By the Sea

Hello! I came across an old lighthouse stamp in my studio and decided to create a quick card for the Clean and Simple Challenge PP605 at The Paper Players with a Nautical Theme. I stamped a portion of the stamp on white CS with Memento Black Ink and colored with Copics. I trimmed the image with a rectangle die and attached to patterned paper scrap from Graphic 45. Stamped the sentiment from the same stamp set.  For the card base, I added waves to white CS with a Fiskars Texture plate (have not used this in years since I started using embossing folders) and inked raised surfaces with Blue Ink.

Challenge:

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Hugs, Theresa

CAS Christmas Card

Hello!  I am sharing a CAS design that I created with stamps and dies for a Christmas card that will be easily mass produced if I decide to do so.  I stamped the pinecone twice on kraft CS with Versamark and heat embossed with Zing Chestnut EP. Stamp is from GKD Seasonal Sentiments Bundle. I die cut both with GKD Die from the same set. Like the way they look, and no coloring was involved. I die cut the Pine Bough with Impression Obsession die from Fresh Asparagus CS and colored the branch with Copics marker. I arranged the die cuts on a panel of white CS that I inked the edges with a Brown Copics marker .... this looks like a mat without adding more weight.  I finished with a sentiment from GKD Joyful Holiday stamped with Versamark  and embossed with the Chestnut EP.

The hardest part of this design was deciding how to best arrange the die cut elements, but I like the final results.

Challenges:
CAS Christmas Card Challenge: August Pine

Happy Little Stampers: August Anything Goes with Dies

Monthly Mix Challenge Gina K Designs: Adding Texture-used die cuts and heat embossing

Simon Wednesday Challenge: Simon Says: Christmas 

Thanks for stopping by. I love reading your comments. 

Hugs, Theresa

Birthday with Roses

Welcome to my studio!  My CAS card today features embossing that I did with a Spellbinders die from Devine Eleoquence  on a panel of white card stock. This created a frame for the stamp from GKD Tropical Blooms set that is dated 2018. I stamped the roses with Memento Black Ink and colored with Copics and Pencils. The words from the set stamp set were inked with Memento Bamboo Leaves. Finished with Green card base. 

Challenges: 
Retro Rubber Challenge: #143 Color Me -use only yellow and green on your card and use stamps one year or older. Stamps are 3 years old. 

Cas Mix Up Challenge: September Embossing with Dies. Also used stamping and alcohol markers.

Simon Monday Challenge: Simon says Frame It. I frame my image with embossing.

Seize the Birthday: #199 Anything Birthday Goes

I finally bit the bullet and gave in to using the new Blogger.

Luckily I had no trouble and it was not to figure out. 

Guess I am one those people who do not like change. 

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

Embossing with Dies

Hello! It is fun to use dies for embossing and it is interesting what you can do with that technique.  To make a card with die embossing, I chose an older die from Cheery Lynn, the first one I bought from that company. For the top card, I embossed the large Fanciful Flourish die along with Cheery Lynn Thank You dies on a panel of White cardstock. I sponged it with DOI Vintage Photo to achieve an antique distressed look.  I stamped some flowers on pink card stock with Memento Pink ink using a Heartfelt Creations Rose stamp. I fussy cut the flowers and attached with foam tape. Attached to a pink card base to finish.

I decided to make another card but made it more CAS with out the background inked giving more white space.  For this one I only used the Fanciful Flourish die for embossing and stamped the GKD Sentiment with Memento Brown ink. I stamped the same flower - 2 directly on the card and one that I stamped on white Cardstock and fussy cut. I stamped the roses with same pink ink  and colored with pencil and markers.  I distressed the edge of the panel with DOI Walnut Stain and used a brown card base.

Challenges:

The Flower Challenge: #48 Color Pink and Brown
CAS Mix Up Card Challenge: September  Mixed Media Challenge Embossing with Dies. Include stamping and at least one other Mixed Media Element.  I also used fussy cutting  and sponging. 

