Color Hues #139

Hi crafty friends! It' time for a new color duo at the at the Color Hues Color Challenge! Challenge #139 has been chosen by my fabulous teammate Marcia Hill  and she has selected Yellow and Orange for us to play with! What a great pairing, perfect for summer or fall or as Marcia suggested even Christmas!

This summer has absolutely flown for me. My daughter, my youngest, got married on July 25th! What a whirlwind the last year and a half has been. Planning and prepping for what was in my opinion an absolutely beautiful wedding! We had a fabulous venue, fantastic weather and everything went exactly as it should! My daughter and our Son-in-Law had smiles that stretched from ear to ear all day long!

With the wedding I haven't been doing a lot of crafting but I still managed to shop! When I saw the colours Marcia chose I was excited to break out the June my Monthly Hero Kit to make a sunny card!

Using cardstock in yellow and orange to create my scene using the Hello Sunshine dies and the Pool Party dies. 

I started off by creating my large 'Hello Sunshine' using yellow as the background and orange for the letters. 

With the Pool Party dies I made the other elements to create the scene of the lady sunbathing with her yellow bathing suit, beach umbrella, hat, towel and flip flops all made with a combination of yellows and oranges. I added a piece of foam tape behind the beach umbrella for a bit of dimension. The lady was cut from kraft which is one of our neutral colours.

When I started putting my card together I had everything on a white background!

Something didn't feel right. I'm sure you all know that feeling when a card seems to be missing that design element that pulls the whole card together. So with everything glued to the card front and the umbrella with the foam tape I threw caution to the wind and I carefully cut an 1/8" from all four sides. Then I cut a panel of orange cardstock to 5 1/2" x 4 1/4" and added to a fresh card base with liquid adhesive and then I glued the main panel on to the new orange card front! 

What a difference that made!

I finished it off with a tiny yellow pearl on to the top of the umbrella!

Color Hues #137

Hello Crafty friends! It's time for another new color duo at the Color Hues Color Challenge! Challenge #137 has been chosen by my talented teammate Julie Peddicord and she has selected Black and Red for us to use!

 A great time to put out my Spellbinders Steamboat Willie dies my original plan was to make one character, but once the dies are out to play its way more fun with two! I glued Mickey & Minnie together and then set them aside while I got the card background started.

I matted my 5.5" x 4.25" card base with a heart paper from the Simple Stories Steamboat Willie paper collection. Then I added a 5.25" x 4" white cardstock panel. 

Mickey & Minnie were added to the card front with foam dots for dimension. 

The 'HI' sentiment was cut once from black and once from red cardstock and then overlapped and glued together. The black provides the red with a shadow.

If you haven't had a chance yet, head over to the Color Hues blog to see what my teammates have done! They have done an amazing job once again. I hope to see you play along with us!

Thanks so much for taking the time to drop in today!

Colour Hues #136

Hello Crafty friends! It's time for another new color duo at the Color Hues Color Challenge! Challenge #136 was chosen by talented teammate Julie Beech and she has selected Cream an Gold for us! 

Well I had to think for a bit and once I put my mind to it I made another tote bag card!

I used the Hero Arts Tote Bag die to make a tote in cream and gold. I used Spellbinders Pearl Gold paper for my gold. Once it was done I thought, I would love to have a real bag in these colours.

The card base was made from kraft cardstock and I used the Lawn Fawn Quilted Backdrop as my mat at 5 1/4" x 4".

The Happy Birthday sentiment is from Spellbinders Shopping Bag stamp set. I heat embossed it with Wow Metallic Gold Rich embossing powder!

The tote was attached with foam dots so that a gift card could put placed inside the bag!

If you haven't had a chance yet, head over to the Color Hues blog to see what my teammates have done! They have done an amazing job once again. I hope to see you play along with us!

 Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by! 

Seize the Birthday #328

Hello crafty friends!

I'm back with another card for Seize the Birthday #328! This time it is an anything goes card, no vellum or acetate! I used the Hero Arts Tote Bag dies for this one and set it up so you could make it a gift card holder.

After I cut the pieces for the tote bag I added a sentiment from the Spellbinders Shopping Bags set. It's an older set I've had for a few years. I stamped the sentiment with Catherine Pooler's  In The Park ink!

My background uses papers from Lawn Fawn's Speffier Speckles 6 x 6 paper pad. My tote bag was added with foam dots so that I could add a gift card into it. So that I could line it up properly I held the gift card where I wanted to place it and then turned it over to get the foam dots in the right place. I used an old gift card as my placeholder. This is actually one I use when I'm reinking my ink pads to spread the ink over the pad.

Once I had it lined up and the foam dots in to the right place and attached it to the card front.

The little details on for the tote bag make for such a realistic look--the stitching across the top of the bag, the little tag and of course the stitched lines for the handles and the front pocket.

A really quick and easy card too make and I love that the options are endless.

I am submitting this to Seize the Birthday #328 Anything Goes!

