Thinking of you

Hello. Playing in The Paper Players clean and simple challenge of don't bug me today.

I'm CASEing the fabulous Chrissie Stokes, and how she added gilding flakes to the dragonfly with this one.

The sentiment is from Recollections. Dragonfly die is from Gummianpan and its wings are colored with Indigo blu luscious pigment powder in out of the blu. I did add silver gilding flakes onto the wings and the body, based on Chrissie's video tutorial. 

I used fun foam on the back of the rectangle to pop this up off the card base. 

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Thinking of you

Hi everyone, it's time for a new challenge over at Less Is More, this time around is anything goes but keep it clean and simple.

 

The butterfly stamps and dies are from My Favorite Things and are colored with Copic's.  The sentiment is from recollections. Full disclosure: This went out several months ago to a co-worker who is battling breast cancer.  She shared it on Facebook, so you might have seen a peek already.

Here is the cue card.

 

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

 

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Happy Birthday, Friend

Hello. Playing in the Less is More 11th Birthday challenge today.

All stamps are from My Favorite Things. I stamped everything in versafine ink and heat embossed in clear. Colored with Copic's. 

Stitched dot rectangle die is from Jillian Vance Designs.

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Grateful

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 went with the color of the left hand mug/pumpkin in the photo as my starting off point. 

The mugs are from Papertrey, Ink.  I was trying to do a mirror stamped image of the coffee cup using a solid photopolymer background clear stamp. I inked it up using Rubbernecker fuse ink in whisper and when I released it, it gave me this marbled effect. Oh, what a happy accident. I fussy cut them out and popped them on the card following the sketch. 

The sliplap planks die is from The Greetery.  Grateful sentiment is from the Recollections brand, heat embossed in detail white.  Embossing folder is from SU and the lovely ocean side and aqua sky cardstock is from Concord & 9th. 
 

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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Merry Christmas

Hello. Playing in two challenges today. I started with the sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches and used a lot of the elements in the photo over at The Card Concept.

Gingham stamp is from Kaisercraft. I stamped it in black ink onto pure poppy cardstock and heat embossed with clear embossing powder. I used a sentiment die from SSS to cut out the strips. Pine branch stamp is from Great Impressions. Stamped it in jardin moss ink and then used a bit of rustic wilderness glaze to make it stand out. Sentiment and die are from Recollections.

For the Card Concept - I chose to do a clean and layered style that went with the sketch over at FMS.

It's Thanksgiving today in the states - I hope you all have a wonderful day with family and are staying safe! 

Rustic Christmas

Hello. Playing in the CAS(e) this sketch #399 today. 

Pine cone/fir stamp is a big background stamp from Simon Says Stamp, that I colored with Copic's. I used a fishtail banner to cut part of it and saved the rest of it for later. I've had the plaid designer paper in my Christmas stash forever, so I thought it would be fun to use it on this and call it "rustic" since I used a lot of rustic products. 

The sentiment is from Hero Arts and I used the new rustic wilderness distress oxide ink and glaze on the vellum. I stuck tiny gold pearls in the corners to hide the glue.  Rustic white cardstock from PTI is used for the base. See the rustic theme, here? LOL

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It's the most wonderful

Hello! Whipped this one up to go along with the weeks Mojo Monday Sketch!

Mitten and sentiment stamps are from Verve. I stamped the mittens in Versafine ink and heat embossed using clear embossing powder. Then colored with the R29 Copic marker. I stamped the snowflakes onto the mittens using white craft ink and a small snowflake stamp from my Christmas stamp stash.

Added some tiny black and white pearls from Recollections to the center of the snowflake and next to the sentiment to add some interest.

Designer paper is from Paper Pizazz that I have had in my stash forever! Went with a black border as I couldn't find any darker red that went with the colors in the dp. I added the black circle border at the last minute, and I'm glad I did. It just ties everything together!

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-Laurie

Happy Birthday

Hi everyone! I was inspired over at the Tag you're it! blog to make this card.

The sweet pea stamp is from the former There She Goes. I stamped it in versafine, heat embossed with clear embossing powder and then colored the two sets with Copic's in R81 and R85. 

I fussy cut the three bigger petals out and then attached them using tiny pieces of foam tape to pop them up. Love the dimension it gives.

Tag die is from Quickutz (Lifestyle crafts). I ended up layering the tag with both pink and black cardstock to make it stand out a bit from the big argyle designer paper.

I ran the pink cardstock through a new embossing folder I just picked up from cricut for the cuttlebug called gingham.

Finally, I took a section of white satin ribbon and colored it with the R81 Copic marker, then tied on some black scrappers floss. Sentiment is from Papertrey, Ink.

Celebrate today

I'm sitting here waiting for the brown truck to deliver my new work iPhone 6 (signature required) and decided to play with this weeks Freshly Made Sketch, since I had time on my hands.

Stamps are from Verve.

The designer paper is from The Recollections line from Michael's. The dp drove me nuts trying to find cardstock that matched it. I finally gave up and decided to just make my own.

I just took a picture of it and then used Photoshop Elements to pick up the color I wanted. Printed off a 8.5 x 11 piece of cardstock and I was good to go! It's the light gray/beige piece in the back.

Added some snow white sequins and we're done!

Mr. Brown delivers end of day at my house (6:30) and I still have about an hour to wait. Ugh! Thanks for stopping by!

Love you

Hi everyone! I'm currently up in the frozen 49th state on business but uploaded a card to my work computer so that I could post while I'm away.

Be forewarned it is not the best picture! 

I was in a hurry to get a picture taken and what not before I left, so it's a bit crooked and dark. pfft!

OK, here are the details.

Sentiment stamp is from Papertrey, Ink. The heart, tag and stitched rectangle are from Simon Says Stamp. Black and white polka dot designer paper is from Recollections.

I placed the heart inside the tag and cut it out at the same time, creating the heart cut out. Then I cut out a red heart and inserted it. Added some red satin ribbon and called it good.

Don't you just love red, black and white together! I'm going to give this one to my DH, just because!

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