This month, Donna Phelan is the hostess at Gina K Designs, and she challenges us to make tags.
I used a retired stamp set called Keep Calm. I used a Spellbinders die to cut the tag with the oval for the ribbon coming from a SU die.
Birthday Tag One
Gina K. Designs
MSC Birthday Tulips
Today I used a stamp set I just received for my birthday. I love the Gina K Designs Spring Tulips mini set, so I chose that set for a gift.
https://thefourseasonschallenge.blogspot.com/2022/04/april-spring-challenge.html http://seizethebirthday.blogspot.com/2022/04/seize-birthday-236-signs-of-spring.html
I saw this idea on Pinterest where the originator places the tulip set above and below the greeting, so I wanted to try her method. I love the outcome. I colored the tulips and leaves with Spectrum Noir markers. After coloring, I placed the colored layer back in my MISTI and stamped with Versafine Black Onyx ink embossing with clear powder. It brought the lines back and gave it a bit of shine. I used Spellbinders dies to cut the image and black layer, then mounted on a white card base.
I am adding this to the fourseasons: April Spring Challenge. Tulips are Spring Flowers so it fits that challenge. I am adding this to Seize the Birthday, Signs of Spring.
March Cards
I thought I would share a few cards that were made with no blog challenges in mind.
This card was made using double embossing. There was a challenge last week at Splitcoast Designs to give this a try. I used a Paper Studio Brick embossing folder first, then used a Crafts Too Blossom folder. I applied ink to the florals with a sponge dauber as well as the leaves. Then I used a q-tip to apply ink to the floral centers. I am sure these are hibiscus flowers which come in all colors. I sponged a bit of gray to the bricks. The hello is from Gina K Designs that came in a stencil kit. I really enjoyed creating this card.
This card was created for the Featured Stamper challenge on Sunday. I used butterflies like the card I CASED, but I added patterned paper behind my butterflies. This paper is from GKD Sending Love. I used a very old embossing folder, Spellbinders M-Bossibilities called Garden Delight. It is probably 15 years old and used very little.
Thanks for sharing in my latest creations.
Letters Hello
I put my thinking cap on to create a card for Gina K Designs March challenge.
The envelopes came from Timeless Beauty, cut out with matching dies. The word hello came from Skeleton Leaves. The greeting came from Anemone Wishes. I colored the envelopes with Copic markers in an array of colors, like the envelopes Gina K sells in her shop. I found an embossing folder to give texture to the cardstock. I made an A2 sized card. This was a fun challenge. I haven’t made a border with die cut images before, so this a enjoyable.
MSC Pocket Full of Sunshine
I created a card using Gina K Designs, Pocket Full of Shine Digital Stamp which fits several challenges.
https://colorhuesthecolorchallenge.blogspot.com/2022/03/color-hues-special-double-challenge.html https://daranddiane.blogspot.com/2022/03/something-with-pockets-challenge.html
Since this image is digital and I wanted dimension, I colored and fussy cut the pocket and flower and popped them up with foam tape. I used alcohol markers for all each image. I even used blue for the leaves and stem. The colored cardstock is Gina K Designs and the white is Hammermill. I wish I could send this to someone in the Ukraine, but sending to someone here in the US will have to do.
Mini Slimline Gatefold
I created a card with Gina K Designs challenge for the month of February by stamping my own patterned paper making a mini-slimline gatefold card.
I used Elegant Asters stamp and die set for the butterflies and most of the stamped layer. I added a few images from You’re the Best Mini set. I saw this idea on a Jennifer McGuire video.
valentine chicken
Odd title?–stayed tuned.
https://watercoolerchallenges.blogspot.com/2022/01/wwc333-dawns-challenge-all-about.html
The chicken is from SU Birds of a Feather set as well as the greeting. I found heart stamps in other sets from Gina K Designs, but can’t remember which set I grabbed the hearts from. The row of hearts border is from a Sizzix set designed by Stephanie Bernard that has a lot of hearts on it, but again, don’t have the name handy.
I saw this idea on Pinterest where it had the chicken at the top and red gingham at the bottom. I changed her idea from ribbon to the heart border. My background was so plain, so the hearts were added. I made 5 of these cards total. They will be going to an assisted living center.
This card is also being added to Watercooler Wednesday All About Occasions Challenge. I have been watching this challenge for quite some time, but have never entered or it has been quite a while.
Celebrate!
I have been watercoloring with Gina K Designs ink with her current challenge is mind.
I used my all time favorite Gina K Designs kit, Petals and Wings. I purchased this kit in 2012, shortly after we moved into our current home. It is red rubber stamps. I used the texture background stamp inking it with Lucky Clover, Turquoise Sea, and Wild Wisteria, then spritzing with water. I blotted a bit with paper towel and let it dry. I stamped the flowers from the kit, three times with Black Onyx ink. I colored the flowers with a Copic marker that matches Turquoise Sea ink. The Turquoise Sea background is embossed with the Swiss Dots embossing folder. I think this is the first folder I purchased and it is still the most used out of my many folders. I added the vertical greeting from Vertical Greetings 2 set illustrated by Theresa Momber.
MSC snowflake wreath
Combining several challenges with this card. The Make the Cards Challenge #44 is to make a winter themed card, while ModSquad Challenge is only snowflakes. My card is square for the MISTI challenge at SplitCoast Stampers. So fun when one card meets several challenges.
https://modsquadchallenge.com/just-snowflakes/
I used snowflakes from the Joy of the Season set which was a collaboration between Simon Says Stamp and Gina K Designs for Stamptember 2018. I purchased it used, but it was never inked. I saw an idea from Laura Bassen where she made a rainbow wreath and I love her creations, so I CASED her card. The greeting is from the Holiday Wreath Builder stamp set from Gina K Designs. I used the wreath builder stencil to stamp the wreath. I added dots to the center of each snowflake with Nuvo Drops.
Stamp Buddies 