Hello and welcome. Oh yes, time again for dear-old-sister’s chuckle of the month. Image is from an online coloring page, colored with Prisma colored pencils and Gamsol. Debossed edges are from a Cuttlebug edge embossing folder. Sentiment “I was going to quit all my bad habits I really, really was. But then it occurred to me that no one likes a quitter” was found online. The hair was colored pink because my d-o-s let her granddaughter color her hair pink. Now, that is true grandmotherly love. It really doesn’t look too bad.
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Sometimes I like to dive into Mixed Media. Each week on Splitcoast Stampers there is a Mix challenge. The challenge on Friday was to select apples or pumpkins and create a mixed media project with your favorite. I like both apples and pumpkins, but chose to create with apples.
I used the stamp set Apple Harvest by Stampin Up, which was released in July 2022 along with matching dies that were released in August 2022. To begin with my background, I use a Decorative Mask from the Abundant Beauty set, also Stampin Up. I generally call these stencils and this is a set of 6. I embossed the background with the herringbone stencil, then added Simon Hurley Solar Paste to part of the embossed panel. Then I decided to cut the scallop using a die. That was a mistake as it flattens the embossing. The pattern is still visible but it is not as raised as it was after I embossed it.
I colored the apple image with Prismacolor pencils and blended with Gamsol. I die cut the image. Then I added leaves and flowers. The flowers were colored with a bit of rose ink and a blending brush. I found gems in my stash to match the ink.
I enjoyed my dive into mixed media. I have been trying to use those supplies in my stash and I have quite a few pastes waiting to be used. Thanks for stopping by. I am involved in a swap for several weeks with the same person. This card will be headed to my swap partner this week.
Taylored Expressions Quad of the Month Club was fun to be part of and only ran for 6 months. The final create in quad stencils included two sunflower panels and two butterfly panels. After adding a thin frame, sentiment backed with a vellum circle and a few bits of embellishments, my card is complete.
Hello and welcome. Today’s card is for our son & d-i-l. I know I said I should get away from the fractured design, but here it is again. As usual pp was found online and leaves are clip art. There is so much free stuff out there in cyber space. Die used is Stitched Squares by Die-namics. That seems to be my go-to die.
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So many goodies for this fright night gnome that I needed to make a flat shaker card to contain all of them. Using Taylored Expressions Gnome dies and the add on Fright Night dress up dies, a little coloring and assembly completed my gnome. The web patterned paper is from my stash as are the shaker goodies. I appreciate that TE has added dress up add on’s to the original gnome die set. Makes it fun to keep on using this set and investment.
Saturday in the pouring down rain I joined my girlfriend who is now a 2 year breast cancer survivor along with her daughter and maybe another thousand women for the 5K Women’s Breast Cancer Awareness Walk. During her journey with radiation treatments, I sent her weekly cards of support and believe she will get a good chuckle when she receives this card.
My card was made using a combination of the Taylored Expressions Gnome die sets, some clipart I found online, pink ribbon is from GKD’s Fight Like a Girl stamp set, dragonfly which have a special meaning to my dearest gf are also GKD’s Dreams Take Flight stamp set and TE’s Linen Background stamp. It was a challenge finding pinks that didn’t clash with each other.
A labor of love! 270 cards for troops group that I mostly made throughout this past year and the card classes I took. Normally I have a group of 6 girlfriends that I make packets for assembly and finishing touches but only two were able to “play” this time around. They did great and learned how to stencil and were amazed at the Taylored Expressions Create in Quads stencils.
Not too much of a mess to clean up after our session. I could have shocked everyone by taking a photo of my “elf” room! YIKES!!
No more posts for me today. Have a great one everyone. Fall has arrived and it’s beginning to feel like soup weather too.
Working on some Fall cards and after visiting Pinterest decided on this card which uses Gina K Designs Skelton Leaves stamped in key lime ink and fussy cut them out. Sentiment is also GKD Autumn Wishes stamped in Fresh Asparagus. Layered Altenew’s Linear Crossroads die after die cutting twice, adding a little bling and layering on a green cardstock.
Masculine fall card today in brown and ivory using Pretty Pink Posh’s Autumn Wreath stamp and die set as well as Tim Holtz Sizzix Mixed Media die which is about as much mixed media that I normally do!! LOL.
