The October #monthlymixchallenge with Gina K. Designs is Holiday Cards with a Color Twist – to use non-holiday colors (no red/green or blue/silver) for a holiday card. When I saw that the Code Word at Addicted to CAS was Sweater, I knew exactly what I wanted to use – Gina K. Designs A Very Silly … Read more
Tonight I needed to make a congratulations card for a new home. I searched through my stash and realized that once again, I really don’t have good stamps for that (anyone have recommendations), so I put together a card inspired by the lovely fall image at the Inspired by Challenge. I started with a lamp … Read more
I needed a few more birthday cards, so this time I started by die cutting the Scrapbook.com Decorative Emboss & Die Cut Autumn Leaves from a piece of watercolor paper that I had painted with shimmer paints through a piece of dry wall tape. After I die cut them, I brushed on some Rusty Hinge … Read more
I used Gina K. Designs Double Peony Layering Stencils for one of the birthday cards I need on my list. It was perfect for the Clean & Simple Stencil Challenge at Seize the Birthday. I used three Gina K. Designs Inks for the colors at the Just Add Ink Challenge (Light Orchid, Medium Orchid and … Read more
The new Challenge at Shopping Our Stash is to create a sympathy card. I decided to go with a clean and simple design using gina k. designs Curved Floral Banner together with a stamped sentiment from gina k. designs Blooming Butterfly. I used three of the colors from the AAA Cards Challenge using the darker … Read more
I wanted to try Jennifer Maguire's Background Stencil Highlights Technique that is the August Challenge in the Sharing Handmade Kindness Group. I decided to try it with Red & Blue ink for the current Color Hues Challenge with Blueprint Sketch & Lumberjack Plaid Distress Inks. I used Gina K. Designs Lovely Lace Stencil … Read more
Gina K. Designs July Monthly Mix Challenge is Christmas in July. I recently purchased the Gina K. Designs Christmas Tree Cover Plate, so I used it with gold glitter cardstock. I kept it simple positioning it on top of Green Glitter Cardstock. I finished with a sentiment from Gina K. Designs Seasonal Greetings. … Read more
I had fun making another card for the Lunar New Year Challenge. I stamped the Snake from Whimsy Stamps Animal Tiles Desert Unexpected and colored it with alcohol ink markers. I die cut the snake using the Hero Arts Hexagon Dies and used the next largest die to cut from brushed gold cardstock. … Read more
This month's Monthly Mix Challenge at Gina K. Designs is to use paper piecing. I paper pieced the lemons from Gina K. Designs More Fun Fruit by stamping them in black ink and clear embossing them on Gina's Amethyst Poly-Glaze Foiling Sheets that I had foiled with Gold Foil. After I detail cut the images, … Read more
I had a discussion with a co-worker this week about Tulips. She mentioned hers were getting ready to bloom, which immediately took me back to sitting with my Grandma AtKisson on the couch in the Fall thumbing through the bulb catalogs marking the ones we might want, and then narrowing it down until we finally … Read more