Birthday

 I needed to create a special card for a guy friend celebrating his 60th next week. It goes in the mail today.

I used two new stencils from A Colorful Life Designs and some Distress Oxide inks on my Gelli plate, then cut a section of the print with my new Mix and Match Frames die from Altenew. I adhered the cut piece to a piece of navy card and popped up the vertical strips with foam tape. The numbers are from a past SSS kit and sentiment from Gina K Designs. 

Linking to The Paper Players challenge 

Merry Christmas AHSC 485

It's very hot here and it does feel strange to be making a Christmas card...but the sketch inspired me!

Happy Monday at Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge #485!

My card uses some fun papers from a Simon Says kit 2020, a Lawn Fawn wreath die, and a sleigh die from Memory Box. The center panel was embossed with a snowflakes folder.  This is my first card for the Christmas box 2022 :-)

Hope you'll play along with the sketch - any season welcome!

Allsorts #688 Create Your Background

 The new challenge at Allsorts this week provides you with the chance to play and get messy if you want to!  You may choose the 'anything goes' option or try the Create Your Own Background challenge!  

The  prize this week is a store voucher from sponsor WOWVOW

To create my background I ink smooshed Candied Apple, Twisted Citron, Peeled Paint and Rustic Wilderness Distress inks on some Bristol card. When it was dry, I stamped some dots in a sandy color and a screen background stamp in a darker shade, did some black ink and white paint splatter. When it was dry I stamped the leaves and then painted the outside edges and veins of the leaves with Rustic Wilderness. The sentiment was stamped in black pigment ink and clear heat embossed.  Both leaves and sentiment are from Gina K Designs Botanical Leaves set.

There are some beautiful projects HERE from the rest of the design team. I hope you will check it out and play along this week!

Thank you for visiting. 

Belated B-day Fun

 

Got this cute little Lawn Fawn stamp and die set in the recent surprise box fund raiser at Simon Says Stamp. I finally got a moment to play today and used a circle stencil to ink blend a sky with Distress Oxides and flicked water drops and then splattered with gilded Foundry Wax. When you heat set the wax it puffs up and sets.  Then I stamp, colored and die cut the little planet. The sentiments were cut with SSS die strips.  I added a few tiny stars from Pretty Pink Posh for more sparkle.  I love how this turned out :-)

Linking to Little Red Wagon #665 - Make it with Circles

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Addicted to Stamps & More #435 - Dies and/or Stencils

Tiny Strawberries

 

New sketch at Try Stampin' On Tuesday!  Sketch #567 has the optional theme: plants. 

In my yard strawberry plants  belong to the birds and squirrels. The grandchildren occasionally manage to score one or two, but they grow more for our fun observing animals up close than anything else. It's worth the entertainment!  They know better than to approach the blueberries though. 

My design team inspiration for you is a square 5.5" card using a Waffle Flower die, Impression Obsession strawberry die, and Scripty Sayings sentiment from Lawn Fawn.

I hope you will check out the amazing projects from the design team and play along with us at TSOT!

Sketch Saturday #706

 

Good Morning!

There is a new challenge at Sketch Saturday and I have a card to inspire you to play along.

I cut some circles from copy paper to use as a stencil and inked in several different shades of blue on a pale blue card stock panel. I then stamped a background sentiment stamp and stenciled some silver pigment ink over the top. I cut the larger circle in the middle and mounted on a dark blue card panel. Then decided to cut a smaller circle in the middle as a window to the card base.  The die cuts are from Gina K Designs as is the silver embossed sentiment. I added blue and silver confetti from Pretty Pink Posh.

i hope you will give the sketch a try!

Allsorts Week 687 🦋 🐞

 Good Morning!

Mervi 's challenge this week at Allsorts is  *** Butterflies or Bugs***

There are two fantastic prizes for this week from our generous sponsor  Craft Stash

My design team inspiration card below was created using Simon Hurley circle stamping foam impressed with several butterfly dies and inked with Distress Oxide inks. I then masked the circle and stamped with an old text background from CTMH and ink blended with Whisper ink using a Stamplorations butterfly stencil. The sentiment (CTMH retired) was silver heat embossed on vellum. I die cut the largest butterfly (Hero Arts) from white and ink blended, fold it in half and silver embossed the body. This is all foam mounted on a Fog top folding card.

Please check out the amazing creations by the rest of the team at Allsorts and join us!