Thinking Of You

 Hello and Happy Sunday,

Today's activities: card making, watching baseball and cutting binding for a quilt that just came back from my quilter. In other words, my kind of day!

With regards to card making, Jaydee is our hostess this week for the Paper Players, and as it's the fifth Sunday in June, she has the ever fun Tic-Tac-Toe board for us to play with. I used the horizontal middle row of Flowers-Die Cut-Embossing/Foiling for this simple looking card. I say simple looking as there are quite a few steps to put it together, LOL. (super fun to make!)

To begin, I stamped the Gina K Designs Linen background stamp in Bubblegum pink and Christmas Pine on white panels. Next I die cut the Rose Mini Slimline cover plate from each stamped panel. Using one of the negative images for placement, I glued the die cut pieces in place. The card base front is dry embossed with the GKD Lattice embossing folder and the Thinking Of You sentiment is foiled with gold deco foil. Other dies are the GKD Master Layouts 7 Mini Slimline layering dies.

There are so many fun combos on Jaydee's board, I just might show up again in the gallery later in the week.

Enjoy your Sunday. I know I will.

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Linen Background Stamp by Gina K Designs

Paper: Gina K Designs card stock

Ink: Gina K Designs

Other: Gina K Designs Rose Mini Slimline cover plate, Lattice Embossing Folder, Polyglaze sentiments, gold deco foil, Fuze foiling machine, Master Layouts 7 dies, Connect liquid glue

I Love Tea

 Happy Saturday Peeps,

Hope your day has been a relaxing one. I started by taking my daily walk in the morning followed by picking up a quilt from being quilted by a long-arm quilter I met last year. We usually meet at a fabric/quilting shop in the La Mesa area of San Diego for handoff and pickup. This is the fourth quilt that she has quilted for me and they always look amazing. Plus, she is very reasonable in her charges. In the mid-afternoon we drove to the airport to pick up a neighbor who was flying in from Oregon where she and her wife have a second home. So, a rather productive day, but also time to do a little reading and blogging.

My card today is made using inspiration from two challenges. The layout is from this week's Freshly Made Sketches challenge and since Wednesday was the last Wednesday in June, it's time for Amy's Woodblock Wednesday challenge.

The tea cup and the sentiment on the front and the tea pot on the inside are all small wood mounted stamps. They are from three different companies and the dates are from the mid and late 1980s.

I used a GKD embossing folder for the black background, then rubbed a gold ink pad over the raised areas to make them stand out more. The white and gold panel is a GKD Polyglaze panel that I foiled with gold deco foil. To continue with the shinny gold theme, I heat embossed the three tea cups and the sentiment with gold ep.

The inside is simple. I wasn't really sure what sentiment I wanted to use on the inside to go along with the "I Love Tea" on the front.

I hope your evening is grand!

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Tea Cup by Great Impressions, Sentiment by Stephanie Olin Stamps and Tea Pot by Stamp Francisco

Paper: Gina K Designs card stock

Ink: Gina K Designs and Honey Bee, Copic Markers

Other: Gina K Designs Petite Flourish embossing folder and Vintage Flourish Polyglaze panel, Deco Gold Foil, Brutus Monroe gold embossing powder

I'm So Grilled

Hello,

It's Thursday already. This week seems to be flying by. Maybe because I was away from home startingThursday last week through Monday this week to attend a memorial service for my cousin that was held in Northern California.

After flying to Sacramento, my bestie lent me her car for the weekend to drive from Sacramento to my mom's so that I didn't have to spend $$$$ for a rental car. I wanted to make a fun thank you card for her, and upon my return home, I had received a recent order from Lawn Fawn. I decided to use the freebie set that was included in my order, because who can resist these foodie puns.

I'm using Elizabeth's One Layer Card sketch challenge from this week's Paper Players to make it.

To make the front of this card, I masked off the center and used a diagonal line stencil from SSS to make the plaid background. This took a while but it turned out pretty well. I wanted a red plaid to go with the summer food images.

I removed the mask and stamped the three images, the speech bubbles and the puns then colored the images with Copics. After stamping the sentiment under the white area I added the enamel ant and heart, both from a Doodlebug set of embellishments.

On the inside I used  a thank you stamp from GKD.

Thanks for checking in!

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: BBQ Friends and All the Speech Bubbles sets by Lawn Fawn and Grateful Greetings set by Gina K Designs

Paper: Gina K Designs Heavy Weight White card stock

Ink: Gina K Designs and Copic Markers

Other: Masking Magic, blending brushes, Simon Says Stamp Diagonal Lines stencil,  Doodlebugs embellishments

 

A Patchwork of Happiness

 Hello,

When I saw the IG peeks for Waffle Flower's June release, I knew that I'd be buying several. Especially the sewing/quilting related stencils, stamps and dies. I may have grabbed some of the beach related ones as well, LOL. Those will show up at some point here on my blog.

