I Like the Way You Roll

 Happy Saturday evening,

I hope you are having a nice and relaxing weekend. I had some chores to do this morning, but after finishing, I spent a few hours in my craft room playing with another new Gina K Designs stamp set from her recent release. 

This set is sushi themed. Kind of like me and coffee, which I don't like, but I love coffee themed stamps, I'm not a sushi fan either, but I just couldn't resist this super cute set. Using the current Freshly Made Sketches layout, here's my first card using it. 

I have a bunch of japanese paper that I got years ago at a department store in downtown Honolulu. I pulled out this pretty red with flowers to use for the center panel. It's cut with the Gina K Designs Master Layout 2 die and matted with a piece of Blueberry Bushel card stock. The sushi rolls and the soy bottle are stamped using Memento tuxedo black and colored with Copics, then cut out using the corresponding set dies. I used a SU embossing folder to make a "bamboo" tray. The sentiment banner is also a die from the GK Master Layout 2 die set. The greeting is stamped using VersaMark and heat embossed using white EP.

For the inside, I used the Gina K Designs Fan stencil with SU Pistachio Pudding ink. I stamped more images from the set and made another "bamboo" tray using an older SU die.

I think this one turned out super cute, but that's what happens when the stamps are super cute.

We are headed over to friends to have a social distancing dinner of pizza and salad, and of course, some wine. Thanks all,

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: I Like The Way You Roll set by Gina K Designs

Paper: Gina K heavy white card stock, SU Blueberry Bushel and Crumb Cake card stock, stash patterned paper

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Copics, SU Pistachio Pudding, VersaMark, Gina K Cherry Red

Other: Gina K Designs dies, SU die, SU embossing folder, SU candy dots, foam tape, mini Dimensionals, Misti, Gemini Jr, white EP, heat tool, Gina K Fan stencil

Scream and Sugar

 Happy, happy Friday Peeps,

I'm getting into making some fall and Halloween cards lately. Maybe because it's been SO HOT recently, working on fall projects help it seem cooler? Not really, LOL. 

The ladies at the Retro Rubber Challenge Blog have a fun and simple sketch this week. I pulled out a retired SU set,  DSP and an embossing folder to make my card.

For the inside, I've used some old wood mounted Hero Arts stamps.

Hope you're having a nice day. Here's to the weekend!

Thanks for stopping in,

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Merry Cafe set by Stampin' Up, Hero Arts cat and sentiments - wood mounted

Paper: SU Very Vanilla, Chocolate Chip, Dusty Durango card stocks, SU Apple Cider DSP

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, SU Chocolate Chip

Other: SU Tasteful Label dies, Gina K Master Layout 2 dies, SU Spiderweb EF, Misti, Gemini Jr, 

large sequin bat and spider embellishments, Dimensionals

Wishing You Peace

Hi again peeps,

I have another quick post to share a card that uses this week's Mojo Monday sketch and images from the new Gina K release. This stamp set is called Lovely Lotus. 

As you can see, I turned the sketch on it's side for my card. The lotus is stamped with Memento tuxedo black and colored with Prismacolor colored pencils in the "Gina K" way using Gamsol. I used the set dies to cut out the images and I've used Gina's new Master Layouts 2 set to make some of the layers on my card. The patterned papers are from Honeybee. 

Here's the inside of this card, again using colored pencils and Gamsol. The greeting is stamped on velum and overlaid. All images are from the Lovely Lotus stamp set.

Thanks again,

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Lovely Lotus set by Gina K Designs

Paper: SU Not Quite Navy and Whisper White card stock, Honeybee patterned papers

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, SU Not Quite Navy, Prismacolor colored pencils, Gamsol

Other: Lovely Lotus set dies, Gina K Designs Master Layout 2 dies, SU embossing folder, Misti, Gemini Jr, Pretty Pink Posh gems, foam tape, Gina K foam squares

 

Happy Birthday

 Hello peeps,

I'm having kind of a lazy morning so I thought I'd get my blog post written to share the cards that I made for LeAnne's sketch challenge at the Paper Players. As she pointed out in her sketch intro, this is a great one for using patterned paper. I really like the sketch too and I've used it to make three cards (so far.)

Here is LeAnne's sketch:

Here are my cards. The first pic of each set is the outside of the card, and the second pic is the inside.

Card 1:

Card 2:

Card 3:

I made these Sunday and Monday evenings. They all went together pretty quickly too. I really do think I'll use this sketch to do some more holiday cards.

Happy Hump Day to all! Thanks for stopping in,

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: All Stampin' Up sets, Hello Cupcake, Winter Woods, Cup of  Christmas, Honeycomb Happiness

Paper: SU DSP Birthday Bonanza and Merry Moments, Whisper White, Bermuda Bay, Terra-cotta Tile, Mossy Meadow, Grapefruit Grove card stocks

Ink: SU Mossy Meadow, Real Red, Crumb Cake, Bermuda Bay, Chocolate Chip, Terra-cotta Tile, Memento tuxedo black, Copics, VersaMark

Other: SU corresponding set dies, SU label die, Simon Says Stamp Happy Birthday die and Postage Stamp Die, Die-namics Stitched Rectangle die, Misti, Gemini Jr, Nuvo clear glitter pen, enamel dots, SU gold dots, SU Shimmery Crystal Effects, Dimensionals, gold EP, heat tool

Be Strong, Be Happy, Be You

Hi and happy Sunday,

I hope you are all doing well. The weather is the thing here in California, up and down the state. It's hot and humid here on the southern coast, hot and smoky every place else with the horrible fires. I spoke with my mom, who lives in the far northern part of the state, and while there are no fires in her immediate area, she said that the air quality is bad and when she got up Saturday morning, there were ashes covering everything outside.

