Lunar New Year Challenge | September 2024

 Hi there crafty friends! I super excited today to share with you that I will be the Guest Designer for the remaining of 2024 at the Lunar New Year Challenge!

The September Lunar New Year Challenge will run from September 1st - September 30th at 12:00 pm EST. There are great sponsors lined up for the month including Simon Says Stamp, Lawn Fawn, Ram Stamps and Waffle Flower Stamps. All the details are on the Lunar New Year Challenge September 2024 blog post!

We can't wait to see what you create for the challenge and your chance to win one a great prize from one of our fabulous sponsors!

I used Lawn Fawn Year Eight stamp set for my card. Making the fortune cookie the star of the show! I stamped, die cut and coloured the two fortune cookies and the crumbs with my Copic Markers:

E57, E 30, E23 and E11

I added two mats to my card base in yellow and red. The tiny fortune is a die cut from Concord & 9th's new Door Decor die set and the word Joy is from the coordinating stamp set.

Happy New Year is from Lawn Fawn's Winter Wavy Sayings and the die is Lawn Fawn Simple Wavy Banners! The sentiment was embossed with gold embossing powder. I cut a second black banner so that I could add some dimension to the red banner and to make it stand out from the red background.

If you have not been there yet please head over to the Lunar New Year Blog to see the gorgeous designs made by the team!

Color Hues #94

Hi there crafty friends, can you believe it is September the 1st? I'm still trying to figure out where June went! What I really do think is wow this summer has flown and it seems that a lot of people feel the same way. The oak trees on my property have been dropping lots of acorns and it's time for a new color duo at the Color Hues Color Challenge #94! Teammate Carol has picked a unique fall palette of Rust and Green!

I used the new to me Concord & 9th Door Decor stamps and die set to decorate my door for the fall. I love that the dies works with half and quarter sheets of paper so you don't have waste and the card end up fitting into an A2 sized envelope. I started by cutting the card base with a light grey cardstock.

I used Concord & 9th Evergreen, Spiced Cider and Clementine cardstock for the door and the pumpkins and leaves.

Using a tip from Jennifer McGuire my doors are four layers each. Two layers glued together, a layer of clear acetate and another green door on top.

The pumpkins, leaves, banner and door handles are all included in the die set. There are also lots of other dies for other occasions!

The door handles were cut with Spellbinders gold metallic cardstock.

  If you haven't already visited the Color Hues Color Challenge Blog please stop by and see what my fabulous teammates have created for the challenge.  

Thanks so much for stopping by and I can't wait to see what you create with these colours!

Color Hues #93

Hi there crafty friends, it`s time for a new color duo at the Color Hues Color Challenge #93! I'm the hostess this Challenge and I wanted to pick bright summer colours! ORANGE and YELLOW seemed perfect as we head into the second half of August.

I used the Simon Says Stamp Friendship Leafy Cluster stamps and dies for my card and tag today. I started by ink blending two sets of the leaf images. The first was darker than the second because as hard as I try I’m heavy handed and my results are always darker on paper than I’m my mind!

I prepared the white card base by splattering some yellow gold watercolour on to the panel. I attached it to the card base with foam tape. Then I added my leaf clusters on to the panel with assortment of foam circles.

The thanks was gold embossed and cut with the coordinating dies. For being a friend was white embossed on orange cardstock and attached with foam tape strips. 

I finished the card off with orange pearls for added interest!

Using my leftovers I created a tag. I had made a panel with orange and yellow Distress Oxide sprays in Carved Pumpkin and Mustard Seed. 

The tag shape, an old MFT set, was cut from the panel  I added the last remaining leaf cluster and a sentiment white embossed on yellow cardstock. 

I finished it off with yellow pearls and gold cording for the tie. Felt so good to make use of my leftovers!

 If you haven't already visited the Color Hues Color Challenge Blog I encourage you to stop by and see what my fabulous teammates have created for the challenge.  

Thanks so much for stopping by and I can't wait to see what you create!

