and a Christmas theme. My manger die is from Penny Black and the Christmas Foilage is from SimonSaysStamp. Using some GKD papers and sentiment from Holiday Hospitality and Martha Stewart punch finishes off this card.

Bright Friends

| Gayle Chrvala
Sunday Stamps SSC235

What do you do when you cannot sleep? Think of good friends and create a card (one of multiples) to send out to them. My card will be entered into the Sunday Stamps SSC235 Bright and Beautiful Color challenge to choose a minimum of three colors from this graphic.

Insomnia made me use all five colors on the Pink Fresh Studio Nested Chevron background stamp. Memento Lady Bud, SSS Coral Reef, Distress Oxide Mustard Seed, GKD Blue Raspberry and Fresh Asparagus. What next? Oh yes I guess I need something else for the front after cutting two circle die cuts I found a Hampton Art LOL (Laugh Out Loud) Stamp set. Fun sentiments in this set that Buddy Gerry should feel free to snark away with.

Brooke Lynn 2020

| Gayle Chrvala
Just Us Girls Challenge – #544 Trend Week Long & Skinny

ModSquad Challenge Blog – Slimline Scene with scenery

The Sisterhood of Crafters – Ink It Up

My card today is a slimline underwater scene with plenty of ink and it’s for our sweet granddaughter’s 8th birthday. What better than a fantasy card with narwhals from Technique Tuesday, my underwater grasses are GKD’s Best Fishes and the waves stencil is from Pretty Pink Posh which I stamped in Versamark and heat set with white embossing powder then realigned the stencil to cover the entire slimline front panel. Using lots of Distress Oxide inks and watercolor brush pens for the narwhals, fish, shells and spray.

Of course when you are almost 8 years old, less is more….NOT….more is better so here’s my inside scene:

The sentiment and fishes are also from the same Technique Tuesday set , mermaid is a Sizzix stamp and die set, sand castle is a Mama Elephant stamp and die set and my stencil is Hero Arts Sun background stencil that I extended and yes more inking. My underwater greens are Tim Holtz Alterations.

Happy to be able to play along with some challenges but now I just have to figure out where to put our personal message to Brooke.

So Smoky Spray

| Gayle Chrvala
Color Challenge: PP499

Color challenges are always a struggle for me but decided to play along with The Paper Players Color Challenge PP499 to use Smoky Slate, So Saffron and Seaside Spray. Hmm….so doing my best I pulled out GKD Little Boy Blue cardstock, cut multiple frames using my Waffle Flowers A2 layering dies then decided that the frame needed some embossing so used my swiss dots embossing folder and actually before I adhered the frame to the card base. Next I used Memento’s London Fog ink on the GKD Sunshine Stencil to create background. The main image SU’s Measure of a Life stamp set was stamped in the London Fog and sponged a little Distress Oxide’s mustard seed ink on the dragonfly. Added some crystalline drops that looks like dew.

Not feeling very motivated but hopefully that will change. Have a great day.

Birthday On Point

| Lisa K

I created a slimline card on Saturday.

http://justusgirlschallenge.blogspot.com/2020/07/just-us-girls-challenge-544-trend-week.html

Stamp set used are Sizzix Free Hugs — Cactus Set and dies, and Lawn Fawn Year Ten. I used two stencils from SU, Brick and Clouds, all ink blended. The inspiration for this layout was from the Lawn Fawn blog using cactus from the new Simply Summer stamp set. I own a few cactus sets, so the Sizzix one was the one I chose to use for this card. This card was posted at Split Coast Stampers as part of the inspiration challenge and MISTI challenge: https://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/2995060?&cat=500&ppuser=301308

Slimline cards are the newest trend I have seen in the paper crafting world, with dies from many manufacturers. This card was all cut using my paper trimmer. So far, that is working for me. This is the second one I have made with in the last week.

Playing with Color

| Golda

Had some fun playing with Distress Oxide inks, yesterday.  I looked up the MFT Color Challenge and did a bit of mixing to get colors that worked for it.  Then, looked up the MFT Sketch challenge and used that to put it all together.  Added some stitches, so it would work for the Double D challenge, too.

This is what I wound up with after all that playing around:

7-12-20 DD MFT Anniversary

Did this as an anniversary card for my best friend and her husband.  I think she’ll enjoy it.  Her husband might.

Thanks for spending some of your valuable time with me today!

So Not Me

| Golda

This card is so not my style.  I planned it for a friend who likes unicorns and gave the set to me.  It started with a Double D Challenge to show stitches and my coming across this piece of patterned paper that had stitches die cut into it.  No clue where the die came from, as I didn’t know I had it, so it may be that I borrowed someone else’s and this is what was left after a project.

7-11-20 DD Stitched

I used one Zig water color marker (pink), and some Chameleon markers I had.  Added a bit of colored pencil in here and there, as well as some Sakura Stardust pens.  Put some sparkle on the mane, tail, wings, and around the rainbow and clouds.  (The sparkle, of course, does not show up in the picture.)  Inked around my image, adhered the pp over the top and called it done.  I’m not thrilled with it.  Colored pencils are so much more my way of coloring.  I am trying to use markers more.  It is what it is.

Thank you for spending some of your valuable time with me.

Foiled Happy Birthday

| Lisa K

I created a Slimline card today and played with my Spellbinders Hot Foil machine.

Slimline Happy Birthday

I created this card for the Misti challenge at Split Coast Stampers. I started with the die in the Hot Foil machine. It has a learning curve and I am still learning. My die is quite shiny as I kept placing my foil wrong side down, even with the manual and having watched videos. I also learned that I need to use thicker paper as it works better. After the foiling looked good, I proceeded to stamp the idea that I found with Jen Cards and her slimline series. I used the Wild Blossoms set by Gina K Designs. I used a block to stamp the vine as I struggled with the Misti when trying to extend the vine and get it to match. The block worked fine, so I then stamped blossoms all over the vine. I am happy with the finished card. There will be more foiled images soon as I am planning to continue to create.