Sending Lots of Color Your Way

 

Hi Crafty Friends,

It's challenge time with my friends over on the CCEE Stampers challenge blog. Liz Williams our challenge hostess for the month, continues to issue the challenges.

Apparently it’s National Kindergarten Day, so make a card using primary colors and basic shapes. 

For my card today I pulled out a few older dies and stamp sets and mixed them with a new set.

First up I used Simon Says Stamp's Mod Circle Frame die set. I die cut it five times, twice from white cardstock and then one each from red, blue and yellow cardstock. I then adhered the white frames onto white cardstock and filled in the pieces using the red, blue and yellow pieces. I then adhered this panel to a top folding 4 1/4 inches x 5 1/2 inches card base.

For the sentiment I used a "color" themed sentiment using an older Simon Says Stamp Best Ever stamp set. I adhered the sentiment to the lower right hand corner of my card.

I had been playing with Pinkfresh Studio's Small Butterflies Hot Foil Stamp and coordinating die and stencils the day before making this card and as I still had most of them left over, I decided to use for this card. I coloured the butterflies using the red, blue and yellow colour scheme and added them to my card. I also added some of Pinkfresh Studio's Glacier Jewels to the butterflies.

For the inside of my card I used the other white border from when I die cut the front background and added the left over coloured pieces of cardstock into it. I cut this background in half and adhered this to the top and bottom edges of my card.

I haven't used my pop-up dies from Lawn Fawn for a while, so I pulled out their Pop-up Hello die set and added that to the centre of the card. I used the Oliver's ABC's die set to die cut the coloured letters.

I used the rest of the butterflies to decorate the inside panels and then added another "color" themed sentiment, this time one from Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps.

Don't forget to check out the CCEE Stampers blog (goes live 12 AM EST) to see the rest of the creations the CCEE Stampers created this week. You can also see more details of their creations on their individual blogs:

Anne Harmon

Liz Williams

Lois Bak

Lynn McAuley

Maryann Einam

Kelly McKown-Santi

Other Supplies:

Best Ever Stamp Set - Simon Says Stamp (discontinued)

Day Like A Fairytale

 

Hi Crafty Friends,

It's challenge time with my friends over on the CCEE Stampers challenge blog.  Manal Habib our challenge hostess for the month, finishes off the month with one last challenge. 

Fairytale Madness - We all have fond memories of the fairytales we heard or read when we were children. So our challenge today is to created something featuring a fairytale, carnival or circus.

I love fairytales, so I decided to go with the fairytale option when creating my card today.

I recently purchased a slimline die and papers from Whimsy Stamps. The die is called Slimline Woodland Cottage, the cottage looks a like a windmill and I love the magical look of the papers. I did some research and discovered there were two fairytales that had a Windmill theme ... one is called The Windmill and the other The Windmill & The Butterfly, so I decided to use those on my card. I added a fairytale sentiment from CC Designs Simply Enchanting stamp set which I have had in my stash for some years.

For the inside of the card I created a pop-up card using Lawn Fawn's Pop Up Hello die set.

I used patterned paper from Trinity stamps and a Slimline die set from Dare 2B Artzy to add the border along both edges of my card.

I added a couple of image that also had a fairy tale theme (nothing to do with windmills) on either side of the pop up. the princess & knight are from Stamping Bella and the castle is from MFT Stamps.

To finish off the card I added another stamped sentiment which was included in the Stamping Bella stamp set.

Don't forget to check out the CCEE Stampers blog (goes live 12 AM EST) to see the rest of the creations the CCEE Stampers created this week. You can also see more details of their creations on their individual blogs:

Anne Harmon

Liz Williams

Lois Bak

Lynn McAuley

Maryann Einam

Kelly McKown-Santi

Hazel Estibeiro

Manila Habib

Mad Hatter Slimline

Hi Crafty Friends,

It's challenge time with my friends over on the CCEE Stampers challenge blog.  It's a brand new month and time to introduce our challenge hostess for the month, which is ME!

Apparently the 6th October is Mad Hatter Day, so for our challenge this week create a card inspired by the theme … Hats, Alice In Wonderland, Mad Hatter etc.

As you can see by my card above, I decided to go with the Alice in Wonderland Mad Hatter scene. I did see a super cute stamp set which I would have loved, but with COVID and slow post from America right now, I decided to forget about that and go with something already in my stash.

I used Riley and Company's Mad MooseHatter and Sophie in Wonderland stamps.  I know the Mad Moosehatter is still available, but I don't think Sophie in Wonderland is anymore which included Alice with the Cheshire cat.

I created a Slimline Card using Lawn Fawn's Large Slimline with Sliders die set. I blended Distress Oxide ink in Tumbled Glass and Faded Jeans for the sky.

