Color Hues #133

Hello crafty friends! Today we start a new color duo at the Color Hues Color Challenge. I am the host for challenge #133 and I chose Lime Green and Violet as our colours to create with.

Lime Green and Violet are always fun colours for spring. Starting from early spring, at least where I live,  the first to emerge is the Crocus followed by other green and purple perennials! As I write this post on May 14th it is for the first since I can remember there are no leaves on any of the trees! It has been that cool! The next four days the heat is coming on and I bet by next weekend all the leaves will have filled in!

I used the new Spellbinders/Alex Siberia Magical Fuchsia Press & Foil Plate and the matching stencils for my card today. I am head over heals in love with this collection!

Starting off I used the Press & Foil Plate to gold emboss the Magical Fuchsia flower branch. Dreamy on it's own but once colour is added it's definitely magical.

I used the matching Magical Fuchsia stencils with Catherine Pooler inks:

Garden Party
Lime Rickey
Pixie Dust
Grape Crush

I trimmed my panel down to 5 1/4" x 4" and added it to my card base with foam tape.

The sentiment is from the same Press & Foil Plate, foiled on to purple cardstock and cut with the co-ordinating die. It was added to the card front with foam squares.

I hope you head over to visit the Color Hues blog to see what my teammates have done! I hope to see you play along with us!

Thanks for stopping by, have a wonderful day!

Seize the Birthday #326 Guest Design

 

Good Afternoon friends! Today I'm excited to be the Surprize Party Guest with the Seize the Birthday challenge. I was so excited to be chosen as the winner for Seize the Birthday #324! 

For Seize the Birthday #326 the topping is to feature an animal on your card. My husbands birthday was last week so I used this opportunity to make a card for him with a dog on front. I just happened to have Spellbinders Skateboard Terry on hand and when he was cut with white cardstock and a black nose and eyes it is our sweet boy Jax!

The background is from Lawn Fawn's All the Sparkles 6 x 6paper pad.

A kraft coloured circle for Terry to skateboard across on his green ride.

The sentiment is from Honey Bee Stamps Birthday Wishes. I added an extra Happy Birthday sentiment inside.

I hope that you join us this challenge. It's always a good time to make a birthday card! I can't wait to see what you make!

Card Recipe:

Spellbinders Skateboard Terry

Lawn Fawn All the Sparkles 6 x 6 Paper Pad

Honey Bee Stamps Birthday Wishes

Have a great day!

Color Hues #132

Welcome crafty friends! It's time for a new colour duo at the Color Hues Color Challenge. The colouors for Challenge #132 are Yellow and Blue. They were chosen by my amazingly talented teammate Stef Perry. 

I could not wait to use the new Spellbinders Designer Purse cutting dies that were designed by my friend Sheri Ballantyne. Sheri has designed a whole collection called We All Have Baggage and it is so much fun and definitely fills a void that has not, in my opinion, been done before!

I made two different purses for my card using the challenge colours. It is so fun that you can customize your purses any way that you see fit. So many accent pieces that can take your purse from fabulous to even more fabulous! I started out cutting all the pieces in blue, yellow and a few accent pieces in gold mirror cardstock. I find it easier to do this rather that cutting as you go along and of course the extra pieces left over you can tuck away in your pocket for another card. 

My background was embossed with the Spellbinders Diamond Plaid embossing folder and attached to a 5.5" x 4.25" landscape oriented card base.

The blue purse at the back was glued directly to the embossed panel with liquid glue. The yellow purse that is in the front was attached with thin 3D foam squares.

The sentiment was created from the coordinating Hero Arts Keep Calm stamp set. Two separate sentiments that go together perfectly. They were first stamped on white, trimmed down and matted with blue cardstock to form a thin border.

 

I hope you head over to visit the Color Hues blog to see what my teammates have done! I hope to see you play along with us!

I am also submitting this to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Anything Goes.

Thank you for visiting and have a great day!

