Big Ole Bow

Hi and welcome!  Today's card uses Jacquie's sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches and I have to admit, this sketch had me thinking.  When I first saw it, I immediately wanted to do some form of Mondrian design with dies, but I didn't have the right sizes of dies and it just became too hard, so it was back to the drawing board.  Then I saw the sketch in a whole new light and decided it was perfect for a big bow and that's what I did.

This image is a digi from Power Poppy and I printed it out and coloured it with Copics before die-cutting it to suit the position of the sketch.  Once that was done I gold-embossed the sentiment onto a black tag and added it with white cotton, piercing a tiny hole in the coloured image to hold the cotton.

I didn't add any other embellishments and I think this is the least amount of Copics I have ever used in one sitting!

Thanks for visiting.  Coincidentally, Color Hues are looking for red and black for their current challenge so I'm going to link up there.

Products used:

Stamps:  Big Ole Bow digi stamp (Power Poppy), Tagged Elegance (The Greetery

Ink:  Versamark

Cardstock:  X-Press It, White, Black

Dies:  2022 Holiday Thank You (The Greetery)

Accessories:  Gilded EP (Brutus Monroe, Copics, white cotton

Cheers

Karren

 

Case Me a Pinecone

 Hi, I'm so pleased that Michelle Lupton is again doing her Case Me A Christmas Card series after having to take a break from organising it last year.  I'm delighted she has asked me to play along again.  I chose this card to CASE and was inspired by the following elements:

• the slimline size
• the foliage in a curve down the left hand side
• the big bold sentiment in gold on vellum
• the two tone geometric background

And here's my card (I'll post the card I cased down below).

I started with a white slimline card base (full slimline size) and added a cream die-cut striped cover plate.  I also cut the cover plate in kraft and filled in the stripes with kraft strips.  I then set that aside while I worked on the pinecones and foliage.

I die-cut the base of the pinecones in Milk Chocolate and the top in Hot Fudge.  I wanted to add some interest to the base layer so spritzed it with Crooked Broomstick and Fallen Acorn mica sprays.  Once they were dry, it looked a bit bright, so I inked over the top with Ground Espresso Distress Ink to tone it down.  I also spritzed the pine needles with Tree Lot mica spray after sponging the edges with Green Onyx ink.  On the sage foliage, I added some Wintergreen ink but it was too similar to the cardstock colour so near impossible to see.

Once everything was dry, I arranged it into a curve and adhered it to the card base.  The sentiment was heat-embossed on vellum and die-cut and adhered with a mix of liquid glue and tiny slivers of foam tape.  Finally, I finished with some gold pearls.

Here's Michelle's card that I chose to case.  I hope you can see how I was inspired.

 

Thanks to Michelle for inviting me again.  I am excited to see which of my cards she chose to case.  I haven't made many cards this year, so the pickings are slim...  Here is a link to the card Michelle created based on one of mine.

Products used:

Stamps:  Merry Christmas Duo (Waffle Flower)

Ink:  Versamark, Wintergreen (Catherine Pooler), Ground Espresso Distress Ink, Green Onyx (Altenew)

Cardstock;  White, Whip Cream, Kraft, Hot Fudge, Milk Chocolate (MFT), Pinefeather (PTI), Sage (Spellbinders), Vellum

Dies:  Slimline Short Strips (The Ton), Lovely Layers: Winter Greenery (Honey Bee Stamps), Merry Christmas Duo (Waffle Flower)

Accessories:  Tree Lot, Crooked Broomstick, Fallen Acorn Mica Sprays, Antique Gold EP, Champagne pearls (Honey Bee Stamps)

Cheers

Karren

Wedding Card

 Hi!  I'm late posting because we had a long weekend just gone and my days are all out of whack!  But here is my late post using Judy Rozema's sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches.

For my card, I used some Mintay patterned paper that came free with an order from an online store here in New Zealand called Krafter's Cart.  One side had gorgeous images and the other side had a lovely all over floral pattern.  You can see a snippet of the images in the photo above. I found two mirror images of white flowers and fussy-cut them out.  For the background, I die-cut an oval from pale peach cardstock and embossed it with the SU Subtle embossing folder.  I then framed it with an olive frame cut from the same oval die and the next size up in the nesting set.

The sentiment was already hot-foiled and it fit perfectly between the oval frame and I finished with some clear champagne drops.

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

Products used:

Cardstock:  White, Moss (Altenew, Barely Peach (Spellbinders), Patterned Paper by Mintay Papers

Dies:  Essential Modern Ovals, Fancy Sentiments BetterPress and Dies (Spellbinders)

Accessories:  Gold Hot Foil, Clear Drops: Champagne (Pink Fresh)

Cheers

Karren

Circle Line

 Hi and welcome!  Amy O'Neill is the hostess over at Freshly Made Sketches this week and she has a fun one for us!  I decided to play with dies for my card.

After die-cutting the elements from various coloured cardstock, I added some ink blending for dimension and then assembled.  I decided to add some blue circles to more replicate the sketch and position my die-cut pieces around and on them.

