February Woodblock Wednesday Post

 Hi all,

It's Woodblock Wednesday for February! I so enjoy playing along with Amy's challenge each month.

After I got started with my stamping yesterday, playing with my chosen wood mounted stamps, I ended up making four cards. I thought I should do some practice stamping with the technique I planed to use, and I ended up using all but one of the images that I stamped. Even the practice ones. I used the marker to stamp technique, spritzing the colored stamp with water before stamping onto water color paper.

I thought I'd try combining the wood mounted images with some newer postage themed dies and stamps for my cards, and it worked pretty well.

Here are the four finished card fronts. I did finish the insides as well, but I'll spare you the pictures, LOL. 

I used SU water color markers to color on the stamps. For cards 1 and 2, the backgrounds are ink smooshed and then stamped with small hero wood mounted butterfly, dragonfly and ladybug images. On cards 3 and 4, the background is made using a Spellbinders 3D embossing folder. For all four cards, the backgrounds are die cut using Hero Infinity Postage Stamp A2 dies, which for cards 3 and 4, I did some partial die cutting to get the slimline size.

The small postage dies and postage stamped images are from Gina K Designs.

Here's the wood mounted stamps. Some are used for the inside of the cards. The stamps are mostly from Hero Arts and Stampassions. (I just noticed that one one the sentiment stamps is upside down!)

TGIF, and enjoy the weekend ahead!

Colleen

Supplies

Wood mounted stamps: Hero Arts and Stamppassions Art Stamps

Postage themed stamps: Gina K Designs

Paper: Tim Holtz water color paper, Gina K Designs Black Onyx and Layering Weight White card stock, SU Blushing Bride pink card stock

Ink: SU water based markers, Gina K Designs and Simon Says Stamp inks

Other: Gina K Designs postage dies, Hero Arts infinity Postage A2 dies, Spellbinders Stylized Lattice embossing folder, Gina K Designs small tag die, Spellbinders water mister bottle, foam tape, SU Dimensionals, twine

Your Big Day

TGIF Peeps!

I almost forgot to post my card for the current Paper Players Challenge! I logged onto my blog this morning and discovered my lapse, and it turns out, I never even took the pictures! Therefore, I'm just squeaking in my post before the Linky expires today.

This is a  birthday card for my stash. I pulled out some cute Lawn Fawn patterned papers to help with the design, and the stamps are from Gina K Designs. 

For the inside, I added more of one of the papers and used a different cupcake topper from the stamp set, as well as the greeting. To get the dots in the frosting, I used the old "kissing" technique with a background stamp.

I hope you have something fun planned for the weekend. Whatever you do, enjoy!

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Life Is Sweet set and Beautiful Patterns Bkg stamp by Gina K Designs

Paper: Gina K Designs white and black card stock, Lawn Fawn patterned paper

Ink: Gina K Designs and Copic Markers

Other: Gina K Designs Stitched Circle and Master Layouts 2 dies, black enamel dots, SU Dimensionals, Connect liquid glue

Hey Friend

Hello,

I received a new order from Concord & 9th last week and the Color Hues challenge seemed the perfect challenge to use these lovely stencils from Kristina Werner. I tried to only use just the two colors of yellow and coral, with white of course, but I did end upusing some black ink on the inside of my card.

I used the GKD Master Layouts 2 dies to cut the stenciled panel and the shadow layer and I used the Concord & 9th Basket Weave Card Front die as a background on the card base.

Here's the inside.

Thanks for checking in and enjoy your Tuesday evening.

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps & Stencils: Sweet Stems Bundle and Simple Flowers Bundle by Concord & 9th

Paper: Gina K Designs Layering White, Sunkissed Coral, Wild Dandelion card stock

Ink: Gina K Designs Lemon Drop, Wild Dandelion, Sun Kissed Coral, Black Onyx

Other: Concord & 9th Basket Weave Card Front die, Gina K Designs Master Layouts 2 die set, Gina K Designs heart embellishments, Connect glue

Get Whale Soon

Happy Monday Peeps,

I hope everyone had a fab weekend.

Last night after dinner, I was looking through some of my stamps sets and realized that I had not used this sea animal set from GKD called Serene Sea Life. It's got some really cute images of seals, whales and turtles. I thought that the whales would work for Jen's Feshly Made Sketches challenge. 

I pulled out a GKD water stencil and a Spellbinders water embossing folder along with some blending brushes and blue inks to make the background. The whales are stamped in Slate ink and colored with W Copic Markers.

