The Flower Challenge Reminder: Colour Your Flower

Reminder time folks. The FlowerChallenge this month is Colour Your Flower.

My beautiful image is Altenew's, Golden Age, hotfoiled and the stenciled.

Poppystamps Happy Birthday Background for the sentiment. 

Hope you're playing along. We love to see what coloring method is your favorite!

Reminder #91 Colour Your Flower

 

Tapestry Roses

 

Hello, and hope you're enjoying the end of a very hot summer. 

I finally had some time to play with The Greetery's latest release, and decided

to start with the Roses Tapestry Stencil Set.

...and  couldn't stop! Once the stenciling was done, ran each card through the

Aida Cloth Texture Plate. 

Honestly would have played with this set for days,

but knew I had to make a card, so,

After adding some trims and bobbits, ended up with a thank you card.

I  sew wanted my tapestry to  be the star, but those haughty little red handled 

scissors just had to steal the show. 

Seriously can't believe the detail on these darlings.  In this case, die cut 2 pair, and 

red embossed one, before cutting the handles and gluing them to the silver pair.

Also red embossed the the brad.

I had almost as fun photographing the card with little sewing notions!

I did  one panel on brown cardstock, first laying down a heavy coat of white

(distress oxide Picket Fence), then adding layers of color.

Stay tuned for this one...

The Flower Challenge: Birthday Celebration and Use a Shape

I'm so excited to be playing along with a favorite challenge blog, The Flower Challenge,

where they are celebrating their 5th birthday. Along with all the festivities and prizes,

they've asked us to use a shape on our cards.

 

The shape of my card is the gorgeous Hourglass from the Greetery. I've paired it 

with the Greetery's Winterberry Bouquet. 

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The card is a shaker, filled with sweet snowflakes and chunky glitter. The berry set

is a series of stencils and stamps. There's even a mask for for berry bouquet, which

I used over my image before sponge inking the background.

I added some sprigs and a blossom with berries to the front of the hourglass, with

a banner greeting.

The final step was the addition of Nuvo Glimmer Paste.

Happy Birthday Flower Challenge gals!

Play along through the 25th. 

Have a great and crafty weekend!

The Flower Challenge #61 Use a Shape and 5th Birthday

2 Easter Cards

Hi all! Finally had a chance to create with the Greetery's Spring release.

This set, Easter Jubilee, came with just about everything I needed to make

my Easter cards.

While the set was on my desk I made 2 cards, 2 different color ways. 

You start with stenciling, and stamping, and die cuts finish the card.

2 layers of contrasting Cardstock were added to each letter.

The second card began with cutting the letters out with purple glitter paper.

I tried to vary the color up a bit using Betsy's method of sponging ink onto

the stamp.

You can see the aqua cardstock behind the letters.

These were fun and easy, and I think I'll do a few more. 

You know that song in Aunty Mame, 'We Need a Little Christmas'?

Well, I think we definitely need a BIG Easter right now. 

Put decorations out. Add some spring joy to your front yard for the

neighbors to enjoy. Bake your favorites.

and May this most Holy season bring you peace and joy knowing

our God loves you, and has a plan for your life.

God Bless you.

Stay safe!

A Quartet of Pine Blossom

Hi and Happy New Year! 

Well, the New Year is off to a happy start. Saturday was one of those days

with no one around, quiet and chores free. Way too good a day to waste!

The holidays came and went so fast, I hadn't used the Greetery's Pine Blossom

at all, and there it was right on the top of my order.

I die cut and stamped the bouquet and flowers in several colors.

I hadn't used the Berry Branch Stencil either. 1st inked, then played with

stencil paste in a couple of colors.

My stash of birthday cards is low, so all 4 cards were done for winter birthdays.

My outdoor garden is sleeping right now. It's down to freezing where I live,

but on this card it's bright and happy.

I just love the new bow Betsy created. So open and animated!

And finally one with my favorite greeting, blessings.

Nothing better than a crafty weekend!

Here's a list of what I used: All Greetery

Pine Blossom stamp set and dies

Fit to be Tied die

Inside Out Berry Branch die

Berry Branch stencil

Terrarium die

Knit Wits stencil

Nordic Frames die

Sending (Cool!) Hugs

Hello, Poppy fans! I'm bringing you a post today on the Poppy Stamps blog.

Sending Autumn Hugs by Nancy Penir

Stop on by and see how I made this 'cool' fall card. (Hopefully it will cool

you down after a long hot summer!)

Hugs everyone! And Happy Crafting!

Poppy Stamps: For You

Hi sweet Poppy Peeps! I'm up on the Poppy blog featuring one of the new Easter

dies: Easter Bunny Egg.

If you visit the Poppystamps blog, I give a tutorial on how to make this card.

Actually, I made 3 cards. Once I got started, I just kept going! Love assembly line crafting!

Happy Crafting, all!

