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

Monday, January 6, 2025

To the Moon and Back

Hi Peeps,

How about another Valentine's Day card? (Although this one could be for any occasion, I'm calling it a V-day card.)

For the first 2025 Color Throwdown challenge, the colors are black, white and gray. I decided on using this Sun and Moon Letterpress set from Spellbinders. I did some masking to ink the center in black, then again to ink the rays in gray. The sentiment comes in this die set.

The card base is embossed with the Spellbinders  3D embossing folder of the month for December. For embellishments, I've added some GKD silver dots.




I've used the same sentiment from Spellbinders that I used on the card in my previous post. (I like it.)




Happy Monday, and enjoy your week!

Colleen


Supplies
Stamps/Dies: Spellbinders Sun & Moon Betterpress plate and Forever Yours stamp set
Paper: Gina K Designs card stock, Spellbinders letter press porcelain card stock
Ink: Betterpress Black ink, Gina K Designs Soft Stone
Other: Spellbinders 3D Hearts embossing folder, Gina K Designs Master Layouts 2 dies, silver dots

Sunday, January 5, 2025

Love You

Hi and Happy New Year Crafty Friends!

I'm happy to see the challenge blogs are starting their new challenges for 2025 this week and I'm ready to play along. I managed to make a card that works for three of them. I'm using the colors from Color Hues, Red and Kraft, the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches, and the Just Us Girls die cut challenge. 

Since the next card making holiday is Valentine's Day, I'm getting started on my V Day stash.








The stitched letter dies for Love, the You die, and the Strawberry dies are all from Spellbinders, as is the embossing folder. The Stitched square die and the tiny hearts on the strawberries are from GKD.

The word "love" is stitched with red floss but the word "you" is faux stitching that I used a white get pen over. I thought the faux stitching would stand out better. I cut the strawberry elements from white card stock and ink blended the colors for a softer look.

The inside is very simple with just a couple of stamped images, also from Spellbinders.




Wishing everyone a great week. If you're in those blizzard areas, stay warm and safe. We are sunny and dry here in SoCal.

Colleen

Supplies
Stamps: Forever Yours set from Spellbinders
Paper: Gina K Designs Kraft and Layering Weight white card stock, SU Real Red card stock and SU kraft heart DSP
Ink: Gina K Designs
Other: Heart Swag EF, Stitched Love die set, and Faux Stitched Sentiments die set, 2023 Advent Calendar dies from Spellbinders, Double stitched square die and tiny heart embellishments from Gina K Designs, white gel pen, red embroidery floss