Color Hues #97

I combined Honey Bee's Crate and their Fall Bounty dies with the colors at Color Hues to come up with this card.

The background is a stencil from TCW using Crushed Olive over a mustard yellow cardstock and the sentiment is from Jillian Vance.  Thank goodness you can use a neutral because that brown was needed to add contrast.  

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Tic Tac Toe #231

Today I have a card for Tic Tac Toe, plaid - gingerbread - enamel dots.

The gingerbread man is from a new Spellbinders set called Stocking Full of Joy.  He's the only part of the set I used and he's decorated with icing from the set and enamel dots from Altenew.  The embossing folder is an oldie called Seeing Spots.  So old in fact that the embossing doesn't go to the edge of an A2 card so I trimmed it out before putting on my card base.  The plaid is from my stash and the sentiment is from CPD. 

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Tic Tac Toe #226

It was Elizabeth's turn to make the Tic Tac Toe board this week and I went with the middle column down, large sentiment, free, plaid.

I made my own plaid with help from Concord and 9th dies. I thought the colors would be good for a masculine autumn birthday.  The sentiment is from MFT cut it metallic gold with a brown shadow. 

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Color Hues #67

My friend Marcia has picked some great masculine colors at Color Hues. 

I don't have any merlot cardstock so I made my own.

I  used Altenew's Rhodolite and Tanzarite from their jewel tones collection on Concord and 9th die cut plaid.  I love a good plaid and think it makes great cards for the guys in your life.  In order for the sentiment to show up I stamped one from Altenew in tanzarite on a white strip.

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Just Us Girls #669 - Color Week

It's the first Saturday of March and time for a Color Challenge at Just Us Girls.  Ina has chosen these colors for us. 

I must admit it took a some thinking and Googling before I had an idea for a card. Then I saw a plaid and I love plaid so I made my own using the colors.

I started with Concord and 9th Buttercup cardstock and their Plaid Background stamp.  I added lines in CP's All That Jazz and black.  The large birthday die is from STAMPlorations, the tag from The Greetery and the happy stamp from Clearly Besotted.  I think this makes a great masculine card which I am in dire need of. 

How do you see those colors?  We'd love to see how you use them.  For inspiration check out the Design Team and our guest Michele Ferguson of I Card Everyone.

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Just Us Girls #656 - Wild Card Week

When there are five Saturdays in a month the host gets to chose anything she wants for the challenge at Just Us Girls.  This month Carol Mc chose 

I don't make a lot of gift tags so this is my first for the year.

I made the little SSS gnome out of scraps of DSP and used some new Fluff It Paste for his beard.  You spread it on with a palette knife and then heat emboss to get the texture.  I'm a little disappointed that it's not pure white.  I gave him a home on diagonal plaid paper cut with a fancy stitched die. 

Holiday tags is a wide open theme so you should have no trouble making one or more for our gallery.  Need a little inspiration?  Check out the Design Team and our guest Lynne over on the blog. 

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Just Us Girls #617 - Wild Card Week

There are five Saturdays in January and that means Carol Mc hosts Wild Card Week at Just Us Girls.  For our challenge she has selected 

I love a good plaid and they make great masculine cards so that's what I did.

I used Altenew's Tartan stamp but don't ask me what colors since I neglected to write them down when I made this over a month ago.  The sentiment die is unmarked but is layered three times with the top layer black gloss from Concord and 9th. 

Come see what kind of plaid our guest designers Chrissie Stokes and Stef Perry do for their last challenge with us.  We are so thankful to have had them with us this month. And let's not forget what the Design Team has made too.  Will you join us in making plaid cards?

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Color Hues #17

Red and orange.  That a bright and cheery color combination and one that Color Hues wants us to use on our cards.  I aim to please.

I just had to have this three layer stencil from The Greetery and only used it once so thought it was time to get it out again.  It was inked using Distress Inks: first layer Crackling Campfire, second Carved Pumpkin and the third a lighter version of the first.  No need to tell me the darkest color should be the overlap.  I just didn't plan the colors well but I loved the results so I carried on. A couple of die cut flowers layered up and a sentiment on an Altenew label die was all I needed to finish it off.

