Happy Spring

 TGIF Peeps!

Hope your week has been a good one. I've mostly been working on a new quilt, actually it is an old WIP that I ran across while looking for something else, so I decided I'd pull it out to finish. I need some additional fabric, so later I'm headed to the fabric store.

Yesterday late afternoon, I finished what I could on the quilt and decided to do some stamping. Since it's the last week of the month, it's time for the February edition of Woodblock Wednesday. I pulled out some spring themed stamps and papers and used this week's Paper Players sketch by Jan to make this card.

These pretty papers are from The Stamps of Life Company and the pack is called Happy Florals collection. The front floral stamp is from Magenta. I stamped it twice, cutting one image with a stitched die from GKD. The other image I colored with Prismacolor colored pencils then cut out the floral boxes and popped them up. The sentiment strip image is from Hero Arts and again, it's cut out with a GKD die.

On the inside I wanted to stay with wood mounted stamps and I found this cute kitty dressed as the Easter Bunny, from Magenta, in my stash. I paired her/him with a simple Happy Easter greeting, also by Hero.

Here are the wood mounted stamps used for today's card.

Enjoy your Friday and the weekend. I'll be sewing.

Thanks for checking in,

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Sentiment stamps by Hero Arts and Image stamps by Magenta

Paper: SU card stock and The Stamps of Life Co. patterned papers

Ink: Gina K Designs Black Onyx and Bubblegum Pink

Other: Gina K Designs Master Layouts 5 and 13, Prismacolor Colored Pencils, Gamsol, Gina K Designs Pastel enamel pearls, foam tape

Spring Flowers for Easter

Hi-ya Peeps,

I hope everyone had a nice weekend. 

I have a couple of cards to share today. They have the same basic design, but have different sentiments and one has an extra image. The focal images are inspired by Claire's theme for this week's Paper Players Challenge, which is Spring Flowers. I know there are many flowers that bloom in early spring and then are done for the year, and the two that I think about most are daffodils and tulips. I went with Daffodils for my cards.

The main image of Daffodils is a Spellbinders Glimmer plate and I've hot foiled it with mat gold foil and colored the images with Copics. This is a very large image and I didn't want to cut it so these are both 5 x 7 inch cards.

On the card above, I've added a stitched butterfly. The stitching plate/embroidery hoop is a die from Lawn Fawn. There are several in the line, but there is also a "blank" that just cuts the circle with holes. Lawn Fawn has several patterns on their website on how to stitch many different images and I used a newer one, this butterfly. To make it easy to know where to stitch the different colors, I used colored pencils to color each square in the appropriate color, then did the stitching. So easy this way!

The sentiment on this card comes with the hot foil plate and it's foiled with the same mat gold foil.

For the second card, I used a sentiment from a Gina K Designs set, stamped it in black ink on vellum and then used clear embossing powder to emboss it. I cut it out with a die from the Gina K Designs Master Layouts 18 die set and glued it to a strip of Lemon Yellow card stock to match the card base.

The insides of both cards are the same images, but one says Happy Spring and one says Happy Easter. The daffodil image is from Gina K and the bunny and sentiments are from Concord & 9th.

I really like how both of these cards turned out. I loved coloring these up, and I love how bright and cheery they are. 

Have a great Monday evening,

Colleen

Supplies

Hot Foil set: Daffodil Spray Feb 2024 Glimmer of the month by Spellbinders

Stamps: Easter Blessings set by Gina K Designs and Some Bunny set by Concord & 9th

Paper: Gina K Designs Heavy White, Black Onyx, Ocean Mist,  and Lemon Yellow, Vellum

Ink: Gina K Designs Black Onyx, Lemon Yellow, Soft Stone. Copic Markers

Other: Spellbinders Glimmer hot foil, Glimmer System, Lawn Fawn Embroidery Hoop dies, Embroidery thread, Gina K Designs Master Layouts 8 and 18 dies, foam tape, Connect liquid glue

Ears To You

 Good Monday Morning peeps,

I hope it was a relaxing weekend for you. I did some crafting, some reading, attended a high school baseball game and had dinner with friends, which adds up to a very nice one for me.

I have a cute and simple Easter card for this week's Freshly Made Sketches challenge. I've used older SU stamps for both the front and back images, combined with new SU papers and GKD Master Layouts dies.

