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November 4, 2016November 4, 2016

Freshly Made Sketches 261

So I have been calling in for stand-by Jury Duty all week and last night I was excused! YAY! The last two times that I had Jury Duty I was on a case, not fun! I had a very busy and productive day at the Stamp, Ink, Paper Store! First thing in the morning I rearranged all of my product! I grouped a whole bunch of Christmas on my gondola when you first walk in. I even added some garland and ornaments around it! Renee had Gwen come up to do her wood projects and Jean stopped in to work on some more cards. The highlight of my day was my Parents bringing Daniel up to see me! He ran in to the store and gave me the biggest hug! We played for a while, hide and seek amongst the displays. After they left I made my card for today. There wasn’t much traffic on my way to Heather’s so I got there a little early. She had to return boots to Marshall’s so we left her place and stopped by my house to drop off my bags and Daniel was still at my Parent’s so we went in and saw him. He was happy to see me again! We played with him for a bit and we both got a hug and a kiss when we left. While we were at Marshall’s I looked around and found a really funky coat and Heather found a few other things too. Stephanie and Kim both came by for Thirsty Thursday this week! We had a great time and Stephanie made us watch the first episode of This is Us. Not a bad show. Renee is leaving early today to watch her grandkids so I’ll be at the store until 7:00, got to get some more stuff done! 😀

That card that I mentioned that I made earlier is for this week’s Freshly Made Sketches challenge…

I started my card off with a base of Neenah Solar White 110lb Card Stock with the front covered in a piece of Lemon Lime. Across the lower half is a piece of Pale Aqua. The main panel is where I did my stamping. The line across the top is from the Concord & 9th Birdie Banners Photopolymer Stamp Set and is stamped in Lawn Fawn Licorice Ink. My ornaments are from the Concord & 9th O Christmas Tree Photopolymer Stamp Set. I stamped the outlines in Licorice and the centers in Jalapeño, Merman and Fresh Lavender. The trees and greeting are also from the O Christmas Tree Set, I stamped the trees in Merman and Fresh Lavender and the greeting in Jalapeño. My panel is then adhered to a piece of Purple Hearts and then adhered to the card with Fun Foam and E-Z Runner. The trees needed a little something so I added a few Pretty Pink Posh Aquamarine, Fresh Mint and Amethyst Sequins! You all know how I love a non-traditional Christmas card… well this one definitely fits the bill! I hope that you enjoyed my card for this week’s Freshly Made Sketches challenge! Thanks for spending some of your Friday with me! Have a super day! 🙂

Products used:

Stamp Sets: O Christmas Tree and Birdie Banners Photopolymer (Concord & 9th)

Ink: Licorice, Jalapeño, Merman and Fresh Lavender (Lawn Fawn)

Card Stock: Solar White 110lb and 80lb (Neenah), Purple Hearts, Lemon Lime and Pale Aqua (My Colors)

Embellishments: Aquamarine, Fresh Mint and Amethyst Sequins (Pretty Pink Posh)

Adhesives: E-Z Runner Grand (Scrapbook Adhesives) and Multi-Matte Medium (Ranger)

Tools: Crystal Katana (Crystal Ninja) and Fun Foam

October 25, 2016October 24, 2016

SIP Challenge 71 – Colors!

Made it though another Monday! The Stamp, Ink, Paper Store was fun as always! Renee worked on her home decor projects and Jean stopped by for a visit. I managed to make a card and get the Concord & 9th entered in. After work I came home and relaxed for a bit before going out to dinner with a friend to Friday’s. On the way home I stopped at Target to pick up a few things and then watched a little TV before bed. Today Renee has her Home Decor Class and I have to get started on a bunch of projects for my upcoming classes. Always something to make! 😀

Tuesday and it’s time for a new Stamp, Ink, Paper Challenge! This week we have some colors…

My card base today is Neenah Solar White 110lb Card Stock. I used another piece to stamp my greeting and flower from the Concord & 9th Happy Words Photopolymer Stamp Set. The flower is stamped in Rust and the greeting in Mint Julep and Pumpkin Pie. I used the Concord & 9th Happy Card Frame Dies to cut out the flower from Gold Mirror Card and adhered it to the panel with Multi-Purpose Spray Adhesive. A few Pretty Pink Posh Gold, Metallic Copper and Fresh Mint Sequins and the card is done! I love those Happy Card Frame Dies and the way that the die cut fits over the flower perfectly! A super simple card thanks to a cool stamp and die set! I hope that you enjoyed my Design Team Card for this week’s Stamp, Ink, Paper Challenge! Head on over to the BLOG and check out the rest of the Design Team’s cards and enter yours in the gallery! We can’t wait to see what you come up with! Thank you very much for coming by! Have a terrific Tuesday! 🙂