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

Fluttering Wishes

Hello!  One of my favorite things to stamp, among many subjects, is Butterflies.  I have many Butterfly stamps and I have chosen one from GKD Birds & Blossoms set to use for this card. I stamped the images on White CS and colored with Copics. I added the sentiment from GKD Wild Blossoms. Used Memento Black ink and heat embossed with Clear EP.  I edged the panel with Black Copic marker and attached to a textured card base that matched the color of the flowers.
Challenges:
Double D Challenges: Butterflies
Monthly Mix Challenge at GKD: Create white space on your card.

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

Pink Peony with Green

Hello! Today I am playing with a few challenges. I created this CAS card for the Creative Confetti Challenge to Keep it Simple and it fits other current challenges. I used a flower stamp from Power Poppy Peony Muse set and a sentiment from Power Poppy Dahlia set.  I inked both stamps on white cardstock with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored with Copics.  I inked the edge of the trimmed panel with a pink Copic marker and attached to a Mint Green textured card base. I used pink and green because this is one a my favorite color combos. 

Challenges:

Creative Confetti Challenge: Keep It Simple

Make My Monday: #128 Clean and Simple

As You Like It Challenge: Favorite color to pair with Pink and Why-Green is the color that I used with pink. Because it is one of my fave combos and I love to color pink flowers with green leaves. 

Sweet Stampin' Challenge: Favorite Color Combination. I stamp a lot of floral cards with pink and green-my favorite combo. 

CAS On Friday: Challenge 186 Nature

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

Drummers Drumming

Hello! I have been playing with more stamps from The Twelve Days of Christmas stamp set from Creative Stamping Magazine.  I used a drum stamp that I inked with versamark and heat embossed with Gold EP.  I stamped the sentiments with the same technique.  While I was at it, I decided to do 2 cards but with different color combos. The top card was stamped on white card stock and colored with  gold, ivory,  reds, and blue copics. I used a Turquoise card base.  The second card was made with ivory card stock and colored with Copics in more traditional Christmas colors red, green, and gold.  I used a Green Metallic Foil card stock behind the image and attached to an ivory base.  I used a Gold Metallic marker to edge the image for each card before assembling the cards.  This gives the appearance of another layer without the extra weight.

Challenges:
CAS Christmas Card Challenge: August 12 Days of Christmas (2nd entry)
Merry Little Christmas Challenge Blog: MLCCB#25 Anything Christmas Goes
The 12 Months of Christmas Link Up: Challenge #68 Optional Twist Shimmer or Shine
Make My Monday: 128 Clean and Simple
Mix It Up Challenge Blog: MIUCB#25 Anything goes + Embossing 

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

Shelling at the Beach

Hello! If I had a stamp that said "I wish I were there", I would have used it since I wish I were collecting shells at the beach.  But I made this card with what I has ...so it says "Wish you were here..." to go with my card createdwith a Gina K border stamp from Gifts of the Sea set.  I stamped the border of shells and sentiment  on a white cardstock panel with Vintage Photo DOI and colored with Copics.  Finished with coloring some sand beneath the shells and added a brown mat and coral card base.  Quick and easy with a lot of white!
Challenges:
Monthly Mix Challenge: August challenge is the concept of White Space- Mindy asks us to create with white space on our card.
Make My Monday Challenge: #128 Clean and Simple
CAS on Friday: Challenge#185 Summer Fun - collecting shells on the beach is Summer Fun
AAA Cards : CAS Game #171 Along the edge + Optional Twist Beach
Shopping Our Stash: #426 KISS- Keep it simple sister.

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

Easy Christmas Card

Hello! I have not posted for a few days.  I am sharing a simple Christmas card that I made with Repeat Impressions stamps.  I stamped the snowflake and circular sentiment with Versamark ink on a Blue cardstock and heat embossed with Wow Silver EP.  I inked the edges with a Silver Metallic Pilot Pen and attached to a White card base.  Quick and easy! 

Challenges:

The House That Stamps Built: Anything Goes Challenge JL220

Sweet Stampin' Challenge: Clean and Simple

ABC Christmas Challenge: N is for No Fuss.  Very easy to create this card. 

