Birthday Wishes

Hello! Today I am sharing a Birthday card that uses embossing folders and a focus on the sentiment. I was inspired by the sketch challenge at Tuesday Morning Sketches shown below.  I embossed a white panel with Cuttlebug Happy Birthday EF and attached to a Faded Brick card base from GKD. Added a Wicker Weave embossed strip of the same CS layered with a fancy cut Flower from GKD Watercolor Floral paper and some GKD Ephemera Leaves. Stamped GKD Sentiment from So Many Sentiments with Memento Potter's Clay ink on a flag die cut. Inked some of the edges with Copic marker.  Finished with some sequins from stash.  Another Birthday card for my stash.

Challenges:

Tuesday Morning Sketches: 

Can You Handle the Pressure?: Challenge is  Anything Goes Embossing with Twist 

Sentiment as the Focus 

Seize the Birthday: #246 Anything Goes Birthday

Happy Little Stampers: Birthday Challenge Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by. I love reading your comments. Hugs, Theresa

Summer Flowers

Hello! Welcome to my studio!  I have been busy here creating cards for current challenges. Today I am playing with a Penny black stamp from an older set in my stash.  The image was stamped with Memento Rich Cocoa ink and colored with Copics.  Trimmed it with a Spellbinders die and inked the edges with Brown Copics. Chose a Gingham Patterned paper as a mat which I also in
ked with Brown Copics.  The Gingham mat was embossed with Cuttlebug Gingham EF which is hard to see in photo. Added to a White CS and stamped with Birthday sentiment from stash. 

Challenges:
Double D Challenges: Wheels

Just Add Ink: #615 Just choose two-used Gingham and die cut.

Four Seasons Challenge: Anything Goes Summer. Geraniums are a favorite summer flower.

Happy Little Stampers: August Birthday Challenge Anything Goes

Penny Black Saturday Challenge: Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by. I love reading your comments.

 Hugs, Theresa

Strolling By on a Bike

Welcome and Hello!  I made this card for the challenge at Double D using some older stamps from Paper and Such. I stamped the Bicycle with Black ink on a background that I made by ink blending with GKD inks Fresh Asparagus and Blue Raspberry on white CS.  Colored in a path with Brown Copics.  Added some clouds with Darice EF. Colored the bike with Copics, Colored Pencils, White Gel Pen and a Silver Marker. For a fun touch, added a flag made with toothpick and tag die cut. Sentiments from Paper and Such. 

Challenges:
Double D Challenges: Wheels

Seize the Birthday: #245 Anything Goes Birthday theme

Thanks for stopping by. I love reading your comments. Hugs, Theresa

Playing with a Stencil

Welcome to my studio. I created this card playing with a new stencil and stamps that I recently received from Gina K Designs.  I inked a panel of white cardstock with GKD Blue Raspberry and Fresh Asparagus inks using a lattice stencil from Bodacious Blooms stencils.  I stamped sentiments and a floral stamp from Pretty Posy set on the panel with Memento Black Ink and colored in the flowers with Copics and markers. Matted with a panel of Fresh Asparagus CS and then attached to a white card base.  I made this a slimline card instead of my usual A2 card. 

Challenges:

Happy Little Stampers: July Stencil Challenge Anything goes with Stencil

Addicted to Stamps and More: Challenge 434 Any Occasions

Seize the Birthday: Challenge #243 Color Challenge Purple, Blue and Green 

Never Before Used Challenge #40: Used new stencil and stamps for the first time.

Thanks for stopping by. I love reading your comments. Hugs, Theresa

Inking Up is Fun

Hello! I broke down and bought a set of blending brushes and had to try them out on a card.  I inked up a panel of white card stock using Green Asparagus, Dark Spruce, Light and Dark Carnation inks from GKD to use as the background for a birthday card. I stamped the panel with a stamp from Happy Flowers set using black ink and then trimmed the image to fit on a Green Asparagus card base. I stamped sentiments from the same set with the Green Asparagus ink and die cut with GKD dies. Die cut the word Happy 3 times and layered with contact glue. For additional interest, I stamped a bud from the image a second time and inked with the pink shades, fussy cut the bud, and added with foam tape. I think this added some balance to the card. 

Challenges:

Shopping Our Stash: SOS474 Blending In

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge: Make Your Own Background

Addicted to Stamps and More: Challenge 433 Birthdays

The Flower Challenge: #70 Clean and Simple. 

Thanks for stopping by. I love reading your comments. 

Hugs, Theresa

Birthday Wishes

Hello! I created this birthday card using GKD supplies and a sketch from Tuesday Morning Sketches.  I did not get posted in time for the challenge at Tuesday Morning but will enter in other challenges. 

