Time Out #172 - Theme Challenge

 Hey friends it's October!  Summer sure went fast for me.  And because it's October, we all know it's Breast Cancer Awareness month.  The Time Out challenge is celebrating by having it be our theme for this challenge.

I made a slimline card for this challenge and added pink to my card for the twist part of the challenge.  I stenciled the leaves with yellow and pink inks.  Then I used the coordinating leaf vines stamping them with Versamark ink and embossing them with gold detail powder.  I stamped and embossed the sentiment in the same manner on pink cardstock and die cut it with the coordinating die.  I added some gold crystals for more sparkle.  The matching envelope was made with the same die set used for the scalloped frame.  It's so difficult to photograph this size card.  I can't fit it in my photo tent!  Ugh!

You can see more from the Time Out design team and our guest for this challenge, Dhruvika, on the Time Out blog.

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Recipe

Stamps:  Hello Fall (Honey Bee)

Paper:  Recollections white, regal rose

Ink:  Versamark, spun sugar, worn lipstick, picked raspberry, fossilized amber, wild honey

Accessories:  Hello Fall dies and Hello Fall Leaves stencil (Honey Bee), Slimline Envelope Builder (Trinity), gold embossing powder, crystals

Just Us Girls #556 - Word Week

 Hi friends!  It's Word Week over at Just Us Girls, and Bobby chose PLAID.

I wanted to make a card for my friend's 10 year old granddaughter who recently broke her wrist riding her bike.  I had this gnome already colored and sitting on my desk, so I chose to use this.  Gwen had her hair in braids the last time I saw her, so I thought it was perfect.  And she has blonde hair!  I recently got this mini slimline card and envelope die set from Trinity Stamps which worked perfectly.  I first stamped the plaid background in orchid ink then die cut the tag from it.  I also die cut the scallop rectangle and adhered the tag to it with craft foam.  The sentiment die was die cut three times and stacked for dimension.  The gnome was adhered with dimensionals.  I added the twine, crystals and star dust stickles to the heart.

You can see more from our JUGs design team and our October guest on the JUGs blog.

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Recipe

Spring Gnomes (SSS), Sketch Plaid bg (C. Pooler)

Paper:  Recollections white, orchid

Ink:  Memento tuxedo black, copics, sweet sixteen

Accessories:  Mini slimline card & envelope die set (Trinity Stamps), spring gnomes die (SSS), twine, crystals, star dust stickles, craft foam, dimensionals

Time Out #171 - Inspired by Words

 Hi friends!  The new Time Out challenge this time is our Inspired by Words challenge.  Love this one!

We are sponsored by STAMPlorations for this challenge.

I'm not a coffee drinker like most people out there.  My parents loved coffee and there was always a pot brewing on the stove.  I'd much rather drink champagne!  LOL!  But I do love coffee mugs better than champagne glasses, so I chose to use this set from Stamplorations called Coffee Joy.  I'd love to own a mug like this.  I colored it with copic markers and went over the designs of the flower with a black thin line marker because the lines were a little faded after coloring it.  The center of the flower has shimmer on it.  I fussy cut it (I hate fussy cutting, but it was easy to cut out) and popped it up on the panel that I created with two different pattern papers.  That panel was die cut with a scallop die.  I added copper crystals to the background.

You can see more from the Time Out design team on the Time Out blog.

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Recipe

Stamps:  Coffee Joy (Stamplorations), Birthday Greetings (Gina K)

Paper:  Recollections white, brocade blue, Pumpkin Spice (Pink & Main), Family Ties (Pebbles)

Ink:  Versafine claire nocturne, icing on the cake (C. Pooler), copic markers

Accessories:  Audrey cutaways die (Winnie & Walter), crystals, shimmer, craft foam

Top-Down Kind of Day

Hello there!  I just love this set from The Greetery, so much so that I purchased it twice!  Ugh!  I didn't realize I purchased it when it first came out.  When I saw the fall addition stamp set that recently came out, I had to have it!  I stamped and die cut the car and the pumpkins and colored them with the layering stamps.  It's just so cute!  I die cut a small rectangle that fit the sentiment and the car.  Then I went to work on the background.  The Greetery has a three-step stencil that I used to create this background with just two inks.  The aqua color was blended darker with one stencil and lighter with another.  Love how that came out!  I added sequins and shimmer, of course!

