Sending birthday wishes

Hello. Playing in a few challenges today with this card.

The flower dies are from Sizzix (Simon Hurley). I used up a few of my scraps in my stash box for the flowers.  Always nice to try to deplete that box! Sentiment is from The Ton and the Dragonfly die is a new one from Craft Addiction UK. I added a bit of sparkle to the wings with a glitter brush from Scrapbook.com.

I embossed the smaller stamp die cut using a 3D embossing folder from Honey Bee stamps. Love the texture it provides as a bit of dimension in the background.  Added a bit of jute string to it as well and ended up really liking how it framed up the sentiment. 

Entering this into the following challenges:

A Cut Above - Anything goes with a die cut

Just Add Ink - wings

Allsorts challenge blog - things with wings

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Congrats

Hello everyone. Welcome to another challenge over at The Flower Challenge.  We are celebrating 100 challenges this go around and we have prizes to give away for playing along.  We are looking for you to add circles to your flower cards.  

The circle embossing folder is from Penny Back. I surrounded it with flowers cut from Pink Fresh Studio dies.  I did use inks color the dies cuts before adding them around the embossing.  The congrats sentiment is from Tim Holtz sizzix dies set. 

I'm giving away this retired Pink Fresh Studio set, which I have never used. We will be drawing winners randomly.  I hope you join us!

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You're some kind of wonderful

Hello. Playing in the Freshly Made Sketch challenge today. I don’t know if the leaves are starting to change where you are, but here in the PNW, they are due to a lack of water.

I used the smallest leaf die in the TH skeleton leaves dies by Sizzix.  I started with designer paper from craft consortium and then added a bit of distress oxide inks to highlight them.  The sentiment is from The Stamp Market. The dotted outline cover die is from MFT.

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Hello friend

Hello. Playing in a few challenges with this lovely set from Gina K Designs.

The flower dies, stamp, sentiment and stencils are from Gina. I used inks from Simon Says Stamp to color them.  The greenery behind is a die from Sizzix.  

The wonderful loop border rectangle die is from creative expressions. I finished off the card by adding some black self adhesive pearls from Kaisercraft.

Have a great weekend and thanks for stopping by.

Challenges:

https://timeoutchallenges.blogspot.com/2024/06/challenge-265-ibw-there-are-always.html

Crafty Catz - anything goes and use a stencil: Crafty Catz (craftycatzweeklychallenge.blogspot.com)

Happy Anniversary

Hello. Playing in the Simon Says Stamp Romance/Wedding/Anniversary challenge today.  I made this clean and simple anniversary card using Sizzix dies from Tim Holtz.

I found a man and a woman among the layers from Idea-ology and popped them behind the yellow vellum to create that old-time look. The sentiment is from My Favorite Things. I also stacked up the main layer using foam tape for added dimension.

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Thanks SSC335

Hello and welcome to another challenge over at Sunday Stamps.  Here is what I made using the inspiration color prompt photo.

 

I used a few Dies from Concord & 9th, Sizzix and Spellbinders and went with the color palette below. 

Here is the inspiration photo for colors or use the photo. 

 

Link up here. Sunday Stamps

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Thank you very much

Hi all - playing in The Paper Players "let's give thanks" challenge today.

The sentiment stamp and die is from The Ton. The flower and leaf dies are from Sizzix and the background die is from Avery Elle.

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It's the most wonderful time of the year

Hello. Playing in the Freshly Made Sketch #460 today. I created the snowflake banner background last year and put it to use today. I cut out a few of the snowflakes (Marie, from SSS) and laid them out onto a piece of navy cardstock - then spritzed some distress oxide ink over them. It looks like I used tumbled glass on this one. 

Used a snowflake embossing folder on the white panel to carry the snowflake theme on. The sentiment is computer generated and I added the white snowflake behind the sentiment just to be different. Card base is dark indigo.

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Season's greetings

Hi all - playing in the Sunday Stamps sketch challenge today.

It was a bit difficult to capture a photo with the beautiful mirror silver cardstock on this. It reflects terribly. ;-)

Die is from Sizzix. I cut it out three times and stack them for more dimension. The sentiment is from Papertrey, Ink. I just cut strips of silver carstock to tape onto the card base based upon the sketch. Fun foam is used behind that panel to give this more depth. Otherwise, it's a very CAS card.

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Thinking of you

It’s time for another challenge over at The House That Stamps Built. This week is "Anything Goes."

I really got stuck and was missing my mojo for a bit and struggled trying to find something to do for this challenge. The mail came and as I was looking through one of the magazines a sheet set caught my eye. It was floral and so very pretty - so I used that as a jumping off point on this one.

Flower power background stamps used randomly to create the background. I cut several "thinking" dies out and stacked them up for dimension. Stamped out the "of you" to go with. Once I had everything placed and glued down, I went back in with Fabrika Decoru and filled in the flower centers. 

Stamps:

10207-E, Flower Cluster Solid

10204-D, Leaf Cluster Solid

So, what are you waiting for?!

