Pink HB2U

AAA Birthday Game is looking for a shaker...what an opportunity to use The Stamp Market's cover die. Also, to use pink (not my favorite color) for a girly card. To begin I stacked 5 diecuts to make my sequin wells, diecut the Sunny Studio balloons and EBE hands which I colored. Atamped the sentiments on the balloons and set them aside. Ink blended an A2 panel and over stamped it with EBE's stamps. Glued the stacked diecuts to it and added the sequins into each aperture. Diecut the cover die one more time and glued it to acetate which I then attached to the stacked wells. Glued the balloons to strings, laced them through one diecut hand, added both hands to the bottom of  card and attached the balloons with foam tape. Nuvo glazed the balloons and the fingernails of the hands. A bit fiddly but worth the effort.

Glittery Tag

We're back to CAS Christmas challenges...this time with a tag. Using snippets from my desk diecut this Simon Says die twice. One from silver embossed pale green cardstock and another from a panel of multicolored glitter strips. Inlaid the "Ho Ho Ho" letters into the silvery tag apertures and added the appropriate colored jewels. Also added a glittery blue washi ribbon and called it done.

Brrrrthday

Today I have a winter birthday card made with this adorable Penny Black snowman die for AAA Cards sketch challenge. Lighlty Copic colored the diecut to which I added a patterned paper hat then set it aside. Using EBE stamps I stamped a strip  and stenciled some snowflakes on the cardbase. The sentiment is also from EBE.  I apologize for the photo...it's due to gloomy outside issues.
  

Hearts & Flowers

Playing with The Flower Challenge's Shaped cards. Diecut a huge patterned paper heart with Lil B's die and inked the edges, put it aside to dry. Also diecut Concord & 9th's giant rose. Lightly Copic colored it and attached it to a vellum diecut heart.Popped it up on the patterned paper heart. Diecut the sentiment out of red glitter cardstock and called it done. No stamps were used on the card.

...is all we need

Ooooh, this year's first post playing with Time Out challenge and one I think is appropriate for the first month of the year. The inspiration photo is below.

Using that inspiration photo literally, I diecut with Hero Arts dies a patterned paper striped heart and the surrounding scallops out of a 4x51/4 panel. Stacked the striped heart 4 times, set it aside and applied DreamWeaver glossy white paste through a brick-like stencil. Diecut Simon Says' "love" die and stamped/embossed the sub-sentiment on a grey cardstock strip. Once the the pasted panel was dry, shaded the "bricks" with Copics, arranged the striped heart, white strips to look like molding over the bottom 3rd of the card and attached the sentiments. Applied Nuvo glaze over the focal heart and the "love" sentiment.

Happy and Prosperous New Year to everyone.

Thank You

A special day for me today because I'm Guest Designing for Less is More's color challenge. Yay!  This fortnight we're using the Pantone colors of the year for both 2019 (Living Coral) and 2020 ( True Blue).

That's what I call starting the New Year right...

 ...and since thank you cards are the order of the day, this WaffleFlower mouse fits the bill:

Began by stamping the image and masking it. Using a very old Papertrey Ink stripe and a MISTI, stamped alternate colors of Catherine Pooler's Suede Shoes (blue) and The Stamp Market's Coral Reef. Removed the mask and colored the mouse using the same inks. Stamped an Altenew sentiment and done. These would be very easy to mass produce once the stripes were set up on the MISTI.

Many, many thanks to Less Is More for allowing this opportunity. It was tons of fun.

Dream Big

It's all about C. S. Lewis' words at Time Out this fortnight, "You are never too old to set a goal, or dream a new dream".  Fortunately, I had this previously created alcohol ink on Yupo background that reminds me of an ethereal, dream-like sky. Stamped the Crackerbox & Suzy stamps with Staz-On on the panel and the sentiment on Lawn Fawn holographic vellum and set them aside. Diecut the vellum and a grey cardstock panel with a Trinity frame and cloud die set. Layered them over the Yupo panel and arranged the extra clouds. Added some sequins and bling drops. Done.