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!

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.

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!

Lunar New Year Challenge | Health and Happiness

Hi Crafty friends, I have a post up on the Lunar New Years Challenge blog today for my last post as Guest Designer. I'm excited to share my December project with you today. My card features products from sponsor Catherine Pooler Designs

I started off by ink blending my background with Distress Oxide Ink's in Tumbled Glass, Prize Ribbon, Chipped Sapphire and Black Soot. I set the panel aside to dry while I die cut some of the other elements of my card.

Once the panel was dry I splattered some white acrylic paint over the panel to add some stars to my night time background.

TIP: I have found when splattering on Distress Oxide inks you will get a different look whether the inked background it still wet, or dry. If I want to achieve a more crisp splatter, I let my panel dry first.

The focal point of my card is Catherine Pooler Designs Paper Lantern. It was die cut from matt gold cardstock. I cut a piece of red cardstock to glue to the back of the lantern.

The sentiment it from Spellbinder's Making Me Smile. It was not foiled and cut with the coordinating dies and attached to the panel with foam tape for dimension.

Visit the December Link-Up Party post HERE to see all of the design team projects and be inspired to create your own! When sharing your challenge entries on social media, feel free to save this badge and post it along with your project. Please tag us @lunarnewyearchallenge on Instagram and use the hashtag #lunarnewyearchallenge so everyone can find and be inspired by all your amazing projects.

An Update

Hi there friends!

I'm popping in today with an update. It's been a week since Snowmaggedon and we have been getting just a bit more snow every day! With all that snow you might say we are going to have a white Christmas, and we probably are but next week the forecast is rain! We'll see how it plays out.

I held off about as long as I possibly could to post this but I'm afraid it does not look like the postal strike with Canada Post is going to end any time soon  It makes me so sad to say, I don't think the strike will end in time for me to mail out Christmas cards this year! 

Don't knock me off your lists yet, I will be back mailing cards out next year!

Wishing you all the happiest of holidays!

Tracey
xoxo

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!

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!