Products used:

Stamp Set: Happy Words Photopolymer (Concord & 9th)

Ink: Mint Julep, Rust and Pumpkin Pie (Hero Arts)

Card Stock: Solar White 110lb (Neenah)

Specialty: Gold Mirror Card (The Paper Cut)

Dies: Happy Card Frame (Concord & 9th)

Embellishments: Gold, Metallic Copper and Fresh Mint Sequins (Pretty Pink Posh)

Adhesives: E-Z Runner (Home & Hobby), Multi-Purpose Spray (Elmer’s) and Multi-Matte Medium (Ranger)

Tools: Big Shot and Fun Foam

October 24, 2016October 23, 2016

Mojo Monday 471

Another quick weekend come and gone! It was nice and sunny here yesterday but still cold. I know nothing I can do about that! Renee had her explosion book class at the store and I worked on getting ahead for the week! I made parts for three cards! After work I came home and had dinner with my Parent’s and Taylor. She came back to my house and spent a little time with me… sleeping on the couch! Always good to have a visit with the child. I spent some time in the Stampin’ Galley finishing up the cards that I was working on and also finished the one that I started on Saturday night that I didn’t like. After that I watched Star Wars – The Force Awakens. Today is Newsletter day for me at the Stamp, Ink, Paper Store. It didn’t happen yesterday! I’m also getting a replenishment from Concord & 9th! My favorite stamp company! 😀

It’s the start of a new week and I’m over on the Mojo Monday blog for this week’s sketch challenge…

Today’s card is nice and masculine and would work for a birthday or even a thank you! The card base is Ivory 110lb Card Stock. I used the Lawn Fawn Dotted Rectangles Stackables Lawn Cuts to cut a piece of Shale to cover the entire front of the card. Next I heat embossed the Stampers Anonymous Ledger Script Stamp in Versa-Mark and heat embossed it in Hero Arts Brass Embossing Powder onto a piece of Battleship Gray. I used the Crate Paper Maggie Holmes Open Book Dies and the Lawn Fawn Dotted Circles Stackables Lawn Cuts to cut out two pieces. I ran the circle through my Artisan X-plorer again with the Large Dotted Rectangles and adhered it to the card in the lower left corner. The main panel is another piece of Ivory 110lb cut out with the Lawn Fawn Dotted Squares Stackables Lawn Cuts. My greeting is from the Concord & 9th Brushed Blossom Photopolymer Stamp Set and is stamped in Altenew Moon Rock Crisp Ink. The panel is then adhered to the card with Fun Foam and E-Z Runner and the deer head to the panel with Black 3D Foam Squares.In the upper right is another piece of Battleship Gray with the bottom flagged. I die cut the star from the Concord & 9th Happy Card Frames Dies from more Ivory 110lb and heat embossed them a few times with more Brass Embossing Powder. They are adhered with more 3D Foam Squares and Multi-Matte Medium. I always forget that I have that Ledger Script Stamp, I love text stamps and that one looks so neat heat embossed! I hope that you like my Design Team card for this week’s Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge! Take a quick trip over the the Design Team BLOG and check out the rest of the cards there for inspiration! We hope to see yours in the gallery! Thanks for starting your week off with me here on my blog! Have an amazing Monday! 🙂

Products used:

Stamp Sets: Brushed Blossom Photopolymer (Concord & 9th) and Ledger Script (Stampers Anonymous-Tim Holtz)

Ink: Lava Rock Crisp Ink (Altenew)

Specialty Ink: Versa-Mark

Embossing Powder: Brass (Hero Arts)

Card Stock: Shale and Battleship Gray (My Colors) and Ivory 110lb (Recollections)

Dies: Open Book (Maggie Holmes-Crate Paper), Lawn Fawn Dotted Rectangles, Squares and Circles Stackables Lawn Cuts (Lawn Fawn)

