Using Some of My Stash

 Welcome to the studio!  I have created some cards using some pre-embossed panels of white cardstock that I had filed away.....not sure why I did this but I have a stack of several panels embossed with several different embossing folders.  I chose 3 precut and pre-embossed panels with Cuttlebug Leafy Branch EF. For the first card, I colored the raised design with DOI  Peeled Paint using a pod and attached to a Green Mat and White Card base. I added several Butterflies die cut from scraps of Yellow CS using Sue Wilson Petite Butterflies dies (NBUS). Finished with words die cut with Cheery Lynn dies. 

 

The second card was made in a similar way but used a different green ink and darker green mat. The butterflies are cut from the smaller dies from the same set by Sue Wilson and cut from scraps of a patterned paper shown on the side in the photo. Used a Cheery Lynn die for the word Thanks. 

For the third card, I had used the Leafy Branch EF but also had embossed the panel with Cuttlebug Swiss Dots.  Not sure which EF that I used first but I had colored the raised dots with Navy Ink and the branch with Green Ink using pods to color the raised areas.  It was some time ago that I did this embossing and coloring and put away to finish at a later time.  I completed this card using some Marianne Design Creatable dies.  The bird was cut from a Red scrap and raised on some red foam. The birdhouse was cut from some Brown foam and I inked the raised area with dark brown ink. (FYI I first cut the house from brown cardstock and cut the foam to layer but I liked the look of the foam for the house with out the paper better and eliminated the brown paper.)  The sentiment was stamped and die cut with Gina K Designs products.  Used Navy ink to stamp and white foam to raise. Attached the panel to a Navy Card base and assembled the elements using a bit of string to hang the birdhouse. 

Challenges: 

Can You Handle the Pressure? Anything Goes  Embossing with a Twist of Green

Just Us Girls Challenge: #625 Photo Week. Inspired by the Bird and Birdhouse in photo.

Dies  R Us Challenge:  #189 Anything Goes using any brand of dies that DRU sells. Used Cheery Lynn,  Sue Wilson and Marianne Designs dies. 

Die Cut Divas: Challenge theme is Happy Birthday.

Shopping Our Stash Weekly Challenge: SOS 466 Spread Your Wings

Pray for the people of Ukraine. 

Thanks for stopping by. Hugs, Theresa

Support for Ukraine

Hello! I created this card with the Colors of Blue and Yellow, the colors of the Ukraine flag for some current challenges and also to show my support for the people of Ukraine in some small way.

The sentiment is from an old set but I thought it was appropriate for this card. 

Supplies used:

Inks: Versamark , DOI Fossilized Amber, Copic Y23. Sakura Metallic Gelly Roll. WOW Yellow EP.

Gina K Blue Raspberry, Wild Dandelion, and White CS.

Gina K Sunflower Stamp and Die from Pressed Flowers and Sentiment from Say it with Flowers. 

Darice Flower Frenzy EF and Cuttlebug Border EF.

Challenges:
Modsquad: Challenge-Standing with Ukraine. Use only the flag colors of Ukraine.

Monthly Mix Challenge at Gina K Designs: Make a card with a shaped border edge, using dies. 

Daring Cardmakers: For Ukraine-use Sunflowers, Blue, Yellow, and Hope. 

Color Hues: Special Challenge TCH#36 Cards for Ukraine 

Our cards that have been created in the colors of Ukraine Flag

help send our messages of love and support their way. 

Pray for the people of Ukraine. 

Thanks for stopping by. 

Hugs, Theresa

Fun Fold with Flowers

Hello!  This card was made for the Monthly Mix Challenge at Gina K Designs. We are to make a fun fold card and to create a pattern paper with Gina K Stamps to use on our card.  I used stamps and a die from GKD Whimsical Wildflowers set. The image on the front fold was created using the Faux Cloisonne technique that I recently learned about from the CAS Mix Up Challenge here.  I used the glossy magazine page shown below to create the focal image. I use the same die to cut the image and also to partially cut the edge of the front flap of the white card base.  I attached the cut out image to that edge. My patterned paper that I created is shown on the left and right folds. Added some GKD Ribbon and a sentiment from GKD Wild About You Set. Used GKD Fresh Asparagus Ink and Distress Ink Fossilized Amber.  I will be including a message on the inside of the card when I use it. 