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Recipe

Stamps:  Top Down Day and Top Down Autumn Day (The Greetery)

Paper:  Recollections white

Ink:  Versafine Claire nocturne; twilight , black jack, icing on the cake (C. Pooler); aqua sky (C&9th); autumn blaze (Altenew); brushed corduroy distress oxide

Accessories:  Stitched rectangle dies (MFT), Top Down dies (The Greetery), square dance stencil (The Greetery), mini cloud stencil (MFT), sequins, shimmer, glossy accents, dimensionals

 

Just Us Girls #554 - Color Week

Hi friends!  Still navigating this new blogger!  I have always used Internet Explorer, but I've figured out it works better with Chrome.  So here we go.

It's Color Week at Just Us Girls and Carol has chosen these lovely colors:  green, pink and blue.  

When I think of these colors, I think of flowers.  So I chose to use a floral turnabout stamp set from Concord & 9th.  This is a two-step turnabout stamp set.  The first step is to stamp those tiny flowers and dots twice (instead of four times as usual).  I did this in blue and green inks.  Then the flowers and leaves are separate stamps that you stamp in the openings.  I chose to use two different shades of pink for the flowers and two for the leaves.  The sentiment strips coordinate with the set and I die cut them from blue cardstock.  I added them to the panel (which was die cut with a scallop die) and I notice they are not very straight!  Lastly, I added crystals for that sparkle I love.

You can see more from our JUGs design team and September guest on the JUGs blog.

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Recipe

Stamps:  Kindness Blooms (Concord & 9th)

Paper:  Recollections white, brocade blue

Ink:  Pink champagne, party dress, stone blue eucalyptus, spruce (C. Pooler)

Accessories:  Audrey cutaways die (Winnie & Walter), Kindness Blooms die (C&9th), crystals, craft foam

Blessed

 Hello!  My mother-in-law asked me to make a special card for her.  She knows a young man from her church that is becoming a priest, and she is going to his ordination.  She gave me a good amount of time ahead of the occasion to make this card, and I used that time to ponder how to create this card.  I pulled out all the crosses I have and settled on this one.  This set is from The Greetery and is intended as an Easter set.  I die cut the cross from white cardstock then impressed it with a woodgrain plate.  I sponged antique linen distress oxide ink on it.  I stamped the palm leaves on the panel and layered the cross and other floral and leaf images on it.  The sentiment was die cut three times and adhered together.  I added shimmer to the flowers, cross, and sentiment.  I also added crystals for more shimmer.  I don't know if you can see it, but I stenciled the cross on the envelope and stamped some flowers and leaves on it as well.  This is a little larger than an A2 size card.

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Recipe

Stamps:  Caring Cross and Birthday Blooms (The Greetery); Wild Garden (C. Pooler)

Paper:  Recollections white, beige

Ink:  Sprout, parsley, sorbet, honeysuckle (C&9th), antique linen distress oxide

Accessories:  Caring Cross and Birthday Blooms dies (C&9th), Wild Garden dies (C.Pooler), woodgrain impression plate, crystals, shimmer, corner rounder, craft foam

Just Us Girls #533 - Trend Week

Hello friends!  The new challenge at Just Us Girls is a good one.  Nancy chose for us to cut our cards into thirds for this Trend Challenge.

 

I was organizing all my stamps the other day and came across this one I've never used.  I thought it would be cool to just emboss it in gold onto a blended background.  I started with that background.  I recently saw Kristina Werner creating blended backgrounds with the new Crackling Campfire oxide ink with various other inks.  I chose to use it with Dusty Concord and Aged Mahogany that she suggested.  I love how it came out!  After blending them together, I heat set it so I could stamp it with Versamark and heat emboss it with antique gold embossing powder.  I did the same with the sentiment.  (There's a defect I noticed on the leaves in the top portion of the image.)  After that, I die cut it first with a stitched rectangle then I cut it into thirds.  I took off about a 1/4" from each piece so there would be a space in between each piece.  I mounted the three pieces onto a black panel with craft foam for some dimension.  Gold sequins were added for some sparkle.

 

You can see more from the JUGs design team and our September guest on the JUGs blog.

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Recipe

Stamps:  Delicate Bouquet (Altenew), Birthday Greetings (Gina K)

Paper:  Recollections white, black

Ink:  Versamark, dusty concord, aged mahogany, crackling campfire oxide inks

Accessories:  Stitched rectangle (MFT), antique gold embossing powder, sequins, craft foam