Hello Friend

 Well things didn’t go quite as planned today. I thought I had until 9pm pst for the Color Hues Challenge. It was 9am pst. Oops. Oh well, I have two cards done and I can submit them into SSS Weds challenge for “Anything Goes.”

I did get a chance to practice coloring with my Copics, which is always a plus in my book.  

Products used...

Copic colors: YR 20, YR00, YR 21, YR 31, Y23, Y32, Y35, YG01, YG05, YG13 & YG21

Ink Colors: Momento Tuxedo Black and Versa Mark

White Embossing Powder

Stamp sets:  Gina k’s Heartfelt Bouquet & A Little Love

Dies: Gina K’s Master Layouts, 1, 2 & 3, A little Love Stencil Bundle and W Plus 9 Hand Lettered Hello.  

Card-stock: SU’s Granny Apple Green, Apricot Appeal (discontinued) Gina K’s heavy weight card-stock.

Thank you so much for stopping by.  I really appreciate it.  Have a great week.

Twofer challenge for January—Flowers

It’s been along time since my last post. I really hate how my job and life in general interferes with my

hobbies.  But I’m back for now, and I can’t think of a better way to post, but for the January Twofer challenge #34.

I have so many flower stamps, but as per many of us, I keep buying more of them.  This is one of my latest from Stampin’ Up called “Wild Roses”.  I love big background stamps. They are so easy to work with and you can use so many techniques with them. 

For my first card, I used the Joseph’s Coat technique that Gina K showed on one of her lives a little over a week ago.  Here is a link to her video.  https://youtu.be/414V0m2qw0k.

I used  SU’s inks “Wild Wasabi,” “Tangerine Tango,” and “Daffodil Delight.  I blended the three randomly  on Gina K’s luxury white layering CS.  After letting the panel dry for a few minutes, I inked up the Wild Roses stamp with Versamrk ink in my Misti so I could ink up the stamp a few times so I knew I had the entire image stamped well.    I then embossed the image with clear embossing powder.  After that, I blended SU’s “Pretty Peacock” ink all over the panel and then used a paper towel to wipe the access ink off the embossed image, which is how the yellow, green and orange shows through.  Pretty cool technique.    I layered the panel on SU’s “Shaded Spruce” CS, then adhered the panel onto SU’s Daffodil Delight” CS.  I die cut happy twice from Daffodil Delight” CS and glued them together before gluing it to the card.  I stamped the word anniversary in Versamark ink on SU’s “Tangerine Tango” CS and embossed it with white embossing powder and die cut and trim down to size.  

The second card doesn’t have near as many steps.  In fact I ended up with two cards using this one panel.  I started out by inking up the SU “Wild Roses” stamp set with Versafine Onyx Black ink. I then embossed the panel with black embossing powder.  I then die cut the panel with SU’s “Curvy Dies”.  I layered the panel on black CS and stamped the word thanks from SSS “Hand lettered Winter Wishes” with Versamark ink and heat set with white embossing powder.  I trimmed the panel down and adhered it on a white piece of heavy weight white CS from Gina K.

I thought I would share the other card I made with the other half of the panel.  The “Smile” die is from Gina K and the “Happy Looks Good on You” is from SSS “Choose Happy” stamp set, which is stamped in Momento Tuxedo Black ink.  I’m going to enter this card into the Flower Challenge #52 - heat or dry embossing.  

Thank you for stopping by.  I really appreciate it.

Butterflies Twofer Challenge #29

Hi everyone,  I thought I would finally submit a couple of cards for my friend, Darnell’s Twofer Challenge. I think this is the first time I’ve submitted for her monthly challenge.  You can check out the challenge here.

I love stamping butterflies and so this was a fun challenge.

I’ve had this watercolored panel for quite awhile and just wasn’t sure what to do with it.  Finally on Sunday inspiration hit. I love Nichol Spohr’s one layer cards and she helped with my inspiration. I had used TH Salty Ocean, Squeezed Lemonade and twisted Citron DI and randomly water colored them on the panel. I let it dry for weeks 😊. I think if you let it dry overnight, it would be fine. I then stenciled SSS Butterfly Trails in TH Seedless Preserves, Twisted Citron, Salty Ocean and Spiced Marmalade DI.  Before I embossed the butterflies from SSS Beautiful Butterflies in White, I used the embossing buddy liberally so the embossing powder didn’t stick where I didn’t want it. The sentiment is from the same set and embossed in white, too.



The next card was just as fun. I started with cream colored cs and stamped PB Vintage Postcard

stamp in Memento’s Toffee Crunch. I took TH Antique Linen DI and sponged over the panel lightly. Next I stenciled some of the butterflies in the SSS Butterfly Trails stencil with the Antique Linen ink.  I used the same butterflies from the SSS Beautiful Butterflies set and stamped them randomly with SU’s Chocolate Chip ink (stamped off once).  I colored them with Prismacolor Pencils and added some glitter with a glitter pen and stamped Happy Birthday (from PB’s Special Wishes) in SU’s Early Expresso ink.  I also sponged Early Expresso ink around the edge of the card before adhering it to SU’s Crumb Cake cs.

Thank you for stopping by.  I love it when you do.  Enjoy the rest of your week.

Smackin Acetate with Gina K

Gina K has been helping me get my mojo back. It’s been fun.   If you haven’t been watching her videos on Mon, Weds and Fridays, you should.   Her Facebook page is Gina K Designs & StampTV friends.   She also has a YouTube channel, Gina K. designs.

This past Friday was “Smackin Acetate”.  Here are the six cards I made with this technique...

I used TH watercolor paper on all of my cards, along with GK heavy weight white cs and orange and turquoise blue cs from my stash.