For the grass I used one of the grass borders from MFT Stamps Slimline Grassy Hills Die-namics. 

To create my scene I used Lawn Fawn's new Lift the Flap Trees die which I cut apart so I could have one on the left side and two on the right. I also added some mushrooms using the Mushroom border die.

The tree trunk in between Alice and the Mad Hatter is from Lawn Fawn's Mom & Me Stamp set.

I added a sleeping bear from Den Sweet Den to the centre tree, I thought it could look a little like a dormouse. The cups and cake etc are from other Lawn Fawn stamp sets which are listed in my supply list below.

As this was a tea party, I added the Tea Time sentiment from The Stamps of Life's Tea4Two Stamp set.

For the inside of the card I created a pop up card using Lawn Fawn's Pop-up Hello die and Oliver's ABCs die set.

I added two of the trees from the Lift the Flap Trees die set.

I added another Mad Hatter image to the top of the pop up.

I used the grass borders from MFT Stamps Slimline Grassy Hills Die-namics to the edge of the bottom of the card and along the fold where the trees were.

I stamped sentiments inside the flaps on the trees and on the front grass which are also from The Stamps of Life Tea4Two stamp set.

Don't forget to check out the CCEE Stampers blog (goes live 12 AM EST) to see the rest of the creations the CCEE Stampers created this week. You can also see more details of their creations on their individual blogs:

Anne Harmon

Liz Williams

Lois Bak

Lynn McAuley

Maryann Einam

Kelly McKown-Santi

Hazel Estibeiro

Manal Habib

Supplies:

For your shopping convenience, all products are linked below. Compensated affiliate links are used where possible with no extra cost to you. This helps me to continue to share all the projects I include on my blog. For the benefit of my Australia readers, I have started to include some links to Australian stores when available. Please note I only use and share products I love.

Mom & Me Stamp Set - Lawn Fawn

Sophie in Wonderland Stamp - Riley and Company (discontinued)

 

It's A Baby

Hi Crafty Friends,

It’s challenge time with the “Crazies” over on the Crazy 4 Challenges blog. Rebecca Ednie our challenge hostess for the month, continues to issue the challenges.

Rebecca tells us .... that she always thinks of colours of the beach when she thinks of summer. Use Turquoise, peach, pink and sand/gold to create your project this week.

This definitely isn't a "go to" color combo for me, so I decided the easiest way to include those colors in my design was to use one of the new PinkFresh Studio "pop out" background stamps. These stamps allow you to remove pieces of the stamp so that you can ink specific pieces in the color you want. I used the Nested Diamonds stamp set for my card today. This stamp is designed to be used on either an A2 card or square card, but as I was wanting to make a Slimline card for our challenge today, I had to do some careful planning and repeat stamping to get the over all background.

I noticed when I was typing up this post, that I have missed the "peach" part of the challenge ... but the elephant's ears are probably close enough to that color to count.

I used Trinity Stamps Slimline Stitched Card Panels & Windows and Slimline Scalloped Card Panels & Banner die sets to die cut the panels for my Slimline card.

When I was stamping out the colors to create my card panels, I thought it would be a great color combo for a baby card, so that is what I created.

I didn't want to hide too much of that background, seeing it took so long to make. I used the elephant from Honey Bee Stamps Safari Babies stamp set on the right hand side of the card.

I added a sentiment to the left side of my card using an A Way With Words die set. I die cut the word from pink and turquoise cardstock and offset the two slightly before adhering to an oval label. 

While I was stamping my background for the front of the card, I stamped an additional one for the inside (actually I had stamped three, but the third ended up getting messed up so I couldn't use on this card. I die cut the panel using the dies I used on the front of the card and then layered them together and cut in half. I added one half to the edges of the inside of my card.

To create the pop-up in the centre of the card I used Lawn Fawn's Hello Pop-up die set. I added the letters to the pop-up using pink and turquoise cardstock.

I added the "Congratulations" and "little baby" sentiments which are both from Honey Bee Stamps Hooray stamp set. I also added a blank panel for a hand written personal greeting.

Here is another view of the inside of my card taken at a different angle, so you can see the pop-up portion of the card a little better.

Don't forget to check out the rest of the “Crazies” cards over on the Crazy 4 Challenges blog and also their individual blogs for more details.

Amy Ottmers

Karen Ostergard

Kathleen Adams

Maryann Einam

Rebecca Ednie

Nicky Foden

Tracey Farr

Lois Bak

Supplies:

For your shopping convenience, all products are linked below. Compensated affiliate links are used where possible with no extra cost to you. This helps me to continue to share all the projects I include on my blog. For the benefit of my Australia readers, I have started to include some links to Australian stores when available. Please note I only use and share products I love.