Thanks so much for stopping into today!

Seize the Birthday #328

Happy Saturday Friends!

I can't believe I am actually posting a card that I didn't make for a commitment! I need to start building up my stash of birthday cards. I don't know how my supply of cards got down so low. I seem to always have something to do that doesn't involve crafting! With our daughter's wedding coming up in July there always seems to be something that needs attention or doing. 

This past Mother's Day. My husband and I were on our way home from visiting both our mother's heading northbound. A car travelling southbound made a left hand turn right in front of us, he apparently did not see us. We were travelling about 80 km, or 50 mph, and it was quite a crash. 

 

Our truck actually flipped the other truck on to it's side!

Fortunately everyone walked away from the accident. The paramedics checked me, my husband and even little Jax out. I had some abrasions from the seatbelt but after a couple days I wasn't feeling right and went to my local hospital to be checked again. I had three fractured ribs. I am much better now 7 weeks later, it's still a bit tender but overall better.

When something like this happens, you really appreciate how vehicles today are built for safety. The front of my husband's almost brand new truck was crushed but inside the cab, other than that all the airbags were deployed, the space was still intact. The truck was written off. Jax had been on my lap but headed to the back just before it happened, so grateful! We are getting a barrier to keep him in the backseat moving forward. Animals like children are not safe in the front.

If you have even been in a car where the airbags have been set off you know that it's intense.

Time to move on, I think writing this post has been therapeutic for me! Thanks for listening.

So today I made a birthday card for Seize the Birthday using the new to me Spellbinders Pink Lemonade Stand dies. Taking a page from my friend Nancy Leppek I made the easel a shaped card cutting in on the top of a folded 5 1/2" x 4 1/4" card base.

The extra topping this week is to add vellum or acetate sheets. I used vellum for my pitcher and glass. Lots of tiny pieces but it was fun to make.

I added a pink of ink to my die cuts, a bit extra pink on the pinks, darker yellow on the lemon and darker green on the leaves. A bit hard to see.

The white embossed Happy Birthday is a sentiment from Honey Bee Stamps Birthday Wishes.

There are so many possibilities with this die set. I love how the frame has all the woodgrain details!

This card is for Seize the Birthday #328!

Thanks for popping in and enjoy the rest of your weekend!.

Color Hues #135

Hello Crafty friends! It's time for another new color duo at the Color Hues Color Challenge! Challenge #135 was chosen by fabulous teammate Carol and she has chosen Yellow an Black for us! 

My mind went right to Bumble bees! I has seen so many of them in my garden the past week. We had a slow start into the warmer weather this year. In fact we are back chilly again this week after a week of having a heat wave!

I used some older products from Studio Katia! These I made sure I saved because they are the cutest little bumble bees! I started off by stamping and colouring a few bumble bees with Copic markers and then cutting them out.

Bumble Bees:
Y13, Y15, Y17, T0, T1, T2

My back ground started by ink blending Tim Holtz Wild Honey and Squeezed Lemonade Distress Oxide inks in a top to bottom gradient. Then I cut the panel out with an old Studio Katia Cover Plate called Mini Hexagons. It was glued down to the card base with liquid glue.

The letter's are from Lawn Fawn, Henry's ABC'S. I cut them with black cardstock and added them to the card front with small pieces of foam dots.

 

The bumble bees were also added to the card base with foam tape.

I went over all the wings with clear Wink of Stella. It is pretty much impossible to photograph it but beauty is in the eye of the beholder!

If you haven't had a chance yet, head over to the Color Hues blog to see what my teammates have done! They along with our two guest designers have done an amazing job once again. I hope to see you play along with us!

 Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by! 

Color Hues #134

Hello crafty friends! It's time for another new color duo at the Color Hues Color Challenge! I can't believe it's June the 1st! Wasn't Christmas just last month? Time is certainly moving very fast in my neck of the woods. Next month my daughter is getting married and I just can't believe it, but I'm also so excited!

My fabulous teammate Bonnie has chosen Pink and Tourquoise as the next color duo! I have had the  Papertrey Ink Beach Bag stencil since the month it came out but I have never used it!
Anyone else have that problem?

The stencils lined up beautifully making it easy the line up and mask some the fine lines. I used Catherine Pooler Dye inks in Fiesta Blue, Cummerbund and It's a Girl.

I trimmed the stencilled panel down to 5 1/4" x 4 1/4" and attached it to the card base with foam tape. 

The Simon Says Stamp thanks sentiment was die cut three times with white and once with silver glitter paper. The three white pieces with glued together and the silver layer was glued to the top. I glued it direct to the panel rather than used the coordinating shadow die. I think both ways would look great!

Nothing makes a card more magical than sparkle. I love the way the sentiment pops off the card front because of the brilliant silver sparkle cardstock! 

If you haven't had a chance yet, head over to the Color Hues blog to see what my teammates have done! I hope to see you play along with us!

 

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by!