A Good Friend Is Like A Four Leaf Clover. . .

 Hello,

As it's Friday tomorrow, I thought I better get my card for this week's Paper Players Challenge posted. Ann's challenge is this month's clean and simple challenge with a theme of Wild About Wild Life. Now, I have many, many stamps that work for wildlife, and I kind of had a difficult time deciding what I wanted to use. I ended up making two cards. The little mouse is from Colorado Craft Co and the Panda and her baby is an old wood mounted stamp that I got in a stamp store in Temecula, CA in 1997!

After stamping and coloring the mouse and clover images, I cut them out with their corresponding dies. I used the Pink Fresh Studio Blanket Stitched Rectangle die on the front of the card base, then glued the die cut images onto it and stamped the image. 

The second part of the greeting is on the inside of the card. I added a clover green mat for the blanket stitched rectangle and a few more die cut clovers. All images are from the same CCC stamp set.

As I mentioned, this second card is made with a single large wooden stamp. It's called Mother & Baby Panda and the manufacturer is Diamonds. The wood mount is very pretty, instead of a printed plastic label with the image, the image is actually carved into the wood and dyed. I inked up the image with black onyx ink making sure the ink was dark and coverage very even before stamping onto the card base. No way to do re-stamping if the image didn't stamp correctly. I actually stamped the image twice so I could cut out the leaves and glue them on top of the card images for just a little dimension. I used liquid glue, so they are still flat, I just off-set them slightly. The bamboo images are colored with Copic markers. Other than the extra leaves, this is a one layer card.

The sentiment is from the Stampin' Up set called Honeybee Home. I didn't take a picture of the inside. The greeting says Big Congratulations and is from the SU set called Special Moments from the current Sale-a-bration promotion.

Have a great Friday and weekend, and thanks for looking in,

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Four Leaf Clover set by Colorado Craft Company, Honeybee Home and Special Moments by Stampin' Up, and Mother & Baby Panda wood stamp by Diamonds

Paper: SU Bright white  and Call Me Clover card stock

Ink: Gina K Designs Black Onyx and Kraft ink pads and Copic markers

Other: Blanket Stitched Rectangle dies by Pink Fresh Studio, Four Leaf Clover set dies, Misti, Gemini Jr, Connect liquid glue

You Warm My Heart

Hi all,

Claire has the monthly Clean & Simple challenge for the Paper Players blog this week with a winter animal theme. I have many stamp sets that work for this, I just seem to struggle with the clean & simple part, LOL. In fact, I actually made three cards and decided the first two were not really CAS. I'll show them at the end because they turned out super cute. (and now I have 3 holiday cards for 2022 already, so it's a good thing.)

This card is a mini-slimline style. It's one layer, stamped using my Misti, and colored with colored pencils. Not sure if kitties count as winter animals, but in this Anita Jeram set, they are, walking through a snow storm.

I used very few supplies. The white card stock is Gina K Designs Heavy weight. The Black Onyx and Sea Glass inks are GKD, and I used Prismacolor colored pencils, and of course, the Misti to stamp everything. The stamp set is called Kittens & Mittens and it's by Colorado Craft Co.

Here is the inside. This stamp set has two images and three sentiments. I managed to use all of them on this card.

Here are the fronts of the other two cards. I made the bears with the night sky first, decided it wasn't CAS and made the snow angel card, which is even less CAS, LOL!

The stamp sets for this card are Lawn Fawn Winter Skies and Avery Elle Starry Scene. To make the sky look night-ish, I first used GKD Blue Denim ink, then stamped over that with GKD Wild Lilac and Lovely Lavender. The images are colored with Copics.

The stamp set for this final card is called Snow Much Fun by Lawn Fawn. The background is made with an ancient SU wheel stamp. (I forget how fun they are.) This is also a mini slimline style card, and the images are colored with Copics.

The card stock and inks are all by GKD. The night sky card uses Hero Infinity rounded corner rectangle dies on both the card base and the top panel. I used GKD Master Layouts 7 dies on the snow angel card to cut the top panel.