 

CAS(E) This Sketch #395

CAS(E) This Sketch gave me the opportunity to add two more cards to my Thanksgiving stash.

I say two because that piece of plaid paper, stamped with C9 gingham, was cut in half to use on identical cards.  The wreath is from SSS, the smooshed leaves from LF and the heat embossed sentiment from PTI.

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Just Us Girls #556

It's word week at Just Us Girls and I am the host that picked this for the word to base your cards on.

I love a good plaid and have a number of stamps that will give me a variety of looks.  For this card I used Altenew's Tartan.

Doesn't that look like the softest flannel? It's perfect for a masculine card.  I made this so long ago I'm not sure the exact colors but the lines are HA Navy.  I also used the navy on gray to stamp the N&T sentiment.

The Design Team is waiting to inspire you with their plaids.  And so is our guest designer Karen Walker.  Please check them out on the Just Us Girls blog and then make a visit to their personal blogs for details.  

We'd love to see your plaid card in our gallery.  How about joining us?

CAS(E) This Sketch #371

I'm cutting it kind of short for my entry into the CAS(E) This Sketch challenge.  It took me until last night to come up with something that I liked.

I've been trying to use more of my patterned paper and this one caught my eye.  Well to be honest plaid always catches my eye and I thought this would be a little different.  The photo editing makes it have more of a yellowish cast but it matches the ivory cs I used for the card base and the hemstitch die cut oval.  The Altenew Weekend Doodles were stamped in brown and heat embossed in clear so I could color it with Zigs to match the colors in the plaid.  There was only room for a tiny sentiment and this one is from PB.  Good for the times I'd say.

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CAS(E) This Sketch #346

It's a gnome kind of Christmas so I'm breaking out my NBUS set from RC for my card for CAS(E) This Sketch.

I used the rest of the C9 plaid piece from this card and a die cut from PTI to frame my gnomes.  The sentiment was cut from MFT letters.

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Freshly Made Sketched #409

I have a last minute entry in the Freshly Made Sketches challenge.

While the sketch shows a square card, I chose not to do that.  I made my own plaid with the Concord & 9th Plaid background, cut it down and placed it behind the Altenew poinsettia that I colored with Altenew watercolors.  The sentiment is from HA.

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Addicted to CAS #170

Angie chose this as the code word for this week's Addicted to CAS.

I wanted to make my own plaid so I used a stamp from C9.  Then I cut the panel down to make this.

I added a bow from Altenew and a tag and sentiment from a company no longer in business.  I originally had another card in mind but felt it wasn't CAS enough.  I still finished it to add to my Christmas stash.

The poinsettia and greens are from the same Altenew set as the bow, the frame from PTI and the sentiment from PB.

The Design Team would like to see your plaid cards in the gallery.  Why not check out what they did with the word and then make a card for us.

CAS(E) This Sketch #341

This week's CAS(E) This Sketch is more about background than anything else.  Take a look.

I love argyle but not having anything but an embossing folder I went with my second favorite - plaid.

I got the stencil from a scrapbook store near the cottage and used Walnut Stain DI on PTI Orange Zest.  The MFT leaves are cut from gold metal and the PTI sentiment is gold heat embossed.

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The Male Room #106

I'm playing in The Male Room challenge for the first time today.  I have a lot of males in my family and am often needing masculine cards so this will be a great challenge to get me making them.

I used the Concord and 9th plaid builder in three shades of green, taking some cardstock in the darkest color for my heat embossed sentiment. 

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Less Is More #388

Guess who's having a birthday?  No not me.  Less Is More.  Eight fabulous years of clean and simple challenges.  Here's to many more LIM.

For their birthday challenge they want us to use Navy and Yellow.  I must admit that I cringed while making this card because being an MSU fan and having lived in Lansing for over 20 years, using the maize and blue of the University of Michigan conjured up the rivalry. 😬 

I made my C9 plaid background with CP Shea Butter and HA Navy.  The PTI die cut, layered three times,  is also in navy although it looks black here.

You do know that there was more of the plaid so I used the rest to make a similar card although it's not quite as CAS since the plaid covers more of the card.

Double wishes for a wonderful LIM birthday and two more cards for my masculine pile.