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

 

Rainbow of Happiness

 Today’s card uses Cecile’s sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches and I was stumped at first then thought of a deconstructed rainbow so that’s what I went with.

To avoid too many clashing colours, I kept the other elements neutral. The sentiment comes from an old SugarPea Designs stamp set.

Thanks for visiting. I hope you’ll check out the wonderful cards made by the design team.

Products used:

Stamps:  Whatever the Weather (SugarPea Designs)

Ink:  Versafine Onyx Black, Lost Shadow Distress Ink

Cardstock:  White, Grout Gray, Wild Cherry, Coral Crush, Banana Split, Limelight, Blueberry, Lavender Fields (MFT), Paradise (Hero Arts)

Dies:  Lovely Layers: April Showers (Honey Bee Designs)

Accessories:  Subtle Embossing Folder (SU)

Cheers

Karren

Willow Wishes

 Hi and welcome to a new sketch from the team at Freshly Made Sketches, where our hostess this week is Jen Brum.  I am still not feeling very creative after my break from card-making so this is a pretty simple card - that still took forever to pull together!

I'll just say upfront that I completely missed where the sentiment should go, so just ignore that little error, please.

The background is the result of a foiling mistake where I placed the plate upside down on my Glimmer.  This is the negative and I like the soft, abstract look of this.  But I can't remember what plate I used so I'll never be able to recreate this!  The pussy willows were ink-blended when I was away from home recently and I decided instead of a circle, to use two tags.

Thanks for visiting.  The design team have some gorgeous samples to inspire you to play along.

Products used:

Stamps:  Envelope of Wonder Sentiments (Spellbinders

Ink:  Versafine Onyx Black, various Altenew inks

Cardstock:  White

Dies:  Botanicuts: Pussy Willow (The Greetery), Tags (Spellbinders Advent Calendar 2023)

Accessories:  Baker's Twine, Pacific Northwest Pearls (Honey Bee Stamps)

Cheers

Karren

Floral Wishes

Hi, I’m back after a break of a few weeks. My daughter had major surgery in another city and I went with her as her support.  I took some white die-cuts with me and some ink cubes and spent a little time ink-blending. The flowers used in this card are some of those die-cuts.

This card uses the sketch at Freshly Made Sketches where this week our sketch hostess is Kim Singdahlsen. I wasn’t feeling very crafty after a busy and stressful few weeks so this card isn’t my best but it’ll do. 

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

Products used:

Stamps:  Sentiment Strips (Altenew)

Ink:  Versamark, various Altenew and Pink Fresh inks

Cardstock:  White, Fog (SSS), Cement Gray (MFT)

Dies:  Garden Wreath Add Ons (Spellbinders), Anytime Tags, Stitched Mats Rectangle (Lil Inkers

Accessories:  White EP, Grand Stream Washi (Altenew), Autumn Pearl Stickers (Honey Bee Stamps)

Cheers

Karren

 

Trio of Daisies

 Hi and welcome!  Today's sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches was designed by Judy Rozema and I immediately saw a trio of flowers so that's what I went with.

I used the NBUS Upsy Daisy die from MFT and cut out multiples of each size.  I then lightly ink-blended some yellow in the centres and pink around the edges before layering them up with foam dots in between the layers.  The leaves and centres were also ink-blended.

They looked a bit plain on the card base so I added some embossing paste over a stencil and also a stacked frame.  The sentiment came from my already-foiled stash.

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

Products used:

Ink:  Frosty Pink, Mountain Mist, Silver Sage, Jade, Buttercream, Warm Sunshine, Sand Dunes (Altenew

Cardstock:  White

Dies:  Upsy Daisy (MFT), You Are Everything Sentiments BetterPress and Die (Spellbinders, Nesting Rectangle Frames (Waffle Flower)

Accessories:  Letter & Number Stencil (Stamperia), White Embossing Paste

Cheers

Karren

Friendship Boots

 Hi!  I'm here with a card for the latest Tic-Tac-ToeTic-Tac-Toe challenge and this time, I went right down the left column with Layers-Die-cut-Patterned Paper to come up with this card.

These dies are just new to me and I decided to make a fun card using polka dot paper.  To be honest, I pretty much bought this die set for the flowers but the rest of it isn't bad!

I did some ink-blending to add a bit of dimension and shading and used a pre-foiled sentiment.  Thanks for visiting!

Products used:

Ink:  Mustard Seed, Kitsch Flamingo, Rusty Hinge, Wilted Violet, Twisted Citron, Forest Moss Distress Inks

Cardstock:  White, Black, Party Patterns (MFT), various coloured cardstock scraps

Dies:  Lovely Layers: April Showers (Honey Bee Stamps), Hexi Gem Sentiments Hot Foil and Dies (Spellbinders)

Accessories:  Gold hot foil

Cheers

Karren