Thinking of You Trio

Three cards today featuring Lovely Blossoms and Sentiment Suite: Thinking of You from The Greetery. Each card uses Concord & 9th inks. I love how different each color combination looks on my cards. I hope you will too!

Card #1

I stamped this bloom in unusual colors for a flower but so fun. The flower center was stamped in VersaMark ink and embossed in a Ranger gold EP. The tiny tag sentiment is from Sentiment Suite: Thinking of You (The Greetery). I stamped this long before I looked for the background panel. Boy, did I luck out with an ancient paper pad of tropical papers. The bright panel was trimmed with SSS Wonky Rectangles.

Card #2

This card uses the smaller bloom from the Lovely Blossom set, stamped and die cut, 

before adding it to a previously colored PTI Center Style: Feminine die. 

Card #3

On the last card I directly stamped the blooms on a panel trimmed with a Nordic Frames die (The Greetery). Another small Sentiment Suite tag was added to keep the focus on the florals. The panel was framed in green letting the holes share some color through the open holes. It was glued to an apricot top-folding card.

Well that's all folks. I'm linking all three to the SSS Monday Challenge: Bright, Cheerful Colors. Thanks for stopping by today. See you on Instagram too.

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Easter Cards with Help from The Greetery

 I die cut several pairs of The Greetery's BotaniCuts: Lily, both from white and colored card stock. I finally figured out how to glue them together easily and added details with markers, ink daubers, and Prismacolor pencils. Palm leaves from the Caring Cross stamp-stencil and die sets were added to balance the large lilies and their thin leaves. 

Card #1

In February I participated in Jenn Shurkus' Distress Ink Online class and created over 30 backgrounds. This card uses a Hero Arts Flower Garden Bold Prints cling stamp which was white embossed before ink blending a few green Distress Inks over it. It was directly glued to a white card front. I anchored the lilies on a vellum PTI Shape Shifters: Circle 1. The card front is busier than I usually make so I left off a sentiment. Inside I stamped a PTI Bible Inspired by Love verse along with Happy Easter greetings.

Card #2

This card is similar but less busy and includes three Caring Cross palm branches. I took this photo last week after my four cards were designed. Today as I stamped the inside messages I added light green and white splatters around the lily and a He is Risen sentiment below it. It was sealed in the envelope before I remembered the changes and thus no photo update.

Card #3

Another background in shades of blue and yellow from Jenn's Distress Ink class was die cut with the largest Nordic Frames (The Greetery). The panel was glued to a dark blue card front. A Happy Easter sentiment is from The Greetery Caring Cross stamp and stencil set.

Card #4

Three palms and two pink lilies were stacked vertically along the edge of a green side folding card front. The Happy Easter sentiment was embossed in white and additional tiny splatters in green and white inks were added around the florals. I had a lot of fun with these die cuts and arranging them in various positions. All four plus three other Easter cards were mailed today. 

The SSS Monday challenge is for Easter/Spring themes. I'll be linking several of these to the challenge. Thanks for stopping by and wishing you a wonderful Easter week.

25 Days of Christmas Tags: Day 2

Today's sponsor of 25 Days of Christmas Tags is Simon Says Stamp! I was inspired by the darling gnome tag Lin Brandyberry shared! Since I've never used the gnome die that she used, I grabbed it and had fun paper piecing the various parts into my funky little gnome. Here's my tag for day #2!

Card Menu: PTI Basic Bookmark #2, Warmest Wishes (sentiment/snowflakes), Tag Sale #8 die; SSS Li'l Gnome; Recollections pattern paper

Linking this also to SSSMChallenge, NBUS

Thanks for the visit!

Peace on Earth

Isn't Christmas wonderful?

My latest Christmas card combines stamps and dies from several

 companies and is linked to Simon Says: Let's Sparkle

 Supplies List: SS Waves cling stamp

PTI Mix & Mat: Plaid die (center removed with stitched rectangle)

PTI Dash Away All sentiment & die

Thanks for your visit. Have a wonderful week!

Thinking of you

Finally posting two cards that I made in September. I love leaf stamps and Altenew's Leaf Canopy has a lot of possibilities for spring through fall.  

