Inkspirational #368 and Krafty Chicks #822

I had been waiting for a good golf set and Taylored Expression's new release featured just what I was looking for in Par for the Course.  Inkspirational and Krafty Chicks are both looking for masculine cards so I'm sending my card to their challenges. 

This is a die and stencil set that makes a golf course.   After stenciling the card base with the greens, water and sand traps with Altenew inks, I die cut the fairways in dark green, embossed it with Tasteful Textiles from SU and laid it over the top before adding the trees and flags.  The sentiment was printed on the computer. I also got the golf cart, bag and club sets so you'll be seeing those one day.   

I was so excited to post this card that I totally forgot to add it to Darnell's NBUS challenge, a place where all Never Before Used Stuff is welcomed. 

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Inkspirational #345

The Inkspirational theme is three of the same and so daisies it is.

The funny thing is I went to my secondary Facebook page and this same design came up.  I searched my blog and saw I made one like it in June of 2023. The only difference was in the color of the background, the color of the basket and where the sentiment was placed.  The daisies are from TH Wildflowers, cut from watercolor paper and colored with Distress Inks.  The basket from The Greetery was cut in silver and backed with vellum.  The light blue background is embossed with the Timeworn Type folder.  The sentiment from The Greetery was added to a silver stick and bracket.  I guess a good design bears repeating. 😉

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Just Us Girls #724 - Anything Goes Stencil Week

It's time for Stencil Week again at Just Us Girls.  Carol M is our host.

When I saw the beautiful foil hot plate called Golden Days from Altenew I knew I had to have it. 

Isn't she lovely?  The flower is so large I made a 5 by 7 card so I didn't have to trim any of her away.  It's foiled in gold and stenciled with the Martian Terrain set of Altenew inks.  I did trim the panel a tad to mount in on some Melon Berry cardstock from PTI that was almost perfect match.  The gold foiled sentiment is from Spellbinders.

There are so many ways to use a stencil on your card.  For inspiration, please check out what the Design Team and our guest Colleen have made.   We'd love to see your stenciled card in our gallery.

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Double D - Patterned Paper Take Two

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

In the very same paper pack I used for yesterday's card for Double D I found this large floral one. 

I cut it with Spellbinder's Four Petal Label dies and layered it three times on my card base.  The flower is from SSS and the sentiment is from Altenew.  Because the flowers on the paper weren't pure white I went looking for paper closer to that color rather than the PTI that I usually use.  I found some from MFT that I got in a kit when I visited their store a number of years ago.   It sure looks more white in the photo and I didn't notice it when I was doing the editing.  Sometimes photography can be a bugaboo, especially on cloudy days.

The sun is shining today.  I better get busy and take photos of other finished cards while I have good light.

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The Flower Challenge #88 - Reminder

There is still time for you to make a card for The Flower Challenge.  We want you to add a heart to your flowers this month.

For this card I added hearts to the background with a cover plate from Honey Bee.  The wildflowers are also from Honey Bee, colored with Distress Inks and tied together with a tag that has a heart on it. I have a package of tiny white hearts that were given to me by Darnell some time ago, leftovers from a card she sent.  They come in handy every now and then. 

How will you add a heart to your card?  For more inspiration be sure to check out what the Design Team has made for you.

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The Flower Challenge #88

The Flower Challenge is back after our holiday break and this month we want you to add a heart to your floral card. 

I made a bunch of forget-me-nots from The Greetery, colored them with Distress Inks, and filled the heart- shaped Posy Pocket also from The Greetery.  The pocket and tag were cut from GinaK ivory, inked around the edges and the tag tied on with twine.  

The Design Team has some wonderful cards to inspire you.  I hope you'll check them out and make a card for our gallery.  We'd love to see it filled with flowers and hearts. 

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Just Us Girls #691 - Color Week

It's Color Week at Just Us Girls and our host Vicki has chosen these colors for our cards.

Looks like flowers to me. ;)

The forget-me-nots from The Greetery were cut from smooshed paper and the green stems and yellow centers were colored with Zigs.  They are arranged in The Greetery's Market Basket that was heat embossed in Platinum, lined with vellum and a sentiment added.  The background is a coverplate from Concord and 9th.  

You may see something else in these colors.  We'd love to see what you make.  Check out the Design Team for inspiration.

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Time Out #239

There's a photo challenge at Time Out. 

Here's a closer look.

 I took bits and pieces of the photo to make my card. 

See the copper glasses?  That inspired my copper embossed frame.  To pay homage to the crystal glasses I embossed a piece of acetate and layered it over the green that is in the vase.  Here's a close up.

The flowers are Cistus from Altenew in shades of gray and white with pink and yellow centers. 

Picket Fence is sponsoring this challenge and the winner will receive a $25 store credit.  What part or parts of the photo inspire you?  Come see what the Design Team and our guest designer Joyce have made. I hope you'll show us how you are inspired by entering a card in the gallery. 

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Tag You're It! #89

It's time for the next Tag You're It! challenge and your inspiration is this:

My umbrella is a die from MFT cut in patterned paper that was a gift from Nancy.  I originally thought of placing the umbrella on the pink plaid from the same paper pack but it got lost so I cut another SSS tag in green and layered them. A heat embossed sentiment from HLS finishes it off.

How does the photo speak to you?  Why not check out what the Design Team has made. We hope you'll make a tag for our challenge.

Tag You're It! #71

You should have heard by now that Tag You're It! has gone to a monthly format.  Each month there will be a featured artist to inspire your tag.  A guest designer and different members of the design team will have other tags to inspire you each week.  This is week three and here's my tag based on this one by Lindsey M-P.

The PB rose is stamped on a tag cut from watercolor paper and colored with Distress Inks with a little Inktense pencil added for darker shading. The sentiment is a die from SSS.

We hope to see your tag in the gallery this month.

CASology #115

I was floored when Melissa emailed me and asked if I would be the guest designer at CASology this week.  After I picked myself up off the floor, I emailed her back and said I'd be delighted.  Then I saw the cue word.

What am I going to do with that?  I love to eat chocolate.  In fact, some would say I'm a chocoholic.  But to make a card about it and with my limited stamp supply.  That was going to take some thinking.  I laid in bed early one morning and the idea came to me.  Now if I could only pull it off.  I played around with the elements and this is the final result.

I die cut a triangle from MFT and used my corner chomper on the bottom two edges.  A little scissor adjustment on the sides and some foil and it looks like a Hershey's kiss.  Yay! Just what I was going for.  Now for the little paper tag.  I tried a couple of other sentiments embossed in different colors on vellum but this one seemed the right font and a perfect saying.  It's stamped in HA navy and clear embossed.

What would you do with the word "chocolate"?  Go on over to CASology and check out what the design team did.  Let them inspire you, then make a card of your own and enter it into the gallery.

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Fusion #2

Fusion?  In my case maybe it should be called Con-fusion.  Do the sketch, no the photo inspiration, no combine the two, no the sketch, no. . . .

Okay, I picked the photo inspiration for this week's Fusion challenge.

Part two of the confusion came in the paper.  We bought a car last December and the color is called Mocha something.  Sometimes it looks dark gray and sometimes tan.  When I picked this paper (the only gray I had) it DID look gray.  While I was working on it, it began to look tan to me.  Oh no!  I kept on working, punching and gluing circles.  I thought the green was bright enough but now in the photo it looks rather washed out but the polka dots look gray.  I guess I just can't win on this one (no pun intended.)

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