Ready for a Trip

Welcome to a rainy day in the studio!  A couple of challenges brought to mind some digital images that I have never used.  This card uses one of them -the Tiddly Inks image of Suitcases which was a freebie.  I thought it would be perfect for the ModSquad challenge to use only 3 colors black, brown, and cream plus a tag.  All suitcases need some type of tag and most are brown or black??  I printed the image on a cream card stock with black ink of course. I colored the images with Brown and Black Copics and sponged the edges with DOI Antique Oxide and Vintage Photo.  This gave an antique look to the stack of luggage. Added some texture with Glossy Accents to the corners and latches. I die cut a couple of tags in the cream CS and added some stickers from Imaginations (in my stash).  Attached the tags with a Brown Brad.  Also added a sticker to the side of the locker.  Finished with a mat of brown and card base of black, both card stocks from GKD. I would call this Clean and Simple style. 

I'll be back later with another image that I remembered in my digital files.

Challenge:

ModSquad Challenge: Gail asked us to create a card with only 3 colors-black, brown, and cream plus add a tag.

The Card Concept: #121  Adventure Awaits. Inspired by the luggage and colors in the photo. Did not realize that I have use the same image as Susan on the DT until I posted this. 

Happy Little Stampers: October CAS  Challenge Adventure  

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

All a Flutter

Welcome to the studio!  It's Monday again and I have a card to share that I made this weekend.  I used Repeat Impressions Butterfly stamps inked with Memento Tuxedo Black ink on White CS and colored with Copics and added some sparkle to their wings with Clearstar Pen.  I decide to emboss the white panel with Darice Large Daisy EF to give them something to fly to.  Added the sentiment (part use of a Repeat Impression stamp) and a Metal Butterfly brad that I colored with Copics.  I inked  the edge of the panel and attached to a Shimmering Yellow Pearl Card Base. 

Challenges:
The House That Stamps Built: Challenge DCC S419 Thing that begin with B. Birthday card with Butterflies.

Double D Challenges: Featured Challenge-pick something from the mood board and feature it on your card. Picked Butterflies. 

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

Joyful Tulips

 Welcome to the studio!  Today I am sharing a Joy card that I made which was a joy to make.  I used  Penny Black stamps from the Friendship Flowers set.  I stamped the tulips twice with Versamark ink on watercolor paper and embossed with Silver EP.  I water colored the images with a water brush and Distress Oxide Inks Picked Raspberry, Peeled Paint, and Iced Spruce.  I stamped sentiments on the outside and inside with Peeled Paint.   I used the second image for the inside  but fussy cut only a portion of the image.
I assembled the Joy card using the image panels, Green CS for the smaller fold, Pink CS for the base card, and Striped Pattern Paper (from stash). I used a metal brad to keep the card closed.  I decorated the left inside with a Vine punched from the Green CS ( Martha Stewart punch) and attached Silver ribbon to the striped panel on the right side. (See photo of open card below).  The silver ribbon picked up the silver from the embossing which shows best in the lower photo.

Challenges:
Alphabet Challenge: J is for Joy or Joy Fold card
Penny Black Saturday Challenge: August Anything Goes with Optional Water and/or Watercolor.  Used Penny Black stamps and watercolor.
Make My Monday: Challenge #102 Friendship. The inside reads "If Friends were Flowers, I would pick you"
Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge: August All about using Patterned Papers.

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

Patriotic Poppies

Hello!  I'm back! I took out time from making cards for a few months to work on some projects that I made with many of the photos in my files.  I created several videos to preserve the photos on DVD's that we have made on our trips to Captiva, in our gardens, and of other events the past few years.  

Now I am back to making cards and entering challenges.  Today I have a card made with Gina K Design stamps from Inspiring Poppies, a set that I have never used.  I inked the image with GKD Amalgan Black ink on white CS and colored with Red Copics.  I trimmed the image with an oval die and placed on a mat of GKD Red CS cut with a scalloped oval die....dies from Spellbinders.  Attached this to a white CS layer and a card base of GKD Navy CS.  Finished with a sentiment from the same set stamped in Memento Paris Dusk ink on a white circle layered with a Red Scalloped circle....circles cut with Spellbinders dies. Just for fun, I added a Navy Star Brad.  

