Color Hues #95

Hi there crafty friends, it's time for a new color duo at the Color Hues Color Challenge #95! Teammate Cindy picked this fun and uplifting color duo! I seized the opportunity to make some blue and pink mushrooms with my Greetery Toadstool Garden dies.

I die cut and built the mushrooms in various different cardstocks I have in my scrap bin--light pinks/dark pinks, light blues/dark blues. After they were assembled I set them aside for the glue to set.

I was excited to use the new to me Spellbinders Essential Arches dies and once I started working on the mushrooms I knew I needed to use them for this card. Therefore my rectangular mat became an arched mat!

I ink blended the arch die with Tumbled Glass and Mermaid Lagoon Distress Oxide inks keeping it lighter in the centre. I splattered it with white acrylic paint mixed with a bit of water and set it aside to dry. Once dry the Happy Birthday Sentiment from Lawn Fawn Henry's Build-a-Sentiment: Spring was white embossed in the bottom right corner.

This cheery card was so much fun to make!

I'm also going to submit this to the September Seize the Birthday Challenge.

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

Lunar New Year Challenge Mid-Autumn Festival

Hi there crafty friends, I'm so excited to be sharing a card over on the Lunar New Year Challenge blog today. My card is for the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival on the 15th of September. In Chinese tradition and literature, a full moon symbolizes completeness and is associated with family reunion. Why a bunny? Bunnies are considered a companion to the Moon Goddess of course.

I started with a panel of bright blue cardstock, almost a perfect match to Prize Ribbon Distress Oxide ink which was the first colour I started ink blending in from all four edges but not coming right into the centre! Then I brought Chipped Sapphire Distress Oxide ink onto the panel from all four edges but not in quite so far. I alternated between the two colours until the transition disappeared. I splattered watered down white acrylic paint over the panel to appear as stars and then the panel was set aside to dry.

My moon was created with the Tim Holtz Moon Mask stencils. I cut my moon from ivory cardstock and then stenciled with Antique Linen Distress Oxide ink. I spritzed the moon with Flickering Candle Distress Mica Stain because of course this moon needs some sparkle! I created a scene where the moon takes over the sky and we see the silhouette of a Lawn Fawn bunny sitting on a hilltop.

The sentiment is the Simon Says Stamp Boho Celebrate die, cut from red glitter cardstock!

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope I've inspired you to make your own card for the monthly challenge!

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!