For the inside of the card I chose one of the turtle images that fit with a "get well" theme. I ink blended the background of the panel using the same blue shades as on the front since the images all have dies to cut them out. 

 

I wanted to make a thank you card for our friends that we went to  Palm Springs with last week. Using Modernism as inspiration as well as the palm trees that are everywhere, I came up with this card. 

I found some funky flower images in a really old SU set and stamped them in the center of a white panel then cut a frame so that they just showed around the opening. Then I ink blended a sky that reminded me of the evening sky in Palm Springs, light blue and pink, as a back drop for the silhouette palm trees.  I cut some card stock in Mid Century Modern colors to make a color block card base.

Hope you all have a great week!

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Serene Sea Life by Gina K Designs

Paper: Gina K Designs Layering Weight White and Sea Glass card stock, SU Basic White Thick card stock

Ink: Gina K Designs Denim Blue, Blue Raspberry, Turquoise Sea, Sea Glass, Christmas Green, & Slate inks and Copic Markers

Other:  Gina K Designs Water Droplets Stencil, Spellbinders Splish Splash Embossing Folder, Blending Brushes, Blue enamel dots, SU Dimensionals, Connect Glue

Happy Hour

 Hello,

We're back from our long weekend in Palm Springs for Modernism Week, and we had a lovely time. We toured some very cool Mid Century Modern homes, inside and out, and took a 2.5 hour bus tour through some of the neighborhoods where most of the homes are of that architecture, many of which were once owned by celebrities.

This afternoon after getting things put away and laundry done, I made this colorful card for Jan's Masculine / CAS theme for The Paper Players. I've also used Jen M.'s sketch for this weeks Freshly Made Sketches.

I cut the card base with a die from the Concord & 9th Select A Size die set and glued it to a panel that I stenciled using the Concord & 9th Joyful Tiles Turnabout stencil set. The martini glass and the sentiment are from the SU Sip Sip Hooray stamp set.

Here's the inside where I've used a couple of other SU stamp sets.

It's always good to have another masculine birthday card in my stash. 

Have a nice Friday, and weekend ahead.

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: All Stampin' Up sets, Sip Sip Hooray, Bonanza Buddies, Happy Hour

Paper: SU Vanilla

Ink: SU Merry Merlot, Tranquil Teal, Dapper Denim, Delightful Dijon, Gina K Designs Soft Stone, Storm Sky, Copic Markers

Other: Concord & 9th Joyful bTiles Turnabout stencil and Select A Size dies, blending brushes, Connect glue

Love You Friend

 Hi,

Since we are leaving tomorrow until Wednesday, I thought I'd do a 2nd post today with my Just Us Girls card. It's Word Week and the word is Friend.  The DT cards are all so pretty, and I love Stephanie's Snoopy card. 

I made a birthday card for a friend using some layering stencils. There are three layers of stencils and for the third stencil I used Deco gel instead of ink. After it was sufficiently dry, I used my GKD Fuse System and foiled some pretty pink foil to give it shine. The large Love sentiment is also foiled. To make it, I foiled a piece of Polyglaze with the iridescent foil then cut the die.

This stencil is called Heartfelt Snowflake, by Gina K, and I thought that it would make a pretty spring-ish looking card with the pinks. 

Here's the front again but tilted to show the shine.

For the inside, I used the Gina K set Delicate Dahlias for the sentiments and the Gina K set You are So Loved for the cupcake.

This card is very pretty IRL.

Enjoy your weekend!

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Gina K Designs sets Delicate Dahlias and You Are So Loved

Paper: Gina K Designs Layering Weight White, Black Onyx and Passionate Pink

Ink: Gina K Designs Innocent Pink, Passionate Pink and Black Onyx. Copic Markers

Other: Gina K Designs Heartfelt Snowflake Layering stencils, Love die from A Little Love bundle, Deco gel duo, Deco pink and iridescent white foil, Fuse System, Mini Disco Ball sequins, Connect glue, Foam tape

Happy Easter

 Happy Weekend Peeps,

It's a beautiful day here in my neck of the woods. I have a few errands to do later today, but for now I'm being lazy and looking at cards while going through my stamping blog list, as well as writing today's post.

My card today is an Easter card, first one for this year, and it uses this week's Freshly Made Sketches sketch as inspiration. All of the supplies are from Gina K Designs, featuring her new ink and card stock colors, two on the front and the other two on the inside..

