Playing with The Greetery's Calico Collection

 

Well hi, crafty friends. Did you get any of the Greetery's latest release?

I had to play with some of my order immediately, and chose The Stencil Shapes

Autumn to play with first.

For this card, I followed Lori's tutorial on You Tube, and didn't stray far from her 

brilliant and careful instruction. I liked this, but wanted to do more. 

So I did.

I went bolder with my colors, and cut the panel with the Patchwork die. Love all the 

stencils, and the result is a gorgeous design with a panel for my sentiment.

Honestly, Betsy's brilliant!

Lastly is the Botanicuts Apple dies, with the Bushel Basket. Once again, followed 

the great instructions from Lori, and added a stenciled panel from Printshop Calico

stamp and stencils, cut with Cozy Cup Coaster die. 

The EF is an oldie from Cuttlebug. 

I left this card without a sentiment, so I could use it later. 

Hope to do more soon. Love this release!

Card Set for Alisa

 

Hi there! 

Do you have your own fan club? Have to say, (totally puffed up), I do.

My family thinks I'm so talented. Not even going to tell them it's the 

stamp companies, and all you brilliant inspirers that should get credit.

My daughter asked for some general cards, (she apparently ran out of the 32,000 I've

already given her!), and I was thrilled to have an excuse to play with my Greetery's 

new Wild Elegance. 

Now here comes the warning: this is a long post. Feel free to scroll quickly. Or, if 

you like details, take your time, look around, and please comment. Oh, I love those

comments!

Alisa is a worship pastor at her husband's church, and the women's pastor as well.

She keeps in touch with the flock with calls, cards and plans all their retreats.

(Did I mention cards?) I LOVE that my cards go to women who love God. 

The 4 cards I did for her are from the Greetery's newest release, Wild Elegance. 

If you pushed that button for the full release, you received stamps, stencils, dies, 

and a whole lot of inspiration from the Greetery's Look Book.

This bouquet, for instance comes with an outline stamp and stencils for coloring. 

One card uses the stencils, the other copics and pencils.

I paired Lovely Silhouettes with the rubber stamp Elegant Arches for these cards.

I did some fun stenciled envelopes for the cards as well. (Thanks Kelly Lunceford

for the reminder).

Hope you weren't too bored, and maybe got some ideas to do a card set of your own.

And I'll bet you've also got your own fan club... we all deserve it!

Have a great weekend. 

The Card Concept: Autumn Blessings

 

Autumn Blessings my friends! Hope you are enjoying cooler weather, and all

the blessings that come with the season. 

Speaking of Autumn Blessing, we're starting a new challenge at the Card Concept

that just happens to be titled, Autumn Blessings. Here's the photo

Rich colors, textured contrasts, and full of inspiration!

Julie Gearinger picks our photos, and she's been hitting it out of the park!

I zoned in on that silver aluminum pail, and all the layers of flora in the

photo.

Style? Mixed media; watercolor, embossing and stencil paste, and lots of layers too!

I used a couple of sets from the Greetery, (supplies at end of post), and used the pitcher 

from Pitcher-esque.

You barely see it, but on the left of the card is a pewter pitcher, that was a gift to my

mom from her great aunt in Boston. We used that pitcher every Thanksgiving, and

it graced our table during the holidays. I loved it so much, my mom gave it to me, 

and it continues bringing beauty to my table on special occasions. 

The pitcher is filled with watercolored autumn leaves, and I brushed on embossing

ink along the edges before adding gold embossing powder. Just couldn't be 

happier with this inspiration photo. There's so much to be inspired by, and I 

can't wait to see what you all create! 

Have a wonderful creative, crafty week! 

Supplies:

The Greetery: Pitcher-esque stamps and die, Bittersweet Bouquet, Botanicuts

Mighty Oak Die, Berry Branch Stencil

Winsor Newton Watercolors, Nuvo Dream Drops: Indigo Eclipse,

Strathmore Watercolor Cardstock

Stampendous: Detail Silver Embossing Powder, Ranger: Gold ep. 

Dreamweaver Embossing Paste

The Card Concept #142 {Autumn Bounty}