Rectangles and Leaves

Hi and welcome!  It's my turn to design the board over at Tic-Tac-Toe and I chose something that should be easy to work with - hopefully!  I ended up incorporating every element in my card today. 

The rectangle panels were ink-blended then embossed with a leafy embossing folder before being arranged onto a white card base.  The leaves were assembled using black and gold foil cardstock.  Finally the sentiment was heat-embossed and die-cut.

I finished with some shiny drops.

Thanks for visiting.  I hope you'll play along.

Products used:

Stamps:  Elegant Sentiments (Waffle Flower)

Ink:  Versamark, Mountain Mist, Volcano Lake, Lagoon, Emerald (Altenew)

Cardstock:  White, Black, Rose Gold Foil

Dies:  Fall Leaves, Elegant Sentiments (Waffle Flower), Double Stitched Rectangle Stax (MFT)

Accessories:  Leafy EF (Spellbinders, Champagne Clear Drops (Pink Fresh)

Cheers

Karren

Treasured Flowers

Hi, just a quick post from me today, using the latest sketch from the team at Freshly Made Sketches where our hostess this week is Jennifer Timko.

I used new-to-me products from Pink Fresh to make this soft-looking card. Hot-foiling and layering stencils made this come together pretty easily.

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

Products used:

Ink:  Buttercream, Honey Drizzle, Olive, Moss (Altenew

Cardstock:  White, Lemon Chiffon, Watercolor Wash Brights (MFT), Spooktacular (Honey Bee)

Dies:  Delighted For You Hot Foil (Pink Fresh), Essential Modern Ovals (Spellbinders)

Accessories:  Gold Hot Foil

Cheers

Karren

 

Ombre Roses

Hi and welcome!  Judy Rozema is our sketch hostess this week over at Freshly Made Sketches and she has a sketch just perfect for ombre panels, which is exactly what I did!

I white heat-embossed the Roses All Over background stamp onto a white panel and then cut it into three equal strips.  On each strip, I ink-blended some distress ink and then arranged the panels evenly onto a Jalapeno Popper card base.

Both the hot-foiled sentiment and the floral dies were already made so I just arranged them and adhered them to the card base.

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

 

Products used:

Stamps:  Roses All Over (MFT), Elegant Sentiments (Waffle Flower)

Ink:  Tattered Rose, Saltwater Taffy, Worn Lipstick Distress Inks, Versamark

Cardstock:  White, Black, Jalapeno Popper, Coral Crush, In the Buff, Peach Bellini (MFT), Cream (SSS), Sage (Spellbinders)

Dies:  Be Bold Blooms, Hexi Gem Sentiments (Spellbinders

Accessories:  White EP, Gold Hot Foil

Cheers

Karren

Hello

Hi!  I'm here with a card for the latest challenge at Freshly Made Sketches, where our sketch hostess this week is Amy O'Neill.  

I decided at the start to create a floral card and after looking through my stash, I found these already-stamped images so it was a no-brainer at that point!  Onto both a white card base and the gray panel, I embossed with the Subtle embossing folder.  The sentiment was white heat-embossed onto a Peach Bellini panel and adhered to the gray, before being added to the card base.

I then arranged the florals so the sentiment tucked into the flower and glued it down.  I finished with some gray enamel dots.

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

Products used:

Stamps:  Peony Memories, Grouped Fresh Peonies (The Ton)

Ink:  Mango Smoothie, Peach, Rouge, Forest Glades, Evergreen (Altenew), Versamark

Cardstock:  White, Peach Bellini, Cement Gray (MFT)

Dies:  Peony Memories (The Ton)

Accessories:  White EP, Subtle EF, Rock Collection Enamel Dots (Altenew)

Cheers

Karren
 

Birthday Rascal

Hi and welcome.  Narelle Farrugia is our sketch hostess over at Freshly Made Sketches this week and I took the liberty of rotating her sketch 90 degrees to enable my images to all fit.