Card #1

The outline leaf spray was stamped with distress ink on a white PTI Tipped Tops die cut panel. The solid leaf spray was inked with several distress inks, misted with a light water spray before stamping inside the outline image. A Sentiment Suite: Thinking of You (The Greetery) sentiment in the corner was embossed with Lawn Fawn rose gold. The leaf panel was foam mounted on a larger Tipped Tops panel cut from kraft Bitty Big paper. The two panels were glued to a brown card front.
Linked to SSSMC

Card #2

Both sizes of the outline stamps were stamped in brown and clear embossed on a white panel. Once again I inked the solid leaf sprays with several distress inks, separately stamping each ink until satisfied with the color combinations. I used a wet brush to soften the edges of the colors. A spattering of the same distress inks adds texture to the panel that was trimmed with a SSS stitched rectangle die. Two washi tapes were laid on a white card stock strip and die cut with the Altenew Fine Alphabet letters, totally inspired by Virginia Lu of Yes, Virginia. The washi hello was stacked with two more layers before it was glued on a dark brown banner. The panel was attached to a kraft card.  Linked to: Yes, Virginia's Show and Share

Grateful - Thankful

Sharing one more set of Mondo Hydrangea cards

A stamped, clear embossed die cut bloom from white card stock was popped up on a striped PTI Mix & Mat Postal die cut panel. This was adhered to a white card front. A simple sentiment was added to a small Sentiment Suites banner from The Greetery. 
Linked to Simon Says: Thanks/Thanksgiving

This time I stamped the bloom on light green card stock and sponged  pink ink on a few petals. A red pen accented the petal centers. A large PTI Scallop Stacker die cut was ombre colored using a PTI Woodblock Prints stencil. This was placed on a Bitty Big chartreuse panel covering a white card front. PTI Enclosed: Leaf provides the sentiment.

My last card uses the same technique as the 2nd card but different ink colors. The saffron spice panel was die cut with a SS stitched rectangle, textured with Altenew's Dotted Swirls Debossing Cover Die, with a Greetery sentiment tag on the top. The panel was added to a saffron spice card. 

Linked to AAA Cards: Game #153-One Image


November Sunset

Cards from the Sea

My cards today were prompted by the August Twofer Card Challenge: Nautical. At first I thought it meant boats, lighthouses and the beach but later realized it included sea life. I have a couple PTI sets teeming with turtles, fish, sea horses and reef flora found on the ocean floor. In my stack of hoarded papers I found an ombre piece which looks like expert ink blending and perfect for a CAS ocean background. 

Card #1 

PTI Salt Air: Fauna and Sentiments, Reef Builder dies

Top folding A2 white card base

pattern paper has DI Antique Linen blended sandy bottom

Card #2

PTI Salt Air: Fauna and Sentiments, Shape Shifters: Circle 1 die

The Greetery: Sentiment Suite Basics die

Spellbinders: Circles Nestabilities

As long as the sea creatures and reef dies were 

out I made a third card similar to the first.

Card #3

PTI Salt Air: Fauna and Sentiments, Reef Builder dies, Pierced Feature Frames die

Side folding A2 aqua mist card base

Linking first two cards - Twofer Card Challenge: Nautical,

All three cards - SS Monday/SS Wednesday - both Midsummer Blues. 

           

 

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Happy Birthday

Yesterday I shared three cards made with my recent PTI purchase of Grand Botanicals dies. Today I have a birthday card using the large bloom die cuts as the feature with leaves (PTI Songbirds) and striped pattern paper cut framing it. An older wood stamp from Impress provided the wispy birthday greeting.  The bloom shimmers with a clear Wink of Stella covering and yellows stickles for the center. I finished the envelope with a stenciled "hello" from PTI's Envelope Envy and included a sticker from Just Add Sunshine with the card.

Linking this to Seize the Birthday #171 Flowers, 

SSS Monday: Bright and Cheerful,

SSS Wednesday: Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by and maybe I'll see you on Instagram too.

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To Infinity and Beyond! HB, Luca

I recently combined the Hero Arts "Sunburst Bold Prints" cling stamp and PTI's "Boy Basics: Out of this World" stamp set for my grandson's 9th birthday card last week. He thought it was spectacular and that I could make millions selling cards!! Bless his heart!

 The blue panel rests on an orange frame created 

with the largest PTI "Pierced Feature Frame". The

rocket was colored with Copics and cut with a PTI 

"Keep It Simple Frames" die.

Linking this card at AAA Birthday Card Challenges with the theme of Anything Goes and the current SSS Monday Challenge: Frame It

Easter Afternoon Cards

Today I stamped several die cuts creating a set of three cards 

and found a fun wood stamp suitable for CASology's challenge.

First the card set featuring a gorgeous Altenew zinnia!

PTI Scallop Stackers: Medium die 

Pierced Feature Frames die

Altenew Build-a-Flower: Flourishing Zinnia stamp/dies

Impress sentiment

PTI Mix & Mat: Plaid die

PTI Butterfly Blooms sentiment

Altenew Build-a-Flower: Flourishing Zinnia stamp/dies

Altenew Vintage Roses

PTI Scallop Stackers: Large die
PTI Wet Paint III sentiment
Altenew Build-a-Flower: Flourishing Zinnia stamp/dies

Linked to: SMS Challenge: Beautiful Blooms

And now for my "leaper"

House-Mouse Designs (1999) Giddyup (Friend)

PTI Bunny Basket sentiment

Linked to: CASology: Leap

                                

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