Adhesives: E-Z Runner (Home & Hobby) and Black 3D Foam Squares (Scrapbook Adhesives) and Multi-Matte Medium (Ranger)

Tools: Artisan X-Plorer (Spellbinders), Heat Tool (Hero Arts) and Fun Foam

October 21, 2016October 21, 2016

Freshly Made Sketches 259

They first day of the October Card Class at the Stamp, Ink, Paper Store was a good time as it always is! We had a lot of laughs at the night class with Andrew, Kayleigh, Melissa, Victoria and Jan! This month’s class is Lawn Fawn so it was a long one. I love when they can just sit there and color and take their time! We got out around 10:00 and I headed over to George’s house for Thirsty Thursday with Heather and Stephanie. Geroge is in Nashville so we had a little change of venue! I do love our little trio! This morning I have a haircut and then the second day of class! More fun times! It’s also my crafty friend Sandy’s Birthday! Happy Birthday Sandy!! 😀

I did manage to make two cards yesterday and one of them is for this week’s Freshly Made Sketches challenge…

Today’s card starts off with a base of Ivory 110lb Card Stock. I stamped the birch trees using the Concord & 9th Tree Hugs Photopolymer Stamp Set in Vintage Sepia. Across the top are two strips of Gold Mirror Card. My heart is from the Concord & 9th Cozy Up Photopolymer Stamp Set. I heat embossed it in Hero Arts Clear Embossing Powder onto a piece of Dark Molasses and then rubbed some Unicorn White Pigment Ink over it. To cut it out I used the Coordinating Dies and adhered it to the card with Fun Foam and E-Z Runner. My greeting is cut from more Gold Mirror Card and three piece of Ivory 110lb using the Concord & 9th JOY Die. I adhered them to each other and to the card with Multi-Matte Medium. A little sprinkling of Pretty Pink Posh Sparkling Clear and Gold Sequins completes the card! I’m really into the woodgrain again lately and Concord & 9th has some of the best stamps out there for my little addiction! I hope that you enjoyed my card for this week’s Freshly Made Sketches challenge! Thank you so much for visiting with me today! Have a fantastic Friday! 🙂

Products used;

Stamp Sets: Cozy Up and Tree Hugs Photopolymer (Concord & 9th)

Ink: Vintage Sepia (Versa-Fine) and Unicorn White Pigment (Hero Arts)

Specialty Ink: Versa-Mark

Embossing Powder: Clear (Hero Arts)

Card Stock: Ivory 110lb (Recollections) and Dark Molasses (My Colors)

Specialty Cardstock: Gold Mirror (The Paper Cut)

Dies: Cozy Up (Concord & 9th)

Embellishments: Sparkling Clear and Gold Sequins (Pretty Pink Posh)

Adhesives: E-Z Runner (Home & Hobby) and Multi-Matte Medium (Ranger)

Tools: Big Shot, Heat Tool (Hero Arts) and Fun Foam

October 20, 2016October 19, 2016

Paper Players 317

Oh boy did I have a nice day yesterday! Apart from getting up at 5:30! I haven’t been up that early in a really long time! I made sure that I took the 7:01AM train from Bethpage, it’s starts the station before so you are guaranteed a seat! I saw my friend Pat on the platform which was a nice surprise! By the time I got up to 77th Street I still had about 40 minutes before I had to meet Ella so I placed a mobile order at the Starbucks on 78th and sat down and enjoyed the city for a bit. I was an absolutely glorious day, high of 84 and lovely and sunny! Ella and I got all of the things accomplished on her list and a few extras. After I left Ella I met my friend Patrice on 77th. She had wanted a stamp set from the store and to borrow one of mine. It was so nice to see her, she is such a wonderful person, funny and always smiling! I just made it back to Penn Station in time for my train out to Lindenhurst. Sue picked me up at the station at 1:16 and we stopped at Taco Bell so I could get some quick food. When we got to the store Jean was waiting so I could make her a custom stamp. Once that was finished Sue and I set out to get the cutting done for class. Before heading back over to my house we stopped at Bed, Bath & Beyond so I could get a new Keurig! LOL! I needs my coffee!! Sue’s husband Joe met us for dinner and then Sue and I came back to my house for a bit. I’m not gonna lie, I was really tired last night and even went to bed early! Today is the first day of the Lawn Fawn Card Class at the Stamp, Ink, Paper Store! Fun, fun, fun!

