A Bouquet of Colors

Welcome to my studio!  I am showing a card that I made for the Creative Confetti Challenge which is a Tic Tac Toe one.  I chose the lower row across for my elements to use Emboss, Make It Sparkle, and Twine.  I began by stamping the bouquet from Power Poppy Countryside Bouquet set with Memento Peanut Brittle ink and coloring with Copics.  I trimmed the image with Lawn Fawn stitched circle die.  I attached this to a patterned paper from MME Notable pad that I embossed with Cuttlebug Wicker Weave EF for some texture. I just happened to find this colorful paper that seemed to go well with the colors in my bouquet.  Often times, I select the pattern first and select colors from it to use on my image. I stamped the sentiment in Memento Cottage Ivy ink, added some sparkle to the centers of the flower with Crystal Stickles and the buds(purple ones), and finished with a twine bow to tie the bouquet. Selected a precut turquoise card base that just happened to fit the design. 

Challenges:

Creative Confetti Challenge: Tic Tac Toe-see below.

Double D Challenges: Thought this card fit into the Colorful Challenge

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

Allsorts Challenge: Week 588 Use Hand Colored Image

Tuesday Throwdown:  #465 Anything Goes

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

Summer Fun

 Welcome to my studio!  Just in time for a burger off the grill.  Part of the fun of summer is my DH doing his thing at the grill....less time in the kitchen for me.   I created this card to thank him for his great food that he grills.  I stamped the grill and sentiments from a Paper Pretties set that I have had for sometime. I stamped on White CS with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and heat embossed with Clear EP.  Colored with Copics and Silver Pen.  Highlighted the "fire" with Diamond Stickles to heat it up. For fun,  I also added some "sparks" across the top of the panel and to the dot over the "i" in word grill. Finished with a Sunny Summer Yellow card base.
Challenges:
CASology: Week 349 Cue Card Grill
AAA Cards: CAS Game #146 Made in Minutes + Optional Twist Summer
Stinkin' Inkers Challenge: Some Like It Hot -anything related to summer
Use Your Stuff: Challenge #370 Summer Activity

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

Humming Along

Hello! Happy Mother's Day to all Mothers......you are all so Special!   I have ben playing with an old stamp set from Flourishes called Humming Along. I was inspired by the challenge at Fusion for both the theme, colors and layout.   I found a "tag" or whatever it is framed with metal in my stash.  I stamped honeysuckles with Memento Espresso Truffle ink on the frame and colored with Copics.  I stamped 2 Hummingbirds with Memento Tuxedo Black and colored with Copics and added some Wink of Stella and Stardust Pen to give some shine and iridescence to the birds.  Hope you can see that. Attached the frame with orange satin ribbon and placed this on an orange card base but only showed the orange on the fold side.  The sentiment is from Power Poppy Hens and Chicks by Marcella Hawley who was also the illustrator of the Flourishes stamps.

I love Hummingbirds and have seen one already in our gardens.   Time to get more feeders out.

Challenges:
Fusion Card Challenge: Sweet Orange Blossoms. I used the sketch and photo inspiration shown left.
Tuesday Throwdown: Challenge 292 Welcome Spring.  Hummingbirds are a sign that spring has arrived.



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

Bird on a Fence

Second Post Today
Hello!  Today I am playing with a challenge from Sparkle and Shine shown below.  I began by cutting a Cardinal from card stock using a Silhouette file on the Cameo.   I created the fence using White CS, Memento Gray Flannel ink, and Scor-pal and trimmed by hand to the size needed for the fence.   For the background I embossed white CS with Darice  EF Leafy Tree and inked the raised surface with Memento Rich Cocoa ink and the sky with Memento Summer Sky ink.  I added Silver Sequins (snow) to all the leaves and randomly let a few fall from the tree.  The elements were all attached to a Dark Gray card base and then I stamped the sentiment from Power Poppy Stamps with Memento Tuxedo Black ink. 

Challenges:
Sparkle & Shine Challenge: #22 Photo Inspiration on right.
Mod Squad Challenge: This week's challenge is friendship.
Simon Monday Challenge: Best Friends







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

Halloween CAS

Hello! It feels like winter is here this morning...temps in the 30's. It may be a cold night to Trick n Treat later this month. My CAS card today was inspired by the CAS(E) this Sketch challenge #145 shown on right.   I stamped the word BOO! from a Mark's Finest Papers Stamp set with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and added sparkle with Clear Star pen to each letter.  The Ghost Stamp from the same set was embossed with Black Ink and Clear EP on Vellum and fancy cut and colored with Copics.  To add some spookiness, I punched the edge of the White CS with a Martha Stewart Punch before attaching to an Orange Card Base.

