Haunting

Here is my card for this week's Dynamic Duos color challenge, which was to use Pumpkin Pie and Basic Black.  I had fun with this card.  I was playing around with using the acrylic block as a stamp and decided to use Pumpkin Pie as my color of choice.  Once I'd colored onto the block using a marker, I spritzed the block with Champagne shimmer mist then stamped onto some Very Vanilla cardstock.  So it's nice and sparkly IRL.

Once that dried for a few minutes I ran over it with my Haunting wheel inked in Basic Black ink.  I colored over each little trick or treater using Basic Black marker to sharpen the image.

Thanks for looking.

Products used (all Stampin' Up!):

Stamps:  Teeny Tiny Wishes

Cardstock:  Basic Black; Pumpkin Pie; Very Vanilla

Ink:  Basic Black

Accessories:  Haunting Jumbo Wheel; Pumpkin Pie & Basic Black markers; Champagne shimmer mist; 1 1/4" circle punch; 1 3/8" circle punch

Cheers

Karren

Edited to add:  This card was chosen as a Dynamic Darling over at Dynamic Duos this week.

Indigo Starfruit Muse

I love the color combo at Fab Friday.  These colors go so well together, but I have to admit I struggled a bit with how to put them together until I decided to go with an embossed and sponged card.

The main panel evolved after a series of trials and tribulations.  My original intention was to individually color the circles using the challenge colors.  But that didn't give me a clear, consistent impression, so I decided to white emboss and sponge over the top with the challenge colors.  Once that was done, I thought the edges looked blank so I clear embossed over the top.  Finally I stamped one of the images from Clockworks over the top of all of that, using Midnight Muse.  Here's a closer view of the main layer:

I used last week's sketch at Friday Mashup for the layout.  The sentiment is from Grunge Rock and I scored around the banner.

I think this will make a good birthday card for my oldest son, who will be 15 in December.

Thanks for looking.

Products used (all Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted):

Stamps:  Grunge Rock; Clockworks; Wow (Penny Black)

Cardstock:  Whisper White; Island Indigo

Ink:  Midnight Muse; Island Indigo; Summer Starfruit; Versarmark

Accessories:  White EP; Clear EP; sponges; Simply Scored

Cheers

Karren 

Milestone Birthday

My older sister is celebrating a milestone birthday next week.  I won't tell you how old she is, because that just wouldn't be right (but check out the card...LOL).

I decided to do something a little more detailed than I usually do, so I used the Mojo Monday sketch as my inspiration.  I can't remember the last time I produced a card with so many layers!  I also used the inked embossing folder technique again, so I'm linking to Hand Stamped Sentiments as well.  That technique really provides another level to embossed panels.

I used my favorite DSP in the new SU catalog - Fan Fair.  Love that paper!  The sentiment is from the Made For You set, which has such a cool font.  I only wish there were more stamps in the set!

Happy Birthday for the 27th, Jannene!

Thanks for looking.

Products used (all Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted):

Stamps:  Made for You

Cardstock:  Pink Pirouette; Basic Black; Whisper White; Fan Fair DSP

Ink:  Riding Hood Red

Accessories:  Typeset Alphabet Bigz Die; Lacy Brocade EF; Basic Pearls; Riding Hood Red Grosgrain Ribbon; other doily die; circle nesties; corner rounder

Cheers

Karren

Cherish Friendship

This is my first time using this lovely stamp set, Cherish Friendship.  I combined several challenges in producing this card:  the sketch challenge at iSpy Sketches; the chevron challenge at Just Add Ink; the color challenge at Color Me Beautiful and the inked embossing folder challenge at Hand Stamped Sentiments.

The sketch is actually rectangular but I changed it to a square card as the chair image is actually quite large.  I watercolored the image using markers and blender pens and managed to get in all the colors in the challenge.    The chevron layers were inked in their matching colors using a brayer then run through the embossing folder.  I made sure to line up the chevrons between both layers.

To finish the card off, I attached a button to the bottom right hand corner.

Thanks for looking.

