Peace on Earth #116

I'm way behind with my Christmas cards and I've been playing with some new things I got a while ago.  One of them is perfect for the challenge at Peace on Earth.

The dies are from Simon Hurley's Mantle Village.  They are all cut from scraps and antiqued a little with Distress Ink.  The background is the burlap folder from Honey Bee. 

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The Paper Players #783

I was honored with a win last week at The Paper Players and I have another CAS card for this week following  Stef's sketch.  

The honey jar is part of the Get Well Soon set from PFS. All the images are stamped and cut out together so this was a leftover, stenciled with Altenew inks.  The panel was embossed with Honey Bee's Burlap folder and the patterned paper is from one of their freebies.  The sentiment is from MFT.

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Just Us Girls #797 - Mood Board Week

This is Mood Board Week at Just Us Girls and our host Carol wants you to be inspired by this:

Here's a larger view.

The board is full of lovely Fall colors and lots of little images to pull from.  This is the direction I took.

My new Penny Black Ascending die looked somewhat like the leaves in the photo so I watercolored them with Distress Inks in Fossilized Amber, Evergreen Bough and Rusty Hinge.  Then I went looking for matching paper to add some interest to the side -  SB light yellow, C9 Spiced Cider and an unswatched aqua along with a main panel of Gina K Moonlit Fog.  The background was embossed with a Honey Bee burlap folder for a rustic look.  

Our guest designer Greta and the rest of the team have some wonderful cards to inspire you to enter the challenge.  I hope to see you there.

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Color Hues #119

My friend Marcia picked the colors for Color Hues and they work beautifully for this time of year.  Somewhere I saw a wreath made of gourds and wanted to make one for this challenge.

The dies are Honey Bee's Fall Bounty colored with Distress Inks in Scattered Straw, Fossilized Amber and Rusty Hinge along with Altenew's Warm Sunshine, Honey Drizzle and Red Jasper.  The biggest gourds also have a spritz of Fossilized Amber Distress Spray.  A Honey Bee sentiment and Burlap embossing folder complete the card. 

I'm still trying to get my stuff organized after unpacking all I took to Michigan (plus things I bought while there) and in trying to make labels my printer quit.  I guess they're not supposed to last longer than 10 years.  😖  I'm researching new ones and when I decide I'll be back in business. 

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Just Us Girls #786 - CASE a Designer

Here's the Design Team's chance to inspire you with their individual cards as Ina hosts CASE a Designer Week at Just Us Girls. 

I had fun with this card and I hope it inspires you to use the elements to make a card of your own.  The Honey Bee Picnic Basket was made and hiding in the package.  I added it to a tan background that was embossed with the HB Burlap folder and filled it with some of the TH Wildflowers.  The best way I saw to add a sentiment was with The Greetery Market Basket's sentiment and holder on a strip of black.   

Not your style?  The rest of the Design Team have a variety of ideas for you to choose from.  We hope you except the challenge and link your card.

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Freshly Made Sketches #693

I had a little time to make a card for Freshly Made Sketches before my company comes. 

The weeds are a mix of Honey Bee's Autumn Bouquet and Fall Foliage, all cut in white, colored with Altenew inks, and arranged on a panel embossed with HB's Burlap.  The Altenew sentiment is in a wood look frame from WF. 

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Group of Seven Cardmakers - Floating Frames

Almost a month has gone by since I made a card using the floating frames technique featured on the Group of Seven Cardmakers blog.  I'm now just getting around to posting it.  

I think the technique works better if you have a solid background die cut but since I didn't I went with the option of using small images that could be repeated around the card.  The flowers from Altenew's Truly Amazing set were stamped with VersaFine Toffee and stenciled with Altenew ink.  There are two different images so I stamped and colored two of each, then arranged them around the panel.  The die cuts were picked up with Press and Seal and an MFT oval cut from the middle.  The remaining pieces were popped up with foam tape on the card panel that had been stamped with a Penny Black sentiment in the same Toffee ink.  For a better explanation, there are videos on the Go7 blog.

I made a second card with the oval that was left over.

A scalloped oval from MFT was cut in C9's Marmalade to frame the flowers and placed on a background embossed with Honey Bee's Burlap folder.  The sentiment is a BetterPress from Spellbinders done in Toffee ink.

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Time Out #279

It's time for the first challenge of 2025 for Time Out and it's an appropriate theme challenge.

There are many ways to go with this but it took me a while to come up with something. . . .