From an old issue of Living

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More Hearts and Flowers

Welcome to the studio!  I have another card that I made using the Faux Cloisonne Technique that I showed on another card posted here. This time, I used more of the glossy magazine paper shown below but used a Gina K stamp from Rose Bouquet and Heart stamps and a heart die from You Have My Heart set.  Fussy cut the bouquet image after stamping and heat embossing with gold EP. I created a frame from a Pink CS using a Spellbinders die to cut out the center. Edged the outside and inside edges with Pilot Gold Metallic Marker.  I die cut and heat embossed the heart in the corner and popped it up with foam.  Showing a close up of this heart below so that you could see the word love on the heart.

Challenges:
Modsquad Challenge: Hearts and Flowers. I used Gina K stamps and dies. 

Simon Wednesday Challenge: Simon says With Love. 

CAS Mix Up Challenge: Used heat embossing, fussy cutting, stamping, die cutting, and Faux Cloisonne    My card might not be considered CAS enough but sharing any way. Is that bad?

Stay Safe! Stay Healthy! 

Thanks for stopping by. 

I love reading your comments. Theresa

You Make Me Smile

Welcome!  Hope all is well with you. Today I am playing with the sketch from Tuesday Morning Sketches. I chose some patterned papers from First Edition Paper's Blank Canvas pad and used Gina K Designs stamps to create a fancy fold design. Photo below shows open card. 

Other supplies: Circle Dies, Flower Die, Black Ink, Distress Oxide Ink Abandoned Coral and Peeled Paint, White CS. 

Challenges:
Tuesday Morning Sketches: #552 Sketch shown below.

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

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

Winter Flower

Hello!  Poinsettia is one of my favorite holiday flowers and I have a lot of stamps of this flower.  I used  a  stamp from Penny Black for this card.  I stamped the image with DOI on watercolor paper and colored with DOI with a water brush. Distressed the edges with the DOI.  Used Yellow Pearl Shimmering card stock for the  die cut words and card base. The shimmer of the CS does not show well in the photo. Added dots with Gold Liquid Pearls.
Challenges:
CAS Watercolor: November Challenge Christmas Florals and/or Greenery
The Flower Challenge: #26 A Special Occasion
Happy Little Stampers: November Challenge Christmas Anything Goes with Optional Twist CAS
Happy Little Stampers: November Challenge Any Thing Goes with Dies. Used GKD and Cheery Lynn Dies.
Daring Cardmakers Cards: Winter Flowers and Foliage
Always Fun Challenges: #83 Watercolor

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

Plaid for Christmas

Welcome!  Today I am quickly sharing a Christmas card using plaid paper from DCWV Christmas Basics stack and stamps from Gina K Designs. Other supplies: Ivory Cardstock, Memento Cottage Ivy and Rhubarb Stalk inks, Oval Dies, Branch Die, Cuttlebug Wickerweave EF. 

Challenges to enter:
Stamp Ink Paper: Challenge #173 Plaid

Freshly Made Sketches: Challenge #360

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

Birthday Card from a Sketch

Hello!  My card today began with a preprinted Perfect Panel from GKD (prize that I won some time ago) which is shown below in the complete assortment.  I stamped a Floral image from Gina K Whimsical Wildflowers bundle set on Clear Vellum with Versamark ink and heat embossed with Gold EP.  I colored the back of the image with Pencils and  cut with a die from the GKD die set. I attached the cut out with Vellum tape to the green circle printed on the panel that I used.  I stamped a sentiment from the same set with Versamark ink and heat embossed with the Gold Metallic EP. Edged the white panel with a Pilot Metallic Gold Marker before attaching to Christmas Pine card stock base.  I used the Sketch #472 from Tuesday Morning Sketches as inspiration for my design. 

Other Challenges:

Simon Wednesday Challenge: Simon says Anything Goes.

613 Avenue Create: Challenge 213 Anything Goes with Optional Twist Clean and Simple

Tuesday Throwdown: #411 Use Complimentary Colors. Used red and green.

