December 1, 2024

Color Hues #100th Challenge

Hi crafty friends! Welcome to the Color Hues Color Challenge's 100th Challenge! We are so excited to reach this milestone and if you pop oer to the Color Hues blog at the end of this post you can learn about the special giveaway this month for our big #100!

The challenge is running for the month of December, you have until December 29th to play along.

Our fearless leader Nancy choose the colors of Blue and Purple. I decided to make a snow flurry using Catherine Pooler's Swirling Snow background stamp, some Distress Oxide Inks and a Giant Let It Snow word LawnCut from Lawn Fawn.



I used Tumbled Glass, Salty Ocean and Wilted Violet Distress Oxides Inks over the white heat embossed Swirling Snow background. I splattered some mettalic white gold watercolour over the panel and then a little splatter of yellow gold watercolour.

The Lawn Fawn Giant Let It Snow LawnCut was cut from Lawn Fawn Pixie Dust cardstock. I cut two more layers with white heavyweight cardstock and glued all the layers together before I glued it to the card front!


If you haven't already visited the Color Hues Color Challenge Blog I hope you 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!


November 16, 2024

Color Hues #99

Hi there crafty friends! It's time for a new colour duo at the Color Hues Color Challenge #98! Teammate Marcia chose the colours of Pink& Aqua! We also have a new member joining our team, Bonnie Klass is joining us for the first time this challenge!You'll love her, I have been a fan for years.

I have been ruthlessly going through my collection of stamps and dies and only keeping those that are near and dear to my hear. I'm using a couple old sets from Paper Smooches that I'm sure I will keep forever--Merry Motifs and Christmas Sampler.


I coloured and die cut the baubles.Then cut smaller sitched rectangle that I matted with Silver Sparkle cardstock.


The string for the baubles were hand drawn with Copic multiliners. The sentiment is from Paper Smooches Christmas Sampler.


If you haven't already visited the Color Hues Color Challenge Blog I hope you 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!


November 9, 2024

Lunar New Year Challenge | November Challenge



Hi there crafty friends, it's Tracey here today sharing all the details for my Thank you card made from and older die from Papertrey Ink called Chinatown.

I started off die cutting the scene using a mat gold cardstock from the Spellbinders gold Opulent cardstock pack. Placing the die over the panel and a few light pencil marks to determine where to ink blend the road. Then I used Catherine Pooler ink's in Pebble, Buttercream, Samba and Flame for the ground and background sky.



Once the background was dry I splattered some gold metallic water colour paint on to the panel. I set the panel aside to dry and then I glued the Chinatown cover die to the background.



The sentiment is from Spellbinders Making Me Smile Sentiments. It was gold foiled on red cardstock.

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November 1, 2024

Scrap 'N Stamp Pooh & Friends Inspiration Hop

 

Happy Friday! Welcome to the Scrap 'N Stamp Canada Pooh & Friends Inspiration Hop! You should have arrived here from Tara's blog if you are following the hop. The full list is on the Scrap 'N Stamp blog HERE.

I have a few cards to share with you using the new Echo Park Winnie the Pooh Christmas collection. The collection brings back such warm memories from my childhood and the images are all so cute!


Purchasing a collection is such a great way to make a bunch of cards when time gets a bit tight and all the guesswork is taken out when all the papers and ephemera are all made to match. All that's left for you to do is use your your cardmaking skills and imagination as to what looks good with what.

I made three cards for today, but it staying out on my desk to make lots for the upcoming Christmas season!






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Color Hues #98

Hi crafty friends! It's time for another new color duo at the Color Hues Color Challenge #98! Teammate Karen Walker chose the challenge colours of RED & BLACK.

I used an old Papertrey Ink stamp set called Frilly Flowers. I'm sure there are a few people out there who will remember this set on sight. I simply stamped various blooms on my card front in red and black inks from Catherine Pooler--Rockin' Red, Pebble and Midnight. Warning: Catherine Pooler Midnight ink WILL stain your stamp black! It still work fine with all the colours but the stamp will stain.



 

The Birthday Wishes sentiment comes from Honey Bee Stamps Birthday Wishes. I stamped and white embossed two 'Birthday"'s in red and black. I decided to use the red one, but the black one behind it gives just the perfect shadow it needs to stand out on this card. Plus it gives a bit of dimension!


I chose to use the white embossed wishes in black.


The card is a bit busier than my normal style but I was actually quite pleased with the way it turned out.


 If you haven't already visited the Color Hues Color Challenge Blog I hope you 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!

October 16, 2024

Color Hues #97

Hi there crafty friends, it's time for a new color duo at the Color Hues Color Challenge #97! Teammate Julie Peddicord chose the color duo of Olive and Mustard!

I used the Concord & 9th H2Hello dies to make my faux Stanley Cup. I used cardstock in Olive and Mustard for the cup and white embossed the sentiment on the cup.The cup was added to the card front with foam tape for dimension.




I added a die cut hello from the die set over the cup in black.

 

The background paper is from Lawn Fawn's Falling Leaves 6 x 6 paper pad.

 If you haven't already visited the Color Hues Color Challenge Blog you drop in 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!

October 11, 2024

Scrap 'N Stamp Canada | Halloween tags



Welcome to the Anything but a Card  Inspiration Hop for Scrap 'N Stamp Canada!
You should have arrived here from Tara's blog if you are following the hop!

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For Anything but a Card I made a couple of Halloween tags using some new to me products purchased this year.

For this first tag I ink blended a background to cut my tag from using Distress Oxide inks--Tumbled Glass, Broken China, Peacock Feathers and Villainous Potion. I flicked black watered down acrylic paint on the panel.

The die cuts are all from the Tim Holtz Wicked and Gothic Protraits die sets.


The boo sentiment was cut from Spellbinders dark grey glitter cardstock.


A little piece of white paper was glued behind the cat's eyes.


For my second tag, which I almost did not post, I used the Lawn Fawn Cauldron lawn cut. The panel was first ink blended with Distress Oxide inks--Shaded Lilac and Wilted Violet. Everything was going well until the end...been there before? An embossed sentiment over a bumpy surface is never a good idea, but it actually turned out not bad. Not as bold as I hoped but not bad either.

This is where it all went wrong. My white gel pen has been sitting for too long and it wasn't flowing--grrrr! That is something that can't be undone, so lets just call it wear marks on the sides of the cauldron.


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