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.

A Joyful Christmas

 Happy Monday Peeps,

It's still full on June Gloom here and very drippy outside. No rain, just a very heavy marine layer/foggy day. Again, a great day to have fun at the craft desk, or catch up on blogging cards.

Speaking of blogging cards, I made this one for the current Freshly Made Sketches challenge a few days ago and didn't get around to taking pictures and blogging it. Better late than never, and I'm making this a short post as the Linky closes in less than an hour.

I decided to do a holiday card, my first for this year. I've used sets from GKD, and an embossing folder, also from GKD.

Here's the inside of the card.

Thanks for checking in, and enjoy your Monday.

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Joyful Season and Holiday Floral sets by Gina K Designs

Paper: Gina K Designs Christmas Red, Christmas Pine, Layering Weight White card

 stock

Ink: Gina K Designs Black Onyx, Christmas Pine, Red Velvet, Light and Medium Spruce, Copic Markers

Other: Gina K Designs Holiday Flora Embossing Folder, Double and Single Stitched Square dies, Nuvo Glitter pen, gold twine, foam squares, Connect glue

Oh Baby!

 TGIF Peeps,

It's a drizzly morning here in SoCal. June Gloom is definitely upon us. No worries, as it makes for a good crafting day. I'm also watching the men's semi-final matches of the French Open.

The June Monthly Mix Challenge on Gina K Designs FB group is "postage." I decided to use some baby images and a new background stamp from GKD to make my card. There's  a new baby on the way for good friends, their first. Bady is due around Thanksgiving.

It's die week at Just Us Girls, with Layers as the theme and this card has many of both.

There are many steps to put this card together, and it was very fun to make. All supplies are from Gina K Designs.

Enjoy your afternoon and evening,

Colleen

Supplies- all Gina K Designs except Copic Markers

Stamps: Double Background 2 Grip Mat, April Showers stamp set, Post Card set

Paper: Layering Weight White and Black Onyx card stock

Ink: Lemon Drop, Applemint, Sea Glass, Innocent Pink, Black Onyx, Copic Markers

Other: Swiss Dots embossing folder, Master Layouts 11 and 15 sets, Masking Magic strips, Foam Squares, 

A Papper Hug & You're the Best

 Hello all,

I have a couple of bright and fun note cards that I made using the current Color Hues challenge colors of coral and green. I made two because this Concord & 9th layering stencil set is large and does a half sheet. I simply cut it in half and made two cards. I changed up the orientation and the sentiments, but otherwise they are the same.

This Concord & 9th bundle, designed by Kristina Werner, has the layering stencils, a coordinating stamp set, and a die set. I've used all three to make the cards. I decided to make a "landing pad" for the die cut flowers, so I cut some vellum rectangles with a GKD stitched die. The sentiments are heat embossed with white EP.

TGIF tomorrow. Enjoy!

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Simple Flowers set by Kristina Werner & Concord & 9th

Paper: Gina K Designs Card Stock Layering Weight White, Black Onyx, Key Lime, Coral Reef and Sunkissed Coral, Vellum

Ink: Gina K Designs White embossing ink, Key Lime, Sunkissed Coral and Coral Reef

Other: Concord &9th Simple Flowers Layering Stencils and dies, Gina K Designs Stitched Rectangle die, Gina K Designs black pearl embellishments, Brutus Monroe white embossing powder, heat tool, blending brushes, corner rounding punch, Connect glue, foam squares

Snail Mail Hugs

Hi and Happy Monday Peeps,

For this week's Freshly Made Sketches challenge, I decided to use this cute Spellbinders Snail Mail die set from April, and the coordinating stamp set, as the image seemed perfect for Jen's sketch. I found some older Waffleflower patterned papers that are mail themed to go with. (They're probably from a past SSS kit.)

The front and inside greetings, and the background envelopes on the inside, are from the April clear stamp set of the month called Send & Seal.

