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