What's The Buzz?

Hi Peeps,

I hope everyone is enjoying the start of the weekend. After some light, very light, house cleaning this morning, it's time to head to my craft room. I have a bunch of card panels that I've made over the past few days and now it's time to make them into some cards. 

Before I do that, I have my card for the current Freshly Made Sketches challenge. I had fun making this one. It uses one of the inky backgrounds I mentioned. It's a modified blackout technique on an embossing folder, but instead of using black ink, I used a dark green.

 

To make the background panel, I first randomly blended GKD Honey Mustard and Prickly Pear inks to cover a white panel. I then inked the flat side of the Fall Leaves embossing folder with Fresh Asparagus ink before running the ink blended card stock through. The final step was to use a Honey Mustard ink cube to darken up the raised leaf outlines. I think it ended up to be a pretty interesting panel.

The bee skep and bees are from the GKD mini stamp set called Hey, Honey! The flowers and leaves are from the Flower Medley stamp, die, and stencil bundle.

For the inside of the card I used another of the bee images and a sentiment from the Flower Medley stamp set.

The Monthly Mix challenge on Gina's FB group for Sep is a color challenge using Fresh Asparagus, Prickly Pear, Honey Mustard and Plum Punch so I'll be entering this card into that challenge as well.

Again, enjoy the weekend,

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Hey, Honey! and Flower Medley sets by Gina K Designs

Paper: Gina K Designs

Ink: Gina K Designs

Other: Gina K Designs Fall Leaves embossing folder

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, 

Birthday Wishes

Hi all,

I'm playing along with the Monthly Mix challenge on the Gina K Designs FaceBook group page. For August Gina's challenge is Gel Pen Accents. Use a gel pen to accent the image or images on our project. 

For my card I used a large leaf image from the GKD Ornate Spring stamp set along with the largest Wreath Builder template to stamp the image as a large wreath. The surprise is how the overlapping in the center creates a little flower. I love that! 

After the stamping was completed, I used a Sakura white gel pen, size 1.0 to make three dots at the ends of each leaf's section. Using the same gel pen, I also drew a line in the tear drop centers of each leaf section, and in the circles at the bottom of each leaf.

The only embellishment is the large black enamel dot in the center of the created flower.

The sentiment on the card front is from the same Ornate Spring stamp set.

For the inside of this card, I stamped just a portion of a large background image from the set in opposite corners. The sentiment is from the GKD So Many Sentiments stamp set.

Enjoy your Wednesday, and thanks for popping in.

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Ornate Spring and So Many Sentiments stamp sets by Gina K Designs

Paper: Gina K Designs Layering Weight White and Black Onyx card stock

Ink: Gina K Designs Black Onyx, Red Velvet, Tangerine Twist, Wild Dandelion, Lucky Clover, Blue Raspberry, In the Navy, Wild Wisteria, Pink Passion, and Jelly Bean Green

Other: Gina K Designs Wreath Builder large system, Gina K Designs black enamel dot, Connect glue, Sakura white gel pen, foam tape, Misti

Warmest Wishes & Sunshine

Hi and Happy Sunday,

The February Monthly Mix challenge on the Gina K Designs FB Group is to use paper strips on our cards. Since it's almost the end of February, I played around some last night using strips with stenciled images and made two completed cards. In addition to posting these to the GKD FB group, I'm also playing along with the Anything Goes Stenciling challenge at Just Us Girls.

  

The first stencil and strips combination that I tried was the blue mandala snowflake. Using one of the dies from ML 8, I cut strips from Gina K.'s teal card stock shades. I used the die because I wanted the strips to be the same width and using the die ensured that they are. After gluing all of the strips to a 2.25 x 5.5 inch panel, I placed the mandala stencil over it and used a sponge dauber to apply white craft ink . I put this aside to dry and placed the stencil centered over a white card base and used a blending brush to blend Soft Stone ink over the stencil. I glued the strip panel over the center matching the pattern. The sentiment is heat embossed with white EP and cut out with a small stitched circle die from ML 7 and layered to it's shadow die cut from white. Finally I added many Frozen rhinestones around the mandala image to complete the card.

For the second card I followed the same process, but I wanted to see if I could make it work with a layering stencil. I choose the GKD Sunflower Layering stencil and used shades of yellow for the strips. For the stenciling on the white card base I used a very light shade of yellow. For stenciling on the strips I used white craft ink for the first layer and a medium yellow shade for the second layer. Again, the sentiment is heat embossed with white EP and cut out using the circle dies from ML 3. For embellishing this card I used yellow pearls from GKD.