Enjoy your Monday afternoon,

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Spellbinders Send & Seal stamp set

Paper: Concord & 9th, Spellbinders and GKD card stocks. Waffleflower Special Delivery patterned paper pack

Ink: Concord & 9th and GKD Black Onyx

Other: Spellbinders Snail Mail Post die set, Spellbinders Abstract Study embossing folder,  Connect glue, SU Dimensionals

Make Margaritas

 Hello Peeps,

Not much paper crafting here lately. I've been spending most of my time piecing a quilt for an "off to college" gift and also crocheting a baby blanket. However, I also had four May birthdays I needed to make cards for, so I put the sewing aside for a couple of days.

This card is one just for my stash, but it's pretty cute and I used LeAnne's sketch for this week's Paper Players Challenge.

I took LeAnne's advice and used a piece of patterned paper for the background. I believe it's from Doodlebug, but it's so old I'm not sure. The stamp set is from Gina K Designs called Cheers.

I stamped the margarita glass three times, colored them with Copics and cut them out with the set die. After gluing the glasses in place on the front of the card, I added glue around the rims and sprinkled white glitter for the salt. (I like margaritas with salt.) The lemon wedge and umbrella are part of the stamp set, as is the greeting. Most all of the new stamp sets from GKD have dies for the sentiments, which is great for popping the up.

The inside is blank except for a single sentiment that says "Bottoms Up." I neglected to take a photo of it. Oh well.

In the column of that's life, I had my car in for its 40,000 mile service last week and she needs four new shoes. (The not so fun things we have to spend money on 😒.)

Enjoy your day,

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Cheers set by Gina K Designs

Paper: Gina K Designs card stock and Doodlebug Lemonade paper

Ink: Gina K Designs and Copics

Other: Gina K Designs Master Layouts 1 dies, white glitter, Nuvo glitter gloss pen, SU Dimensionals, Connect liquid glue

Scribbled A Note

Hello,

Last week I played around with some of the new Spellbinders monthly club sets and made several cards with them. While I don't have any kiddos in school I still managed to make several fun birthday cards.

For my post today, I have one of them. This one uses Kim's sketch for Freshly Made Sketches. In addition, since I used a rainbow theme, I think it works to post to  this week's Mood Board Challenge at Just Us Girls.

I used the Stencil , the Betterpress plate, the Glimmer plate and sentiments, and the Embossing Folder of the Month for May to make my card. I started with the stencil using pastel shades in rainbow colors. (I think these little fat pencils are so cute). I used black ink for the Betterpress alphabet plate then ink blended darker rainbow shades over it. For the window, I used an older SU star die, then added one of the Glimmer plate pencils. The sentiment at the bottom is also from the Glimmer plate set. The Sending Cheer sentiment is from a previous Spellbinders monthly club stamp set.

Here's the inside of the card. The sentiments are from Spellbinders. The pencils are left overs from another card I made using the Glimmer plate.

This card is on its way to our little friend in Brooklyn, NY who turns five years old later this week. He is very much into do arty things, so I think he will like this colorful card.

Thanks for checking in,

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Spellbinders Confetti Wishes and Send & Seal stamp sets

Paper: Gina K Designs card stock

Ink: Gina K Designs

Other: Spellbinders May clubs, Layering Stencil, Glimmer, Embossing Folder, Betterpress plate, Glimmer and Betterpress Systems, Glimmer silver hot foil, Stampin' Up Star die, Gina K Designs Master Layouts 2 dies and blending brushes, Connect glue, foam squares

On Your Big Day

 Happy Monday Peeps,

I'm playing with Ann's color challenge for this week's The Paper Players. Her choice of colors are so pretty.  I thought they would work well with stencils, and I have a new-ish GKD large floral layering stencil that wanted to use. After finishing the stenciling, I decided I wanted to make something other than a basic card. As the image is large enough, a gate fold card came to mind.