Color Hues #92

Hi there crafty friends! So hard to believe that it's already August 1st, I don't know what happened to June! It's time for a new color duo for the Color Hues Color Challenge #92. Talented teammate Stef chose the colours of Pink and Brown. Right from the beginning I thought of Neapolitan ice cream and how the ice cream block looked when you opened the rectangular carton. Being one of 5 kids in the house it was not uncommon for one of the flavours, usually chocolate, to be missing-lol!

I didn't have the right stamps to make ice cream but I did have the Lawn Fawn Stitched Cupcake die so a cupcake iced with chocolate icing and a pink wrapper was born. The background paper is from Lawn Fawn's Gotta Have Gingham Rainbow 6 x 6 paper pad. I cut the paper with the scalloped rectangle from retired MFT Stamps Blueprints #27. I cut a white circle and added my brown and pink cupcake with foam tape. 

The party hat was cut from pink cardstock and the top layer from pink sparkle cardstock.

The sentiment is from Honey Bee Stamps Birthday Wishes stamped and then cut from the co-ordinating dies.

If you haven't already visited the Color Hues Color Challenge Blog I encourage you to stop by and see what my fabulous teammates have created for the challenge.

Thanks so much for stopping by and I can't wait to see what you create!

Color Hues #91

 Hi there crafty friurends! We  have a new color duo at the Color Hues Color Challenge #91. Our colors this round pf Red and Green were chosen by Teammate Sheri for Christmas in July!

Although Christmas is the last thing on my mind, because we just had it...right? However, I seized the moment and created a card using my Concord & 9th Boughs & Holly  Stencils and sentiment die from the coordinating die set. I don't think I'll ever tire of this stencil.

The leaves and berries were stenciled with green Catherine Pooler inks and Concord & 9th's Poppy ink and cardstock! I cut the panel with the largest Lawn Fawn Outside In Stiched rectangle and added it to my card base with foam tape.

The sentiment was die cut from Poppy and Gold Sparkle cardstock. I also cut a slightly smaller white circle that I glued with liquid adhesive to the back of the red circle. Then I inlay the gold words back into the circle that was popped up with foam dots!

If you haven't been there already please head over to the Color Hues Blog to see what the rest of my amazing teammates have created!.

Thanks for stopping in and have a great day!

Color Hues #90

Hi there crafty friends! Today we start a new colour duo at the Color Hues Color Challenge #89! Our fearless leader Nancy Leppeck chose the challenge colours of White &  Aqua--so much fun!

 I had a plan in my head and when it came time to execute it I struggled with my water. Then the idea of bokeh popped into my head! I blended a panel of Concord & 9th Powder cardstock with Tumbled Glass and Salty Ocean Distress Oxide Inks. 

I have three homemade masks for doing bokeh. Three cardstock pieces each one with a different size circle cut from the centre. I use these along with white pigment ink when I want to add bokeh to my design. Handy and always fun but if using Dox inks, make sure the panel is completely dry before adding pigment!

The seagulls are Waflle Flower Crafts Inquisitive Seagulls and the umbrella from the Waffle Flower Crafts Beach Umbrella Die-n-stencil. 

The sentiment is from Lawn Fawn`s Henry`s Build a Sentiment: Spring. I find I this set really useful!

I'm submitting this to Seize the Birthday Anything Goes!

I'm also submitting this is Just Us Girls Challenge #733.

Thank you so much for stopping in today!

First Attempt Waffle Flower Postage Collage

 Happy weekend! Today I'm sharing my first attempt at using the Waffle Flower Crafts Postage Collage die and Beach Days Stencils. There are three stencils in the set and for my first run I used the stencils as they were intended. I used all Catherine Pooler Inks.

Next time I'll be a bit more adventurous and try something new.

These are really fun to use!

The background in from the Waffle Flower Crafts Coloring Stencil. I have seen some done in non traditional postal colours that are really amazing!

The Happy Birthday Sentiment is from the Penguin Palace's Enchanting Paris. I love that the "i" in birthdy in a small letter!

I'm submitting this to Seize the Birthday Anything Goes!

I'm also submitting this is Just Us Girls Challenge #733.

All products I used are listed below.

Thanks for stopping in today and have a wonderful weekend!