Why not play along with us and start stamping up a card now. We can’t wait to see your creations!
Don’t forget… Take part in any of our challenges, the more you play along, the more chances you have to win! Each submission enters you in the drawing for our gift certificate. And you don’t always have to use our stamps in your creations, but we will reward you if you do. Each submission using a Repeat Impressions stamp will earn you an additional entry in the drawing!

Also, check out our Rock Star blogs to see what they did with the challenge.

Cheri

Donna

Esther

Heather

Joy

Shirley

http://www.thehousethatstampsbuilt.com/

http://www.repeatimpressions.com/

Anniversary

Hello. 

It’s time for another challenge over at The House That Stamps Built. This week its a designer choice challenge and it's my pick. I want to see some anniversary cards.  My husband and I are celebrating 32 years tomorrow. I have no idea where the time went.

I ended up making to cards because I didn't particularly like the first one. It's a little cutesy for my taste. So I ended up making this one too.

So, what are you waiting for?!

Why not play along with us and start stamping up a card now. We can’t wait to see your creations!
Don’t forget… Take part in any of our challenges, the more you play along, the more chances you have to win! Each submission enters you in the drawing for our gift certificate. And you don’t always have to use our stamps in your creations, but we will reward you if you do. Each submission using a Repeat Impressions stamp will earn you an additional entry in the drawing!

Also, check out our Rock Star blogs to see what they did with the challenge.

Cheri
Donna
Ester
Heather
Joy
Shirley

http://www.thehousethatstampsbuilt.com/

http://www.repeatimpressions.com/

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Masculine congrats

Hello. Playing in the CAS colours and sketch challenge today.

Ferns are done with a stencil and Distress Oxide and regular inks. The congrats is cut out three times and stacked for dimension. Clear rhinestones added for interest.

Kept it very CAS so it could be given to a guy.

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Fall thank you

Hello!

It’s time for another challenge over at The House That Stamps Built. This week is Designers Choice and we are challenged by Patti to create a "count your blessings" card. So any thank you, thanks, blessing, etc. will work.

I used the Oak leaf stamp and stamped it ink from Hero Arts in fall colors. Used my Scan N Cut to cut them out and fanned the into a little bouquet. The "Thank you" are dies from Sizzix. I used Stick It! adhesive on the darker brown cardstock before running it through my die cut machine. This stuff works so very well when adding die cuts onto cards. Love it.

Added a cute jute bow onto the leaf bouquet to finish off the card.

So, what are you waiting for?!

Why not play along with us and start stamping up a card now. We can’t wait to see your creations!
Don’t forget… Take part in one weekly challenge or all of them. The more you play along, the more chances you have to win! Each submission enters you in the drawing for our gift certificate. And you don’t always have to use our stamps in your creations, but we will reward you if you do. Each submission using a Repeat Impressions stamp will earn you an additional entry in the drawing!

Also, check out our Rock Star blogs to see what they did with the challenge.

Cheri

Deonna

Donna

Heather

Joy

Patti

Shirley

http://www.thehousethatstampsbuilt.com/

http://www.repeatimpressions.com/

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snowflake wonder

Hello. Here is my take on this weeks Fusion Card Challenge. 

These colors seem to be the "in" colors this season. I personally really like them. Anyway, the snowflake is a really old die from Sizzix that I had to figure out how to run through my new Platinum. The normal sandwich just wasn't working.

I used a pierced die to create the envelope like flap based on the sketch. It's popped up using foam tape.

Sentiment is from Verve stamps and studio G ink used to stamp it. It's a little soft but matches well. I'm thinking that maybe it should of been stamped in a color that stands out a bit more. What do you think?

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Clean and Simple 303 - seriously

Hi everyone! I really liked this CAS sketch #303 and had to give it a try.  Here is what I came up with!

I used some molding paste and a stencil from The Crafters Workshop to get the texture on the back ground. Once dry I dusted it with gold mica powder to give it some sparkle.

The seriously die and the awesome sentiment are from Lil' Inker Designs. I used the fishtail banner die from MFT to cut out the "awesome" and then popped it up using foam tape.

The old Sizzix primitive star die is used to cut out three stars using a thin piece of chip board. I glued them all together and then added the gold mirror cardstock. This gave it a bit of depth and thickness which was easier to pop up on foam tape.

Thanks for popping in! Have a great weekend!

It's a boy

Hi everyone! It's a lazy Saturday and decided to see if I could come up with something to go with the challenge over at Simply less is more. Week 155 theme is "new baby" - Oh My Gosh - It took me at least an hour to figure out that I'm severely lacking in anything to do with baby stamps! What's a girl to do? Get creative!

Sail boat is from Verve and colored with Copic's. I ended up do a bit of fussy cutting to get it to fit among the waves!

Waves are created using the cloud border die from Paper Smooches. I created the white caps using white craft ink and a sponge dauber.

The flag is cut from a Sizzix die and then layered in red. The sentiment is from PTI. To make the flag pole, I used a wooden coffee stir stix and got out the metallic rub-ons and used the gunmetal color to make it look sorta silver. Lastly, added some bakers twine for the rope!

I tired to keep this CAS and not clutter it up. Which could have been done easily with adding stuff for the sky. I think I like it as is - what do you think?