Card swap

I love to do a card swap with another crafty friend and since I joined Instagram, I met Yasmin! She does beautiful work and I was inspired to do a card swap with her.

My card that I created for her uses the current progressive challenge image, Peggy is in love, by Sasayaki Glitter

I printed the digi onto Strathmore Paint Pad paper and colored it with my Prismacolor colored pencils, adding the highlights in the glasses with a white gel pen. I fussy cut the image out.

I created a scene on the background of the card by inking the sky and the ground pieces with Memento inks and a mini blending tool. I cut flowers in coordinating colors of cardstock and adhered them to the background. The flower centers were covered in Glossy Accents to create dimension and shine.

The sentiment was stamped with Versafine Onyx Black ink and then heat embossed with clear embossing powder. I cut it out with a cloud die and popped it up in the sky with foam tape.

The completed card panel was then adhere to a white cardbase.

AND, my Happy Mail from Yasmin arrived also...

I received a beautifully stamped wreath card with a popped up sentiment in the middle. Also another lovely sentiment with a sweet handwritten note on the back. The goodies were enclosed in a kraft envelope that was tied with baker's twine and had the round tag attached. So fun!

Take a moment to check out Yasmin's Instgram profile - you won't be sorry.

General supplies:

Strathmore Paint Pad paper

Reflections 110lb heavyweight cardstock for card base

Pink, yellow and green cardstock

Sasayaki Glitter Penny is in love digi

Prismacolor pencils

Stitched rectangle die

Flower, leaves and cloud dies

Sentiment from stash

Memento Inks

Versafine Onyx Black Ink

Clear embossing powder

Glossy accents

White gel pen

Entered into the Sasayaki Glitter Digital Stamps April Progressive Challenge

Entered into the Crafting with an Attitude Anything Goes Challenge #38

Entered into the Stempelsonne Anything Goes Challenge #201

Sweet friends

Today I have another mousey make to show you.

This image is also from the Very Mice Coloring book and is titled "summer's sweet scent". I have wanted to color this up for a while and since the current House Mouse challenge features multiples, this image of Monica and her furry friend was just perfect.

I printed the image on Canson Mi Tientes paper and colored it using my Prismacolor colored pencils. I had found the plaid patterned paper in my stash and thought it would make the perfect background and so coordinated the pencil colors on the flowers. I also added a few clouds in the background, this was my first attempt at free handing clouds in a background.

I then cut the image out with a stitched oval die and adhered it to the patterned paper which I had, in turn, cut out with a stitched rectangle die.

I added a sweet sentiment from my stash that I had stamped onto yellow cardstock with Vesafine Onyx Black and heat embossed with clear embossing powder. Using a stitched circle die, I cut the sentiment out and popped it up with foam tape. I also added a green leaf sprig die cut.

General supplies:

Canson Mi Tientes paper

Reflections 110lb heavyweight cardstock for card base

Patterned paper from stash

Yellow and light green cardstock

Versafine Onyx Black ink

Prismacolor pencils

Stitched rectangle, oval and circle dies

Leaf spring die

Sentiemnt stamp from stash

Clear embossing powder

Entered into the HMFMC Anything Goes/Optional theme "Multiple Images" challenge #263

Entered into the QKR Stampede Challenge #290 Anything Goes

Entered into the Crafty Catz Challenge #411 Anything Goes added Twist 'Colours of Spring'

Pink and purple

I love the combination of pink and purple. Here I took two Wild Rose Studio teddy bear stamps and colored them as opposites.

I stamped the images with Memento Tuxedo black ink onto Strathmore Paint Pad paper and colored the bears with my Prismacolor pencils.

The pink bear from a purple flower and purple gift.

The purple bear from pink flowers and a pink gift.

I cut the bears out with a lacey oval die and mounted them onto a patterned paper cardpanel.

The word Thanks cut out of light colored cardstock finished the cards off. I glued two die cuts on top of each other to give the embellishment some dimension.

General supplies:

Strathmore Paint Pad paper

Reflections 110lb heavyweight cardstock for card base

Patterned paper from stash

Light pink and light purple cardstock

Wild Rose Studios clear stamps

Memento Tuxedo black ink

Prismacolor pencils

Stitched rectangle and lacey oval dies

Thanks die

Entered into the Dragonfly Dreams Pink Challenge

Entered into the Stempelsonne Anything Goes Challenge #200

Entered into the Lil Patch of Crafty Friends Anything Goes Challenge #79

The bicycle at the fence

I have done posts before about my Maria Trolle Twilight Garden coloring book. I am not really a coloring book person, but this book is lovely with its hard covers. The paper works really well with my Prismacolor colored pencils.