Thankfully I had planned ahead and made today’s card for this week’s Paper Players challenge on Tuesday! Before we get to this week I want to say a big thank you to Joanne for choosing me as a her Cut Above in last week’s challenge! You can see the winner’s post HERE and my original post HERE! Now on to this week, a Clean and Simple Leaf from Nance….

My card is pretty clean, maybe not that simple! The card base is Neenah Solar White 110lb Card Stock. For the background I heat embossed the Concord & 9th Barnwood Background Photopolymer Stamp onto some Slate with Hero Arts White Embossing Powder. It’s cut to 4″ x 5 1/2″ so that little bit of white peeks out from either side. The leaves are die cut from Solar White 110lb using the Concord & 9th Layering Leaves Dies. I heat embossed each one three times with Hero Arts Gold, Platinum, Brass, Silver and Copper Embossing Powder. They are adhered to the card with Dot Runner Adhesive. A strip of Battleship Gray has the thanks from the Concord & 9th Give Thanks Photopolymer Stamp Set heat embossed in more Hero Arts White and it’s adhered over the top of the leaves to the card with Fun Foam and Tombo Extreme Adhesive. A little scattering of some Little Things by Lucy Sequins completes the card! I have said it before and I’ll say it again, that Barnwood Background Stamp is my favorite woodgrain stamp and I clearly love the Layering Leaves Dies and the Give Thanks Stamps, I think I have used them more than any other set I own! I hope that you enjoy my card for this week’s Paper Players challenge from Nance! Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a simply wonderful Thursday! 🙂

Products used:

Stamp Sets: Barnwood Background and Give Thanks Photopolymer (Concord & 9th)

Specialty Ink: Versa-Mark

Embossing Powder: White, Gold, Platinum, Brass, Silver and Copper (Hero Arts)

Card Stock: Solar White 110lb (Neenah), Slate and Battleship Gray (My Colors)

Dies: Layering Leaves (Concord & 9th)

Embellishments: Rose Gold, Platinum and Brushed Gold Sequins Mixes (Little Things by Lucy)

Adhesives: E-Z Runner (Home & Hobby), Extreme and Dot Runner (Tombo) and Multi-Matte Medium (Ranger)

Tools: Artisan X-plorer (Spellbinders), Heat Tool (Hero Arts), Crystal Katana and Fun Foam

October 17, 2016October 16, 2016

Mojo Monday 470

Well that weekend flew by! I woke up really late yesterday morning… again. I think that the toothache is wearing me out! I did get to the Stamp, Ink, Paper Store on time and managed to get to work as soon as I got in! I got my Newsletter finished and then worked on some projects. I did get a nice surprise visit from my friend Sandy who stopped by to get a few goodies! After work I had dinner with my Parents and then fished up my card for today. I won’t be at the store today as we are saying a final goodbye to Heather’s Dad Arthur. She will have her friends and family there with her. Her memories of him will get her through this difficult time.

On a happier note it’s time for this week’s Mojo Monday sketch…

I guess I really like the Concord & 9th Lacy Leaves Set, I just can’t stop using it! The card base is Neenah Solar White 110lb Card Stock. My background is a piece of Moonstone Blue, I cut off the top left corner on an angle and then tied a piece of Hemptique Black Hemp Twine around the corner with a bow. The background is then adhered to the card with Fun Foam and E-Z Runner. Next up I stamped the Concord & 9th Tree Ring Photopolymer Stamp in Onyx Black onto a piece of Solar White 80lb and cut it out with my Scissors. The panel is a piece of 48lb Vellum, I heat embossed the Lacy Leaf Stamp in Hero Arts Platinum onto it and then used a Mini Ink Blending Tool to apply some Avery Elle Sapphire Pigment Ink to color the Vellum. Across the top is a piece of Silver Glitter Paper with the left side flagged. I cut my greeting out of more of the Silver Glitter Paper and two pieces of Solar White 110lb using the Concord & 9th Grateful Leaves Die. Some Multi-Purpose Spray Adhesive adheres them to each other and some Multi-Matte Medium adheres it to the Vellum. I adhered the flagged strip with 3M Foam Tape and then added more Foam Tape to the back of the Vellum behind the flag and greeting to adhere it to the card. One of the small leaves from the set is also heat embossed and cut out with the Coordinating Dies and adhered to the flagged strip with more Foam Tape. A little sprinkling of Pretty Pink Posh Pewter, Sea Breeze and Silver Sequins competes the card. I really do love the Lacy Leaf Set and the Pigment Ink was a cool way to color the Vellum! I hope that you enjoyed my Design Team card for this week’s Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge! Don’t forget to visit the BLOG and get some inspiration from the rest of the Team! We can’t wait to see your card in the gallery! Thanks for starting another week off with me! Have a marvelous Monday! 🙂

