Card with a Tag

Hello!  I made this Christmas card with a tag that I attached to an embossed panel. With a few changes, I recreated the tag design in the same way (see post here from 2019) that I had made earlier with Gina K Designs stamps and dies and a Basket Weave stamp from Just for Fun stamps.  Had all the stamps since 2018/2019.   Used a bit of ribbon, twine and even a smaller tag on the tag. I embossed and inked a white panel with Darice EF Pine Branches before attaching the tag.  Finished with a card base of Fresh Asparagus CS and more GKD sentiments. 

Challenges:
Retro Rubber Challenge: #190 Tag You're It!

 

Merry Little Christmas Challenge: MLCCB#46 Anything Christmas Goes

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Summer Flowers

Hello and welcome my friends.  This card that I am showing was made with Gina K Designs supplies. I stamped the floral image from Wildflowers bundle with black ink on watercolor paper and water colored with Gina K inks Medium Carnation, Passionate Pink, Fresh Asparagus and Medium Spruce. I die cut the image using die from the same bundle. I attached the image to an embossed pattern paper from GKD Watercolor Floral paper pad with some foam tape. I used Cuttlebug EF Victoria for the embossing that I distressed with a bit of sandpaper. Attached this to a white cardcase. Stamped the sentiment from GKD Rose Bouquet set with Passionate Pink ink on a die cut circle of white matted with a pink circle to complete the design. Circle dies from Spellbinders.

Challenges:
Monthly Mix Challenge at Gina K Designs: Adding Texture

Happy Little Stampers: Watercolor Challenge Anything Goes

The Flower Challenge: #71 Circle/Circles

As You See It Challenge: #281 a Recipe for Watercolor Brightness - see below for recipe details. 

Thanks for stopping by. I love reading your comments. 

Hugs, Theresa

Blooming on the Vine

Hello! I was inspired by a GKD video to create this card using GKD Wild Blossoms Stamp Set and Two-Tone Inking Technique. I stamped the vine with GKD Asparagus Green and Dark Spruce inks and stamped the flowers with GKD Light and Dark Carnation inks on white CS. Also stamped the sentiment directly on the panel with the pink inks to create an ombre effect. Layered this with a Green Asparagus mat and attached to an embossed white card base. Used Cuttlebug Gingham EF and GKD Rectangle Dies from her Master Layout 2 set. Finished with some Pink Gems for sparkle. 

Challenges: 

CAS On Friday Challenge: 235 Silhouette. Stamped my Silhouette in colors, not usual Black.

Can You Handle The Pressure?: Anything Embossing Goes with a Twist of Summer. Embossed card base for Summer Flowers. 

Inspiration Card by Gina K

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 Hugs, Theresa

Creating in Black and White + One

Hello! I created this card using Black and White plus a pop of Red.  Using the Snowflake Mandala Stencil from GKD, I inked a white cardstock with Black Amalgam ink and trimmed the panel to attach to a card base of GKD Red Velvet CS. I stamped and die cut the word Hello.  I layered the word with Red Velvet CS before attaching. 

Tip: To make a layer for the die cut word, I traced the outline of the die on CS and fussy cut.  This gives a perfect "shadow" layer for any die. 

Challenge:
Monthly Mix Challenge at Gina K Designs: Make a card using black and white and a pop of one color.

Happy Little Stampers: July Stencil Challenge Anything Goes

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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

Celebrate in a Red Dress

Hello!  I have been MIA for awhile but am back today to play with the Monthly Mix  challenge at Gina K Designs  "Put Your Red Dress On". We are to use Red as the dominant color and create a celebratory card.  I used a older stamp set Celebrate in Style from GKD with GKD Red Velvet CS. I stamped the image and sentiment with Versamark and embossed with Gold EP. I trimmed this with an oval die.  I paper pieced the skirt with a scrap of patterned paper before attaching to a scalloped oval die cut from Gold Metallic CS.  I used a background of more of the Red Velvet CS embossed with Cuttlebug Divine Swirls EF which I heat embossed the raised areas with  Gold EP. Finished with a base card of GKD Gold Metallic CS. I will be using this card to wish someone a Happy Birthday. 

Stay safe! Stay Healthy!

Have a great day! I love reading your comments. 

