Birthday Wishes

 Hi Peeps,

Here's a quick post with my card for this week's Paper Players Challenge, this week it's a Tic-tac-toe grid. These are always fun!

I decided on the middle across options Birthday, Heat Embossing and Summer Fun and used new Spellbinders June stamps, stencil, embossing folder, and dies of the month. 

My card is rather busy and after I finished it I thought it might fall into the "more isn't always better, somethings it's just more" category. I like the bright colors and that beachball stencil is really fun. Keeping with the sentiment theme of "sending" I cut the stenciled panel with a postage die and added the postmarks in the four corners. 

The clear stamp of the month set has three little scene stamps for the key and I used the other two on the inside, along with the left over part of the beachball panel after cutting it with the postage die.

Enjoy your weekend!

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Paradise Resort Set by Spellbinders and Seaside Post by Concord & 9th

Paper: Gina K Designs card stock

Ink: Gina K Designs and Copic Markers

Other: Spellbinders June embossing folder and stencil of the month, Gina K Designs Master Layouts 11 dies, WOW Opaque white embossing powder, heat tool, Misti, SU Dimensionals

Thinking of You

 Hi all,

A very quick post as I'm down to the wire for posting my Freshly Made Sketch card.

This is a super simple but bright square note card per Jen's sketch. 

All supplies are from Concord & 9th.

Thanks for checking in,

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Treetops Turnabout set with dies by Concord & 9th

Paper: Concord & 9th card stock

Ink: Concord & 9th

Other: Lawnfawn Stitched Hill die, SU Dimensionals, Connect Liquid Glue

Sending Big Hugs

 Happy Monday Peeps,

It's July 1 and time for the Championships/Wimbledon tennis tournament, which means that  I'll be in front of the TV for a lot of the next two weeks. Luckily, I can make cards and/or do some sewing while watching. It's all about multitasking, LOL. 

I made a card last evening using the current Color Throwdown challenge, which ends in just a few hours. This is the first time using this die set from Concord & 9th. It took a few tries to get things lined up correctly. I ended up running the plate through the die cutting machine with the embossing rubber mat to get the lines to glue the pieces down, which worked pretty well. The background polkadots are made using a C&9th stencil and black ink. All of the card stock is C&9th too.

The stamps and all of the dies are part of the same set. Hello was cut three times and glued together. I added some Nuvo shimmer over it and then glossy accents, but it's hard to see in the photo. The other part of the sentiment is heat embossed with white EP.

Here is the inside of the card. Very simple, and the sentiment is also from the same set.

Enjoy your day and have a great week ahead!

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps and dies: Spring Print set by Concord & 9th

Stencil: Dots and Blossoms stencil set by Concord & 9th

Paper: Concord & 9th card stock

Ink: Gina K Designs Black Onyx and White craft ink

Other: WOW white embossing powder, heat tool, Concord & 9th Buttercup enamel dots, Connect glue, blending brushes

Hello

Happy Sunday,

I realized that I didn't blog and post my cards for this month's Woodblock Wednesday Challenge.  I made the cards a few days ago while enjoying a baseball game on TV.

While looking through my wood mounted stamps, I found some sweet watermelons. Since it's summer, they seemed like a good idea. These are super simple, square note cards.

Both cards are stamped with GKD Black Onyx ink and colored with Copics and Olo markers. I found some picnic themed pattern papers in my stash and used them on one of the cards.

Here are the individual cards, both front and the inside.

Enjoy your day. We are headed to the San Diego county fair late this afternoon. Our young friend Liam has an art project entered and we need to go see it. I like looking at all of the school projects and the photography.

Thanks for looking in,

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Watermelon and watermelon border stamps from ©imaginations, sentiment stamps from Hero Arts

Paper: Gina K Designs Layering Weight White, SU Poppy Parade, Call Me Clover and Granny Apple Green card stock, stash patterned papers

Ink: Gina K Designs Black Onyx and Red Velvet, Copic and Olo markers

Other: Gina K Designs Master Layouts 3, SU corner rounder punch

Just A Note

TGIF Peeps!

My morning didn't start off well. When I came into my craft room around 7:00 am, my stamping table was covered in ants! I mean it was black there were so many of them. Before going to bed around 11 last night,  there were none. I'm still not sure why or what they were after as there is nothing related to food in the room. It took a good hour to move everything off, spray them with Clorox Cleanup, wipe and vacuum the whole room. I've been seeing a rogue "scout" periodically since and I make quick work of it. It's been getting hotter outside and I'm wondering if they are after water, although the only water is my wet shammy for stamp cleaning. Anywho- disgusting!

On to a more pleasant subject, I have a card that fits two challenges. It's Anything Goes Stencil week at Just Us Girls and I've used Ann's sketch for Paper Players Challenge.

The background is stenciled using a fun layering stencil set from PinkFresh Studio called Modern Rug. The flower stamp is also from PinkFresh Studio. It's a stamp, stencil and die set called Beautiful Blooms. After stenciling the background, I stamped the daisies in black ink in the middle of the panel and again on white card so I could fussy cut the daisies and glue them over the stamped image on the stenciled panel. For the sentiment strip, I heat embossed one of the Beautiful Bloom sentiments using white EP, placed it per the sketch, and then popped up the small daisy in place over the stamped image. 

To make the card front edges per Ann's sketch, I cut the center from both Lime and Orange 5.5 x 4.25" panels using a SU Stitched rectangle die then cut through at the corners and glued the pieces in place. I finished the card by placing some colored paper circles as embellishments.