Products used:o

Stamp Sets: Tree Ring and Lacy Leaf Photopolymer (Concord & 9th)

Ink: Onyx Black (Versa-Fine)

Specialty Ink: Versa-Mark

Embossing Powder: Platinum (Hero Arts)

Card Stock: Solar White 110lb and 80lb (Neenah) and Moonstone Blue (My Colors)

Specialty: 48lb Vellum (The Paper Cut) and Silver Glitter (Recollections)

Dies: Grateful Leaves (Concord & 9th)

Embellishments: Black Hemp Twine (Hemptique) and Platinum, Sea Breeze and Silver Sequins (Pretty Pink Posh)

Adhesives: E-Z Runner (Home & Hobby), 3M Foam Tape and Multi-Matte Medium (Ranger)

Tools: Artisan X-plorer (Spellbinders), Heat Tool (Hero Arts), Scissors and Fun Foam

October 15, 2016October 14, 2016

Freshly Made Sketches 258

I have heard rumors that it’s going to be in the high 70’s next week! Yay for Indian Summer! So let’s see… yesterday at the Stamp, Ink, Paper Store I had a customer come by to make a few cards that she wanted to copy of mine. We had fun making them! Her name is Michelle and she is new to stamping so she picked up a few supplies and will be back for more lessons! Renee had some peeps come by to help her with her little wine glass project that will be on for today at the store. It’s also release day for Mama Elephant and the new sets that came in the other day will be available for purchase! I had to make some sympathy cards, not anyone’s favorite thing to do. I’ll send them out today. The services for Heather’s Dad will be on Monday. I hope that he gets a nice day.

My little bit of craftiness that I have to share with you today is for this week’s Freshly Made Sketches challenge! Before we get to this week’s sketch I want to thank Karren for selecting me as her Perfect Prince from last week’s sketch! You can see the winner’s post HERE and my original post HERE! Now for this week…

I used some more new goodies from Concord & 9th for my card! The base is Neenah Solar White 110lb Card Stock with the front covered in a piece of Kraft. I stamped the heart from the Concord & 9th Cozy Up Photopolymer Stamp Set in Vintage Sepia onto another piece of Kraft. The Coordinating Die is then used to cut out the negative heart from a piece of Herb Garden and that’s adhered over the Kraft. A strip of Chinese Red flagged at the bottom, goes down the left side. The two cups are from the same set and are heat embossed in Hero Arts Brass Embossing Powder onto some Dark Molasses and they are cut out with the Coordinating Dies and adhered to the heart with 3D Foam Squares. I stamped part of my greeting onto more Dark Molasses and the rest onto the card base, they too are both heat embossed in Brass. The stay is then partially cut out from the strip, leaving it hanging over the top and bottom, and adhered to the card with more 3D Foam Squares. I added just a few Pretty Pink Posh Metallic Red, Rose Gold and Gold Sequins to finish off the card! I love the wood heart, so cool and different and I also really like the effect of the greeting partially cut from the strip! I hope that you enjoy my card for this week’s Freshly Made Sketches challenge! Thank you very much for coming by to spend a little time with me today! have a superb Saturday! 🙂

Products used:

Stamp Set: Cozy Up Photopolymer (Concord & 9th)

Ink: Vintage Sepia (Versa-Fine)

Specialty Ink: Versa-Mark

Embossing Powder: Brass (Hero Arts)

Card Stock: Solar White 110l (Neenah), Kraft, Herb Garden, Dark Molasses and Chinese Red (My Colors)

Dies: Cozy Up (Concord & 9th)

Embellishments: Gold, Rose Gold and Metallic Red Sequins (Pretty Pink Posh)

