Prayers for Ukraine

It's new sketch time at Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge.                My card is inspired by the colors of Ukraine's flag and their national flower.

My design team inspiration for you uses an older sunflower stamp that was colored with alcohol markers, and a number of tiny sentiments from various sets from Simon Says Stamp and one from an Altenew set. I tried to choose sentiments that expressed concern and support for Ukraine.  They were stamped in Whisper ink on the panels I had ink blended with Blue Raspberry, Wild Dandelion, and Sweet Mango from Gina K. I popped the panels with foam tape, and the fussy cut flower was also popped up with foam tape. Some waxed twine was twisted to resemble leaves for that element of the sketch.

I hope you will be inspired to be crafty and link up to the challenge HERE.  The team loves to visit your site to see your creations.

I would also like to link this card to Color Hues Challenge - Cards for Ukraine and to

Mod Squad Challenge - Cards for Ukraine. Ink blended with Gina K.

The crafting community is such a wonderful, kind group.  Wish we could channel that loving support to the whole world.

Fun with Distressing

 The challenge at Allsorts this week Anything Goes with an option to use distressing techniques. I haven't done that for a while and I LOVED making this card!  So much fun getting messy with inks, splatter, tearing paper, roughing edges and sponging.  My work table needs a thorough cleaning up :-)

The card base is Nina Desert Sand sponged around the edges with some desert sand ink. I then roughed the edges of a piece of dark gray card stock with scissors and embossed with a wood grain folder. Next I did some ink to paper drags to highlight the raised parts and adhered it to the card base.

Then things got really messy! I cut some patterned paper down with deckled edge scissors and then stamped it with a speckle stamp, stenciled it with the negative of the big leaf die, sponged it around the edges. I tore the other paper and sponged it too. These were adhered together and I tied a black string and put dimensional foam tape on the back.  The leafy bits were adhered and I splattered with black and white before adhering it to the wood grain panel.

I hope you will give distressing a go or make an A/G card and link up to Allsorts HERE.  The design team looks forward to seeing your creations.

Two sponsors for this challenge: a Tattered Lace die and a £15 store voucher for Stamp Addicts. 

 Today I created this card with Simon Says Stamp World of Love set, inked with Distress Oxide inks.

 It's speaks for itself.  As a retired Social Studies teacher - I taught Eastern European history, World Problems, Civics, U.S. History - my heart is greatly burdened by the current war. 

TSOT #545

 

Wonderful new sketch challenge at Try Stampin On Tuesday with an optional theme: animals.

I didn't use an animal as you can see. I used a die cut Triangle Collage, from Birch Press Design to cut a stencil, then blended with some Gina K Wild Wisteria ink. The flowers and greens are from Altenew, Pen Sketched Flowers, colored with pencils and Gamsol.

Check out the amazing cards of the rest of the design team here.  This is a sketch with many options! 

Happy as a clam

 Saturday morning and welcome to sketch # 695 at Sketch Saturday!

I am late this morning, but had to wait for sunrise to get a picture of my card and wrestle with a cranky computer.

I had a lot of fun blowing bubbles with water, dish soap and reinker to get this fun bubble under-sea background. An option with the sketch this week is to try a monotone design, which was how I began...but ended up adding the neutrals and just using the sketch.  What will you try?  

Link up your creation HERE so we can see♥

Allsorts Debut

 

   I am honored to join the design team at Allsorts!  

My inspiration card for Challenge # 665 uses a beautiful floral Primula from Ruth Hamilton, who is one of the sponsors for this challenge.  For a UK winner, there is a prize of a die from Colemans Craft

The challenge is to hand color your image or to paper piece.

For my card I chose to color with pencils and shade with Gamsol. The stitched panel behind was very lightly blended with an Altenew stencil, Flowing Leaves, and then splattered with black.  I added a few dew drop embellishments.

I hope you will join the challenge and link up here at Allsorts this week.

Spring Daffodils

 

This card was inspired by Make the Cards sketch challenge #48.

I did some ink 'smooshing' with Squeezed Lemonade and Mustard Seed Distress inks on some bright white water color card stock.  When dry I stamped flowers with Gina K Designs Easter Spring set, and cut them into small squares with My Favorite Things stitched squares. The strip behind came from my black & white scrap folder, with the sentiment from Altenew's Paint-a-Flower Hydrangea set. (I've been using that a lot this week!)   I did emboss the white panel with a chevron folder for a little dimension. Panels cut using GKD Master Layouts.

Just couldn't decide about any embellishments...so I left it plain.