Groovy Times

Hello!  I got a bit carried away with the current groovy challenge at Retro Rubber....thinking about the 60's and bright colors brought to mind the hippy buses/vans of that time.  And so, I set out to create a card with that as my theme.  First, I found a digital image of a plain bus (shown below) that I colored in bright colors and images.  I searched my stash of stamps to find appropriate ones to create my "Love Bug".  Had fun doing this even though it took a while. All stamps used in the making of this cards are way older than 1 year, some going back to 2001....but none from the 60's. I was not stamping that far back even though I was around in the 60's.  I used Memento Inks and Copics for coloring.  I used all 5 bright colors in the challenge including purple for one heart. Since I did not want to have black windows, I added green shades to the side of the van and added a "sunshade" with flowers to the front. 

Stamps Used: Butterfly and 1 flower from Annabelle Whimsey Flowers 2011, Sentiment and Swirl from Laurel Burch 2017, Word Love, Heart, and Pixie Alphabet letters from PSX 2001/2003, 2 Flowers from Papercraft gift 2019, Peace from GKD Christmas set 2018, Large Flower from Happy Little Stamps 2018.  Used a total of 14 stamps. Finished with Bright Yellow card base and Bright Green background of Bazzill Textured and Shiny CS. Colors are brighter in real life than in photo. 

Challenges:
Simon Wednesday Challenge: Simon says Anything Goes

Addicted to Stamps and More: #426 Make your Mark

Retro Rubber Challenge: #179 Groovy Baby

Pray for the people of Ukraine.

Thanks for stopping by. 

Hugs, Theresa

Using Scraps and Stash

 Welcome!  I have some more Christmas cards using scraps and items from stash.   For the top card I used the sketch from Tuesday Morning Sketches as inspiration for the layout.  I cut strips from scraps of designer patterned paper with gold foil dots on pink.  I stamped the wreath from an old Flourishes set on glossy CS with Versamark and heat embossed with Gold EP and colored with 2 Pink Copics.  I trimmed with a Spellbinders circle die and attached to a Metallic Gold circle also cut with Spellbinders die.  I assembled the card with a card base of white CS but colored the edges with the same 2 Pink Copics to match wreath.  Added an embossed panel ( Cuttlebug Bubbles EF)  of GKD Metallic Gold CS with the strips,  image, and Cheery Lynn die cut words. Finished with a metallic gold bow.

This card was created with the same patterned paper and gold Metallic  paper as above but on ivory CS base.  The panel of gold metallic paper was embossed with Darice Santa Sleigh  EF. The sentiment from an old Annabelle set was heat embossed with Gold EP. Used more of the Metallic Gold ribbon to finish. 

Challenges:

Tuesday Morning Sketches: #527

Die Cuttin Divas: Challenge #444 Anything Goes in October

Crazy 4 Challenges: C4C 508 Wreaths

The 12 Months of Christmas: Challenge 58 Optional Twist Santa.  Used Embossing folder with Sant in his sleigh. 

Have a great day! I love reading your comments. Theresa

Using Up My Unused Items

 Hello!  This weekend, I challenged myself to make some cards using up some of the unused items collecting on my worktable....for example items that I die cut or colored and never made into a finished card or backgrounds that I had leftover and stored in my leftover box (or boxes in my case).  I have enough of these bits and pieces to make a ton of cards.
I began with a leftover from a background made by  water coloring splashing with Distress Oxide inks on watercolor paper.  I tore a section of this and attached to a Blue card base embossed with clouds and glued on flowers die cut from scraps of paper.  I die cut the flowers and butterflies  with a new die cut set (prize from Double D Challenge).  Finished with a simple sentiment from Annabelle stamps.
Challenges:
Happy Little Stampers: August Anything Goes with Dies Challenge
Cards In Envy: Something New Card Challenge-used new dies. Card is flat enough to fit into envelope.

I made this photo on the left before I remembered the butterflies. Have a great day! I love reading your comments. Theresa

Christmas Ribbon

Hello!  Sometimes cards are inspired by just a bit of ribbon.  I was trying to think what to use on a card with the theme Gifts and came across some ribbon that I had won - black grosgrain that was printed with Gifts and Merry Christmas - and decided to use this as the feature on my card.  Used an old Annabelle stamp - a sleigh filled with gifts- simply stamped in black ink on white CS. Added 2 strips of the ribbon and card was finished.

