Color Hues #140- Dusty Blue and Brown

Hi crafty friends! It' time for a new color duo at the at the Color Hues Color Challenge! Challenge #140 has been chosen by our fabulous leader and teammate Nancy Leppek! She chose Dusty Blue and Brown for the colours this challenge!

I finally took the opportunity to create a card with the PinkFresh Studio Floral Fields die and stencil set. First I die cut the flowers with the die using white cardstock. 

Then I used the coordinating stencil set which has seven layers to colour my field using Catherine Pooler inks in Cove Blue, Stone Blue and Icing on the Cake.

The thank you sentiment is from PinkFresh Studio's Amazing Things! It was heat embossed with Wow Gold Sparkle embossing powder and then cut out with the co-ordinating die.

If you haven't had a chancce yet to see wht the rest of my talented teammates did for this challenge please make sure you stop over at the Color Hues Color Challenge blog to check out their designs!

Thanks for stopping in today!

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!

Thank you for stopping in today!

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! 

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! 

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!

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!