Today's card was created for the latest The Color Hues Challenge. I just won a huge haul of Unity Stamp Company products and could not resist using this beauty for this challenge. I can't be alone in my relief that Autumn is finally upon us. I live in the Midwest, and it's been brutally hot and dry this summer. So, fall is quite the blessing for many of us. As for the card, I stamped Unity Stamp Company's Acorn Almanac onto some Canson watercolor paper with Versafine onyx black ink and heat embossed it using Zing clear embossing powder. Using various inks from Gina K Designs and Stampin' UP, I loosely watercolored the image. I die the image down using Unity Stamp Company's postage edge nesting dies and wrapped some American Crafts hemp twine in a deep red around the panel and tied a bow. I added a brown button from my stash on top using a glue dot. I stamped the sentiment from the same Unity Stamp set onto more watercolor paper, heat embossed it, and fussy cut it out. I stamped Unity Stamp Company's Small Details background stamp onto an A2 kraft card base and popped the focal panel up onto the card using thin foam tape. Thank you for checking out my blog today!
Today's card was created for the latest Freshly Made Sketches and Just Add Ink card challenges. I created this card by die cutting a panel using plain white cardstock and a stitched nesting rectangle die from Paper Roses. Using Tim Holtz distress ink in shaded lilac, Gina K Designs ink in innocent pink, and Altenew crisp dye ink in blush I stamped the lines using MFT's Abstract Art stamp set. Using Gina K Designs basic black ink, I stamped the floral image from Penny Black's Nature's Jewels stamp set. I stamped the sentiment from Simon Says Stamp's Butterfly Blossoms stamp set and die cut it using the coordinating die. I popped the focal panel up off of the card using thin foam tape, popped the sentiment up, and added some pretty sparkling clear rhinestone gem stickers from Recollections. I appreciate you stopping by my blog today. Have a wonderful day!
Today's card was created for the latest Inkspirational card challenge. I created my card by using a hex punch from Fiskars and patterned paper from The Paper Studio Vintage Christmas 6x6 collection. I created an A2 card base using some forest green cardstock from Hobby Lobby. I die cut a postage edge panel using a Spellbinders die. I cut down a smaller panel using scrap cardstock and adhered all of the "quilt" pieces. I adhered the whole panel to my card base. I then stamped the sentiment using Gina K Designs black ink and Recollections Christmas-Noel wood block stamp. I cut the panel down to a large sentiment strip and backed it with more forest green cardstock. I finished the card off by added some beautiful dark red gems to the berries using gem stickers from Honey Bee's Fresh Brewed collection. Thank you for stopping by my blog today!
Hello, and happy Sunday! My card today was created for the latest Color Throwdown card challenge. I created my card by layering a square panel of kraft cardstock onto my ivory A2 card base. I then cut a small square panel using more ivory cardstock and embossed it using a Spellbinders embossing folder. I adhered it to the kraft panel and added some fun kraft colored twine almost to the top. I die cut 3 maple leaves using the stitched detail leaf dies from Jillian Vance, one in terra cotta and the other two in mustard. I popped them up off of the focal panel using foam squares. I stamped the sentiment from Stampabilities Card Phrases stamp set using Gina K ink in warm cocoa below the focal panel. I finished this card off with some pretty mustard colored gems from Honey Bee Stamps Harvest Festival gem sticker pack. I love how clean and simple this card turned out. Thank you for stopping by my blog this evening!
Hello, happy June! This month at Send A Smile 4 Kids we are celebrating teens. I have a friend who recently purged some craft supplies and gifted me a few older CTMH stamp sets. I used the Fun Times stamp set to create that fun green strip of critters. I stamped the images onto some green patterned paper from the Little Yellow Bicycle's Fern & Forest 6x6 paper pad using Hero Arts green ink. I cut that down into a smaller strip panel and mounted it on some early espresso cardstock from Stampin' UP. I cut down another panel of patterned paper from the paper pad and mounted that on dark brown cardstock and adhered the panel to my card base. I stamped some sub sentiments from The Greetery's PreText Sentiment stamp set using charcoal brown ink from Gina K Designs and cut them down into small sentiment strips and mounted them on brown cardstock. Using the top half of the Simon Says Stamp Birthday Wishes sentiment die, I die cut more of the same early espresso cardstock using the Birthday die. I attached that to a white panel and mounted that on brown cardstock. I adhered that to the card panel and added some fun yellow enamel dots from Simple Stories for a nice pop of color. Thank you for stopping by my blog. I hope you stop by the Send A Smile 4 Kids blog and see how the rest of the design team was inspired.