Theresa

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 

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Stencil and Leaves

Hello! It's beginning to feel like fall and I love to make fall cards with beautiful autumn colors.  I was playing with a GKD Stencil Rounded Swirl when I designed this card. I used Distress Oxide Inks Fossilized Amber, Wild Honey, and Spiced Marmalade with the stencil on white cardstock blending the colors from light to dark and used masking to create a stripe. I stamped leaves from GKD A Year of Leaves set with the same inks and water colored with a water brush. I stamped one leaf and fussy cut it and attached with foam tape for dimension. The sentiment is from GKD Skeleton Leaves. I added some dew drops in  different colors that blended with colors of the swirls.  I have had these dew drops for years and never seem to deplete the supply. Before attaching the base card of GKD Kissed Autumn card stock, I added an orange satin ribbon ......the card just called for that finishing touch.

Challenges:
ModSquad Challenge: Step up your stencil. Use a stencil on your card front, and then take it up a notch by embellishing it! Use dewdrops for the embellishment. 
Monthly Mix Challenge: September challenge by Donna is Fall is almost here.
As You Like It Challenge: Favorite Way to Use Ribbon and Why. Like to use ribbon in a simple way to add color, Usually a simple flat ribbon with no bow.
Time Out Challenges: Theme Challenge 169  Season with optional twist of coloring
Just Us Girls: #552 Word Week  Leaves 

Stay Safe and Healthy!
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Theresa

Christmas in July

Welcome to the studio!  The month of July is a great time to start making holiday cards since it is so hot outside and this is a way to stay cool! I created this Christmas card with some supplies from GKD including the large Snowflakes Foil-mates that I foiled with Glimmer Gold Foil using a laminator. I stamped the word Christmas with Versamark and embossed with Gold EP and cut with GKD Die from Seasonal Sentiments set. I attached this to a strip of Red Velvet CS and stamped and embossed  the word Merry using a part of a stamp from Holiday Wreath builder.  I assembled the card on a card base of the Red Velvet CS.
Challenges:
Monthly Mix Challenge at GKD: Christmas in July
Shopping Our Stash Challenge: #424 Hanukkah/Christmas in July
Merry Little Christmas Challenge Blog: MLCCB #24 Anything Christmas Goes
Christmas Cards All Year Round: July Cool It! Featuring snowflakes on my card.
Die Cut Divas: Christmas in July

Stay Safe! Stay Healthy!
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 Flowers

Hello!  I am trying to enter some current challenges before the deadlines.  I made this spring garden card with stamps from Gina K Designs Whimsical Flowers.  I stamped the image with Memento Tuxedo Black ink on watercolor paper and colored with a water brush using Distress Oxide Inks Abandoned Coral, Spiced Marmalade, Peeled Paint, and Cracked Pistachio.  I stamped the sentiment with Peeled Paint.  Added a coral grosgrain ribbon. Used GKD  Peach Bellini card stock for the card base.
Challenges:
Monthly Mix Challenge: Mindy's challenge at GKD  this month is Spring Fling! All you need to do is create a project using Gina K Designs products with the theme Spring in mind.
ModSquad Challenge: Spring has sprung.
CAS Watercolour Card Challenge: April challenge is Spring Flowers. 
Addicted to Stamps and More:#384 Clean and Simple 
Cute Card Thursday: #629 Challenge Ribbons
The Flower Challenge: #43 Spring /Autumn.  I used a spring flower.

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

Wishes for a Wonderful Day

Hello!  Doesn't St. Patrick's Day remind you of rainbows and shamrocks?  I guess I was thinking of that when I made this card using a Shamrock cut with my Cameo from GKD Green CS.  I sponged the backdrop with a stencil from My Favorite Things called Radiating Rays using 7 colors of Distress Inks on a white CS panel for a rainbow effect.  I inked the edges with a Pilot Gold Metallic Marker.  I placed the shamrock on a circle of Gold Glitter paper before attaching to the background and then a White card base. Guess the gold represents a Pot of Gold found at the end of the rainbow. I stamped and heat embossed  a GKD  Sentiment, one of my favorites, from Old Country Roses set, on the shamrock.  St. Patrick's Day is always a Wonderful Day, hence the sentiment. 

Challenges:

Monthly Mix Challenge: Somewhere Over The Rainbow. Create a project that has something to do with rainbows, whether it’s the colors or just the sentiment. 
The Paper Girls Challenge: #195 Glitter-used circle of gold glitter paper under the shamrock. 


