Thankful For You

Happy Monday,

I sat down after dinner last night and made this card for Joanne's color challenge at the Paper Players. She has a fun, seasonal palette, shades of brown and orange. 

For my card, I've used the September 2024 SCT's Let's Stamp Together kit. This kit is from LDRS Creative. Each Let's Stamp Together kit comes with a stamp set, coordinating dies and a stencil. In this case, the stencil is for coloring the stamped images. 

The background is made with the SSS Basketweave 3D embossing folder. After embossing I used an old Color Box gold ink pad to highlight some of the raised pattern.

Recently, Gina K. did a video on faux no-line coloring and I used her process to add color to the flower image after stamping. It is a fun technique. If you want to learn more, view her Stamp and Chat video on YouTube here. I used GKD orange shades of Sweet Mango, Coral Reef and Tomato Soup for the flowers and the Color Box gold for the leaves using medium blending brushes for the shading and small blending brushes to add ink to specific areas on the stamp for the line details. These are added after the coloring/shading is done using a coordinating color, so inking of the stamp must be done with a sponge dauber or blending brush. 

I added a little more metallic with gold strips on the sides of the embossed panel and gold dot embellishments.

The stamp set has a few more images that I've used on the inside, however there is only one sentiment stamp so I pulled out the another LDRS Creative set for my inside greeting.

A fun color challenge with many possibilities. I just may use it again for some of my other card ideas. Have a great week!

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: LDRS Creative Forever Thankful and My Wish For You sets

Paper: Gina K Designs Layering Weight Vanilla, Charcoal Brown and Gold card stock

Ink: Gina K Designs Charcoal Brown, Kraft, Sweet Mango, Coral Reef, and Tomato Soup. Color Box Gold 

Other: Simon Says Stamp Basketweave 3D embossing folder, Gina K Designs gold pearl embellishments, blending brushes

Holiday Cheer!

 Hello all,

We arrived home from our European River Cruise vacation Friday, late afternoon. It was a FABULOUS trip. 

On Saturday, after unpacking, doing laundry, getting everything put away, going through the mail and a few other chores, I headed to my craft room to see what challenges awaited, I was anxious to get back to card making. I settled on the Freshly Made Sketches challenge, hosted this week by Karen. What a fun layout! I've used all GKD products to make this holiday card. This cute mouse set is the alternate mini free set for the month of September at GKD, and it's called Christmas Friends.

The top section is made using a new layering stencil called Modern Poinsettia. The bottom section is dry embossed using the Holiday Flora embossing folder. I used the middle sized tag from Gina's Stitched tag die set, cutting it from Layering Weight White card stock. The images, with the exception of the greeting, are one stamp, and are colored with Copics. I also added some background stenciling with light gray ink.

For the inside, I used the left over stenciled paper and added a greeting from another GKD mini set called Two Step Holiday Greeting.

Thanks for looking in today, and have a great week.

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Gina K Designs Christmas Friends and Two Step Holiday Mini stamp sets

Paper: Gina K Designs Cherry Red, Christmas Pine, Layering Weight White and Gold card stock

Ink: Gina K Designs Lipstick, Cherry Red, Jelly Bean Green, Christmas Pine, Soft Stone and Black Onyx

Other: All GKD, Holiday Flora embossing folder, Modern Poinsettia Layering stencils, blending brushes, Stitched tag dies, Master Layouts 2 dies, Connect glue, foam squares, and gold ribbon from my ribbon stash