Happy Friday! Today's card was created for the latest Color Throwdown card challenge. I have to say that clean and simple have never been my style when it comes to cardmaking. It's not that I don't love it when I see it. I've never been comfortable with that creative style. But I do have to say that I love this card. I started with a white card panel that I stamped the floral images from CTMH's Thoughts Of You stamp set using Gina K Designs basic black ink. I stamped the coordinating petal stamp using tempting turquoise, tangerine tango, and perfect plum inks from Stampin' UP. I filled in the stems with a C1 Copic marker for a little bit of contrast. I die cut a Hello sentiment using Stampin' UP black cardstock and adhered it to the focal panel. I die cut the panel using a stacking stitched rectangle die from My Favorite Things and popped it up off of the card using foam tape. I finished the card off by adding a bit of clear Wink of Stella shimmer pen to the petals. Unfortunately, my camera didn't do a good job picking that up on screen. Anyway, thank you for visiting my blog. I hope you have a wonderful weekend!
This month at Send A Smile 4 Kids we are celebrating the moms/special women in our lives. To create my card, I started by layering some olive cardstock from Hobby Lobby onto my white A2 card base. Using the Stampin' UP Framed Tulip embossing folder and some 110lb cardstock to create by background panel. Using some A2 nesting dies from Pink and Main I die cut the inner panel and the border panel. I stamped the floral images from Stampin' UP's Thoughts & Prayers stamp set using Gina K Designs Fresh Asparagus ink. I stamped the birthday sentiment in the right upper corner using Versafine onyx black ink and Verve Stamp's Poppy Birthday stamp set. Using a paint chip from Lowe's that matched the cardstock, I die cut the butterfly using Stampin' UP's Beautiful Wings Embosslit. I layered the top panel onto the card using some low profile foam tape, added the butterfly with some glue dots, and finished the card off with some clear sparkling gems from The Paper Studios. This was a pretty clean and simple card and think it would make a gorgeous set if done in different colors. Thank you for stopping by my blog today. Please be sure to leave a comment and stop by the Send A Smile 4 Kids blog and see how everyone else was inspired by this month's theme.
Hello, and happy Friday! Today's card was created for the latest Color Throwdown card challenge. I started by layering some light pink and medium brown cardstock from Hobby Lobby onto my white A2 card base. Using a shaped nesting die from Spellbinders, I cut down some pink striped patterned paper from Echo Park's Flower Market 6x6 paper pad and attached it to a white panel I created using the same shaped die. I added some brown grosgrain ribbon from American Crafts to bridge the gap between the papers. I stamped the sentiment in charcoal brown ink from Gina K Designs using a wooden block stamp from a Momenta birthday set. I die cut the flower and leaves using more patterned paper from the Echo Park paper pad, brown cardstock, and Little B's Bouquet floral die set. I popped the focal panel up off of the card using foam tape and added some white gel pen details to the florals and the stripes. I added some brown dashed lines around the top of the focal panel to add a bit more visual interest. This card is a throwback to my earlier cardmaking style. Very simple, but I love it. Thank you for visiting my blog today. I hope you have a lovely Easter weekend!
This month at Send A Smile 4 Kids we are creating cards for boys. I die cut a focal panel using white cardstock and a stitched rectangle die from Paper Rose. I die cut a large circle in upper center of the panel and attached a piece of patterned paper from the Studio Calico Here & There 6x6 paper pad below the circle. I die cut some stars using the same paper pad and stitched star dies from Jillian Vance Designs. Because the patterned paper was so thin, I backed them with cardstock and popped them up off of the card using 3M foam tape. I stamped the sentiment at the bottom right of the panel using Stampin' UP's Curly Cute sentiment stamp set and Gina K sweet mango ink. I added some silver star confetti from my stash, some orange enamel dots from Recollections, and black dashed lines around the focal circle to finish this masculine card.
Today's card was created for the latest Color Throwdown card challenge. To create my card, I die cut a white card panel using a scalloped edge rectangle die from Gina Marie Designs and popped it up off my kraft A2 card base using some low-profile foam tape. I then die cut a kraft panel using a stitched rectangle die from My Favorite Things. I stamped the subtle background using Stampin' UP's crumb cake ink and Unity Stamp Company's Faithful Letter red rubber background stamp. I then stamped the poppies from Altenew's Painted Poppy stamp set directly onto the kraft panel. I stamped the Happy sentiment from the same stamp set directly onto the panel using Versafine onyx black ink. On separate white cardstock I stamped the leaf using Altenew's moss green ink and the poppy's in Gina K Designs red hot ink. I fussy cut the poppy's and the leaf out and popped them up off of the card using more foam tape. I stamped the additional sentiment onto black cardstock using Versamark clear ink and heat embossed it using Ranger's detail white embossing powder. I cut the sentiment down into little strips and adhered them around the word happy. To finish off my card I die cut a few butterflies in more black cardstock using Stampin' UP's Beautiful Wings embosslit. I adhered those around the card, and added some white gel pen details. I love how this turned out!
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