Fall Leaves

Hello! I made this card a few days ago and forgot to post so I will do so now.  For the background I used a sheet of Gina K Designs Foil mates which I blended with Distress Oxide inks.  I tried to adhere foil to the design but for some reason I was not successful doing that. I stamped and embossed leaves and a sentiment form GKD Skeleton Leaves set (year 2018) on a panel of white cardstock. Used gold EP with Versamrk ink.  I inked the edges of both panels with Pilot Gold Metallic marker before assembling on a card base of Warm Cocoa GKD Cardstock. 

Challenges: 

Monthly Mix Challenge: September Challenge Fall is almost here!

Modsquad Challenge: Autumn Foliage

Retro Rubber Challenge: #144 Anything Goes.  Stamps are from 2018 

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

Inspiring Poppies

Hello! I made this card for the Monthly Mix Challenge Lean On Me at Gina K Designs which is to create a card of encouragement and to decorate a matching envelope.  I chose stamps from GKD Inspiring Poppies and used a vase stamp from GKD Buds & Vases.  I stamped the flowers on white card stock by inking the stamp with Memento Green and Pink inks using markers and ink cubes. I colored the images with Copics. I stamped the vase with Memento Gray over  the flowers but also stamped it on Vellum and embossed with Clear EP and fussy cut.  I attached it to the card with Vellum Tape. Added the sentiment with Memento Bamboo Leaves ink and glued on some Dewdrops.  Finished the card with a card base of GKD Grass Green card stock. I created a matching envelope by stamping and coloring the Inspired Poppies on the front corner to match the card.  I seem to make a lot of cards using a favorite combo of Pink and Green.

Challenges:

 Monthly Mix Challenge:  Lean On Me-For this challenge, all you have to do is create a card of encouragement!  AND you must decorate a matching envelope. 

Stay safe! Stay Healthy!

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

Spring Azaleas

Hello! I created this card for The Creative Confetti Challenge - Flowers for the Front Line with stamps from Power Poppy  Azalea and Vibrant Thanks sets. I stamped the image and words on white card stock with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and heat embossed with Clear EP.  I colored the image with Copic Markers and used a Glaze Marker on the Stamens. I attached to a background of patterned paper from my stash and a card base of white card stock. Love this azalea stamp....such a great spring bloom.  I plan to send this card to the staff at the Life Card Center where my Mother is a resident.  Thankfully no one there has been sick with the virus.
Challenges:
Creative Confetti: Flowers for the Front Line-create a card for someone on the front lines of the medical fight.
Make My Monday Challenge: #120 Spring Flowers
The Flower Challenge: Challenge #43 Spring/Autumn

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

Embossed Silhouette

Hello! I was truly inspired by Power Poppy Blog Monday Inspire Me post about Embossed Silhouette.  I was so inspired that I immediately CASE'd Julie's card.  I even used a flower stamp from the same set that she used- Vibrant Thanks set- but I used the Bee Balm  instead of the Coreopsis.  I also did sponging very similar to what she did.  I simply followed her steps to create this card so please check out her post ….she explained everything much better that I can. 

Supplies used: Power Poppy Vibrant Thanks and Simply Camelia stamp sets; White, Fresh Asparagus, and Faded Brick GKD cardstocks; Fried Brick and Peeled Paint DOI, Memento Tuxedo Black Ink; Versamark Ink; White EP; Copic Black Multiliner pen and marker; Dewdrops.

Challenges:

Alphabet Challenge: W is for anything you wish. Wishing Happy Wishes. 

Creative Confetti:  Frame It Up.  Simply framed my image with layers of card stock and also framed the edges of image with a black Copic.

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

Stencil with Foil

Welcome!   Not all cards are going to be perfect and my first attempts to use foil with a stencil were disappointing. But I continued to learn this technique and using  the right foil made a difference.  The card above was made for CAS Stencil Challenge - to use foil with stenciling.  I used a portion of the GKD stencil called Snowflake Mandala with Deco Foil Transfer Gel on white cardstock to add red foil. I added the foiled image to a Red Velvet card base and attached die cuts also foiled with the red foil.  The words were cut with Cheery Lynn dies. 
Challenges:
CAS Stencil Challenge: Use Foil with Stencil
Christmas Kickstart Challenge: #28 Theme is color Red

I am sharing another card to show my first attempt at this technique.  I used a portion of a Tim Holtz stencil called Lace Layering with Deco Foil Transfer Gel and used a laminator to add red foil.  This was my first try at using my new Royal Sovereign laminator. (I finally broke down and bought one and am ready to learn how to enhance my cards with foil.) Trimmed the stenciled image and attached to Red Cardstock with a White card base.  I stamped Hello with a Gina K Design stamp and heat embossed with White EP.  Did this twice to make brighter. But the results were less than satisfactory. Part of the problem was that I used foil that was to be used with adhesives not a laminator.