And the inside:

I love that greeting on the front! Enjoy your week,

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Ears To You single stamp, A Good Egg set and Basket Bunch set all by Stampin' Up

Paper: SU Night of Navy and Basic White card stock, Regency Park DSP

Ink: Gina K Designs Black Onyx, Soft Stone, In the Navy,  Grass Green, Sea Glass, Copics

Other: Gina K Designs Master Layouts 5 and 3 dies, blending brushes, Misti, foam tape, SU star embellishments, Connect Liquid Glue

Easter Blessings

 Hello,

Today's post has my card for this week's Paper Players Challenge. This week is theme week with Joanne as our hostess. Her theme is Easter.

Since I'm still at my mom's with limited stamp sets to choose from, my Easter card has some pretty tulips instead of a bunny and eggs. This sweet little Gina K mini set is the only Easter set I have here. I brought some of the newer SU DSPs with me and I liked these pastel polka dots to go with Joanne's them. Hence, turquoise tulips.

The layout comes from this week's Sunday Stamps sketch.

After stamping the tulips, I masked them and used the GKD Sunshine stencil to add the sun rays behind, then cut the panel using a double stitched rectangle die and the black mat. The greeting is cut using a banner die from the GKD ML 2 die set and popped up with Dimensionals.

I used two other GKD sets for the inside greeting and images. The flower box and flowers are colored with colored pencils.

Enjoy your Thursday, and thanks for looking in.

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Spring Greetings Mini, Welcome Home and Window Additions sets by Gina K Designs

Paper: Gina K Designs Layering Weight White and Black Onxy card stock, Taylored Expressions textured turquoise card stock, Stampin' Up Dandy Designs DSP

Ink: Gina K Designs Ocean Mist, Turquoise Sea, Jelly Bean Green, Fresh Asparagus, Lemon Yellow, Black Onyx cubes

Other: Gina K Designs Master Layouts 1 and 2 dies, Gina K Designs Double and Single Stitched Rectangle dies, Gina K Designs Sunshine stencil, blending brush, Masking Magic, Prisma colored pencils, Misti, Big Shot, SU Dimensionals

Wishing You A Happy Easter

 Hey Stampers,

Happy Monday. Yesterday I played around with something new to me, ink blending with Distress alcohol inks. I made a few simple backgrounds using a blending tool with felt. It was fun to see what several colors added together looked like. I only have a few inks so my palette was somewhat limited. I need to watch a few videos to see what other techniques work. 

After playing around with the alcohol inks, I went back to the familiar and made a card for this week's Paper Players Challenge. Anne Marie has a fun sketch for us. I pulled out the stamp sets from the latest Gina K Designs kit and some SU papers and made an Easter card.

 

I started with some SU papers, Whisper White and Basic Black card stock and a couple of patterns from the Designer Series Paper Sampler from last year. I cut the background paper and the black mat using the GKD Master Layouts 1 dies. The flower is stamped with GKD Black Onyx and colored with Polychromos colored pencils. I used gamsol and blending stumps to help with the shading. The sentiment is from another GKD stamp set from the same kit release. It is stamped with Black Onyx and cut out with a flag die from the GKD Master Layouts 4.

The stamp sets have birthday sentiments, but I wanted to use this card as an Easter card so I used a sentiment from the GKD Easter Blessings stamp set, which is the third stamp set from the kit. I added a smaller poppy flower and this time used the solid stamps with Passionate Pink ink for the flower and Soft Stone ink for the leaves. Using the Master Layouts 1 dies set, I cut the white panel and a Rose Red mat.

 

Back to the alcohol inks, here is a card one of the backgrounds that I made. This is the GKD Easter Blessings stamp set. I added many Pretty Pink Posh gems around the card. I think I'll send this one to my mom.

Thanks for checking in. Have a wonderful week!

Colleen

Supplies

Gina K Designs Forever Flowers, Lace Flowers and Easter Blessings stamp sets, Master Layouts 1 and 4 die sets, Forever Flowers dies, Black Onyx and Passionate Pink inks, Faber Castel colored pencils, gamsol, blending stumps, SU Whisper White, Basic Black, and Rose Red card stocks, SU DSP sampler, Misti, Gemini Jr

Tim Holtz Distress alcohol inks, blending tool, felt, Yuppo glossy paper, GKD Black Onyx ink, Easter Blessing stamp set, Master Layouts 4 die set, Pretty Pink Posh gems, GKD Heavy Weight white card stock, Misti, Gemini Jr

You've Always Been a Good Egg

 Hello,

Continuing with Easter cards, I have another one that I made using an older wood mounted stamp from my stash. I'm loving how colorful this turned out too. 

This stamp is from Stampassions and it's called "Egg on Your Face, " LOL. I stamped it in GKD Black Onyx ink onto white card stock and colored it with Faber-Castell Polychromos colored pencils and used gamsol and blending stumps to get the shading. The center greeting is from the SSS Some Bunny stamp set.