Supplies used: GKD Patterned Paper and Ephemera from Watercolor Floral Kit, GKD Stamp from So Many Sentiments set, GKD Innocent Pink and Faded Brick CS, White CS, Veramark, Metallic Gold EP, Pilot Gold Metallic Marker. I like the color combo that I used in this card.... something different for me. 

Challenges: 

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge: Always about using patterned Paper. 

Creations in Pink Challenge: #46 Anything Goes in Mainly Pink

Seize the Birthday: #242 Metallic. Used metallic gold embossing powder and metallic gold marker on edges of patterned paper.

Thanks for stopping by. I love reading your comments. Hugs, Theresa

Summer Birthday Wishes

Hello! Today I am sharing a card that I made using a GKD Stencil that was inspired by a GKD video called  5 Minute Card Easy Stenciled Mini Slimline Card.  I used the same stencil but changed it up by making a A2 card instead of a slimline card. I used the stencil, a stamp, and inks from the GKD Watercolor Spring Card Kit. My card base is GKD Innocent Pink CS and the Green mat is from my paper stash. 

Challenges:
Monthly Mix Challenge: Channeling Gina. Video used 5 Minute Card Easy Stenciled Mini Slimline Card. 

Happy Little Stampers Stencil Challenge: June Challenge Anything Goes with Stencils

Seize The Birthday Challenge: #241 Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by. Hugs, Theresa

Birthday Wishes

Hello! We are in the swing of summer with sunny, warm days in Oho.  I have taken some time to get in some cardmaking with some new items from Gina K Designs. I recently purchased her latest Watercolor Spring Kit.  From the kit, I used some of the Floral Ephemera and Light Spruce and Medium Spruce inks with a stamp from So Many Sentiments stamp set in the making of this card.  I took inspiration for this design from a GKD Video Partial Embossing with Embossing Folders.  Other supplies used: GKD Innocent Pink CS, White CS,  Cuttlebug Embossing Folders Swiss Dots and Victoria , Scor-pal. ( Since I did not have the color of CS that I wanted for the mat, I improvised one by using the Light Spruce ink to color the edges of a white cardstock.)

Challenges:
Monthly Mix Challenge: CHANNELING GINA. We are to chose one of Gina’s videos and make it our own.

     I used her Partial Embossing with Embossing Folders video.

Thanks for stopping by.

 Hugs, Theresa

Using Some of My Stash

 Welcome to the studio!  I have created some cards using some pre-embossed panels of white cardstock that I had filed away.....not sure why I did this but I have a stack of several panels embossed with several different embossing folders.  I chose 3 precut and pre-embossed panels with Cuttlebug Leafy Branch EF. For the first card, I colored the raised design with DOI  Peeled Paint using a pod and attached to a Green Mat and White Card base. I added several Butterflies die cut from scraps of Yellow CS using Sue Wilson Petite Butterflies dies (NBUS). Finished with words die cut with Cheery Lynn dies. 

 

The second card was made in a similar way but used a different green ink and darker green mat. The butterflies are cut from the smaller dies from the same set by Sue Wilson and cut from scraps of a patterned paper shown on the side in the photo. Used a Cheery Lynn die for the word Thanks. 

For the third card, I had used the Leafy Branch EF but also had embossed the panel with Cuttlebug Swiss Dots.  Not sure which EF that I used first but I had colored the raised dots with Navy Ink and the branch with Green Ink using pods to color the raised areas.  It was some time ago that I did this embossing and coloring and put away to finish at a later time.  I completed this card using some Marianne Design Creatable dies.  The bird was cut from a Red scrap and raised on some red foam. The birdhouse was cut from some Brown foam and I inked the raised area with dark brown ink. (FYI I first cut the house from brown cardstock and cut the foam to layer but I liked the look of the foam for the house with out the paper better and eliminated the brown paper.)  The sentiment was stamped and die cut with Gina K Designs products.  Used Navy ink to stamp and white foam to raise. Attached the panel to a Navy Card base and assembled the elements using a bit of string to hang the birdhouse. 

Challenges: 

Can You Handle the Pressure? Anything Goes  Embossing with a Twist of Green

Just Us Girls Challenge: #625 Photo Week. Inspired by the Bird and Birdhouse in photo.

Dies  R Us Challenge:  #189 Anything Goes using any brand of dies that DRU sells. Used Cheery Lynn,  Sue Wilson and Marianne Designs dies. 

Die Cut Divas: Challenge theme is Happy Birthday.

Shopping Our Stash Weekly Challenge: SOS 466 Spread Your Wings

Pray for the people of Ukraine. 

Thanks for stopping by. Hugs, Theresa

Pocket Birthday Card

Hello! I made this masculine Birthday card that was inspired by the challenge Can You Handle The Pressure?   which is to use anything with Embossing with a Twist of Plaid. I had a hard time finding  some plaid paper but finally found a scrap that I used on the card with embossing.  It seems that I have used nearly all the plaid papers that were in my stash. 

