Joyful Christmas in July

 Joyful today for summer days...but crafting for another season. It's always fun to go through the Christmas stash in July and make some cards.  It's the second most used kind of card after birthdays, so very helpful to get a head start! 

Try A Sketch On Tuesday has two sketches and a month-long challenge for Christmas in July.

My card uses a Spellbinder's embossing folder (Hexi Snowflake, July24), Gina K Designs Ornamental Trees die, some green gold card, and a sentiment die from Savvy that's been in my stash for many years. 

You can also check out our sister blog challenge #220 at Double Trouble!

Sweet Summer Wishes

 

Wonderful new sketch at Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge!!

My card used a reverse frame technique from Natasha Foote with Altenew's Nesting Arches.  The berry clusters are from Gina K Designs newest kit - Strawberry Harvest embossing folder, dies, and stencil; sentiment from Sunny Days and Breezy Nights. The inks I used were inspired by Meghann Andrews: Medium and Dark Cranberry, Grass Green, Medium Spruce, and Sweet Corn.

Hope you will play along!  The challenge runs through Sunday, July 5th.

Star Spangled Birthday

Do you have friends or family with a July 4th birthday?   I have three friends with birthdays on the 3rd, 5th, and 6th.  So I am making some cards today to get in the mail.  This is a pull-tab flip card design from Connie at Simply Simple Stamping.  

The cake image on the front is an older Art Impressions stamp, also used an ancient set from CTMH for the stamped stars and star brad, and the sentiments are from Gina K Design's newest kit.  

You Shine TSOT

 

Challenge #698 starting now at Try A Sketch On Tuesday

and you can also craft along with our sister blog Double Trouble and their 3-2-1 challenge that began yesterday. (see below)

My DT inspiration for TSOT includes some ink blending, stenciling with silver paste, a bit of stamping and a die cut sentiment and heart. It's a mini-slim line card (3.23"x6.25")  I went for a literal interpretation of the sketch because I loved the cascading stars.

Optional Twist: use some glitter or sparkle on you card.

Miss You Tag

 Crafting today is inspired by several challenges, beginning with the sketch from CAS Colours & Sketches #587.  Also linking to AAA #316 1+1 selecting summer and beach, and to Just Us Girls #827 Summer challenges.

Ink blended with Gina K inks, tag die also from Gina K. Stamps are CTMH sets about 2007, sentiment from Altenew.

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Dena

You are Awesome

Happy to be going to my granddaughter's promotion ceremony tomorrow. She's on to middle school next year!  Time sure flies.

This is my inspiration card for #686

Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge new sketch this week. All the design Team cards are posted on the AHSC blog on Wednesday, but you can play along now until next Sunday. 

My background stamp is SSS You Matter, the sentiment is from SSS May 2019 kit Thankful Flowers, the flowers and leaves are from embossing/die/stencil sets from Gina K Designs - Serene Branches and Blooming Branches. Innocent Pink card stock from Gina K.

A Little Whiny

Every July our P.E.O. chapter has a wine tasting event hosted by a wonderful sister. We gather with appetizers in her lovely yard and sip and visit.  She also began a book club for the chapter "Reading Between the Wines"  :-)   This is a thank you card for her event coming up this year.  And it is also for TIMEOUT challenge #314  favorite beverage!

I used the My Favorite Things wine glass die and the shaker insert.  I gave the glass a layer of Liquid Glass.  This card uses all ancient stuff from my stash!  Some CTMH paper and a set CTMH called Bon Appetit from 2009.  Like fine wines some products age well!

Computer generated sentiment.

 

Daisy Thanks

 

New challenge at Try A Sketch On Tuesday!

Love this cheery plaid paper and had just a small piece remaining and an embellishment.  Such a quick fun card. I used a Lawn Fawn scalloped circle die and CZ Design Just Saying stamp and die set for the sentiment.

Thanks for visiting my blog today. Hope you will play along at TSOT, and also check out our sister blog challenge at Double Trouble.

You are the Best

 

This morning I have a quick random stamp card using silhouette stamps.  It's a great new sketch this week at Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge.

A simple card to create with some strips of card stock stamped with small silhouette images from Gina K Designs Grateful Greenery and Bitty Botanicals. The focal floral bouquet is from the Courtyard Silhouettes set, and sentiment from You Are Enough.

