XOXO Valentine

 Happy Weekend Friends!

Can you believe I'm posting this just because? I rarely do that anymore but here we are!

 I used old stamps and dies from MFT Stamps, gosh I miss them. I used the Heart Art stamps and the co-ordinating dies! I cut the heart trio in two rows from a white panel.

Then I attached the panel to a white card base. From die cuting into the panel, I ended up with six white hearts. The stamp set has six different sentiment hearts that I stamped onto the white hearts in different shades of pink and rec. Those heart were inlaid into the panel and the "Be My Valentine" heart was added with foam tape behind it for interest.

The sentiment is from Pretty Pink Posh Valentine Greetings! To me this is such a classic sentiment set and with the scripty writing and co-ordinating dies make it extra special. The 'xoxo' sentiment was embossed with WOW Gold Pearl embossing powder and was three layers thick.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

Color Hues #126 - Red & Pink

Well there is certainly no shortage of snow here again this year! After Christmas my husband and I were talking abouot how the snow so far wasn't bad. No sooner were these words spoken and a three day snow event has left us with our fill--lol! It's still so much less than last year but enough.

Today we start a new colour duo at the Color Hues Color Challenge. Teammate Julie Beech is our host for this challenge and she chose the colours Red & Pink! Perfect for a Valentines card which is the first thing that came to my mind!

Last year I purchase a few Valentine items from Pretty Pink Posh. For my card I used the Double Heart Shaker dies. I started off by cutting my heart pieces, the main double heart and the two heart pieces all cut from white cardstock. 

The two separate hearts were ink blended using Distress Oxides ink in Spun Sugar, Kitsch Flamingo, Festive Berries and a touch of Candy Apple.

I made my card base and then matted it with a piece of pink cardstock. I cut it to 5 1/4" x 4" and glued it to the card base with liquid adhesive. the large white double heart was adhered to the card base and then the ink blended hearts were added with liquid glue!

The sentiments are also from Pretty Pink Posh! It's from the Valentine Greetings stamp set! It was stamped in black and die with the co-ordinating dies. I cut two more layers from the sentiment die and glued the three pieces together with liquid adhesive before adding it to the ink blended hearts!

Such a fun colour palette challenge, perfect for Valentines but really for any occasion!

If you haven't already been over to the Color Hues blog you really should. My teammates have, as usual, created some fantastic designs that are sure to inspire you to play along!

Thank you so much for taking time to stop in today! Your visits are always appreciated!

Color Hues #125 Blue and White

 Today we start a new colour duo at the Color Hues Color Challenge. Teammate Carol is our host for this challenge and she chose the colours Blue & White! While thinking about what to use for my card this challenge I decided that I wanted to use the new to me Lawn Fawn Postage Rectangle Stackables from their Valentines release. That's when I decided to make a large stamp for the front of my card.

I cut the second largest postage stamp with some blue cardstock from my stash. I think it might have been from MFT Stamps. It was a lone wolf in my scrap bin. My white dove was cut from a very old die I have from Serendipity Stamps. 

I white embossed the postage amount from the Waffle Flower Postal Collage stamp set and the 'BELIVE" is from Simon Says Stamp Tabbed Sentiments Holiday stamp set.

 

I hope this fun color palette has inspired you to play along!

I am also submitting this to the Inkspirational Challenge Shades of Blue!

Thank you so much for stopping in today!

Happy Weekend!

Endless Joy Lunar New Year January

Hi there crafty friends, it's Tracey and I'm back on the Lunar New Year Challenge blog today sharing my January card. The challenge is taking a break and this will be my final card. The past couple of years this has been a fun and really different challenge and has pushed me to really think about what I'm making. Thank you to my friend Emily Leiphart for all her hard work running the challenge and for all her support!

 This month we have 6 of our sponsors from 2025 celebrating with us by sponsoring this challenge, so we hope you are ready to participate!

The Year of the Horse starts on February 17th so for my final card I wanted to use the new Spellbinders Good Fortune Horse which is set off by my bold colour palette! The card features Concord & 9th cardstock in Poppy, Eggplant and a sheet of Almond from the Naturals collection. 

The sentiment from Good Fortune Horse was gold embossed on the red Poppy panel. The panel was adhered to the white card base with foam tape and set aside while I put the horse together. 

The horses mane, tail and saddle were all cut from gold mirror cardstock. I assembled the horse and I have to say the design of the die cuts are so well thought out. It came together brilliantly! I adhered the horse to the card front with thin foam squares for a bit of extra dimension.