This time I did the image with the bicycle leaned up against the wooden fence.

I decided to color the fence white. Don't we all long to have that white picket fence in our lives? And of course, the bicycle had to be red.

I finished the bicycle off by doing the chrome bits with a silver metallic gel pen. 

General supplies:

Twilight Garden coloring book

Prismacolor pencils

Silver metallic gel pen

Ribbon and bows

Christmas always seems to creep up at top speed and so I decided to try and be ahead of the curve and so here is my first Christmas card for 2018.

I have used the mouse from the Berry Mice image from my A Very Mice Coloring Book. I colored her, yes her as her name is also Monica, with my Prismacolor Colored pencils on Canson Mi Tientes sand paper and then fussy cut her out.

I cut the gift that she is carrying out of Christmas patterned paper with a stitched hexagon die and applied the ribbon and bow with golden satin ribbon.

The top right hand corner is embellished with a flourish die cut done from DCWV metallic washi tape paper and I added the sentiment in the middle. The sentiment is white heat embossed on black cardstock and then cut out with a stitched circle die.

I created my scene on a card panel just slightly smaller than a regular A2 sized card which I embossed with a Darice snowflake embossing folder. I then adhered the card panel onto a cardbase to complete the card.

General supplies:
Canson Mi Tientes sand colored paper
White and black cardstock
DCWV Metallic Washi Tape paper
Berry Mice House Mouse image
Sentiment stamp from stash
Prismacolor pencils
Stitched hexagon and circle dies
Flourish die
Darice Snowflake embossing folder
Versamark ink
White embossing powder

Entered into the HMFMC Anything Goes/Optional theme "Ribbons or Bows" challenge #262
Entered into the Stempelsonne Anything Goes Challenge #200
Entered into the Cardz 4 Galz Buttons and/or Bows Challenge #68

Emboss and die cut

I have another birthday card to share with you today. This one was inspired by my Darice embossing folder with a whole tree on it.

I embossed the card panel with the tree embossing folder and then used my Crayola water color paints to paint the leaves and the stem. I was going for whimsy on this entire card and so did some very loose watercoloring here, not attempting to color the whole raised area of each leaf or the branches. I added some grass along the base of the panel with a light green paint.

The bicycle is a die cut which I colored up with my Prismacolor colored pencils.

Here again I was going for whimsy and so did not add much shading or blending, just adding color.

In keeping with the loose watercolor on the embossed tree, I did not attempt to cover up every little bit of the white cardstock of the die cut.

I added the Happy Birthday sentiment by white heat embossing the sentiment onto black cardstock and cutting it out with a small banner die. I added this banner over the tree branches on the top right hand side of the card.

Water color was an excellent medium to color the tree in with as it needed no pressure to apply the color and thus all the embossing on the panel was kept in tact.

General supplies:

Cardbase from Paper Studio Simple Basics collection

White and black cardstock

Crayola watercolors

Prismacolor pencils

Versamark ink

White embossing powder

Happy Birthday sentiment stamp

Darice tree embossing folde

Bicycle die

Entered into the Inspiration Destination Anything Goes with OPTIONAL TWIST: Spring or Pastel Colors Challenge #146 

Entered into the Let's Craft and Create Anything Goes + option Easter Challenge #135

Entered into the Lil Patch of Crafty Friends Anything Goes Challenge #78

No pencils

I am always needing birthday cards (aren't we all?) and so today I have been busy.

This card is another one using the emboss resist technique. It is so fascinating to watch the design pop out of the white card when applying the ink over the top.

The stamps are retired Stampin Up stamps and I stamped them with Versmark ink directly onto the card base to make this a one layer card. I embossed with white embossing powder. Then using Memento inks with a mini blending tool, I applied the color.

I do enjoy ink blending and will definitely do it again in the future.

General supplies:

Reflections 110lb heavyweight cardstock for card base

Stamps from stash

Versamark ink

White embossing powder

Memento inks

Mini blending tool

Entered into the QKR Stampede Challenge #287 Anything Goes

Entered into the A Perfect Time To Craft Always Anything Goes Challenge #3

Entered into the Always Happy Birthday Birthday + Anything Goes March Challenge