Happy Birthday - Fusion

Hello. Here is the new challenge over at Fusion! Play with the sketch, play with the photo or do both!

I used the flower dies from CASual Friday to create the flower spray. Cut them out of pink cardstock then added some highlights using Copic markers. Self adhesive pearls used in the center. Pink striped dp is from my stash. Used the same color pink cardstock as the flowers to cut a tiny strip to separate the white card base from the dp.

Please check out the Design Team’s creations for this challenge.

Barb Ghigliotty

Betty J

Jeanne Jachna
Jen Mitchell
Karren Johnson
Linda Callahan
Lyndal Higgins 
Michelle Leone

Michelle Lupton
Tristan Dawes
Wanda Cullen

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Caffeine is the new black

Hello. Playing in the CAS-ual Fridays challenge of More coffee please. I used a stamp set I won from the last coffee lovers blog hop. It's from Planner Stamps.

That wonderful green polka dot designer paper is from lasting impressions. It's called lamppost limeade dots. I used a stitched fishtail banner die from MFT to cut it out. Then I paired it with a piece of limeade cardstock.

Kept this pretty clean and simple, but colorful. Thanks for stopping in!

Holiday joy

Hey there. Playing in two challenges. Simon Says Stamp Christmas Gift Tag and CAS-ual Fridays anything but a card.

Tag die is from Papertrey, Ink and so is the little "to and from" stamps.  The pine cluster and joy dies are from Carta Bella.  The '"holiday" stamp is from A*Muse.

The bright red plaid ribbon is something that I had in my ribbon collection. Finished it off with a bit of jute string to continue with the rustic feel of the tag.

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Make a wish

Hello. Playing in another challenge today. This one is for the kraft and white challenge over at CAS-ual Fridays.

Stamps are from Wildflower stamps, which is no longer in business. Stamped in white pigment ink and then heat embossed with detail white embossing powder.

Sentiment panel is popped up using foam squares and I added a bit of white grosgrain ribbon to it for some detail.


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Daisies

Hello! Playing in a few different challenges today.

Daisy stamp is from Altenew and the sentiment is from Tim Holtz. Fishtail banner is from MFT.

Challenges:
CAS-ual Fridays - Black and white with a pop of color.
Simon Says Stamp - Hip to be square
The Paper Players - sketch

Cardstock used: Neenah solar white, black and yellow is from PTI.

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Happy 4th

Hello everyone! In the states we are celebrating Independence Day this weekend, but the holiday isn't until Monday. Anyways, here is my take on a couple of red, white and blue challenges.

I cut out the star that comes in the Blueprints #18 and made a stamp out of it using some fun foam. Stamped them randomly on some water color paper with versamark and heat embossed using white embossing powder.

Then I created the color panel using Zig real brush markers. The red still looks a little pinkish after going over it a number with times with the darkest red color.

Sentiment stamp is from Papertrey, Ink. Finally, I popped up a few of the stars with some foam tape to go with this weeks Freshly Made Sketch.

Thanks for stopping by and hope you all have a fun and save holiday.



Entering this into the following:
Simon Says Stamp - anything goes
CAS-ual Friday color challenge
TGIF Challenges - color challenge

Snowflake

Hi everyone! Decided to create a card with this weeks theme of snowflakes over at CAS-ual Fridays.

Snowflake is a die that came in three sizes, this is the middle one. I cut it out of some back ground papers that I created a white ago. I did the smooch method on a craft sheet with Fresh Ink reinkers from Impress rubber stamps and water. These are pigment inks, so you know they took a while to dry. I also ended up using some fixative on it so that the ink wouldn't rub off.

Anyway, I layered three snowflakes together and inserted them back into the negative space of the white card base. Added the sentiment. Which by the way, I was enabled to buy through FB from The Stampin Place.

Added the whole thing back onto one of the back grounds I created and adhered to a white card base. Lastly, I added a bit of clear wink of stella glitter onto the snowflake so it would sparkle.

