Flourishing Hello

| Lisa K
MISTI Flourishing Hello

This is the last card I made for this month’s MISTI challenge at Split Coast Stampers. I learned from Sandy Allnock that Blueprint Sketch fit the Pantone Classic Blue color of the year, and I finally purchased a pad this week. Today I was able to ink blend with it.

The stamp set used is Flowering Flourishes by Stampin Up, released in 2012. I know my Mom used this set a lot, as I remember seeing it on several cards. This was my first time inking it up. I used Versamark and white embossing powder, then began ink blending. I spritzed a bit of water after finishing ink blending and made those water droplets. I think this could get addictive.

The Hello was die cut in fun foam for dimension, white cardstock, then GKD Blue Denim cardstock. I layered the pieces to look like a shadow image. I added a few gems from Studio Katia.

I enjoyed making this card. It has been an enjoyable month seeing the blue all over and knowing that was the color of the year. I see that blue in my dishes, on product boxes, and fabric.

I am entering this card in Simon Says Stamp: https://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/simon-says-anything-goes-69/

Thanks for looking!

Thank You Daisy

| Lisa K

This card is for the Retro Rubber Challenge #127. It is a tic-tac-toe challenge. I chose the one on the right with pattern paper, thanks, and nature.

https://www.retrorubberchallengeblog.com/my-blog/2020/01/challenge-127-tic-tac-and-toe.html

I began with the patterned paper from my stash. This is Recollections from Michael’s. The stamp set used is Daisy Delight from Stampin Up, released in 2017. I used the Daisy punch along with the set. I know these have been in my room for over a year and this is the first time I have used them. The daisy paper is from the scrap bin, so I have no idea what color, but I am fairly sure it is SU paper. The leaves were stamped with Gina K Designs Fresh Asparagus and Jelly Bean Green on SU Mossy Meadow Cardstock. That is the same cardstock as the base. I added a Kraft layer with Extra Heavy Kraft from The Paper Studio. The words Thank You are stamped in GKD Black Onyx ink on SU Naturals White paper. Thanks for looking.

Red and Pink Umbrella

| Lisa K

I have been stamping in red and pink for a color challenge.

http://www.global-design-project.com/2020/01/global-design-project-225-color.html

For my card, I stamped in Flirty Flamingo and Real Red all placed on white cardstock. My pink looks a bit darker than Flirty Flamingo as it took three times in my MISTI to get a cleanly stamped image. I decided to go with it, rather than start over. The center of the umbrella is in Real Red. The cardbase is Real Red along with designer paper. I have a few sets of DSP purchased from the Clearance Rack and one had was Regal colors which contain Real Red. I chose the side with dots rather then the stripes on the other, to go with the dots in the umbrella.

The stamp set used is umbrella4you along with the umbrella die all from The Stamps of Life. I added a bit of raindrops using gray colors from Lawn Fawn.

Awesome Colors

| Gayle Chrvala
Sunday Stamps Weekly Challenge
SSC223 From The Heart

So, I really should be focusing totally on my Valentine cards but decided to play along with the Sunday Stamps Weekly Challenge which is a color challenge. Here’s their color palette of which you need to choose at least three colors.

The colors I decided to go with on this card are GKD’s cherry red, coral red, dusty rose and Memento’s pear tart. Hopefully these are close enough to the required colors. I seem to have a hard time associating colors without names! The other color used is GKD cardstock in Ocean Mist. Stamps are GKD’s True Love, Better With You and Sugar Pea Designs for Stamp of Approval (leaf). Added some wink of stella over my circle “flowers” for some shine. This is my attempt to CASE of Mindy Eggen’s card for the day 3 of GKD January release. I didn’t see the card posted just the video. A CASE and CAS card to boot! I’m thinking I can include this as a Valentine card. Yes/No???

Fishy Birthdays

| Gayle Chrvala

Our son-in-law’s birthday is the end of January and he takes pictures of fish while snorkeling. Actually he takes pictures of everything. Our son’s birthday is the beginning of February and he has aquariums with fish and always has had them. So with that in mind I thought these cards would be perfect for each of them. The balloons with the little face that I stamped in it is a little scary, though. Stamp set used was Stampendous’ Sushi Bowl Party and sentiment is from GKD Best Fishes.

Thanks for looking. Have a great day.

New Butterfly

| Gayle Chrvala
The Sisterhood of Crafters New Sistahs and Challenge
Just Us Girls Challenge 520

The challenge at The Sisterhood of Crafters is to use a newly acquired item to our stash. My new item is the butterfly die that I ordered from Amazon (not sure of the manufacturer). The challenge at Just Us Girls Challenge #520 is a photo week challenge of butterflies.

In addition to the butterfly die, I also used SU Pretty petals background stamp as well as Peace, Love & Cupcakes stamp set for the sentiment. The Pretty Petals background stamp was inked and stamped off once on scrap paper and then stamped on the card base with Salty Ocean distress oxide ink. I cut the outline of the butterfly die by using the die on cardstock and using a blade to cut it out. The butterfly layer was also sprayed with Hero Arts Iridescent Shimmer Spray for some shine and added sequins from SSS Blue moon sequin pack.

Hedgehog

| Lisa K

I created this card with the Mod Squad challenge and the My Favorite Things sketch, and added a bit of blue for the Misti challenge. All of these challenges were posted from Split Coast Stampers, but I wanted to share this card here.

My Friend Hedgie

This card follows the same general layout and flow as the bird one. I have no one special in mind for this card, but it will be easy to mail when the time to use it comes. Thanks for looking.

Purr-fect Redo

| Gayle Chrvala
GinaK January Monthly Mix Challenge

The January challenge at Gina K Designs “Let’s Reflect” and to re-do a card from the previous year. Since I’m in Valentine’s day mode, I needed to go back 2 years by re-doing this card using GKD’s Better with You Stamp set.

Cats -- MMC22018

My current card uses the kitties and same sentiment from the Better With You stamp set and the hearts in my night sky are GKD’s Spoon Me set. The sky was created with Distress Inks in Broken China, Wilted Violet, Black Soot, a little water and Hero Arts white iridescent shimmer spray. A2 layers dies from Waffle Flower were used for my panels.

My Favorite Things Sketch

| Lisa K

This is the first time I have created with a MFT Sketch during the challenge time. I love their sketches and have used them previously.

https://mftstamps.com/blogs/news/wsc473

I flipped the sketch from portrait to landscape. My bird is from Stampin Up Flying Home. The sentiment is from The Stamps of Life club member freebie. I needed a small sentiment for the bird and this little set had the perfect size of sentiment. The bird is a red rubber stamp with the bird and the tree limb all one stamp. I colored it with markers. I used Midnight Muse for the bird, Chocolate Chip for the branch, and two green colors for the leaves. I used the Seaside Embossing Folder on a piece of Naturals White cardstock embossing it in the direction to match the limb.

I own a few MFT stamps, but none seemed to be what I was looking for. This will be posted to Mod Squad Challenge and the MISTI challenge at Split Coast Stampers.