Summer Cottage Garden and Dove Flying High

A card for Shopping Our Stash's "Summertime" challenge and Allsorts "Garden" challenge:

Stamped, coloured with coloured pencils, trimmed with a pierced dot rectangle die and layered over a pink rectangle so that the pink shows through the pierced dots.  Then bordered with some floral dp, and added to a yellow card base.

I used the same floral dp to line an envelope:

 

 

It's going to a friend who just bought a new house.

 

Try It On Tuesday's challenge is "Flying High" - something that flies high in the sky.  I made a peace-themed Christmas card with a dove flying high among the stars.

 

I sponged silver ink through a star die, leaving space on the bottom right corner for a stamped heat embossed sentiment.  I covered a piece of scrap cs with double sided tape and added blue / silver gilding flakes.  Then die cut the dove out of it.
 

     

 

 

 

Supplies for card 1:
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Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - unknown sentiment
Ink - silver
Paper - white cs
Size - A2
Accessories - Sizzix Delicate Wings dove die, Cosmic Shimmer Blue Ice gilding flakes, star stencil, silver embossing powder

Split Florals

The Group of Cardmakers is trying split images this month.  This is where you use a large stamp and get two cards out of one stamping of it.   

I have the Tim Holtz Glorious Bouquet stamp that measures 8"x6" - impossible to use the whole image on an A2 card so it seemed perfect for this technique, and it resulted in two birthday cards ready to go for upcoming birthdays!  

I stamped the image once on watercolour paper and painted it with my Gansai Tambi watercolour paints.  Then chose a logical place to cut the image in two, one to give me an A2 card, the other to give me a mini slimline card.

I added interest to the first one by also splitting the image by die cutting a thin frame out of it, and then die cutting the same thin frame out of my off white cs that I used for the card base.  Then inserting the off white think frame into the gap.

For the second card, I took a black marker and went lightly around the edges of the focal panel to give a tiny bit of definition to the panel.

Check out what the other members of our group have done with this technique over at Group of Cardmakers!

Supplies:
Stamps - Tim Holtz Glorious Bouquet, SU sentiment
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black
Paper - watercolour paper, off white cs
Size - first card is A2, second card is 6.25x3.25"
Accessories - watercolour paints, SSS thin frame die, black marker

Blue and White Christmas and Belated Flowers

A couple of cards just in time for some challenges!

52 Christmas Card Throwdown wants blue and white cards - my favourite colour combination!

I made a background by sprinkling blue Brushos on watercolour paper and spritzing with water.  When dry, I trimmed it with a pierced dot rectangle die.  I die cut the dove and sentiment from the same white cs as the card base.

The Paper Players want a clean and simple card featuring florals. 

Stamped, coloured with coloured pencils and blended with a bit of Gamsol, trimmed and mounted on a red card base.

  

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Black and Grey Dove / Happy Birthday, Double D / Happy New Year

I've been negligent lately about getting blog posts written up and now I'm getting close to deadlines for challenges I want to enter.  So I've got three cards for you today.

First up for Color Throwdown "Black, White, Grey", I had a great time playing with mixed media (not my usual style but I enjoyed this so much I want to do more of it).

I started by die cutting the dove out of white cs and, with it placed on a piece of scrap copy paper, I sponged grey ink on parts of it (and a touch of green ink on the leaf).  The sponging left interesting patterning on the copy paper (you can see some of the dove's feathers just above the polka dots) so I trimmed it to be my focal panel.  I then tore a bit of black and white TH collage paper (the music in the top left) and a bit of tissue paper (the grey and white polka dots in the bottom right) and glued them onto the copy paper panel.  I added some grey text and diamond stamping.  Then added it to the card base.  I die cut two more doves from scrap cs and glued them together with the sponged one, added it to the card, and also added some small die cut stars sponged with the same grey ink.

Next up, it's Double D's 9th year of challenges so they are asking for birthday cards and Beautiful Blossoms has a lovely mood board full of pink flowers.

I put the flower stamp in my MISTI and inked it up with pink and green markers, misting lightly, stamping and repeating until I was happy with the results.  I added a bit of stamping with a honeycomb stamp and a postage stamp using Distress Antique Linen ink, and also sponged around the edges.  Added a birthday sentiment and a few die cut, watercoloured butterflies.

And my third card for today is for Shopping our Stash "Feature Stars".  Because of the postal strike we had before Christmas, I didn't mail out any Christmas cards so am getting a few Happy New Year cards made for family outside of Vancouver and mailing them now.

I chose a starry embossing folder and inked it up with Distress inks close to gold in colour and spritzed with water before embossing my panel with it. I was pretty happy with the results I got.

I stamped and heat embossed my sentiment on white cs and die cut it with a star die, popped it up on fun foam, and scattered some multi-coloured tiny star sequins around for some bling.  It's going to my youngest sister who loves bling more than the rest of us!

