A Birthday Wish For You

Happy Hump Day Peeps,

I've been finishing up Halloween/Fall cards so could get them in the mail. I also had some birthday cards to make for friends (twins) who have their birthday on 10/31. Once I finished those, I decided to see what I could do with the current Color Hues challenge colors. 

I decided I was in the mood for some stitching and pulled out the Lawn Fawn embroidery hoop dies that I have.. Here's the finished card. It's a traditional gatefold style card.

The background 3D embossing folder is from Simon Says Stamp and it sure has great detail. Before running the card stock through, I spritzed it on both sides with a small amount of water. After, I used the same shade of Mustard ink as the card stock to highlight some of the raised areas, then trimmed the panels to fit the front of the gatefold.

Here is another picture of the card front and then the inside.

All of the birthday sentiments are from Gina K Designs.

Thanks for stopping in,

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Gina K Designs

Paper: SU More Mustard and Old Olive, Gina K Designs Silver

Ink: Gina K Designs Black Onyx and SU More Mustard

Other: SSS 3D embossing folder, Lawn Fawn Flower Embroidery Hoop die, SU button, Gold floss, SU enamel dots, Gina K Designs Master Layouts 1 dies, SU Dimensionals, Connect glue

Happy Haunting

Happy Monday Peeps,

I'm squeaking in my Freshly Made Sketches challenge card this morning before the link closes. I made this card with some older Lawn Fawn sets and dies.

I thought this frame die set would make some fun haunted mirrors using some holographic card stock. It was a little difficult to get a good picture without some weird colors in the background though. The little ghosts are stamped on vellum and fussy cut as this older set doesn't have dies.

For added spookiness, I outlined the frames with black Stickles and added some very old spider, frog and bat brads.

The inside uses more images from the same set.

Have a great week,

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Happy Haunting and Flirty Frames sets by Lawn Fawn

Paper: Gina K Designs Black Onyx and Layering Weight White card stock, The Apothecary Emporium paper pack by Echo Park patterned paper, SU Vellum, SSS Holographic card stock

Ink: Gina K Designs

Other: Gina K Designs Master Layouts 12 die, Black Stickles, Halloween brads, SU dimensionals, 

Thankful For You

Happy Monday,

I sat down after dinner last night and made this card for Joanne's color challenge at the Paper Players. She has a fun, seasonal palette, shades of brown and orange. 

For my card, I've used the September 2024 SCT's Let's Stamp Together kit. This kit is from LDRS Creative. Each Let's Stamp Together kit comes with a stamp set, coordinating dies and a stencil. In this case, the stencil is for coloring the stamped images. 

The background is made with the SSS Basketweave 3D embossing folder. After embossing I used an old Color Box gold ink pad to highlight some of the raised pattern.

Recently, Gina K. did a video on faux no-line coloring and I used her process to add color to the flower image after stamping. It is a fun technique. If you want to learn more, view her Stamp and Chat video on YouTube here. I used GKD orange shades of Sweet Mango, Coral Reef and Tomato Soup for the flowers and the Color Box gold for the leaves using medium blending brushes for the shading and small blending brushes to add ink to specific areas on the stamp for the line details. These are added after the coloring/shading is done using a coordinating color, so inking of the stamp must be done with a sponge dauber or blending brush. 

I added a little more metallic with gold strips on the sides of the embossed panel and gold dot embellishments.

The stamp set has a few more images that I've used on the inside, however there is only one sentiment stamp so I pulled out the another LDRS Creative set for my inside greeting.

A fun color challenge with many possibilities. I just may use it again for some of my other card ideas. Have a great week!

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: LDRS Creative Forever Thankful and My Wish For You sets

Paper: Gina K Designs Layering Weight Vanilla, Charcoal Brown and Gold card stock

Ink: Gina K Designs Charcoal Brown, Kraft, Sweet Mango, Coral Reef, and Tomato Soup. Color Box Gold 

Other: Simon Says Stamp Basketweave 3D embossing folder, Gina K Designs gold pearl embellishments, blending brushes

Holiday Cheer!

 Hello all,

We arrived home from our European River Cruise vacation Friday, late afternoon. It was a FABULOUS trip. 

On Saturday, after unpacking, doing laundry, getting everything put away, going through the mail and a few other chores, I headed to my craft room to see what challenges awaited, I was anxious to get back to card making. I settled on the Freshly Made Sketches challenge, hosted this week by Karen. What a fun layout! I've used all GKD products to make this holiday card. This cute mouse set is the alternate mini free set for the month of September at GKD, and it's called Christmas Friends.

