Hoosier Cabinet Thinking of You Card

 Hello Crafters! I decided to make another rust and yellow Fall card. I've had the Honey Bee Stamps Hoosier Cabinet Die Set for a while but this is the first time I'm using it. I'm in love with this set and 5x7 cards are becoming my favorite size to make. 

I wanted to create a background for the cabinet that looked like old-fashioned wallpaper and a wood floor. The wallpaper was created using Honey Bee Stamps Damask Background Stencil (something else from my stash that's gone unused until now) and Gina K Designs Sweet Corn & Lemon Drop inks. To create the floor, I inked up a wood grain embossing folder from Crafter's Companion with GKD Faded Brick ink, placed a panel of white cardstock in it then ran it through my Platinum 6. Then I took a narrow strip of white cardstock and embossed lines on it with my score board and adhered it between the wallpaper and wood floor.

After die cutting the cabinet with Faded Brick cardstock, I ran it through the same embossing folder to give it that woodgrain look. The rest of the cabinet pieces (doors & drawers) were also die cut with Faded Brick cardstock. To create the panel behind the doors and the shelf I used the Honey Bee Stamps stencil Baking Spirits Bright and inked it with GKD Warm Cocoa ink and then inked Sweet Corn ink on top of that. 

All of the little details (dishes, pot holders, mixer, trim, etc) were die cut using Sweet Corn, Kraft & Faded Brick cardstock. The cookie jar behind the lower right door was die cut using vellum on top of the Sweet Corn star shaped 'cookies'.

I used GKD Ruffled Blooms Poly-Glaze and die for the sentiment. It was foiled with 14 Carat Gold foil and my Fuse Foiling System. It's really hard to get a good photo of the shine of the foiled sentiment.

For the inside of my card I cut a panel of white cardstock with a Waffle Flower scalloped die and inked the edges with Sweet Corn ink. I had extra die cut pieces from the Hoosier Cabinet set and adhered them to a strip of Faded Brick cardstock then adhered that to the scalloped panel.

 I am also adding this card to The Color Hues Challenge #119 - Rust & Yellow.

Thank you for visiting! Until next time, Happy Crafting!

An Autumn Thinking of You Card

 Hello Crafters! I'm back with an Autumn themed Thinking of You card. 

All of the flowers were inked and die cut with two Pinkfresh Studio sets - Fresh Florals and Floral Frenzy stencil and die sets - and dies from Gina K Designs - Autumn Leaves, Botanical Duo & Foliage Fillers. (The Floral Frenzy was part of a PFS Create & Connect cardmaking event that I took in August and it may be an exclusive set). After inking all of my florals and leaves with GKD Faded Brick, Sweet Corn & Wild Dandelion inks I die cut everything out and layered them in an offset circle on top of a panel of Spellbinders Beeswax cardstock that I ran through my die cutting machine with Honey Bee Stamps Waves Pierced A2 Cover Plate. 

The sentiment is from Thoughtful Flowers Poly-Glaze & Die set that I foiled in 14 Carat Gold foil with my Fuse Foiling System, all from Gina K Designs. I adhered the finished panel to a top folding card base of GKD Faded Brick cardstock and added gold metallic pearls from PFS to finish it off.

I even finished the card on the inside with another panel of the Beeswax cardstock and some extra die cut leaves. And while I was at it, I added a die cut leaf that I also inked up.

I'm adding this card to the Rust and Yellow Card Challenge at The Color Hues Challenge Blog #119

I am also adding this card to The Four Seasons Challenge Blog for their Anything Goes Fall challenge. Here is their Mood Board!

Thanks for stopping by! Until next time, Happy Crafting!

Full Moon Silhouette Birthday Card

Hello Crafters! I can't believe that I've neglected my poor blog for such a long time but sometimes life just gets in the way. We went on an Alaska cruise which was incredibly beautiful and now it's something that we can check off of our bucket list and another state visited leaving just 7 more to go! Plus our "little" girl got married earlier this year which took up a lot of time planning during the last couple of years but it was so much fun! It was such a joyful wedding and she was such a gorgeous bride! Now I have a little more time to craft. It has taken me some time to get organized again and get my mojo back after a long hiatus but I had to start somewhere. And what better way than to finally use some of the crafting supplies that I've been buying, um collecting, all of these past months. 

The first set I pulled out was Harvest of Happiness from Gina K. Designs. I needed a birthday card for my son but I have some trouble creating masculine cards. So I 'CASED' a card created by Gina K herself! This is a 5x7 card.