Products used (all Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted):

Stamps:  Cherish Friendship

Cardstock:  Soft Suede; Perfect Plum; Old Olive; Watercolor Paper

Ink:  Black Stazon

Accessories:  Soft Suede, Perfect Plum, Old Olive, River Rock, Baja Breeze, Going Grey markers; blender pen; circle nesties; Chevron EF; brayer; bronze button; linen thread

Cheers

Karren

Melon Christmas

This week's challenge at Freshly Made Sketches is a classic sketch which can be used over and over.  I paired that challenge with the challenge at Friday Mashup, which is to:


Make a project with a "Christmas Ornament".
Or Make a project with some "Sparkle".
Or "Mash it Up" and create a "Christmas Project with some Sparkle".

I think this is the first time I have ever voluntarily used Melon Mambo!  Apart from Old Olive, I'm just not a Brights kinda gal.

I took inspiration from my friend Vicki who made some fantastic ornaments using Melon Mambo.  I used Vicki's great idea of stamping the ornament on top of the piercing mat to get better ink coverage.  I created a 3-D ornament and tied it with silver cord.  I then pierced around the top of the ornament using the Festive Paper Piercing Pack.  The sentiment is silver embossed and the ribbon is retired. 

Thanks for looking.

Products used (all Stampin' Up!):

Stamps:  Ornament Keepsakes; More Merry Messages

Cardstock:  Whisper White; Brights DSP

Ink:  Melon Mambo; Versamark

Accessories:  Holiday Ornaments Framelits; Festive Paper Piercing Pack; Melon Mambo ribbon; silver cord; silver EP

Cheers

Karren

Masculine Circle Circus

Here is my submission for the color challenge at Create with Connie & Mary.  I used a sketch from the Clean & Simple blog from a few weeks ago.

I pulled out Circle Circus and chose the non-flowery images for this masculine birthday card.  I randomly stamped in Summer Starfruit and Gumball Green onto Very Vanilla.  I then used some DSP for the panels and layered onto Chocolate Chip.  The sentiment was originally on two lines, but I used my Stamp-a-majig to make it a one-liner.

Thanks for looking.

Products used (all Stampin' Up!):

Stamps:  Circle Circus; Made for You

Cardstock:  Very Vanilla; Chocolate Chip; 2012-14 In Color DSP; Neutrals DSP

Ink:  Summer Starfruit; Gumball Green; Chocolate Chip

Accessories:  Gumball Green ribbon

Cheers

Karren

Snowflake Soiree

This card fought me all the way.  I had to work on it over two days because it was frustrating me so much!  I knew what I wanted but it just wasn't coming together.  Even now it doesn't look quite right to me but I refuse to spend any more time on it LOL.

I'm entering this card into both the Freshly Made Sketch challenge and the challenge at Just Add Ink, which is to use something new.  The JAI challenge came at a perfect time because on Thursday I received a rather large demo order, plus my class order, which of course I had to add to (I admire demos who can put in an order without adding just a little something to it...)  Anyway, suffice to say, I now have buckets of the promotion ribbon!

In my order was the Snowflake Soiree set, plus the 3 builder wheels that match.  This is also the first time I've used Raspberry Ripple in a significant way.  And I've been hoarding that silver glimmer paper.  Actually, I'll let you in on a little secret.  I'm so frugal with it, that I cut the inside of the rectangular frame and used it for the snowflakes.

Enough yapping.  Here's the card:

I'm convinced the word "Merry" is crooked, but it was really hard to decide which angle was straight.  I lined up the "err" but the "y" seems to be a bit higher.  Next time I'll try lining up the top of the "rry" and see if that looks better.

Thanks for looking.

Products used (all Stampin' Up!):

Stamps:  Snowflake Soiree

Cardstock:  Basic Black; Raspberry Ripple, Silver Glimmer Paper

Ink:  Raspberry Ripple; Versamark

Accessories:  Silver EP; Good Cheer Builder Wheel; Snow Flurry Die; Tasteful Trim Die; Silver Organdy Ribbon

Cheers

Karren