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

Hello to You

Welcome to the studio!  Sharing a card that I created with supplies from Gina K Designs and Cuttlebug embossing folders.  I started this design by cutting a smallcircle from a patterned paper from Watercolor Floral pad and set aside the circle. I trimmed the paper with rectangle stitched die from GKD (master layout 2) and embossed the panel with Cuttlebug Victoria EF. I attached this to a white mat embossed with Cuttlebug Swiss Dots EF. I assembled the center embellishment with a strip of Faded Brick CS cut with GKD Flag die, the small circle of the patterned paper layered with a circle of Vellum, and a scalloped circle frame on top. I stamped the Vellum circle with a GKD sentiment from Rose Bouquet set using Versamark and Gold EP.  Finished with a card base of GKD Faded Brick CS. My inspiration for this design was the challenge at Tuesday Morning Sketches. 

Challenges:

Monthly Mix Challenge at Gina K Designs: Adding Texture. Used Dry and Wet embossing, Die Cuts.

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

Tuesday Morning Sketches: # 671

Happy Little Stampers: August Anything Goes with Dies

Thanks for stopping by. I love reading your comments. Hugs, Theresa

Quick and Easy Valentines

Welcome friends! I am sharing 4 Valentine cards that I quickly made using some of the same products. Supplies used were White Cardstock, Pink Cardstock, Patterned papers from a Pack purchased at Joann's several years ago, Spellbinders Scalloped Heart Dies, Polka Dots EF, Martha Stewart Border Punch, Gina K stamps, Winnie & Walter stamps, and Pink Inks.  I used both negatives and positives of the die cuts when I assembled my designs.  

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Challenges:

Addicted to CAS: Challenge #213 Hearts

The Paper Players: PP577 Theme Challenge Love and Friend

CASology: Week 400 Affection

Double D Challenges: Hearts

Stay Safe and Healthy! Thanks for stopping by. I love reading your comments. Theresa

The Key To My Heart Belongs To.....

Welcome! Another post and another Valentine card.  I have combined 2 challenges as inspiration for this design....one a sketch and one a color combo.  I selected 2 patterned papers that included the colors that I needed for the Color Throwdown Challenge and added a Kraft Card Stock for the base and one of the Heart die cuts. Following the sketch challenge at Tuesday Morning Sketches, I attached the papers to the Card Base and layered 2 Hearts cut with Spellbinders dies. I embossed both papers with Cuttlebug EF's-Polka Dots and Divine Swirls.  Added an embroidered heart from my stash and the topped with a key cut with Paper Sweeties Die from Gold Metallic paper.  I thought that I had a sentiment stamp (must have imagined it) that went with my card theme but could not find it, so I created my own with Photoshop. Liked how it came out.  

Challenges: 

Tuesday Morning Sketches:  #642

Color Throwdown: Ctd678 Pink, Red, Cranberry, Kraft

Dies R Us Challenge: 186 Valentine's/ Love. Used Spellbinders Heart Dies and Paper Sweeties Heart Die.

Simon Wednesday Challenge: Simon Says With Love.

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

Stay Safe and Healthy! Thanks for stopping by. 

I love reading your comments. 

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. 

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Have a great day! I love reading your comments. 

Theresa

Holly Jolly Tag

Hello!  Welcome to the studio! Today I am posting a card for Monthly Mix Challenge at Gina K Designs. Arjita challenged us to make a Tag on a Card using Red and White. I used Gina K. Design products including Red Velvet Card Stock and Fancy Foil, Holiday Flora Foil Mates, Holly Jolly Greetings Foil Mates, and White with Gold Ribbon.  I used red foil on the sentiment but it does not show very well in the photo. Looks BIRL.  I also used a combination of Spellbinder Dies to create my tag shape.  Once I did the foiling on the sentiment and background, this project came together quickly. 