I used the moon stamp in Harvest of Happiness and the largest part of the GKD Masked Circle Stencil to create a moon using GKD Sweet Corn & Pinkfresh Studio Bay Leaf ink colors. Then using the smaller part of the circle stencil over the moon, I ink blended GKD Bubblegum Pink, Peach Bellini, Wild Lilac, Blue Denim, In The Navy, PFS Sapphire & Stargazer ink colors to create the night sky over GKD Blue Denim cardstock. I used VersaFine Clair Nocturne ink to stamp the silhouette branches twice over the moon and the silhouette background image from the GKD Friendly Silhouettes stamp set at the bottom of the card. To add the "stars", I splattered white gauche paint mixed with a little water with a paint brush over the entire card. After drying I die cut the panel and a piece of white cardstock with GKD Master Layout #8 and layered the two then adhered those onto a side folded 5x7 card base. The 'Happy Birthday' sentiment strip is from Mixed Messages Sentiment Sheet from GKD which I adhered to my card with dimensional foam tape.

I'm really trying to do a better job of making the inside of my cards as nice as the outside so I stamped a sentiment from the GKD Birthday Greetings stamp set and also stamped the same silhouette branches from the front of the card also on the inside.

Well that's all for today. I'll be back soon to share more cards that I've made recently. 

Until next time, Happy Crafting! 

Navy & Lime Birthday Card

Hello Crafters! Today's card uses just two colors - Navy & Lime Green for the Color Hues Challenge and their 2nd birthday celebration. 

I used Altenew's Vintage Lace stencil and embossing folder set. This is such a fun set to use and I have been using it a lot lately. So when I saw this navy and lime challenge I knew that I wanted to create a card with it again. 

After embossing my Gina K Designs Ivory cardstock with the embossing folder, I used the stencils to add color to the embossed flower with only two ink colors - Gina K's Blue Denim and Key Lime. I started inking with a very light hand and as I changed stencils I put more and more ink color on my blending brush to achieve a gradient of color from light to dark with both the Blue Denim and Key Lime inks. 

I cut the embossed and stenciled cardstock to 5 1/2" x 3 3/4" then adhered it to a slightly wider piece of Key Lime cardstock. These layers were adhered to a piece of Blue Denim cardstock and then to an A2 card base.  Since Color Hues is celebrating their birthday I added a 'Birthday' die cut to the front of the card. I cut the Gina K word die three times and glued them together to create some dimension and adhered that to the shadow that I die cut out in vellum. I stamped the word 'Blessings' from a brand new Gina K stamp set called Doodled Autumn in Blue Denim ink onto a strip of Key Lime cardstock and glued it right under the birthday die cut. 

I added a few Soft Ivory pearls from Little Things/Lucy's Card to the front of my card. 

I had fun working on this card for the challenge. I will also be linking my card to the Color Hues sister challenge, Seize the Birthday.

Thank you for visiting and until next time, Happy Crafting!

Color Hues Challenge #47 - Gina K. Designs Daisies Forever

 Hello Crafters! I'm finally back to crafting and decided to jump right in and join a challenge at Color Hues! The challenge colors are Chocolate & Mint so I created this card.

I started by hot foiling a piece of Hammermill cardstock with some Spellbinders hot foil and Simon Says Stamp Intricate Floral Background Hot Foil Plate on my Spellbinders Glimmer Hot Foil machine. I'm pretty new to hot foiling and even though there's a small learning curve, I love foiling everything now with my Glimmer machine. After cutting my foiled cardstock with a Waffle Flower A2 die, I ink blended the edges with Gina K Designs Applemint ink. I then layered it on a piece of GKD cardstock in Dark Chocolate and placed all of these on a top folding card base made with GKD Heavyweight white cardstock.

I used my new Gina K Designs Daisies Forever Layering Stencil Bundle to create the daisies in mint shades using GKD Applemint, Pinkfresh Studio Fresh Pear & Catherine Pooler In the Park inks for the petals and GKD Warm Cocoa, Dark Chocolate & Charcoal Brown inks for the flower centers. After die cutting the flowers out I added a little detail with a Gelly Roll white gel pen and a little Wink of Stella. 

I layered the flowers onto the front of my card with foam adhesive and placed leaves that I die cut using two different dies from Gina K Designs - Foliage Fillers and Botanical Duo - cut from Applemint cardstock. The sentiment is hot foiled with Spellbinders Sentiments Hot Foil Plate Set & Espresso Beam foil and I die cut it with Lawn Fawn's Everyday Sentiment Banners die. I finished my card off with some Queen & Company jewels. 

It's hard to see the glimmer of the foil in the photos but hot foiling adds beautiful and amazing detail!

 I am so hooked! 😁

Here's the link to the Color Hues Chocolate and Mint Challenge.

Thank you for visiting and until next time, Happy Crafting!

