Copper Bricks

Hi and welcome!  I'm here with my card for the latest Freshly Made Sketches challenge where Cecile Ribon is our hostess.  I was absent last week but back with this card: 

Time was again short so I had to to something quick.  Washi tape foliage and a stenciled background made this card pretty easy to put together.  The stenciling was done with Lunar Paste and it has a lovely sheen to it which you can see in the second photo.

The sentiment was put in the wrong place (doh!) because I wasn't paying attention so I hope Cecile will forgive me 😁

Thanks for visiting!  The design team have some fabulous cards so I hope you'll check them out.

Products Used:

Stamps:  Written Words (Concord & 9th)

Ink:  Versafine Onyx Black

Cardstock:  White

Dies:  Floral Shadow (Altenew) Watercolor Wash Freeform (MFT), Written Words (Concord & 9th)

Accessories:  Teal Shadow Washi (Altenew), Copper Lunar Paste, Salvaged Brick stencil (Honey Bee Stamps)

Cheers

Karren

Sunflowers

Hi and welcome!  I've been absent from the blog for a bit because I've been busy packing up my daughter's house as it has been sold.  She has already moved to a new city for her job, so it fell mostly to myself and my husband to pack up her house.  Fun times!

Anyway, as I'm filling in at The Flower Challenge, it's time for our reminder post and the challenge this month is to add circles with your flowers.  I went the easy route with washi tape to come up with this card:

I die-cut the trio shaker circle die into a panel of Grout Gray cardstock that I'd embossed with the Subtle embossing folder.  I then added the frame to each circle and adhered some sunflower washi tape.  I stamped the sentiment onto a white panel and added that.  

 

The whole panel was then popped up with foam tape on a white card base so the white peeks through the circles.

Thanks for visiting!  Please check out the fabulous cards by the rest of the design team and don't forget we have some prizes this month!

Products used:

Stamps:  Sunflowers (Pink Fresh Studio)

Ink:  Versafine Onyx Black

Cardstock:  White, Grout Gray (MFT)

Dies:  Circle Trio Shaker (MFT), Sunflowers (Pink Fresh Studio)

Accessories:  Sunflowers Washi (Pink Fresh Studio), Subtle EF (SU)

Cheers

Karren

Blended Circles

 Hi and welcome! Our sketch hostess this week at Freshly Made Sketches is Kim Singdahlsen and while I missed a couple of layers, I stuck pretty close to the sketch.

I stenciled onto the white card base with embossing paste and once that was dry, I used a circle stencil and some distress inks to ink-blend through the stencil. Once finished, I took a damp paper towel and rubbed over the ink to reveal the white stenciling.

I finished with a new stamp and die set for the sentiment that I did a bit of ink-blending on, and some black enamel dots for a bit of drama.

Thanks for visiting. Please check out the wonderful cards made by the rest of the design team.

Products used:

Stamps:  Written Words (C+9)

Ink:  Versafine Onyx Black, Mustard Seed, Spiced Marmalade, Wild Honey Distress Inks

Cardstock: White

Dies:  Written Words (C+9)

Accessories:  Masking Circles (Taylored Expressions), Daily News: Coffee & Chocolate (Stamperia), White Embossing Paste, Clear Embossing Powder, Black Enamel Dots

Cheers

Karren

Circle Flowers

 Hi all!  A surprise post from me today.  As some of you know, I administer The Flower Challenge blog and due to injury within our design team, I am stepping in to fill the gap for the next few months.  This month's challenge is to Add Circles and because it's our 100th challenge, some of the design team have prizes on offer, so I urge you to head over to the challenge and check it out.

My card is fairly simple.  A tone-on-tone stenciled background (which includes some circle shapes); a die-cut and stacked circle frame and a small floral arrangement.  The flowers and leaves were left over from a previous card so all I had to do was arrange them.

I finished with a sympathy sentiment and some matching pearls.  

Thanks for visiting!

Products used:

Stamps:  Assorted Greetings (Gina K.)

