Category: cardmaking

Freshly Made Sketches #243

I’m playing along with the Freshly Made Sketches #243 Challenge.

FMS243

My take on the sketch:

FMS243

One of my favorite things about challenges is the opportunity to pull from a variety of supplies, often ones I’ve rarely used, as is the case here. For this sketch, I pulled out the Clearly Besotted “Take Flight” stamp set with coordinating dies (I believe it’s now discontinued). I couldn’t picture the plane in any color but red (and didn’t even consider any other colors!), and turned to my favorite color scheme – red/white/blue – for the other elements. I chose a tailored Pink Paislee patterned paper for the background and used a Taylored Expressions embossing folder for the clouds.

Hello Summer – TE Share Joy Challenge #41

I’m playing along with Taylored Expressions Share Joy Challenge #41.

TE Share Joy Challenge 41

I used the sketch and the colors to create a summer-themed card:

TE Share Joy Challenge #41

I used the Eventful – Pool Party die to do the “heavy lifting” of my design. The big “hello” from Bold Brushstrokes was heat-embossed on the Candy Corn cardstock rectangle. To embellish, I couldn’t resist using another pair of Little Bits – Flip Flops on this card (I’ve used these on half a dozen cards this summer!).

TE Share Joy Challenge #41

Taylored Expressions Supplies: Eventful-Pool Party; Little Bits – Flip Flops; Bold Brushstrokes; Stitched Rectangle Stacklets; Stitched Circle Stacklets; Candy Corn, Lemon Meringue, Watermelon, Cookie Monster, Sugar Cube cardstock; VersaMark; white embossing powder.

Bzz, bzz … Hello!

Today I’m sharing a playful “Hello” card showcasing some Paper Smooches supplies (now retired).

Paper Smooches Bees & Flowers

I die cut the Bees from several different cardstock colors. I cut the Dainty Flowers 2 from white cardstock and used just the outlines so that the emphasis would be on the colorful bees. The sentiment (a Savvy wood stamp I bought at Impress) was stamped on cardstock that I cut with the smallest die in the Lawn Fawn Small Stitched Rectangles set. I used the largest die in that set to cut the woodgrain paper.


Lawn Fawn Father’s Day

Today, I’m sharing a card created for Father’s Day using the color scheme from colourQ Challenge #346.

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I used an older Lawn Fawn set – Dad’s Day.

Lawn Fawn Father's Day

After stamping the ties in the four ink colors, I added a heat-embossed sentiment, attached to the card panel with foam adhesive. I tried a number of different inks – both dye and pigment – while creating this card! I need to add a light blue pigment ink to my collection and get a reinker for my Fresh Inks navy pad. (My ink collection knows no bounds!)

Supplies: Fresh Inks gray + navy

PB Simplicity: Let Your Heart Soar

Today, I’m sharing a CAS card created with Penny Black stamps and dies.

PB Simplicity Let Your Heart Soar

To begin, I masked off a vertical strip and applied Distress Inks in Squeezed Lemonade, Peacock Feathers and Salty Ocean with foam applicators. I then stamped the sentiment from 30-345 Soar. To embellish, I added butterflies cut with the 51-132 Flights of Fancy and 51-198 Flourish & Butterflies sets, as well as flourishes cut from vellum using Flourish & Butterflies (these are adhered to the panel under the butterflies). This would be an easy card to change up by simply using a different Distress Ink combination.

Recently, I created a card using the same sentiment and a rainbow assortment of die-cut butterflies. You can see that card on this post at the Penny Black Simplicity site.