For the inside, I used another of the images from Beautiful Blooms coloring it with the set stencils, and a sentiment from the PinkFresh set called Heart Smiles Sentiments, which I stamped on a scrap piece of white card stock and cut out with a GKD Sentiment Strip die.

Thanks all for checking in. I hope your Friday and weekend are ant free!

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Beautiful Blooms set and Heart Smiles Sentiments set by PinkFresh Studio

Layering Stencils: Modern Run by Pink Fresh Studio and Beautiful Blooms Layering Stencils

Paper: Gina K Designs Card stock Layering Weight White, Key Lime and Sweet Mango

Ink: Gina K Designs Black Onyx, Craft White, Key Lime, Sweet Mango, Lemon Drop, Lipstick, and Turquoise Sea

Other: WOW white embossing powder, heat tool, GKD Sentiment Strip dies, Stampin' Up Stitched Rectangle dies, Taylored Expressions Rainbow Discs

Encouragement & Sympathy Cards

 Hello Peeps,

It's Thursday already! Sometimes it seems like the weeks just fly by. I've been working of some sewing lately, instead of stamping. I finished three quilts in the past two weeks, two are for wedding gifts and the third is one I helped a friend make. They all turned out beautiful.

Last year I made a cute handbag using a Sallie Tomato pattern and I've enjoyed using it, but it's getting a little worn looking and I thought I'd make another. I'm waiting on some hardware that I ordered before I can put it all together, but I have been "making" the fabric that I want to use. Mostly, cutting 2.5 inch squares of flowered material and sewing them together for a scrappy look. The accent fabric is denim. I'm excited to see how the completed project looks.

Since it is Thursday, I put the sewing aside so I could make some cards for this week's  Paper Players challenge. LeAnne is hostess with the monthly CAS challenge and her theme is Sympathy or Encouragement. I made a few cards for my stash.

For the first card I started with a card front cut from a PinkFresh Studio Blanket Stitch Rectangle die. Using Masking Magic quarter inch strips I masked off the stitching and then divided the panel into thirds. I ink blended Distress Oxide inks in pink, gold and turquoise into the areas, spritzed with water and splattered with white paint. I removed the masking strips, added the palm trees, SU, cut from white card stock and the stamped sentiment element. This lovely sentiment is from Gina K Designs.

Here is the inside of this card. The sentiment is actually a rub-on from Hero. The palm tree is from SU.

These other two cards are made using stamps and rub-ons from Hero. I used the same inside sentiment for each card.

Second card.

 Third card.

Inside of cards 2 and 3.

TGIF tomorrow. We have plans for Saturday. We are meeting friends that live in the Palm Springs area in the Temecula Wine Country for lunch and a little wine tasting. On Sunday, a girl friend and I will be at Petco Park for a baseball game. I hope you have some fun plans too.

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Hero Arts With Sympathy set and coordinating dies and rub-ons and Gina K Designs Guiding Light mini stamp set

Paper: Gina K Designs white, kraft, black card stock & vellum

Ink: Distress Oxide, Gina K Designs Black Onyx and craft white, Concord & 9th Rainforest, Grasshopper,  Eucalyptus, and Lemon Grass

Other: PinkFresh Studio Blanket Stitch Rectangle dies, Gina K Designs Sentiment Strip and Stitched Circle dies,  Stampin' Up Paradise Palms dies, SU Circle Punch, Blending Brushes, WOW white pearl embossing powder, heat tool, water brush, Dr pH Martin's white paint, small paint brush, Misti, Intri-cut die cutting machine

Wishing You All the Best

Happy Thursday Peeps,

I have two very different cards using Joanne's colors for this week's Paper Players Challenge. Joanne's color palette this week is Boho Blue, Night of Navy, Lemon Lolly and a fourth color, our choice. My fourth color for both of these cards is Grapefruit Grove.

Card one is made using a pretty bundle from PinkFresh Studio. It comes with a stamp set, hot foil plate, die and layering stencils. I've used everything except the hot foil plate to make my card. The back ground embossing folder is from Spellbinders. The sentiment is heat embossed with white EP onto Night of Navy card stock and the three shinny blue enamel dots are from SU.

Here is the inside of this card. I stamped, stenciled and cut out the image again and glued it to the top corner of the inside white panel, then trimmed the excess off. The sentiment is from the same stamp set, again heat embossed with white EP on Navy card stock.

Card two is made with Concord & 9th supplies. The background is a turnabout stencil using the four challenge colors. I cut it out using a C&9th postage stamp die and layered it to Night of Navy card stock. The drink cup (Yeti style) is made using a fairly new stamp and die set that has some super fun sentiments included along with some sweet ones.  I used three of the sweet sentiments here on the front. The two on the side are heat embossed with white EP on Navy card stock (why mess with something that works).

I used one of the funnier sentiments on the inside. (In my case it would be Iced Tea, not water.) I'm putting this in the mail for my nephew who lives in Minneapolis. 

Enjoy your Friday,

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Floral Trio set by PinkFresh Studio and H2 Hello set by Concord & 9th

Paper: SU Basic White thick, Night of Navy, Boho Blue, Lemon Lolly

Ink: SU Night of Navy, Boho Blue, Lemon Lolly, Gina K Designs craft white

Other: PFS Floral Trio layering stencils and dies, C&9th H2 Hello dies & Postage Stamp dies, C & 9th Faceted Turnabout Stencil, Spellbinders Latticework embossing folder, Altenew Curved Sentiment Strip dies, WOW white embossing folder, heat tool, Misti, SU enamel dots, C&9th enamel dots, SU Dimensionals