Easter Bunny Egg by Nancy Penir

Done in Love

Dies only on Day 7 of PTI's Anniversary celebration.

No stamps!

Well that's easy. Went right to my cover plates for Paper Clippings: Done in Love.

This came together quickly, so I did another, using the cover plate

to create a stencil.

Since it's the same die, used 2 ways, and since Darnell has a new 'Two-Fer' challenge,

I'm playing over there too!

Twofer Card Challenge #2

Now while both cards could be used for Valentines, one is definitely a Valentine 'Love' card,

while the other is more of congratulations card (dark background) 

you give for a job well done. Or it could be an encouragement card.

Keep up the challenges, Darnell. We love them!

Hope your week is a 'crafty' one! The best kind!

   11th Anniversary Day 7: February Release Day 2 + Use Only Dies – No Stamps! Challenge           

MIM #309 with Melissa

Hello! Enjoying some create time today. We've had 2 days of much needed rain here in 

the Central Valley, and it's a perfect excuse to stay home and make cards.

Melissa Phillips is up this week at PTI, and has a wonderful tutorial for us, 

Heat Embossed Stencil Backgrounds.

You can see her video and gorgeous creations using this technique on PTI's blog.

I made 2 cards, the first, have to admit, wasn't a favorite, so came up with one I 

liked better. Sometimes, if you have the time, it's better to keep going until it pleases.

So here's the first.

I created my own stencil using Coverplate: Gemstone Die & vellum, and embossed it with silver

on an Amethyst Allure cardstock.

Beautiful Butterflies & Beautiful Butterflies Additions, with a hint of Wink of Stella.

Sentiment: New Every Morning.

The antenna are wires I shaped and curled at the ends.

But, like I said, wanted to try this technique again, so brought out the Market Street kit,

and did my bg with one of PTI's stencils: Wood Block Prints

Heat embossed in Zing's Rose, with a little inking (Spring Rain & Blueberry Sky.)

Like this better, maybe because the message can be extended.

I love interactive cards right now. Sliders, and hidden messages and pop up boxes. All such fun

for the recipient! Not to mention fun for me who makes them!

Happy crafting everyone!

And want to thank all who sent prayers my way on behalf of my mom.

Quick note on her condition, my sister and I were advised to bring in hospice care at this time, and they've been wonderful! So thankful for their caring kindness!

She continues to hang in there, with so many issues. 

One of the reasons I love you all is our sharing and caring, and especially prayers!

Just wanted to say, 'thanks'.

Peace card

Make It Monday at PTI features the artistry of Melissa Phillips, 

who wowed us with 3 gorgeous samples of wreath building, found here:

Make It Monday #300: Build-a-Wreath

I must be slipping because I only have a couple of wreaths to work with,

one being the die Melissa used. Found this one (Enclosed Wreath), 

and had some fun with building my card around it.

Had to go with pinks, in honor of Melissa, and her incredible talent with pastels!

Embossed my die cut 4 times with Stampendous Shabby Green EP,

and sponge inked and stamped the Doily Tag Base with Beautiful Berries: Winter.

2 colors for the fern: Mint Julep & Green Parakeet.

2 colors for the berries: Berry Sorbet & Pure Poppy.

Background is stenciled with PTI's Polka Dots, Sweet Blush on Sweet Blush cardstock.

A peek on the inside

It's so much easier to finish the inside while the stamps are on my table,

one less step when addressing my cards.

Loved this technique, and plan to do several cards using these stamp sets...

while they're still handy on the table!

Thank you Melissa, and thank you for visiting,

Happy Crafting!

Blessed

Hi PTI fans! 

I love Mondays that fall  on Papertrey's release week.

We are asked to case the wonderful designers who take the new product 

and create and design fabulous things!

Sounds easy? Fun yes, easy no. Just try picking one out of 76 glorious

creations!

I finally settled on a beauty by Michelle Leone, featuring Betsy Veldman's new

Beautiful Berries: Autumn. You can see Michelle's card, and a card set she did here:

More Papertrey Ink Release - Beautiful Berries: Autumn and Sunflower Harvest

I used the stencil from Herb Garden, as Michelle did, and

substituted my vine with one from Embellished Elegance.

Inked with Summer Sunrise and Harvest Gold

Vine inks: Simply Chartreuse, Orange Zest, Scarlett Jewel.

So glad to use that lovely set again! 

Double Ended Banners and Inspired: Blessed.

Stitched die from Noted: Scalloped A2.

The Inspired: Blessed stamp set has several sentiments that go along

with the word, Blessed, but couldn't decide which to use.

Decided I'd wait until the need arises to add, 'so very', or 'grateful, thankful', 

or one of the other lovely sayings.

Play along on Nichole's blog here:

Create Along With Us: August 2017

Also playing along with SSS Wednesday's Challenge

Simon Says: Add A Sentiment

And Word Art Wednesday

Challenge #296-#297 - Anything Goes