This is such a fun process, and results in some very pretty note cards. 

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

Colleen

Supplies

All from Gina K Designs

Stamps: Fancy Flowers Mini and Filled With Sunshine Mini sets

Paper: Layering Weight white, Black Onyx, Tranquil Teal, Turquoise Sea, Sea Glass, Ocean Mist, Lemon Drop, Sweet Corn, Prickly Pear, Honey Mustard, and Wild Dandelion card stock

Ink: White Craft, Soft Stone, Lemon Drop, Prickly Pear

Stencils: Snowflake Mandala and Sunflower Layering

Other: Frozen rhinestones, Rainbow Pearl mix, Connect Glue, Blending Brushes, Sponge Dauber, Fine Detail White embossing powder, Master Layouts 8, 3, 7

Get Well Soon

 TGIF Peeps!

It's a beautiful day here in SoCal along the coast and I probably should be outside, but instead, I'm making cards. Today's post is my card for this week's Freshly Made Sketches challenge, a fun design by Karen. This card also works for the April Monthly Mix Challenge at the Gina K Designs Stamp and Chat FaceBook page here. This month's technique is reverse stenciling. It's always fun to see the finished result.

I started by randomly blending three bright GKD inks over a white panel. Using the GKD Rose Swirl Stencil I then blended Christmas Pine ink over the entire panel. I know usually this part is done with black ink, but I knew that the dark green would set off the bright colors nicely, plus, something unexpected. I happened to really like the end result.

I used this reverse stenciled panel as the paper to stamp the flower images from the GKD Bloomin' Wild stamp set. I stamped them several times using Amalgam black ink then heat embossed with clear EP. For the centers of the flowers, I used Wild Dandelion ink direct to paper, dried it well with my heat tool, then stamped and embossed the flowers again as before. I fussy cut the centers of the yellow flowers and glued them to the first flowers.

I think the result is like the old "pop art" images and I love the final card.

I added a flower bud from the same stamp set to go with the greeting on the inside of the card.

Enjoy your day!

Colleen

Supplies

All from Gina K Designs

Stamps: Bloomin' Wild, Flowering Florals, and So Many Sentiments sets

Paper: Layering Weight White, Heavy Weight White, Black Onyx, Innocent Pink card stock

Ink: Black Amalgam, Craft White, Innocent Pink, Christmas Pine, Wild Dandelion, Passionate Pink, Tangerine Twist

Other: Bloomin' Wild dies, Master Layouts 2 dies, Lattice Embossing Folder, White and Clear embossing powder, Pastel Pearls embellishments, Connect Glue, Heat tool, Misty, Big Shot

Wishing You All The Best and LOVE/love You

 Hi and Happy Saturday,

I've got two challenge cards for you today. Both are made with Gina K Designs stamps, dies and other supplies.

This first one uses Jen's sketch for this week's Freshly Made Sketches challenge. I went very clean and simple on this card. The rainbow is stamped using an image from the mini set called Just Add Color. I simply inked the image up with each rainbow color and stamped so the colors merged together. Once the rainbow was completed, I stamped the Geranium image from the Petite Geranium Mini set and one of the greetings from the same set in Black ink.  Using Master Layouts 1, I cut the stamped panel and a black mat. Besides CAS, it was a super quick card to make.

The inside is stamped with a get well message as this card will be mailed off to my Aunt who is recovering from two cracked vertebrae. OUCH!

Card two is for the February Monthly Mix challenge in the Gina K Designs Facebook group. This month is to make a wreath. I did use the GKD Wreath Builder template. It really makes it easy to get things even and consistent. The stamped images are from one of the newest sets from the January kit release.

Feb 2023

Here's the inside of this card. The sentiment is from the GKD set called So Many Sentiments.

Thanks for checking in. We are headed to our good friend's 50th birthday party. Enjoy the rest of your weekend.