Ink:  Limestone, Industrial Diamond, Eucalyptus, Pastel Sunrise, Coral Bliss (Altenew)

Cardstock:  Jellybean Green (MFT), Soft Stone (PTI), Steel Gray, Coral Crush, Peach Bellini (MFT), Ocean Tides (PTI)

Dies:  Circle Loops (SSS), Be Bold Blooms (Spellbinders)

Accessories:  Geometric Grid Stencil (Aall & Create), Pastel Pearls (Honey Bee Stamps)

Cheers

Karren

Yellow Flowers

Welcome to the latest challenge from the Tic-Tac-Toe team. I designed the board for this challenge.  I went right column with Thinking Of You - Foliage - Die Cuts to come up with this card.

I stamped and stenciled the image then die-cut it using the co-ordinating die.  I also die-cut the square out of the centre. I added some additional colour to the flowers and leaves with Copic markers.  After stamping the sentiment, I die-cut that as well.  

Onto a Lemon Tart card base which I'd embossed with the Subtle embossing folder, I added the focal image and sentiment with foam tape.  I finished with some yellow enamel dots.

Thanks for visiting!  I hope you'll join us!

Products used:

Stamps:  Squared Spring Florals (Honey Bee Stamps)

Ink:  Memento London Fog, Versafine Onyx Black, Moon Rock, Misty Sage, Mossy Meadow, Buttercream, Warm Sunshine, Fresh Lemon (Altenew)

Cardstock:  White, Lemon Tart (PTI)

Dies:  Squared Spring Florals (Honey Bee Stamps)

Accessories:  Subtle EF (SU), Copics, Enamel Dots

Cheers

Karren

 

Except Young Again...

 Hi and welcome!  Linda Callahan is our sketch hostess over at Freshly Made Sketches and, knowing her as I do, I think she'll get a laugh out of the sentiment on my card.

Now, before I start, yes my card is flipped and the reason is solely because I must have turned my die-cut panel upside down before working on the rest my card.  Doh!  

To make my card, I took a panel of freebie patterned paper and adhered it to a white card base.  I then took a word window die and die-cut three openings to (originally) match the sketch out of a panel of Coral Crush cardstock.  I then lined up the sentiment stamps with the openings and stamped them onto the patterned paper.

I wanted to add some drama so added slim strips of black to peek out from each opening.  I then spattered on some white ink and some gold ink before adhering the panels together.  In hindsight, I sort of wish I didn't do the spattering, but too late now. Finally I finished with some enamel dots and a heart.  I like the serious look of the sentiment and then there's the last line...

Thanks for visiting.  Please check out the wonderful cards made by the rest of the design team.

Products used:

Stamps:  Mini Messages: Sassy Birthday (Honey Bee Stamps)

Ink:  Versafine Onyx Black

Cardstock:  White, Black, Coral Crush (MFT) Freebie patterned paper

Dies:  Stitched Rectangle Word Window (MFT)

Accessories:  Black enamel dots, Gold Shimmer Spray (Heidi Swapp), Unicorn White Ink Spray (Hero Arts)

Mini Card

 Hi and welcome to this week's challenge from the team at Freshly Made Sketches, where our hostess this week is Jen Mitchell.  I love Jen's sketch - so wide open!  I only had a small window of time to make my card as my daughter unexpectedly came to visit for the weekend and, naturally enough, card-making took a back seat.  But here is what I pulled together and thankfully a lot of it was pre-stamped/pre-made.

The pre-made bits on this card were the flowers, leaves and the envelope and insert.  So all I really had to do was stencil the background and die-cut the curved panel which came from a sample pack of Core'dinations cardstock from a recent stamp order.

I'm not sure what colours I used for the flowers as I ink-blended these while I was away from home for 2 weeks last year and didn't keep a record of the colours used.  They will be Altenew inks though.  The stencil is from Stamperia and I wanted to keep with the letter theme and thought this worked quite well.

Thanks so much for visiting.  The design team have some fabulous cards so I hope you'll check them out.

Products used:

Stamps:  Mini Messages & More (MFT)

Ink:  Versafine Onyx Black and various Altenew inks

Cardstock:  White, red (likely MFT), Core'dinations sample pack

Dies:  Floral Spray (Spellbinders), Paper Goods, Stitched Scallop Basic Edges (MFT)

Accessories:  Shabby Rose Stencil (Stamperia), white embossing paste

Cheers

Karren