Love you to the Core

 

As September passes before our eyes, I'm reminded of those happy days when

the weather changes, leaves put on a show of color and all of us  eat apples.

The Greetery's Caramel Apple Die was in my order from the release, and I've

 been playing with making tags for candy bags. I saved one for a card.

The apple on the card front opens to a message (love the apple script), and becomes

a sweet surprise for the recipient.

All the apple sentiments are included in the Greetery's Fall Foodie Phases.

Ribbon Maker down the center, and Frosted Frame around the edge. the caramel

is GA'd before adding all the nuts and swirly candy.

The apple blossoms are from  Botanicuts Apple.

Such a fun card to make!  

Have a lovely fall week! Well, almost fall...

Congratulation Graduate!

 

Well hello, and welcome to my celebration on a card. 

My Greetery came (as usual, lickity split!) and I was in need of a 

graduation card for a niece.

The floral cake was tempting me, and after watching the You Tube video on

all the particulars, and checking out the 'Cookbook', I just had to try Kelly

Lunceford's color combo of pinks, reds and purple. 

I used the stencils included in the set, die cut and popped up the flowers, before 

added the banner. 

Doesn't get much brighter than this. Have a good one!

Good Wednesday Morning! Playing along today with the Color Hues Challenge,

where we are challenged with Green and Gold.

I used Altenew's Build a Flower Honeysuckle, and stamped with various greens from

Distress Oxide Inks.

the first layer is gold embossed, then multi-stamped.

Have to say, green was a bit challenging for some reason.

If you'd like to play with Gold and Green, the blog is below.

Happy Hump Day!

Color Hues #59-Green and Gold

 

 

Hung Up on You

 

Good morning. And another Valentine using The Greetery's new Have a Heart release.

The sweet Hearts at Home Sweater die is surrounded by a pieced heart wreath 

crafted with the Boxwood Heart base, and stamped with Love is stampset.

This card was on it's way to being tossed. It suffered a smudge on the bottom,

and no amount of scrub would remove a red smudge! 

So I did the next best thing, cut it off, and added a scallop edge. The edging is 

the sides of the Ribbon Maker die. Not my favorite, but it worked.

Tiny posies from Botanicuts Wildflower Mix.

A sweet little sweater hung on a heart wreath... Valentines are such fun to make!

The Card Concept: Floral Valentine

 

Floral Valentine is the new challenge at the Card Concept. Here is our photo 

inspiration and color swatches.

I love working with dies and die cuts, and chose A Pocket Full of Love, 

from Spellbinders to create my Clean and Elegant pocket card.

I used the colors, shades of pink, green and black and placed. my main die cut on

a black background. Then pieced the colors.

The pocket die reveals a card with a sentiment.

Such a great inspiration photo for this challenge, so many possibilities. Can't wait to see

what you do with it! 

Play along, and remember to choose a style, one of ours or make up your own.

Have a great week!

The Card Concept #188 {Floral Valentine}

Color Hues: the Color Challenge Pink and Red

Well, hello and I'm back again with a new card for The Color Hues Card Challenge, this

time the colors are Pink and Red. Perfect for a Valentine card!

The Greetery's order came so quickly, I dived right in and chose the Heart Arrow

Foiling and die cut. 

For the background I used the Ribbon Maker Heart Strip Die and glued. several strips

of shimmer pink cardstock onto a shade darker pink. Then I cut it again from red to 

retrieve the heart centers and glued them within each heart.  

I was so happy to be chosen as one of the runners up for the last challenge, and

I used one of the same dies (Loopy Bow) on this card as I did on the last one.

It's such a happy bow! Hot Stuff Sentiments die was first red embossed, and

then pink glittered.

Valentines are happy cards we give to those special ones in our lives. Love the

bright kitchy feel of combining red and pink. 

Have a great week!

Color Hues #56- Pink and Red

The Card Concept: Harvest Bounty or Christmas Joy

 

It's time for a new challenge at the Card Concept.  Our theme is: Harvest Bounty or

Christmas Joy. You choose, Autumn theme or Christmas card. With Christmas so near

we thought it would be fun have a dual choice.

