Color Hues #115

I love a pink and gray combination and that's what the challenge is at Color Hues this time.

I knew I would go with a flower so I looked through the few I brought with me to the lake and settled on Peony Dream by Altenew.  The background is from a paper pack from Sunny Studio.  I wanted to do something different so using Spellbinders Stylish Ovals I cut one from the DSP and two from white cardstock to make a shaped card.  The sentiment from Hero Arts is clear embossed on the same dark grey I used for the flower center. 

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Just Us Girls #739 - Word Week

It's Word Week at Just Us Girls and our host Carol M has chosen

There are so many ways to do a frame on a card.  For me it was hot foiling.

This hot foil plate came with my Glimmer Machine and it's foiled in gold.  One of the hemstitch ovals from Spellbinders was large enough to cut it out and make a shaped card.  PFS Dainty Blossoms were cut in gold and inlaid with white scraps colored with Zigs. 

The Design Team and our guest designer Bonnie Klass have plenty of inspiration for you on the blog.  We hope you will make a frame card and enter it into our gallery.

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Seize the Birthday #267

I don't often make shaped cards but decided to do one for the challenge at Seize the Birthday.

For the card base I used a Soda Top nesting die from Altenew.  The PTI pansy was cut from white cardstock and inked with shades from Altenew's Enchanted Garden set.  The sentiment is hot foiled.

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Just Us Girls #632 - Trend Week

It's Trend Week at Just Us Girls and our host Carol M has chosen 

I was making things ahead and forgot I had already made a shaped card so I have two of them to show you.  I'm showing you the second one first.

I had forgotten about this set from The Stamp Market.  It's a Christmas set and a gift card holder but I turned it into a simple card using a heat embossed sentiment and letters from SSS.

My other card is a more complicated one from Concord and 9th.

This set includes a number of images that can be stamped, colored, die cut and layered onto a background panel so that it's three dimensional.  The celebrate die is part of the set and I've cut it with black foil paper so it would stand out.  Here's another view so you can see the sides.  The card folds and fits into an A2 envelope.

There are a number of video links on the blog to give you some ideas and of course the design team and our guest designer have cards to inspire you.  We'd love to see your card in our gallery.

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Merry Monday #95

Just a quick post for Merry Monday.  I said I was going to do this challenge every week but this week caused some concern.

A Christmas card with an animal on it?  That doesn't sound that difficult unless you have no animal stamps and limited animal cuts that work for Christmas.  I did find one on the Tis the Season cartridge.

I love this stately deer and the shaped card that was on the same page.  The color is a little off in the photo but it's striking IRL.  That top layer is glitter cs.  See?

You can't stamp on that paper so I had to heat emboss the sentiment in gold.  I did a lot of playing with paper and trying out sentiments and inks before the final card, and that's the frustration fun of card making, right?

Thanks for stopping by.  Have a wonderful Sunday.