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - Tim Holtz small diamonds, Old Island Stamp Co. script background
Ink - Distress Iced Spruce and Hickory Smoke
Paper - TH Christmas collage paper, dotted tissue paper, white cs, copy paper
Size - A2
Accessories - tiny star dies, Penny Black dove die

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - Magenta flowers, TH postmark, Kaisercraft honeycomb
Ink - Distress Antique Linen
Paper - watercolour paper, white cs
Size - A2
Accessories - Tombow markers, tiny butterfly dies

Supplies for card 3:
Stamps - Studio G sentiment
Ink - Distress Wild Honey and Mustard Seed
Paper - watercolour paper, white cs
Size - A2
Accessories - Darice embossing folder, sparkly embossing powder, Spellbinders star die, fun foam, tiny star sequins

 

Loving Hearts and Birthday Flowers

Simply Clean and Simple want us to use a heart and Colorful Options want to see the colours of our flag.  The Canadian flag is red and white so that works perfectly with hearts!

I die cut the heart once out of red cs and twice out of scrap cs and glued them together for substance and diminsion.  Also die cut the sentiment out of red red, and added both to the top white panel which is popped up on fun foam on the card base.

Then for The Flower Challenge (a birthday card), AAA Birthday Challenge (Fabulous Flowers), Hero Arts Stay Crafty Challenge (Color My World - I coloured in my focal image), and the Triple B Challenge (Birds, Blooms, Butterflies - I used two of them).

I stamped and heat embossed the reverse image stamp of the flowers in black, and then watercoloured them. I made a piece of smooshed cs and die cut the butterfly from it. Added the floral panel and butterfly to an off white layer, and stamped the sentiment on it. Then added it all to a blue card base.

    

   

 

Supplies for card 1:
Paper - white and red cs
Size - 5" square
Accessories - heart die, Love You die

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - Hero Arts Garden Silhouette, Hero Arts Happy Birthday, Impression Obsession Belated
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black
Paper - blue and offwhite cs, watercolour paper
Size - A2
Accessories - watercolour paints, clear embossing powder, unknown butterfly die

Recycled Bottle, Layered Flowers, and Monochrome Doves

Today is Earth Day so it seems an appropriate day to post this card for both Jingle Belles and Sweet Stampin' challenges to include a recycled element.

The little bottle came off a commercial card I received and the ribbon off a Christmas gift.

I stamped the sentiment on white cs and cut the sections out and layered everything on some festive dp.

I feel that the sentiment is such a major part of the card so I'm also linking it up at Word Power.

Next up is a card for The Flower Challenge "Add Layers".  I've got a watercoloured focal image layer, a pink bordering layering, and a dp layer on the card base.  It's also for Colorful Options "Pastels".

And last for today, Addicted to CAS wants a monochrome card.

 I used a little scrap of cling wrap background made with a couple of different blue Brushos (sprinkled, spritzed with water, then cling wrap scrunched up on it, and left to dry).  I framed it, added the two die cut doves, and added a blue heat embossed sentiment.

                  

 

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - Dylusions sentiment
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black
Paper - white cs, dp
Size - A2
Accessories - recycled little bottle, recycled ribbon

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - SU Echoes of Kindness flower
Ink - Versafine Clair Nocturne
Paper - white and pink cs, dp, watercolour paper
Size - 6.25x3.25"
Accessories - watercolour paints

Supplies for card :
Stamps - Stampendous sentiment
Ink - ColorBox Royal Blue
Paper - watercolour paper, white cs
Size - A2
Accessories - clear embossing powder, Memory Box dove dies, Impression Obsession frame die

Floral Twofer

Most of you know that making Christmas cards throughout the year is my main focus but today I've got a floral twofer, both very CAS, one watercoloured, one coloured with coloured pencils - I love both colouring mediums so like to vary what I use.   

 This is the watercoloured one, inspired by this image at the Inspired By challenge:

The shape of the bouquets made me think of a "never before used" stamp I have, and I tried to get close to some of the colours in the Inspired By image.  The sentiment is part of the flower stamp so that made it even faster to make this card.  I added a bit of splatter for interest.

The second card is inspired by the colours in the Four Seasons challenge mood board and the Color Throwdown challenge.

This one uses coloured pencils, blended with Gamsol, trimmed with a stitched rectange die, with a blue heat embossed sentiment and a blue border.

Challenges:

NBUS (never before used stuff)

 

Inspired By challenge

Color Throwdown

 

Four Seasons - Spring 

Triple B (Birds, Blooms and Butterflies) - I just went with Blooms today

 

Shopping our Stash - Flowers 

 

Supplies for Card 1:
Stamps - Chocolate Baroque
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black
Paper - watercolour paper, off white cs
Size - A2
Accessories - watercolour paints, fun foam

Supplies for Card 2:
Stamps - Penny Black flowers, unknown sentiment
Ink - Versafine Clair Nocturne, ColorBox True Blue
Paper - white and blue cs
Size - A2
Accessories - coloured pencils, Gamsol, clear embossing powder, Lil Inkers stitched rectangle die, fun foam