Challenges:

Gina K Designs Monthly Mix Challenge: July "Flag, You're It". Use a flag’s colors on your creation. Chose Red, White, Blue for America's flag.  Poppies always remind me of our veterans. 

Die Cut Divas: July Challenge is anything goes with optional twist- Patriotic. 

Dies R Us Challenge: Challenge #124 - Anything Goes using dies by companies carried at the DRU Store. Used Spellbinder dies. 

The House That Stamps Built: DCC J319 Red, White, and Blue

Tuesday Morning Sketch: #510 Sketch.  Took liberties to use oval shapes instead of rectangle.

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

The Library Challenge

Welcome!  One of the most fun challenges that I played with lately is The Library Challenge.

Each challenge will feature a book and you can be inspired by the cover, the title, or the story. The recent Challenge #17 is the book The Woman in the Window.   I was inspired by the colors and brick on the cover of the paperback edition as well as the title using a woman sitting in a window on my card.  As I have read this book and enjoyed the suspense of this thriller,  I did not want to reveal any of the story of the book in case you have not read the book.   But I did include a couple of elements that play in the book, specifically a camera-with a "zoom" lens and a glass of merlot, both shown on the window ledge.  On my card, I featured a woman reading a book in the window but in the book she would more likely be watching an old movie or "spying" out the window.  Read the book and find all about the "woman in the window".  It's a really good suspense story. 

Supplies used: Clear Stamps from Little Claire Designs (Room With a View and Birdcage sets), Memento Tuxedo Black ink, Copics, Clear Vellum(for the window and handmade wine glass), White CS, Yellow CS, Distress Oxide ink Faded Blue, Camera Metal Brad, Sentiment from Jane's Doodles, Scor-pal for scoring brick wall.  The window was stamped on Clear Vellum with black ink and heat embossed with Clear EP.  I layered it between the Brick Wall and the layer with the image. 

My photos show the card with the window closed for the envelope and also opened. 

Other Challenges:

Just Add Ink: Challenge #429 Just add Vellum.  Vellum for window, sentiment and wine glass. 

Always Fun Challenges: #79 Lots of Layers

The Paper Girls Challenge: #161 Mixed Media.  Used mix of CS, Distress Oxide ink, Metal, Vellum, Embossing, Textures

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

Life's an Adventure

Hello!  Playing with some old pattern paper and some other items from my stash to create this card with a Travel theme.  The pattern paper by Teresa Collins was a great place to start and I added some stickers from Creative Imagination and a sentiment from my stash of stamps.  I stamped the words on a scrap of tan CS with Memento Tuxedo black ink and inked the edge with black. Added a Brad Camera that I have had (hoarded) for years waiting for the right card to use. Used a Kraft card base and a Black mat to assemble the card.  Like the collage look of the finished card.
Challenges:
Stamp, Ink, Paper: Challenge 112 Travel
Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge: August Challenge use pattern paper
As You Like It Challenge: Theme is to showcase a project using your Favorite Embellishment (& why).  I love Brads especially special ones like the Camera on my card.  They give such a individual and personal touch.

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Bluebird of Love

Welcome!  Summer nears an end with August already here.  For this card, I stamped GKD stamps from Birds and Blossoms set on water color paper with Memento Espresso Truffle ink.  I water colored the images with Distress Oxide inks Faded Jean, Broken China, Fossilized Amber, Peeled Paint, Spiced Marmalade, Walnut Stain, and Vintage Photo, and Distress Ink Forest Moss. I used a picture of a Bluebird as a guide for coloring.  After coloring, I did stamp the bird and stump a second time (using the Misti) with Espresso Truffle ink to bring out some of the details. Decided to keep the background clean to focus on the bird.  Added a Brown brad to accent the sentiment Used GKD Powder Blue CS as the base. 

Challenges:

Mod Squad Challenge: The wing's the thing-use anything with wings as the focal.

Stamp TV: Mix It Up Monday challenge-watercoloring

Happy Little Stampers: August Watercolor challenge-anything goes with the optional twist Bloom

Less is More: Challenge #339 pierce your project.  Pierced my project with a metal brad.

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