May your Heart be Merry

 

A new challenge at Try A Sketch On Tuesday!

It was fun playing with an embossing folder technique seen on a recent Gina K live. I embossed with a Spellbinder's folder, ink blended with Light Carnation and Petunia, and then rubbed lightly with an Altenew Gold pad. I cut the panel and gold matts with some square dies.  

The poinsettia was embossed with Gina K's Grand Poinsettia die/embossing folder. But it was too large, so I fussy cut the center, added some gold sprigs and sequins.  The sentiment was foiled and cut using Simon Says Stamp/Gina K collaboration set, Merry & Light. That was also subjected to surgery - the bottome half which says "and your heart be light." was adhered to the inside.

You may also want to check out our sister challenge blog - Double Trouble!

JOY

 Happy Monday!

We begin December with a new challenge at Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge.

For this sketch I used a lot of things from my Christmas stash box: some patterned paper from CTMH, a die from Simon Says, some snowflakes from a Gina K set, and brads!  Yes, star brads from the very mixed up embellishment drawer. Stitched dies also from Simon Says and Gina K.

Hope you will play along!

Merry Christmas!

 This is my Design Team card for the new challenge at

Try A Sketch On Tuesday #684, and I had a blast digging through my stash of supplies! Many of them I have had for quite some time, others newer (foiling).

Products used:

Savvy Garden Wreath die (#10157)

Spellbinders Layered Pointsettia Tree dies (July 2023)

Gina K Designs Berries & Vines Poly-Glaze sheet and gold foil

Simon Says Stamp gold matte card stock; sentiment from Gnome for the Holidays (their 2019 kit)

This is a fabulous sketch and if you need even more inspiration, check out our sister challenge blog Double Trouble!  See their 3-2-1 recipe below.

Harvest of Love

 

                 This week's new sketch at                                                           Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge!

I seem to be loving browns and warm autumn colors this chilly, wet week.  I have used all Gina K Design products for this card.

Card stock, patterned paper, Harvest of Love stamp and die set, Master Layouts 19, and mini pearl bling. I colored with Altenew Artist markers.

Inside is a birthday message for a friend who celebrates Thanksgiving with a birthday cake :-)

Hope you will play along with this lovely sketch!

Autumn Stencils

 Playing around with Spellbinder's Acorns & Oaks stencil today. And inspired by Freshly Made Sketch #712.  I inked with embossing clear ink, scattered gold, red, and copper powders and heat embossed.  Then I used Altenew's Stone Wall stencil over it all.  And also inked with an old texture stamp in black.  I tried dry embossing some of the desert storm card stock with the Stone Wall stencil - it wasn't very deep, but I rubbed over it with white pigment ink and gave it the texture stamp treatment, too.

The sentiment/die is from Gina K Designs Harvest of Love set.

Linking to

Freshly Made Sketches #712

and  Addicted to Stamps & More! 

May Your Heart be Light

 

A new challenge at Try A Sketch On Tuesday!

My card is a mini Slim-line (3.25" x 6.25")

I ink blended Gina K Designs Ocean Mist, Cadet Blue, and Tranquil Teal. Splattered with gauche, and popped up some foiled snowflakes and a sentiment from  Merry & Light which is a collaboration set from Gina K and Simon Says Stamp.  I have had the little snowflake sequins in my stash for quite a while. Taking photos of foiled cards is tough...

The challenge also goes along with our sister blog Double Trouble which went live yesterday. It's recipe can be seen below.

3-2-1:  3 colors, 2 images, 1 sentiment, optional twist=slim-line

Colorful Blossoms

 Happy Monday!  

The new sketch challenge at Atlantic Hearts inspired me to try some stamping and partial die cutting techniques.

For some reason I just wasn't feeling like die cutting and piecing together a lot of flowers...so instead I stamped this Spellbinder's image and then flipped it and stamped again. I did the partial die cut and flipped and cut the other side before I colored just to be sure it would work. Yay!  It was perfect. I added the card panels to a mini-slim line card base and backed the die cut with the chocolate card stock so the flowers would stand out. The sentiment from the same set was gold embossed and I added a few mini gold beads and some gold gel pen on flower centers.