Quiet Peace

Happy Friday Peeps,

I'm playing along with the July edition of Woodblock Wednesday today with a very simple and monochromatic card.

I started by stenciling the GKD Snowflake Mandala on the front of a Soft Stone panel, then stamped the snowy village using a darker gray ink. The greeting is heat embossed with silver EP. After cutting the panel out with the SSS A2 Lacy Point die, I adhered it to a silver mat, then onto a dark gray card base.

The inside is very simple with more stenciling and a short greeting.

The Snowy Village stamp is from Ink Blocks, the front sentiment stamp is from Artistic Stamp Exchange and the inside greeting stamp is from Hero.

Thanks for looking in,

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Wood mounted from Artistic Stamp Exchange, Ink Blocks, Hero

Paper: Gina K Designs

Ink: Gina K Designs

Other: Simon Says Stamp A2 Lacy Point dies, Gina K Designs Snowflake Mandala stencil, blending brushes, and fine detail silver embossing powder, Spellbinders rhinestones

Grateful

 Hello all,

Since it's Thursday, I thought I'd better get busy and post my Paper Players card. Jaydee is our hostess this week with the monthly Clean and Simple challenge. The added theme is Foliage. 

I decided to use two older SU stamp sets and make this leaf silhouette Thanksgiving card. 

To make the squares, I used Gina K Designs 1/4" Masking Magic Strips and Post-It notes. I picked three fall-ish ink colors to ink blend from the center out, then stamped the leaf images with black ink. Pretty simple and quick.

The outside greeting, and here on the inside, I've used another older SU stamp set.

I made two cards, the second using an older C&9th Turnabout set that has some fun leaf dies too, which I used on the inside of the card.  I love the bright C&9th ink colors here.

Enjoy your afternoon and evening.

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Gently Falling and Falling Leaves sets by Stampin' Up, Harvest Wreath Turnabout set by Concord & 9th

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

Ink: Gina K Designs and Concord & 9th

Other: Gina K Designs Masking Magic strips, blending brushes, Hello die from Concord & 9th Tiled Turnabout set

No Kings 2025

 Happy Saturday!

Winter Wishes

 TGIF Peeps,

Here's another holiday card completed. Using inspiration from The Paper Players color challenge and the Sunday Stamps sketch challenge, I made this fun winter themed card.

The green snowy background and the large snowflake purple background in the postage stamps are both foiled with Deco hot foil. The hat, sweater and gloves are from the GKD Christmas Cheer stamp and die set. The images are stamped in embossing ink and heat embossed with black embossing powder, then colored with Copic markers.

For the inside of the card, I've used sentiments and a small snowflake from the same GKD stamp set.

Have a fun Friday!

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Christmas Cheer set by Gina K Designs

Paper: Gina K Designs Card Stock

Ink: Gina K Designs and Copic Markers

Other: Gina K Designs Deco hot foil in Grass Green and Wild Wisteria, Fuze Foiling machine, Master Layouts 15 postage dies, black embossing powder 

Believe in Magic

Hey all,

This cute little JOY-ful reindeer is from the Spellbinders October Stitching die set of the month and when I saw Jen's sketch yesterday for this week's Freshly Made Sketches challenge, I immediately thought of this set. I did rotate the placement from landscape to portrait view.

To make the open circle in Jen's sketch I used the circle die in the set, and a slightly bigger circle die, cut from Spellbinders gold glimmer paper to make the "O" in joy.

The bottom half of the card base is embossed with the new 3D embossing folder for October to add a little texture.  The reindeer is popped up using a small Action Wobbler device. So fun to watch him wiggle. For a little embellishments, I added a gold pearl to the center of the stitched circle and some sparkly Glossy Accents to the reindeer's horns.

I'm happy to have another holiday card completed. Enjoy the rest of your day!

Colleen

Supplies

Paper: Gina K Designs Card Stock and Spellbinders Gold Glimmer card stock

Ink: Gina K Designs

Other: Spellbinders Peppermint Prancer die set, Magic For You die set, Brick by Brick 3D Embossing folder, gold pearl, red and gold metallic threads, Concord & 9th Sparkly Glossy Accents, Action Wobbler

CHERISH, DREAM, LIVE

Hello all,

I was playing around with ink and embossing folders a few days ago and actually created a couple of panels that I liked. This card uses one of them with the ink colors for this week's Paper Players challenge. Christie is hostess and her colors are green and purple.

The embossing folder is from SSS and is called  Magnificent Mums. I used some Letterpress paper instead of basic card stock. It's a little more porous and thicker and it certainly gave good embossing results. 

To ink it up, I used small detail blending brushes over the raised areas with GKD inks. For the solid green background, I put the panel back into the embossing folder, taping it in place with a small bit of tape runner on the back of the panel then inked the smooth side of the folder with Christmas Pine ink. This took several passes. 

The sentiments on the front and inside are from Gina K Designs. I added some gold accents in the form of twine and gold pearls.

Here's the inside.

A fun time was had and I ended up with a nice birthday card and inky green fingers!

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: From Gina K Designs Wonderfully Made, Blooming Sunflower and Gentle Silhouettes sets for the sentiments

Paper: Gina K Designs card stock and Spellbinders Betterpress paper

Ink: Gina K Designs Dark, Medium and Light Lilac and Spruce sets, Christmas Pine

Other: Simon Says Stamp Magnificent Mums 3D Embossing Folder, Gina K Designs gold pearls, blending brushes, gold twine from the ribbon stash

Spooky

Hello crafty friends,

It's wet, wet, wet and windy in my neck of the woods, which is a bit north of San Diego. No complaints as we certainly need the rain. I had some errands this morning and I made it home just as the rain started coming down, so good timing on my part.

The Just Us Girls word week challenge is Halloween, perfect to make one more card with the Spellbinders Small Die set and 3D embossing folder of the month for Sept. I really loved all of the club goodies last month.

This is a fairly simple card. I ran a black card base through the embossing folder, then heat embossed the sentiment, which is from an older GKD stamp set. The three pumpkins are cut from Concord & 9th patterned paper and card stock.

Here's the inside.

Happy Hump Day tomorrow!

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Hey Boo set by Gina K Designs (front and inside sentiments)

Paper: Gina K Designs and Concord & 9th

Ink: Gina K Designs

Other: Harvest Magic die set and Patchwork 3D Embossing Folder by Spellbinders, Gina K Designs fine detail gold embossing powder, Concord & 9th glittery Glossy Accents