Green, Green, It’s Green They Say

| Judy Inukai

It’s all about the Green at Double D Challenges and  Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Blog wants us to use some Green.This card is for the man who always donates cabbage for the annual Corned Beef & Cabbage dinner that I co-chair each year. I turned the cute little gnome die from Simon Says Stamp into a leprechaun, or maybe he’s a gnomrechaun. The pattern paper for his lower garment is from a pack by Authentique that has some awesome green designs. I colored his hat with Copic G09 and his nose with E11. The THANKS die is also by Simon Says Stamp cut three times and layered. The pot o’gold is from a die by Taylored Expressions. The tiny bit o’gold is Christmas wrapping paper from Target. The background is Sandy Beach embossed with Forest Branches. The card base is Key Lime.

Good Luck

| Lisa K

Had a bit of fun creating a St. Patrick’s Day card.

http://daranddiane.blogspot.com/2020/03/its-all-about-green.htmlhttps://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/simon-says-use-some-green/
https://colorthrowdown.blogspot.com/2020/03/color-throwdown-584.html
https://gsd-stamps.com/blogs/share-your-designs/share-your-design-challenge-march-2020

The cat in the hat is from Gerda Steiner Designs: https://gsd-stamps.com/collections/digital-stamps-spring/products/st-patricks-day-digital-stamp I rarely use digital stamps, but the ones in this shop are quite easy. It is colored in a combination of Copic, Spectrum Noir, and Sharpie markers with a Uniball Gold Gen pen thrown in the mix.

The cardbase is white Hobby Lobby paper. The green layer is Gina K Designs, Grass Green which I stamped with My Favorite Things Garden Flourish background stamp in Versamark ink. The banner is also Gina K, Journey of the Heart patterned paper. The sentiment Good Luck is from Stampin’ Up Paper Pumpkin, December 2019, Something for Everything.

I used a sketch to complete the layout. The sketch is from Split Coast Stampers SC792. It has squares, but I changed it to circles. I enjoyed creating the card, following a sketch with a specific theme.

Neon Bright

| Gayle Chrvala
ModSquad Challenge Bring on the Neon

This week’s ModSquad Challenge is to use neon or bright colors. I opted to go with bright colors as I do not have any neon stamp pads so using the stamps and dies from Gina K Designs’ Bold & Blooming stamp set I created my bright pink or maybe I should say shocking pink flowers. The cardstock is GKD and I believe it was from one of those variety packs maybe carnival??? and the patterned paper is The Paper Studio’s Uptown Flair glitter paper pack. I stamped the flowers in versamark and heat embossed three of them in GKD clear embossing powder and two in GKD fine detail white embossing powder then die cut. My frame was cut using Waffle Flowers A2 dies.

Beer Tag

| Gayle Chrvala
Dies R Us Challenge: DRU Challenge#140 Tag You’re It

Tags and Shaker cards are always such a challenge for me but today I’m taking on the Tag challenge for Dies R Us. I felt in the need of a frosty brew so pulled out my Cheapo dies “beer mug” die and Spellbinders Labels 16 dies to create this tag. I added a pop dots behind the middle of my mugs for some dimension and cut the foamy top from glitter paper, added some Kiss Me, I’m Irish ribbon and a sentiment from my stash as well as a few other shamrocks and yes, I do have a tag!!

Thanks for looking and have a great day! 9 days, 11 hours and counting to spring!

Green and Sketchy

| Gayle Chrvala

Double D Challenges It’s All About The Green

Sunday Stamps SSC226 Get Sketchy

It is that wonderful time of year again. Spring is on it’s way but before that can happen I’ll be celebrating St. Patrick’s Day and my birthday which I missed St. Patrick’s Day by 3 hours. My mom pushed extra hard so I wasn’t a little Patty. The mood board at Double D is to be green or St Patrick’s Day. Why are there so few St. Patrick’s day stamps??? I did pull out Fluffles from Stampendous and colored him gold, used some GKD patterned paper and ribbon. My sentiment is one that was found many years ago in the dollar section of AC Moore. The sketch fits the sketch challenge hosted by Heather at Sunday Stamps. Midnight green cardstock is from SSS.

Double D Mood Board
Sunday Stamps SSC226

Healing Colors

| Gayle Chrvala
The Paper Players PP481 Color Challenge
Just Us Girls Word Week 526 – Heal

My card today will be entered into two challenges: The Color Challenge hosted by Laurie at The Paper Players using SU’s Bermuda Bay, Coastal Cabana and Calypso Coral. I inked my background lightly in the following GKD colors Coral Reef, Ocean Mist and Tranquil Teal then placed the GKD art stencil over the background and inked the same colors adding a darker shade. I die cut SSS Dahlia Stem from the background, layered it several times and popped the silhouette back into the die cut space. Sentiment is from GKD’s Stippled Flowers. The challenge for Just Us Girls is “Heal” for Sue’s Word Week Challenge.

Flaming Colors

| Gayle Chrvala
As You See It Challenge: Challenge #220 Fragile Flames

The color challenge at the As You Can See It Design Team member LeAnne is a color challenge to incorporate Poppy Parade Grapefruit Grove, Mango Melody and Whisper White. Gorgeous SU colors so thanks to our Buddy Lisa I was able to find substitutes for these colors with the inks I have on hand. I used Memento Rhubarb Stalk and two colors from Kaleidacolor inks. My cardstock besides the white is GKD’s Lipstick Red which I believe is close to the Poppy Parade. After sponging a background I die cut a frame using Waffle Flowers A2 dies and die cut the SSS Carnation Frame die multiple times, inlaid the petals into the die and then cut the carnation once more in the lipstick red cardstock. It needed to “pop”.My sentiment is from SU’s Upsy Daisy stamp set.

Fabulous Florets

| Lisa K

I pulled out an older set of my Mother’s to make this card for the As You See It Challenge.

http://www.asyouseeitchallenge.com/2020/02/challenge-220-fragile-flames.html

This is an SU set from the 2011 Occasions Mini, meaning Spring Catalog. I thought this flower sprig would be easy to use for this challenge. My original idea was to space the flowers apart, cut into three parts, than have flower panels on the card front. Well, I didn’t get them spaced far enough, so I left them be. The red flower is all Poppy Parade, both ink pad and marker. The center flower is stamped in Gina K Designs Peach Bellini, with the marker used SU Grapefruit Grove. The third flower is stamped in GKD Sweet Mango with the Mango Melody marker. The stamp seemed to have a rough part in the center of one of the leaves, so I used the marker to help fill it in. I used the sentiment from the set for the greeting centering it in the flowers, stamped in Memento Black ink.

The white is Hobby Lobby heavy weight cardstock, die cut with The Stamps of Life Stitched Rectangle die, layered on a piece of SU Grapefruit Grove. The cardbase is MFT Poppy, which is the perfect match for Poppy Parade.

I added sparkle to the flowers, but that never shows in the photo. I like the colors, but really wanted to add green. Thanks for looking.

Neon Flowers

| Judy Inukai

The challenge at the Mod Squad is to use neon colors. Just Us Girls has a word challenge this week – HEAL. This card should brighten someone’s day and help them heal. The flowers and stems are from Gina K Designs recent kit “A Big Hello” stamped in Hero Arts Neon Pink and Neon Green. The sentiment is from “Stippled Flowers” also by Gina K Designs. I swiped the Neon Pink around the edge of piece of white CS to create a mat, the used a Key Lime card base, which was the brightest green I could find.

 Mod Squad
Just Us Girls