This card fits into two challenges, the current Retro Rubber Challenge is "anything goes" this week, and the As You See It Challenge has an Easter theme this week. I'm sure this stamp is at least 20 years old, fitting for the Retro Rubber challenge.

After coloring the image, I cut it out with the GKD Master Layouts 1 dies using black card stock for the mat. The card base is SU card stock.

The inside image is also from an older wood mounted stamp from Hero Arts, circa 1993. Again, stamped in GKD Black Onyx ink and colored with colored pencils and gamsol. The greeting is from the SSS Some Bunny set.

Thanks for looking in. Happy Hump Day tomorrow!

Colleen

Supplies

Easter wood mounted stamps from Stampassions and Hero Arts, Simon Says Stamp Some Bunny stamp set, GKD Layering white and black card stock, Master Layouts 1 dies, Black Onyx ink, SU pink card stock, Faber-Castell Polychromos colored pencils, gamsol and blending stumps, Pretty Pink Posh pink gems, Connect glue 

Some Bunny

Hello peeps,

I have a couple of cards that I made for the new Paper Players Challenge. This week Ann has the monthly CAS challenge and her theme is animals. Since it's Easter card season, I used the opportunity to use my favorite bunny stamp.

This is an older wooden stamp from 1993 from a company called PSX, and I've used it many times over the years. As this is a CAS challenge, I kept things pretty simple, although one of the cards does have a couple of layers. I made the card with the black scalloped layer first and then decided it was maybe not CAS enough, so I made another without layers.

For the non-layered card, I used an older MFT stitched die to make a frame for the bunny. The small black flowers are made with a Taylored Expressions flower border die. I cut a few of the flowers apart so I could add them to the layout. The sentiments are from a SSS Easter set.

The images on both cards are stamped in GKD Black Onyx ink. I colored the carrot with Copics. I like the added color with the black and white theme.

Thanks for checking in,

Colleen

Supplies

PSX Easter Stamp and Simon Says Stamp Some Bunny set, Gina K Designs white and black card stock, Black Onyx ink, Copics, My Favorite Things stitched die, Taylored Expressions Flower border die, Kat Scrappiness Slimline scalloped border die, VersaMark, SSS white EP, heat tool, Misti, Gemini Jr. 

Easter Wishes

Happy Monday afternoon peeps,

I had a great Sunday afternoon of stamping and made three cards. Two of them use LeAnne's sketch for this week's Paper Players Challenge. When there's a great sketch, why stop at just one card, right? I'm actually posting the second card that I made with her sketch. The first one I'll post later in the week, and they are both very different.

For today's card, the idea came to me while I was looking through my dies for something I needed for the first card, and I came across some older Die-namics bow dies. Here's what I did with them.

Doesn't pastel gingham make you think of Spring and Easter? That is totally what came to me when I ran across the bow dies. I knew that I had the SU gingham DSP and decided to see if my idea would work. 

The inside panel is a Piece of Whisper White with a layer of super old SU velum  printed with flowers. Unfortunately, it's a little hard to see the detail on it in this photo. I cut the three background pieces of gingham using the SU Stitched Rectangle dies, and also used one of them to cut the velum and Whisper white.  The bows are cut from the reverse side of the gingham where the checks are smaller.

For the inside, I used a piece of the yellow gingham and a little chocolate bunny and sentiment from another older SU set.

Luckily, I had a really light work day and I think the rest of the week is going to be as well. My scheduled project is delayed because the customer facility wasn't quite ready. Of course, you know it means I'll just have to work faster and longer to make up for the delay once I do get access.

This afternoon is game one of the 2020 Little League season. Our little friends are playing again this year which means lots of afternoons watching BB.

I hope you all have a good evening and thanks for looking in.

Colleen


Supplies
Stamps: Something To Celebrate and Basket Bunch sets by Stampin' Up
Paper: SU Whisper White thick and regular card stock, SU Gingham DSP, SU printed velum
Ink: Memento Tuxedo black, Copics
Other: Die-namics Bow dies, SU Stitched Rectangle dies, SU Basket Bunch dies, Gemini Jr, Misti, Foam tape, liquid glue

Happy Spring

Hello,

I have a very colorful Spring/Easter card for you this evening. I made this for the new Paper Players Challenge where my friend, LeAnne, is the hostess this week. LeAnne's challenge is to use plaid as a focal point on our projects.

I have tons of plaid papers and even stamps to make plaid, so that wasn't a problem, but I'm not so sure I accomplished the "focal point" requirement. Regardless, there is plaid, a lot of plaid, LOL.