This photo shows another attempt at using foil with a stencil but the foil did not transfer completely.

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

Elmer Says Happy Birthday

It's been awhile since I played with The Library Challenge so I just had to make a card for Challenge 53 Elmer when I saw The Patchwork Elephant. I remembered I had a template for an elephant that I could use.  I traced the template on a 6"x 6" square of Scor-tape that I have hoarded for a long time. I simply trimmed the elephant and attached roughly cut half inch squares of various colored cardstock to the adhesive on one side of the Scor-tape trimming the edges as I went.  If I had it to do over I'd use larger squares and cut perfect squares-easier to line up.  Added a pink ear, a toothpick tusk, and a googly eye to the elephant.  I simply peeled the backside exposing the adhesive and attached to a textured card base.  Sorry, the square textured finish does not show in the photo but it looks great.  I heat embossed the Gina K Design sentiment using Black ink and Clear EP.  The template was from a Paper Crafts Magazine with Birthday Free Projects that I have had for years.  This was a fun card but it took some time to make. 

After looking at the photo, I thought another color would be better for the base but that elephant is really stuck tight. 

Challenges:
The Library Challenge: #53 Elmer.  Used all the colors and a patchwork design from the cover. 

Always Fun Challenges: #150 Animals

Male Room: #130 Use Embossing. The sentiment is heat embossed. 

I am sharing another card that I made with this template in 2013 which was a shaped birthday card: 

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

Playing with Perfect Pearls

Hello!  I made this card for this week's ModSquad challenge -  we are to use Mica powders like perfect pearls on our card.  I stamped Roses from the Gina K Designs set Rose Bouquet with Versamark ink on GKD Red Velvet CS and applied Perfect Pearls to the image.  I colored the leaves with green pencils. Since I did not have a dark green cardstock to use behind the image, I colored white cardstock with green copics to match and also used versamark on the edges with more of the Perfect Pearls. Wanted some shine on the mat.  I cut the mat with a scalloped square die but manipulated the die to create a rectangle shape (only had the square).  Assembled the card with a white card base.  The GKD sentiment was  stamped with Versamark and heat embossed with GKD White EP. 

(The color of the leaves and the scallop edges match better in real life but does not appear to in the photo.  I might have liked this card better if I had fussy cut the rose image and placed on a different background. )

Challenges:

ModSquad Challenge:  Mica Powders-use something like perfect pearls.

Monthly Mix Challenge: Just add texture.  Used heat embossing.
Simon Monday Challenge: Frame It.  Used scalloped border to frame the image.
Creative with Stamps: CWS #47 Red
The Flower Challenge: #41 Add Leaves

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

Whimsical Flowers

Hello!  I've decided to try and make more than one card at a time since it is easy to do once you have stamps and supplies out.  I have used Gina K Design stamps and a die from Whimsical Wildflowers for these cards using partial die cutting and water coloring on both designs. I stamped the floral image twice on watercolor paper and heat embossed one with gold EP and one with white EP.  I water colored each with DOI Picked Raspberry and DI Forest Moss using a water brush. I used the GKD Die to partially cut the image.  The top card was finished by placing the cut portion on top of a Pattern Paper that I created with GKD Background Stamp Petite Flourish using GKD Fresh Asparagus ink on white CS.  Finished this one with a card base of GKD Fresh Asparagus CS and a Gold Embossed GKD sentiment. . 

I kept the second card clean and simple by simply adding the partially cut image to a card base of Yellow CS and stamping the GKD sentiment with Distress Ink Forest Moss.  I found it hard to water color this image since it was embossed with white EP but I just tried to follow the lines by looking at the first card that I colored first 

Challenges:

Top Card-

Mod Squad Challenge: Create Your Own Patterned Paper

Seize the Birthday: #180 Anything Goes Birthday,  I love their new graphics. 

