Let It Snow

 Happy Hump Day Peeps,

Yet another Winter Themed challenge for this week, and I have a fun card to share. This is a CASE of a card I saw in Yana's IG gallery from way back in 2022. 

Joanne is hostess for CAS week and her theme is Signs of Winter for the Paper Players.. I've made a single layer card with just stamping and a little Copic coloring. I've used four different GKD stamp sets, but I really like how fun it turned out. I especially like the green and pink colors.

Here's the inside.

It's more tennis watching for me this morning, oh, and some laundry. I hope your day is a good one.

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Winter Wishes, Christmas Cheer, Stay Cozy, and Warmer With You sets by Gina K Designs

Paper: Neenah Classic Crest Solar White Heavy card stock

Ink: Gina K Designs Black Onyx, Bubblegum Pink and Copic markers

Other: Shimmery Crystal Effects over the heart and snowman's hat

Winter Wishes

Hello Peeps,

I'm playing along with another winter themed challenge today. This time it's for the Inspired By Challenge where the theme is some yummy looking Winter Treats. The sketch is also interesting and I've used it as well to make my card.

The small flags are cut from a teal and lavender ink blended panel. The heat embossed snowflakes are popped up on some punched out circles. I arranged the flags on a dry embossed snowflake card front per the sketch, and added some lavender enamel dots to the tops of the flags.

For the inside of the card, I used another winter sentiment and stamped some of the snowflakes in lavender and teal.

Enjoy your Tuesday!

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Folk Art Christmas and Snowflake Kisses sets by Gina K Designs

Paper: Gina K Designs card stock

Ink: Gina K Designs

Other: My Favorite Things Flag Banner dies, SU small circle punch, Brutus Monroe white embossing powder. Gina K Designs Snowflake embossing folder and pastel enamel embellishments

Stay Cozy

 Happy Monday,

Hi Peeps. I have a card for you this morning that is inspired by two challenges. First, I'm squeaking in under the wire this morning with my card entry for the Freshly Made Sketches Challenge. Second, the theme for my card comes from this week's Mood Board Challenge at Just Us Girls. It's a nice wintry mood board with many choices for inspiration. I took the easy route and used all of the pretty trees and greens, but I added a touch of red too.

The stamp set is titled Stay Cozy, which I used for my front sentiment, and it's from Gina K. I decided to use some patterned paper for the background and horizontal element. I really need to use some of my mass accumulation more often!

Here's the inside with a deer image and another sentiment from the Stay Cozy stamp set.

I've enjoyed watching the first two days of the Australian Open matches this week.  More of the same for me later this evening and I think I'll see if I can crochet now that I'm not wearing the brace for my wrist, and I did get the okay from the Physical Therapist, which is probably the important piece, LOL.

Have a great Monday,

Colleen

Happy Birthday

Hello,

I have a bright and very colorful card for you today. The layout inspiration is from the current Sunday Stamps Challenge. I liked the three images along the bottom in the sketch and decided to use these fun flowers from Gina K.

The background is made using the Double Background Stamp 1/Grip Mat from GKD, stamped in black ink on white card stock. The flower set comes with coloring stencils, which I used with blending brushes to add color to the flowers and leaves. I used the GKD Gingham embossing folder on the black strip at the bottom, although it's hard to see the detail in this photo.

On the inside, I used another flower from the same stamp set and a greeting from a new GKD Birthday set.

Thanks for checking in,

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Bold Summer Blooms set, Cheers To Another Year set, and Double Background 1/Grip Mat all Gina K Designs

Paper: Gina K Designs card stock

Ink: Gina K Designs

Other: From GKD:  Bold Summer Blooms coloring stencils, blending brushes, Single and Double Stitched dies, black enamel dots, Connect glue

Home Is Where The Heart Is

Happy Weekend Peeps,

Hope your's is off to a good start. I've gotten a couple of cards made this morning, just playing around with some new and some very old supplies, especially with this card. The embossing folder is new, the Spellbinders 3D EF for the December clubs and the first time I'm using it. The dies are very old, from Taylored Expressions. 

I decided to make a Valentine's Day card using non-traditional colors, and I quite like how the card turned out. The colors come from the new Color Hues Challenge, blue and white this time.

