Forever and Always

 Hello Peeps,

I hope your week is going well. I've got a floral wedding card for you today using LeAnne's sketch for the Paper Players challenge. 

All of the supplies used to make this card are from Gina K Designs except the yellow sequins. The floral stamp set comes with coloring stencils and I did use those with blending brushes to color the stamped images. The large white die cut lattice is from one of the Master Layouts die sets as is the circle dies. I use two embossing folders, one for the yellow panel behind the white lattice and the other to add some dimension on the right side of the card front.

Here's the inside, just a simple stamped sentiment.

We do have a wedding to attend but not until September. I haven't decided if this card will be for that or just go to the stash.

Enjoy your day.

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: All from Gina K Designs, Hand Picked Flowers set, Sweet Sentiments set, and Wishful Florals set

Paper: Gina K Designs white layering, Lemon Yellow and PeachBellini card stock

Ink: Gina K Designs

Other: Gina K Designs Hand Picked coloring stencils, blending brushes, Master Layouts 3, 12 and 20 die sets, Lattice and Radiant Roses embossing folders, Spellbinders yellow sequins

Happy Wedding Day

Hi all,

Here's my card for this week's Paper Players Challenge. Laurie is our hostess with a Wedding/Anniversary theme. I didn't really need a card for either celebration, but I wanted to play along with a wedding card. I'll just add this one to my stash.

I first made a card base from SSS Oyster Gray card stock and glued a very subtle patterned paper on it. The die layers are cut from the same Oyster Gray paper using SU dies. I layered some Pink Pirouette paper under the smaller die layer. The image is stamped with Gina K Slate ink onto white X-Press It Blending card stock. I didn't want to add a greeting to the front as I thought it would detract from the overall picture effect. I did add that tiny pink heart because I couldn't resist some embellishment.

Here's the greeting on the inside of the card.

 

I'm happy it is Friday tomorrow. I've had somewhat of a busy work week and I'm looking forward to the weekend. Thanks for looking in!

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Couple stamp from Inkadinkado, Happy Wedding Day from Magenta, inside bkg stamp from Magenta

Paper: X-Press It Blending, SSS Oyster Gray, SU Pink Pirouette card stock and Polkadoodler Timeless Rose patterned paper

Ink: Gina K Slate ink cube, SU Pink Pirouette

Other: SU dies, Gemini jr, heart embellishment, Gina K Connect glue

Happily Ever After

Good Friday afternoon,

TGIF! Do people use that term any longer? That's how I feel though. I had a long and busy work week with lots of driving. I had to make a trip from San Diego to north of Los Angeles twice, Monday and Wednesday. LA traffic is NOT fun!

Today I had an office day and finished up early afternoon. I need a wedding card for a co-worker and decided to make a quick one using Karen's Sweet Sunday Sketch #190.

I love this simple shadow wedding stamp from Inkadinkado. Today I paired it with papers from Recollections called Habitat.

I rotated the sketch in order to accommodate the image. After cutting out the image with the Spellbinders die, I sponged the edges with antique linen distress ink. Before gluing down the flowered paper, I scrunched it up for a vintage look, then stitched around with some light tan thread.

Supplies
Stamps: Inkadinkado single stamp
Paper: SU Crumb Cake, SU Perfect Plumb and TE Choice Buttercream card stocks and Recollections Habitat patterned papers
Ink: SU Perfect Plumb and Tim Holtz Distress antique linen ink
Other: Spellbinders Lattice Rectangles dies, Die-namics Fishtail Flags STAX dies, sewing machine, Recollections flowers, the Big Shot, and dimensionals

I'm SO looking forward to the weekend. I'm sure you are too. Have a great one and thanks for looking in,

Colleen

A Princess and Her Knight

Hi all,

It's such an exciting day for me as I'm joining the TESC Sketch Crew this week for sketch #157. It's SO fun to receive an e mail saying that you've won a sketch challenge, and since I love my Taylored Expressions stamps, the one I received from Taylor telling me I'd won Top Chef honors for TESC155 is extra special.

I left home a week ago Thursday, as I've been working in Northern California. That meant I had to pack some of my supplies and stamps so I could put together my card on the road. It's kind of "interesting" not having all one's supplies at hand, but I managed to bring what I needed for this card, even though I had no idea what the sketch would look like.

All of the papers, the tag, the ribbon and the blue paper flower are from the TE April Key Ingredients kit. My princess is colored with Copics and part of her dress is paper pieced. (Bodice and insert of skirt) After coloring her crown and slippers, I coated them with a layer of Star Dust Stickles. (All princesses should have sparkly crowns.) After coloring, she was fussy cut and popped up on the dies with dimensionals.

I stamped the her castle on the PP, very lightly, before adding the sketch elements over it. I like how it adds to the theme of the card. For the finishing touches, I added blue rhinestones to the hearts on the TE die and added some stitching around the edges. The sentiment is stamped on a kraft tag from the KI kit and one of the paper Pretties flowers was added with a dimensional.

And, for the inside of my card;
NO princess should be without her Knight in Shinning Armor:

Supplies
Stamps: Moka Princess Penelope, Moka Sir Henry and Royal Digs from Taylored Expressions
Papers: All from April's TE Key Ingredients, Buttercream and Lagoon card stock and Simple Stories Fabulous patterned papers
Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Copics and Color Box Chalk blue and dark pink ink pads
Other: Classic circle Nesties, TE layering doily die - medium, MFT Die-namics Fishtail Flag dies, Star Dust Stickles, Kaiser rhinestones, pink stitched ribbon, kraft tag and blue paper pretties flower all from April KI kit, SU linen thread, sewing machine, the Big Shot, and dimensionals

Thanks for stopping by today. Have a "royally fabulous" weekend.
Colleen