Winter Birthday

 

Happy Monday!

Sketch #648 at Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge for this week had me playing with Gina K's Tall Pines stamp and some blending and sponging. 

After sponging some blue on the white panel, I stamped in black and splattered with some white paint. When it was dry I cut it into five 1" wide strips and slightly shorter heights before matting each in black.  For the background, I used a blue card stock that was just a shade deeper and sponged white pigment ink and then splattered some silver shimmer. (Hard to see in the photo.)  The two outside trees are adhered directly to the back, the next in were raised just a bit with a piece of card stock, the center popped up with foam tape.

The sentiment is Gina K All Occasion embossed with silver.

Hope you will join the challenge at AHSC!

Cone Flowers

 Happy to have some craft room time today and a chance to play with some of my kit from Gina K.  The flowers are from the Thankful and Blessed set. I colored with pencils and Gamsol and cut it with the coordinating die.  The background used the Decorative Double stencil on a panel cut with Master Layouts 4.

Doodles

 

The challenge at Try A Sketch On Tuesday is to have oodles of doodles.  It's been a crazy week here just returning from a visit with my brother... but it was fun to just doodle this morning.

Sentiment is from Gina K Designs, Tall Stems set.

Hope you will join the fun at TSOT!

Get Well

My card is inspired by the sketch #703 at Freshly Made Sketches.

I used Gina K Designs products: Autumn Delight stencil and die, inked with Sea Glass Turquoise Sea, Tranquil Teal, Jelly Bean Green, and Fresh Asparagus; All at Once -All Occasion sentiment, Elegant Script Background, and some silver mini embellishments.

Patchwork

 

Good morning!  Monday means a great new sketch at         Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge.

Today's reminded me of quilting - and back in the day I loved making paper quilt cards.  So I was very happy to play around with some pretty scraps for this sketch.  I hope you will try it out and join the fun at AHSC.   

Autumn is on the way!

 

While September really does still have lovely sunny days, once it's 'back to school' month, it means autumn to me. Perhaps several decades of teaching cemented that into my being :-)

The new challenge at Try A Sketch On Tuesday  shows two main elements , and our sister challenge at Double Trouble has added an optional twist to make an aperture and fill it. 

So for my Design Team inspiration I made a maple leaf aperture with a Simon Says Stamp die and filled it with some autumn colored embellishments.  The background was embossed with Gina K's Falling Leaves folder and then I rubbed it with gold gilding wax. The leaves and acorn were cut, inked and also edged with gilding wax.  Sentiment from Gina K's Doodled Autumn set was stamped and fussy cut.

Hope you will check out the DT inspiration and play along. It's such fun to visit your blogs to see your creations.