Let's Shell-ebrate

 Hello all,

Happy Monday. It will be a lazy day for me, at least for the rest of the morning watching the French Open Tennis matches. It's early rounds, but still fun to watch. 

Yesterday while watching matches I put together a card using the sketch from this week's Freshly Made Sketches challenge.

The center panel is one I pulled out of my box of backgrounds. It's an inking technique using an embossing folder. I don't recall any of the details of making it, however. It looks like simple inking over the negative side with ink pads, and it looks like the ink might be Distress Oxide. Any-hoo, I cut it down and used an Avery Elle Stitched Scalloped Frame die to frame it for the front of the card. 

The card base is stenciled with a set of Waffle Flower Layering stencils with the same color of ink as the card base, The sentiment is also from Waffle Flower. It's a really simple card, but it turned out pretty.

On the inside, I again used the same Waffle Flower stencils to very lightly stencil the background and these sentiments are from Spellbinders.

Enjoy your day!

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Coastal Greetings set by Waffle Flower, Anchors Away and Confetti Wishes sets by Spellbinders

Paper: Gina K Designs Turquoise Sea and Layering White card stock

Ink: Gina K Designs Turquoise Sea and Black Onyx, Distress Oxide

Other: Spellbinders Scattered Shells embossing folder, Waffle Flower Sea Shell Layering stencils, Avery Elle Stitched Scalloped Frame dies, blending brushes

Hey! Miss You and Cozy Up!

 TGIF Peeps,

I have two cards today that use the same layout and same stamps and dies, inspired by two different challenges. For the Paper Players it's Clean and Simple week and Christy's theme is Baby Animals. While I have many, many stamps with animals, not so many are of babies. I do have this cute suite from Waffle Flower with kitties that I thought would work. For the theme of my card, I decided to go with Postage and pulled out an older Gina K Designs Postcard set to go with.

It's Stencil week at Just Us Girls and Vicki's challenge is Anything Goes. I decided to use the same basic layout on this card, but stenciled the background with a Kristina Werner/Concord & 9th stencil pack and inks. I wasn't sure if the Postage elements would show up when stamped , but I think it worked well.

For this card I layered the kitten images onto some Waffle Flower postage dies and popped up the sentiments. 

The inside of the two cards is identical.

Enjoy your Friday and weekend!

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Postcard set by Gina K Designs and Simple Joy set by Waffle Flower

Paper: Concord & 9th Nectar and Wildberry Gingham card stocks, Gina K Designs Layering Weight card stock

Ink: Concord & 9th and Gina K Designs, Images colored with Copics

Other: Waffle Flower Simple Joy dies and Postage dies, Gina K Designs Master Layouts 2 dies, Kristina Werner/Concord & 9th Bitsy Blooms Stencil Pack

Happy Birthday

 Happy Hump Day Peeps,

I was looking through my boxes of SU patterned papers for some beehive images yesterday and while doing so, I ran across this very old Botanical Gazette DSP. There's a hive on one of the pages that I could use for the other card, and then I saw these moth and flower images that looked like they would be great for vintage style cards. Now, I'm pretty crappy at doing vintage, but I decided to give it a try. After finishing the card this morning, I realized it would fit with the current Mood Board challenge for Just Us Girls.

I tore a couple of edges of the DSP and blended some Dark Sage ink over them. I then stamped some images from the SSS Butterfly Blossoms set around using Charcoal Brown ink. Another piece of the DSP has moths scattered around and I used some postage dies from Waffle Flower to cut them out. They are arranged around the front of the card, an I added some gold dots to finish.

For the inside I used my current favorite "inside" birthday sentiment with a left over moth cutout.

This afternoon I'll be packing for a trip to NY tomorrow. My nephew, my sister and I are going to the Base Hall Of Fame Inductions in Cooperstown this weekend. My nephew's all time favorite player is being inducted. He really wanted to go and since I'm a huge BB fan too, I was all in, then my sister (his mom) decided to join us.

Have a great afternoon,

Colleen

Supplies

 Stamps: Butterfly Blossoms set by Simon Says Stamp and Gentle Silhouettes set by Gina K Designs

Paper: Gina K Designs Ivory and Dark Sage card stock, SU Botanical Gazette DSP

Ink: Gina K Designs Dark Sage and Charcoal Brown

Other: Waffle Flower Postage dies, Spellbinders Sealed Twine die, Gina K Designs metallic pearl embellishments and blending brushes

4th of July

 Hello,

I hope your week has been going well. I'm recovering from some minor skin surgery to remove a melanoma from the side of my nose. The surgery was on Tuesday. Luckily, I noticed the discoloration and made an appointment before it had any chance to go deeper. Because of the area on my face, there is a rather large incision, but as it's a Mohs procedure, I don't expect much scaring. I have much swelling and bruising, but that will go away in a few days. I feel rather lucky as it could have been much more involved.

I've had no pain and today I felt like doing some crafting. I decided to make one more card to enter at the Paper Players for this week's Tic-Tac-Toe challenge. This time I used the bottom horizontal choice of Postal-Layers-Masculine and made a fun 4th of July card.

These stamps, stencils and dies are from the Waffle Flower postage line and are very fun.

Wishing you all a very Happy 4th of July!

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps, Layering Stencils, Dies: Waffle Flower

Paper: Gina K Designs card stock

Ink: Gina K Designs

Other: Brutus Monroe white embossing powder