Colleen

Supplies

Card 1: 

Stamps: Just Add Color Mini, Petite Geranium Mini and So Many Sentiments sets by Gina K Designs

Paper: Gina K Designs Black Onyx and Layering Weight White

Ink: Gina K Designs Black Onyx, Red How, Tangerine Twist, Wild Dandelion, Lucky Clover, Turquoise Sea, Wild Wisteria inks, Pink Copic marker

Other: Gina K Designs Master Layouts 1 die set, Misti, Big Shot

Card 2:

Stamps: Fresh Florals and So Many Sentiments sets by Gina K Designs

Paper: Gina K Designs, Layering Weight white, Black Onyx, Gold and Lovely Lavender card stock

Ink: Gina K Designs Orchid, Carnation & Sage light, medium, and dark ink cubes, Embossing ink, Black Onyx, 

Other: Gina K Designs Master Layouts 3 and 5 die sets,  Wreath Builder System, Fine Detail Gold EP, Heat tool, Misti, Big Shot, Disco Ball Micro Sequins, Connect Glue, Foam Squares

Hello Friend

 Hello from rainy southern California!

We should expect rain most of this week, apparently. Rain is a good thing here, so it's something to be happy for. If nothing else, more crafty time!

Since this is a new month, Gina K. has a new Monthly Mix Challenge up. This month's technique is colored pencil resist. It's a fun coloring technique where the wax in the colored pencil resists the dye ink laid over the top.

On my card today I used both white and gold colored pencils to color the inside of the flowers before blending the rainbow over the panel.

Steps to make this card: I cut the white panel with the Master Layouts 2 stitched die then placed a 1/2 inch wide strip of Masking Magic across the bottom third of the panel. This is to prevent stamped images and the ink blending from the area I planed for the sentiment. After stamping the flowers using Black Onyx ink, I colored the inside petals with a white colored pencil and the centers with a gold colored pencil. Next, I blended the rainbow diagonally from the upper corner to the lower. 

I removed the masking magic and stamped the sentiment. It's from the same stamp set as the flower images.

The panel is matted using black card stock cut with the layering die from ML2. I used a piece of patterned paper from GKD's collection under the main panel, tilting both for a little added interest. I cut two thin strips of black and used Connect glue to add them to the top and bottom of the white sentiment area. Finally, I added some GKD black pearls for embellishment.

This is a fun technique and I encourage you to give it a try. Thanks for checking in,

Colleen

Supplies

All from Gina K Designs:

Stamps: Stained Glass Flowers set

Paper: Black Onyx, Layering Weight White card stocks and Watercolor Floral Patterned Paper pack

Ink: BlackOnyx, Lipstick, Tangerine Twist, Wild Dandelion, Lucky Clover, Blue Lagoon, Wild Wisteria

Dies: Master Layouts 2

Pearl Mix Embellishments, Connect Glue

Other: Misti, Big Shot, GKD Blending Brushes

Polychromos Colored Pencils

Happy Birthday

Hello,

Happy last day of November. I hope everyone, in the US, had a very nice Thanksgiving holiday and weekend. I'm at my mom's in northern California hanging out. I didn't bring any crafting supplies with me  because I intended to stay only until yesterday. However, my mom's refrigerator decided to die on Saturday night. Great timing with all kinds of left overs in it, not that any time is ideal for your refrigerator to die. We went shopping for a new one on Monday, but it won't be delivered until around Dec. 8! We have 5 ice chests in the garage and I'm fetching ice every morning from the gas station down the street. Because I don't want to leave my 86 yr old mom to deal with all that on her own, I'm staying until the new refrigerator arrives to get the ice chests unloaded.

On my way up I stopped in Sacramento to visit my best friend, and then she came to mom's on Wednesday evening to spend Thanksgiving weekend with us, which also happens to be her birthday weekend. We played lots of cards, went to a couple of holiday craft fairs and watched some Christmas movies. 

I made this card for her birthday a few weeks ago, but didn't want to post it because she does read my blog. This is a shaker card made with Gina K Designs stamps, stencils and dies. The monthly mix challenge for November is shaker cards.

This is a side to side shaker and I recycled some stamp set packaging to make it. The background is the Daisies Forever stencil and I used the layering Lilac and Orchid ink pads for the flowers and Jelly Bean Green and Fresh Asparagus inks for the leaves. The sentiments are sentiment strips and wishes die.

Here's the inside of the card.

One of the fun things we did the weekend in Sacramento was take a cookie decorating class. This is the second time I've taken one, and from the same teacher. This is her website and here is a picture of my decorated cookies. The cookie in the bag on the right I won. Jodie, the instructor, made it. All of mine look pretty good, except the door is a bit wonky, but okay for a second try and 12 months apart.

Have a great week and thanks for checking in.

Colleen

Supplies

All Gina K Designs except the sequin.