Challenges:

Merry Monday Christmas Challenge: #262 Gifts
Really Reasonable Ribbon: Challenge #174 Anything goes with Ribbon Theme

Have a great day! I love reading your comments. Theresa

Gifts Are Ready!

Hello!  My card today uses some lovely ribbon that I won recently!  I let the black and White ribbon play as the sentiment as well as an embellishment.  I stamped the Santa Sleigh with an Annabelle stamp and colored with Copics and Gold Metallic pen. I fussy cut and adhered to a white CS and framed with Gold Metallic CS and added some Gold Gems.
Challenges:
Simon Wednesday Challenge: Simon says Gift It!  My sleigh is full of gifts.
Crafty Ribbon Challenge:   #180 Christmas Theme with Ribbon
Alphabet Challenge Blog: U for Use something Red. Used Red Copic for the sleigh
Cas-ual Fridays: CFC163 Christmas & Hanukkah
Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge: 312 Cute or anything goes Christmas

Have a great day! I love reading your comments. Theresa

Christmas with a Bit of Coral

Hello!  I am back with another post featuring some Christmas cards made with items from Festive Flourishes Luxury Card Kit that came with an issue of Papercraft Inspirations. The card stock and toppers both have foiled accents and colors of coral.  I finished both cards with a sentiment from Annabelle stamped with Versamark and embossed with Gold EP.

Challenges:
Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge: #307 Color: Coral a little bit or a lot.
Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra: November challenge
Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge: November Challenge
Shopping Our Stash Weekly: Front and Center - use those bits and pieces on your desk that have been laying around, collecting dust.  I have had this kit on my desk and decided to use some of the pieces.
Just Add Ink: #377 Just choose 2 from doily, diecut, designer paper. Used designer papers and diecuts on each of these cards.

Have a great day! I love reading your comments. Theresa

Play Along With Tag You're....It!

As Guest Designer on  Tag You're It, I made a tag for the reminder for challenge #60 inspired by Featured Designer Diane Jaquay shown below.

Similar to Diane's Tag, I created an ombre background tag using Distress Inks but used a Christmas theme instead of a Thankful theme.  Before sponging the  background, I  stamped and embossed a Gina K Design Mistletoe  stamp with Versamark ink and white EP.  I added a sentiment from Annabelle  that I also embossed and sponged before trimming. I attached a Flourish die cut from Glossy White CS with a Cheery Lyn die beneath the sentiment.  The tag was layered with White Glossy CS and finished with a dark Blue ribbon.

Please check out the challenge and play along at Tag You're It. 

Have a great day! I love reading your comments. Theresa

Vellum and Embossing

 

Hello!  I was playing with Vellum, Metallic Gold CS, and Heat Embossing when I made this card.   I used a stamp from Gina K Designs A Year of Flowers that I stamped twice with Versamark on Red Vellum and heat embossed with Ranger Gold EP.  I fussy cut one and trimmed the other for use as a panel placed between the front panels of the  Gold Metallic Card Base.  I adhered the fussy cut  Poinsettia with Vellum  tape.  The sentiment from Annabelle Stamps was embossed with Red EP.

Challenges:
Less Is More: Challenge #299 Recipe is Vellum or Acetate. Used Vellum.

Happy Little Stampers: October CAS Challenge - Embossing on Vellum

Happy Little Stampers: October Christmas Challenge - Embossing

Crafty Catz: Challenge Anything Goes with Twist Add Embossing

Have a great day! I love reading your comments. Theresa

More Christmas Cards

 

Hello!  I am back with some more cards for some challenges about to close. So this will be a quick and short post. 
The first card was made with Die Cut Silver Snowflake that I had in my leftover stash and I have no idea where it came from or the die used.  I just attached it to Bazzill Blue Card base embossed with Cuttlebug EF Snowflakes that I inked with Brilliance White ink.  Finished with an Annabelle sentiment stamped and embossed with Silver EP on vellum and fancy cut.

Challenges:

City Crafter Challenge Blog: #288 Color Challenge on left. Inspired by snow and blues.
Merry Monday Christmas Challenge: #181 Blue and White with Texture
 

  

 

This second card was created with white textured CS embossed with a Darice EF Christmas Tree.  I simply added Gold Liquid Pearls to the stars and ornaments with some Sakura Clearstar sparkle.  The GKD sentiment was heat embossed with Gold EP.   I attached this to a White Card Base.