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Life is better

Hi everyone. Had a chance to make up a card that goes with two challenges today.

Stamps and the dies for the flip flops are from Papertrey, Ink. It only took me two times to get the flip flop stamped on the die cut right. That's a record for me! You have to cut the die first and then stamp on it for this set and I never have any luck getting it close to center.

I used wild cherry ink from MFT to stamp the flip flops. Red hearts were cut from a piece of scrap cardstock from my stash. It's most likely Pure Poppy from PTI. I used kraft cardstock on this thinking it would remind us of sand.

Entering this into CAS-ual Friday's challenge and CAS(e) this sketch. 

It's a rainy day here in Washington, perfect weather for staying in and getting inky. Thanks for stopping by.

Wishing you

Hi everyone! Happy March - Spring is on its way! Here is a card that I ended up making for three challenges.

CAS-ual Friday's is all about using shades of Gray. The Friday Mashup is Monochromatic and flowers and lastly Simon Says Stamp is anything goes with pearls.

So here is my take on the challenges. Kind of a silver gray wedding card.

Sentiment stamp is from MFT. The flower die is also from MFT and the leaf/fern die is from Poppy Stamps. The top note die is also used. Queen and Co pearls are added to the centers of the flowers for some extra bling.

I had the gray designer paper in my stash and used that on the flowers. Light gray and white cardstock is from PTI and the dark gray is from Hot Off The Press.

Off to get inky! Thanks for stopping by!

Wherever you go

Hi everyone! What an exciting day yesterday! The talented and very sweet Darnell over at Djkardkreations CASED one of my past cards and posted a whole story about it on her blog. Thanks Darnell, and if you haven't seen her work/blog hop on over and take a look here. If you are a new  new subscriber and/or follower, thank you as well!

OK, on to my card for today. I was a little intrigued by this weeks CAS-ual Friday's challenge.

The challenge was to create a  farewell card that is long and NOT a traditional A2 card.

So this is what I came up with. This ended up measuring 4 x 8.5 and will fit into a legal sized envelope.  Vintage cream cardstock used as the card base and the main panel. Stamps are from Flourishes. I stamped them in Versafine and then clear heat embossed them so that I could color with Copic markers.

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful weekend! 

Happy everything

Hi everyone! I got a little creative yesterday and put together a card that goes with a few challenged out in blog land.

I started off with the Clean and Simple sketch #278.

Added in the color purple for CAS-ology. Simon Says Stamp wanted us to use twine in their Wednesday challenge and CAS-ual Friday is all about being over the edge.

The big flower stamp is called painted bloom combo that I bought at Impress Rubber Stamps. Lavender ink from Colorbox used to stamp the main flower and white for the center. I ended up using white embossing powder to give it a bit more pop. Limeade fresh ink used for the leaves. The small flowers at the top left are stamped using the shadow hydrangea stamps from TAC.

Happy die is from Technique Tuesday as is the everything sentiment stamp, which I just received in the mail. So this is also being entered into the new Simon Says Stamp work it Wednesday Challenge. See the details here.

Designer paper is from Kaisercraft and cardstock is from Bazzill.

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Love you

Hey everyone! He's a quick clean and simple card for this weeks sketch over at Clean & Simple #274.

I cut out three hearts from a Lifestyle craft heart die. Two red and one white. The heart on the top left is stamped in white craft ink using the distress polka dot stamp from Savvy Stamps. The top right heart is stamped in Wild Cherry ink from MFT using the plaid stamp from the Half & Half set from PTI. The sentiment is from the Beyond Basic Borders also from PTI. I don't have a lot of heart dies, just a few smaller ones, so I decided to use circles as the sketch calls out.

I popped a lot of this up using foam tape to get a bit of dimension. There's a lot of white space on this card, that is why I decided to texture up the hearts!

Also using this for CFC125.Word is Love!

ETA: added this to challenge #29 over at Addicted to CAS


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