Wine a Little, It Helps. . .

Hello all,

Today's card I made for the current Fusion Card Challenge.  Wine and Cheese are two of my favorite things, so I had to play along. 

I have this large wine bottle die that I thought would be perfect for the sketch and theme for the Fusion challenge . Unfortunately, I didn't label the storage envelope that I have this die stored in and since it's several years old, I really have no idea of the maker. (I tried looking it up on SSS and a few other web sites but couldn't find it.) 

I also remembered I have this older wood mounted stamp of a wine basket and thought it would be fun for the label on the die cut bottle. This is also an older stamp with a date on the price tag of 2005. 

Since I'm using all of these older supplies, this card works for the current Anything Goes Challenge at Retro Rubber. Even the patterned papers are several years old, from SU and long retired.

The greetings, both front and inside, are from Taylored Expressions. 

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

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Wine Basket Wood Mounted stamp from Art Impressions and Wine a Little sets by Taylored Expressions

Paper: SU Cajun Craze, Soft Suede, Very Vanilla card stock and Comfort Cafe DSP

Ink: Gina K Designs Charcoal Brown and SU Cajun Craze, Copic Markers

Other: Wine Bottle die, GKD Master Layouts 6 dies,  Rust enamel dots, Misit, Sizzix Switch Plus, SU Dimensionals

Hello, Sunshine

 Happy Hump Day Peeps,

This morning I received a box of happiness in the mail, my order from Gina K's latest release. As I was putting the stamp sets into the storage pockets, I thought that the Lemons & Sunshine set would be perfect for Claire's Paper Players Challenge, Tic-Tac-Toe this month. I used the left side vertical option of Sun, Yellow, Die Cut.

After finishing the card, I realized that it also works for the GKD August Monthly Mix Challenge. Sheri is the hostess and her challenge is to have texture on our projects. I've used  dies, foam squares for dimension,  an embossing folder,  and pearl embellishments, all help to add texture.

I used Copics to color the lemons. All of the other supplies are from GKD. 

I started by using the Sun Stencil and blended the rays coming down from the top left corner with a mini blending brush. I moved the stencil down to get the rays to go all the way to the bottom of the card stock panel. Using a larger blending brush, I added more color to the large sun hole in the stencil, removed the stencil and stamped the small sun image and greeting, both from the stamp set. On a separate piece of card stock I stamped the lemon images, colored them with Copics and cut them out with the corresponding set dies. The stenciled panel is cut out using ML2. I lined up where I wanted to place the lemon images on the stitched die and cut those so when I taped them on the card, the stitching matches. The card base is dry embossed with the GKD Swiss Dots EF.

Here's the inside of the card. This greeting is super cute substituting "zest" for "best."

Thanks for looking in today. 

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Lemons and Sunshine stamp set and dies

Paper: Gina K Designs Layering Weight and Heavy Weight White and Black Onyx card stock

Ink: Gina K Designs Black Onyx, Lemon Yellow, Wild Dandelion and Copic Markers

Other: Gina K Designs Sunshine Stencil, Swiss Dots Embossing Folder, Master Layouts 2, White Pearl Mix embellishments, small and regular blending brushes,  foam squares, Connect glue, Misti, Gemini Jr

It's Penguining To Look A Lot Like Christmas

TGIF Peeps,

I've got a Christmas in July card for you today. This is a 4.25 x 4.25 inch square note card. All supplies are from Gina K Designs. I was playing around with the Wreath Builder System this afternoon and it didn't look too bad, so I went ahead and made a card with the panel.

After making the wreath, I decided to cut a circle in the center so that the inside of the card shows through. I went so far as to fussy cut around the greenery. All of the stamped images are from last year's Playful Penguins stamp & die set. Some of the images are colored with Copic Markers.

The new As You See It Challenge is Christmas In July, specifically our favorite craft. Mine is definitely card making.

 

The inside: 

The images are colored with Copics. I used some Nuvo enamel drops for the white areas on the Santa hat.

Thanks for looking in, and have a great weekend,

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Playful Penguins set and dies from Gina K Designs

Paper: Gina K Designs Cherry Red, Christmas Pine and Layering Weight White card sotck

Ink: Gina K Designs Black Onyx, Slate, Christmas Pines, Grass Green, Sea Glass and Copic Markers

Other: GKD Wreath Builder System, Misti, Gemini Jr., Foam Squares, Nuvo white enamel drops, Connect glue

Sending Bright Wishes

 

Hey there peeps,

Amy's sketch for the current Freshly Made Sketches challenge looked both intriguing and a little challenging to me, but after thinking about it, I actually came up with a couple of cards. 

The first is a fall themed card with some bright fall colors. I made my own background by stamping the leaf randomly using rust, gold, pink and purple shades of ink, then grabbed a small polka-dot stencil and blended over the stamped leaves using a lighter gold shade.

The pumpkins are stamped in charcoal brown ink and colored using blending brushes. The flowers ae colored with Copics.