Other Challenges:
Addicted to CAS: #74 Code Word Sparkle.  I am showing a close up photo ( not color correct) below so that you may see the sparkle of Clear Star pen on the words in the card.
AAA Cards: Game #50 Clean and Simple Halloween.

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

Flowers for a Lady

Welcome!  I made this card several days ago but never posted for the challenges that I originally created it for, but now I have found other challenges to enter by adding some sparkle to the card with a row of blue rhinestones.  The image is a digital image from A Day for Daisies Fairy Flower Outing that I printed, colored with Copics, and paper pieced with MME Mother's Love pattern.  I added a ribbon and bow from my stash to the image and today added a row of the rhinestones for sparkle. Other supplies: Ivory CS, Clear Star pen(on hat), Power Poppy Sentiment stamp, SU Taken with Teal ink, Memento Marker Red, Pattern from MME.

Challenges:
A Day for Daisies: Challenge #125 Add some sparkle.
Cute Card Thursday:  Ladies Only!
Really Reasonable Ribbon Blog: Challenge #121 Theme is Pretty Bows

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

Some More Challenges

 Hello!  I think warm temps are back and that means time outside today but I want to post this card first.  I was inspired by a few challenges to create this Ombre card in green.  I began with a Pattern Paper from MME Market Street pad that has an ombre design.  I embossed it with Cuttlebug EF Acanthus by Anna Griffin just because I love this embossed design.  I made a 3D flower with Spellbinder Blossom design and added some shine with Clearstar pen and Wink of Stella plus a clear sequin in the center. This and the leaf were cut from the same ombre pattern.  I finished with Happy Birthday words cut with Cheery Lynn Dies and some more sequins which are really silver but appear pink in the photo.

Challenges:
Sparkle & Shine Challenge: Photo Inspiration on right.  Inspired by green Ombre  Color and 3D Flower.
Virginia's View Challenge: #15 Ombre/ Monochromatic.  See graphic on left.  Virginia's Challenges are always fun.
Mod Squad Challenge: Make a Birthday Card





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

Roses in the Garden

Hello!  I love to spend the day in the garden especially when flowers are in full bloom. And I love to make cards with flowers.  I was inspired by the lovely photo from The Shabby Tea Room challenge 253 "In the Garden".  I used elements of Roses and a White Fence and Gate in my card.

Other challenge to enter:
Word Art Wednesday: Anything Goes/ Family Friendly

Supplies:
Papers: Glossy White CS (fence and gate), Blue CS, and pattern paper from Our Daily Bread designs Shabby Rose Collection.
Dies:Our Daily Bread designs Gilded Gate
Butterfly punch
Stamp: Repeat Impressions Sentiment
Ink: Memento Teal Blue and Bamboo Leaves
EF: Cuttlebug Divine swirls
Stickles and Clear Star Pen

This card was used for my stamping club's annual card swap.
Have a great day! I love reading your comments. Theresa

Another Christmas Tree

This card was made with Darice EF Christmas Tree embossed on Gina K All Spruced Up CS and attached to Gina K Metallic Gold CS.  Red Rhinestones and 1 Gold Gem were added to adorn the tree. The sentiment from Flourishes was heat embossed with Ranger Gold EP.  I finished with a bow of Gold Metallic thread.

Challenges:
The Glory of Christmas: Challenge #39 is Christmas Tree
Simon Wednesday Challenge: Simon says Make it sparkle.
Sweet Stamps Blog: Challenge is Bling.

 I enjoy all your comments. Thank you. Theresa

One More for Christmas Card Stash

Hello! No, I am not ready for snow .  This is just a card for Merry Monday Christmas challenge to use ski, skates or a sled on our card and you have to have some snow with this theme. I was playing with the cameo and cut out the sled with a Silhouette cut file.  I was planning to color and print and cut the sled out but that did not work out. I went to another plan and just cut the sled out of white CS with the Cameo and colored with Copics E15,R46, N4 and a silver metallic pen. I think this came out with a better look than my original plan.   I assembled the sled, added some pine boughs cut with an Impression Obsession Die , and a red ribbon bow.  I attached the sled to the card with foam tape to give some dimension. I stamped the Creative Vision sentiment with Versamark  on red CS and embossed with PSX Snowflake Embossing Tinsel which I also added to the pine cutouts. The card was assembled with GKD Red Velvet CS as the base layered with pattern papers from Crate Paper
Peppermint pad. The green paper has a distress look.

