You're All That

Hi there friends, I hope that spring is starting to find you! Although the weather here has been playing ping pong this winter. Today the sun is shining brightly and the water is pouring off the roof which means the snow is starting to melt. It's a bit soon to say that the snow is over, we usually have a surprise snow storm in March but that snow is usually quite wet and doesn't last!

I recently bought the Hero Arts Snack Attack bundle and today I'm sharing my first card made with it. I didn't go too crazy fo my first attempt but what I will tell you is that these dies and stamps are so much fun!

I started by cutting the chip bag with Concord & 9th's Poppy cardstock and then I white heat embossed the sentiment onto it. 

I matted the card with navy and yellow cardstock and then my chips were cut from linen cardstock and I added some yellow ink blending to give the chips a more realistic look!

I love how the chip dies actually curl the paper a bit giving them that crazy deep fried look.

Are you a sweet or salty fan?
I would say the potato chips are not my go to snack, that is always chocolate, when I can afford it! 😑

Thank you for stopping in today and I hope you are craving some potato chips now!

Have a great day!

Color Hues #128 - Green and Gold

  Today we start a new colour duo at the Color Hues Color Challenge. Teammate Karen is our host for this challenge and she chose the colours great March colours of Green and Gold! 

This time of the year I can't resist making fun cards for St. Patrick's Day! 

I stamped and die cut a bunch of four leaf clovers using all Catherine Pooler products. They were stamped in Lime Rickey and Green Grass inks. The stamp set is called Clovers & Blooms.

I arranged the four leaf clovers and a bit of greenery on the card base moving from upper left down to lower right. These were glued in place with liquid adhesive.

I die cut the 'Lucky' word die with three layers of gold mirror cardstock! The first time I did it I made two layers from white cardstock but that didn't work, you could see the white. I'm not great at lining up the die cuts perfectly! It was adhered to the card front using liquid adhesive!

Of course as with any shiny object or paper you put on to a card front are not the easiest to photograph. I was lucky *pun intended, that this very grey February offered me a sunny day to take my photos!

I am a,so submitting this to the current Simon Says Stamp Anything Goes challenge!

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

If you haven't visited the Color Hues blog yet, you really should. My teammates have done an amazing job with these colours and you won't be disappointed!

Ah Valentine's!

 Another Valentine's done and I have a couple more cards to share. 

I used a Simon Says Stamps stencil called Falling in Love. It was blended with Simon Says Stamp ink in Rhubarb and Cranberry. The triple stacked sentiment is Pretty Pink Posh Valentine's Greetings.

This one uses all Pretty Pink Posh. The Double Heart Shaker dies, The XOXO Pierced Plate die and Valentine's Greetings once again.

For this last card I used the Pretty Pink Posh Double Heart Shaker dies one more time, but using them to create a stencil from cardstock. I stenciled Spun Sugar, Kitch Flamingo and Ripe Raspberry Distress Oxide Inks to create my hearts. Dressed up with a few clear drops and the sentiment is another triple layer sentiment from Valentines' Greetings.

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop in today.

Color Hues #127 Peach and Teal

 Today we start a new colour duo at the Color Hues Color Challenge. Teammate Jules Peddicord is our host for this challenge and she chose the colours Peach & Teal! The team has done an amazing job with the colors over on the Color Hues blog. I think you will be inspired by them to play along!

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.

One more card using the current colours at the Today we start a new colour duo at the Color Hues Color Challenge.

Enjoy the rest of your day!

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!