Happy Birthday

Hello. Playing in The Paper Players challenge happy "bird" day.

Flowers are stenciled, stamped, and cut out using supplies from Pink Fresh Studio. Bird die is from Honey Bee stamps. I added some yellow highlighting to his chest using butter ink from Hero arts and a blending brush.  Tiny birthday greeting is from Simon says stamps. 

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'Tis the season

Hello and Welcome to another Fusion Card Challenge, where you can use the sketch or the photo or both. Here is what I did with it.

Sentiment is from Simon Says Stamp. I used a circle die for the snowman head, added two buttons for the eyes, and cut a carrot for his nose.  I dusted on some white pigment ink to mimic a chalkboard as a final touch to this card. 

Please check out the Design Team’s creations for this challenge, where there’s a lot of really awesome inspiration!

Fusion Card Challenge

Sadly, this will be the last Fusion Card Challenge. The number of folks actually playing has dwindled down quite a bit and it just makes sense to end on a high note. Thank to all those who continued to play each month. See you out in blogland and on Instagram.

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With Sympathy

Hello. Playing in the Addicted to CAS code word challenge today and that is Sympathy. 

The left side vellum panel is done using a Rubbernecker leaf background stamp. I stamped it in white and heat embossed it on one side, then flipped the vellum over and stamped it in dark green ink.  The sentiment is from Altenew.

To get the vellum to stick on the cardstock, I used a micro cot sheet from Simon Says Stamp. Tied on some green grosgrain ribbon and attached this to a dark green card base.

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You are one of a kind

Hello all - playing in the sketch challenge over at The Paper Players today.  I did turn the sketch. 

Stamps are from Technique Tuesday. I believe the snowflake die is from MFT and I used silver glitter cardstock to cut it out.  Teal cardstock is from Concord & 9th. I used pawsitively ink in Ocean and Unicorn white pigment ink from Hero Arts to stamp the sentiment and the snowflakes. 

A snowflake embossing folder was used in the background and I adhered this all to a mid-tone gray card base.  Silver ribbon was added down the middle to match the snowflake. 

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Happy Birthday

Hello.  Playing in two challenges today. Let's start with the how I created my own background, which is the challenge over at Simon Says Stamp. I used #66 blue watercolor from Kuretake and dabbed it across some watercolor paper. Then I scrunched up some saran wrap, covered it and let it dry.  Next I added some splatters and some lines using a gift card, which was inked up with the unchartered mariner distress ink pad. 

Birthday sentiment was stamped with versamark and hero arts navy cardstock onto vellum then heat embossed with clear powder. I used detail does from Marker Forte to attach the vellum (highly recommend this stuff - super strong). The dragonfly is from Clearly Besotted and cut from black carstock. The outline is vellum that was colored with an ink pad (I think, it's been in my stash for a while). 

I used the sketch from The Paper Players below - which I modified slightly. 

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Life is better with sandy feet

Hello and Welcome to another Fusion Card Challenge, where you can use the sketch or the photo or both. Here is what I did with it.

 

I turned the sketch sideways on this one. Wood embossing folder used with weathered wood distress ink on the backround. Grit paste used on the kraft cardstock to look like sand. Love how it turned out. 

Sentiment is from Hero Arts. I used a die to cut out a medium star from white cardstock and scored it so that I could get it to stand up. 

Please check out the Design Team’s creations for this challenge, once again, they have knocked it out of the park.

Betty J . Clarie Grantham . Jeanne Jachna . Jen Mitchell  . Karren Johnson . Linda Callahan . Lyndal Higgins  . Michelle Leone . Michelle Lupton . Tristan Dawes . Wanda Cullen .  Natalie Walsh

 

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Pastel birthday

Hello and Welcome to another Fusion Card Challenge, where you can use the sketch or the photo or both. Here is what I did with it.

 

I was inspired by the photo colors and shapes. I used a piece of acetate to cut out a few circles and then used that as a stencil to blend on the pastel inks.  Added the happy birthday die (stacked 3x's) to the middle and called it good. The outside border stitched dot die is from Jillian Vance Designs.  Reflection dew drops are from Honey Bee.

Please check out the Design Team’s creations for this challenge, once again, they have knocked it out of the park.

Betty J . Clarie Grantham . Jeanne Jachna . Jen Mitchell  . Karren Johnson . Linda Callahan . Lyndal Higgins  . Michelle Leone . Michelle Lupton . Tristan Dawes . Wanda Cullen .  Natalie Walsh

 

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One layer Sympathy card

Hi everyone, it's time for a new challenge over at Less Is More. It's one layer card time and we want to see off center.   

