Your the Pumpkin Spice In My Latte

Hello Peeps,

Here's a fun fall card inspired by Claire's The Paper Players challenge, called Looking Forward to Fall. To make my card, I pulled out some older stamp sets. The latte and the sentiment images are from Lawn Fawn and the leaves are from Gina K Designs.

Here is the inside.

Have a great Friday and weekend everyone! Thanks for looking in.

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Pumpkin Spice set by Lawn Fawn and Layered Leaves set by Gina K Designs

Paper: Concord & 9th card stock and plaid paper

Ink: Concord & 9th and Copics

Other: Circles Windows Plate, Master Layouts 2, and Sentiment Strip dies by Gina K Designs

This Card Traveled All This Way

Happy Cinco de Mayo! (and Taco Tuesday)!

I had fun making a scene card yesterday for this week's CASE the Designer challenge for Just Us Girls. I'm CASEing Lisa's really cute bunny card. 

My bunny image comes from the Spellbinders Clear Stamp of the Month for Feb 2025.

 

I love the arch die that Lisa used and while I have some nesting arch dies, I decided that I'd make an oval shaped card to build my scene on. I used the Spellbinders Essential Stylish Oval die set using the largest to cut the card base and the second to largest to make the background scene. The sky is stenciled with a GKD cloud stencil, the purple hill is made with a SSS background stamp and a Lawn Fawn hill die. The grassy meadow is also cut with a Lawn Fawn die and ink blended with three GKD green inks. The flower and bunny images are from the same Spellbinders stamp set, but the sentiment is from another Spellbinders set.

For the inside of the card, I used more images from the bunny set. These two cute chicks are standing on a meadow made using the die as a stencil.

All of the images on the front and inside are colored with Copics.

Enjoy your Cinco de Mayo and I hope there's some yummy Mexican food in your future. And, maybe a Margarita too.

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Spring Smiles and Send & Seal sets from Spellbinders and Sweet Garden Background from Simon Says Stamp

Paper: Gina K Designs card stock

Ink: Gina K Designs and Copic Markers

Other:  Spellbinders Oval dies, Lawn Fawn Hil land Grass dies, Gina K Designs Cloud stencil and blending brushes

Hippo Birdie to You

 Hello,

Well, we had some wild weather overnight. Heavy thunderstorms that included several inches of hail. At around 4:15 am, I thought the hail was going to break the windows it was blowing so hard into them. All's sunny this morning, but we have more rain coming here in SoCal this week.

This week's Paper Players Challenge is the CAS challenge where Stef is looking for birthday cards with balloons. Such a fun theme and I'm sure there will be some super cute cards in the gallery. I decided to play with an older Lawn Fawn set with a punny greeting. I've always liked this set and thought it would be good for a CAS card. It's a mini set and I've used every image here on the front of my card.

I decided to use a Lawn Fawn cover die to add a little interest and I've cut it down with an A2 rounded corner die. The hippo and the birdie are fussy cut and glued down, the balloons, party hats and sentiment are stamped directly on the panel. The coloring is done with Copics.

I pulled out an older Honey Bee "inside birthday greeting" stamp set for the inside of my card and added a bird and balloon.

Enjoy your day!

Colleen

Supplies

Stamsp: Year Four set by Lawn Fawn and Inside Birthday Sentiment set by Honey Bee

Paper: Gina K Designs card stock

Ink: Gina K Designs Black Onyx and Copic Markers

Other: Lawn Fawn Stitched Ripple Background cover plate die, Hero Arts A2 Rounded Corner dies, 

No Tricks, Just Treats

Hello all,

I have a couple more Halloween cards to share today. These are inspired by the current  Paper Players challenge. Claire is hostess and her theme this week is Halloween Costumes. I've used some older Lawn Fawn sets to make these.

First up are some four-legged Trick or Treaters. I ink blended a panel with light and dark purple shades then used a Hero Star cover plate to cut stars in the sky. For a very full moon, I simple used a die cut circle ink blended with yellows. The black silhouette trees and hills is an older die from Lawn Fawn.

Here's the inside of the first card. Images and greetings are from the same stamp set.

For the second card, I pulled out some older SU patterned papers to make the background and the trees. The trees, grass and moon dies are made using the Gina K Designs Master Layouts 6 die set. The trick or treaters and sentiments are from Lawn Fawn.

And the inside:

One of these will be sent to my little three year old Great Nephew. Enjoy your day, and thanks for stopping in.

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Happy Howloween and Costume Party sets by Lawn Fawn

Paper: Gina K Designs card stock and SU DSP (retired)

Ink: Gina K Designs, Simon Says Stamp Pawsitively Saturated and Copics

Other: Hero Stars Coverplate die, Lawn Fawn Hills and trees die, Gina K Designs Master Layouts 6 dies, blending brushes, Brutus Monroe white embossing powder, SSS tiny clear rhinestones

Have A Spec-Taco-Lar Day!