Christmas Cards All Year Around: July Challenge Cool It! Nothing cooler than a snowflake. 

Stay Safe! Stay Healthy! Wear a Mask!

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

Leftovers Served for Christmas Cards

Hello! Today I have 2 Christmas cards both using die cuts and negative space leftover from die cuts. 

The top card uses the negative leftover from white card stock that I cut with a GKD Christmas word die.  I trimmed the white panel and placed over a strip of Glimmering Gold foil that I had left from another project.  I inked the edges with a Pilot Metallic Gold Marker. Added the word Merry that I die cut with a Cheery Lynn die from the same foil. Finished with a Red Velvet card base.  

The second card uses the leftover negative from a strip of the Glimmering Gold Foil that I placed on to a card base of White Cardstock with glue.  I cut a frame from Gold Metallic CS with rectangle dies and attached to the card. Finished with the word Merry cut with Cheery Lynn die from White CS. Edged the finished card with the Pilot Metallic Gold marker.
I created 2 simple and quick cards using leftovers and scraps.
Challenges:
613 Avenue Challenge: #235 Anything Goes w optonal twist the Sentiment as the  Focal
Die Cut Divas: Christmas in July
AAA Cards: CAS Game #169 Made in minutes + optional twist Christmas in July
Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge: #498 Anything Christmas goes with Optional Theme use Red.

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

Walking in the Rain

Hello! We have had so much rain this month and also snow.  I decided to make a card with a rainy theme.  I found this digital image from Sparkle and Sprinkle in my files and teamed it up with a digital sentiment from Piece of Heart.  After printing both on a white card stock, I colored the image with Copics.  I decided that I wanted to show a shower of flowers rather than raindrops so I added small die cut flowers (leftovers from a frame die cut).  Used a bright yellow card base.
Thought of my sister when I made this card.....she too has had a lot of rainy days this month in Tennessee.  Guess this is my way to share a walk with her.
Challenges:
Allsorts Challenge: #568 Flowers and/or Showers. Combined both.
Daring Cardmakers: Challenge Umbrella
Love to Scrap Challenge Blog: LTSCB #132 For the girls.
Double D Challenges: Showers and Flowers

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

If I Could Pick a Bouquet, I'd Give It To You

Welcome!  My favorite theme for cards is flowers and Power Poppy Floral stamps are a favorite of mine. I pulled out a stamp from Power Poppy Countryside Bouquet set and created this card using yellow, blue, and green for the Creative Confetti challenge to use those colors.  Stamped the bouquet with Memento Black ink and colored with Copics.....more of my favorite things. Stamped the sentiments from the Power Poppy Dahlia set with Memento Green ink and heat embossed with Clear EP.  I have begun nearly always using embossing powder on stamped sentiments....just makes them look better. I lightly edged the image with a blue copics before attaching to a Yellow CS mat and a Green card base. Finished with a bit of twine "around" the bouquet.
I wish that I could go out and pick  a bouquet of flowers but we are having a mix of rain and snow today and there are not many flowers in bloom.  Will just have to be satisfied with stamping flowers on a card.
Challenges:
Creative Confetti Challenge: Color Cues-use warm yellow, soft blue, and bright green from the palette.
The Flower Challenge: #43 Spring/Autumn.  Using spring flowers.
The Card Concept: 133 Spring Flowers.  Love the bouquet of  flowers in the photo inspiration.
Sweet Stampin' Challenge:  Bloomin' Wonderful
Allsorts Challenge: Week #568 Flowers /or Showers

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

Bird in the Berries

Hello! This card was made using the Bird and Berries image from the Power Poppy Summer Berries set.  I stamped the image on a white cs panel with black Memento ink and colored with Copic Markers.  To add interest to the design I embossed a frame with layered dies using a rubber mat.  I used a corner punch to round the edges and then attached to a Green card base.  I tried to make the bird a Goldfinch but I think I colored too much black on his head... maybe I should call him a warbler. I may or nay not add a sentiment to the front when I use this card. 