I Am the Guest Designer @ Color Hues Challenge #25

Hello Crafters! Today I have the honor and privilege to be the Guest Designer on the Color Hues Blog! They always have wonderful challenges and pick a winner at the end of the Challenge BUT....since this is Color Hues One Year Anniversary they will be celebrating by picking TWO winners instead of one!

How exciting is that! 

I love butterflies so I knew that I wanted to create them in these two colors with my Pinkfresh Studio Butterflies Stamp, Layering Stencils and Die and create a slimline card.

I made my background layer first by cutting a panel of Gina K Designs white cardstock with a slimline die for the top of my card. After that I die cut a lot of the PFS Leafy Branch Die also in white and glued them down over my white layer to make my own background paper. I then die cut this panel at the top right side and the bottom left side with the PFS Stitched Scallop Circle Die. I let the die hang over the sides of the card a bit before I starting cutting. I die cut a couple more of the circle dies and adhered them under the die cuts from the background layer to give them some dimension. I then dusted them very lightly with my yellow & orange blending brushes (without putting anymore ink on them) to give them a little color. I glued them back onto the background layer along the center part of the circle.

Next I made my Butterflies. These are some the easiest butterflies to put together! For this set there are five different stencils to create these butterflies. For each stencil just pick a color and start blending. I picked Lemon Drop, Sweet Mango, Tangerine Twist, Peach Bellini and Charcoal Brown from Gina K Designs. I also used Peach Fuzz, Marigold and Apricot from Pinkfresh Studio. I actually made two sets of the butterflies — one a tiny bit lighter than the other.

After all of Butterflies were stenciled, I placed them in my MISTI and stamped them in either Chocolate Brown or Kraft. I then re-stamped them again in VersaMark and heat embossed them with GKD Clear Embossing powder. I placed a lot of pop dots under the wings of the butterflies to make them look like they were fluttering in the air! There are two sets of stenciled butterflies and a layer of the same butterfly die cut in vellum so each has three total layers!

For the die cut sentiment I took a small piece of white cardstock and with my blending brushes I inked up the bottom half of the paper with yellow (Wild Dandelion) ink and the top part with orange (Sweet Mango) ink and blended the two colors together towards the middle. Once it was dry I die cut the word "Grateful" out of it and then die cut the sentiment two more times and adhered all three layers together for more dimension. I stamped the words "For You" on a piece of Sweet Mango cardstock and cut it out with a die cut banner. The sentiment die, cardstock and ink are all from Gina K Designs.

The last thing that I did was adhere the top layer to a piece of Sweet Mango cardstock that was die cut from a scalloped slimline die set from Gina Marie Designs and then adhered everything onto a Wild Dandelion card base. I also added jewels on the butterflies backs with Clear Jewels from Katscappiness and yellow & orange jewels from Queen & Company.

I truly hope that you have enjoyed my card today. I feel so honored to share it with you all.

Please feel to play along with this Yellow and Orange Challenge over at Color Hues!

Thank you for visiting my blog today! 

And until next time, Happy Crafting!

Thank You Card - Mod Squad Challenge with Kitchen Sink Stamps

 Hello Crafters! I have created a Mini Slimline Thank You card for Maria Colosimo of Kitchen Sink Stamps. She has the most beautiful stamp sets that I've ever seen! They make very detailed and realistic images. The Modsquad Challenge is to create a Thank You card for Maria using Kitchen Sink Stamps.

I used the very first stamp set that I ever purchased from Kitchen Sink - Hearts & Roses. To create each rose and leaf image there are three to four stamps that you just layer with coordinating ink colors to achieve the intricate and detailed final images. All of her stamps are so detailed and fun to create.

I started with the flowers and used inks from Gina K Designs and Pinkfresh Studio from the palest pink to a really pigmented pink to achieve the look of the roses pictured. This set does not have a die set to match but Kitchen Sink Stamps offers an SVG file with their sets. I can use that SVG file on my Cricut Maker or Explore to cut out all of the images (and as many as I want). After I cut the images with my Cricut I just stamp the cut outs. 

I die cut the white and teal cardstock with the Pinkfresh Studio Mini Slimline Die Cut Bundle. Then I used the Harvest Stencil from Gina K Designs and a pink ink to create a soft background. I die cut the vase from GKD Fearless Joy stamp & Die set to place my roses in and inked it in a teal color.

The 'Grateful' sentiment is a GKD die from the new Fluttering Fall Bundle.

While I was stamping these beautiful roses I decided to grab more coordinating ink colors and made many more roses in different colors for future projects. They are so addicting to make!

Well, I hope that you enjoyed seeing my Thank You card for Maria! I hope she enjoys it also! Hop on over to the Modsquad Challenge Blog and play along!

Thank you for dropping by! Until next time, Happy Crafting!