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

FISH SPEAK

Happy Hump Day Peeps,

I'm playing along with the current Color Hues challenge today. Tracey is hostess and she's picked Lime and Violet for the challenge colors.

I ordered this fun fish stencil, die and stamp set called Fish Friends from Concord & 9th a few months ago and haven't used it yet. I thought green and purple fish might make a fun birthday card.

The layering stencil set has a stencil that makes wavy lines and I used GKD Key Lime ink to very lightly stencil my card base. Using SSS inks in Limelicious and Violet I stenciled the fish using the remaining 3 layering stencils. The sentiments on the front of the card are from the coordinating stamp set. 

Here's the inside. The sentiment is from the Concord & 9th set called Big Birthday. The die cut fish are from the Fish Friends die set.

Thanks for checking in today,

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps, dies and stencils: Concord & 9th Fish Friends bundle and Big Birthday set

Paper: Neenah card stock for card base, scrap purple and lime card stock

Ink: Simon Says Stamp and Gina K Designs

Other: Gina K Designs Master Layouts 7 circle die and GKD purple paper heart embellishments, blending brushes

CAKE TIME

 Hello Peeps,

I have a birthday card today. It's CAS week for this week's Paper Player's challenge, and Ann is hostess with a theme of Food. I have tons of options in my stash of stamps and dies, and decided on this fun stamp and die set from Concord & 9th called Celebration Squad. I thought the girl holding a cupcake would make a fun CAS card. And besides, is there any better food than cake? I think not!

All of the images were cut from white scrap card stock and colored with ink blending brushes and I did some stamping on the dress. (I'm trying to use up scraps and the white bag is overflowing!)

For the inside I used another C&9th set called Big Birthday. It has many birthday sentiments along with a stencil and die set.

Even with the die cutting, ink blending and gluing this card took no time at all to make. Hope you enjoy your day!

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps and dies: Celebration Squad and Big Birthday sets by Concord & 9th

Paper: Scraps of misc. white card stock and Neenah card stock for the card base

Ink: Concord & 9th

LIfe's Changes

Happy Thursday Peeps!

Two of my friends have had or will have had a significant life change this month.

My friend Patti was remarried last week after becoming a widow about four years ago, and our neighbor, Wendy is retiring from teaching at the end of this month. I made a card for each last night using some beautiful floral 3D embossing folders and coloring stencils from Gina K.

Happily, I see that the new Just Us Girls challenge is for Flowers, so these cards will work perfectly.

Here's the Wedding card for my friend Patti. 

This 3D embossing folder is called Gorgeous Bloom. It comes with coloring stencils and a die that cuts out only the flower. The background is made using the GKD Swiss Dots embossing folder. Since there is no die for the leaves, I fussy cut them for this card.

The front and inside sentiments are from the GKD set called Toss the Bouquet and they are heat embossed with gold embossing powder.

Next is the Retirement card for our neighbor Wendy. She is currently a 5th grade teacher and is retiring at the end of this school year. She loves the color pink so of course I had to make a card with lots of pink. 

This 3D Embossing Folder is also from Gina K. and is called Daisy Delights. It also has coloring stencils and dies to cut out the daisies, although I didn't use the dies. I made this a 5 x 7" card because I didn't want to cut any of the image.

The front is a Dusty Rose 5 x 7" panel that I cut using the SSS Nested Arches dies. After cutting it I ran it through a Spellbinders 3D Embossing Folder called Floral Fence of Togetherness. This is popped up over the daisy and rose floral panel with foam tape. The sentiment is from the GKD Peaceful Peonies stamp set. For embellishments I added a few small pink sequins also from GKD.

On the inside of this card I used a GKD rose stencil to add some color, along with the sentiments, since it's such a large space.

Hope you enjoy your day!

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: All from Gina K Designs, Toss the Bouquet, Peaceful Peonies, Enjoy

Paper: Concord & 9th (Wedding card) and Gina K Designs

Ink: Concord & 9th (Wedding card) and Gina K Designs

Other: Gina K Designs Gorgeous Bloom and Daisy Delights 3D Embossing Folders, Swiss Dots embossing folder, Shimmering Roses Layering Stencil, Master Layouts 2 and 7 die sets, gold dot and pink sequins embellishments, blending brushes. Simon Says Stamp Nested Arch dies, Spellbinders Floral Fence of Togetherness 3D Embossing Folder, Brutus Monroe gold embossing powder