The coins on the ground in front of the horse are from Lawn Fawn's How You Bean? Money Add-On. I stamped and cut some of the coins and then coloured them with the Copic markers:

Y11, Y13, Y15 & Y17

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Color Hues #124 - Gray & Red

 Today we start a new colour duo at the Color Hues Color Challenge. Teammate Bonnie is our host for this challenge and she chose the colours  Gray & Red! Perfect for a winter card and in my case a New Years card!

I used the new to me Poppystamps Nordic Bunny Bundle for my card.

I made a sweet gray bunny with a red sweater from patterned paper and cardstock! The background was embossed with the Spellbinders Diamond Plaid embossing folder! Then I cut one of the Spellbinders Essential Arches in white for some contrast between shades!

The foiled sentiment is once again from Spellbinders. It's the Misletoe Greetings Betterpress Die Set foiled in gold on red cardstock!

A closer look at the details of the bunny. It's so cute!

Thank you so much for stopping in today!

Wishing you all the bet for 2026!

I hope this fun color palette has inspired you to play along!

Lunar New Year December

Hi there crafty friends, I'm back on the Lunar New Year Challenge blog sharing my December card. We have fabulous sponsors again this month, see them at the bottom of the post.

This month I used primarily Lawn Fawn products to make my card with a splattering a metallic gold Altenew Artistry Metallic Watercolors!

I created the card base using a piece of Concord & 9th Poppy cardstock which was added to a 4 14" x 5 1/2" card base.

I started off with stamping a die cutting images from Lawn Fawn's How You Bean? and the How You Bean Money Add-ons! I set those aside after colouring with Copic Markers:

Glass Jar: BG000
Paper Bills: YG11, YG13, YG17
Coins: Y13, Y15, Y17

The top sentiment was created using the Lawn Fawn Henry's ABC's Spring Sentiments. It was white heat embossed on yellow cardstock. I cut it with a sentiment strip die and added it to the top left of the cardbase. Red and gold symbolize good fortune, joy, wealth and prosperity for the Chinese New Year!

Happy New Year was black heat embossed directly to the card base using Versafine Onyx Black and clear embossing powder. I attached the jar of money and all the bills and coins to the card base. 

I covered the bottom black embossed sentiment with a small piece of post it tape then I splattered some yellow gold from the Altenew Metallic Watercolor pan over the card base. Finally I added the top sentiment and the little snake from Lawn Fawn's Critters In The Desert stamp set.

I hope that you can find time to join us this month for your chance to win!

Color Hues #123 - Pink and Green

Today we start a new colour duo at the Color Hues Color Challenge. I am the host this month and feeling very festive I chose chose the colours Pink & Green!

I was so excited when Concord & 9th released the Yuletide Lane stamps and dies! I instantly fell in love with it! It was a bit challenging to work with only two colours but I hope that you enjoy seeing my Pink & Green creations. I made a four panel card and then I made a tag with my leftovers.

I started by cutting each of the bases for my four houses. I spent far too much time deciding of the order of my colours but in the end I like what I chose.

The Yuletide Lane die set has 36 dies! Lots of adornments to put on to the houses and some of they coordinate with the stamp set. My friend friend Carissa Wiley's did an amazing introduction video for the Yuletide Lane stamps and dies. I used that video for my inspiration.

After I die cut my four houses I stamped details on them using the Yuletide Lane stamp set. Those small stamped accents add just a bit of authenticity to these fairy like colours.

I started by die cutting lots of the adornments in each of my four colours. Then it was just a case of mixing and matching and decorating each of the houses. I tried to keep the order of the colours consistent!

I used Lawn Fawn Pixie Dust sparkle cardstock for all the snow pieces. the sparkle is so magical!

The houses die cut with a tab that you use to connect them together. On the last house you just need to trim that piece off.

This could even be craft room holiday decor!

I had lots of leftovers, including extra houses in the other colours so I went ahead and decided to make a large gift tag. I'm so pleased with it I'm planning on using up the rest of my leftovers and make a few more tags.

Sentiment from Lawn Fawn Tiny Tag Sayings.

Thanks so much for stopping in today, I hope my bright colour palette has inspired you!

I'm excited to see what you do with the colors for this challenge!

If you haven't been already please stop by the Color Hues blog to see what my talented teammates have made and see what inspires you to create!