I have some Christmas inspiration for you today, and I used the Joy sign on the

top shelf in the picture as the theme of my card.

My card is a shaker, Joy is from Poppystamps, and cut first from silver glitter card

stock and then from white 5 times. Lots of flora from Tim Holtz. 2 sets used here,

Play along with your choice: Harvest Bounty or Christmas Joy 

The Card Concept #182a {Harvest Bounty} or #182b {Christmas Joy}

 

Birthday Cabin

 

I have a fall card to share today, a birthday card for a friend.

Sitting Pretty is one of my top 10 Greetery sets, and here's why:

This is the view from our family cabin in Shaver Lake. So many of our friends have 

enjoyed this sweet scene with me, among them, the recipient of this card. I hope she 

enjoys the card as much as I did making it.

I love creating scenes like this, with details and layers. The mountains hold a special 

place in my heart. We in California have watched sadly as drought, and forest

mismanagement have led to more and more fires. Our cabin and the neighborhood 

were spared, while others were not. The fire crews assigned to Shaver 

surrounded our village, and diverted the fire around the town and neighboring

homes and cabins. Never have I been so thankful to so many valiant and

devoted men and women! They even texted many of us with pictures of

our property to let us know we were OK.

If you get a chance, there's a fabulous documented video done by Jeff Aielo from 

Facebook's Talk of the Hill, who works for PBS, called:

Afterburn: The Creek Fire Documentary - A Valley PBS Original Documentary

Jeff and his wife gave us daily reports of the fire's growth and devastation. 

They continue to be the voice for those of us who demand action and better

 management of the forests.

The Greetery

Sitting Pretty, Sitting Pretty Accessories Dies

Rustic Wreath Twigs Die

Botanicuts Wheat

Reflections Stamp Set

Curio Autumn Findings

Fall Foliage

Written in Ribbons Stamp Set

 

A Jar of Sunshine

 

Hi and hope you're enjoying The Greetery's newest as much as I am.

I had some fun with the Jumbo Jar. It features 3 dies, just perfect for

creating a shaker.

I love how the Container Garden stamps fit perfectly within the Jumbo Jar,

and I paired an older set, Oopsie Daisy with the card.

It's easy to make a card from the jar by positioning the top of the die sandwich so it 

isn't cut. The folded card is then cut twice. You do have to run it through a couple 

of times. The inside dp is from Papertrey, an older linen stripe.

I had the hardest time photographing this set. Couldn't capture the colors, might have

 been the acetate.The matching envelope was first lightly inked with Distress 

Speckled Egg (the background of the card too), and then stamped. 

Betsy includes a color stamping guide, so helpful!

The sweet little bee was cut from yellow cardstock, and filled in with a black 

sharpie. The wings are blue vellum.

Fun card to make, and I hope receive!

Delightful Digits

Greetings my card making friends!

Enjoying all the new goodies from the Greetery, and started with the Delightful

Digits Die. 

The release is a celebration of stamps and dies that play delightfully well each other

and I love how it works well with their previous sets too.

I had in mind a card for celebrating a 2nd year milestone. I'll bet you can guess who it's for!

The detailing on the hand is amazing! You get to add nail polish and jewelry!

Just had to add an a stamped envelope to match the card! Love that sheer sleeve!

Delightful Digits is, well, delightful! 

I'll post later with several other color combos I played with.

The Greetery

Delightful Digits die, Bold Numbers die, Holding Hands stamp and die sets,

Flower Market Bouquet,  Crimped Circles die.

Ranger Distress Oxide Inks, Altenew Inks, PTI inks

Concord and 9th Love Card

 

Hello friends! I recently got some of C9's newest, and among the stamps and dies was

this floral from the Painted Peony set.

I am always in need of Birthday cards, and LOVE the sweet little script of 'Sending love'

added to the corner. Inside, the birthday sentiment can be personalized.

I die cut several of the peony, and stamped it with 3 coordinating colors, using Altenew Inks.

Visualizing colors together always helps!

The top bloom is the only die cut flower, the 2 side blooms are stamped onto the card front.

The lacy edging is part of their new release as well.

 Hope you're having a good weekend, with lots of time to create wonderful

cards!