I spent a whole afternoon earlier this week playing with the quilt stencils, and boy, were they fun. I used the current Color Hues challenge colors of Peach and Cobalt blue for this card, using the Patchwork Cat Stencil pack and greetings from the Quilted Hug Sentiments stamp set.

After the stenciling was completed I used a Concord & 9th stitched card front die to add the "quilting." The embossed sentiment is popped up over a spool of thread that goes with the sewing machine from the Sew Fun dies.

For the inside of this card I used another of the Quilted Hug birthday sentiments and a small pin cushion stamp.

I've actually been doing some quilting lately so these stencils, dies and stamps really caught my eye. So fun!

Enjoy your Thursday!

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Quilted Hug Sentiments by Waffle Flower

Paper: Gina K Designs Layering Weight White and Spellbinders blue card stock

Ink: Gina K designs and Simon Says Stamp

Other: Waffle Flower Patchwork Cat Stencils and Sew Fun Dies, Concord & 9th Stitched Card Front, Brutus Monroe Alabaster embossing powder

Chill

Hello Peeps,

Claire is hostess for this week's Paper Players with the monthly CAS challenge. Her theme this time is Fruit.

I have lots of options in my collection and actually made four cards, although one isn't even close to CAS. The other three are, and I ended up choosing this cute watermelon man from Spellbinders for the challenge card. Using some old SU DSP called Tutti Frutti to make a swimming pool, he is indeed "chilling."

The swimming pool is a Lawn Fawn die and I thought the watermelon blue paper would make a good pool and the green scalloped paper looked like watermelon rind, so perfect for the vibe of the card. The little floaty is from Spellbinders.

The inside is simple with just a birthday greeting and more SU papers.

Our neighbor has a birthday in a couple of weeks, and she's getting this one. She likes silly cards.

I'm off to Northern Cal tomorrow, just for a long weekend. Unfortunately, I'm attending the memorial for my cousin who passed a few months ago at the young age 60 from breast cancer. 

Here are the other Fruity cards that I made. All of the stamps and dies for these are from Concord & 9th. The strawberry and flowers on the left card are cut from felt.

Thanks for looking in,

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Paradise Resort stamp set by Spellbinders

Paper: Gina K Designs card stock and SU Tutti Frutti DSP

Ink: Gina K Designs

Other: Summertime Slice and Summertime Wade Pool Dies by Spellbinders, Stitched Pond and Frame Dies by Lawn Fawn, Connect liquid glue, SU Dimensionals

High Tides and Good Vibes

 Happy Monday Peeps,

More Sunday late night stamping for me last night and I made my card for the soon ending Freshly Made Sketches challenge. I had some ink blending fun and made another silhouette stamped card. 

There is lots of masking off areas and I worked from the top down to create this summer sunset scene. The images, inks and paper are from Gina K Designs.

While the front sentiment is kind of generic, I turned this one into another birthday card with the inside greeting. I can always use more summer themed birthday cards and bonus, this can be used for boys or girls.

Enjoy your day, or what's left of it.

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Window On the Water and Ocean Silhouettes stamp sets by Gina K Designs

Paper: Gina K Designs White and Black card stock

Ink: Gina K Designs Wild Wisteria, Bubblegum, Wild Dandelion, Turquoise Sea, Black Onyx, Soft Stone

Other: Gina K Designs Master Layouts 2 dies, Beautiful Backdrops Stencil, Masking Magic strips and sheets, Blending Brushes

Happy Birthday

Hi and Happy Thursday,

I have a few girl friends with birthdays in June. I've been making their cards this past week. They need to get mailed, as one lives in New England and the other in the Pacific Northwest. 

The card in today's post is one I made using Stef's color theme for this week's Paper Players challenge. 

The stamp set is from SSS called Butterfly Blossoms. There are four flower bouquets on stems in the set, but I used them a little differently than intended on the front of my card. I masked off the center of a white panel with a circle of Masking Magic then inked the top blooms and stamped around the outside of the circle to get the background. There are coordinating coloring stencils that I used to shade the flowers with GKD Peach Bellini ink. The butterflies are stamped on SU Soft Sky card stock and shaded using the stencils with Soft Sky ink. I used a BG Copic for the shading on the wings as well as some Nuvo glitter. The center circle is SU Sea Foam card stock and I also stamped the greeting on the Sea Foam and cut it out with the corresponding set die.

I did use one of the four flower bouquets on the inside. The sentiment here is from Gina K.

Thanks for checking in,

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Butterfly Blossoms set by Simon Says Stamp and Sweet Sentiments set by Gina K Designs

Paper: Gina K Peach Bellini, Black Onyx and Layering Weight White card stock, SU Soft Sky and Sea Foam card stock

Ink: Gina K Designs Black Onyx, Powder Blue, Light Spruce, and Peach Bellini.  SU Soft Sky, BG Copic Marker

Other: Butterfly Blossoms coloring stencils and dies, Gina K Designs Master Layouts 2 dies, Nuvo glitter pen, foam tape, Gina K Designs Pastel Pearl mix, Masking Magic, blending brushes.