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Another Birthday Card

Hello!  I like the sketch at Tuesday Morning Sketches so much that I had to make another card using the sketch but this time I used a die cut and pattern paper in creating the design.  I started with a panel of ivory textured cardstock that I trimmed with scalloped decorative scissors. Edged this with Blue Lagoon  CS strip cut with the same scissors.  ( It's been forever since I used one of the many decorative scissors that I have. Do you use them?) I added a Green Flourish cut with Cheery Lynn Mini Fanciful Flourish die and attached fancy cut flowers from the patterned paper (MME Collectible Pad) that I used on the right side of the card.  Stamped and heat embossed  a GKD birthday sentiment on a strip of Vellum and framed with a rectangle of the same CS. Adhered this to the card and attached all on a card base of the GKD Blue Lagoon.  Another card for my Birthday Stash. 

Challenges:

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

Crafty Catz Challenge: #495 Anything Goes with optional twist Pretty Papers

Tuesday Morning Sketches: #543 Shown Below

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.

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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

Birthday Wishes

Hello!  I made this card using a die cut to create a stencil then I sponged the edge of a white cardstock with the stencil using DOI Picked Raspberry. ( I used Modern Flower Card Wrap die from Simon Says Stamp - the die cut is shown in the photo below.)  I added a rounded green border to the stenciled area that I cut with two circle dies, one with stitching. I stamped a Gina K Design birthday sentiment with same pink ink and then dry embossed the flourish and words below the sentiment with a Cuttlebug embossing folder.  I inked the raised design with DOI. Finished with a GKD Grass Green card base. 

Challenges:

CAS Mix Up Card Challenge: February Stencil from Die-cuts + Stamping + YourChoice. I used sponging and dry embossing. 

Mix It Up Challenge: MIUCB #34 Anything Goes + Stenciling

TIME OUT challenges: #155 Be inspired by the words- It's your Birthday, etc.

Seize the Birthday: 183 Show Me Your White Space 

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Glitzy Gold and Red

Hello! This is my third post today....working on completing some challenges before time runs out.  For this card, I used the sketch from Tuesday Morning Sketches shown below with some stamps from Gina K Designs You Have My Heart set.  I also used Gina K Gold Glitz Glitter gel for the first time with a Tim Holtz Stencil Layering Lace to create a "doily" element for the background on white cardstock.  I stamped the sentiment and hearts with red ink and heat embossed with GKD Clear EP on white CS.  I used Spellbinder circle dies to trim this and a mat of Red CS.  Finished the design with red satin ribbon and bow and red nail head bling. 

Challenges:

Mix It Up Challenges: MIUCB #34 Anything Goes + Stenciling. Used Tim Holtz stencil with Glitter Gel.

Monthly Mix Challenge: Just Add Texture. Used Glitz Glitter Gel for my texture as well as ribbon and heat embossing.

Tuesday Morning Sketches: #541 shown below

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Lucky Me

Welcome to my studio! I recently received Power Poppy Shamrock-n-Roll digital images and sentiments. These stamps are perfect for St. Patrick's Day cards. I created 2 cards using the same stamps on both cards.  For the above card I printed the no line image on White CS with the sentiment that I colored green before printing.  I colored the image with Copic Markers and added some Flower Soft Raspberry Fizz to the clover and tied on a bit of Raffia to give texture and dimension.  Adhered the trimmed image to a Pattern Paper background and then to GKD Grass Green card base. 

For the second card I printed the image on white cardstock and colored with different Copic Markers.  I trimmed the image with a Spellbinders die and inked the edges with a Pink Copic.  I used Crushed Velvet Flock to add texture to the bloom and tie. Have not used this product or the Flower soft in ages but it does add a nice touch of texture. The flocking does not show up in the photo but looks good in real life. I printed the Power Poppy sentiment on a panel of pattern paper and assembled the card with a White Cardstock base. 

Challenges:

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

Allsorts Challenge: Week 559 Dies and/or Punches. Used die on second card.

Addicted to Stamps and More: Challenge #376 Anything Goes
Creative Confetti Challenge: Inspired by a Song. This image of Shamrocks reminded me of the song "I'm looking over a four leaf clover" 

Click on the arrow to listen to 

"I'm looking over a four leaf clover"

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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