Here is what I did with it.

Poppy stamp is from Rubbernecker. I did hand draw in the black centers of the flowers. Greeting is from Altenew. 

Please visit the Simply Less is More BLOG to see what wonderful creations the design team has come up with.

 

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Love you

Hello and Welcome to another Fusion Card Challenge, where you can use the sketch or the photo or both. Here is what I did with it.

I used a stitched heart die cut (Pink & Main) and stamped it in unicorn white ink from Hero Arts with a Tim Holtz plaid background stamp. I heat embossed it with detail white embossing powder to get it to stand out even more. Sentiment is from Papertrey, Ink. Cut out a few small silver hearts to use as embellishments.  Top small ones are red heart sequins. 

Please check out the Design Team’s creations for this challenge, once again, they have knocked it out of the park.

Betty J . Clarie Grantham . Jeanne Jachna . Jen Mitchell  . Karren Johnson . Linda Callahan . Lyndal Higgins  . Michelle Leone . Michelle Lupton . Tristan Dawes . Wanda Cullen .  Natalie Walsh

 

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For the happy couple

Hello and Welcome to another Fusion Card Challenge, where you can use the sketch or the photo or both. Here is what I did with it.

Rose stamp is from Gray Wolf Graphics. I stamped it in Hero Arts unicorn ink and decided to leave it as is, since I got a really nice impression.  So, no chalkboard technique - which led me to just use the sketch part of the challenge board.  Sentiment is an old one from PTI.

Please check out the Design Team’s creations for this challenge, once again, they have knocked it out of the park.

Betty J . Clarie Grantham . Jeanne Jachna . Jen Mitchell  . Karren Johnson . Linda Callahan . Lyndal Higgins  . Michelle Leone . Michelle Lupton . Tristan Dawes . Wanda Cullen .  Natalie Walsh

 

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Frosty sunrise

Hello. It's my turn to do a project of the week and I'm doing another throw back project. 

I love how this frosty sunrise turned out and thought it was good enough for a do over. I did spritz this with some Imagine sheer shimmer spray in sparkle, but of course it doesn't show up in the photo. In real life is sparkles really prettily.  The sunrise was created using distress oxide inks. I stamped the grass and tree in gray and white inks and highlighted it with white paint pen to give it that frosty look. I used a Copic multiliner pen to hand draw the birds in.

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You're in my thoughts

Hello. Playing in the Addicted to CAS challenge of circle today.

Tree stamp is from Just for fun stamps. The sentiment is from WPlus9. I initially used a circle stencil to create the scene for a one layer card. However, I didn't like the sentiment I had stamped and it wasn't centered on the card base. I know, a little OCD of me but I just didn't like it. LOL. Saved the circle by cutting it out using two circle nesting dies from Spellbinders.

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Happy Halloween

Hi there. Playing in this weeks Freshly Made Sketch #508 today.  

I used the new Villainous Potion inks on this. I paired with with Kitsch Flamingo and shaded lilac. Also added some VP glaze into the nix too. The spider web is done using Unicorn ink from Hero Arts and a stencil. Deckled die is from Gina Marie Designs.

Halloween sentiment is from the former There she goes company and the bats are from Papertrey, Ink. The tiny spider is a brad (I cut off the ends and glued it on) and the bat is from DCWV. I cut him out three times and after stamping the sentiment and heat embossing it with detail white, I popped him up on an action wobbler. It turned out so cute!

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So very blessed

Hello. Playing in the the "no layer" or one layer challenge of Autumnal over at Less is More.

Leaf stamp and the sentiment are from Technique Tuesday. I used inks from Hero Arts and Rubberneck to stamp the inside and outside. Stitched rectangle die from Lil Inker Designs. 

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Also entering this into: AAA Cards 

Stenciled tags

Hello. Sharing a couple of tags that I created a while back when I previously did this technique for a project of the week. Hung on to them and decided it might be fun to rerun this technique again. All you need is a solid stamp, a stencil and ink or paint. 

I used the solid tag stamp and stenciled directly onto it with ink, then stamped and cut it out. Layered them with navy blue cardstock. I also cut out a smaller tag for the sentiment. Navy satin ribbon and twine used for the tops.  The "eyelet" is actually a die that I used on the same navy cardstock.

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Sending hugs

Hello and welcome to another sketch challenge for Try Stamping On Tuesday. 

This is a very old set from Simon Says Stamp. I stamped the flower directly onto the gingham cardstock as an experiment and ended up liking it. The border die is cut out of white cardstock then I took some yellow bakers twine and threaded it through the top eyelets. Gingham designer paper is from A*Muse Studio.

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