The Father’s Day card for my son this year was made using Taylored Expressions Create in Quads Abstract layering stencils and their Foil It Panels. The Create in Quads makes four different design panels in one pass after using all 4 stencils. An add on item is the Foil It panels which I ran through my laminator with foil. My sentiment is an older wood mounted red rubber stamp from my stash. My son’s in law card was from a different panel but alas I forgot to take a photo of it before mailing.
After watching Jennifer McGuire’s New Embossing Folder Technique on YouTube today, I decided to give it a try. The technique is to use a silver pigment ink on the raised side of the embossing folder, run through your machine and then brayer ink of the same color as your cardstock on top. I didn’t have any silver pigment ink so I tried Archival Brillance Pearlescent Purple ink which gave me some shine and lightness on the debossed sections of the panel. The 3D embossing folder is SimonSaysStamp’s Floral Field, SSS Cosmo Flower Petals and Script Hello dies and Gina K Designs Wild Lilac ink completed my card.
My card today will be entered into the Color Challenge with:
Hello and welcome. Since I’ve really enjoyed making trellis cards, I thought that design would could make a cool Halloween card. I found the patterned paper across the top panel online then saved it to my Halloween file. For this card I just resized it. I started thinking the “planks” would look pretty cool cut from distressed wood pp. So of course I Googled Distressed wood background paper and found just what I wanted. Skull is a sticker I found in my stash, bats, spiders, ghost are die cuts also found in my stash. I added red stickles to the bats, yellow to the spiders and black to the ghost’s eyes. Top of ghost is popped with double pop dots, other images just have single pop dots.
This card came about as a CASE from the Splitcoast Stampers Featured Stamper, Tammy. I chose a card of here that has masking, ink blending, and a stamped floral. I kept the masking, ink blending and floral but used different colors and stamps.
I ink blended Lovely Lavender, by Gina K Designs, into a rectangle in the center. I used Meadow by Inkadinkadoo for the floral. The greeting is a Stampin Up set called Expressions of Friendship. The Less is More Challenge is to use light purple and black on a card. I think my camera made the lavender look a bit pink, but it is lavender in real life.
It is a lovely sunny day here. I love the sunshine and hope to walk outside and enjoy a bit of it. Thanks for spending a little time with me looking at my card.
Ready, set, wait…..think, plan and then go! It’s speed stamping challenge time to create a card project under 10 minutes and this month’s theme with the As You Can See It Challenge group is Seashells.
I gathered a piece of Recollections designer paper from my stash, fern/foilage stamps from Taylored Expressions’ Simple Silhouettes and Gina K Designs Warm With Love stamp sets. Chose a sentiment from GKD’s Gifts from the Sea stamp set, Hero Arts Seashells fancy dies, Spellbinder’s Classic circles nestabilities die and a piece of vellum. Now Ready Set Go!
After stamping using my Misti and GKD Dark Sage ink, off to my die cutting machine to die cut the shells and vellum circle., back to my desk to use whatever inks were on some brushes for my shells and then decided the background needed something extra and picked up a spray…why oh why did I not take time to chose something different than Tart Cranberry Mica Stain. The first shot hit my sentiment and then decided to try again on the bottom left corner. Too late to do anything else as the clock was ticking. Added my seashells on the vellum circle, then decided I needed a black layer so cut down the focal layer much to my cutters dismay as it now has tart cranberry on it. Layered the focal on black then on card base and added three cute little turquoise shells from Recollections Mermaid Mix sequins mix. Completed the challenge in 9 minutes and 24 seconds and only took 30 minutes to clean everything up.
My card will be shared with the always fun timed challenge with:
Hello and welcome. I found the idea for today’s card on Pinterest.
Lemons are from an online coloring page colored with Copic’s and fussy cut. You’re the zest image was also found online then cut with Die-namics stitched circles die. Circle is popped up. Since my brain doesn’t do well with measurements and spacing this took me a couple tries but I’m very happy with the end result.
My card pack from Simple Stories and lemon stamps have not left my work space this week. I colored an image last night, finished it today, then completed a card. This will be entered in several challenges.
The patterned paper is Simple Stories–Simple Vintage Lemon Twist. It is featured as the gingham layer and behind the window. The window was die cut using a Memory Box die. I used the partial die cut technique as the window die only has 4 panes. I needed a larger window, so it was cut in 3 pieces and placed together to make it large enough for the window box. Then I ran the cut window through the SU Pinewood Planks embossing folder and ink blended Dark Chocolate ink over it. I added the turquoise pattern for sky. The window box and greeting are from the Simon Says Stamp You Shine stamp set. The card base is from My Favorite Things cardstock.
I enjoyed finishing this card today. It is a beautiful Spring day here quickly reaching Summer temperatures. I enjoy the longer days and sunshine. Thanks for spending part of your day with me.
The local farms’ strawberries are ready for picking which inspired me to make this card. Taylored Expressions Berry Sweet layering stencil and clear stamp combo was used for my focal panel. Distress Oxide inks was use for my stencling which worked very well on the light pink colored cardstock. The card base which is the same color as the focal panel was stamped using SimonSaysStamp’s Gingham background stamp and the three fussy cut berries and sentiment are Gina K Designs You’re the Sweetest stamp set (still on my desk from 2 cards ago…LOL). A little bit of wink of stella for sparkle, a few enamel dots and the Waffle Flowers Lacy Layers A2 dies complete my card today.
The optional June theme with Stencil Fun is layering stencils. I’ll be sharing my card with:
Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. Take care, be safe, stay cool. We enjoyed the beautiful rain yesterday and fingers crossed for more tomorrow.
The June color of the month challenge is PEACH! YUMMY!! However instead of using the fruit I decided to just use the color peach. I decided on a Catherine Pooler/Gina K Designs collaboration Stamp of Approval Beautiful World stamp to create my focal in GKD’s Peach Bellini ink. My cardstock is also GKD’s Just Peachy but was too lightweight for a card base so die cut it after stamping it with Taylored Expressions Linen background stamp in the peach bellini ink I added it to a white cardbase. The TE sentiment was stamped and die cut and off set slightly with a little Just Peachy cardstock, too. Then I colored a little Color Me Crazy dragonfly that was a prize from a Double D Things that Fly challenge.
Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. I think I spent more time in my “Elf Room” the past few days then I have in quite awhile. Take care, be safe, and stay cool. YAY for some rain!!
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