No Rain no flowers

 

Good Morning!  Monday means a new sketch at Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge, and today my inspiration card for #461 used many products from my stash and a new-to-me technique I watched recently. 

The background is a cover plate die from Altenew adhered on a white card base. The paper strips are MFT gingham and some CTMH pieces from my scrap files. I hoard even tiny pieces in color files...and used them here to paper piece the boots and for center stripe and sentiment flag.

I used a cut die from Simon Says Stamp. I think it was part of a kit a few years back and a stamping buddy gifted it to me. I cut it from white twice and also from the blue patterned paper. I cut one of the white pieces and blue just for the boots. Since I did not have a stamp for this, I used some Copics to add shading to the boots and then to color in the flowers on the base white piece. The sentiment from Altenew Paint-a-Flower Hydrangea was just right for my image. I added a few dew drop embellishments.

Chrissie Stokes is a designer I have long admired. She is the ultimate in creating CAS cards and just generally inspiring!  Her idea was to give die cuts dimension. After I colored the flowers, I turned the piece over and used a large embossing tool in a circular motion on the tulips. This made a little 'bowl' that I put a tiny piece of foam tape inside. Not a CAS card today, but this technique is wonderful.  It gives the flowers dimension.  So fun!

Well, I hope you will try crafting something with the sketch this week!  I look forward to seeing your creations.

Happy Easter FMS523

 

Hectic day in the craft room!  Had this card for Freshly Made Sketches planned out two days ago, and then had to clean up to find the dies I'd pulled out for it.  

I used some paper from my stash, MFT stitched square dies, the smallest from Simon Says Stamp Nested Eggs die, tiny bunnies from Impression Obsession, and a sentiment from Gina K's Easter Spring set.  I made the blue paper using a technique Gina K used last week sponging dye reinkers on glossy paper with alcohol drenched cotton balls. I made several backgrounds and this one reminded me of died eggs so that inspired my card. Hard to see the blue/green/yellow swirls in the photo. 

AAA Cards Challenge!

 

I am thrilled to be a Guest Designer on the AAA Cards Challenge #209.  The challenge is to create a CAS card using only 1/9th of the card.  I measured and masked the center off before lightly ink blending. I stamped the sentiment and popped the image inside that area.

My granddaughter's favorite animal is the cat - ANY cat♥  She has a giant furry pet named Clover who hates me because I'm the evil human that appears when her family is away. The image on my card is from My Favorite Things Cat-astrophe set and colored with pencils and Gamsol to look like Clover. 

I hope you will check out the challenge and all the amazing cards here and give it a try!

Bold Bouquet

 #578 is a color challenge this week at The Paper Players.

My card used a new stencil from Gina K Designs and all GKD inks.  After blending I ran the panel through with a stitched die cover plate from Altenew.  The sentiment from Gina's Lace Flowers set was stamped on vellum.  Just added a few sequins from my stash for some sparkle.

Inks used:  Lemon Drop, Applemint, Turquoise Sea

See through Birthday

 

I am very excited to share my first card as a new member of the Try Stampin' On Tuesday design team!

Challenge #543 asks you to make something see though or use the sketch or do both.  My little shaker sees through to the stencil blended bubbles.  I used striped patterned paper from my stash, and ink blended using Gina K Designs Fizzy stencil. A My Favorite Things die and shaker pouch, and some balloon dies with a tiny sentiment also from Gina K completed the design.

Please check out the design team inspiration cards at Try Stampin On Tuesday and I hope you will get crafty and link up.  I look forward to seeing your creations!

You're So Sweet SS694

 

Good Morning!

Sweet weekend for me with sunshine predicted today and lots of crafty time on my schedule.

 There's a new sketch at Sketch Saturday for you to have some creative fun with.  I hope you will join us as we would love to see your projects for sketch #694.

My design team card uses stamps, dies, and stencils from Altenew and some patterned paper from my stash that is more purple than the photo shows. The 'sweet' was die cut three times and stacked for some dimension. Sequins from Brutus Monroe.

Typed Birthday B,W+1

 Lots of activity here lately!  I'm so happy to still have time to link up to AAA Cards current challenge.

I really like this vintage typewriter and the set came with many different sentiments to fit the page.  For my pop of color I used a MFT die to cut some circles along the bottom of the top-fold A2 card and backed it with some red, then die cut a matching small balloon. I drew the string and added a bit of white gel pen highlight. It is a large stamp, but still about 2/3 white space left for a CAS card.