Wishing You Luck and Love

 Happy Hump Day Peeps,

It's been a little bit since I've posted to my blog. I've been doing more sewing than card making for the past few weeks. I finished, for the most part, my quilting project and I had some time yesterday afternoon to do some stamping. 

Looking around the blogs, I decided to make a St. Patrick's Day card following the challenges at both the Paper Players and Just Us Girls. Joanne is hostess for this week's Paper Players Color challenge and she has chosen "Colors of the Rainbow."  Sue is hosting the Just Us Girls Die Week with a theme of Luck or Green for the works. These two challenges seemed easy enough to combine, so here's my card.

I used images from two different Gina K Designs stamp sets to make this St. Pat's Day themed card. I stamped the paint swoosh using some GKD ink cubes in rainbow colors across the top of a white panel, which is cut out with the stitched die from the Master Layouts 2 die set. All of the other images were stamped and cut out with their respective set dies and arranged around the swoosh. 

The inside of the card uses a sentiment from SSS. Apparently it's the only Happy St. Patrick's Day sentiment stamp that I have, and it took me longer to track it down that to make the card, LOL.

I hope you have an enjoyable day. I've got a few chores to do. First, I need to pack as I'm driving to my mom's house tomorrow in Northern Calif. Saturday is her 90th birthday! Second, I'm actually emptying out my craft room and putting everything in our garage because I want to get the tile floors professionally cleaned while I'm gone. 

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Always Thinking of You and Love and Luck sets by Gina K Designs. Wooly Luckly set by Simon Says Stamp

Paper: Gina K Designs card stocks

Ink: Gina K Designs and Copic markers

Other: Gina K Designs Master Layouts 2 dies set and Sentiment Strip dies, Brutus Monroe white embossing powder, Gold Sequins from stash

Happy Spring

 TGIF Peeps!

Hope your week has been a good one. I've mostly been working on a new quilt, actually it is an old WIP that I ran across while looking for something else, so I decided I'd pull it out to finish. I need some additional fabric, so later I'm headed to the fabric store.

Yesterday late afternoon, I finished what I could on the quilt and decided to do some stamping. Since it's the last week of the month, it's time for the February edition of Woodblock Wednesday. I pulled out some spring themed stamps and papers and used this week's Paper Players sketch by Jan to make this card.

These pretty papers are from The Stamps of Life Company and the pack is called Happy Florals collection. The front floral stamp is from Magenta. I stamped it twice, cutting one image with a stitched die from GKD. The other image I colored with Prismacolor colored pencils then cut out the floral boxes and popped them up. The sentiment strip image is from Hero Arts and again, it's cut out with a GKD die.

On the inside I wanted to stay with wood mounted stamps and I found this cute kitty dressed as the Easter Bunny, from Magenta, in my stash. I paired her/him with a simple Happy Easter greeting, also by Hero.

Here are the wood mounted stamps used for today's card.

Enjoy your Friday and the weekend. I'll be sewing.

Thanks for checking in,

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Sentiment stamps by Hero Arts and Image stamps by Magenta

Paper: SU card stock and The Stamps of Life Co. patterned papers

Ink: Gina K Designs Black Onyx and Bubblegum Pink

Other: Gina K Designs Master Layouts 5 and 13, Prismacolor Colored Pencils, Gamsol, Gina K Designs Pastel enamel pearls, foam tape

Hippo Birdie to You

 Hello,

Well, we had some wild weather overnight. Heavy thunderstorms that included several inches of hail. At around 4:15 am, I thought the hail was going to break the windows it was blowing so hard into them. All's sunny this morning, but we have more rain coming here in SoCal this week.

This week's Paper Players Challenge is the CAS challenge where Stef is looking for birthday cards with balloons. Such a fun theme and I'm sure there will be some super cute cards in the gallery. I decided to play with an older Lawn Fawn set with a punny greeting. I've always liked this set and thought it would be good for a CAS card. It's a mini set and I've used every image here on the front of my card.

I decided to use a Lawn Fawn cover die to add a little interest and I've cut it down with an A2 rounded corner die. The hippo and the birdie are fussy cut and glued down, the balloons, party hats and sentiment are stamped directly on the panel. The coloring is done with Copics.

I pulled out an older Honey Bee "inside birthday greeting" stamp set for the inside of my card and added a bird and balloon.

Enjoy your day!

Colleen

Supplies

Stamsp: Year Four set by Lawn Fawn and Inside Birthday Sentiment set by Honey Bee

Paper: Gina K Designs card stock

Ink: Gina K Designs Black Onyx and Copic Markers

Other: Lawn Fawn Stitched Ripple Background cover plate die, Hero Arts A2 Rounded Corner dies, 

Hi Peeps and Happy Saturday!