Scalloped Mega Ovals Nested die set - Spellbinders (retired)
Mega Ovals Nested die set - Spellbinders (retired)

Are You Kitten Me Right Meow?

Hi Crafty Friends,

It’s challenge time with the “Crazies” over on the Crazy 4 Challenges blog. As challenge hostess for the month I continue to issue the challenges.

Slimline Cards - Slimline Cards seem to be very popular at present, especially with a few companies releasing dies that are made to use for creating this style of card. For our challenge this week create a Slimline card. A Slimline card measures either 8 1/2 inches x 3 1/2 inches or 9 inches x 4 inches and should fit into a standard business sized envelope.

I have been waiting rather impatiently for the new Pinkfresh Studio Slim dies to arrive in one of my local stamp stores. With Covid 19 and borders being closed around the world, getting stamping supplies into the country has become a little slower. 

Pink fresh Studio recently released 9 die sets which were designed to be used for Slimline cards. The largest die included in each set measures 8 5/8 inches x 3 5/8 inches so if you want a slight border around the die cut your card needs to be at least 8 3/4 inches x 3 3/4 inches.  This size doesn't fit into a standard Australian business size envelope (DL), however I have discovered that you can purchased DLX envelopes which are slightly longer which will work for these cards. I guess I need to buy some now :)

For my card today I used the Slim Diagonal Stripes die set. As I also received the Waffle Flower Be A Cat die set I decided to use that on my card.

I added a sentiment using Honey Bee Stamps Purrrfect Sentiments which I die cut using the Banner Builder die set.

I added the cup from Spellbinders Drive-Thru die set.

For the inside of my card I added two more of the Slim Diagonal Stripes die cuts, trimming away the area which would show through the pop up section of the card.

I added the Lawn Fawn Pop-up Hello to the centre portion of the card, added the colored letters using the Oliver's Stitched ABCs die set.

To finish off the card I added another stamped sentiment from the Honey Bee Stamps Purrrfect Sentiments stamp set.

Don't forget to check out the rest of the “Crazies” cards over on the Crazy 4 Challenges blog and also their individual blogs for more details.

Amy Ottmers

Karen Ostergard

Kathleen Adams

Maryann Einam

Rebecca Ednie

Nicky Foden

Tracey Farr

Supplies:

For your shopping convenience, all products are linked below. Compensated affiliate links are used where possible with no extra cost to you. This helps me to continue to share all the projects I include on my blog. For the benefit of my Australia readers, I have started to include some links to Australian stores when available. Please note I only use and share products I love.

Buzzing By To Say

Hi Crafty Friends,

It’s challenge time with the “Crazies” over on the Crazy 4 Challenges blog. As challenge hostess for the month, I continue to issue the challenges.

Being the third Saturday of the month, it's time for a sketch challenge.

For my card today, I decided to pull out and play with Honey Bee Stamps Bee Mine Stamp set with coordinating die. This was a freebie stamp/die set I received earlier in the year when I placed an order.

For the layers on the front of my card I used a yellow patterned paper from Honey Bee Stamps Over The Rainbow 6 x 6 Paper Pad for the small squares and rectangles. I used Lawn Fawn's Knock on Wood 6 x 6 Paper Pad for the base panel.

I added the sentiment using Honey Bee Stamps Bee-You-Tiful stamp set which I die cut using the Banner Builders die set,  this die set never leaves my desk I use it so much! I also added the "Bee" Word sentiment from the Bee-You-Tiful coordinating die set which I added to all 4 corners to the card.

For the inside of my card I added a pop-up card. I used the same Knock on Wood Patterned paper for the yellow panels. I added Lawn Fawn's Pop-up Hello die set for the Hello Pop-up panel in the centre of the card. I finished the pop-up panel by adding letters from Lawn Fawn's Oliver's Alphabet which coordinate with the letters on the pop-up die.

I stamped and die cut two more of the bees and added them to the top portion of the card.

I added the "Happy Beeday" sentiment from Honey Bee Stamps Hi Honey stamp set.

Don't forget to check out the rest of the “Crazies” cards over on the Crazy 4 Challenges blog and also their individual blogs for more details.

Amy Ottmers

Karen Ostergard

Kathleen Adams

Maryann Einam

Rebecca Ednie

Nicky Foden

Tracey Farr

Supplies:

For your shopping convenience, all products are linked below. Compensated affiliate links are used where possible with no extra cost to you. This helps me to continue to share all the projects I include on my blog. For the benefit of my Australia readers, I have started to include some links to Australian stores when available. Please note I only use and share products I love.