Woodblock Wednesday Note Cards

 Hello and happy Saturday,

I made these cards for Amy's Woodblock Wednesday Challenge for June. I love these sketchy fruit stamps by Art Impressions, and wanted to use them for this month's project. I first stamped the five images on one card in black, but didn't really like the look, so I changed to one card per fruit using colored card stocks. I found some woodblock greeting stamps to go with and turned them into simple note cards leaving the inside blank.

I did end up making a card from the first panel. I colored the background fruit with colored pencils and then used a focal panel like the other four cards.

The card stock and inks are all SU. The rounded corner rectangle dies are Hero Arts Infinity dies and I used GKD Master Layouts 1 dies to cut the large panels and black mats.

A little personal note, yesterday was retirement day for my "Personal Chef" and we did a little celebrating with friends last night. It was a fun evening. I retired two years ago, and yesterday was his turn. I hope he enjoys his retirement even half as much as I'm enjoying mine.

Enjoy your weekend, and thanks for looking in!

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Fruit images from Art Impressions, Greeting stamps from Hero and Stampin' Up

Paper: Strawberry Slush, Watermelon Wonder, Pineapple Crush, Raspberry Ripple, Basic White Thick, Basic White and Basic Black card stock from Stampin' Up

Ink: Memento Tuxedo black, Strawberry Slush, Watermelon Wonder, Pineapple Crush, Raspberry Ripple inks by Stampin' Up

Other: Hero Arts Rounded Corner Rectangle Infinity dies, Gina K Designs Master Layouts 1 dies, Gina K Designs black enamel dots, SSS sequins, SU Dimensionals

Wine a Little, It Helps. . .

Hello all,

Today's card I made for the current Fusion Card Challenge.  Wine and Cheese are two of my favorite things, so I had to play along. 

I have this large wine bottle die that I thought would be perfect for the sketch and theme for the Fusion challenge . Unfortunately, I didn't label the storage envelope that I have this die stored in and since it's several years old, I really have no idea of the maker. (I tried looking it up on SSS and a few other web sites but couldn't find it.) 

I also remembered I have this older wood mounted stamp of a wine basket and thought it would be fun for the label on the die cut bottle. This is also an older stamp with a date on the price tag of 2005. 

Since I'm using all of these older supplies, this card works for the current Anything Goes Challenge at Retro Rubber. Even the patterned papers are several years old, from SU and long retired.

The greetings, both front and inside, are from Taylored Expressions. 

Enjoy your afternoon and the rest of the week, and thanks for looking in.

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Wine Basket Wood Mounted stamp from Art Impressions and Wine a Little sets by Taylored Expressions

Paper: SU Cajun Craze, Soft Suede, Very Vanilla card stock and Comfort Cafe DSP

Ink: Gina K Designs Charcoal Brown and SU Cajun Craze, Copic Markers

Other: Wine Bottle die, GKD Master Layouts 6 dies,  Rust enamel dots, Misit, Sizzix Switch Plus, SU Dimensionals

Friends

Hi peeps,

It's "theme week" at The Paper Players Challenge this week and Ann's theme is "Laughter Is the Best Medicine." I have several sentiments and stamps that would work and at first I was thinking one of my "punny" stamp sets. But, while looking thought my bins, I ran across this older Art Impressions set and decided it would fit just fine.

I think I got this in New Jersey about 5 or 6 years ago when I was there for work. I remember it was snowing when I was out and about, and I found a stamp store. It was the best place to pass a Sunday afternoon.

The image is stamped with Memento Tuxedo black ink and colored with Copic markers. I'm a little rusty with skin tones, but this is a fun image to spend time coloring. After the coloring was completed, I used the GKD ML 2 die set to cut the white panel and the Blackberry Bliss mat. I decided it needed some thing other than card stock in the background and I found this old SU polkadot DSP that worked. The sentiment from the stamp set is heat embossed using white fine detail EP on Blackberry Bliss card stock and then cut out with a GKD stitched flag die.

The inside greeting is also from the same stamp set. I added a Blackberry Bliss wine glass cut with a Taylored Expressions die, and used the GKD ML 2 dies again to cut out the panels.

Today is Opening Day for BB season, so you know I'll be watching later tonight. I hope you all have a great evening, and thanks for looking in.

