Basket Tags

Welcome to the studio!  I am playing with the challenge at Tag You're It! shown below.  I was inspired to create  basket like tags filled with holiday greenery and berries.  I started with a Just For Fun Basket stamp that I stamped with DOI Walnut Stain on white CS and colored in with Copics.  I trimmed out 2 "baskets" using a paper trimmer, corner punch, and oval die.  I filled the baskets with holly, pine cones, and greenery stamped and die cut with Gina K Designs from Merry & Bright and Seasonal Sentiment stamp and die sets. Used Rich Cocoa, Cottage Ivy, Northern Pine, and Love Letter Memento inks.  Finished with some ribbon and twine.  Tags from Kraft paper were tied into the Basket.
Challenges:
Shopping Our Stash: Challenge #400 Christmas in July.  Used some older ribbon, twine, and other items all from stash.
Tag You're It!: Challenge #92 Christmas in July
Simon Monday Challenge:  Simon says: Not a Card

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

Bountiful Basket

Welcome!  Today I am playing with an old stamp by Rubber Stampede called Bountiful Basket dated 1995.  I think I must have got this stamp from a garage sale many years ago around 2009?  And I do not think that I have ever used it.  I stamped the basket with a light color ink Memento Toffee Crunch and colored with Copics.  This stamp has mostly flat surfaces not line stamping so it is a bit difficult to color.  I am sharing photos of both the wood block and the rubber stamp.  It is interesting how stamps have changed from being on wood blocks and now just clear stamps.  The old wood stamps are a piece of art in themselves and great items to collect if you have the room.  

Back to my card....stamped the image on white CS and colored with Copics and did some highlights with Pencils.  Used some metal brads on the basket for a bit of texture and dimension and to use some of my stash of embellishments.  Added a sentiment from Power Poppy (2014) with DOI Vintage Photo and distressed the edges of the panel with DOI Wild Honey and simply attached to a Gold Yellow card base.  

Challenges:

Addicted to Stamps: Challenge 167 Autumn Colors

Modsquad Challenge: Make a fall themed thank you card.
Retro Rubber Challenge: #RRCB 98 Fall Harvest Time.  I have had the basket stamp at least 9 years and it is dated 1995.

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

Harvest of Memories

Welcome!  I have another card for Stamp TV's Mix It Up Monday challenge inspired by the photo on the left.  I chose to use Black and White Gingham ribbon for a bow on this card.  The stamps used are from GKD's Harvest of Flowers (Basket of Apples and Sentiment), A Year of Flowers (Sunflower), and Botanicals (Berries).  I used Memento Rich Cocoa ink for stamping and Copics for Coloring.  Glossy Accents was added to the basket for a bit of texture.   I thought I was finished with just the basket and sunflowers but added the berries after I made the first photo shown below.  When I looked at the first photo, I thought it needed a bit more and the berries was just the right touch needed to complete the card and picked up the berries from the inspiration photo.

Other Challenges:

Really Reasonable Ribbon: Challenge 172 Anything goes with ribbon. theme.

The Ribbon Girl Challenge: September Use any Image

The Paper Girls: Challenge 136 Harvest

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

Easter Card with Mini Basket

Hello!  I am back again with some more Cameo projects.  This time I have made a small basket for candy with an Easter chick.  This was made with Silhouette files with papers from stash.  I improvised how the basket was assembled  by folding up the scallop edge of the base and taping to the side.   Since I had some scraps left, I created a quick card cutting the sentiment and a larger version of the chick and attached to the pattern paper and then to a card base of yellow cardstock.   I gave some interest to the silhouette  of a chick by coloring the beak and feet with orange Copic. 
Challenges:
Simon Says: Happy Easter and/or Sweet treats.
Craft Your Passion Challenge: Make a project featuring bunnies, chicks or eggs.
Papertake Weekly: Happy Easter

We have a light snow this morning and the temps are back in the 30's.
Whatever is Mother Nature thinking?
 I enjoy all your comments. Thank you. Theresa

Easter Basket with Sweet Treats

 

Easter is almost here.  I have been playing with my Cameo making some baskets for sweet treats.

I am also trying to use up some old papers.  I cut and assembled this basket from some papers in the DCWV Flower Shower Spring Stack using a Silhouette design.  I added the label cut with Spellbinder dies and stamped with a Hero Arts stamp in Memento Bamboo Leaves.  Used some old butterfly brads to attach the handle and label. Filled with grass and sweet candy treats.

 

Challenges:

Simon Says: Challenge is Happy Easter and/or Sweet Treats

Alphabet Challenge Blog: E is for Easter

Just Add Ink: #21 Easter Bags, Boxes, or Baskets. Used ink on label

 

I enjoy all your comments. Thank you. Theresa

A Bunch of Flowers

Happy Easter to all my friends and followers!

 

The challenge  at Joan's Garden is fun this week...we are to

Use some kind of container

Fill it with flowers

Use Yellow, Green and Orange

You must use something sold at Joan's Gardens on your card.

I started by making a basket with strips of textured brown card stock that I have saved forever from making some other baskets.  I started with a base card of textured olive green (stash) and layered with blue  card stock embossed with Cuttlebug Wicker Weave Embossing Folder and the a pattern paper from My Mind's Eye pad. Does that not look like a lace tablecloth over a gold liner??

I then filled my basket with flowers and foliage. I first added a Fanciful Flourish cut with Cheery Lynn die but it got lost under the flowers. My flowers were made with  Cheery Lynn Build a Flower #1 (stamens and leaves) and Build a Flower #2 ( poppy petals and leaves), Stampin' Up 6 petal flower punch, and Martha Stewart leaf punch.  I used various shades of green paper for the leaves, yellow, orange, and  white papers for the flowers.  Green and orange brads were used in center of some of the flowers.  A tag stamped with sentiment from Flourishes "Zinnias" in Memento Cantaloupe ink was added to the bouquet and a "Friends" Metal Brad (Stash) was attached to the baskets with brads....love the texture that adds.  I used the Tool Kit from Joan's for assembling the flowers and some of the many useful tips from Selma for making flowers.  Items used from Joan's are highlighted in orange.

Challenges:
Joan's Garden: Details above- week's code is joansgardens, JG0328

I enjoy all your comments. Thank you. Theresa