So Very Thankful

Hello Peeps,

It is a gorgeous day here on the SoCal coast. I went for a walk around 7 am and it was very foggy, our natural air conditioning, but now it's a super blue sky with a nice ocean breeze coming in the window of my craft room.

My card today is made using inspiration from the current Just Us Girls challenge. It's Mood Board Week and it's a very pretty picture. I mostly used the sunflowers as my inspiration, but I did pull in the teal color from the butterfly wings. 

I started by using the GKD Sunflower Garden Layering stencils. After finishing the stenciling, I splattered some Guppy Lunar paste and gold water color over it. This is layered under a piece of wood grained patterned paper that I cut a circle from so the stenciled panel shows through. The stamped and die cut sunflowers layered around the circle are from the GKD Breath of Sunshine stamp and die set as are the front and inside greetings. Embellishments are some teal enamel dots and a twine bow.

Here's the inside.

I'm looking forward to watching the women's and men's Cincy Open Tennis finals later today. Enjoy your Sunday afternoon!

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Breath of Sunshine set by Gina K Designs

Paper: Concord & 9th card stock and stash patterned paper

Ink: Gina K Designs, Spellbinders gold water color pot

Other: Gina K Designs Sunflower Garden Layering stencil, Master Layouts 12 dies, Single Stitched circle dies. Simon Hurley Guppy Lunar Paste, Concord & 9th enamel dots, SU twine,  

Stay Cool

TGIF! 

I've had a very relaxing day watching tennis, the Cincy Open, and doing some stamping while watching.

The current Color Hues challenge colors are yellow and orange and I wanted to see what I could come up with for them. I figured using bright color shades would make a great summer card while using more muted shades would work great for a fall card. As I'm not ready to give up on summer quite yet, I made a fun "beachy" summer birthday card. I've used the current Freshly Made Sketches challenge for my layout.

The sunglasses dies are from Concord & 9th. The palm trees are from one Gina K.'s silhouette stamp sets and the sun is made with a Gina K. stencil. The sunglasses are cut from yellow, orange and black glossy card stock as are the tiny orange and yellow hearts, which are part of the C&9th die set.

For the inside, I used sentiments from both the C&9th set and the Gina K. set.

Enjoy your Friday evening and weekend!

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Spectacular Shades stamp and die set by Concord & 9th, Ocean Silhouettes stamp set by Gina K Designs

Paper: Gina K Designs card stock and Scrapbook.com Glossy card stock

Ink: Altenew and Simon Says Stamp

Other: Sun Spots Stencil by Gina K Designs, Essential Diamond Dies by Spellbinders, Waffle Flower blending brushes, Connect liquid glue

Your the Pumpkin Spice In My Latte

Hello Peeps,

Here's a fun fall card inspired by Claire's The Paper Players challenge, called Looking Forward to Fall. To make my card, I pulled out some older stamp sets. The latte and the sentiment images are from Lawn Fawn and the leaves are from Gina K Designs.

Here is the inside.

Have a great Friday and weekend everyone! Thanks for looking in.

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Pumpkin Spice set by Lawn Fawn and Layered Leaves set by Gina K Designs

Paper: Concord & 9th card stock and plaid paper

Ink: Concord & 9th and Copics

Other: Circles Windows Plate, Master Layouts 2, and Sentiment Strip dies by Gina K Designs

Just A Note

 Hello Peeps!

Stef has a pretty color challenge for this week's Paper Players challenge and I thought it might be fun to make a little birdie card with them. I'm also using the sketch from the current Sunday Stamps challenge.

This stamp, stencil and die set is the July 2026 Let's Stamp Together bundle designed by Pretty Pink Posh. I used the stencils for the background and the bird and branch dies to make my card today. I've also used a GKD cloud stencil for the background on the bird panel.

There are two sentiments in the included stamp set and I've used one on the front of the card and the other on the inside here.

Hope your Wednesday is a good one. Thanks for checking in.

