Sending Autumn Wishes

Hi Peeps,

I've been having tons of fun making cards with the Spellbinders September club sets. Today's card is inspired by Stef's sketch for this week's Paper Players challenge. 

The focal image is made with dies from the Harvest Magic die set using some paper that I smooshed for last week's card. The background is made with the Sketchy Hexi Betterpress plate using Lisa Horton gold craft ink on dark red card stock.

Since I made this card for my little 2 year old great niece, and she loves kitties, I added the cat image to the inside of the card too.

I've been enjoying the BB wildcard playoff games this week, hoping my team makes it through.

Thanks for looking in,

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Spellbinders Autumn Whim set 

Paper: Spellbinders card stock, Tim Holtz water color paper

Ink: Lisa Horton Cloud 9 gold and Gina K Designs

Other: Spellbinders Sketchy Hexi Betterpress plate and sentiment, Harvest Magic Small Die set, Betterpress System,

Baby It's Cold Outside

 Hello to all,

Another Holiday card to share today inspired by Narelle's sketch for the Freshly Made Sketches challenge.

All of the images to make this cute penguin mug are from Spellbinders and they include a Betterpress plate, an embossing folder, a die set and a clear stamp set.

This little die cut mug was super fun to put together. There are also dies to make a Santa mug.  I haven't used them yet, but I will, since I have lots of holiday cards still to make.

The inside of the card is pretty simple with just a greeting and a few stamped snowflakes.

Thanks for stopping in, and enjoy your Monday.

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Stitchmas Sentiments set (2024) by Spellbinders

Paper: Gina K Designs

Ink: Spellbinders Betterpress and Gina K Designs

Other: Spellbinders Paint the Town Betterpress plate set, Starry Snowfall 3D Embossing Folder, Cocoa Greetings Small Die of the Month 07/2025, Betterpress system, Simon Says Stamp Sentiment Strip dies, red and silver Stickles, Pretty Pink Posh Pink rhinestone gems

Wishing You A Happy Birthday

Hello and Happy Sunday,

I hope everyone is enjoying their weekend.

Today's cards are birthday cards for a couple of good friends. Both cards use the same 3D Embossing Folder, Layering Stencil and die bundle from Gina K Designs called Dazzling Sunflower.

I really like how the plum and coral shades work together here. I'm often amazed how a plain white piece of card stock can be transformed with a little ink! For the background on card one, I inked up the recessed side of the folder with Plum Punch ink, using several applications until I achieved a dark background.

This is Anything Goes Stencil week at Just Us Girls, one of my favorite challenges, and either of today's cards will work as I used the layering stencils to color the flowers. 

I wanted to use the small flower image from the embossing folder on the inside of my card. I tried blocking the larger flower with extra pieces of card stock, but I couldn't get a good impression of the small flower. In the end I just cut it out with scissors and glued it down. Here's the inside of this card.

While I had all of the supplies out, I played around with die cutting the larger flower. The bundle comes with a die as well as with the embossing folder and layering stencils. 

Another good friend has a birthday on Thursday, so this second card is for her.

To make the flowers, I first die cut the image from white card stock five times, then used the layering stencils to color them. After the coloring was done, I used the embossing folder to add the dimension. The card base is foiled using deco foil and one of Gina K.'s Polyglaze card front panels. The sentiment is also foiled.

For the inside of this card, I used another foiled Polyglaze panel, the negative of the outside,  and flower image from a second GKD stamp set. The inside greeting is from HoneyBee. 

I have one more birthday card to make for next week. It's for my young friend Liam, who will be turning 15. He's the son of my friend whose birthday is Wednesday, and he's into surfing, so that will be the theme of his card. We will see what I can come up with.

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Gentle Silhouettes and Life In Full Bloom sets by Gina K Designs. Inside Birthday Greetings by Honey Bee

Paper: Gina K Designs

Ink: Gina K Designs & Copics

Other: Gina K Designs Dazzling Sunflower 3D Embossing Folder, Layering Stencils and die bundle, Black and Pastel enamel pearl embellishments, pre-printed sentiment strips, Polyglaze card front, Deco foil, Fuze foiling system, blending brushes, Master Layouts dies

Autumn Birthday

Hello Peeps,

It's Clean and Simple week at the Paper Players where Jan has a watercolor theme. Water coloring images with a paint brush is definitely not my forte, for sure, but I do like a good watercolor "smoosh" for die cutting images. That's exactly what I did for my card this week.

The leaves were made using the smooshing technique with some fall-ish shades of GKD ink cubes. After spraying with water, I placed a panel of watercolor paper down to soak up the colors. After a sufficient time to dry, I stamped the leaf image with gold craft ink, heat embossed with gold powder and cut them out with their dies.

This owl wax seal stamp is from the Spellbinders September clubs. I used a combo of dark red, gold, and dark green wax to go with the leaves. After the wax was set and the stamp removed, I used a gold pen to highlight the owl image. 

The greeting is from the same GKD stamp set as the leaf image.

For the inside, I used my current favorite "inside" birthday greeting, and nothing else.

Foot surgery update: I just returned from my two week post surgery appointment. All's good regarding the surgery, but now I've developed Achilles tendonitis from walking on my heal, which is more painful than the actual surgery was. Now I'm in one of those walking boots to support the tendon. Hoping that it clears up fairly quickly. I'm really ready to be out and about more😢. Next appointment in 30 days.

