Friday 15 March 2024

Pastel Flowers

 Hi! Today’s card is for the latest challenge at Tic Tac Toe. I worked with the centre row to come up with this soft card. 

The dies were cut from white card stick and softly ink-blended before being arranged on a white card base.  I stamped the sentiment in the same gray ink as the leaves and called it done.

Thanks for visiting! 

Products used:

Stamps:  Elegant Sentiments (Waffle Flower)
Ink:  Pink Pearl, Buttercream, Limestone, Silver Stone (Altenew)
Cardstock:  White
Dies:  Sulfur Cosmos (Altenew)

Cheers
Karren


Thursday 14 March 2024

Puppy Thanks

 Hi!  It's my turn to design the sketch this week at Freshly Made Sketches and here's the card I made with it:



This card was made for my daughter to give to our vets who facilitated the open-heart surgery on her puppy.  I coloured the pup to look as much like Altezza as I could and used a colour combo from Colour Cubes.




Thanks so much for visiting.  The rest of the design team have made some fabulous cards so I hope you'll check then out.




Products used:

Stamps:  You Are Pawsome (SSS), I Just Miss You Puppy (Gerda Steiner)
Ink:  Amalgam (Gina K.), Versamark
Cardstock:  White, Indigo (Spellbinders), Amarena Cherry (MFT), X-Press It
Dies:  Paw Prints (MFT)
Accessories:  Copics, White Embossing Powder

Cheers
Karren



Thursday 7 March 2024

Coral Thanks

 Hi and welcome to a new challenge over at Freshly Made Sketches.  Our hostess this week is Cecile Ribon and as is typical for Cecile, she has given us a fun and unique sketch to play with.  I went pretty literal to come up with this card.




These Be Bold Bloom flowers and foliage were already in the pack from an earlier crafty session, so this card was pretty quick to put together.  At this point in time, that suits me perfectly because I am having a bit of a creative and inspiration slump at the moment.  Just riding the wave until it passes and hopefully my love of card-making will return.

On top of that, my daughter's 7-month old Spoodle puppy had to have major heart surgery this week to correct a Grade 5/6 heart murmur which would have shortened her life to months rather than years if we didn't get it done.  She had the surgery on Monday this week and is doing really well.  We are so very grateful to our vets who flew in a specialist from the North Island to undertake this very complex surgery.  I've posted a couple of photos below for anyone interested.





Thanks so much for visiting.  The DT have some fabulous cards to inspire you so please check them out.




This photo was when she was taken to the After Hours Vet for overnight care on the day of her surgery.  Obviously she was drugged to the gills, but still looking happy.

Products used:

Stamps:  Elegant Sentiments (Waffle Flower)
Ink:  Versafine Onyx Black, Sage, Pastel Sunrise, Vanilla Cream, Coral Bliss (Altenew)
Cardstock:  White, Peach Bellini, Coral Crush (MFT), Cream (SSS), Ocean Tides (PTI)
Dies:  Be Bold Blooms (Spellbinders), Blueprints 21 (MFT)

Cheers
Karren



Thursday 29 February 2024

Fishing Birthday

  Hi everyone and welcome.  It's time for a new sketch from the team over at Freshly Made Sketches and this week our sketch hostess is Jen Brum.  I used the sketch to make a birthday card for my father's upcoming 91st birthday.


I was guided by the Colour Cubes and also took a few minutes to plan out my card in the Trinity Stamps Cardmaking Sketchbook, which makes execution so much quicker!


This is a NBUS stamp and die set from Honey Bee Stamps.  I stamped, Copic-coloured and die-cut the images and then went to work on my background.  I embossed a green card-front-sized panel with the Castaway embossing folder, then lined up the brown strip to exactly match and ran that through the embossing folder.  The tiny sentiment was white heat-embossed onto a Jellybean Green strip and I added a copper metallic die-cut circle, onto which I added the images.






Thanks so much for visiting.  The DT have some gorgeous cards so I hope you'll head over and check them out.



Products used:

Stamps:  Fishing Legend (Honey Bee Stamps), Curio Labels (The Greetery)
Ink:  Amalgam (Gina K.) Versamark
Cardstock:  White, X-Press It, Forest (Spellbinders), Jellybean Green, Milk Chocolate (MFT), Copper Metallic
Dies:  Fishing Legend (Honey Bee Stamps), Infinity Circle Dies (Hero Arts)
Accessories:  Copics, White Embossing Powder, Castaway Embossing Folder (Spellbinders)

Cheers
Karren

Thursday 22 February 2024

Mum's Birthday

  Hi and welcome!  Today's sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches was designed by Kim Singdahlsen and I used it to create a birthday card for my mum.



The floral image was already stamped, stenciled and die-cut which saved a heap of time.  I used the colours from the image for my background.  I also found the embossed brickwork panel as well as the hot-foiled sentiment, so this card really only involved assembly.


Both the vertical and horizontal panels were embossed with the Subtle embossing folder for some additional dimension.  The floral image was adhered to the brickwork panel and then I used foam tape to add it to the card base.

 
Thanks so much for visiting.  Please check out the fabulous cards made by the design team.

Products used:

Stamps:  Garden Roses (Pink Fresh Studio)
Ink:  Amalgam (Gina K.), Martian and Tropical Forest sets (Altenew)
Cardstock:  White, Black, Coral Crush, Peach Bellini (MFT), Chartreuse (PTI)
Dies:  Garden Roses (Pink Fresh Studio), Hexi-Gem Sentiments (Spellbinders)
Accessories:  Mini Brick EF (Tim Holtz), Garden Roses Stencils (Pink Fresh Studio), Gold Hot Foil, Subtle EF (SU)

Cheers
Karren

Friday 16 February 2024

Striped Blossom

Hi all and welcome to a new board over at Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge.  I've chosen the bottom row Flowers-Dots/Stripes-Green for this in-your-face card!

 

I have been forcing myself to branch out colour-wise with my cards and the use of the Colour Cubes is really helping me because there is no way on earth I would have chosen to work with this palette myself!  I really, really don't like the fuschia/orchid colour so to use it was a real challenge.  This isn't my favourite card but it's not horrible so I can live with that.


Thanks for visiting.  I hope you'll head over to the challenge and have a go yourself!




Products used:

Stamps:  Assorted Greetings (Gina K. Designs)
Ink:  Versamark
Cardstock:  White, Midnight, Tidepool, Fig, Grape (C&9), Tropical Teal (PTI)
Dies:  Cherry Blossom (Honey Bee Stamps), Embossed Edge Circles (Kat Scrappiness), Slim Stripes (Pink Fresh), Herringbone Parquet (The Greetery)
Accessories:  White EP

Cheers
Karren

Thursday 15 February 2024

Masculine 18th

 Just a quick post today as I’m running out of time to get this published.  Today’s card was made for a young man who celebrated his 18th birthday last week. 

Patterned paper, distress mics stains and my favourite number dies meant this card came together fairly quickly.


Linda Callahan is our hostess over at Freshly Made Sketches this week so pop over and check out the fabulous cards made by the design team. 

Thanks for visiting.




Products used:

Cardstock:  Milk Chocolate (MFT), White, Black, Spooktacular Patterned Paper (Honey Bee Stamps)
Dies:  By The Numbers (PTI), Hexi-Gem Sentiments (Spellbinders)
Accessories:  Fallen Acorn Mica Stain Spray (Tim Holtz), Tasteful Textile EF (SU), Gold Hot Foil

Cheers
Karren