One more September post with the excellent sketch provided by Donna Mikasa on the CAS(E) this Sketch challenge which ends in a few hours! Nothing like waiting until the last minute or two.
Card Menu: Altenew Holiday Bow and PTI Bells & Boughs
PTI Soft Stone card stock, Silver Stickles, Wink 'O Stella
Be sure to stop by CAS(E) for lots of wonderful entries!
Good morning! Here's my card today made after many minutes of gluing fine lines of the navy outline and filling in the details with blue and turquoise leaves. Due to an accidental ink spot on the background the entire project was splattered with more color! Ha ha for CAS - not.
The NBUS Leafy Envelope (PFS) was die cut from watercolor paper and all the pieces fell out. I gently ink blended HA Navy ink over the outline and glued it to a white panel. Next the large leaves sections were colored with copic markers and inlaid in the appropriate spots. The other leaves were left unfilled but colored again with copics. I masked the envelope area and splattered ink around the area. The panel was placed on an aqua-turquoise card front. My friend Greta kindly shared the PTI Blessed die cuts a while ago and this statement touched my heart. In this pandemic time I've been blessed by old friends and new acquaintances found on card blogs sending "thinking of you" and "hello" cards. Thank you all.
Card linked to Color Hues TCH #2 , SSSW: No Stamps Allowed, and NBUS
With all of the smoke in the air keeping us inside, I finally opened the SSS September card kit box this week. So far I've made five cards. I usually prefer plain backgrounds for my cards but with all the pretty pattern papers included in the kit, I put aside my preferences. FYI, the fires are mostly in the mountains and river canyons in Oregon but not in Portland.
The first two cards feature the wonderful sentiment die included with the kit. I used green vellum for the shadow sentiment on the first card and yellow vellum laid over white card stock on the second. I fussy cut a yellow flower and popped it up as a center for the orange flower. The entire panel was trimmed with a SSS Wonky Rectangles die.
Both of these cards will be linked to the SSSW Challenge: No Stamps Allowed.
We've been enjoying the lazy days of summer which in the pacific northwest can be heavenly. With the lure to be outside I have not been disciplined enough to write blog posts and thus have accumulated many cards not yet posted. So, today I'm sharing three different cards with a variety of products each with a major emphasis on blue shades.
Card #1
After ink blending several blue Concord & 9 inks in an ombre progression, I stamped the Pink Fresh Studio hexagon outline. Then I used the hexagon florals and stamped inside each space using the same Cn9 order. I die cut the corresponding hexagon from navy card stock and glued it over the stamped outline. A gold love cut from a gold adhesive sheet was added along with the extra popped up sentiment. The card was sent to good friends in Washington state who celebrate their 58th anniversary today.
Card Menu: PFS Pop Out Hexagons stamp & die, SSS Sentiment Strips, love die (a gift from a stamping friend), Concord & 9 inks
Card #2
It's been months since I last made a Christmas card and here it is, August! I better renew my efforts as this year the cards need to be mailed immediately after Thanksgiving due to our January move. I saw the latest CAS(E) this Sketch and knew that it would work well for mass production. Using the Misti I positioned a holly sprig to stamp in one corner and then rotated the card front to stamp the opposite corner per the sketch. A simple sentiment stamped in gold was added on two cards and the other two used cranberry ink. The single berries were die cut from red glitter paper. The design is mostly one layer to keep mailing expenses down.