Color Hues #131

Today we start a new colour duo at the Color Hues Color Challenge. The new colors chosen by teammate Sheri Gilson are Coral and Green! A fresh Color palette for spring!

I used the Spellbinders Where Love Lands December 2025 Stencil of the Month for my card. I used Catherine Pooler inks in three shades of coral and three different shades of green.

There was lots of masking done on this card. There are 5 stencils and all my masking was done with the 5th stencil. With masking you can make each object a different colour if you like, the options are endless.

The sentiment is from an old My Favorite Things Stamps stamp set called Handwritten Happiness. It was stamped with VersaFine Onyx black ink. So crisp!

 I matted the card base with a piece of coral cardstock that matches the corals of the stencilled design. The main panel was cut with the largest die from the Lawn Fawn Postage Rectangle Stackables die set. It was attached to the card base with foam tape for dimension.

 

I am also submitting this to Seize the Birthday Challenge 324!

I hope you head over to visit the Color Hues blog to see what my teammates have done! I hope to see you play along with us!

Thanks for stopping by, have a great day!

Color Hues #130

Today we start a new colour duo at the Color Hues Color Challenge. Our lovely and talented leader Nancy Leppek chose the new duo at Fuchsia & Navy for this challenge. My teammates over on the Color Hues blog have once again created a wonderful inspiration gallery for you. 

I used the new to me Lawn Fawn I Like Big Butterflies stamps and dies for my card this week, but let me tell you about my background first. I use the Pretty Pink Posh Leaves and Flowers Stencils for my background, I stencilled the leafy layer only with Catherine Pooler Dress Blues ink. I cut my panel out using the largest die in the Lawn Fawn Outside In Stitched Rectangles Stackables. Next I splattered some white acrylic paint onto the panel and set it aside to dry.

I matted my 5 1/2" x 4 1/4" with navy cardstock. Then I attached my leafy stencilled layer using foam tape. It leaves just a thin navy line around the stencilled panel. 

Next I white heat embossed a few butterflies from the stamp set on Fuchsia cardstock and cut them out with the coordinating dies. I added a few white gel pen dots on the cheeks of the butterflies. That is a cute detailing tip from cardmaker Jen Shrkus, the queen of cute! I also added some Prisma glitter aound the wings of the pink butterflies. My quickie glue pen is starting to dry out a bit causing a bit of trouble getting the Prisma glitter to stick where I wanted it too. They were added to the card front with foam dots for some extra dimension.

The sentiment from the same stamp set was also white heat embossed on another piece of fuchsia cardstock and cut with a sentiment strip die. I added two rows of foam strips behind the sentiment to add more dimension.

I hope you head over to visit the Color Hues blog to see what my teammates have done! I hope to see you play along with us!

Thanks for stopping by, have a great day!

 

Color Hues #129 - Purple and Marigold

Today we start a new colour duo at the Color Hues Color Challenge. My fabulously talented teammate Marcia has chosen the bold duo of Purple & Marigold for this challenge.The team over at Color Hues have knocked it out of the park again along with our guest designer Chris.

My reflex was to go to a floral with these colours but I have the Spellbinders Made With Love craft dies on my desk begging to be used. 

For my colourful apron I chose to work with hues of marigold the palest was embossed with the Spellbinders Confection 3D Embossing folder. I used a medium and darker hue of marigold for the apron oven mitts. I used neutrals of kraft and brown for my chocolate chip cookies. 

Die cuts were added to the card with a combination of thin and ultra thin foam squares. I love that you can use them independently or layer them up gives you the ability to elevate your dimension game!

The Made With Love sentiment is also from the same die set. One die cut the shadow, which I cut with white cardstock. Each of the words is an individual die that I cut using black cardstock. They were so easy to line up within the shadow.

Honestly this is such a fun collection to use so it might stay out for a while!

 

I hope you head over to visit the Color Hues blog to see what my teammates have done! I hope to see you play along with us!

Thanks for stopping by, have a great day!

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!