Note: I have had this PSX Tinsel "forever" and have no idea why I have it or where it came from. It has a lot of sparkle ....shows better IRL.

8-10-14 Added Note: Received Honorable Mention at Merry Monday

Challenges in addition to Merry Monday:
Simon Wednesday Challenge:  Simon says make it sparkle.
Craftyhazelnut's Christmas  Challenge Extra:  Anything Christmas
Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge:  Use pattern paper on entire card

Thanks to my friend, Rita, for the IO die.
I enjoy all your comments. Thank you. Theresa

Merry & Bright Light

This is the last of my Christmas cards for awhile.... hope I am not too repetitious. This card was also made  with some leftover papers from Heartfelt Creations Christmas Collection.  I used a Heartfelt Creations panel with a Candle and Flowers and placed on a mat of Glossy Oyster Pearl CS and then the Dusty Sage card base.  The stamp Merry & Bright is from Spellbinders Heirloom Ornaments stamp set.  I stamped the sentiment on Clear Vellum Paper with Versmark  and heat embossed with Ranger Gold EP. I fancy cut it out and attached with tape made for use with Vellum. Added more sparkle to candle with Gold Metallic Pen and Clear Star pen.

 Challenges:
Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Extra Challenge: Anything Christmas  goes for June
Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge: Anything goes as long as Card is covered with Patterned Paper
Fab 'n' Funky Challenge: Theme is Christmas
The Glory of Christmas: #36 Challenge Theme is Lights.

I enjoy all your comments. Thank you. Theresa

Warm Winter Wishes

 Hello! Are you keeping warm?  We had more snow here in Ohio last night but we are having a warming trend today....up to 36 degrees.  The cold weather inspired this card that is for some snow and ice challenges.  I stamped Flourishes' Snowman with a Bird (made it a bluebird) with black ink.
Colored the image in Copics and hung a sign on his stick arm sending Warm Wishes. Added some cold icicles and snowflakes for more coldness!
Supplies:
White and Blue CS from stash
Stamps: Flourishes Let It Snow set and MFP's Icicles
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Distress Ink Tumbled Glass
Copics: B0000,000,25,41,45,93,97, E25
Stickles: Frosted Lace, Crystal
Red, Orange, and Black Glaze Pens

Challenges:
Kaboodle Doodles: Let It Snow
Tuesday  Throwdown: Snowman Fun
Simon Says: Ice Inspiration
Cute Card Thursday: Cold and Frosty
Less Is More: Winter Blues...inspiration photo below

I enjoy all your comments. Thank you. Theresa

New Year Fun

Back today with more wishes for a Happy New Year.  We spent a quiet night at home on New Year's Eve with a great dinner and champagne.  On New Year's I prepared a brunch of Eggs Benedict topped with a bit of leftover caviar and Al served  Mimosas.   We had our traditional dinner of roast pork, black eyed peas, sauerkraut, and corn bread.  It's partly a southern thing.

My card is made with stamps from Mark's Finest Papers "Big City" and "Peaceful Nuthatch" using Memento Tuxedo Black ink.  The fireworks are embossed with  Darice EF and inked with gold ink and clearstar pen. Attached to a black cardstock base.

Challenges:
Speedy Fox and Friends: Theme is Happy New Year
Simon Says: Something New...using new embossing folder
Craft Your Passion: Something New...using new embossing folder

Enjoy your day! Looks like more snow coming...great crafting weather.
I love reading all your comments. Thank you. Theresa

Winter is Here

 

Winter is definitely here!   I have been busy making calendars, creating a photo book of quilts made by my Mother, making cards, and decorating for Christmas.  I also spent some time spending a $100 GC that I won from Joan's Gardens...how fun was that!  I thought today would be a good day to post a snowy scene.  This is a card that I made with Heartfelt Creations Christmas Collections using one of the panels and adding an oval frame with nesties die, some embossing with CB Snowflakes EF, and some sparkle with Clearstar pen and Stickles.  I used a navy card base. Sentiment is from Annabelle Stamps.

 

Challenge:
The Glory of Christmas: Theme is Snow.

 

 

Hope you are staying warm! I enjoy all your comments. Thank you. Theresa

Christmas in July

Thought it would be cooling to play with some snowflakes on this very hot day...temps have been in the hi 90's here in Ohio but know some of you are even hotter. I bought a Cheery Lynn Snowflake die a few months ago and have not played with it.  Since there are several Christmas Card Challenges in blog land as of late, I thought I'd make a Christmas card with the die.  I cut 3 snowflakes out of Silver Metallic CS and arranged on a Navy Card. I stamped an Annabelle Christmas sentiment in Versamark and embossed with Zing EP.  This was a quick card but think it is very sparkly.

