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I love crafting, especially rubber stamping. Most weekends I can be found surrounded by paper, rubber stamps and ink.

Saturday, December 31, 2022

Fun With the Wreath Builder System & Many Cards

 Hello and Happy New Years Eve to all,

I watched this video by JMI a few weeks ago and loved the look of the finished stamped cards. Earlier this week, I decided to see if I could create some of these cards worthy of Jennifer's. They turned out beautifully, if I do say so myself, so I sent them off as a gift set to my bestie and she received them yesterday. 

These were super fun to make, and if you haven't tried the Gina K Designs Wreath Builder System, I highly recommend it as a great card making tool. All of the cards with flowers use the Wreath Builder system. The leaf cards do not. A stamp positioning tool like a Misti is essential for using the Wreath Builder system, fyi.

All of the stamps used for these cards are from Gina K Designs. For the most part, so are the card stocks and inks, although, the white craft ink is from Hero Arts and I used a couple of Stampin' Up card stock colors.

The die cut sentiments and the embellishments really make these cards pop! Die cut sentiments are from GKD, SSS and Concord & 9th. The pearl and rhinestone embellishments are from my stash. I just picked things that worked well with each card.












Thanks for looking in. I want to wish everyone a very happy and healthy 2023!
Colleen

Supplies
Stamps: Doodled Autumn and Zenflowers (orange card only) stamp sets by Gina K Designs
Paper: card stocks from Gina K Designs, Stampin' Up and Concord & 9th
Ink: White craft ink pad from Hero Arts, all other inks from Gina K Designs
Sentiment dies: Thanks and Hello from Gina K Designs, Just A Note and Celebrate You from Concord & 9th, Swoopy Thanks from Simon Says Stamp
Other: Master Layouts 1, 2, 9 & 10 die sets by Gina K Designs, Misti, Largest Size Wreath Builder System, Big Shot, many pearls and rhinestones, Connect liquid glue from Gina K Designs

Thursday, December 15, 2022

Merry & Bright

Hello all,

Well, I'm finally home from visiting my mom and back in my crafty space. I drove the long road home on Monday, about 14.5 hours total time. My visit turned out to be about 2 weeks longer than planned due to having to replace mom's refrigerator. The new one finally arrived and was installed, so I felt comfortable leaving her.

Since it's the last Paper Players Challenge for 2022, I wanted to be sure to play along. Ann has a nice Christmasy color challenge this week for us. I had all of my holiday cards made that I needed, but I went ahead a made another. Actually, I made two more, but the second will be in a separate blog post later. I've used this week's Freshly Made Sketch for the layout.

This card is made with the November Scrapbook and Cards Let's Stamp Together kit. If you haven't checked these out, they are great. They come with a stamp set, dies and a stencil. I used all for my card.

The stencil is a falling snow pattern. I taped it to my vanilla card base and smooched VersaMark ink using a Tim Holtz blending tool then sprinkled on some Brutus Monroe Alabaster Sparkle embossing powder and heat embossed it. The top ornament uses the stamp set. There are three stamps that make the pattern and I stamped them in Ann's challenge colors, heat embossing the gold with Brutus Monroe gold sparkle powder. The other ornament is one of the dies. The background is cut from Evening Evergreen card stock and the top from SU gold glimmer paper. The greenery is from a Honey Bee Holiday die set. I cut the fir sprigs from vanilla card stock and used a blending brush with Evening Evergreen ink to color them. The sentiment die is part of the kit. I cut it three times from Cherry Cobbler card stock and glued them together for dimension. I then brushed them with a Nuvo clear glitter pen and added Shimmery Glossy Accents over the top.





Here is the inside with sentiments from a Simon Says Stamp holiday stamp set.




Enjoy your Friday and thanks for looking in,
Colleen

Supplies
November Let's Stamp Together/Scrapbook and Cards kit created by LDRS Creative
Other stamps: Joyful Season set by Simon Says Stamp
Paper: SU Very Vanilla, Evening Evergreen and Cherry Cobbler card stock, Gold Glimmer paper
Ink: SU Evening Evergreen and Cherry Cobbler, VersaMark
Other: Winter Bouquet dies by HoneyBee, White and Gold embossing powder from Brutus Monroe, Nuvo glitter pen, Shimmery Glossy Accents, Misti, Big Shot Switch, Heat tool, Connect liquid glue, SU Dimensionals