Daisies Forever layering stencil, Lilac and Orchid Layering inks, Jelly Bean Green and Fresh Asparagus inks, Sentiment strips, Wishes die, Layering Weight and Heavy Weight white card stock, Black Onyx card stock, Connect glue

Happy Birthday

 Hi all,

Happy Saturday. I'm spending my afternoon watching Wildcard Playoff Games, and practicing a new crochet pattern. It's a Cable Stitch pattern and a little tricky, so far. Could be that I'm distracted by the BB, though.

The Gina K Designs Monthly Mix Challenge for October is White on White with a pop of another color. Truth be told, it's not my favorite type of card, but it's always fun to play along. I decided to use Silver as my accent color and one of my favorite GKD sets, Delightful Daisies. Of course, Embossing Folders work well with monochromatic cards and I've used two on my card, along with the GKD Stitched and Double Stitched Oval dies, ML 2 dies, a ML 4 banner die, GKD Silver and White fine detail embossing powders and GKD pearl embellishments.

The daisy image is heat embossed using GKD silver EP and I used a Copic marker to add some shading. The butterfly is stamped on GKD vellum and heat embossed with Silver EP and I brushed Nuvo clear glitter over the image. The mats are GKD Silver card stock, as is the sentiment banner. For embellishment, I added some GKD pearls in the lower corner.

Enjoy the rest of the weekend, and thanks for looking in,

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Gina K Designs Delightful Daisies stamp set and dies 

Paper: Gina K Designs Heavy Weight White and Silver card stock, GKD Vellum

Ink: Gina K Designs Embossing ink pad, Copic marker

Other: Gina K Designs dies: Master Layouts 2 and 4, Single and Double Stitched Ovals, Gina K Designs Tapestry and Swiss Dot Embossing Folders, Gina K Designs White and Silver Fine Detail embossing powder, Gina K Designs White Pearl embellishments, Connect glue, Foam Squares, Nuvo Clear Glitter Pen, Big Shot Switch Plus, Misti, Heat tool

Hello, Sunshine

 Happy Hump Day Peeps,

This morning I received a box of happiness in the mail, my order from Gina K's latest release. As I was putting the stamp sets into the storage pockets, I thought that the Lemons & Sunshine set would be perfect for Claire's Paper Players Challenge, Tic-Tac-Toe this month. I used the left side vertical option of Sun, Yellow, Die Cut.

After finishing the card, I realized that it also works for the GKD August Monthly Mix Challenge. Sheri is the hostess and her challenge is to have texture on our projects. I've used  dies, foam squares for dimension,  an embossing folder,  and pearl embellishments, all help to add texture.

I used Copics to color the lemons. All of the other supplies are from GKD. 

I started by using the Sun Stencil and blended the rays coming down from the top left corner with a mini blending brush. I moved the stencil down to get the rays to go all the way to the bottom of the card stock panel. Using a larger blending brush, I added more color to the large sun hole in the stencil, removed the stencil and stamped the small sun image and greeting, both from the stamp set. On a separate piece of card stock I stamped the lemon images, colored them with Copics and cut them out with the corresponding set dies. The stenciled panel is cut out using ML2. I lined up where I wanted to place the lemon images on the stitched die and cut those so when I taped them on the card, the stitching matches. The card base is dry embossed with the GKD Swiss Dots EF.

Here's the inside of the card. This greeting is super cute substituting "zest" for "best."

Thanks for looking in today. 

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Lemons and Sunshine stamp set and dies

Paper: Gina K Designs Layering Weight and Heavy Weight White and Black Onyx card stock

Ink: Gina K Designs Black Onyx, Lemon Yellow, Wild Dandelion and Copic Markers

Other: Gina K Designs Sunshine Stencil, Swiss Dots Embossing Folder, Master Layouts 2, White Pearl Mix embellishments, small and regular blending brushes,  foam squares, Connect glue, Misti, Gemini Jr

Birthday Cards

Hello all,

I hope that the week is going well for you. I'm enjoying some relaxing days doing some crafting and some reading. If the weather is sunny again tomorrow, I may spend a few hours at the beach. The mornings have been foggy but the afternoons have been fairly sunny, typical July weather in San Diego. 

For my post today I have two birthday cards because I have several friends with July birthdays. Truth be told, my birthday is this weekend.

My friend LeAnne, who I believe also has a birthday this month, is the hostess with a fun color challenge this week for The Paper Players.  The colors are two of the new SU "in-color" shades for 2022-2024, Parakeet Parade and Tahitian Blue. I used a SU set from last year, along with the Gina K Designs Wreath Builder system to make my card.