Challenges: 

Creative Confetti Challenge: Free for all-create anything using Power Poppy Stamps. 

Happy Little Stampers: March Anything Goes with Dies. I used the dies for embossing not cutting. 

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

A Lot of Cards-One Stamp

 Welcome!  I am still playing with acrylic paints.  This time I used only Folk Art Green Umber paint to stamp. Used an old wood mounted stamp...yes I still have stamps on wood blocks...this one is from Judi Kins and I have no idea where I got it.  But I thought the fern would be good to use with acrylic paint after watching Andy Skinner's video about stamping with acrylic paints.  I like the look of texture that resulted.  I really got carried away stamping but once I had the paint on an acrylic surface I tried to use all the paint.  I used both white and ivory cardstocks and finished the CAS cards with Gina K Designs sentiments that I heat embossed and used different card bases.  On the top card, I embossed a frame around the image using layered scallop dies to emboss using rubber mats with the dies. The sentiment was also die cut and attached to the image.

I also finished one card with a layer of patterned paper and white card base that I just happened to find by accident when I was looking for something else.  I thought it was a perfect background for the stamped image. I have said that I have so many patterned papers that I do not know what I have.  Finished this card with a Get Well sentiment also by GKD.

Challenges:
CAS Mix Up Card Challenge: Use acrylic Paints + Stamping + Your Choice.  I added heat embossing, dry embossing, and die cut.
Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge: Always about using Patterned Paper.
Just Us Girls Challenge: Word Week 526 Heal

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

Spring Flowers

Hello!  I love tulips and I cannot wait until mine are blooming.  I made this CAS card using  Penny Black stamps from Friendship Flowers set.  I stamped the sentiment and image with Memento Black ink and colored with Pencils and Odorless Mineral oil.  I framed the image with embossing done with a Spellbinders Label die. The photo does not show the embossed frame very well. I saw that technique on a recent Jennifer McGuire video about adding texture with dies. Finished with a pink card base. 

Challenges:

Penny Black and More Challenge: March-Spring Flowers

Addicted to Stamps and More: Challenge #379 Clean and Simple

As You Like It Challenge: Favorite Flower and Why.  One of many favorites is Tulips. I love all the colors and the fact that they are one of the first flowers to bloom in the spring garden.

613 Avenue Create: Challenge #231 Anything goes with optional twist to use colored pencils

The Flower Challenge: #42 Anything Goes

Stamping Sensations: Spring Florals

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

Joy in Making Cards

Hello! I am trying to catch up with some February challenges that I want to enter.  I made this very CAS Christmas card for the CAS Christmas Challenge which has the theme Joy.  I used a freebie stamp from a magazine that I have had about 3 years. Simply stamped the word with Versamark and heat embossed with Gold EP on white cardstock and added two stripes of red foil using double sided tape to attach.  Finished with a GKD Red Velvet card base and a Red Nail Head to the center of Joy. 

Challenges:
CAS Christmas: February 2020 Joy

Merry Little Christmas Challenge Blog: MLCCB 319 Anything Christmas Goes

Christmas Kickstart Challenge: #28 Red 

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

Merriest Wishes

Welcome!  I was playing with Power Poppy digital images from the Merriest Berries set (which I have never used) and came up with a couple of one layer cards. I printed the images and sentiments on GKD heavyweight white card stock which is perfect for coloring with Copics because there is absolutely no bleeding on this paper.  And that makes for a great luxury weight card. I used Glossy Accents on the berries for some shine and texture.   I also used Sakura Clearstar and Gel pens on the thread in the ribbon but those elements do not show well in the photos.  But the richness, shine, and texture shows great in real life on what I think are very elegant CAS cards.

Challenge:

Alphabet Challenge: T is for Try Something Different.  This is a Digital Image that I am using for the first time. 

ABC Christmas: A for Anything Christmas.

Creative Confetti Challenge: Free For All-create anything using Power Poppy Stamps.

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