Christmas Kickstart #101 and Krafty Chicks #781

The other day I did Tim's Funky Floral Wreath.  Today it's his Festive Wreath for Christmas Kickstart and Krafty Chicks - Christmas. 

I left off the poinsettia, doubled up on the orange slices and tripled the pine cones to give a more rustic feel to my wreath, including a plaid bow that was also doubled.  The edges of the Honey Bee Deckle Edge and card base were inked with Altenew Vanilla Cream and Sand Dunes.  A BetterPress sentiment in dark green fit inside perfectly. 

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Inkspirational #347

I kept looking at the mood board at Inkspirational until I finally had an aha moment.  Concord and 9th's Eclectic Garden was the answer.

The flowers were cut from white cardstock and colored with Altenew inks in colors from the board.  For the background I used my smooshy tool to make a smooshed background using some of the same colors, then cut it with Honey Bee's Deckle Edge.  The sentiment is from SB BetterPress.

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Freshly Made Sketches #686

I wasn't sure I was going to make a card for Freshly Made Sketches until an idea came to me in the middle of the night. 

I had been looking through patterned paper for another challenge and saw this forest one from Honey Bee.  It makes a great background for Honey Bee's Heart Hugs bear.  The frame is actually really dark green and not black like it looks in the photo and is cut with HB's Deckle Edge and embossed with SSS Tall Pines.  Mr. Bear is sending greetings with a stamp from SSS.   

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Inkspirational #340 and Krafty Chicks # 767

Inkspirational has a seasonal challenge and since I'm behind on my Christmas card making, that's the season I went with.  Christmas also happens to be Krafty Chicks rotation this time.

Susan from Cardmaker's Garret entered this card in the Christmas Kickstart challenge and I loved the vintage feel of it so I CASEd it.  Ivory cardstock from Gina K was cut with Honey Bee's Deckle Edge die and stamped with the poinsettia from Altenew.  The flower was masked to stamp the script background from Penny Black in Antique Linen DI and the panel edged with the same ink.  The poinsettia was watercolored with Distress Inks in Barn Door, Rustic Wilderness and Fossilized Amber.  I was amazed at how well the cardstock took the watercoloring. I did try it out with a scrap in advance. 😌The sentiment is from a freebie SSS, stamped in Altenew Almond Butter.  

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Can You Handle the Pressure? Twist with F

It's a good thing my friends play in a lot of different challenges.  Without them I'd probably forget about them.  Two friends recently played in Can You Handle the Pressure? and that inspired me to do the same.

And I used the twist of the letter "F" for fishing lures.  They are from Honey Bee and my required embossing folder is Castaway from Spellbinders on a panel cut with HB's deckle edge. Lots of scraps were used for the lures and the hooks were cut from black foil.  The sentiment is from their Hook, Line and Sinker set.  It was fun choosing colors and a design layout.

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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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Just Us Girls #718 - Time Out #259 Reminder

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If you haven't heard, Just Us Girls and Time Out collaborated for a two week challenge. For more information follow the links to their blog posts. 

I have another card to inspire you to join this fun adventure.

These cute little parrots are from a new to me company called Marianne Design that I found at Frantic Stamper.  There are different ways you can add beaks and topknots to them.  I chose to cut from white cardstock and color with Distress Inks.  I did substitute the more cartoonish eyes on the parrot on the right with some from another bird die.  The embossed background was made by inking up the Spellbinders Fern folder and the smaller panel was cut with Honey Bee's Deckle Edge Rectangle and edged with the same ink. 

There is still plenty of time before the deadline to enter either challenge and you are automatically entered into the other one.  Two challenges at once.  How great is that!?

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Color Hues #73 and Color Throwdown #763

I love it when cards fit more than one challenge without having to do some searching.  Two challenges that I regularly play in have almost the same color challenge.  I orginally made my card for Color Hues - coral and blue - but saw today (time is running out to enter) that Color Throwdown has coral, light blue and navy.  I hope my colors are close enough.

It all started with Mica Spray for the background to make my ocean, then the panel was cut with Honey Bee's Deckle Edge Rectangle.  The seahorse and seaweed are from a Spellbinders set designed by Dawn Woleslagle from WPlus9.  The seahorse was painted with Abandoned Coral Oxide and the weeds with Blueprint Sketch and Peacock Feathers Oxides.  The sentiment is from Hero Arts.  

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Color Throwdown #730

I have a stencil/stamp/die that came to me through a friend's destash and used it to make a card for Color Throwdown.

The set is from The Greetery.  Through the stencil I used Antique Linen DI for the cream flowers and Mustard Seed for the centers. The rest of the inks are from Altenew: Firefly, Grass Field, Sweet Leaf, Just Green and Pink Pearl.  The flower details are stamped with Vanilla Cream. The panel was cut with HoneyBee deckled edge and the sentiment is from EbyE.

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The Flower Challenge #53 - Reminder

There is still time to show us your newest stamps/dies at The Flower Challenge.

The Design Team have cards using their latest flower stamps and dies to inspire you.  I used another Altenew set that I've used before.

I stamped the flowers from Positive Vibes and placed them on a panel cut with Honey Bee deckled edge.  I inked the edges with Antique Linen Distress Ink and placed on a panel of similar color.  The hugs die was cut and layered three times from a matching green.

Will we see your card in our gallery?

Addicted to CAS #183

Vicki has chosen this for the code word at Addicted to CAS.

I have a number of silhouette stamps so wanted to do something different for a background.  I know! What about those Distress Spray Stains I bought?  They were a good deal but I've barely used them.

I used Evergreen Bough and Shabby Shutters.  (Why didn't I get any blues?)  The flowers are from Catherine Pooler and the butterfly from Technique Tuesday stamped in CP Black Jack ink all framed with a deckle edge rectangle from HoneyBee. The sentiment is a PB Snippet.

The Design Team looks forward to seeing your silhouette cards in the gallery.

Just Us Girls #526 - Word Week

It's Word Week at Just Us Girls and the word is 

Sue chose this and we all can't wait to see what you do with it.  

Here's my card.

The first thing I thought of was my band aids from MFT.  I cut three of them, added the center squares and some little pink hearts that are all part of the set.  My NBUS HoneyBee deckle dies cut both sides of a panel so the edge runs down the middle and is taped together with the band aids. ;)  The sentiment is also from MFT stamped in Memento Rich Cocoa.

Now it's your turn.  For inspiration please check out the Design Team and our guest designer Vicky Hayes.  If you enter a card in our challenge you may be our Chic of the Week.