Sending a Little Love

 Hi everyone,  I hope your days are going well. What's bringing you delight these days? I've been under the weather for the last few days, but I was able to make a card just for fun. 

A background piece that I had made was still on my desk, it was an adventure in ink blending and a background stamp that I shared with you recently, HERE. I chose some colors of card stock and played a bit with a new die. 

All in all, it was a fun process although I feel this turned out a bit quirky and that's OK! Getting a good photo is still taking trial and error in my new setup and these shades weren't cooperating. The die is Spring Bloom Inlay by Kristina Werner for C9th. The colored strip is inked with Dox inks. I blended a bit of ink on the leaves for a second hue and assembled the bloom on cream card stock. A bit of shimmer was added but it's a bit hard to see. 

I look forward to another go with the inlay die. The sentiment is a favorite from Penny Black's Love Big transparent stamps. 

That's it for me today! See you next time! 

Be yourself

         Have delight in your craft 

               Make something beautiful!  

Entering this to NBUS where Darnell invites us to showcase our new Schtuff!  The bloom die is new.
 A Cut Above and 
SSS Wednesday Challenge - Bright and Colorful

Takes the Cake Birthday

 Sweetness overload from an oldie but goodie! Must be the sweet goodies I have on my mind posting cupcakes and now a cake, Ha! Better to make them with ink instead of eating them, right? 

This card features the Take the Cake dies, stamps and stencils from The Greetery. I'm not sure if it's still available but I'm glad I've delved in to ink it up with lots of color on the florals and texture for the icing. Icing is always my favorite part of cake! 

I hope you're doing well today. Come back again soon! 

Be yourself

         Have delight in your craft 

               Make something beautiful!  

Making it's way to The Flower Challenge. Hoping that lavender is an OK purple. 

Thankful for Autumn

I recently made one more card before putting my autumn dies away and it seems just right to share now that cooler weather has been here making me want to get outside and kick up some leaves!  

 These papers were gathered from my stash. I did some ink shading on the edges of the yellow floral, then tore and layered the papers for a country look that mixed well with the plaid. Sponged inks provided the colors on the leaves as well. 

I'm happy to find it fits in with a couple challenges also. I love when that happenes. Thanks for coming by to take a look!

Be yourself

         Have delight in your craft 

               Make something beautiful!  

Playing along with:
Color Hues - where the challenge colors are rust and yellow
Just Us Girls - asks for Leaves on their Die Cut Week
Penny Black Saturday Challenge - I used PB Dies Fall Foliage and the leafy branch is Dignified; sentiment stamp from Sunflower Harvest Clear set

Sweets with Birthday Blitz

 It's a new month and I pulled out a brand new box of goodies to play with!  The Birthday Blitz kit (SSS) appealed so much to me with bright colorful papers which contain printed tags and cute sayings. I mixed it up with other products so today's card uses only the papers from the kit. Did I say colorful? 

The star patterned paper makes a busy background and the paper I used for the cupcake liner repeats the star element. I cut the sentiment also out from one of the papers. The die cut additions are from Spellbinders Etched Birthday Wreath Add-Ons which I'm also sharing for the first time here. I colored the icing with markers and added shimmer to make it sparkle. And of course there are sequins! 

Bet you can guess that I'm sharing with these challenges today:
NBUS - never been used supplies
The Paper Players have a sketch. 

Double D asks for- "Trick or treat, smell my feet, give me something good to eat."  It does not have to be Halloween related. 

Simon Says Stamp Card Kit Gallery The kit is sold out but many elements are available separately.  

I look forward to seeing you soon! For those who've been following me, we've finally arranged a space for me to stamp in our new home so I no longer have to haul things out to the living area. LOVE using the new space! Will work next on streamlining the photo process. 

Thanks for sticking with me to the end. I love that you come to visit me, and I wish you a great day. 

Be yourself

         Have delight in your craft 

               Make something beautiful!  

Santa's Coming

 A happy Saturday hello from me.  The song says Santa is coming to town but as I look around stores in my community, I'd say he's already here! 

I'm not too much into Santa but this jolly guy is newly acquired and he's so cute!

I couldn't wait to feature him in the offering from Freshly Made Sketches. He's paired with a dancing penguin and the vertical word die.  This is also brand new and I know I will often use this in the holiday season. I used Copics to color. For sparkle, there's some wink of stell on his hat, and a few snowflakes.

I love this card layout I hope to use it again as it's so versatile! 

I hope your weekend is going well. It's rainy here, so I may have more crafty time!  Signing off with BIG hugs to you --

Be yourself

         Have delight in your craft 

               Make something beautiful!  

Supplies:  *new
Waffle Flower Overlapping Vertical Merry Word Die*, Gina K  Christmas Cheer stamps and dies*; Word stamp "Christmas is from PB stamps Christmas with Mimi

Challenges: 

Freshly Made Sketches 
NBUS
Simon Says Stamp  ATG, Gina K 
Christmas Kickstart Challenge - Santa
Peace on Earth Christmas Challenge 

Watercolor Flowers

Hello and mid-week greetings to you! 

I love to watercolor, so I jumped at the chance to get in a bit of a project with mine today. 

The Paper Players are asking for Clean and Simple cards using watercolor. I prefer simpler cards for a sympathy greeting, so I left lots of white space. Now I'm wondering if it's TOO simple? I added those three tiny gems just in case. 

After I stamped and white heat embossed the floral spray I used Mungyo 48 set paints in soft shades to watercolor. The sentiment is  from Taylored Expressions. It came out long ago, but I really like the style of the fonts. The flowers are from the Altenew Craft Your Life Kit called Watercolor Flowers. I just used the outline stamps today. I'm aiming for doing just a bit of stamping in random moments when I'm free or waiting for something. It's not quite working out that way yet - but I'm sticking with it! 

Be yourself

         Have delight in your craft 

               Make something beautiful!  

Challenges: 

The Paper Players

Tic Tac Toe across diagonally - Rectangle, Three or More Colors, Embossing

I Spy with my Little Eye #30 - something clean and simple

The Flower Challenge - Use the Sketch I did flip the sketch. 

Cascading Leaves

 Do you ever see a sketch or card challenge and then mull it over for a day or night or two? The simple but fun sketch from Freshly Made inspired today's card. The designers have wonderful samples and a clever variety of images. I went with leaves. 

Using an old set that's no longer available (Ellen Hutson - Pumpkin Season) my leaves were stamped on  a colorful array of Concord & 9th card stock. Clean and simple, done! 

Freshly Made Sketches

Hope you have a wonderful day! 

Be yourself

         Have delight in your craft 

               Make something beautiful!