The greetings on both the front and the inside are from the Gina K Designs Mini set called Captured Heart. After cutting the heart doily, I decided to try stamping the sentiment along the top curve. It took a bit of finagling, but I managed to get it pretty well centered. It's heat embossed with white EP.

I've used a couple more very old Taylored Expressions doily dies on the inside with a letter image and greeting from the Captured Heart set.

I'm excited to watch the Australian Open opening day matches that start around 4:00 pm here on the Pacific Coast. Most of my evenings for the next two weeks will be spent watching tennis.

Enjoy your weekend,

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Captured Hearts Mini set by Gina K Designs

Paper: Spellbinders card stock

Ink: Gina K Designs In the Navy and White craft

Other:Spellbinders Unlock My Heart 3D embossing folder, Taylored expressions doily dies and house die, Gina K Designs paper heart embellishment, Brutus Monroe white embossing powder

Birthday Balloons

Hello,

I'm playing along with LeAnne's color challenge at the Paper Players today with some stenciled balloons. This stamp, die and stencil set from Concord & 9th is called Bunch of Balloons. It's one of my "go to" birthday sets. For this card, I used another C&9th set for the front greeting, which is called Defined.

I used both the blue inks to stencil the balloons then stamped the strings with the Navy ink using an acrylic block. The sentiment is stamped with silver craft ink on Night of Navy card stock and heat embossed with silver EP. I cut it out using the corresponding dies from the set using silver card stock for the mat layer.

The card base is Night of Navy and I couldn't find my Misty Moonlight card stock, (I'm thinking it's one that I took to my mom's house), so I ink blended that layer. The balloons are cut with a SSS die. After layering everything up, I added some Concord & 9th silver embellishments.

For the inside, I used a newer Gina K birthday sentiment and a stamped balloon.

It took a while for me to figure out what I wanted to do with these colors and I'm loving how they work with these birthday balloons, and now I have another birthday card for the 2026 stash.

Hope your week's off to a good start. I start PT for my broken wrist this afternoon.

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Bunch of Balloons and Defined sets from Concord & 9th, Cheers To Another Year set from Gina K Designs

Paper: Stampin' Up Navy and white, Spellbinders silver

Ink: Stampin' Up and Lisa Horton Cloud 9 Silver

Other: Simon Says Stamp Nested Domed Arches dies, Concord & 9th silver dots, Gina K Designs silver embossing powder, 

Warm & Cozy

Happy Monday Peeps,

I just returned home from my latest orthopedic doc appointment for my broken wrist. It's 6 weeks this week since the fall and all seems to be healing as expected. I can go without the brace at home, just no lifting more than 1-2 pounds. Now it's Physical Therapy time. I'm happy to get out of the brace, just as I was happy to have the cast removed two weeks ago. As the break is my non-dominate hand, I've been able to do pretty much what I want, it just takes a little longer, and luckily that has included stamping.

Today's card I made for the current Inspired By Challenge. I used the title, Winter Knits, and the sketch, for my inspiration. Most supplies are Concord and 9th. The stamp sets are pretty old, but I like them still.

I created the background using the knit looking snowflakes from the Cozy Christmas set by stamping it diagonally, alternating with Lakefront and Tidepool inks. Per the sketch I created a panel using Sorbet and Nectar card stock and inks, stamping the word COZY for a tone on tone look. The Cozy stamp is also fro the Cozy Christmas set.

The focal images, girl and sentiment, are from the Winter Wear set. They are stamped with black ink and colored with Copics, with the sentiment heat embossed with white EP on black.

The inside is super simple with just a couple of C&9th sentiments from the mini stamp set called Lots To Say, also an oldie.

The colors are the C&9th January combination called Rosewater and includes Sorbet, Nectar, Lakefront, Tidepool and Plumberry.

Have a great week!

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Cozy Christmas, Winter Wear and Lots to Say sets by Concord & 9th

Paper: Concord & 9th

Ink: Concord & 9th, Gina K Designs White craft, Copics

Other: Concord & 9th enamel dots, Concord & 9th Hearts card front die, Brutus Monroe white embossing powder, MFT Stitched Oval die