The circle is made with the Twirl-It Gingham stencil using two of the new colors, Blue Sky and Emerald Coast. The sprig of leaves is foiled with Deco Foil and the Fuse machine using silver foil and I used the coordinating stencils to color it with Emerald Coast and Lemon Yellow. The bunny die is one from the Some Bunny die set, cut from white card stock. I shaded the ears with pink and then embossed it with the Swiss Dot EF. The card base is also embossed using the Lattice EF, and both sentiments are heat embossed with white detail embossing powder.

For the inside, I used the Friendly Wishes mini stamp set for the sentiment and the flowers. Instead of white card stock, the images are stamped on a piece of Barley There card stock. The other new colors are the yellow (Butterscotch) and coral (Sunkissed Coral) flowers.

Enjoy your weekend. We are driving to Palm Springs with friends tomorrow for four days to check out Modernism Week. We have some home tours booked that should be quite interesting. We've been wanting to check it out for a few years, but we never have gotten our act together in time to book before things were sold out. This year, we planned early enough to be able to book tours.

Thanks for looking in,

Colleen

Supplies

All from Gina K Designs

Stamps: Easter Blessings and Friendly Wishes sets

Paper: Blue Sky, Emerald Coast, Barley There, Black Onyx and Layering White card stock

Ink: Blue Sky, Emerald Coast, Bubblegum Pink, Lemon Yellow, Sunkissed Coral, Butterscotch, and Craft White

Other: Some Bunny dies, Stitched Circle Dies, Sentiment Strip dies, Delicate Florals Polyglaze sheets, dies and stencils, Swiss Dots and Lattice Embossing Folders, White Detail Embossing Powder, Pastel Enamel dots, Silver Deco Foil, Fuze Machine, Blending Brushes, Corner Rounder Punch, Foam Squares, Connect Liquid glue

You Are Simply Amazing

Happy Hump Day Peeps!

A quick post with my card for this week's Paper Players Challenge. LeAnne is our hostess with the monthly color challenge, and they are nice Spring group. I don't have the SU Summer Splash ink or card stock, so I've used another ink that looks to be close to that shade.

The die cut flowers and leaves are cut from white card stock and I used blending brushes and ink pads to color them. The Flirty Flamingo card base is stamped with the Swiss Dots background stamp using Flirty Flamingo ink, as is the center oval shape.  I'm a little sorry that I used the background stamp on the oval. I think I would have liked it better leaving it white with the stamped sentiment. 

Here's the inside with another sentiment from the same stamp set.

Enjoy the rest of your week, and happy stamping!

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps and dies: Blended Blooms bundle from Concord & 9th, Dainty Swiss Dots Background stamp from Altenew

Paper: SU Flirty Flamingo and Thick Basic White card stock

Ink: SU Flirty Flamingo and Daffodil Delight, Gina K Designs Black Onyx and Emerald Coast

Other: Blending brushes, liquid glue, SU dimensionals

You're the cat's MEOW!

 Hello and Happy Sunday,

Today I have a couple of cards inspired by Jacquie's sketch for Freshly Made Sketches. I might even say loosely inspired by.

Card one here is probably my favorite. I made it for my nephew that lives in Minneapolis and works for the University in the GIS department. He recently received a nice promotion, and he is a kitty fan.

I thought I could use the three cats on a fence as the three images in Jacquie's design. I created the fence by scoring a white panel every 1/4" then dragging some brown ink pads over the panel. I also added some green for contrast. The top is partial die cut with an older fence die I have in my stash and I used the left over strips to add the horizontal boards, complete with some nails (brads.)

The night sky is ink blended and ink splattered. The small moon is from the GKD Master Layouts 6 die set. I cut it from masking paper then ink blended some yellow lightly over it once the mask was removed.

Here is the inside of this card.

All of the stamped images inside and on the front are from the same Gina K Designs stamp and die set called Cordial Cats.

The second card is also made using Gina K Designs supplies. I moved the three images from the top to the side.

The background is from a new stamp from GKD as is the ink color it's stamped with. The birds are from the Ornate Birds stamp and die set. The right side panel is ink blended and separated  with a strip of card stock and it's popped up with foam tape over the background. The black enamel dots are glued over dots that are part of the background stamp.

Here's the inside of this card.

I will not be watching the "big game" today.  FB is not a sport that I enjoy, so I'll be crafting away during the afternoon, but, if you're a fan, I hope it's a good game.