 

This first card features GK’s ink cubes, Moonlit Fog, Bubblegum Pink and Turquoise Sea.  The flowers are from a retired SU stamp set and “hello friend” is from GK. It must have been a freebie as it doesn’t show a name of the set on the packaging.

I used the same ink cubes and “grateful for you” is in the same GK set that didn’t come with a name. The cattail Stamp is from Paper Inspirations.

This card again uses the same ink cubes and sentiment by GK.  The stamp is from GK’s “Framecape Winter Trees”.

This card, I used Peach Bellini, Turquoise Sea and Moonlit Fog ink cubes.   The grasses are from Sweet ‘n Sassy “Wetland Grass”

I switched to Tombow markers for this card. The orange is  #933, the pink is #703 and the blue is #371.
The hello is from WPlus 9 “Hand Lettered Hello”.  The trees are from GK’s “Seasonal Sentiments”, which I stamped 3 times on the card panel.

This is my favorite.  Again I used the same Tombow markers as I did in the card above. The stamp set is from GK “Framescape Winter Trees”.

This one I’m saving for Father’s Day to give to my hubby.





I usually don’t have much success with this technique, but I will say I like the way my panels with the Tombow markers turned out best. I think I’ll be using this technique in the future with other Tombow markers.

Have a great week.

Gamsol & Colored Pencils

Hello everyone!  Yes, I'm still here.  It's has been quite awhile since I posted on my blog.  Time flies.  Life sure does know how to throw some curves!  Just as I'm starting to emerge from the curves into the straightaway, COVID-19 hits!  I'm praying for everyone who has been affected by COVID-19.








I've been enjoying Gina K's "Stamp & Chat" on Monday, Wednesdays and Fridays at 7pm central time.  Here's the link to her Youtube page. 











Last week she worked with Gamsol and Colored Pencils.  I haven't used Gamsol or colored pencils in a very long time, so I thought I would color right along with her.  Here's the cards I ended up creating from March 27. 















The stamp sets and the sentiments are all by Gina K.























Have a great week.  I do hope I will be able to start posting on a regular basis again. 

 Take care...stay safe...stay healthy...wash your hands often!!

Go Tell It On The Mountain

One of my favorite Christmas carols, especially sung in a gospel style. I used my new stamp set from Penny Black as my jumping off point for this card.  Again, the color throwdown gave me a bit of a challenge.  I don’t think of black much when I think of Christmas and just this week, I saw a news blurb about black Christmas trees, but I don’t think I could ever buy one.  So here is what I came up with for this week’s Color Throwdown #521.    I’m also entering this card at Simon Says Wednesday Challenge “Anything Goes.

I used GIna K white luxury cs, SU black cs, SU merry music dsp, SU ribbon, PB manger die and He is Born Stamp set & die set.

Thank you for stopping by, I love it when you do.

Tall trees

Penny Black’s Tall Trees is one of my favorite dies that I haven’t had a chance to use until today. Yay!  This week’s color throwdown was a bit of a challenge for me, but I like how my card turnedout and it was fun to make.  What is also great is I can use this card for three challenges.   Simon Says Monday Challenge. Simon Says Wednesday Challenge and Color Throwdown #520 Challenge.blob:https://www.blogger.com/fd188449-2d46-4efc-9372-be00f7be2c20

SU Almost Artichoke and Crumb Cake CS
SU Crumb Cake, Close to Cocoa, and Early Expresso Inks

Gina K Pure Luxury Cream CS
MFT Let It Snowflake Too dies
PB Tall Trees dies
Concord & 9th Plaid Background Stamp
PTI Wet Paint Holiday Tags Stamp set
The little snowflake came out of SSS Naughty & Nice Stamp set

Thank you so much for stopping by.  Have a great week.

Christmas card making

Every year I procrastinate making Christmas cards and I send out about 100 or more.  Each year, I tell myself I’m going to start early, and yet again, I’m behind the 8-ball.  So after seeing the colors for this week’s Color Throwdown #519, I knew whatever card I designed would be one to use for this year’s stash.

I really love how it turned out too.  I smooshed the background and added snowflakes and heat embossed snowflakes in silver, too.  This will be an easy card to mass produce!

Supplies used:
TH watercolor paper and Weathered Wood Ink
Gina K’s Ocean Mist and Sea Glass Inks and layering White CS
SSS Retro Deer Die
PTI’s In The Meadow Silhouttes dies (the birds)
PB’s Into the Woods die
PTI’s In the Meadow Stamp set (snowflakes)
MFT’s Simply Snowflakes
SU’s Silver EP
Duvo drops in Autumn Red
Embroidering Floss

Fall and Winter

These two cards are for November Twofer Challenge.  This will be my first time since Darnell started the challenge that I
could even think about entering. I hope my entry qualifies.  Darnell please let me know if it doesn’t.

One of the cards is for the Color Throwdown 518 using blue yellow and brown.

List of stamps...MFT’s BB Harvest Mouse and I don’t remember which set the Happy Birthday came from.  SSS Naughty & Nice Elves and MFT’s Hand Lettered Holiday. The wreath die is Wreaths Confetti Cuts from Reverse Confetti.

A Fall Birthday

Hi everyone, It’s nice to be back stamping again. I’ve had this stamp for at least a year and finally had a chance to ink it up. I bought it at a local craft show.   I think this stamp is an obvious “watercolor me” stamp.  It’s called Shady Path by the Artful Stamper by SOI.  I took a bit of liberty and made the path a creek.   I used my SU stamps for watercoloring: Real Red, Pumpkin Pie, Crumb Cake and Pool Party.  The Happy birthday stamp is from HA CL661.  I’m entering this card into the Color Throwdown #517 and Simon Says Stamp Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge “Anything Goes.  As always thank you for stopping by.  I love it when you do.