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!

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!