 Hello all,

Surprise, I'm not waiting until the last minute to post my card for this week's Paper Players challenge. Ann is hostess with a fun FOOD theme. So many options to choose from!

But first, before I get to my card, I want to add my congrats to Christy for joining the PP team. I always enjoy your cards that I see around blog-land so I know you will give us some great inspiration each week.

As I mentioned, so many food choices to make a card. I ended up using a very fun Lawn Fawn Taco stamp and die set, because, who doesn't like tacos?!  I ink blended a park setting with a walkway trough  the lawn then added all the little stamped and die cut images to create the scene.

These little animals are having a fun lunch at the taco cart, and I particularly liked how the chalkboard sandwich boards turned out.

This large taco on the inside is from another Lawn Fawn stamp set, but the sentiments are from the same sets as the front of the card.

On a personal note, I'm have some foot surgery tomorrow, so I may not be feeling up to sitting at my desk to stamp for a week or so. I'm imagining I'll be sitting with my foot propped up reading and maybe doing a little crocheting for a bit.

Thanks for stopping by,

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Treat Cart set, Treat Cart Taco Add-On sets, Year Nine mini set (inside image) all from Lawn Fawn

Paper: Gina K Designs

Ink: Gina K Designs and Copic markers

Other: Lawn Fawn Grass and Road dies, Gina K Designs Cloud stencils, blending brushes, Master Layouts 1 dies, Connect liquid glue, SU Dimensionals, 

Smiles!

 Hello to all,

I hope that you've had a relaxing weekend. I've been watching lots of tennis, Wimbledon, and making cards like crazy. It's great to have these things to keep me occupied as I can't go out and about for a few more days after having some facial surgery last Tuesday. There's still swelling and bruising, and not to pleasing to look at. I had a very small melanoma removed from the side of my nose. I found it very early, so no additional worries.

Carol Mc at Just Us Girls has the die cut challenge this week with a theme of summer. I recently received some new stamp sets and dies from Lawn Fawn and I thought this Summer Friends set was perfect for the challenge.

I started by stenciling a large sun on the card base as a landing for the drink images that are popped onto postage die cuts. I used some 1/8" Masking Magic strips to block off the scalloped edges of the postage dies before blending bright yellow ink around the outer edges.

The front sentiment is continued on the inside of the card. The inside water melon and sentiment images are from the LF Summer Friends set. The die cut sun is from the GKD Master Layouts 6 die set. I cut it from both orange and yellow card stock and layered the orange rays between the yellow, then added one of the smiles from the LF set.

I get my stitches out tomorrow which should help with the swelling, etc.

I hope you al have a great week ahead!

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Summer Friends stamp set by Lawn Fawn

Paper: Gina K Designs card stock

Ink: Gina K Designs and Copic markers

Other: Gina K Designs Master Layouts 1, 6 and 15, Gina K Designs Sea, Sun and Sky  stencil, Masking Magic strips, blending brushes, foam squares

I'm So Grilled

Hello,

It's Thursday already. This week seems to be flying by. Maybe because I was away from home startingThursday last week through Monday this week to attend a memorial service for my cousin that was held in Northern California.

After flying to Sacramento, my bestie lent me her car for the weekend to drive from Sacramento to my mom's so that I didn't have to spend $$$$ for a rental car. I wanted to make a fun thank you card for her, and upon my return home, I had received a recent order from Lawn Fawn. I decided to use the freebie set that was included in my order, because who can resist these foodie puns.

I'm using Elizabeth's One Layer Card sketch challenge from this week's Paper Players to make it.

To make the front of this card, I masked off the center and used a diagonal line stencil from SSS to make the plaid background. This took a while but it turned out pretty well. I wanted a red plaid to go with the summer food images.

I removed the mask and stamped the three images, the speech bubbles and the puns then colored the images with Copics. After stamping the sentiment under the white area I added the enamel ant and heart, both from a Doodlebug set of embellishments.

On the inside I used  a thank you stamp from GKD.

Thanks for checking in!

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: BBQ Friends and All the Speech Bubbles sets by Lawn Fawn and Grateful Greetings set by Gina K Designs

Paper: Gina K Designs Heavy Weight White card stock

Ink: Gina K Designs and Copic Markers

Other: Masking Magic, blending brushes, Simon Says Stamp Diagonal Lines stencil,  Doodlebugs embellishments

 

Dive Into Happiness

 Hello,

Well, I'm finally feeling better, just a little lingering cough left. The best part is my energy has returned so I spent more time creating today instead of sitting around a reading.