Also, Happy Valentine's Day!

I'm playing along with a few challenges with today's card. I'm using Verena's sketch for Freshly Made Sketches along with Carol's "Word Week" theme for Just Us Girls. In addition, the February Monthly Mix challenge on the Gina K Designs FB Group is to use hearts, and as all of the supplies for my card are from GKD, I'll post it over there too.

I went with an unexpected and punny themed card for this Valentine, shopping my GKD stamp sets and stencils for the idea that I had in my mind.

I started by stenciling the hearts on the bottom half of the front panel and then ink blending some gold in on the top half along with some splatter. I stamped,  colored and die cut all of the images and used the charcuterie board and the sushi for the middle element in the sketch. 

For the inside of the card I used more images and another sentiment from the sushi set along with more ink blending and more splatter.

Wishing everyone a happy Valentine's Day and a great weekend!

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: I Like the Way You Roll, Count It All Joy, and Friendship Hearts sets by Gina K Designs

Paper: Gina K Designs card stocks

Ink: Gina K Designs and Copic markers

Other: Gina K Designs Heartfelt stencil, blending brushes, Master Layouts 3 dies, red paper hearts

Happy Birthday

 Hi all,

I've mailed my Valentine's Day cards so I'm back to making some birthday cards. Today's card is made using the colors for this week's Paper Players challenge. Ann is hostess with a palette suitable for some pretty stenciled flowers.

The card base is stenciled with the GKD Cobblestone stencil to create a stone background for the window image. After finishing the stenciling, I ran the card base and the stencil through my die cutting machine with the rubber pad, which raised up the stones similar to an embossing folder. 

The window from the GKD Master Layouts 20 die set is cut from SU Lost Lagoon card stock. Behind the window is a panel of Petal Pink card stock then two layers of vellum which are sandwiched between two additional window die cuts to add dimension.

I die cut the flower stock first then used the coordinating layering stencils to add the colors, using all four of Ann's challenge colors. This is popped up with some foam tape over the window image. Finally, I added some enamel dots for embellishments, and a pre-printed sentiment strip for the front greeting.

The inside has one of the stenciled flowers and another birthday sentiment.

Have you been enjoying the Olympics? I've been watching. I love the skiing, snowboarding and the figure skating. It's amazing what some of these athletes can do!

Have a good day,

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Cheers To Another Year set by Gina K Designs (inside sentiment)

Paper: SU Lost Lagoon & Peta Pink card stock. Gina K Designs white and black card stock, SU Vellum

Ink: SU Lost Lagoon, Petal Pink, Calypso Coral and Mossy Green. Altenew black, Gina K Soft Stone

Other: Gina K Designs Cobblestone stencil, Fancy Florals Layering stencils and dies, Pre-printed birthday sentiment strip, Sentiment Strip dies, Master Layouts 1 and 20 die sets, pastel enamel dots, Connect glue, foam tape 

Love You

 Happy Monday,

My last Valentine's Day card for 2026, inspired by the current Color Hues challenge of Red and Pink.

I'm using various shades of Concord & 9th reds and pinks card stock with the Concord & 9th Wavy Card Front die. This took several passes of this die to get all of the in-laid pieces and the white frame. After getting all of the pieces  in place I then removed them to run through a Spellbinders heart embossing folder for a little added dimension.

The large die cut sentiment is also from Concord & 9th.

Here's the inside of this card.

Enjoy your week!

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: You Are the Best Sentiments set by Concord & 9th

Paper: Concord & 9th card stock

Ink: Concord & 9th

Other: Concord & 9th Wavy Card Front die, All the Love set dies, Spellbinders Tiny Heart Scalloped 3D embossing folder

XOXO

 Hello Peeps,

I'm playing with this week's Just Us Girls challenge. This is Die Week with an added theme of hearts. I pulled out various shades of red card stock and an appropriate Valentine's Day cover plate to created this very bright card.

I inlaid some of the mosaic pieces in the center heart but left other cutouts with the under layer showing through. The sentiment dies are cut from red glimmer paper with the shadow layers cut from white glimmer paper.

For the inside, I cut a second heart and used a stamped Valentine's Day sentiment over it.

It's Super Bowl Sunday. Any plans to watch the game? I'm not much of a FB fan, but we're going to friends to watch. It will be a small group and I think most of us are more excited for the pre-game and halftime shows than the game. And, of course, the snacks and wine, LOL.

Enjoy your day,

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: You Are the Best set by Kristina Werner/Concord & 9th

Paper: Concord & 9th card stock and SU glimmer papers

Ink: Concord & 9th

Other: Enchanted Heart dies set and Short and Sweet Sentiment dies from Concord & 9th