Thanks for looking in,

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Colorado Craft Co. Kittens & Mittens set, Lawn Fawn Snow Much Fun and Winter Skies sets, Avery Elle Starry Scene set

Paper: Gina K Designs Heavy and Layering Weight white and Blue Denim card stock

Ink: Gina K Designs Black Onyx, Sea Glass, Blue Denim, Wild Lilac, Lovely Lavender, Ocean Mist ink pads, Copic markers, Prismacolor colored pencils

Other: Hero Arts Infinity Rounded Corner Rectangle dies, Gina K Designs Master Layouts 7 dies, coordinating Lawn Fawn dies, Gemini Jr, Misti

Peace, Love & Macarons!

Hello and Happy Thursday peeps,

I love the jewel tones in the current Sunday Stamps Color Challenge! I had to play along. Trying to come up with an idea other than the beautiful flowers in the inspiration photo, I ran across this stamp set from Colorado Craft Company and thought it would work just fine. After all, macarons do come in all sorts of colors (flavors). Plus, this is such a fun image to color with Copics.

This stacked macaron image is large enough for a slimline card, so that's fun too. I stamped it with Memento black ink onto GKD layering weight white card stock and colored each cookie with various markers in each of the challenge colors, then cut it out using the corresponding die. To make the background, I used a bkg stamp from Concord & 9th inked with the Memento black and then cut it out with a Kat Scrappiness slimline die. I cut a mat for it from black card stock and layered it to the Lost Lagoon card base. The main image is popped up on the background with SU Dimensionals. The sentiment is from the same stamp set and it has a die to cut it out too. 

I decided to make some other flavors (chocolate) of cookies for the inside, and the other sentiment from the stamp set. These images are single cookies that I "stacked" by stamping the smaller one on top of the larger one.

So, I bought a We R Memory Keepers Shot Box to use for taking blog pictures. So far, I'm not thrilled! No matter how I set the light, my pictures are darker than I expect them to be! I'm not sure how to correct this. If anyone else has used it with better success, let me know the secret. It was fairly "spendy," so I don't want to give up on it, yet! These photos have a blue tinge for some reason too. I couldn't adjust the color in the photo editing software, and retaking them didn't change. Fairly frustrated here, LOL.

Anyhoo, thanks for looking in,

Colleen

Supplies

Slimeline Macaron stamp set and dies by Colorado Craft Company and Woven Plaid bkg stamp from Concord & 9th. SU Lost Lagoon card stock, Gina K Layering Weight white and black onyx card stocks, Memento tuxedo black ink pad, Copic markers, Kat Scrappiness Slimline die, Misti, Gemini Jr, SU Dimensionals

You Tickle My Fancy!

 Happy TGIF Peeps,

I knocked off work a little early today, around 3:00 pm local time. I finished my PowerPoint slides for a presentation my manager asked me to put together and decided I was done for the week. I had some happy mail today in the form of my latest Concord & 9th order, so after finishing this post, I'll be putting the sets with their dies into plastic storage envelopes and probably using some of them to make a card.

In this post, I have my card for this week's Freshly Made Sketches challenge. Linda has a great sketch this week. I received this Wishing You Happiness set by Colorado Craft Company before the holidays, but I had not inked it up yet. I thought it, with these sweet little pooches, would make a fun Valentine's Day card. Or, just a general thinking of you card too.

The card base is GKD Blue Denim card stock and the layers are GKD Sandy Beach card stock. The images are stamped with Memento black ink onto X-Press It Blending card stock and colored with Copic Markers. I used the Socr Buddy to add vertical lines to the larger Sandy Beach panel. I thought it would coordinate with the corrugated piece that is corrugated using a SU EF. The top panel is embossed with a Taylored Expressions heart embossing plate and cut out with a Hero Infinity die. The greetings are stamped with GKD Blue Denim and I've added some enamel hearts for embellishment.

The inside of the card uses more images from the same stamp set and a left over piece of the corrugated card stock.

 

I have a few of these Colorado Craft Co sets illustrated by Anita Jeram. Every one is just so sweet.

Have a nice Friday evening and weekend. Thanks for stopping by,

Colleen

Supplies

Wishing You Happiness set and dies by Colorado Craft Company, Gina K Designs Blue Denim and Sandy Beach card stock, X-Press It Blending card stock, Gina K Designs Blue Denim ink, Memento tuxedo black ink, Copic Markers, Scor-buddy, Misti, Gemini Jr, SU embossing folder, Taylored Expressions embossing plate, Hero Arts Infinity dies, SU Dimensionals, enamel dies