Colleen

Supplies - Card 1

Stamps: Cordial Cats set by Gina K Designs

Paper: Gina K Designs card stocks

Ink: Gina K Designs

Other: Gina K Designs Master Layouts 6 dies set, Fence and sentiment dies from My Favorite Things, SU Brads, Spellbinders small gold dotsFoam Tape, SU Dimensionals, 

Supplies - Card 2

Stamps: Ornate Birds set by Gina K Designs and Double Background/Grip Mat by Gina K Designs

Paper: Gina K Designs card stock

Ink: Gina K Designs

Other: Gina K Designs black enamel dots, Foam Tape, SU Dimensionals

Happy "Love" Day!

 TGIF Peeps,

It's a very drippy, but not really rainy, day here in San Diego today. Too drippy for my daily walk. I've been doing a little cleaning and a lot of crafting. 

This week is die week at Just Us Girls and Lisa is looking for heart dies. I'm sure we all have many to choose from in our die stashes. I decided on a few older Concord & 9th sets and made two cards.

This first one is a die set called Enchanted Hearts. So many ways to use it. I simply cut everything from white card stock and then cut some strips of colored card stock and glued those to a background panel so they show through the cutouts. The sentiment dies are from two other C&9th sets. I cut them from black card stock twice and layered them, then brushed a thick layer of Nuvo clear glitter gloss over them followed by some Glossy Accents. After they dried, I glued them to the front. Also, it's a little difficult to tell from the photo that I popped the large scalloped heart up with foam tape matching the stripes as best I could.

Here's the inside of this card with a sentiment from the C&9th Paper Bouquet stamp set.

 

The second card also uses the same Enchanted Hearts die, with a different layout and some different stamps. Again, all are from C&9th. I made a shaker card with this one. The card stocks and ink colors are the same on both cards.

And the inside of card two.

Wishing everyone a happy and relaxing weekend,

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps and Main Dies: All Concord & 9th: Enchanted Hearts Die set, Happy Heart set with dies, Sweet Talk set with dies, Paper Bouquet set with dies, Pop Up Heart Turnabout set, Scattered Hearts Turnabout set

Paper: Concord & 9th card stock  in Pink Lemonade, Honeysuckle, Sea Glass, Juniper, Clementine and white

Ink: Gina K Designs Black Onyx, Concord & 9th Pink Lemonade, Honeysuckle, Sea Glass and Juniper

Other: Gina K Designs Master Layouts 2 and 12 die sets, Nuvo Clear Glitter, Glossy Accents, Misc shapes and sequin for shaker, Acetate, foam tape, Connect glue

Love You

 Hello all,

I have another very pink and bright Valentine's Day card for you today. I was watching this Jennifer McGuire video and decided to give the technique a try. This video is  part 2 of 2. Part 1 is the same technique using embossing folders, which I also tried and made several cards with the backgrounds I produced.

I'm playing with the current Color Hues Pink and Red challenge, and Ann's Theme challenge, Love is In The Air for the Paper Players.

All of the supplies for this card are from Gina K Designs. They include the heart sentcil, Script background stamp, focal dies, paper and ink.

As with most inking techniques, it's hard to stop, but even with the door open to the outside and the over head fan on, the alcohol fumes got to be a little much. But, I got some nice results from both the stencils and the embossing folders. Like Jennifer, I found that the Simon Says Stamp Pawsitivitly Saturated inks gave a little better result, but the Gina K dye inks still worked well. I'm assuming most dye inks would work. I used a Tim Holtz sponge ink applicator instead of blending brushes to apply the ink and blend the colors. I thought that a heavier ink application would probably work best.

Here's the inside of this card. Also using GKD stamps.

The following cards are made using backgrounds from the same technique, but with embossing folders. The embossing folders are from SSS, SU, and Spellbinders. The die sets used to finish the cards are all from Spellbinders. Inks are all SSS Pawsitively Saturated inks.

If you're looking for a fun inking technique, watch Jennifer's two videos and give this a try. I love picking the blending colors.

Enjoy your week,

Colleen

Supplies for Challenge Card

Stamps: Elegant Script Background Stamp and You Are So Loved set by Gina K Designs

Paper: Gina K Designs card stock Cherry Red, Passionate Pink, Innocent Pink, and Heavy Weight White

Ink: Gin K Designs Passionate Pink, Bubble Gum Pink, and Cherry Red

Other: Gina K Designs Layering Hearts Stencil (I used only the open heart stencil), Gina K Designs Master Layouts 1 dies, small heart from the Stitched Circle die set, and Ornate Love You dies, Tim Holtz sponge applicator, rubbing alcohol in mister bottle, red enamel heart, foam tape