This bunny is one of my favorite Easter themed stamps. It is a fairly old single wooden stamp that has a date of 1993 on it. The company is PSX. I stamped him on X-Press It Blending card stock with Memento black ink and colored the image with Copics. I cut the image out with a Die-namics oval die, then cut the Scalloped Oval Frame from Lawn Fawn purple plaid paper. The background plaid is also Lawn Fawn paper. The flowers are a combo of Lawn Fawn and SU Gingham DSP. The flowers are TE dies.

I didn't want to put the greeting on the front. I couldn't figure out a good place so I used a simple Happy Spring stamp on the inside. The egg shaped die is Spellbinders, with more Lawn Fawn papers for the background.

I hope everyone has a good start to the work week. Thanks for stopping by,
Colleen

Supplies
Stamps: Bunny by PSX and Happy Spring by Hero Arts
Paper: Thick Whisper White card stock, X-Press It Blending card stock, Lawn Fawn and SU patterned papers
Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Copics, SU Gorgeous Grape
Other: Die-namics Oval and Scalloped Oval Frame dies, Taylored Expressions Flower and Leaf dies, Spellbinders Nested Egg die, Gemini Jr, SU mini glue dots, SU small dimensionals, enamel dots

Thanks For Bean Sweet

Hello,

Wow, it's been awhile since I last posted. Actually, it's been awhile since I've done any stamping! I was traveling for work and during the first week, I came down with a nasty "bug" that quickly turned into a roaring sinus infection. Since I was out of town, I didn't make it to a Dr. to get antibiotics until almost 5 days in. Consequently, it took (is taking) forever to go away. I have felt horrible! Of course, I still had to finish the project which meant that I was gone for another 1.5 weeks. Hotel living is not the best for recuperating. I finished the project this past Tuesday and promptly took the rest of this week off. I am feeling much, much better today.

Since I am feeling better, I decided that I'd try making a card, though I'm not feeling particularly creative, I'm pleased with how it turned out. The new CAS(E) this Sketch! has a fun sketch by Brian and I was able to incorporate this week's Paper Player's Challenge where Laurie has a fun Tic-Tac-Toe Easter theme.

Here's my card:

For Laurie's challenge, I used the right to left diagonal, patterned paper, embossing, Easter theme. The stamps are all from Lawn Fawn and the patterned papers are very old Stampin' Up DSP.

The images are all stamped using Memento black ink and are colored with Copics. For the jar lid, I stamped the bunny, made a mask for her, and then stamped the jar lid so she is sitting on the lid. The lid and bunny are fussy cut out and all of the other images are cut with the set dies.

After putting everything together per the sketch, I decided it needed a little something else, so I used a couple of older SU punches and some black enamel dots to jazz things up a bit. The embossing element is the jar label. "Jelly Beans" is stamped using craft white ink and heat embossed using white EP.

Happy Easter is the inside greeting:

It feels great to be back to stamping. Since I'm off again tomorrow, I'll likely do more. Until then, have a great evening, and thanks for stopping in.

Hugs,
Colleen

Supplies
Stamps: Happy Easter and How You Bean? sets by Lawn Fawn
Paper: SU thick Whisper White and regular Whisper White, Pretty In Pink card stock, SU Sweet Always DSP
Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Copics, SU Pretty In Pink, Hero Arts Craft White
Other: Lawn Fawn How You Bean? Lawn Cuts, SU punches (retired), SU white EP, heat tool, Misti stamping tool, Gemini Jr, black and yellow enamel dots, aqua Baker's twine, SU mini glue dots, dimensionals

Happy Spring

And, Happy Friday everyone!

I'm always so glad when the weekend rolls around!

I'm still making a few Easter cards and the color combination at Color Throwdown this week works well for a Spring themed card. In fact, I used the inspiration photo for the subject as well as the colors.

Cecile's Freshly Made Sketch works perfectly for the stamps that I used, as they are square shaped stamps. They actually have a square black line around the flower images, but I chose to cut it off with the stitched dies.

The patterned paper is Lawn Fawn. The images are stamped in Memento tuxedo black and colored with Copics. I cut them out with Square Stitched dies and arranged them according to Cecile's sketch. The sentiment is from Simon Says Stamp and I used my Misti to get the placement just right. All in all, very simple.

Have a fabulous weekend and as always, thanks for coming by my blog.