Our good friends that live in the Central Coast wine region decided to leave their house there for their house here because of the smoke and very poor air. 

So, I hope all is much nicer where you live.

I spent most of yesterday re-orging dies that don't go with stamp sets. I'm not quite finished, but I think I'm going to like the end result. 

Since I didn't do any actual stamping yesterday, I am today. I've got a couple of cards to share with you. One uses this week's Freshly Made Sketches layout along with the colors from the As You See It Challenge, and the second uses the CAS(E) This Sketch layout from a few week's ago.

The Freshly Made Sketch is certainly interesting. I do have triangle dies, but I thought I'd play around with other shapes and images placed in the general layout of the sketch. Here's what I came up with.

This stamp set is an older one from Stampin' Up called Rooted In Nature. The tree is stamped on water color paper using Distress ink cubes in rust, yellow and brown. After inking the stamp, I spritzed it with water then stamped it on the paper. The leaf image is stamped in the same way using rust Distress ink. Both images are cut with the set dies. The greeting is stamped using Bermuda Bay ink and each line is cut out and glued with liquid glue.

Here is the inside of this card.

For the second card, I used two new Concord & 9th sets. The background is made with the Painted Turnabout set and the greeting is from the new "freebie" set called  Lots of Thoughts.

The inks are Gina K ink cubes in various blue shades and a dark red shade. The greeting circle stamp is layered onto a Die-namics double stitched circle die.

Here's the inside of this card.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great work week,

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Rooted in Nature by Stampin' Up, Painted Turnabout set, Hey Bestie set and Lots Of Thoughts set all by Concord & 9th

Paper: Card 1: SU thick and regular Whisper White, Crushed Curry, Cajun Craze and Bermuda Bay card stocks Card 2: Gina K card stocks

Ink: Tim Holtz Distress ink cubes, SU Bermuda Bay, Gina K ink cubes

Other: SU Rooted In Nature dies, Lil' Inker square stitched die, Misti, Gemini Jr, Hero A2 rounded corner dies, Spellbinder and Die-namics circle dies, SU Candy Dots, Dimensionals, Gina K Connect glue

 

Best Wishes To an Old Goat

Hi again,

My cousin, who owns a ranch in Northern California, has a birthday in a few days. As a family, we lived on this ranch until I was around 10 years old, so I grew up with my cousin. During my jr high and high school summers, I worked, with another cousin, changing hay wagons during the summers. We also did lots of horseback riding making sure that the cows were off the open ranges where the highway ran through. It was another time. My Grandfather owned the ranch at that time, and it's been passed on from him to my uncle, and now to my cousin. He happens to be one of my favorite peeps and I try to remember his birthday every year. I usually visit a few times each year when I visit my mom, but with COVID, that's not possible, so this year a card is even more important.

The stamps are from an older set from Simon Says Stamp. Not sure of the year, but I've had it for at least 3 years, if not more. I did go with a newer, Slimline layout. The Retro Rubber Challenge is "anything goes" this week, so I'm posting to their blog.

I stamped the farm animals on X-Press It Blending card stock with Memento tuxedo black and colored them with Copics. They are cut out with Spellbinders circle dies and layered onto the card. The green card stock is from SSS and the patterned paper is from the latest SSS monthly kit. 

Here is the inside of the card. I really like how this card turned out, and I think my cousin will get a kick out of it too. (he's 3 years older than I).

That's it from me for today. I hope you have nice evening and a good week.

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Birthday Farm Animals by Simon Says Stamp

Paper: SSS Green and white card stock, Doodlebug pattern papers

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Copics, Gina K Blueberry

Other: Spellbinders circle dies, SU Shimmery Crystal Effects, Nuvo glitter pen, Misti, Gemini Jr, foam tape

Thanks For Being A Great Teacher

 Hi Peeps,

I hope you are having a nice Sunday! We went to breakfast at our favorite local spot this morning, early. Not too many folks and of course, all tables are outside. After, I completed a few weekend "chores" and then looked to see what the new Paper Players Challenge is for the week.

Claire is our hostess with the monthly CAS challenge, and with a theme of "Back to School." I don't have many (really any) back to school themed stamps. I'm way, way past that! I managed to find a PI set that worked. I combined stamps from MFT, Taylored Expressions, and Lawn Fawn to make this card. I know that Claire likes the PI girls, so I think this works pretty well.

The image is stamped with Memento tuxedo black on X-Press It Blending card stock and colored with Copics. I'm a little rusty coloring, but managed to make this presentable. Instead of a one layer, I did mat the colored panel, but I think it still can be considered CAS.

Here's the inside of the card with the teacher tribute. We have friends with kids that are teachers and they are certainly having to re-boot their teaching plans. My heart and my admiration goes out to all teachers, parents and students who have to deal with COVID 19 and schooling. YIKES!!! 

Thanks for stopping in. I hope your coming week is a good one!

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Pure Innocence It's A Sign set by My Favorite Things, Little School House set by Taylored Expressions, and Thanks A Bushel set by Lawn Fawn

Paper: SSS heavy white, X-Press It Blending white, and SU Handsome Hunter card stocks

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Copics, VersaMark

Other: White EP, heat tool, Misti