Just A Note

 Hello Peeps!

Stef has a pretty color challenge for this week's Paper Players challenge and I thought it might be fun to make a little birdie card with them. I'm also using the sketch from the current Sunday Stamps challenge.

This stamp, stencil and die set is the July 2026 Let's Stamp Together bundle designed by Pretty Pink Posh. I used the stencils for the background and the bird and branch dies to make my card today. I've also used a GKD cloud stencil for the background on the bird panel.

There are two sentiments in the included stamp set and I've used one on the front of the card and the other on the inside here.

Hope your Wednesday is a good one. Thanks for checking in.

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps, Background stencils, Notched Corner panel die, and bird dies from the July 2026 Let's Stamp Together kit

Paper: Gina K Designs

Ink: Gina K Designs

Other: Gina K Designs Cloud stencil, Master Layouts 2 and 10, blending brushes

Just Wanted To Stop and Say Hello & Happy Birthday

 Hello and Happy Monday!

Karen has a fun fold Bridge card design for this week's Freshly Made Sketches challenge. I haven't made one of these in quite awhile. I made two cards and had tons of fun putting them together.

For both cards, I made the basic folded card and then glued the stenciled and embossed panels on the insides and outside flaps.

The background on this first card is made using Pretty Pink Posh layering stencils. The bridge sentiment dies are from Gina K Designs and the balloon is from Pretty Pink Posh.

The background for this second card is made with the Spellbinders Splish-Splash embossing folder and the die cut images are from the Large Die of the Month set for June. Not going to lie, it took me a few minutes to figure out the waves! After running the card stock through to emboss it, I used a teal ink cube and lightly rubbed it over the raised surface to ad the color. The sentiment is from Honey Bee.

On both cards I added a tent folded card glued to the back to have a place for "inside greetings" and personal messages.

Enjoy the week, and thanks for stopping by.

Colleen

Supplies

Pretty Pink Posh Birthday Hat Layering stencils, SU card stock, Taylored Expressions ink cubes, blending brushes, Gina K Designs Birthday dies, Pretty Pink Posh Make A Wish set dies, Big Shot, SU gold dot, Connect glue, Wink of Stella

Spellbinders Splish Splash Embossing Folder, Whale In a Bottle die set, Taylored Expressions card stock,  Hero teal ink cube, Honey Bee Kindness Sentiment set, VersaMark ink, Gina K Designs white embossing powder, heat tool, Misti, Big Shot, Connect glue, SU mini-Dimensionals, Wink of Stella

Celebrate

 Hi Peeps,

I purchased  some of the new release stencils, dies and stamp sets from the latest Pretty Pink Posh release. They arrived on Monday so of course, I wanted to use some of them right away.

These ice cream cone layering stencils are super cute! I made these all chocolate ice cream with chocolate sprinkles. The large Celebrate and shadow dies worked  perfectly for this week's Freshly Made Sketches Challenge.  Since I didn't want to cover up the ice cream cones, I used vellum under the die for the larger diagonal element.

For the inside of the card I used greetings from the GKD mini Birthday set. 

Thanks for checking in, and happy stamping!

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Wish set by Pretty Pink Posh and Birthday mini set by Gina K Designs

Stencils: Birthday Ice Cream Cones layering stencils

Paper. Gina K Designs Layering weight white card stock and Vellum, Taylored Expressions turquoise, hot pink, cream, and dark chocolate card stock

Ink: Gina K Designs Ocean Mist, Turquoise Sea, Innocent Pink, Bubblegum Pink, Applemint, Jellybean Green, Sandy Beach, Warm Cocoa, Dark Chocolate, Wild Dandelion, and Tangerine Twist

Other: Pretty Pink Posh Celebrate die and shadow die set, blending brushes, Misti, Big Shot, Connect liquid glue

Sending You Love & HUGS

 Hello peeps,

I'm in Northern California again visiting my mom. I drove up last Thursday and will most likely stay until after her 87th birthday, which is on March 14. I loaded up my car with stamping supplies so I could occupy some of my time while she goes off to her bingo games at the senior center.

Included in the supplies are card sock, misc. ink cubes, and some other supplies that are "extra" at home, so I plan on leaving them here for my sister and I to use when either of us are visiting.

I made this card yesterday afternoon for this week's Paper Players Challenge. Claire's got CAS week with a theme of "Get Well."

I placed an order with Pretty Pink Posh a few days before leaving home and had the order shipped to mom's house and it came on Monday. Of course, I had to ink up some of the stamps ASAP.

All of the stamped images are PPP except the bottom sentiment, which is from a Gina K Designs get well set. I stamped the small images on the front of the card base using Distress Lost Shadow ink using an acrylic block. For the die cut HUGS image, I ink blended light carnation pink, lemon yellow, applemint green, and turquoise sea on white card stock, blending one into the next, then stamped the large HUGS image using a dark gray ink. I cut this out using the corresponding die, then cut it twice more from white card stock to layer.