All of the Stamped and die cut images are from Stampin' Up.

 

For the second card, I used the new SSS Horizon Line stencil to stencil a cloudy background then added some bright kites. I fussy cut the sentiment and popped it up with some mini SU Dimensionals. The inks and stamped/die cut images are all Concord & 9th. For embellishments, I added some TE Rainbow circles.

Everyone of the DT cards are amazing and helped inspire me for sure. 

Thanks for checking in today,

Colleen

Supplies

Card 1:

Stamps: Hello Harvest stamp set and dies and Eclectic Garden set (sentiment)

Paper: Gina K Designs Layering Weight White, Prickly Pear and Charcoal Brown card stocks

Ink: Gina K Designs Honey Mustard, Plumb Punch, Coral Reef, Passionate Pink, Charcoal Brown and Stampin' Up Cajun Craze, Copic Markers

Other: Gina K Designs Master Layouts 1 die set, Trinity Lots of Dots stencil, Blending Brushes, SSS sequins, SU Dimensionals, Misti, Gemini Jr

Card 2:

Stamps: Kite Strings stamp set and dies

Paper: Gina K Designs Layering Weight white, Black Onyx and SU Basic White Thick, Concord & 9th Poppy and Honeysuckle card stock

Ink: Concord & 9th Aqua Sky, Poppy and Honeysuckle and Gina K Designs Black Onyx

Other: SSS Horizon Lines stencil, blending brushes, Gina K Designs Master Layouts 1 die set, Taylored Expressions Rainbow circles, SU mini Dimensionals

A "Beachy" Little Christmas

 Hi and happy hump day,

The theme for the Fusion Challenge is beachy this time and I thought I'd play along. I do have several stamps and stamp sets that would certainly work. I wanted to also use the sketch and this older Stampin' Up Christmas set seemed to work pretty well. I did add a few images from other sets to go along with, the background waves is from Hero and the shore birds stamp is a very old wood block from PXS.

The inside :

Thanks for looking in,

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Beachy Little Christmas set by Stampin' Up, Seas The Day set by Hero Arts, single Seabirds wood mounted stamp by PSX

Paper: SU Basic White Thick, GKD Kraft

Ink: GKD and Copics

Other: GKD Master Layouts 6 dies, SU Dimensionals, Gemini Jr

Thanks A Bunch

 Hello,

I saw that the latest Color Hues Peach and Gray color challenge ends tomorrow  and I decided I should enter a card. (I like these two colors together.)

I've used some older Pink Fresh Studio stamps, dies and stencils to make this card. The inks and card stock are Gina K Designs.

The chevron background stamp from Pink Fresh Studio is one that has removable sections. Fun and easy to use in a Misti. The ink colors are Soft Stone and Peach Bellini. The stamped images are stamped in GKD Slate ink and I used the set layering stencils to color the flowers with Peach Bellini, Slate and Soft Stone inks. For embellishments, I used some gray pearls from my stash.

I used another Pink Fresh stamp set with layering stencils to decorate the inside, but didn't add a sentiment.

Thanks for checking in,

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: All PinkFresh Studio, Nested Chevron Background stamp, Floral Envelope set, Brighter Days set

with layering stencils & dies from Floral Envelope and Brighter Days sets

Paper: Gina K Designs Layering Weight White, Peach Bellini, Slate card stock

Ink: Gina K Designs Peach Bellini, Soft Stone, Slate

Other: PinkFresh Studio Essential Blanket Stitched Rectangle dies, Gina K Designs Master Layout 1 dies, Gray Pearl embellishments, Misti, Gemini Jr, SU Dimensionals

Bloom By Bloom Card Suite

 Happy Monday evening,

I needed to make a couple of Thank You cards to send to friends for birthday gifts last week. I'm making an effort to use up some of my very large stash of patterned papers and decided to use the Happiness Blooms DSP to make my cards. Since I also have the Bloom By Bloom stamp set, I pulled it out and started playing around. I ended up with seven cards, three Thank You, three Birthday, and one Thinking Of You.

Here's a shot of all seven together. This stamp set doesn't have a die set to go with, so I've done some fussy cutting, used ovals, squares, circles and the Gina K Designs Wreath Builder system for the stamped focal images. I also used all five ink colors found in the papers.

For two of the cards, I used LeAnne's sketch for this week's Paper Players Challenge. 

Now, I just need to get the cards in the mail!

Thanks for looking,

Colleen

Supplies

Bloom By Bloom stamp set and various other Stampin' Up sets for the greetings

Paper: SU White, Call Me Clover, Night of Navy, Calypso Coral card stock and SU Happiness Blooms and Flower Field DSP

Ink: SU Call Me Clover, Night of Navy, Calypso Coral, Lovely Lipstick, Pineapple Punch, Memento tuxedo black

Other: Spellbinder dies, SU Dies, MFT Dies, Gina K Designs dies, SU enamel dots, SU Brick Wall Embossing Folder, SU Dimensionals, Misti, Gemini Jr