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps, Background stencils, Notched Corner panel die, and bird dies from the July 2026 Let's Stamp Together kit

Paper: Gina K Designs

Ink: Gina K Designs

Other: Gina K Designs Cloud stencil, Master Layouts 2 and 10, blending brushes

Happy Brunch-day!

Hello Peeps,

It's been a "minute" since I've posted on my blog. Actually, this is the first card that I've made since May! Life and other things got in my way, but I'm happy to finally be back to paper crafting.

I thought I'd start with a couple of challenges. This card fits with this week's Anything Goes Die challenge at Just Us Girls, and I've used the current sketch from Freshly Made Sketches.

The background embossing folder and the die set are both from Spellbinders. I used a piece of pastel orange glossy card stock in the embossing folder then brayered some darker ink over the raised areas. The background uses the negative side of the embossing folder and the banner die is the positive side of the folder. All of the die cuts are cut from white card stock and then colored using blending brushes and various SSS Pawsitively Saturated inks.

On the inside I used a sentiment from a Spellbinders stamp set and another image from the Spellbinders die set. (All of these images are too cute!)

Hope your weekend was a good one and not too hot. Thanks for looking in!

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Go To Girl set by Spellbinders (Clear Stamp of the Month 11/25)

Paper: Scrapbook.com pastel glossy card stock, Gina K Designs white layering and heavy weights and black onyx card stocks

Ink: Simon Says Stamp Pawsitively Saturated Inks

Other: Spellbinders Petite Tuft 3D embossing folder, Spellbinders Let's Do Brunch die set (Small Die set of the Month 11/25) MFT Banner die, Spellbinders gold dots, Tim Holtz Brayer

Forever and Always

 Hello Peeps,

I hope your week is going well. I've got a floral wedding card for you today using LeAnne's sketch for the Paper Players challenge. 

All of the supplies used to make this card are from Gina K Designs except the yellow sequins. The floral stamp set comes with coloring stencils and I did use those with blending brushes to color the stamped images. The large white die cut lattice is from one of the Master Layouts die sets as is the circle dies. I use two embossing folders, one for the yellow panel behind the white lattice and the other to add some dimension on the right side of the card front.

Here's the inside, just a simple stamped sentiment.

We do have a wedding to attend but not until September. I haven't decided if this card will be for that or just go to the stash.

Enjoy your day.

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: All from Gina K Designs, Hand Picked Flowers set, Sweet Sentiments set, and Wishful Florals set

Paper: Gina K Designs white layering, Lemon Yellow and PeachBellini card stock

Ink: Gina K Designs

Other: Gina K Designs Hand Picked coloring stencils, blending brushes, Master Layouts 3, 12 and 20 die sets, Lattice and Radiant Roses embossing folders, Spellbinders yellow sequins

Let's Shell-ebrate

 Hello all,

Happy Monday. It will be a lazy day for me, at least for the rest of the morning watching the French Open Tennis matches. It's early rounds, but still fun to watch. 

Yesterday while watching matches I put together a card using the sketch from this week's Freshly Made Sketches challenge.

The center panel is one I pulled out of my box of backgrounds. It's an inking technique using an embossing folder. I don't recall any of the details of making it, however. It looks like simple inking over the negative side with ink pads, and it looks like the ink might be Distress Oxide. Any-hoo, I cut it down and used an Avery Elle Stitched Scalloped Frame die to frame it for the front of the card. 

The card base is stenciled with a set of Waffle Flower Layering stencils with the same color of ink as the card base, The sentiment is also from Waffle Flower. It's a really simple card, but it turned out pretty.

On the inside, I again used the same Waffle Flower stencils to very lightly stencil the background and these sentiments are from Spellbinders.

Enjoy your day!

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Coastal Greetings set by Waffle Flower, Anchors Away and Confetti Wishes sets by Spellbinders

Paper: Gina K Designs Turquoise Sea and Layering White card stock

Ink: Gina K Designs Turquoise Sea and Black Onyx, Distress Oxide

Other: Spellbinders Scattered Shells embossing folder, Waffle Flower Sea Shell Layering stencils, Avery Elle Stitched Scalloped Frame dies, blending brushes