Both greetings are stamped on black card stock and heat embossed with white EP, and I used some sentiment dies with rounded ends from Altenew to cut them out.

Here's the inside. This greeting is from another Gina K Designs stamp set.

With the wacky weather going on this week, it's supposed to snow here the next two days. It's rare to get snow here, but it does happen. 

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

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Hugs set by Pretty Pink Posh, Get Well Wishes and Luck and Love sets by Gina K Designs

Paper: SU Basic White Thick and GKD Black Onyx card stock

Ink: Gina K Designs Light Carnation Pink, Apple Mint, Lemon Drop, Turquoise Sea, Slate,  and embossing ink, Tim Holtz Distress Lost Shadow

Other: Misti, Big Shot, Pretty Pink Posh set dies, Featured Sentiments dies by Altenew,  Brutus Monroe white embossing powder, heat tool, SU mini Dimensionals, Connect liquid glue

Spring Card Camp 2022 - Day 1 Cards

 Hello,

I signed up to take latest Online Card Class and day one was all about ink lifting. I made a card for each technique demonstrated in the class video. Day 1 techniques were taught by Jennifer McGuire and Channin Pelletier. The ink lifting in all of the techniques is accomplished with water and an ink that is water reactive. I've used Distress Oxide inks on all of my cards.

Jennifer showed two techniques for making backgrounds and I made cards using both. The second technique she showed actually makes two backgrounds.

Ink lifting in the first technique is done using a paint brush, water and a paper towel. Here's my card.

The  SSS Tumbling Shells background stamp is stamped using Hero Arts craft white ink and heat embossed using GKD white fine detail embossing powder. After embossing, I blended three blue shades of Distress Oxide ink using a Tim Holtz sponge blending tool. The stamp set is called Inner Mermaid from Ellen Hutson. I heat embossed the sentiment on Vellum and the mermaid tail on white card stock using GKD Amalgam black ink and clear embossing powder. The tail is colored with Copics. The sentiment is die cut using a GKD circle die. I matted the top panel with white and used a GKD Blue Raspberry card base.

Here are my examples using the second ink lifting technique taught by Jennifer.

I used the new Freshly Made Sketches sketch for the layout.The flowers and leaves are from the Pink Fresh Studio set called Brighter Days which includes a hot foil plate, layering stencils, stamps and dies. I first hot foiled the flowers using gold foil. Next I used GKD inks and the stencils to color the flowers and then cut them out using the corresponding die. I arranged the flowers per the sketch and added a GKD pre-printed sentiment strip to each. The top panels and mats are cut out using the GKD Master Layouts 1 die set. Finally, I added some sequins, gems and pearls for embellishments.

The last card uses the technique taught by Channin. This technique used a line stencil sprayed with water to do the ink lifting. 

The background stencil is from Pretty Pink Posh called Jungle. The stamps and dies are from the Birds of Paradise and Tropical Tweets sets by Honey Bee. I colored the images with Copics and cut everything out with the corresponding set dies. The stenciled panel and mat are cut using the GKD Master Layouts 1 die set. The card base is GKD Sweet Mango card stock.

Sorry for a such a long post, but I wanted to put all of my Day 1 cards together.  I've listed most of the basic supplies in the post, but if anyone has a question on something I didn't list, just shoot me an email.

Thanks for checking in,

Colleen

Just Saying Hello

Happy Monday peeps,

I recently received my order of some of newly released products from Pretty Pink Posh. I love the stencils and the stamp sets! And the dies. Can't forget the dies! For my first card using some of the new goodies, I used Claire's sketch for this week's Paper Players Challenge.

The card base is Gina K Lucky Clover card stock. I used one of the stencils and a blending brush with Lucky Clover ink to ad the Jungle leaves and flowers. The second panel is also made using new stencils from PPP, Gina K inks and blending brushes. The flowers and berries are heat embossed with clear EP. The new stitched leaf border die is cut from the same Lucky Clover paper and sponged with Fresh Asparagus ink and glued with liquid glue. The monkeys are stamped with Memento tuxedo black ink and colored with Copics, cut out with the set dies, and arranged on panels cut using Hero Arts nesting dies. The greeting is embossed with white EP on SU Poppy Parade paper. Finally, I added a few red pearls along the leaf border.

Here's the inside of the card. The sentiment here and on the front are from the new PPP set called Simple Sentiments.

These stamps couldn't be any sweeter! Thanks for stopping in,
Colleen

Supplies
Stamps: Monkey Friends and Simple Sentiments sets by Pretty Pink Posh
Paper: Gina K Lucky Clover, SU Whisper White and Poppy Parade card stocks
Ink: Memento tuxedo black, VersaMark, Gina K Lucky Clover, Fresh Asparagus, Ocean Mist, Red Hot, Wild Dandelion, Key Lime ink cubes
Other: PPP Monkey Friends dies, Stitched Leaf Border dies, Hero Arts Nested Rectangle dies, clear and white embossing powders, heat tool, PPP Stencils, TE Blending brushes, Misti, Gemini Jr, Gina K foam squares, red pearls