Modified the Final Look

Hello! The current challenge at Modsquad Challenge is Beautiful Butterflies and the Monthly Mix Challenge at Gina K Designs is Here Comes the Sun.  I combined the 2 challenges and came up with this card to enter.  I created a sunrise scene using a circle mask cut with a die and ink blending with Distress Oxide inks on a white cardstock.  After completing the background, I stamped the flowers and butterflies using stamps from Gina K Design Birds & Blossoms set. The images were colored with Copics.  Added a Gina K sentiment stamped with Memento Black ink and die cut. Finished with a white card base. After I took a photograph of the card, I decided the horizon was too straight and drew in a row of trees to break it up.  The revised card is shown below.  I think it improved the card but what do you think? Please vote for which you consider the best. 

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Beautiful Days

Hello! We have been having some beautiful sunny days here in Ohio.  That made me think of the verse that I used in creating this card for the Double D Challenge Book Covers. I stamped the verse from Repeat Impressions in the center of my panel and framed it with Lilies that I stamped with a Gina K Design stamp in Memento Black ink and colored with Copics. The layout was inspired by the book titles that were all centered and surrounded by images. The lilies in the upper book cover inspired my choice of flowers.  I originally was going to color my lilies orange but strayed off to pink. I used dark navy cardstock as my base. 

If my card was the cover of a book, wouldn't it be fun to read about beautiful days and happy tomorrows?

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Print Making with A Die Cut

 Hello!  I decided to play with this month's CAS Mix Up Card Challenge which is to do print making with a die-cut and to use watercoloring as the main element in our design.  New technique for me. Since I have not done this before I watched the tutorial video by Kathy Racoosin shared on the challenge. 

I cut a flower from watercolor paper with Memory Box Die Darling Poppies and used the die cut and colored with Distress Oxide Inks  to create a background on panels of watercolor paper.  I did this on  3 cards but finished each one a bit differently. 

For the top card, I embossed the background panel with the print from the die-cut using an oval die and then attached the die cut flower on the top but did not insert  the pieces of the petals. I only attached the outline portion of the flower and stems so the background print that I did showed through.  Finished with a Green card base. In the photos, I showed the die cut flower that I water colored  and used for print making. 

For the card above,  I made another print on the background and attached another  flower that I kept with all the die cut pieces and watercolored. Used rectangle dies for frame and attached to a base of white card stock.

For my last design using the same technique for my background, I die cut the poppies from white cardstock and only watercolored the stems and the inlaid pieces of the petals. Finished this one with a birthday sentiment from Gina K designs. 

Supplies: Distress Oxide Inks Picked Raspberry, Peeled Paint, Aged Mahogany, Spice Marmalade. Watercolor Paper, White and Green CS, Oval Die, Memory Box Die. 

Other Challenges:
Mix It Up Challenge Blog: MIUCB#47 Anything Goes + Inlaid Die Cut

Outside the Box: Memory Box Challenge #70 Beautiful Backgrounds

Dies R Us Challenge: #164 Anything goes using any brand of  die sold at DRU. Used Memory Box die. 

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Beautiful Butterfly

Hello! I was trying to decide on a card design to make for the current challenge at Modsquad Challenges which is Beautiful Butterflies - to include a BUTTERFLY on the front of your card. I was trying to decide whether to create a background using some fancy technique, do some ink blending, use some dies, add a lot of embellishments, etc and then it struck me ......just focus on a beautiful butterfly and let it be the star on the card. I simply used an older Gina K Stamp from the Hope is Faith set and stamped it on a paper that was preprinted with a frame (in my stash from Gina K) using Memento Black ink.  I colored the image with Memento Markers and a Sakura Blue Gelly pen. I checked the image of a Swallowtail Butterfly to make sure my coloring was close to nature.  I attached the image to a  card base of Gina K Wild Dandelion. I am pleased that I decided to focus on the butterfly. 

Challenges:

Allsorts Challenge: Week 614 Use Yellow

Addicted to CAS: #192 Animals  (according to the internet, Butterflies are animals.)

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Roses for Your Birthday

Today, I am sharing a birthday card that I created with stamps and dies from Gina K Tropical Blooms (from 2018) set and a sentiment stamp from GKD Northwoods 2(2015). I used a panel of Red Velvet CS embossed with Divine Swirls embossing folder for the background behind the die cut flowers colored with Copics. I Stamped the words with Versamark and heat embossed with white embossing powder. Added a narrow white satin ribbon to finish the design. 

Challenges: 
Retro Rubber Challenge: #153 Tic Tac Toe. Used row with Birthday, Neutrals (White), and Die or Punch. 

                                Stamps from 2018 and 2015. 

Simon Wednesday Challenge: Simon says Beautiful Blossoms

TIME OUT Challenges: #182 Create a birthday card or for another type of celebration

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More Luck for St. Patrick's Day

Hello! Another cold and cloudy day here in Ohio.  I am sharing another card for St. Patrick's day that I made using Power Poppy digitals stamps from the Wish You Luck set. I printed both the image and sentiment on white cardstock and colored with Copics.  I added some green satin ribbon and pink sequins to the card before attaching to a Green card base. 

Challenges: 

CASology: Week 385 Luck

Always Fun Challenges: #203 Good Luck Cards

The House That Stamps Built: DCC Challenge M321 Going Green

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Best of Luck

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Hello! While going through my stash. I found this Power Poppy digital image that I had printed and set aside some time ago...probably last year in March. I pulled out some Copics and colored the bouquet of Shamrocks and then attached to a base of Gina K green cardstock. Printed the sentiment from the same Power Poppy digital set, trimmed it with a die, and added to the card with a die cut mat of the same green cardstock. For fun I added 5 Pink gemstones from my stash.  I love how this turned into a fun card. 

Challenges:
CASology: Week 385 LUCK

Always Fun Challenges: #203 Good Luck Cards

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I love reading your comments. Theresa

Recycling Catalog Photos for Cards

Hello! I have not been blogging much in the past 2 months but hope to get back in the routine of posting and visiting other blogs this month.  I have started the year by trying to use up some of my stash and saved items to clean up my studio. I will share more of those projects later.  I am always seeing useful items for cards in all paper goods including magazines, advertising, catalogs, napkins, cards etc. that I receive.  

Today I am sharing several cards that I made for a package that I will be mailing to a Life Care Center.  Since I was looking for some ideas for quick and easy Easter cards to create for the nursing home, I was inspired to use photos of flowers from a plant catalog ( I seem to receive one almost weekly).  As I was about to throw the latest envelope with ads away, I thought how the photos would make lovely cards using some colorful card bases and simple sentiments.  For the card bases I used Yellow, Pink, and Green textured cardstock from Bazzill that I found at Tuesday Morning.  I trimmed the photos and attached to the card bases and then added  Easter sentiments that I stamped with some  Hero Arts and  Gina K stamps. Used Black Versafine ink for stamping. The photos shown include about 31 of the 45 cards that I have made.  I printed a verse for inside the cards on white cardstock and attached to the inside.

I thought this was a productive way to use something rather than just add to the trash. I hope the cards make someone smile and feel that they are remembered at Easter.

Looking forward to warmer weather.

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I love reading your comments. Theresa