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Girlfriends In the Tub stamp set by Art Impressions

Paper: X-Press It Blending card stock, SU Blackberry Bliss and Bright White card stock, SU polkadot DSP (retired)

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Gina K Designs embossing ink, Copic Markers

Other: Gina K Designs Master Layouts 2 dies, Taylored Expressions Wine Glass die, WOW Fine Detail Opaque Bright White embossing powder, heat tool, Misti, Gemini Jr, SU Dimensionals, Sakura White Gel pen

Birthday Wishes

Happy Hump Day stampers,

I made this birthday card last night after work for Leslie's Always Playing With Paper Challenge #43. This week Leslie has an inspiration photo to work from. I took my inspiration from the birdhouses in the background, the baskets and the plants.

This rather country themed stamp I bought way back in 1997. It's a very large wood mounted stamp from Art Impressions. I also remember that I bought it at a Long's Drug store in Sunnyvale, Ca. My sister lived in the community at the time and the Long's Drug store had two big isles of rubber stamps. They had the largest selection of the Magenta brand stamp line than any stamp store in northern California. Funny the things that we remember.

I stamped the image in Memento tuxedo black and colored it with Copics. I added the natural and brown Baker's twine and some SU brown candy dots. Even though the image looks like it's a lot to color, it was pretty quick. I have two friends with birthdays during the first week of October, so this will be for one of them.

Supplies

Stamps: Large wreath single stamp from Art Impressions, sentiment from Stampin' Up

Paper: SU Tip Top Taupe and X-Press It Blending card stocks and Lawn Fawn patterned papers

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Copics, SU Tip Top Taupe

Other: Fiskers corner rounder punch, Reflections Baker's twine, SU Earth Elements candy dots, dimensional tape

Have a great day and rest of your week. As always, thanks for looking.

Colleen

Challenges New and Old

Good afternoon stampers,

I hope you are all having a fun and relaxing weekend. Like many of you, Sunday brings two of my favorite blog-land challenges, Karen's Sweet Sunday Sketch challenge and Stacey's Curtain Call Color challenge. It seems that I've gotten into the habit of combining the two to see what I can come up with, and this week is no exception. Although I didn't have time last week to play along, I did end up making a card late Friday night using both last week's colors and sketch. It was too late to actually participate in the challenges, so I'm showing it in today's post, hence today's post title.

I'll go in chronological order starting with the card that follows last Sunday's SSSC 98 sketch and CCC, Act 63 colors of bashful blue, cajun craze, chocolate chip, always artichoke and whisper white. The stamp set is from the up-coming SU Sale-a-bration mini called Sweet Summer. I used my aqua painter to water color the images and the patterned paper is retired SU DSP.

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Here is the card made following this week's SSSC 99 and CCC, Act 64 colors of pacific point, cherry cobbler, marina mist, always artichoke and whisper white. The large tea cup stamp is a single stamp that I've had forever from Art Impressions. I loved the button grouping that Karen used here on her card and I have shamelessly {grin} copied her using a mix of SU flowered brads and a button. For the center of the flowers I used SU round "Ice" brads (both are retired). I layered the scalloped border element under my image instead of over as it just seemed to work better here.

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Tomorrow I'll be back with a card made for Saturdays Sweet Stop challenge layout. It's made with my first "Stella" digi-stamp. So, see you all back here tomorrow.

Thanks so much for stopping by,
Colleen

Supplies
Card 1:
Stamps: SU Sweet Summer set and Tiny Tags set
Card stock: SU chocolate chip, always artichoke and whisper white
Patterned Paper: SU DSP (retired)
Ink: memento tuxedo black, bashful blue, always artichoke, cajun craze, daffodil delight
Other: classic circle and lacy circle Nesties, SU border punch, SU EF, SU circle tag, Kaiser yellow pearls, TE green rhinestones, TE chocolate ribbon, Die-namics grass die, the Big Shot, and dimensionals


Card 2:
Stamps: Art Impressions single stamp and SU So Happy For You set
Card stock: SU always artichoke, marina mist, cherry cobbler, pacific point and whisper white
Patterned Paper: Echo Park
Ink: SU always artichoke and cherry cobbler
Other: classic circle and big scalloped circle Nesties, TE border die, SU EF, SU corner rounder punch, SU brads, button and ribbon, the Big Shot, mini glue dots, and dimensionals