Other Challenge:
Merry Little Christmas Challenge Blog: MLCCB #28 Nov Anything Christmas Goes

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

Shaping Up with Succulents

Hello!  I am back playing with another Creative Confetti Challenge.  This one is  Shape Up!-create making shapes take center stage.  I chose to use the shapes of circles, ovals, squares and rectangles. And I found a DCWV Patterned Paper featuring hexagons with gold foil accents to use as my background. I stamped 4 images from Power Poppy Sassy Succulents set on white cardstock and colored with Copics  using colors pulled from the patterned paper. I trimmed the images using Spellbinder dies and attached to mats of Metallic Gold CS.  I arranged the shapes on the hexagon paper popping up the 2 smaller images with foam.   I edged the background panel with Pilot Gold Metallic marker before attaching to a white card base. I attached the sentiment from the same stamp set with Versamark and embossed with Gold EP.   I thought the words "We're All in this Together" were appropriate for this card in today's time. Is it not interesting the stamp set was created in 2014?  What was Marcella thinking when she included this sentiment in the set?

Challenges:
Creative Confetti Challenge: Shape Up!

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

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Stay Healthy!
Have a great day!
 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

A Girl in the Garden

Hello! Today I have a card for the current challenge #57  at The Library.  The book for this challenge is A Child's Garden of Verses shown below.  I was inspired by the cover layout and colors as well as the picture of the girl.  I treated the cover as if it were a sketch challenge for a card.  I printed out a digital image of a Flower Girl by Inger Harding from my files that I saved in 2010. I colored the image with Copics  and added some glitter gems to the flowers. Cut the image with an oval die and framed with a Yellow frame die cut with Cheery Lynn Swedish Spring Oval die. Finished with a sentiment from Power Poppy stamps die cut with circle dies. Used a  Blue card base. 

Challenges:

As You Like It Challenge: Animals or People-which is your favorite and why?  I like to create cards with people although they are a challenge to color and I like to be challenged. But of course my favorite theme is flowers so I chose to use this flower girl. 

Happy Little Stampers: April Anything Goes With Dies

Love To Scrap Challenge: LTSCB #132 For the Girls

The Paper Players: PP486 Color Challenge.  The bit of green may not fit into challenge? but I do have blues, yellow, and gray.

The Library Challenge: #57 A Child's Garden of Verses

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

Take a Slice of Lemon and Make Cards

Hello!  I have an entry for Twofer #24 Card Challenge to use Fruit - use the same stamp, stencil, or die for the prompt on two different designs for two different occasions.  I decided to use a simple lemon slice stamp from Just For Fun to create 2 cards.  For one card I stamped the slice 3 times using masking with Memento inks and markers.  The sentiment was generated using Photoshop.  Added a border of dry embossing to give some texture. Finished with a lime Green cardstock. I will send this for a birthday. 

For the second card, I created  flowers with the lemon slice stamp adding some stems and leaves with GKD stamps. Colored with Memento and Copic Markers.  Used Scalloped oval dies to trim the image and to frame  with Yellow cardstock. Attached to an Orange card base.  Finished with some glitter gems and the word Hello stamped and die cut with GKD stamp and dies. 

Challenges:

Double D Challenges: Saying Hello

Twofer Card Challenge: #24 Fruit

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Hearts with Love

Welcome to my studio!  I have created 2 cards for the Twofer Card Challenge which is Hearts.  I used the same small hearts stamps from GKD You Have My Heart set.  I also used the same Scalloped Heart dies from Spellbinders but that just happened by chance.  The Musical Valentine card shown on the left features partial die cutting and  guitar and sentiment stamps from the same set as the hearts.  I doodled some dots around the white heart. Used Memento Lady Bug ink and Red and White CS. 

The Birthday card uses the same heart stamps hanging from a GKD branch stamp that I modified to be a tree. The word stamps are from Winnie & Walter set.  Used Memento Lady Bug, Bamboo Leaves, and Rich Cocoa inks with White and Fresh Asparagus CS. Embossed white layer with Cuttlebug Wicker Weave EF.  I was going to make the theme of this card All Things Grow with Love but that did not work out. 

