The Card Concept has a new challenge, Be My Valentine.

I have some inspiration for you, using the Greetery's newest release.

All products listed at the end of this post.

I used colors, theme, and elements from our inspiration photo. Pretty much

the whole photo inspired my Valentine card.

There aren't any flowers in the photo, but there is some greenery. I just couldn't

resist adding the sweet 2 step florals from Betsy's set.

I first stamped the background with Windowpane Plaid Background before stenciling

hearts from Poppystamps' Confetti Heart Plate. I made a stencil from the die plate,

before spraying it with Pixie Repositional Spray,  something I learned from

watching Betsy's video. 

The envelope is popped up with foam.

There are so many ways to be inspired from the photo, and our designers

have plenty of inspiration for you on the CC blog. 

Play along for a chance to win and be our guest designer!

Have a great and crafty week!

The Greetery

Sentiment Suite: Love

Signed & Sealed

Signed & Sealed With a Kiss

Pretty Postmarks

Poppystamps

Confetti Heart Plate 

The Card Concept #128 {Be Mine, Valentine} 

Christmas Card Ala C9

A Very Merry Christmas to all my blogging friends!

I'm sharing a few of the cards I'm sending out using Concord and 9th's new release

for the holidays. Together with a few oldies but goodies from them too!

If you follow C9 at all you're familiar with their Turnabout stamp sets, a real

favorite of mine. Holly Berry Turnabout is stamped 4 times in green, then 2

times in raspberry (Altenew Inks) I have the Turnabout jig which makes it super easy!

Silent Night stamps inside the oval window. Holly Berry sprig and berries.

Couldn't waste the die cut oval! One more card with Holly Berry greenery cut from

Shimmer cardstock. Mistletoe Messages sentiment.

I think I stamped 30 card fronts with the turnabout set, using different colors.

This one with Christmas Cottage stamp set taking center stage.

I ran this one through with an embossing folder, and inked the card a bit.

One more with green card stock.

Played around with some different Christmas greenery too.

This background created with Woven Stripes Background stamp. 

Here's how I created the plaid: Stamped the allover stamp once, turned

and stamped again. Then filled in with a red pencil. 

Couldn't stop with this technique, and experimented with different bg color card stock.

the bow and berries cut from C9's Holiday Foil Paper Pack.

Well that's it for some of my Christmas cards. Will be posting others with 

sets from different companies soon!

Happy Holidays!

Vintage Artichoke

Happy Saturday to you!

I recently got my order from Concord & 9th, and among their new

release was the Vintage Artichoke stamp and dies.

The Vintage Artichoke is a lined stamp, perfect for coloring.

I did 2, one stamped with Hero Arts' Wet Cement, and Copic colored, the other

stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black on Kraft, and colored with pencils.

The sketchy quality of the stamp gives the image a wonderfully shaded form to

each 'petal' of the artichoke. But the fun comes when you use the die to cut

the choke's petals.

Isn't that genius? And who doesn't love artichokes? Dipped in aloli, or some other

creamy delicacy... yum!

I've paired my artichokes with C9's Woven Plaid Background stamp die 

cut with the Greetery's Crimped Frame die.

Tried to keep both cards simple so the artichoke would shine, but couldn't resist 

adding the acorns and leaf to the Kraft card. They'[re from another C9 recently released

set called, Autumn Harvest.

Hope you enjoyed my post today and felt a little taste of autumn. 

We've cooled down to high 90's today, after a week of 102-104. 

So ready for fall!

Wishing You a Joyous Easter

Playing with Altenew's gorgeous floral stamps, 'Wallpaper Art', and my 

copics, I created an Easter card. Included in my order was the Layered Plaid

Cover A & B dies. I truly hated to cover the plaid die cuts up with anything,

but couldn't resist Eastery pastels with rosey copper Nuvo embossing powder

over the plaid. 

The top plaid cover die is a lavender pink shimmer cardstock I've 

had squirreled away forever!

I found a sentiment from PTI's Etched Eggs, and copper embossed that 

as well. The tiny posies are from Altenew's Build A Flower: Poppy.

When I chose my copics I made sure they were full color, that is, 02, 04, and so forth.

The pastels pop a bit more with full hue. 

Hope your weekend is full of fun and crafty goodness! 

Working on more Easter cards I can't wait to share!

Mixing Up a Batch of Thanks

Our challenge this week at PTI's MIM is to created a shadowed sentiment.

Lizzie expertly shows us how on her video here:

Make It Monday #310: Shadowed Sentiments

I was celebrating the arrival of my PTI order, with the Life is What You Bake It set,

and decided to create my card around it.

My bg is a stenciled plaid created with the Horizontal Stripe Coverplate die.

The die cut vellum was first stenciled with Spring Rain, then the vellum stencil was

turned and stenciled with Bright Buttercup.

One of the corners from Floral Flaps gave me an 'awning' over the

spoons and sentiment.

Love this technique, and can't wait to do it again!

Have a great week!