Challenges:
Annabelle Stamps: Say It With Snowflakes. I did not have any of her Snowflake stamps but used one of her Christmas.
Cheery Lynn Challenge: Christmas in July . Although I only used one die, I liked the way it came out.
Critter Sketch Challenge: Use something that sparkles. My snowflakes have lot of sparkle
Lollipop Crafts: Christmas in July
Crafter's Companion Monthly: Ho Ho Ho Christmas

Supplies:
Die: Cheery Lynn Snowflake 3
Stamp: Annabelle Stamps " Stamped for Christmas"
Ink: Versamark
EP: Zing Silver
Papers: Bazzill Navy CS, Metallic CS

I enjoy all your comments. Thank you. Theresa

More Patriotic Challenges

At Sentimental Sunday, this week's challenge is: BE PATRIOTIC (Red, White and Blue or colors of your countries flag) (plus a sentiment) and  to create a card with a celebration theme and to use the weeks BONUS challenge of a sketch shown below. I decided to make this card celebrating our freedom in our great country for several challenges.

Sentimental Sunday: Be Patriotic with sentiment and sketch.

Stamptacular Sunday Challenge: Red, White, and Blue with a little sparkle. My sparkle does not show very well-used Clear Star on the dots and star. May see better if click to enlarge.

Fab 'n' Funky: Stars and Stripes
AllSorts Challenge: Red, White, and Blue
Crazy 4 Challenges: Show your Countries Pride- use the colors of your Country Flag

Supplies:
Stamps: Verve "American Hero"

Ink: Memento Lady Bug and Paris Dusk

Papers: Navy and White CS, Stripe from SU

Cuttlebug EF Swiss Dots

Nesties Label One die

Sakura Clear Star Pen

I enjoy all your comments. Thank you. Theresa

Get Well Card

Second Post today: Today, I am trying to use some stamps that I have won and never inked. My first card today has such a stamp and I made this with an unused stamp  from My Favorite Things. Colored the image with copics and paper pieced the dress. I am using a great sketch from Paper Players. Challenges:
For Fun Challenges:  Get Well card.
Cooking it Up With Katie: Start with a sketch, make it for a Child and finish with some buttons. Used sketch shown lower left,  Card is for a little girl, and used butterfly buttons.
Fussy and Fancy Challenge:  Recipe is 3 papers,
2 embellishments, and 1 ribbon. Used 3 pattern papers- stripes, floral, and pattern for paper piecing the dress. 2 buttons for embellishments and a bow from ribbon.
The Paper Players: Sketch challenge shown on lower left.
PaperPlay Challenges: Use sparkle galore. Lot of Sparkle on stripes and floral glitter papers.
Stamptacular Sunday:  Bear Necessities-Use at least one bear on project.

Stamps: My Favorite Things - Pure Innocence "Better Get Better"
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Tangelo, Bahama Blue
        Copics: B000, C00, E000,00,11,25,30,34,39,R20
Papers: DCWV Citrus Mat and White CS
Nesties Circle Die
Buttons from Collection


Thanks for stopping by! Theresa

Playing Dress Up on Her Birthday

I made this card following the sketch from The Pixie Cottage challenge shown lower left and used their challenge theme of Pink Girlie. Also added some sparkle with Sakura pen to the scarf, pearls, edges of dress, shoes and raised embossing. Finished with a handmade flower of crepe paper.
Challenges:
The Pixie Cottage: Use sketch and/or theme of Pink and Girlie.
Crafts and Me Challenge: Anything Goes.
Paper Pretties: Use Flowers on your card. In Pattern Paper and handmade a flower.
Simon Says: Sparkle and shine. May have to enlarge card to see all the shine better.
Charisma Cardz Challenges: Birthdays in Pink.
Craty Catz Weekly Challenge: Anything Goes.

Supplies:
Stamps: Crafts and Me "Romeo, Oh Romeo"
             Paper Pretties Birthday Sentiment
Ink: Copics and Pencils, Memento Tuxedo Black,      Rose Bud, and Bamboo Leaves Ink Pads

Paper: GKD White CS, Basic Grey "Sweet Threads" DP, Scraps of Pink

Sakura Clear Star and Clear Glaze Pens for Sparkle

Nestie Oval Die

Cuttlebug EF "With Love" Borders

Flower: Handmade of Crepe Paper and Precut flower for base

Thanks for stopping by! Theresa