February 16, 2025

Color Hues Color Challenge #104

  Happy Sunday crafty friends! 

I can't even begin to tell you how done I am with winter and the mountains of snow we have gotten this year! Today we are having another snow storm. Every window I look out has a wall of at least 5' of snow and growing. The snowbanks at the road are at least 10' tall and we are running out of places to put the snow! Poor Jax is wondering where all his grass has gone! So if the groundhog was right this should all be done in a few weeks--ha ha, not likely!

Moving on to something more interesting and fun, the newest challenge at The Color Hues Color Challenge has started. The Colours for challenge #104 were picked by my teammate Bonnie Klass and she chose fabulous Coral and Yellow!

I started off by stencilling my background using the new Concord & 9th Kristina Werner Love You Lots stencil. I used Catherine Pooler Do Si Do, Coral Cabana, Tiara and Catching Rays ink to for my background. It's such a creative stencil because the four layers fill a half sheet, 8 1/3" x 5 1/2", piece of cardstock. Once completed you can either cut it in half for two cards or score it so that your card is stencilled front and back. I trimmed mine down to 5" x 3 3/4".






Next I used the Spellbinders Diamond Plaid embossing folder with a piece of coral cardstock to make the background interesting! That was adhered to the card base directly with liquid adhesive. The stencilled panel was attached with foam tape.


The sentiment from Honey Bee Stamps Birthday Wishes was stamped once and cut three times and glued together to make a chunky sentiment. The word wishes was stamped and die cut once. 


I added a few iridescent hearts 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!

February 11, 2025

Happy Lunar New Year - February

Hi there crafty friends, it's Tracey here with you today sharing my February card for the Lunar New Year Challenge. Since we are right on the heels of the 2025 Lunar New Year this New Year's card is a Lunar New Year card. This is the year of the snake and I added a very cute Lawn Fawn snake from Critters in the Desert!




I started off with a piece of light blue cardstock. When I'm ink blending a night background I find it easier to start with a panel of lighter blue and ink blend over the top of it. For my background I used Tumbled Glass, Prize Ribbon, Chipped Sapphire and Black Soot Distress Oxide Inks. Once it was dry I splattered Altenew Gold Metallic Ink over the panel to create a sparkley sky.


I foiled the Lawn Fawn Foiled Sentiments: Happy New Year on the Concord & 9th Poppy cardsock and then cut it out with a circle die. I added it to the card front with foam tape. I used some older number dies I have to create the 2025 using gold mirror cardstock.




I stamped the cute little snake from Lawn Fawn's Critters in the Desert and then used the Lawn Fawn Critters in the Desert Coloring Stencils to add color to the snake and then used a Copic Marker to add some spots on the snake. The snake was also added tothe card front with foam tape overlapping the edge of the circle.


Visit the February Link-Up Party post HERE to see all of the design team projects and be inspired to create your own! You can find the Challenge Rules HERE. Please tag us @lunarnewyearchallenge on Instagram and use the hashtag #lunarnewyearchallenge so everyone can find and be inspired by all your amazing projects.

Lunar New Year Challenge - February

 



February 1, 2025

Color Hues Color Challenge #103

Hi there crafty friends, can you believe it's already February? I'm still wondering what happened to a June--lol! Today we start a new color duo over st the Color Hues Color Challenge. I'm so excited to be your host for the February 1st challenge and even more excited to feature the color duo of Pink and Red! Perfect for many occasions but especially fun for Valentines. 

I'm also excited to share with you that we are partnering up this challenge with the Inksprational Challenge! Details are shared over on the Color Hues Color Challenge blog from teammate and card maker extraordinaire Carol Mayne! This challenge our guest designer is fabulous Trina Pham!


I made another twofer this challenge by using an older Birch Press cover die called Cherish, I used Layer B which which leaves stitched hearts on the base. I cut it once from red cardstock, Papertrey Ink Pure Poppy, and once from Pink Lemonade, MFT Stamps.

The base layer was glued to my card base and then I inlay the opposite colour into the bases giving me two cards.






The sentiment "Hey Cutie" is from The Greetery's Hot Stuff! I don't have the dies, so I fussy cut the words he best I could. It took a few attempts--lol!


