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!

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!