The Flower Challenge #82 CAS (Clean & Simple)

 

Happy 4th of July, all my crafty American friends! It's time to celebrate.

Any plans?

We have plans for a swim, barbecue and watch fireworks at the high 

school near by. A great tradition with family and friends.

How about some card making?

We are asked to create a CAS card at the Flower Challenge, and for some 

inspiration,  how about some red, white and blue!

Lots of white space... check!

simple design... check! 

Clean and simple... check! 

Poppystamps flowers, and PTI Beautiful Berries: Spring sentiment and bg stamp.

Nuvo Indigo drops.

Happy 4th y'all! 

The Flower Challenge #82 CAS (Clean & Simple)

 

Hey Cupcake was sitting on my worktable as I was thinking of a card for a 

graduate. Not just any graduate, but a very special graduate. I know, all

graduates are special and deserve acknowledgement, but this one, well, she

worked very hard and achieved a doctorate! 

Our own Ashley Marie Penir did it! 

Her very special robe and cap, collar and pose with UCFresno's mascot  attest 

to her greatness. No simple cap and gown on a card would do, not for Dr. Penir.

We share a love for all things sweet, especially a local treat from 'Nothing Bundt Cakes.'

Just the perfect sentiment for an awesome lady!

The Greetery's Sweet & Fancy Label Hot Foil, then die cut and absolutely perfect hip.

hip.hooray! embossed onto vellum.

Lots of sweet detail, such as double wrappers, layers of cupcake decoration, and gold 

glitter.

A special card needs a special inside, so I used my freebee from  the Greetery to 

stencil and complete my greeting.

Hope you enjoyed my post today. Still partying on this end with the family!

Have a wonderful week! Hope it's crafty!

The Card Concept Summer: Tropical Treats

Hello everyone, and welcome to the Card Concept, Summer edition. Yes,

this year, with all it's Covid Sheltering, some of us at the Card Concept

decided to continue with our challenges instead of taking the summer off.

Want to join the fun?

Here's our inspiration photo:

Irrisistably delicious inspiration, isn't it?

The colors of course, always inspire, and I loved the floral elements too.

Hope you can find some time to create a card and join the fun. 

Choose a style or create one of your own. We love seeing what you do!

The amazingly beautiful hibiscus blooms for one day, then closes for the others.

This one, graces my garden, and is 8 to 9" in diameter!

Also adding my card to the latest Flower Challenge Summer/Winter.

My card... definitely summer!

We're celebrating all things summer here in my valley! 

The Flower Challenge #46 Summer/ Winter

Hope your summer is off to a great start! A safe one too!

Altenew: Hibiscus Garden 3D Die, Watercolor Stripes Cover Die

The Greetery: sentiment

Celebrate Your Special Day

Above & Below, Lizzy's tutorial this week, at Papertrey's MIM,

shows us how to frame our sentiments with die cuts.

Oh happy day! My order arrived just in time to use some of the new 

stamps and dies for my card.

The sentiment is stamped on a strip created with a die from To The Point Edgers 2,

cut with the point down, then turned it around and cut again with the point up.

Love the little windows on that edger die!

I combined 2 sets, Forest Floor: Summer and Herb Garden.

Enjoying the warmup where I live.

Planted some spring color and watching the vegetables ripening.

Just hope the chickens don't eat it before we do!

Happy Crafting!

If you like and want to order any of the stamps, dies or inks you see on my card,

be sure to click on my links. They'll take you right to the PTI shop and product.

Thank You!

Papertrey Ink - To the Point Edgers II Die

Make It Market Mini Kit: Herb Garden,

Forest Floor: Summer Stamp Set

Papertrey Ink - Forest Floor: Summer Die

Papertrey Ink - Noted: Pinked A2 Vertical Die

All PTI Inks

Perfect Match Pure Poppy - Inkpad

Perfect Match Scarlet Jewel - Inkpad

Perfect Match Berry Sorbet - Inkpad

Perfect Match Green Parakeet - Inkpad

Perfect Match New Leaf - Inkpad

Perfect Match Pinefeather - Inkpad

Perfect Match Spring Rain - Inkpad

Perfect Match Aqua Mist - Inkpad

Perfect Match Ocean Tides - Inkpad

Celebrate!

PapertreyInk's 9th Anniversary Celebration continues

with the challenge to create a Sampler Square of 

9 different panels altered 9 different ways.

Before cutting my 1 1/2" squares, I stamped my images from Bold Blossoms, and colored them in different ways. 

Here's how the squares differ:

Starting from the top left,

square 1: Masked the blossom

square 2: Used raindrops

square 3: Smooshed on the sky color

square 4: Used sequins

square 5: Stamping

square 6: Layers of die cuts

square 7: pencil watercolors

square 8: Embossed sentiment

square 9: Copic colored

Celebrate: Good Times Die (PTI)

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Celebrate

While blog visiting Marybeth Lopez, (marybeth's time for paper), 

she posted a gorgeous card as a guest designer for 

Fusion Card Challenge, celebrating it's 2nd year.

You are challenged to use the sketch or the photo, 

or to 'fuse' the 2.

With that bright and colorful inspiration, I had to play along!

The flowers, clear pink and raspberry colors and bright white

were my starting point.

All PTI: Fresh Floral Wrap-Ups,

Cover Plate: Center Stage,

and sentiment from Birthday Cheer Dies.

After Stamping the flower bouquet with PTI's Lovely Lady, I added watercolor 

pencil for hi-light, a tutorial Laurie Willison gave a few weeks ago.

I tried to do the fusion, stretching out my oval, 

and adding gold shimmer to the top of my cover plate.

Didn't have a ribbon the color I wanted, so dyed my own (seam binding)

with copics. Just love the ombre that's created when it dries.

'Celebrate' was cut twice with Black Shimmer Paper, 

and the flower centers were dotted with BoBunny Gold DoubleDots.

FUSION {Our 2nd Year Celebration with Special Guests}