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Thankful and Blessed set and Gentle Silhouettes set by Gina K Designs

Paper: Gina K Designs Ivory card stock, Tim Holtz water color card stock

Ink: Gina K Designs and Lisa Horton Cloud 9 gold craft ink

Other: Spellbinders Owl Wax Seal stamp and wax, Brutus Monore gold embossing powder, Uchida gold metallic marker

Fall Charm

Hi and Happy Weekend Folks,

I had some fun with today's card using the new clear stamp from the September Spellbinders clubs called Autumn Whim. It's a single stamp with several small images. The bundle comes with dies to cut each out as well as coloring stencils for some of the small images.

I used it to make a card for the current Freshly Made Sketches challenge, Michele has a super fun sketch this week, and cutting out all of these little charms worked perfectly for her sketch. I did use the coloring stencils with detail blending brushes to add color.

I arranged the cutouts on the background, made with the 3D embossing folder for the September clubs called Patchwork, a perfect landing spot for the little cutouts. Some are popped up with foam tape and others are glued flat. I thought some gold accents would help set off the fall theme, so I added a gold card stock mat and some Spellbinders gold dots for embellishments.

For the inside, I used a Fall set from last year for both the image and the greeting.

Hope you all have a great weekend. Thanks for popping in,

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Autumn Whim and Autumn Wishes sets by Spellbinders

Paper: Spellbinders and Gina K Designs card stock

Ink: Gina K Designs

Other: Spellbinders Patchwork 3D embossing folder and gold enamel dots, 

Sending Love

Hello,

Here's my card for this week's Paper Players challenge. LeAnne is our hostess with the monthly color challenge. For this challenge, LeAnne chose SU colors of Lemon Lolly, Soft Sea Foam, and Lost Lagoon. 

I debated on what kind of card to make. I stenciled up a pretty poinsettia, which I really liked, but then I tried making a diagonal gatefold card with it and messed it up totally. So, I then decided to use a new flower stencil bundle from Gina K Designs. This bundle includes layering stencils, Polyglaze sheets and dies. I used all of these to make this card. The card stock and inks I used are all from SU in LeAnne's colors.

 

This is a 5 x 7 inch size card and to help with the layout I used Gina K Designs Master Layouts 8 and 20. As I mentioned, I did use the Polyglaze printed sheets for this card, foiled in gold deco foil. After completing the stenciling using Lemon Lolly and Lost Lagoon inks, I cut out the flowers with the die and then ran the cutout through the GKD Swiss Dots embossing folder. To make the dots white in the inked areas, I used a paper sanding block to sand off the ink. 

Here's the inside of this card. I've used images and a sentiment from the GKD Gentle Silhouettes stamp set with the SU inks.

My foot is coming along after surgery. It still has a lot of swelling, but unless I'm on it more than I should be, which happened on a couple of days, there's not much pain any longer. The stitches come out a week from today. I'll tell you with all this sitting, I'm watching lots of stamping videos while crocheting a blanket and I'm getting lots of ideas. I'll probably forget half of them before I get to them. LOL.

Thanks for checking in,

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Single Peony Mini Set (front sentiment) and Gentle Silhouettes (inside images) set by Gina K Designs

Paper: SU white, Lost Lagoon, Soft Sea Foam, Lemon Lolly, and black card stock

Ink: SU Lost Lagoon, Soft Sea Foam, Lemon Lolly and Gina K Designs white craft

Other: Gina K Designs Autumn Delight Stencils, Polyglaze sheets and dies, Swiss Dots embossing folder, Master Layouts 3, 8 and 20, Fuze foiling machine, 14K gold foil, Brutus Monroe Alabaster embossing powder, SU dot embellishments

Season Of Comfort

Hi Peeps,

I'm checking in for the first time post surgery last Wednesday. I had surgery on my left foot and I've been mostly sitting with it propped up on a pillow to help reduce swelling. Yesterday, I decided to see if I could sit at my desk long enough to make a card. I had to take a break partway through, but finally was able to finish it in the late afternoon. All's well with the post surgery recovery with no unexpected issues or horrible pain, so I'm feeling grateful.

The card I made is for the current Freshly Made Sketches challenge and I've used new supplies from the September Spellbinders Clubs. Specifically the Betterpress Plate, the Stitching Die, Embossing Folder, and the Clear stamp set.

The card base is a piece of Concord & 9th patterned paper from a few years ago. It's cut to A2 size and put through the new EF. Then I used some orange ink to rub over the raised areas so the pattern shows a little better. The arched panel is the Betterpress plate inked with various golds and orange colors.. The September stitching die is three sizes of pumpkin tops and I've used the middle size here along with the stem and leaves. The pumpkin is cut from another piece of C&9th pattern paper, orange plaid, and stitched with orange floss.

Here's the inside of this card. Both the image and sentiment are from a Fall Spellbinders set from last year. The patterned paper is again, C&9th.

I'm back to sitting with my foot propped up and doing some crocheting to keep me occupied. Maybe later this afternoon I'll try more stamping. Hope you have a good Sunday evening and week ahead.

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Autumn Whim set and Autumn Wishes set by Spellbinders

Paper: Gina K Designs card stock and Concord & 9th patterned papers

Ink: Gina K Designs

Other: Spellbinders Autumn Breeze Embossing Folder, Stitched Pumpkin Tops dies, Sketchy Hexi Betterpress Plate and Betterpress system. Simon Says Stamp Nested Arch dies, embroidery floss