I stamped the smallest flower from the set in a tight circle working my out to larger circles with the larger flowers. The darker ink shades are made by building layers of ink. (I'm a little disappointed with the Tahitian Blue ink as it is really bubbly. Not sure if it's a function of the sponge ink pad or if the ink pad is just too wet.) The color is really pretty though.

The original stamped panel was 5.75 inches square. I cut it down to 5.5 by 4.25 for an A2 card and used part of the cut pieces on the inside. The inside sentiment is from Honey Bee.

The color challenge for the second card is the current Monthly Mix Challenge from the Gina K Designs blog. This month's theme is black & white with a pop of color.  I actually used black and Ivory with a pop of rainbow color.

Stamps are from the GKD Beautiful Bees stamp and die set and I made a full size SlimLine card.

This is a fairly simple card. I stamped the flower image several times randomly over a half sheet of Ivory card stock, colored the tips with Copics using rainbow colors then cut out the panel with the GKD Master Layouts 10 - SlimLine die set. The bees and sentiment are from the same stamp set.

I added another greeting from the same set with a bee on the inside.

 

Happy Hump Day tomorrow, and thanks for looking in.

Colleen

Supplies-Card 1

Stamps: In Bloom  set by Stampin' Up, Inside Birthday Greetings by Honey Bee

Paper: SU Thick Basic White

Ink: SU Tahitian Blue, Parakeet Parade, Memento Tuxedo Black

Other: Misti, Gina K Designs Wreath Builder set, SU In-color embellishments 

Supplies-Card 2

Stamps: Beautiful Bees, Little Garden Silhouettes, and Bitty Botanical Mini sets by Gina K Designs

Paper: Gina K Designs Black Onyx, Ivory card stock

Ink: Gina K Designs Black Onyx & Embossing Ink, Copics, 

Other: Misti, GKD white embossing powder, heat tool, Gemini Jr, GKD Master Layouts 10, Tayfored Expressions black enamel dots, SU Dimensionals

Hello

 Hi peeps,

I made the front panel of this card by using the partial die cutting technique for the three flowers in the lower right corner a few weeks ago, but then got rather frustrated about what to do with it, so I put it away in my box of unfinished projects. A few days ago, I pulled it out and played around with some different ideas and finally finished it. I'm not sure I love it, but as Gina and Tom always say on their FaceBook Live sessions, "it's better than horrible," and I'm sure I'll send it.

I've used several GKD stamp sets and a stencil and a coloring technique from one of Gina's Live demos.

The flowers are stamped first with Love Lavender ink, then I used a few darker purple shades of Zig markers to stamp over the lavender. Before adding the vase, flowers and sentiment, I used the flourish stencil to add some interest to the background, using Plum ink on the top white panel and using white craft ink on the inside panel.

The sentiment is a GKD hello die with shadow. The shadow is cut from vellum and the sentiment is cut twice and layered. I added some Nuvo clear glitter gel over the letters and after that dried, I went over them with some Glossy Effects.

Thanks for looking in,

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Flowing Florals set and Fresh Flowers set by Gina K Designs

Paper: Plumb Punch, Layering weight white card stock, and Vellum by GKD

Ink: GKD Plumb Punch, Lovely Lavender, Wild Lilac, Applemint and Zig markers

Other: GKD set dies,  GKD Hello dies, Misti, Gemini Jr, Connect glue, Nuvo clear glitter gel, Glossy Accents, GKD Harvest Flourish stencil

Enjoy Your Birthday

TGIF!

I hope everyone had a good week. I've been spending many hours at my crafting table as well as going for daily walks, on non-rainy days. Believe it or not, we had two days of rain here in SoCal early in the week, and it was a bit chilly too. Of course, nothing comparable to the South and East this week.

My card today I made for this month's GKD Monthly Mix Challenge.. Gina's challenge this month is to show the water reactivity of her inks. I used two techniques on this card. First, I smooshed ink pads onto an acrylic block, spritzed it with water and then pressed it down onto some Tim Holtz water color paper. I dried it with my heat tool, then stamped the flower image over the darker part of the ink. I used Lipstick Red, Bubblegum Pink and Innocent Pink for this part. I did another combo of Jelly Bean Green and Applemint for the leaves. 