Adhesives: E-Z Runner (Home & Hobby), 3D Foam Squares (Scrapbook Adhesives) and Multi-Matte Medium (Ranger)

October 14, 2016October 14, 2016

Fab Friday 98

I got my new Concord & 9th and Mama Elephant yesterday at the Stamp, Ink, Paper Store and got it all checked in. I couldn’t wait to play with the new Concord & 9th as you’ll see by today’s card! I did get some very sad news, Heather’s Dad Arthur passed away. Unfortunately Heather was in Boston when it happened and had to come home but didn’t get to the hospital in time. She was very close to her Dad and is very upset. He was a very nice man with a great sense of humor. I was lucky enough to get to know him through family vacations and holidays. He will definitely be missed. My toothache is no better, I think I may ask someone to run over my head and that’s where I’m at! 😀

It’s an extra good Friday because it’s a Fab Friday. This time we have a timely color combo…

Like I said, I used some new Concord & 9th goodies on today’s card! The base is Neenah Solar White 110lb Card Stock with the front covered in a piece of Black where I heat embossed the greeting from the Concord & 9th Happy Words Photopolymer Stamp Set in Hero Arts White. To make the shaker I used the new Concord & 9th Happy Card Frame and Mistletoe Card Frame Add-On Dies. It’s cut from Crisp Green with the bow from Purple Hearts and the berries from Candied Yam. I backed it with some Acetate and Foam Tape. My shaker filling is Spring Green and Purple Velvet Sequin Mixes from Little Things by Lucy. I added it to the card font and then adhered the window to it. I love the way that the Card Frame Dies work! They are so cool and I can’t wait to see what additional dies they come out with. I hope that you enjoyed my Halloween Holiday card for the Fab Friday Color Challenge! Stop by the BLOG and check out the rest of the Team’s cards and enter yours in the gallery! Thank you for coming by to see me today! Have a fabulous Friday! 🙂

Products used:

Stamp Set: Happy Words Photopolymer (Concord & 9th)

Specialty Ink: Versa-Mark

Embossing Powder: White (Hero Arts)

Card Stock: Solar White 110lb (Neenah), Black, Crisp Green, Purple Hearts and Candied Yam (My Colors)

Specialty: Acetate

Dies: Happy Card Frame and Mistletoe Card Frame Dies (Concord & 9th)

Embellishments: Spring Green and Purple Velvet Sequin Mixes (Little Things by Lucy)

Adhesives: E-Z Runner (Home & Hobby), Scor-Tape and 3M Foam Tape

Tools: Big Shot and Heat Tool (Hero Arts)

October 10, 2016October 9, 2016

Mojo Monday 469

I hope that your weekend was as nice as mine! Yesterday morning Heather and I went to the Deli and had flagels for breakfast before heading over to Valley Stream to pick up her brother. The traffic wasn’t too bad heading into Manhattan but once we got in boy was there a lot! It didn’t take us too long to get to the Javits Center and drop off Russell at Comic-Con. But it took us an hour to get from the Javits Center over to 72nd and Lexington. I got to Jim and Diane’s at 11:00 and Heather had to head back to Valley Stream to stay with her grandmother because they had to take her Dad to the Hospital again. I had a nice visit with Jim and Diane and I got to meet their Daughter Wendy and her daughter too! Around 1:00 I was going to head back to Penn Station when Kim called me and asked if I wanted to meet her for lunch, of course I did! We went to 5 Napkins Burgers and boy were they delicious! The fries were excellent too! After lunch we took a walk over to the Nespresso Store on Madison seeing as the rain finally stopped. We tried a few different kinds of espresso and I bought a few sleeves of pods to take home. I left Kim at 60th and Lexington to get the N back to Penn which took forever to come. Once I got to Penn I had to figure out how I was going to go to get home. There was a derailment on the Ronkonkoma line, the one I usually take, so I had to take a train to Massapequa and have my Parents come and get me. I saw Taylor for a little while when I got home, her mouth is feeling much better. I straightened up a little and made a plan of attack to get the rest of the house cleaned up before calling it a night. Back to the Stamp, Ink, Paper Store this morning, I have a bunch of projects to finish!

