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

Bouquet de Lavande

Hello!  I am again playing with flower stamps to create another floral theme card, my favorite.  I inked the Lavender stamp directly with Memento Markers using lavenders, grays, and greens and stamped on White Card stock. I have not used this technique of inking colors directly on a stamp in awhile. I filled in some of the image with Copics after stamping.  I cut an opening in a mat of lavender cardstock with a fancy oval die and then embossed the opening with a larger die creating a embossed frame around the image.  Added a Purple Satin ribbon from stash and then attached to a Purple card base.  Finished with the stamp "Bouquet de Lavande" in DOI Wilted Violet. This card was inspired by the mood board challenge at Double D.  All stamps from Power Poppy Lavender set.

Challenges:

Double D Challenge:  Lavenders, Lilac, Purple Challenge.

Retro Rubber Challenge: #134 Spring Flowers. Have had  Power Poppy stamps about 5 years, dated 2014.

The House That Stamps Built: Tic Tac Toe Challenge M1320 Used Die Cut, Embossing, Ribbon.

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

Thank You

Hello! Today I am sharing a clean and simple card that I made with Altenew Daisy Stamp set that was a freebie that I received in January.  I used the layered stamp with pink and green inks on white cardstock.  I trimmed with a stitched circle die and attached to a card base of Pink cardstock. I framed this with a layer of Green cardstock with a circle cut out and also embossed with  a larger stitched circle die.  Finished with a thank you stamp from stash. I like using the dies to emboss my cards....uses them in a different way.
Challenges:
Simon Wednesday Challenge: Simon says Flower Power

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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

Embossing with Dies

Have you tried using dies to emboss a design on CS rather than just cutting out the design? I was inspired to try this after watching a tutorial by Therese posted on Annabelle's  Stamp Embellish Create Community in their Topical Tuesdays. Check it out.  I am not sure if you have to be a member or not to view the tutorial. I used Cheery Lynn Exotic 2 Butterflies dies. After embossing the butterflies on white CS, I used masks and colored the butterflies by sponging Memento Cantaloupe and Tangelo Inks.  After removing masks, I sponged ever so lightly around the butterflies. I then used colored pencils to highlight the edges, antenna, and bodies.  I trimmed the image layer and rounded the corners before edging with a black marker. I stamped the sentiments from Paper and Such with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink.  I attached this to an Orange patterned layer of K&Co Paper and then on to a Base Card of White.  Love the effect of the dies embossed on the card.

Challenge:
Flutter By Wednesday: Open Challenge

Thanks, Therese, for the great tutorial.
I enjoy all your comments. Thank you. Theresa