I used a second technique on the background in the lower right of the white panel. I blended Coral Reef, Sweet Mango and Innocent Pink in the corner with blending brushes. Next I placed the Ornamental Fans Stencil over the ink and with a wet paper towel, blotted through the stencil, pulling off the color, making a lighter shade in the shape of the fans.

For the greetings, I cut the large "enjoy" die three times from black card stock, glued them together, then glued them onto vellum cut with the corresponding shadow die. The smaller greeting is from the Enjoyable Greetings stamp set and is cut with a Sentiment Strip die.

I've been playing with my Hot Foil System and having a ball. It's that WOW factor. I'll have some cards to post in the next couple of days. I made a bunch of backgrounds, now I need to turn them into cards.

Have a great weekend! Thanks for looking in,

Colleen

Supplies

All Gina K Designs except Tim Holtz water color paper and the black rhinestones.

Stamp sets: Season of Peace and Enjoyable greetings

Dies: Stamp set corresponding dies, Master Layouts 2, Sentiment Strip dies, Script Enjoy and shadow dies

Paper: Innocent Pink, Black Onyx, Layering Weight White card stock, vellum

Ink: Lipstick Red, Bubblegum Pink, Innocent Pink, Sweet Mango, Coral Reef, Applemint, Jelly Bean Green

Connect glue, foam squares, GKD blending brushes, Misti, Gemini Jr

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

Hope Your Holidays are Cool!

 Hello peeps,

I made today's card to participate in two challenges. The theme works for this week's Paper Players Challenge. Jaydee's theme challenge is Winter Wonderland. The technique works for the Gina K Designs December Monthly Mix Challenge, which is ink blending.

To make the background of colorful snowflakes I used the GKD small Wreath Builder Stencil. I didn't use the wreath builder part, just the three small snowflake images that are also on the stencil. There are two snowflakes that are exactly the same except one is larger than the other. I blended the two on top of each other with GKD inks and the small blending brushes. The inks are a variety of the turquoise blue shades, the purple shades and Jelly Bean Green. In the spaces between these snowflakes, I added the last image on the stencil in Innocent pink, overlapping the first images.

This panel and a black mat are cut using the Master Layouts 1 dies. The sentiment and penguin images are from the GKD Playful Penguin Holiday stamp set and co-ordinating dies. The penguin is colored with colored pencils using Gamsol for blending. My original thought was to stamp the greeting over the stenciled snowflakes, but I then thought a sentiment panel would be better to give the penguin a grounding element. Finally, I added several tiny rhinestones around the panel for sparkle as well as some Nuvo Aqua Shimmer on the booties and the hat's pompom.

Here is the inside of the card. The sentiment is from the same Penguin stamp set.

Thanks for checking in,

Colleen

Supplies

Gina K Designs White layering, black and Innocent Pink card stock, Lovely Lavender, Wild Lilac, Sea Glass, Blue Lagoon, Turquoise Sea, Tranquil Teal, Jelly Bean Green, Innocent Pink, Black Onyx inks, Playful Penguin stamp set and dies, Master Layout 1 dies, small blending brushes, Small Wreath Builder stencil (snowflake background) SSS tiny rhinestones, Nuvo Aqua Shimmer pen, Misti, Gemini Jr

Today is the Best Day Ever

 Hello crafty peeps,

I'm posting my card for this week's Paper Players Challenge. This week Claire is our hostess with the monthly color challenge. Our colors this time are yellow, red and olive green. I decided to make a pretty floral birthday card using Gina K Designs stamps. In addition to the Paper Players Challenge, my card also works for the Gina K Monthly Mixe Challenge. The challenge for August is to use multiple greetings/sentiments on our cards.

The images are stamped with Black Onyx ink and colored with Copic markers. There is a house down the street from us that has several beautiful Dahlia plants close to the street. Some have huge blooms as large as small dinner plates. Many are the variety with bright colored tips, which is what I was trying to emulate in my coloring. 

Here is the inside of the card with the Birthday wishes greeting.

Enjoy the rest of your week and thanks for stopping in,

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Gina K Designs stamp sets Beautiful Bees, Forever Flowers, Enjoyable Greetings, with set dies, GKD Flourishes Stencil, GKD Layering Weight White, Fresh Asparagus and Black Onyx card stock, VersaMark, GKD Black Onyx, Fresh Asparagus and Red Velvet ink, GKD white detail embossing powder, heat tool, GKD blending brush, Master Layouts 1 dies, Copic Markers, foam squares, connect glue