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

Twofer Challenge

Hello!  The first day of fall will soon be here and brings thoughts of colorful falling leaves.   I made 2 cards using a Gina K leaf stamp from A Year of Leaves for the current challenge at Twofer Card Challenge which is to use the same leaf or leaves stamp or die on two cards for two different occasions.  The first card uses pattern paper and the leaf stamped with DOI Walnut Stain on assorted colors of card stock and cut with a Gina K leaf die. Arranged the die cut leaves into a wreath on die cut circles.  Finished the thank you card with sentiment from Gina K A Year of Leaves stamped with Distress Ink Walnut Stain on white strip layered brown strip

For the second card, I stamped the leaf stamp 5 times with the same ink on white CS and colored with  Copics in fall colors. Added the sentiment (A Year of Leaves) and  splatters with  Gina K stamps. Used Honey Mustard CS for the card base.  My card will be used for a fall  occasion.

Other challenges: 

Always Fun Challenges: #76 Fall colors

Cards In Envy: Feels Like Fall

Make My Monday Challenge: Challenge #80 Autumn/ Fall Colors
Stinkin' Inker Challenges: Leaves Are Falling

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

Silk Flowers

Hello! Another card with a flower but this time I used some silk ones from my stash.  Colored some white ones with DOI  inks and layered smaller orange ones to create one big Blossom.  Added some leaves that I stamped and cut with Gina K stamp and die.  I found a panel of some digital paper with script that I had printed and stashed away.  I distressed the paper with Antique Linen and Vintage Photo DOI and placed on a card base of Fresh Asparagus CS.  "Arranged" the flower and leaves and added a Birthday sentiment sticker of clear epoxy from Cloud 9....another find in my stash.
Challenges:
 Just Us Girls: Challenge  #451 Photo Week.Inspired by the large flower and colors as well as the script paper.
Use Your Stuff: Challenge 323 Create project with color scheme shown below. Used top 3  colors.

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

Playing with a Stencil from Dies

Welcome!  I received inspiration for this card from a video by Sandy Allnock who used stencils with distress inks.  I made a stencil by die cutting Memory Box's English Rose Stem from heavy white CS.  I placed the stencil on white cardstock and inked the Rose with Distress Oxide Ink Picked Raspberry and Peeled Paint.  I placed the cut out flower (which I had leftover when I cut the stencil) over the inked area and did another layer of ink on the flowers.  This added more depth to the flowers.  After finishing the inking,  I did an additional step by dry embossing the image with the die which added some texture.  I decided to leave this as a one layer card but added some Picked Raspberry ink to the edge of the card.  Finished with the sentiment made with GKD stamp and die from Tropical Blooms.

Challenges: 
Cards in Envy: Get Negative Card Challenge! Make a card with the negative of a die or punch.  I used the negative of the die cut as a stencil. 2nd entry
Crazy 4 Challenges:  C4C429 get more out of your dies creating a stencil for your card instead of using it as a die.
Happy Little Stampers: April  Anything Goes with Dies Challenge 2nd entry
Die Cut Diva's: April challenge is Anything Goes. 
Mod Squad: Challenge is Simply Clean.  Used GKD Stamp and Die.
Stinkin' Inkers Challenge: Simply Made

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

Playing with the Negative of a Die Cut

Hello!  Today I used the negative space of a die cut to create a card. I adhered pattern paper under the floral portions of the cut out of white CS and then placed on to a green card base.  Added dots of yellow CS and  Glossy Accents to the centers of the flowers.  To finish I used a strip of striped paper and the die cut of Hello with Hello stamped with Versamark and embossed with White EP.

Patterned Paper from MME A Mother's Love pad. GKD Grass Green and White CS. Dies From Memory Box Splendid Clarkia and GKD Hello. 

Challenge:

Cards in Envy: Get Negative Card Challenge.  Create card with negative space of a die or punch. 

Always Fun Challenge: #53 Anything Goes

Happy Little Stampers: April Anything Goes with Dies Challenge

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

I'm Back with a Card

Hello!  I have been away from card making for a few weeks and trying to get back in the groove to make some cards.  I began by making this one in Black and White with a pop of Peach.  I used GKD stamps and die from Tropical Blooms set. Supplies: White and Black CS, Memento Tuxedo Black ink, Versamark, White EP, White Gel Pen, Ribbon, Copics.
Sorry the photo is a bit wonky.....the card is actually cut straight.
Challenges:
Stamp TV: Monthly Mix Challenge: Black and White with a twist-use pop of another color and a bow
Color Throwdown: ctd485 Use combination of Black, White and Peach
Simon Wednesday Challenge: Simon says Floral Frenzy

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