Challenges:

Clear It Out Challenge: Theme is Colour challenge-white +1 colour Stash: Your choice ( card must be mostly white).  Used gold with white.
Christmas Cards All Year 'Round: Theme Oh Christmas Tree

 

Have a great day! I love reading your comments. Theresa

Happy Earth Day

 Hello! Today is Earth Day and my card sort of has a feel of things that grow.  I made this card with 2 challenges in mind.  For the Just Us Girls Color Week challenge I used beige, brown and green...very earthy colors. I designed my card with the sketch on the right in mind.

Supplies: Impression Obsession Wood grain Stamp, Annabelle Sentiment Stamp, Memento Rich Cocoa and Cottage Ivy inks, Distress Ink Tea Dye,  Darice EF Wood grain, Ivory and Green CS.
Cheery Lynn Flourishes Die, Spellbinders Tag die

Challenge Links:
Just Us Girls Challenge: Color week #289
CAS(E) this Sketch: #119 Skeych

Have a great day! I love reading your comments. Theresa

Happy Couple

Hello! I know winter is almost behind us but there are still challenges with winter and Christmas themes.  I found this digital image Snowman Couple in my files from Crafty Sentiments and just thought I have to use their happy faces on a card. I kept the design fairly clean and simple.  I colored the image with Memento markers and stamped the Annabelle Sentiment in Memento Lady Bug ink.  I found a pattern paper from a Crate Paper pad that I thought coordinated with my colors and used a Gray Card base.
Challenges:
Winter Wonderland: Warm Wishes - use some warm winter clothing on your projects.  It just happened that this image is from their sponsor this week.  Love their scarves and hats.
Alphabet Challenge: C is for cute and cuddly.  Maybe these snowmen are not really cuddly (guess they'd met if you cuddled) but they are cute and are cuddling together.
AAA Cards: Game #35  Bare naked CAS.  Snowmen are bare naked unless you count the scarves and hats not to be???
Crafty Sentiments Design: Challenge is to be inspired by a Song---thought of  I'm Gonna Be Warm this Winter when I look at this couple
ABC Christmas Challenge:  F is for Frosty


Click on the video to hear I'm Gonna Be Warm This Winter:

I enjoy all your comments. Thank you. Theresa

Lots of Gold

 I am back with a second post today.  Sorry, my photo does not show this card too well.  I made this for Annabelle Stamps November challenge with the theme of "It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas".  I used stamp sets Stamped for Christmas and Decorated Christmas from Annabelle Stamps as well as her dies for the ornament and border.  Cardstocks used were Gold Metallic and Red from GKD. Versamark and Ranger Gold EP were used for the sentiment and Red EP was used on the ornament.  I finished with a shiny metallic ribbon and bow.

I enjoy all your comments. Thank you. Theresa

A Try at Mixed Media

Another challenge at SCS for the Hope That You Can Cling To Campaign is to create a card using Mixed Media. I had to do research on just what that is considered ....I read that mixed media tends to refer to a work of visual art that combines various traditionally distinct visual art media - a work that combines paint, ink, and other materials such as paper, metal. wood, shells, fabrics, and "found objects"-  a combination of two or more primary artistic mediums combined in a single piece of artwork or a card in this case. For my card I "mixed" a printed image, distress inks, versamark, embossing powder,  a button ( matched the design in feathers), some seam binding, and a piece of mesh (found objects).  I used distress inks to create the background on which I stamped and embossed the sentiment and then double sponged on a darker ink. To make this more vintage, I distressed edges of image with ink and used distress tool on the mat.  This may not be as complicated and layered with textures as most mixed media items but think it will pass as a mixed media card.
Challenges:
 Sugar Creek Hollow: Theme Birds of a Feather.  I may have missed having a nest on my card since I was concentrating on the birds.

Supplies:
Digi: Graphics Fairy
Stamps: MFP Sentiment, Annabelle Stamps Love
Inks: Distress Inks Crushed Olive, Broken China, Aged Mahogany, Tea Dye, Antique Linen, Versamark
Papers: Slate Blue, White CS
Clear EP
Distressing Tool
From Stash: Antique Metal Button, Mesh Scrap, Seam Binding Tape

I enjoy all your comments. Thank you. Theresa

CAS with Coneflowers and Colors

Second Post today.  I am posting this for some challenges soon ending.  I made this for a color challenge at Annabelle Stamps Blog and a CAS(E) this Sketch! challenge.  I began with an Annabelle stamp from Whimsey Flowers stamping it in Memento Peanut Brittle ink and coloring with Copics YG 63, 95, YR 12, 18, 65 capturing all the 4 colors in the graphic below.  I fussy cut the flower without the frame that is part of the stamp.  I layered the flower on a strip of Rust Cardstock die cut with Spellbinder tag die. I stamped the sentiment from Annabelle's Squared Posies with versamark and copper EP. Assembled the card on a card base of Olive Green Cardstock with a embossed mat of White Cardstock that was done with Cuttlebug EF Divine Swirls.  I did change up the sketch a bit but think my card is close enough.