Alphabet Challenge: T is for Try Something Different. First time to try partial die cutting in this way.

 Bottom Card:

CAS Mix Up Card Challenge: January Partial Die Cutting + Stamping + Your Choice.  I chose to use water coloring and heat embossing.

Happy Little Stampers: January Watercolor Challenge-Anything goes + Optional: Die Cuts

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

DIY Patterned Paper

 Welcome to my studio!  I am sharing a couple more Christmas cards made with Gina K Stamps that I also used for creating my own patterned papers.  I used poinsettia stamps from the Merry & Bright and Joyful Holiday sets.   The sentiments (heat embossed with Clear EP) and other stamps were from the Holiday Wreath builder.
Other Supplies: White CS, GKD Red and Green CS, GKD Ribbon, GKD  EP, GKD Green Ink, Memento Red Ink, Red Nail Heads, Spellinders Circle and Oval Dies.
Challenges:
Modsquad Challenges: Create your own patterned paper.
Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge: Always about using patterned paper.  Hope DIY paper is allowed. 

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

Tree with a Lot of "Punchy" Dots

Hello! I am back with another Red and White Christmas card made with Gina K Design stamps from Joyful Holiday set.  This set is an older one that I have had for several years.  I heat embossed both the tree and sentiment with GKD White EP on GKD Red Velvet CS after stamping with Versamark ink. For fun, I decorated the tree with a White Metal Star brad and "Ornaments" cut from Red Glitter Paper with a large hole punch. Attached the panel to White Card Base. 

Challenges:

ModSquad Challenge: Red and White...that's it!

As You Like It Challenge: Use Favorite Cute or Traditional for Christmas.  I favor Traditional Christmas cards because I do not have many cute stamps. And most of my cards go to the older generations who tend to like more traditional cards.  

Stinkin' Inkers Challenge: Theme is Die-lirious or Punchy.  Use simple hole punch for all the ornaments.

Addicted to Stamps: Challenge 179 Anything goes

Retro Rubber: Challenge 123 Anything Goes with stamps older than a year.  These stamps are at least 5 years or older. 

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

Red, White, and Blue Again

Hello! Another card that is CAS and fits some of the July challenges that I have been playing with.  I used the image from GKD Inspiring Poppies and sentiment from GKD You Make Me Smile.  Stamped the Poppies with Memento Tuxedo Black on white CS and trimmed with a square die and attached to a Blue mat.  Following a Sketch from Atlantic Hearts Sketch, I assembled the card with a White Card base, a Blue Ribbon with a Red edge, and the sentiment stamped with Versamark ink and heat embossed with GKD White EP on a die cut label of blue.  Note: I did not have any Bright Blue CS in the right shade, not even a scrap, so I colored White CS with Copic B29 for the small mat and label. I also inked the edges of the card with the marker to give the look of another layer but without the weight.

Challenges:
Gina K Designs July Monthly Mix Challenge: Flag, You're it. Use a flag's colors.

ModSquad Challenge: Red, White and Blue Challenge

Addicted to Stamps and More:  Challenge 49 Clean and Simple

Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge: Sketch 324

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

What's On the Menu?

Hello!  I have been trying to think of a card to design for the challenge -It's On the Menu - at Double D.  I first thought of a theme with coffee and cake but then I thought what would be on the menu at an Italian restaurant, maybe where they had a chalkboard menu and al fresco dining?  So I decided to create my card with a chalkboard theme featuring wine served with fresh figs and grapes.  It would be fun to be there on a warm day enjoying ordering from that menu.  I used a pattern paper from My Mine's Eye Chalk Studio pad with the text already printed.  I used a stamp from Flourishes "Dreaming of Florence" set by Marcella Hawley.  I heat embossed the image with White EP and then colored with pencils.  Added some Glossy Accents to the glass and decanter. Inked the edges of the Chalkboard with white ink from Hero Arts. Attached to a card base of Ivory CS.  I was pleased with how the colors came out on the dark paper. 

Challenges:

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge: January always about using Patterned Paper

Double D Challenge: It's On the Menu. Inspired by the blackboard menu on the mood board.

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