For additional interest, I used a spotlight technique for the center front. I simply stenciled two panels, making them as close as possible, then used a circle die to cut the center out of one of the panels and the mat from Berry Burst, then popped up the circle over the center matching the flower lines. 

The greetings are heat embossed with black EP on vellum and cut with the matching dies and backed with Berry Burst CS. The edging lace die is from the GKD Master Layouts 18 die set and the pink pearls are also from GKD.

I took a couple of pictures of the front, one standing (please forgive the shadows) and one lying flat.

For the inside I stamped images from another new-ish GKD stamp set called Gentle Silhouettes. I like the greeting for inside a birthday card.

I have a couple of good friends who have birthdays this summer, so I'll save this for one of them.

Enjoy your week,

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Graceful Greetings and Gentle Silhouettes sets by Gina K Designs

Paper: SU Bubble Bath, Berry Burst card stock, Gina K Designs Layering Weight White card stock, SSS vellum

Ink: SU Berry Burst, Bubble Bath and Lost Lagoon, Gina K Designs embossing ink

Other: Gina K Designs Labyrinth Dahlia Layering Stencils, Master Layouts 18, Stitched Circles, and Master Layouts 1 dies, Brutus Monroe black embossing powder, heat tool, Gina K Designs pink pearl embellishments, Connect glue, SU Dimensionals

Fruity

Happy Mom's Day to all the Moms out there. I hope someone is spoiling you a little (a lot) today!  Being far away from my mom, it's really just another day. I sent her card earlier in the week, and I spoke with her yesterday.

I have a couple of fun and fruity cards for you today. I'm playing along with Vicki's Word Week challenge at Just Us Girls, and I've used Linda's sketch for this week's Freshly Made Sketches challenge for one of my cards.

I keep thinking I need to start using more patterned papers when I make cards. I have so much of it but rarely seem to use it. I made a point to use some on these cards, although it really didn't make a dent in what I have in this SU line called Tutti Frutti.

The stamp set used for both cards is from Concord & 9th called Fruit For Thought.

This stamp set includes several fruits and small sentiments as well as a very large focal type sentiment, which is what I used on the second card.

Using several of the patterns in the pack I layered them on the front of the card base. The large sentiment is heat embossed on yet another pattern. I did two layers of embossing powder, the first layer is black EP and the second layer is the old SU Dazzling Diamonds EP.  I cut the sentiment out with the coordinating die and popped it up over a Real Red panel.

The inside of the first card is stamped with "Thanks a mellow," and the inside of the second card says "You're sweet." 

Enjoy your day!

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Fruit For Thought set by Concord & 9th

Paper: SU card stock and SU Tutti Frutti DSP

Ink: Concord & 9th and Gina K Designs Embossing pad

Other: MFT Stitched Rectangle die, Brutus Monroe black embossing powder, SU Dazzling Diamonds embossing powder, heat tool, Connect glue, SU Dimensionals

Dive Into Happiness

 Hello,

Well, I'm finally feeling better, just a little lingering cough left. The best part is my energy has returned so I spent more time creating today instead of sitting around a reading.

I wanted to get a card made for the current Color Hues challenge, where Marcia has a summery color duo of blue and yellow. I pulled out some Spellbinders stencils and sentiments and combined them with some Lawn Fawn dies to make this "looking forward to summer" card.

After putting the pool over the stenciled background, I thought the card needed a little something, so I added the silhouette palm trees, which led to the heat embossed sentiment on black. 

For the inside of the card, I used the same beach ball stencil and another summer sentiment.

I hope you are enjoying your weekend!

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Typewriter Adventure Sentiments set by Spellbinders

Paper: Gina K Designs card stock

Ink: Simon Says Stamp Pawsitively Saturated inks, Gina K Designs embossing ink

Other: Summertime Graphics and Summertime Spray stencils by Spellbinders, Stitched Pond and Palm Trees dies by Lawn Fawn, Brutus Munroe Alabaster embossing powder, heat tool, blending brushes, Concord & 9th yellow enamel dots