The sentiment is a negative hot-foiled sentiment which was already prepared so I quickly added that and called my card done!

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

Products used:

Ink:  Gathered Twigs Distress Ink

Cardstock:  White, Wild Cherry (MFT), Paradise (Hero Arts, Spring Moss, Pinefeather (PTI), Avocade (C&9, Dune (Spellbinders)

Dies:  Luminary Circles (SSS), Welcome Winter Sled, Joy, Fancy Sentiment Strips BetterPress (Spellbinders), Gingerbread House (MFT)

Accessories:  Black Hot Foil

Cheers

Karren

Postage Flowers

 

Hi and welcome!  Today is Freshly Made Sketch Challenge Day and our hostess this week is Narelle Farrugia.  As soon as I saw her sketch, I saw postage stamps and that's the direction I took.

This is part of an earlier stenciled panel that I first used on this card.  I used the Postage Collage die to select three pieces to die-cut and then added the additional postage-style stamps on them.  The card base is white and onto that I added a Pastel Sunrise panel I'd stamped with the same colour ink and the Crackle background stamp.  I used this stamp on the stenciled piece as well so this ties it together somewhat.

To finish the card, I stacked a BetterPress sentiment three deep and called it done.

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

Products used:

Stamps:  Postage Collage (Waffle Flower), Crackle Background (SSS

Ink:  Rose Quartz, Peach Parfait, Purple Wine, Orange Cream, Sunkissed, Fire Brick, Mocha, Sea Forest, Marshland, Misty Moor, Puffy Heart, Mangrove Root, Cosmic Berry, Pastel Sunrise, Obsidian Black (Altenew), Lost Shadow Distress Ink

Cardstock:  White, Pastel Sunrise (Altenew)

Dies:  Postage Collage (Waffle Flower, Here For You Sentiments BetterPress and Hot Foil (PinkFresh)

Accessories:  Charming Delight Stencils (Altenew), Subtle EF (SU)

Cheers

Karren

Chalkboard Christmas

Hi and welcome.  I'm the sketch hostess over at Freshly Made Sketches and I decided to add to my meagre Christmas card stash with this card. 

Firstly, I inked up one side of an embossing folder with white pigment ink and ran it through with kraft cardstock.  I repeated this a few times to get a good layer of white ink then set it aside to dry.  Once dry, I lightly inked around the edges with Vintage Photo distress ink.  Then my plans came unstuck!  I had planned to use some patterned paper my mother gave me a piece of which had scripty Christmas words over a chalkboard-looking background, but I didn't have enough!  So I decided to make my own.  I used a chalk bg stamp first then stamped over that with a text Christmas stamp.  It's not the same but it's okay.

I added the two panels to my card base and included a thin strip of gold foil cardstock at the join.  The tag was hot-foiled and then die-cut and I also die-cut some holly leaves and berries which I added to the tag.  I finished with some twine tied in a bow onto the tag.

Thanks so much for visiting.  Please head over and check out what the rest of the DT have done with my sketch.

Products used:

Stamps:  Chalk Background (Hero Arts), Christmas Background (MFT)

Ink:  Cloud White (Altenew), Vintage Photo Distress Ink

Cardstock:  White, Black, Kraft, Amarena Cherry (MFT), Pinefeather (PTI), matte gold foil

Dies:  Seasonal Sketch (Tim Holtz, Tag Sale #5 (PTI), Christmas Mailbox Greetings Hot Foil (Spellbinders)

Accessories:  Gold hot foil, twine, Holly & Foliage EF (Spellbinders)

Cheers

Karren

Hello Florals

Hi!  Today's card uses Cecile's sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches and I decided to play with some NBUS for my card.  (Apologies that the photos look a bit garish - I think the camera settings on my phone have changed.)  And, by the way, the price stickers on the ink cubes are in New Zealand dollars not US 😄

The NBUS products I used for this card are the floral dies and the sentiment - both of which come from Pinkfresh Studio.  I stenciled and die-cut the flowers and heat-embossed the sentiment.  For the background, I veered away from the rectangle and went with an oval shape which was embossed with the Brickwork folder from Tim Holtz.  I mounted that onto some matte gold foil and adhered it to a Coral Crush card base.

I then arranged the florals and the sentiment and called it done!  Thanks for visiting.  Please head over and check out the wonderful cards made by the rest of the design team.

Products used:

Stamps:  Here For You Sentiments (Pink Fresh Studio)

Ink:  Versamark, Chasing Sunsets, Indian Summer sets (Pink Fresh Studio), Shadow Creek, Mountain Pine (Altenew)

Cardstock:  White, Coral Crush (MFT), Fold Matte Foil

Dies:  Here For You Sentiments, Garden Party (Pink Fresh Studio)

Accessories:  Garden Party Stencils (Pink Fresh Studio), Brickwork EF (Tim Holtz), Antique Gold EP (SSS)

Cheers

Karren