Letter For You

 Hi and welcome!  Our challenge hostess this week over at Freshly Made Sketches is Amy O'Neill and she has a fun sketch for us to play with.  I went with an envelope instead of the banner shape in the sketch but I think it still works.

Onto a Grout Gray card panel that I'd cut with a postage edge die I used embossing paste to stencil a text-y pattern.  I thought I was using white embossing paste but this looks more translucent so maybe I grabbed the wrong jar.  

While that was drying, I die-cut lots of flowers and foliage in new Spellbinders colours as well as the sentiment and a white envelope.  I arranged the elements into a pleasing patter and adhered it to the stenciled panel with foam tape. 

I didn't add any other embellishments, leaving it somewhat clean.

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

Products used: 

Cardstock:  White, Grout Gray (MFT), Coral, Bellini, Mint, Fern (Spellbinders)

Dies:  Paper Goods (MFT), Postage Edge Rectangles, Bouquet of Flowers, Just For You Corner (Spellbinders)

Accessories:  Book stencil (Stamperia), White Embossing Paste

Cheers

Karren

Spring Bouquet

Hi!  It's time for the April challenge over at The Flower Challenge and this time we're asking for spring colours in your floral cards.  Easy, right?

 

Again, I was pressed for time.  The weekends seem to get shorter and shorter, leaving me less time to get into my craft room.  Luckily, Past Me had some already die-cut and ink-blended floral elements so this card didn't take too long to pull together.  Unfortunately, Past Me didn't record the ink colours I used but they would have been Altenew inks.

Past Me also had a panel of pale yellow cardstock that had been run through the die-cutting machine with a linen look cover plate.  I'm 99.9% sure this is a Papertrey Ink plate but I was too lazy to check! I cut an oval from the panel and adhered it to the white card base with foa tape.  I then arranged the flowers and previously hot-foiled sentiment.

I finished with some champagne drops by Pink Fresh.  

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

Products used:

Ink:  Various Altenew inks

Cardstock:  White, Lemon Chiffon (MFT)

Dies:  Fancy Sentiment Strip BetterPress Plate and Die, Foral Spray, Garden Wreath Add-On, Essential Stylish Ovals (Spellbinders), Canvas cover plate (PTI)

Accessories:  Clear Drops: Champagne (Pink Fresh), Gold hot foil

Cheers

Karren

Leafy Cluster

 Hi and welcome!  Today's sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches is from Narelle Farrugia and it played right into my current fondness of stenciling/vintage-looking cards.

Because the purpose of Freshly Made Sketches is clean cards, I didn't distress any elements but tried to give a vintage-y look with ink-blending and stamping onto Desert Storm cardstock.  The foliage is a stamp, die and stencil combo from Simon Says Stamp that I bought in the Black Friday sales but hadn't used until now.  It was quick and easy to put together.

The hot-foiled sentiment was from my already-foiled stash which seems to be my go-to lately when I'm in a time crunch with my card-making (all the time, it seems!)

Thanks for visiting.  Please head over to the challenge blog and check out the wonderful new cards made by our design team - and meet our new team member!

Products used:

Stamps:  Friendship Leafy Cluster (SSS), Vintage Ephemera, Scripted Backgrounds (WPlus9), Distressed Patterns (MFT)

Ink:  Amalgam (Gina K), Rocky Shore, Swamp Green, Oak Moss (Altenew)

Cardstock:  White, Desert Storm (Neenah), Black

Dies:  Friendship Leafy Cluster (SSS), Postal Frames (The Greetery), Hexi-Gem Sentiments Hot Foil and Die (Spellbinders)

Accessories:  Friendship Leafy Cluster stencils (SSS), Gold hot foil

Cheers

Karren

Bird Birthday

 Hi!  It's time for another Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge and this time I went down the right vertical column with Patterned Paper-Birds or Chicks-Stencil to come up with this birthday card.

The card base is stenciled with a cloud stencil before adding a couple of pieces of patterned paper.  The images were stamped, Copic-coloured and die-cut.  I added them with foam tape.  Finally I stamped a birthday sentiment.

Thanks so much for visiting!

Products used:

Stamps:  Birthday Chicks (MFT), Bubble Over (Spellbinders)

Ink:  Amalgam (Gina K), Versafine Onyx Black, Speckled Egg Distress Ink

Cardstock:  White, X-Press It, Homespun Gingham, Watercolor Wash Brights (MFT)

Dies:  Birthday Chicks (MFT)

Accessories:  Copics, White Gel Pen, Mini Cloud Edges Stencil (MFT)

Cheers

Karren

Herbs

 Hi all and welcome!  I am the sketch hostess over at Freshly Made Sketches this week and I decided I wanted a banner in the sketch, so that's what I did.  My card is for my dad's upcoming 92nd birthday.  He loves his vegetable garden so this was as close as I could get.  He'll get a laugh out of the fact that I used "thyme" for one of my labels, given his age 😂

I die-cut all the herb elements with white cardstock expect for the bucket base.  I then ink-blended and adhered all the layers.  Once finished, I set then aside and went to work on the rest of the card.  The banner is cut from woodgrain cardstock and popped up with foam tape onto a stenciled background.  The horizontal strip is cut from the same copper foil as the herb labels.

For the oval, I stenciled over the oval lining up the stencil so it matches the card base underneath.  I finished with a pre-foiled sentiment.

Thanks for visiting.  I hope you'll check out the DT cards and have a go yourself.

Products used:

Ink:  Espresso, Limestone, Misty Sage, Mossy Meadow, Swamp Green, Oak Moss, Silver Stone, Industrial Diamond (Altenew)

Cardstock:  White, Milk Chocolate (MFT), Grunge & Grain patterned paper (Honey Bee Stamps), Copper Matte Foil, Silver Matte Foil

Dies:  Lovely Layers: Herb Garden (Honey Bee Stamps), Fishtail Flag Layer Stax (MFT), Essential Stylish Ovals, Everyday Sentiments II (Spellbinders)

Accessories:  Copper hot foil, Daily News Coffee & Chocolate stencil (Stamperia)

Cheers

Karren

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