It's a bit harder to photograph so you can see the stitching lines on the red cardstock, but it shows up pretty good when you zoom in.


I am also posting this at Time Out Challenges #281!


...and also to AAA Colourful!





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!


January 16, 2025

Color Hues Color Challenge #102

 It's time for a new color duo at the Color Hues Color Challenge! Teammate Stef Perry Gilson chose a fantastic pairing of Navy and Lime Green! I took the opportunity to use my negative die cuts to make two cards.

I used an older die from MFT Stamps and cut one from navy and one from lime green. i inlay the pieces into the opposite colour die cut. To make quick work of doing the inlay I applied pieces of double sided tape on the back of each die cut, then flipped them over and inlay the letters as well as the inside pieces from the B's, R's and A's.



My two A2 sized card bases were matted with a 5 1/4" x 4" piece of white cardstock. The celebrate tags were attached the card front with foam tape. 

One in navy...


...and one green.


Although this color combination could be suitable for anyone really, I'm always looking for fun masculine card and color ideas.


A celebrate card could be for a birthday card or as a congratulations card! 

I kept thing very clean and simple today but if you haven't already been please go to the Color Hues to see the amazing creations my teammates have made with these colours!


January 12, 2025

Lunar New Year Challenge - January


Happy New Year crafty friends, wishing you all good health and happiness throughout 2025. Today I'm sharing my January card and first official post as a designer for the Lunar New Year Challenge. The products I used today are all from one of this month's sponsors Catherine Pooler Designs!


I used the newly released Catherine Pooler Round of New Year for my focal point. I only used the outer ring of the die which cuts the Exterior Happy New Years ring so that as one piece. I did not cut the die apart because each piece cuts separately. It will always cut all the pieces and I can choose which I am going to use and save the extra cuts for future projects.

I cut it once from a 5 1/4" x 4 1/4" piece of red cardstock. I made sure I placed the die exactly where I want it on the card front, making sure I kept every single piece for when I did my inlaying. Then I cut it again from a piece of gold glitter cardstock. The gold piece was inlayed into the red front. I put a few pieces of double sided tape behind the words on the back of the panel and then I flipped it over so I could inlay all the tiny red pieces!


It was a bit of a labour of love but it looks so lovely inlayed into the card front.

Next I used Catherine Pooler's This Calls for Champagne stamps and coordinatingvdies to create the scene. I stamped out the images I was going to use with Copic friendly ink. I used the bottle of wine/champagne that did not have a top on it, the cork and two champagne glasses. I did some very simple colouring with Copic markers.

Wine Bottle - Y26, YG97, T6, T9
Cork - E31

The wine in the wine glasses was from a stamp in the This Calls for Champagne set. I used Catherine Pooler's Shea Butter ink.


I finished the card off by stamping Happy New Year from This Calls for Champagne stamp set in black ink in the bottom right hand corner.


Wishing you a Happy Lunar New Year!

I'm also excited to finally l have been able to let you know that after Guesting with The Lunar New Years Challenge since the fall, I'm now a regular designer on the team. I'm so excited to share my inspiration with you each month and I hope you play along.


Visit the January Link-Up Party post HERE to see all of the design team projects and be inspired to create your own! You can find the Challenge Rules HERE. Please tag us @lunarnewyearchallenge on Instagram and use the hashtag #lunarnewyearchallenge so everyone can find and be inspired by all your amazing projects.

January 1, 2025

Color Hues Challenge #101

 Happy New Year! 

Wishing you good health and happiness in 2025!

  Not only is it the first day of the new year it's also time for a new Color Duo at the Color Hues Color Challenge! Teammate Sheri Gilson chose one of my favourite combinations of Red and Kraft.

I used an older cover die from MFT stamps for my panel. I die it from kraft cardstock and then cleaned all the hearts out and backed the panel with red cardstock for my faux inlay look. 





    

The Hugs die was also an older MFT die that I cut three time from black cardstock and glued together for a nice thick sentiment. I glued it to the front panel with liquid glue.

NOTE: The dies I used have been retired but I put a couple dies on my supplies list that would give the same or a similar look. Be creative with what you have in your own supplies.



Once the word was adhered to my panel I added some of the gold sparkle hearts I had die cut earlier. Those hearts were inlay into the front panel with a bit of glue.


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!