I wanted to get a card made for the current Color Hues challenge, where Marcia has a summery color duo of blue and yellow. I pulled out some Spellbinders stencils and sentiments and combined them with some Lawn Fawn dies to make this "looking forward to summer" card.

After putting the pool over the stenciled background, I thought the card needed a little something, so I added the silhouette palm trees, which led to the heat embossed sentiment on black. 

For the inside of the card, I used the same beach ball stencil and another summer sentiment.

I hope you are enjoying your weekend!

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Typewriter Adventure Sentiments set by Spellbinders

Paper: Gina K Designs card stock

Ink: Simon Says Stamp Pawsitively Saturated inks, Gina K Designs embossing ink

Other: Summertime Graphics and Summertime Spray stencils by Spellbinders, Stitched Pond and Palm Trees dies by Lawn Fawn, Brutus Munroe Alabaster embossing powder, heat tool, blending brushes, Concord & 9th yellow enamel dots

A Veggie Happy Birthday

 Happy Weekend and Happy March to all!

It's a low key day around here. I did some organizing in my craft room this morning, and then a little reading {napping in my chair :)} while listening to pre-season Baseball. I decided I needed to do something to keep my brain busy and that something is to post the card I made last night using Linda's sketch for the Freshly Made Sketches challenge. 

Linda has a very interesting sketch this time and I pondered how I wanted to use it. Mostly, I kept thinking of using multiple sentiments, but while looking through my boxes of stamps, I came across these Lawn Fawn cuties and thought I could make them work for the sketch. 

The Inspired By Challenge theme is Gingham this week, so I'll post there too.

Lawn Fawn has some of the funniest, or punniest, sentiments to go with their images, and I love these on the inside of my card. Who knew  veggies would make such a great birthday card?

Enjoy the rest of the weekend, and thanks for checking in.

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: All from Lawn Fawn, Simply Celebrate Veggies, Veggie Happy, and Simply Celebrate Critters sets

Paper: Neenah Solar White 100 lb, Concord & 9th Parsley card stocks and Lawn Fawn Gingham patterned paper

Ink: Gina K Designs Black Onyx and Copic Markers

Other: Connect liquid glue and SU Mini Dimensionals

A Birthday Wish For You

Happy Hump Day Peeps,

I've been finishing up Halloween/Fall cards so could get them in the mail. I also had some birthday cards to make for friends (twins) who have their birthday on 10/31. Once I finished those, I decided to see what I could do with the current Color Hues challenge colors. 

I decided I was in the mood for some stitching and pulled out the Lawn Fawn embroidery hoop dies that I have.. Here's the finished card. It's a traditional gatefold style card.

The background 3D embossing folder is from Simon Says Stamp and it sure has great detail. Before running the card stock through, I spritzed it on both sides with a small amount of water. After, I used the same shade of Mustard ink as the card stock to highlight some of the raised areas, then trimmed the panels to fit the front of the gatefold.

Here is another picture of the card front and then the inside.

All of the birthday sentiments are from Gina K Designs.

Thanks for stopping in,

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Gina K Designs

Paper: SU More Mustard and Old Olive, Gina K Designs Silver

Ink: Gina K Designs Black Onyx and SU More Mustard

Other: SSS 3D embossing folder, Lawn Fawn Flower Embroidery Hoop die, SU button, Gold floss, SU enamel dots, Gina K Designs Master Layouts 1 dies, SU Dimensionals, Connect glue

Happy Haunting

Happy Monday Peeps,

I'm squeaking in my Freshly Made Sketches challenge card this morning before the link closes. I made this card with some older Lawn Fawn sets and dies.

I thought this frame die set would make some fun haunted mirrors using some holographic card stock. It was a little difficult to get a good picture without some weird colors in the background though. The little ghosts are stamped on vellum and fussy cut as this older set doesn't have dies.

For added spookiness, I outlined the frames with black Stickles and added some very old spider, frog and bat brads.

The inside uses more images from the same set.

Have a great week,

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Happy Haunting and Flirty Frames sets by Lawn Fawn

Paper: Gina K Designs Black Onyx and Layering Weight White card stock, The Apothecary Emporium paper pack by Echo Park patterned paper, SU Vellum, SSS Holographic card stock

Ink: Gina K Designs

Other: Gina K Designs Master Layouts 12 die, Black Stickles, Halloween brads, SU dimensionals, 

Stay Cool

 Hello,

Just Us Girls word for this week is Summertime and since I already had my Lawn Fawn box on my desk from making my last card, I pulled another cute set to use for the challenge. Appropriately enough, this set is called Pool Party. However, instead of making a pool for the critters to float around in, I made a river for them to float down.