. . . until I saw my daughter's Amaryllis start to bloom.   I made a card using the Honey Bee Amaryllis for another challenge and decided to use it here too.  I cut four of the bud dies, coloring two of them red to peek through.  The background was cut with the Honey Bee Deckle Edge and embossed with their Burlap folder.  The big question was "What will the sentiment be?"  I found this one in Penny Black's Snippets and thought it would be perfect as today is the day the Amaryllis will actually be in full bloom.  

The Design Team has some wonderful cards to inspire you to join our challenge.  I hope to see yours in our gallery.

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Color Throwdown #820

Whenever I see the colors like those in the Color Throwdown challenge, I usually pull out my Honey Bee Autumn Bouquet.

The stems were all cut from kraft and the 'blossom's' from colored cardstock inked for dimension.  HB's picnic basket makes a great container cut in a plaid from my stash and the background is their burlap folder.   

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Freshly Made Sketches #655 and Tic Tac Toe #257

I finally had some inspiration for a couple of challenges and the right stamps/dies to make them.  This one is for Freshly Made Sketches.

The gourds are from Honey Bee's Fall Bounty, cut in white (except the one on the left that was cut from yellow) and colored with a variety of inks.  The background is Altenew Yogurt cardstock embossed with HB's burlap folder.  The sentiment is also HB.

I'm also sending this to Tic Tac Toe, using the top row across - Harvest, Orange, Die Cut.  I hope my one little pumpkin is enough orange to qualify.

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Color Hues #93

There's nothing much else to do when it's raining at the lake except read a book and take time out to make a card.  This one is for Color Hues.

All the die cuts are from Honey Bee's Fall Bouquets.  The pumpkin was cut from orange cardstock and inked with Snapdragon in the ridges and white for a highlight.  The sunflowers were cut in yellow and inked with Chamomile while the centers were cut from dark brown for the bottom layer and kraft, inking the kraft with Mocha just like the leaves.  The centerpiece was added to a background embossed with Honey Bee's Burlap folder.  This sure brought some sunshine to a dreary day.

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Just Us Girls #723 - Mood Board Week

Vicki has a lovely mood board for us this week at Just Us Girls.

I couldn't resist that beautiful sunflower, especially since I had recently purchased one from Altenew.

It comes with a stencil that was used with Altenew Pastel Sunrise, Canyon Clay, Frayed Leaf and Forest Glades ink.  The sentiment is from EbyE.

I made a different card first using the second layer of the stencil.  I don't often like the way the second layer looks and choose to shade the flowers myself like the one above. 

This sunflower was die cut, added to some DSP from Honey Bee and run through their burlap embossing folder.  This sentiment is part of the Dancing Sunflowers set.  Totally different look.  

What peeks your interest in that mood board?  What do you think the Design Team and our guest Colleen were inspired by?  Head on over to Just Us Girls, check them out and see a larger version of the mood board.  

This is the first outing of the Dancing Sunflowers so I'm sending my card to NBUS #61.

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Color Hues #84

Hey there!  I'm so glad you dropped by.

The activities of the long weekend put a pause on my card for Color Hues.  It's now finished and ready for you to see. 

The challenge colors are peach and green so I took that literally and made peaches from Sunny Studio.  I put them in a crate from Honey Bee and added them to HB's burlap background, trimmed to show the peach border.  I love a good pun and computer-generated this fun sentiment.   It may hang around until next Valentine's Day unless my pun loving granddaughter needs a pick-me-up before then. 

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Just Us Girls #721 - Color Week

It's Color Week at Just Us Girls and Ina has a bright color way for us.

My first thought was Halloween. 😀  But then I remembered the pumpkin die from Honey Bee and that started the ball rolling.  It's basically an all Honey Bee card. 

Cut from orange cardstock, I used detail brushes to add more orange to the debossed ribs.   A slit was cut in the top so I could add my die cut flowers,  one from Spring Greenery and two from Autumn Bouquet, cut in white and colored with a variety of inks.  Arranging was the difficult part but once they were all taped inside the pumpkin, they were glued or pop dotted down onto the Burlap embossing folder. 

I'd like to welcome Colleen Begley as our guest designer this month.  Colleen and the rest of the Design Team have some wonderfully colorful cards to inspire you.  We hope you'll join us in the gallery.

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Color Hues #79

I've had my card for Color Hues sitting on my desk for ages.  I guess I'd better post it before the deadline gets any closer.  

I knew I wanted to make a copper pot with my Crusty Copper embossing powder but it took a while to find something to grow in it.  Here's a close-up of the pot from Tim Holtz. 

 

I finally settled on the ferns that come with PTI's Dahlia set, cutting them from green and inking the middle for shading.  The back panel is embossed with the burlap folder from Honey Bee. 

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