I had just received this set and wanted to try my Copic colouring again.  The last attempt really knocked any confidence I had so I have been reluctant to try again.  This isn't perfect by any means and my blending needs some work, but it's better than the last attempt, so I'll take it!  I really need to take some time off work and just spend it in the craft room! 

After colouring and die-cutting the images, I set to work on the polaroids.  I die-cut them from white cardstock and used some stencils and distress ink to add a bit of colour to the background.  

I then assembled the polaroids and after stamping the sentiment on a white card base, I arranged them haphazardly to look like scattered polaroids.  I finished with a pink enamel heart to match the flower colour.

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

 

Products used:

Stamps:  YUZU Little Rascal (MFT)

Ink:  Amalgam (Gina K), Versafine Onyx Black, Tumbled Glass, Peeled Paint Distress Inks

Cardstock:  White, X-Press It

Dies:  Little Rascal, Precious Polaroids (MFT)

Accessories:  Grassy Edges, Micro Cloud Edges Stencils (MFT), Enamel Heart, Copics

Cheers

Karren

Floral Tag

 Hi all, I'm back with a card for the latest Tic-Tac-Toe challenge where I went straight down the left coloum with Gift Tag-Flowers-Twine to come up with this card.

Looking at this now, I see that this is not technically a gift tag but just a tag, so I hope I will be forgiven.  The main floral piece was cut from a sheet I had ink-blended with the Charming Delight stencil set.  I saw this used by my friend Michele Ferguson and immediately had to buy it and try to recreate using similar colours to Michele's.  To put my own spin on it, once I had finished the stenciling, I stamped over the panel with the Papillon stamp and light gray ink.  As this made a big panel, I did some other finishes to other pieces of the stenciled pattern which will probably appear in future cards - think embossing paste and vintage...

Once I'd created my tag, I also die-cut a shadow before tying them together with baker's twine.  I dry-embossed a panel of cardstock and adhered that to the cardbase adding a black strip of cardstock to tie in with the twine.  I finished with a sentiment and enamel dots.

Thanks for visiting.  Please check out the challenge over at Tic-Tac-Toe and have a go yourself.

Products used:

Stamps:  Crackle Background (SSS), Stylish Oval Birthday (Spellbinders)

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

Cardstock:  White, Black, Stone Gray (MFT), Coral (MFT)

Accessories:  Charming Delight Stencil Art (Altenew) Enamel Dots, Baker's Twine

Cheers

Karren

Colour Blocked Poinsettia

Hi and welcome!  I'm the sketch hostess this week over at Freshly Made Sketches and I went back to my roots for my sketch - colour blocking!  Way back in the late 90's/early 2000's when I started stamping, I was particularly drawn to colour-blocked cards.  So decided to come up with a sketch that has a colour-blocked look.

I also decided to make a Christmas card and luckily, I had all of the floral images and sentiment already stamped and embossed so I really just had to work on the background.  I temporarily taped the three panels together and, using my Stampwheel, stamped over all three panels with a background stamp and Versamark ink, several times.  I then carefully removed the red layer and re-stamped, then removed the green layer and re-stamped to ensure good coverage.  Once that dried, I re-assembled it and adhered it to a card base.

From there it was a simple matter to add the floral elements and the sentiment.  I finished with some pearls.

Thanks for visiting.  I'm keen to see how the rest of the DT interpreted my sketch, so please head on over and check them out.

Products used:

Stamps:  Poinsettia Wishes, Berry Branches (The Ton), Christmas Background (MFT), Poinsettia Bouquets (WPlus9)

Ink:  Versamark, rouge, Crimson, Velvet, Forest Glades, Evergreen, Espresso (Altenew)

Cardstock:  White, Black, Amarena Cherry, Jalapeno Popper, Kraft (MFT)

Dies:  Poinsettia Wishes, Berry Branches (The Ton)

Accessories:  Platinum EP, Holiday Pearl Stickers (Honey Bee Stamps)

Cheers

Karren