Like my last card, the patterned paper is from my stash box and I have no idea who it's from, but it sure fit the theme well. To make the river, I used a LF stitched hill die and cut out the river from white card stock then ink blended Cadette and Marine blue inks from SSS. The stamp set has a couple of little wave stamps and I've used those with a darker blue shade then highlighted it with a white gel pen. All of the images are stamped with GKD Black Onyx and colored with Copics. 

The front sentiment is finished on the inside:

Enjoy the rest of your week. The rest of this afternoon, I will be finishing up packing for our trip out East. We leave bright and early tomorrow morning.

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Pool Party set with dies from Lawn Fawn

Paper: Gina K Designs Layering Weight White and Concord & 9th white card stock, patterned papers

Ink: Gina K Designs Black Onyx, SSS Pawsitively Saturated inks, Copic Markers

Other: Lawn Fawn Stitched Hill die, Blending brushes, white gel pen, GKD foam squares, Connect glue

Summer Garden

 Hello peeps,

I have my card for this week's Freshly Made Sketches challenge. Kim's sketch is perfect for using up some fun patterned papers and I did just that. I have a big box of miscellaneous papers from partially used older 6" x 6" pads that are fun to pick from. 

First I picked out a fun Lawn Fawn stamp set then matched the papers to use. The stamp set is called Simply Celebrate Veggies and there are several mini sentiments to go into the speech bubbles. So Fun!

Here is the inside.

I've been packing as we leave Tuesday morning for the East coast to visit friends, and attend a wedding the first weekend of August. We'll be visiting NY, RI, MA and ME and be gone for approximately four weeks. After Tuesday, my blog will be quiet until we are back.

Have a great week,

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Simple Celebrate Veggies, All the Party Hats set (inside sentiment), Simple Celebrate Critters set (speech bubble stamp and die)

Paper: SU Very Vanilla card stock, misc veggie patterned papers

Ink: Gina K Designs Black Onyx, Sea Glass, and Red Hot, Copic Markers

Other: SU Stitched Rectangle die, GKD foam squares

When Life Gets Nutty

Hello,

I'm combining two challenges for my card today. The sketch comes from the current  Freshly Made Sketches challenge and the parameters are from Claire's Tic-Tac-Toe challenge on the Paper Players blog. I pulled out a super cute set from Lawn Fawn that I've not used in forever called Let's Go Nuts!

I used the diagonal plaid, die-cut and embossing options on the Tic-Tac-Toe and kept very close to Jen's sketch. 

For the embossing elements, the card base front and the plaid background are both dry embossed using the Concord & 9th Stitched Fall Leaves card front die and I heat embossed the three sentiments using clear EP over Charcoal Brown ink. The sentiment strips and the squirrels are all die cut.

On the inside, I matched the embossed plaid from the outside and added one more squirrel. No sentiment, just a place to write a personal message.

Enjoy your Thursday evening, and thanks for checking in,

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Lets go Nuts by Lawn Fawn with co-ordinating dies

Paper: Gina K Designs Sandy Beach and Charcoal Brown card stock, SU Very Vanilla card stock, Lawn Fawn brown plaid patterned paper

Ink: Gina K Designs Charcoal Brown & embossing ink, and Copic markers

Other: Gina K Designs Master Layouts 1 dies, Concord & 9th Stitched Fall Leaves card front die, Simon Says Stamp Sentiment Strip dies, SU clear embossing powder, heat tool, Big Shot, SU Mini-Dimensionals, Misti, Connect glue

Wish Big

 Hi all,

It's a beautiful day in my neck of the woods. Clear blue skies and a cool ocean breeze. I'm busy rounding up things I need to pack as I'm headed back to my mom's tomorrow. I'm flying instead of making the 650 mile drive since I'll only be there a couple of weeks this time. My sister and all of her stuff arrived on Monday, and I'm going to help with unpacking and putting away. 

Last evening while watching tennis I made my card for this week's Paper Players challenge. Joanne has the monthly theme challenge this week and it's called Four Legged Friends. I pulled out one of my favorite Lawn Fawn sets and the coordinating dies to make this birthday card. I found these balloon papers in my misc paper stash and thought they would make a fun background. I have no idea of their origin. Probably from a long past card kit.

For the inside, I used another Lawn Fawn dog stamp set, which is actually a Halloween set.

The green background and white panel are cut from the SU Radiating Stitches die set and I threw in some more of the polkadot paper too.

My blog will be pretty quiet for the next couple of weeks.

Thanks for checking in, and have a good day!

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Simply Celebrate Critters, Elphie Selfie, How You Bean-Strawberry Add-On, and Happy Howloween sets all from Lawn Fawn

Paper: Gina K Designs heavy and layering weight white and Jelly Bean Green card stock, stash patterned papers

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Gina K Designs Blue Denim, and Copics

Other: Radiating Stitches Dies from Stampin' Up, My Favorite Things Banner die, SU Dimensionals, Connect glue, Misti, Big Shot