Supplies: Memento Lady Bug Ink, Versamark Ink, Red Embossing Powder. Heartfelt Creations Pocket Stamp, Gina K Design stamps and dies from Enjoyable Greetings set, GKD Birthday sentiment.  Blue Card stock panels already embossed with Cuttlebug Gingham EF that I found in my stash. Plaid Mat embossed with Cuttlebug Wicker Weave (hard to see in photo). White CS Base. Gold Brads.  Square of leftover Pellon fabric that I stuffed in the pocket as a handkerchief. 

Challenges:

Double D Challenges: Something with Pockets

Pray for the people of Ukraine. 

                                Thanks for stopping by. Hugs, Theresa

Birthday Butterfly

Welcome to the studio!  I have been fluttering around my desk putting together another birthday card.  This is one of my favorite kind of cards to make since there is always a birthday to celebrate and it's good to have cards on hand.   I have a box of old photos - ones that I saved from the trash -remember before digital cameras when we had to have film developed and a lot of them never made it to a photo album or were not good enough to frame.  I kept some of those rejects thinking that I could find ways to repurpose someday.  I have used 2 of those rejected photos (shown below) in the making of this card. You can estimate how many years I have had them.  

Using a recently learned Cloisonne Technique, I stamped an old butterfly stamp from Layers of Color with Versamark ink on the sunset glossy photo and heat embossed with gold EP and fussy cut the image. (Be careful not to get paper too hot or it will blister.) I trimmed the second photo of flowers and used it as a background mat on my card.  I attached the butterfly and added with some die cut words cut with Cheery Lynn dies.  I wanted the gold edge of the card base and the gold of the words all to match the gold on the butterfly so I used the same gold embossing powder to edge the white card base and to create a gold embossed strip to cut the words.  That's what I call coordinating my golds.

Challenges:

ModSquad Challenge: Birthday Butterflies

As You Like It Challenge: Favorite Occasion (and Why) Birthdays.  I enjoy sending a specially designed card to someone having a birthday as well as keeping a variety of birthday cards on hand. And I can be as creative as I want making every card in a different way.

As You See It Challenge: #268 Techniques. A favorite technique of mine is Cloisonne Technique using heat embossing. This is a new technique that I recently learned. 

Thanks for dropping by. I love reading your comments. Theresa

Playing with An Embossing Folder

Hello!  I am using a new Embossing Folder by Parklane called Large Floral that I just purchased the other day. First new crafting item that I have bought in a while.  Do not know why I bought it when I have so many EF's! It just called out "Buy me".  But I felt less guilty buying it when I came across a new challenge to use our embossing folders. Can You Handle the Pressure's first challenge is Anything Goes with Embossing with a Twist of Pink.  I embossed a panel of white CS with the EF and colored the raised areas and flowers with a pod and pink ink pad. I colored in the leaves and stems with a green marker. Trimmed the panel and attached to a white mat and then a card base of a patterned paper. Stamped a birthday sentiment that I trimmed and attached to top of the card.  Used Gina K stamps and pink ink. 

 Other Challenges:

Double D Challenges: Shades of Pink

Addicted to Stamps and More: 423 Birthdays

Creations In Pink: Challenge #43 Anything Goes in Mainly Pink

Seize the Birthday:  #233 Dichromatic. Use just 2 colors. Used shades of pink and green.

Double D

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I love reading your comments. Theresa

Happy, Happy, Happy, and Happy

Hello! I had fun making this card but it took so long to create because I kept changing the elements and the layout, but I finally finish the design.  The card was inspired by the February Monthly Mix challenge at Gina K Designs. We are to make a fun fold card and use pattern paper that we create with GKD stamps.  I stamped GKD Petite Flourish Background stamp with GKD Green Asparagus Ink on GKD Innocent Pink ink for the pattern paper which I trimmed into panels to fit the folds of the White Card. See the fold in the photo on the side. I inked all the edges of the panels with Pilot Metallic Gold marker before attaching. 

I stamped a Rose image from GKD Tropical Blooms set with Versamark on the Pink CS and heat embossed with Gold EP. I cut the image with a die from the same set and colored in the leaves with green Copics and shaded the Petals with Pink Copics.  Attached this image to the edge of the fold. I stamped, heat embossed, and die cut the word Happy 4 times. Adhered one of these to the outside fold and arranged the others   to the inside beneath the top fold. Did the same steps-stamp, heat, and die cut- with the word Birthday and attached so you can see on the card beneath the Happy when closed and open.  Lot of Happiness unfolds from this card!

 

Seize the Birthday: 231 Sparkle and Shine. Lot of gold with sparkle and shine. 

The Flower Challenge:  #65 Occasions

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