The top section is made using a new layering stencil called Modern Poinsettia. The bottom section is dry embossed using the Holiday Flora embossing folder. I used the middle sized tag from Gina's Stitched tag die set, cutting it from Layering Weight White card stock. The images, with the exception of the greeting, are one stamp, and are colored with Copics. I also added some background stenciling with light gray ink.

For the inside, I used the left over stenciled paper and added a greeting from another GKD mini set called Two Step Holiday Greeting.

Thanks for looking in today, and have a great week.

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Gina K Designs Christmas Friends and Two Step Holiday Mini stamp sets

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

Ink: Gina K Designs Lipstick, Cherry Red, Jelly Bean Green, Christmas Pine, Soft Stone and Black Onyx

Other: All GKD, Holiday Flora embossing folder, Modern Poinsettia Layering stencils, blending brushes, Stitched tag dies, Master Layouts 2 dies, Connect glue, foam squares, and gold ribbon from my ribbon stash

Fall Fun

 Hi Peeps,

One last post before we fly out tomorrow for our European River Cruise Vacation. Tomorrow will be a very long day of traveling, but then the fun will commence. 

I decided to make a couple cards after dinner tonight, as I'm all set on the packing front. Joanne has the monthly sketch challenge for Paper Players starting today, and I wanted to play along.

I've used some new stamps, dies and embossing folders from Spellbinders September clubs to make these cards.

For the challenge card I decided to forgo coloring the image and instead stamped it in colored ink. The backgrounds are made using both the Spellbinder's 3D EF and the regular EF of the month. The greeting and image are from the clear stamp set of the month.

I made a second card, no sketch this time, and colored the image with Copics.

That's all from me for about three and half weeks. We'll be in Europe for 18 days, flying home on Oct. 11. We will be cruising from Amsterdam to Budapest. It's been 11 years since we were last in Europe. That time southern Spain, a fabulous trip. I expect this one to be equally lovely.

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Autumn Wishes set by Spellbinders

Paper: SU Pumpkin Pie and Old Olive, Gina K Designs Layering Weight white and vanilla and Black Onyx card stocks

Ink: SU Old Olive, Gina K Designs Black Onyx and Charcoal Brown, and Copic markers

Other: Spellbinders Autumn Chevron and Pumpkin Patch embossing folders, SU gold gems, SU Dimensionals

Warm Wishes

Happy Sunday evening peeps,

Here's three Holiday cards in non-traditional colors for you. When I saw the new colors for the Color Hues challenge, I thought of these SSS Bottle Brush Tree dies. I bought this die set at the end of the holiday season last year, but never used it. 

I've paired the trees with two SSS stencil sets, Layering Peppermint Stripes and Falling snow, and I've used Jen's sketch for this week's Freshly Made Sketches challenge.

The trees sit on a Lawn Fawn Hills with Trees die, cut from white paper and ink blended with light blue.

While looking through my SSS stencils, I came across the newer Large Snowflake Stripes stencil set and decided to use the Color Hues challenge colors to make a couple of cards. After stenciling, I cut the panel down to make two cards, one a mini-slimline. I really like this color block look.

Have a great week!

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Christmas Blessings Sentiments set by Simon Says Stamp

Stencils:  Layering Peppermint Stripes, Snowflakes Stripes and Falling Snow by Simon Says Stamp

Paper: Gina K Designs card stock

Ink: Gina K Designs

Other: Large Bottle Brush Trees dies by Simon Says Stamp, Lawn Fawn Hill with Trees die, Gina K Designs Master Layouts 2, 7 and 12 die sets, WOW white embossing powder, Nuvo White Crystal Drops, Gina K Designs blending brushes and Micro Disco Ball sequins, silver Stickles, Connect glue, SU Dimensionals

Best Wishes

Hi Peeps,

I hope your weekend was a good one. I've been busy packing for vacation. We are headed to Amsterdam tomorrow morning, spending a day in the city then we will be joining a River Cruise on the Rhine and the Danube, ending in Budapest 15 days later. 

I have a pretty Concord & 9th flower bouquet for you today. It's a birthday card for one of our very good friends. I've used this week's Color Throwdown colors with the C&9th stencils.

 

I love this C&9th stencil set and I think it looks great in these darker shades.

Enjoy your Sunday evening!

Colleen

Supplies

Stencils: Filled With Joy stencil pack by Concord & 9th

Paper: Gina K Designs card stock

Ink: Gina K Designs

Other: Concord & 9th Sentiment dies, Gina K Designs Master Layouts 12 Stitched die, Gina K Designs blending brushs and black pearls, Connect Liquid Glue