Vintage Postcard Wishes

Welcome to my blog on this Monday morning.

Here we are almost a week in to December and I can't quite figure out how that happened. It seems the holidays come more quickly every year!

We are beginning a new theme at The Flower Challenge and we're featuring cards using gold for this month. 

I love gold accents and this time I combined them with a vintage style card for Christmas using Penny Black supplies. 

Inking in light brown I stamped the Vintage Postcard Cling stamp adding some sponging to distress the panel. The poinsettias were watercolored using Distress Ink re-inkers. The gold snowflakes are a new product called Stick & Shine. They are a super easy way to foil. I only wish you could see the bright shimmer they add. This card was hard to photograph. IRL all 5 snowflakes are bright gold. 

The spatters of white acrylic ink are the final touch. I hope that you will join us at The Flower Challenge, it's easy to play along! I'm adding this to Time Out Challenges, The Paper Players, SSSWednesday Challenge, and Penny Black Saturday Challenge. 

Be yourself

          Have delight in your craft 

               Make something beautiful!

Penny Black supplies: 

floral festivities

joy & happiness

Stick & Shine

Christmas Memories for Color Hues

`Happy Friday morning to you, my crafting friends. How are things going for you?  

It's beginning to look like Christmas at our house! The shopping is done, the decorations are being put in place for the festive celebration of my favorite holiday. I love to think of family and one of the best memories I have from holidays past is going ice skating. Just a bit of nostalgia for you with today's card. Hope you like it! 

The lovely Let's Skate die is pretty enough to feature on it's own. 

It was was cut twice, once from SSS Pawsitively Velvet Snow White  card stock and once from Silver Glitter paper. I used black card stock behind the eyelets and added shading with a gray marker to create a bit of a scuffed up look. I love the texture and softness of the velvet paper! I also placed the sentiment strips a bit off center. On purpose. I thought that looked best with the skewed angle of the skates. 

Our new challenge at Color Hues is for pink and silver. You will have the entire month to play along. 

 

Please do join us at Color Hues! We hope our gallery will be filled with your delightful creations! 

Be yourself

          Have delight in your craft 

               Make something beautiful!  

Penny Black supplies: Let's Skate die cut 51-750, Blizzard embossing folder

SSS: sentiments from Joy to You and Yours, Pawsitively Velvet Card Stock

I am adding this to the following challenges: 

NBUS   first time using the skate die

Time Out Challenges - 

SSS Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

Mugs of Joy!

Are my American friends in the midst of Thanksgiving prep? My kitchen is filled with signs of delicious foods to come for the big feast. But I still found just a bit of time to stamp over the weekend. 

The Penny Black stamps called Mugs of Joy are darling images of whimsical mug figurines filled with greenery that I just could not resist. They've been newly added to my collection and I just loved using one of the images for today's card. 

The Paper Players are asking for CAS cards featuring TAGS and this was so fun to put together. 

The snowman mug was stamped in light gray and colored with watercolors and markers on the stripes of the scarf. I combined these blue papers from my stash and added a white die cut with The Greetery's Coaster die. 

I will share this also at NBUS. Thanks so much for your visit today, have a wonderful Thanksgiving! 

Be yourself

          Have delight in your craft 

               Make something beautiful!  

Joyful Poinsettia Christmas

 The calendar tells me there's only a week until Thanksgiving, and Christmas is just around the corner! At Color Hues we are inviting you to bring out red and metallic gold to make your cards over the next two weeks. Christmas or not, these colors are elegant and full of possibilities! 

I am making every effort to dig into supplies from my stash and bring them out for inking! The Joyful Poinsettia stamp (W Plus9) makes a beautiful background. I stamped it in Versamark ink onto Real Red card stock, and heat embossed it with glittery gold embossing powder. 

The sentiment is in gold foil and I adorned it with  three red gems. 

Sparkle and elegance are my favorites for Christmas cards and this one has both. It's much more glittery IRL! 

Can't wait to see what you will make with these colors. Please join us!

Be yourself

          Have delight in your craft 

               Make something beautiful!  

 Supplies: Sentiment is from Gina K Foil-Mates Joyful Holiday

I'm adding this to Peace On Earth Challenge

Reminder for The Flower Challenge: Yellow and Black

 Take a break from holiday stamping and join us at The Flower Challenge! Just a reminder about the November challenge to create cards using yellow and black. 

My first card for this challenge went heavy on the yellow hue. This time the black and white blooms take center stage with a bright pineapple yellow on the side.

Making a gatefold card with the opening off center gives this card a unique bit of interest. 

Please be sure to check out the DT designs. I hope you'll be inspired to play along! 

Radiant Red and Gold

 Hi and happy Monday! Christmas cards are coming fast and furious at our house and I'm happy making the cards I look forward to all year! I have so many stamps for Christmas but today's card features a new-to-me rubber stamp by Penny Black called Radiant Red. You can never have too many poinsettia stamps! 

I love to watercolor. I stamped with Toffee Crunch ink onto Canson Watercolor paper and used Distress Ink re-inkers to color the blooms. I've long been a fan of PB but Jill's recent videos about batch stamping have inspired me to try her system to avoid decision fatigue. In giving this a  try over the weekend, I found myself sitting to paint and work on this card (and others) in little bits of time between football games and home duties. 

A simple card but dressed up with a beautiful sentiment, a border die and gold flat sequins. I'm playing at The Paper Players today 

the Penny Black Saturday Challenge 

Merry Little Christmas Challenge 

and adding this to NBUS as well. 

Thanks so much for your visit. I hope you're having a wonderful day. 

Be yourself

          Have delight in your craft 

               Make something beautiful!  

Other supplies: small sentiment - Penny Black Jolly Snippets; LawnFawn Just stitching Double Rectangles, Sentiment Dies from Birch Press Design

Sketchbook Bouquet for The Flower Challenge

 Greetings to you, friends! It's a new challenge at The Flower Challenge where we make florals the main feature of our cards. This time, we've added a color option to use yellow, black and white. 

I've been enjoying combining older supplies with  new products, so I pulled out the Sketchbook Bouquet stamps by Lori Craig. (Taylored Expressions.) The outline stamps include a die and a stencil. Although the lines are delicate, I thought they work perfectly with the bold color palette. 

I stamped on white card stock with black ink and heat embossed with clear EP. Watercoloring with Scattered Straw and Squeezed Lemonade Distress inks, I also placed the mask over the bouquet and ink blended lightly around it to add highlights to the background. I really like yellow, so I went with it! Spatters of black ink with a damp brush are a go-to for me. I finished it off with a bit of ribbon. 

Please check out the lovely DT samples. You have a month to play along. Hope that you will!

Be yourself

          Have delight in your craft 

               Make something beautiful!