I enjoy all your comments. Thank you. Theresa

Early Made Christmas Tag

   It is never too early to prepare for Christmas so I decided to make a Christmas Tag for the BasicGrey Challenge #99 - Make a Tag.    I used Spellbinders Label 4 Dies to cut the front and back from a double side paper from BasicGrey Jovial found in my scraps. I cut 2 other pieces with a smaller die using another pattern paper from the same Jovial Pad.  I stamped one smaller diecut with a Sentiment from Creative Clear Stamp Set "Holiday Sentiments" using Versamark and Gold Embossing Powder. For the inside layer I stamped "To and From" stamp from GKD in Versamark and Red Embossing Powder.  I assembled the tag by adhering the smaller cutouts to the larger ones and using a Gold Tree Brad  and ribbon from stash to join both sides together. This allows the top of the tag to twist around so the inside can be viewed.  I hid the prongs of the brad on the back with an ornament cutout that I had made with Annabelle's Stamps and Diecut.  I was pleased that I used only scraps in the making of this tag.....no full sheets of paper were cut!

 

I enjoy all your comments. Thank you. Theresa

Simple Card for a Friend

 This card is for the Sketch Challenge at Annabelle's Stamp Blog - sketch
shown below. I stamped the flower from Annabelle's Whimsey Flowers on a light blue cardstock from stash using Gina K designe Black Onyx ink. The image was colored with Copics G21, 99, E44, RV 14, 17, 19 and Atyou Spica Gold. I used a card base of Bazzill Textured Wine CS to which I attached a strip of the Blue CS with a sentiment from Annabelle's Dotted Flowers Set and the image. A very simple and quick card.

Other Challenges:
One Stop Craft Challenge: Keep it Simple
Party Time Tuesday: Friendship Cards

I enjoy all your comments. Thank you. Theresa

Have a Happy Summer Birthday

 

Another post for today!   Been doing a lot of challenges since it is too hot to do much outside.   When I saw Sassy Cheryl's Digi Stamps Challenge "Hat's On",  I immediately thought of one of her older digis that I think I got as a freebie when I began collecting Digital images.  This girl was perfect with her big hat and I colored her in summer colors taken from the pattern paper from MME's Happy Day paper pack.  I used a sketch shown below from Tuesday Morning Sketches ...they have 4 sketches to choose from this week celebrating their 4th birthday. 

 I am also entering:

 Shopping Our Stash Challenge #109- use summer colors or summer theme.

One Stop Craft Challenge: Summer Colours.

 I think my colors are very summery!

 

Other supplies used: White, Pink, and Yellow Cardstock from stash. Copics R 20, 81, 85, RV 11, E 00, 000, 11, 34, 35, 37, Y06,11, 13, 26 ,28 , YR 02,07. Glaze pens in Orange, Yellow, Pink.  Annabelle Stamps Sentiment. Memento Rose Bud ink. Pink Buttons and Twine from stash.

 

Hope you are having a cool weekend?
I enjoy all your comments. Thank you. Theresa

Spotlight on Gathering Flowers

Welcome!  This card was made using the Spotlight technique and a Digi from A Day for Daisies called Gathering Flowers.  I printed the digi twice leaving one in black and white and cutting and coloring a circle from the other image for the spotlight. I used a pink cardstock from scraps and a pattern paper from GKD Berries and Vines paper pad as mats for the image.  I embossed the pattern layer with Cuttlebug EF Polka Dots for texture. I finished with a White Cardstock Card base and a Pink Satin Ribbon with the sentiment from Annabelle Stamps Whimsey Flowers stamped in Memento Rose Bud ink.  Copics and Markers used for coloring.
Challenges:
Tuesday Throwdown: #155 Use Spotlight Technique
Oldie But A Goodie: Theme is In the Garden - digi has been in my file way over 6 months ..used old ribbon from stash.
Annabelle Stamps: Use polka dots-Dots in paper and embossed also.
                                                                                 Seize The Birthday: Anything goes

I enjoy all your comments. Thank you. Theresa