This card is a thank you to a friend that shared marvelous recipes and pictures from her trip to France with our P.E.O. group last week.

There are so many ways to create with this versatile sketch - I hope you will join the challenge and link up your crafty creation at AHSC

Also linking to Color Dare Challenge #705

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Blog Fun

 

Fun new challenges!  

Try A Sketch On Tuesday and it's sister blog Double Trouble have some great inspiration for you. The sketch is from TSOT and it is the 8th anniversary celebration at Double Trouble with special drawings for entries. Do one or both and get crafty.  The Design Teams are excited to see your creations.

For my inspiration I chose to do a Birthday (Double Trouble pink ticket) and also selected colors from Color Dare Challenge #704. Kuretake water color paints, black pen scribbles, stitched square dies from MFT, and a sentiment from Gina K Designs, Spring Things set got it done.

1. Anniversary or Wedding (Yellow Ticket)
2. Father's Day or Masculine (Blue Ticket)
3. Birthday (Pink Ticket)
4. Graduation (Green Ticket)

Fuchsia

Today I got to play with a new stencil from Spellbinder's, Layered Magical Fuchsia. I don't have a Betterpress, or the embossing folder for this, so had to do some pen work myself after stenciling. The card uses Freshly Made Sketch #737. I stamped the outer panel with Gina K Designs Elegant Script Background in Soft Stone ink. I used Altenew's Nesting Arches die set. The floral inks Plum Punch card stock are Gina K. I found the right sized sentiment in an Altenew Pain-A-Flower set, Magnolia Rustica, and heat embossed it.

                                                   Linking to Freshly Made Sketches 737

and Make My Monday Challenge #278 "Say It With Flowers"

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Blooming Branches

Happy Monday!

Ready for some crafting? I have an inspiration card for this week's new challenge at Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge.

My card uses Blooming Branches die, embossing folder and layering stencil bundle, inked with Sweet Mango and Wild Dandelion.  I cut a panel with a large circle and then arranged my florals across the top.  The leaves came from a different set, One Day At A Time. The inks used were Light Spruce, Tranquil Teal, and Cadet Blue. 

Directly on the card front I stenciled Altenew's Square Weave Pattern with Sandy Beach ink. Foam tape was used for the top and bottom. I added some mini embellishments and then some black lines on the Tranquil Teal card stock strips.

Also linking my card to Just Add Ink #785 - used both stencils and dies on my card.

   

Thank you for visiting my blog,

Dena

Courtyard Silhouettes

Challenge #695 is new today at 

Try A Sketch On Tuesday!

I used a recent Gina K release, Courtyard Silhouettes, for this card but tried an inking technique with the bouquet. I used Zig clean color pens to color the stamp in the Misti so I could get a watercolor-like effect. The sentiment is from the same set and embossing in gold.

Hoping you will play along at TSOT!  The Design Team loves seeing your creations.

There is also a 3-2-1 challenge on our sister blog Double Trouble. Check it out!

Lavender Buds

 

Happy Monday!

Sketch #680 at Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge 

I have used some papers from Scrapbook.com Butterflies & Flowers pack thThe sentiment is from an Altenew Paint-a-Flower set.

Hope you will play along!! 

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Happy Day

 Inspired by The Paper Players challenge 783, I used a slice of a stencil panel and a die cut. The stencil is Spellbinder's Cherry Chic (stencil of the month Nov'25), and the die is an old one from my stash- Cottage Cutz Cherries.  I found the sentiment in a very old CTMH set. A very CAS card - I just love that stencil!  I'm going to see if it will look like blueberries if I ink up with blues...

Mosaic Stencil

 

Home from my travels and happy to be playing in the craft room and working in the spring time sunshine outside, too.

My card today is for challenge #694 Try A Sketch On Tuesday

I have used the Mosaic stencil from Spellbinder's and two die sets of theirs for the blooms. The stitched hexagons are from Pretty Pink Posh, sentiment from Gina K Designs.

Flowers, layers, and stenciling also part of our sister challenge at Double Trouble!  Please play along with one or both. The Design Teams really love seeing your creations.

also linking to Just Us Girls #820 Stencil Week

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