Challenges:

Twofer Card Challenge: Challenge #23 Two different designs for two different occasions using the same stamps, stencils, and/or dies. Theme is Hearts.

Happy Little Stampers: January Anything Goes with Dies.

Dies R Us Challenge: #136 Anything Goes using any brand of metal die that DRU sells. 

CAS Mix Up Card Challenge: Partial Die-cutting + Stamping + Your Choice.  Did some doodling with Alcohol Marker. 

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

Stocking Tags

Hello!  I made the tags above using Power Poppy Stocking stamp from the Poinsettia set.  I stamped the stocking on white CS and colored with Copics.  Since I wanted more than one tag, I copied the image after I colored it and printed it so my tags all look the same.  I trimmed the tags with a Spellbinders die and attached to die cut mats from Green CS.  Punched holes and added red satin ribbon.  Hope I did not break any rules by making copies of my design since I am using for my personal need. 

Challenges:

Creative Confetti Challenge: Create a gift tag. Could not find link for this challenge which I thought was open the month of December. Linking to the current Creative Confetti challenge that has an open link. 

Artsystamper Challenge: #6 Wrapping and/or Tags

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

Joy with Gold

Hello! Another Christmas card that I made when playing with gold foil.  I took a leftover panel of striped patterned paper and added strips of foil to some of the stripes with double sided tape. Added the word Joy stamped with Versamark and heat embossed with Gold EP. This was a freebie stamp from Simply Cards magazine from 2016.  Added some dots of gold. Die cut  the word  with a Spellbinder die and framed it with Metallic Gold CS die cut from a larger Spellbinder die. Finished with a Red Card Base. 

Challenges:
The House That Stamps Built: Designer's Choice Challenge DCC N619 Frame It.

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

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

Using Scraps and Stash

 Welcome!  I have some more Christmas cards using scraps and items from stash.   For the top card I used the sketch from Tuesday Morning Sketches as inspiration for the layout.  I cut strips from scraps of designer patterned paper with gold foil dots on pink.  I stamped the wreath from an old Flourishes set on glossy CS with Versamark and heat embossed with Gold EP and colored with 2 Pink Copics.  I trimmed with a Spellbinders circle die and attached to a Metallic Gold circle also cut with Spellbinders die.  I assembled the card with a card base of white CS but colored the edges with the same 2 Pink Copics to match wreath.  Added an embossed panel ( Cuttlebug Bubbles EF)  of GKD Metallic Gold CS with the strips,  image, and Cheery Lynn die cut words. Finished with a metallic gold bow.

This card was created with the same patterned paper and gold Metallic  paper as above but on ivory CS base.  The panel of gold metallic paper was embossed with Darice Santa Sleigh  EF. The sentiment from an old Annabelle set was heat embossed with Gold EP. Used more of the Metallic Gold ribbon to finish. 

Challenges:

Tuesday Morning Sketches: #527

Die Cuttin Divas: Challenge #444 Anything Goes in October

Crazy 4 Challenges: C4C 508 Wreaths

The 12 Months of Christmas: Challenge 58 Optional Twist Santa.  Used Embossing folder with Sant in his sleigh. 

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

CAS Challenges

Hello!  I combined two CAS challenges and came up with this card.  I used 2 Darice embossing folders (Floral Frenzy and Large Daisy) and 4 circle dies.  I embossed the large daisy on one of the circles and inked the raised surfaces with DOI Picked Raspberry.  I stamped a sentiment from Power Poppy on the larger circle with the same ink.  Cut 2 circles from Pink scraps and embossed a strip of Purple CS with flowers. Assembled all the elements on white layer and purple card base following the sketch below.  This is about as clean and simple as it gets!

Challenges:

CAS(E) this Sketch: #337 

Addicted to CAS: #167 Code Word Pink and Purple

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