Monday so it’s time for another Mojo Monday sketch challenge…

Today’s card starts off with a base of Neenah Solar White 110lb Card Stock, the front is covered in a piece of Herb Garden. I used the Concord & 9th with Simon Says Stamp Cozy Christmas Photopolymer Stamp Set for all of my images and greeting. The outline image is stamped in Altenew Dark Chocolate Ink onto a piece of Kraft to create my background. Next up is a piece of 48lb Vellum that I cut out with the Lawn Fawn Dotted Circle Stackables Lawn Cuts. A panel and a strip with the end flagged of Dark Molasses is added next. My greeting from the set is heat embossed in Hero Arts Copper Embossing Powder onto more Herb Garden and adhered to the card with Fun Foam and E-Z Runner. I stamped the pinecones twice using my Mini MISTI and more Dark Chocolate Ink to get the layers perfectly aligned. They are cut out with the Coordinating Die. One is adhered to the top after being trimmed and the other next to the greeting, both with 3D Foam Squares. I added a few Pretty Pink Posh Mossy Green and Rose Gold Sequins to complete the card. I love the way that you can get a nice layered look with just the one ink color and the set is definitely a favorite of mine! I hope that you enjoyed my Design Team card for this week’s Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge! Stop by the BLOG for more inspiration and add your card to the gallery! Thanks, as always, for starting your week off with me! Have an amazing Monday! 🙂

Products used:

Stamp Set: Cozy Christmas Photopolymer (Concord & 9th with Simon Says Stamp)

Ink: Dark Chocolate Crisp Ink (Altenew)

Specialty Ink: Versa-Mark

Embossing Powder: Copper (Hero Arts)

Card Stock: Solar White 110lb and 80lb (Neenah), Kraft, Herb Garden and Dark Molasses (My Colors)

Specialty: 48lb Vellum (The Paper Cut)

Dies: Cozy Christmas (Concord & 9th with Simon Says Stamp) and Dotted Circle Stackables Lawn Cuts (Lawn Fawn)

Embellishments: Rose Gold and Mossy Green Sequins (Pretty Pink Posh)

Adhesives: E-Z Runner (Home & Hobby) and Multi-Matte Medium (Ranger)

Tools: Artisan X-plorer (Spellbinders), Heat Tool (Hero Arts) and Fun Foam

October 9, 2016October 9, 2016

Where Creativity Meets Concord & 9th – Watercolor!

This is my second post for today! When this post goes up I’ll be in Manhattan! I’m going to try and see some of my peeps before I head back home. I do love a day in the city as most of you know! The reason for two posts today you may be wondering? Well it’s time for the second challenge over on the Where Creativity Meets Concord & 9th Challenge Blog! This time we are featuring a technique which is one of my favorites… watercoloring! You have a whole month to play along! Winners will be picked on Monday, November 7th and announced on Tuesday November 8th!

Here is this month’s challenge badge…

I have been dying to use the Holy Night Dies from last month’s release! I die cut all of the pieces for the main parts of the card from Arches 140lb Watercolor Card. Before I scored them I used my Mijello Mission Gold Watercolors to create my scene. After the pieces had dried (I let them air dry to minimize warping) I scored them at the notches that die cuts add and then added Scor-Tape and adhered all of the pieces together. The star just had to be cut from Gold Mirror Card along with the noel. I also cut two noels from a piece of Solar White 110lb and adhered them together and to the card with Multi-Purpose Spray Adhesive. Just a few Pretty Pink Posh Gold Sequins complete the card! I love that die set, it makes it so easy to make a dimensional pop-up card, and the best part is that it folds flat and fits in a standard envelope! I hope that you enjoyed my Design Team card for this month’s Where Creativity Meets Concord & 9th Watercolor Challenge! We hope that you will play along with us and if you need a little additional inspiration stop by the BLOG and see the amazing cards that the rest of the Design Team has created! Hope to see your card in the gallery! Enjoy the rest of your weekend! 🙂

Products used:

Watercolors: Mijello Mission Gold 36 Color Set

Specialty Paper: Arches 140lb Watercolor Card and Gold Mirror Card (The Paper Cut)

Dies: Holy Night (Concord & 9th)

Embellishments: Gold Sequins (Pretty Pink Posh)

Adhesives: Scor-Tape, Multi-Purpose Spray (Elmer’s) and Multi-Matte Medium (Ranger)

Tools: Artisan X-plorer (Spellbinders) and #2, #4, and #8 Silver Brushes