Hugs,
Colleen

Supplies
Stamps: Single wooden tulip stamps by Impress (very old) and Abby's Spring Showers set by SSS
Paper: Textured blue card stock by Taylored Expressions, X-Press It Blending card stock, Lawn Fawn Plaid patterned paper
Ink: Memento tuxedo black, SU Real Red, Copics
Other: Die-namics Square Stitched dies, enamel shapes, the Big Shot, dimensionals

Happy Easter

Hello,

I have my card for this week's Paper Players Challenge. Laurie has a fun themed challenge this week. Easter Bunnies!

I've used a couple of Lawn Fawn sets to make my card.

I started with some Lawn Fawn spring patterned papers. The green were cut with the Lawn Fawn grassy hills dies. They were layered on the blue plaid and then all were cut with a scalloped border die. I wanted the reverse of the scallops along the edges. The card base is SU Crumb Cake.

The bunny and sentiment are from the Happy Easter Set. The jar and jelly beans are from the How You Bean set. The images are stamped in Memento tuxedo black and colored with Copics.

Here is the inside with the bunny happily hopping away. Images and sentiment from the Happy Easter set.

Half our work week is done, YAY! Hope you're having a good week. Thanks for stopping by,
Colleen

Supplies
Stamps: Happy Easter and How You Bean sets by Lawn Fawn
Paper: SU Crumb Cake and X-Press It Blending card stock and Lawn Fawn patterned papers
Ink: Memento tuxedo black and Copics
Other: Lawn Fawn Grassy Hill and How You Bean dies, Avery Elle Scalloped Rectangle dies, enamel dots, the Big Shot, foam tape

Happy Easter

Hello,

We've survived Monday. I had a busy work day, so the day went pretty fast. I have some more busy days ahead of me too, so hopefully that means that the week will go fast.

I love the old fashioned feel to the Inspired By All the Little Things inspiration photo this week and thought I had a great stamp to use for a card. This is a very old PSX wooden stamp that I've had for years. I kept the card pretty simple and used the plaid and earth tones as my inspiration.

I've discovered over the years that this image looks best stamped and not colored. This time I stamped it in VersaMark and heat embossed it with a chocolate EP. I've framed it by using a couple of Di-namics dies.

The inside is very simple with just the greeting.

Thanks for looking in. I hope you have a great week.
Colleen

Supplies
Stamps: Bunny stamp by PSX and inside greeting by Hero Arts
Paper: SU Crumb Cake and X-Press It Blending card stocks, Lawn Fawn brown plaid and SU DSP
Ink: VersaMark and SU Chocolate Chip
Other: Di-namics Oval Stitched and Rectangle Stitched dies, SU twine, wooden button, the Big Shot, Chocolate brown EP, heat tool

Hopping By To Say Hi

Hi to everyone,

My card for the March Mojo Madness Contest was among the winners chosen by random and this is the set that I picked from Verve as my prize. Julie sent it super fast, so I used it to make my card for this week's Mojo Monday Challenge.

A quick post this morning as I have some errands to run soon, but then I plan to do more stamping later this afternoon. 

Thanks for looking in,

Colleen

Supplies
Stamps: Hip Hop Bunnies set by Verve
Paper: SU Ruby Red and TE Choice Buttercream card stock, My Mind's Eye Tangerine pattern papers
Ink: Memento tuxedo black, SU Ruby Red, Copies
Other: Die-namics double stitched circle and banner dies, Spellbinders circle die, TE Scalloped Border die, enamel dots, the Big Shot, dimensionals

You're Good Peeps

Hello,

I'm having an "office day" this morning which means that I'm hanging out doing computer work until 2 pm today. This makes time for me to post another card that I made on Sunday.

This is an Easter card using this week's CAS(E) this Sketch #213.

I started by sponging Flirty Flamingo ink over a Crafters Workshop stencil in the upper corner of a white panel. The panel is glued to a card base of Flirty Flamingo card stock. I stamped the chick from the Reverse Confetti "Carton Cuties" set three times on some X-Press It Blending card stock, colored them with Copies and cut them out using the Carton Cuties dies and popped them over the sponged corner with dimensionals.

The sentiment is stamped on black card stock with VersaMark and embossed in SU white EP.

Very quick and simple, but pretty cute.

Thanks for looking in today,
Colleen

Supplies
Stamps: Carton Cuties set by Reverse Confetti
Paper: SU Flirty Flamingo, Basic Black and X-Press It Blending card stocks
Ink: Memento tuxedo black, VersaMark, SU Flirty Flamingo and Copics
Other: Carton Cuties dies, Crafters Workshop stencil called mini Gathered Flowers, Ranger Blending tool and applicator, the Big Shot, white sequin, dimensionals