A birthday card in coral, dark green and silver

 

One of the fav

 at Color Throwdown

Hello crafty friends!

I have a new card to share with you, made with the inspiration of a few challenges.

At The Color Throwdown #721, the colors chosen by Amy Rysavy were way out of my comfort zone! I rearly use coral on my crads, but I wanted to give it a try:

I stamped and heat embossed the flowers' outlines with Lindy's Gang Silver Moon Sapphire ep. The inside of the flowers were stamped with Ranger's Tea Rose archival ink, and the flowers were die cut.

The leaves were stamped with Ranger's Library Green archival ink and die cut. I also stamped a few sprigs in green, directly on the white basis.

I also stamped the sentiment in green ink.

I cut 3 stripes of silver cardstock, and heat embossed them with the Lindy's ep. I wanted the stripes to ground my flowers, so I adhered the stripes diagonally, and aranged the flowers and the leaves toward the left bottom corner.

To finish up, I added a glitter green enamel dot to the center of the big flower, and a few silver glitter enamel dots around the sentiment.

The white panel was adhered to a silver cardstock basis.

Somehow, in the photo the green looks much more darker than in real, but I couldn't get a better take of the card to show it.

It also goes for the Embossing challenge at AAA Birthday cards challenge:

It also goes to the 'Anyting Goes' challenge at SimonSays Wednesday challenge.

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A monochromatic blue birthday card

 

One of the Top 3

at AAA Birthday

I came across a great video by Jennifer McGuire, where she domonstrate stamping on a dark cardstocks, and I wanted to give it a try (you can see the video HERE).

It's a great technique and I'm sure I'll be using it more in the future.

I used solid dark blue cardstock, but stamping with the white pigment ink gave it a pale bluish tone, and made the blue ink stand out.

For outlining the flowers and leaves, I traced the edges with an embossing brush, and so I did inside the flowers, and then heat embossed with white ep.

The white outlines, along with the white matting make the whole design just pop up.

I added some glitter silver enmael dots as an extra accent.

Here're some close ups to showcase the different blue tones:

Challenges:

AAA Birthday cards #43 - monochrom:

The Flower Challenge #74- add embellishments:

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Happy Birthday in blue

A winner at Seize the Birthday

This is a card combining two stamps - one is from Stampin' Up, 'BIRTHDAY', which I have a little more than a year, and the other, 'happy', is from SimonSays Stamps, which I have for ages, many many years.

I like the way the liitle' happy' stamping is overlapping the big' BIRTHDAY' one, and I like the ombre in the blues. 

I used Lindy's embossing powder in silver to create the two lines, framing the sentiment, and matted the panel on a black cardstock.

The card is for some challenges:

The Paper People #617- color challenge: blue, silver and blak & white:

This color combination is so perfect for a masculine card, and everyone need more of these.

Seize the Birthday #251 - many of something + a birthday card:

I have many 'happy' here :).

Retro Rubber Challenge #195 - ombre:

AAA Birthday Cards #43 - monochrome:

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A Happy Birthday card - CAS Colours & Sketches + The Color Throwdown + AAA Birthday Cards

It has been (too) long time since I posted here. I've been very busy at work, an it kept me away from my crafting table.

But, here I'm again, with a CAS card for two challenges:

I used the colors from this week's challenge at The Color Throwdown #707, where Lori gave us a beautiful colors to work with - navy blue, turqouise and mustrad:

I recently came across a lovely technique of using embossing powders. I firstly saw it at Chris Stocks' UT channel, and as she refered to Marion Emberson UT channel, I looked there also. What can I say? so creative and beautiful results.

So I sprinkled ep from those 3 colors on a piece of white cs, heat embossed from beneath, and then die cut the leaves. They came up with a texture and shine. I used Lindy's Gang ep: Scotch Broom Yellow, Guten Tag Teal, Hyacinth Blue Jade.

I placed the leaves on a piece of white cs, following the sketch from CAS Colours & Sketches #484, not before I stamped the sentiment:

For a whimsical look I turned upside down one of the leaves, the one with fructures,and also added a small metal paper clip in turqouise.

I double matted the white cs with navy blue cs and mustard cs, and adhered it to the card basis with foam stirpes.

It also goes for the current challenge at AAA Birthday cards, which is 'Anything Birthday Goes':

And for the 'Emboss' challenge at Perfectly CAS:

It was so good to get back to crafting!

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Butterfly birthday wishes card

 

Featured Stamper

at Color Throwdown

Today's card came together very quickly! I was so inspired by two challenges, and set to make this card.

The colors Barbara gave at The Color Throwdown #692 are: pink, purple, gold and white. Such a beuatiful combination!

Next was the great sketch by Amy, at Freshly Made Sketches #535:

For the focal point I wanted to use one of the butterflies from 'More Brilliant Butterflies' set by My Favorite Things, but I also wanted a circular element, so why not use them both?

I stamped the butterfly in two shades of pink (Ranger's archival ink 'pink peony' and Hero Arts' 'Cotton Candy'), and ink (Hero Arts' 'Passion Flower).

I don't have the co-ordinate dies for this set, so I cut it out with sccisors.

I had a scrap of white/gold pp, so I used it for the large banner. I looked at my washi tapes and found one that was just perfect for the colors - gold and pink. I adhered it on a scrap of white cs, and there's the stripe on the bottom.

The sentiment (Scrapbook.com) was heat embossed with Lindy's Gang 'Oom Pah Pah Pink' ep. I placed it under the pp stripe, as it seems as another stripe.

I finished up with some translucent dew drops.

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Stained Glass Vellum Butterflies card

One of the Fav at

The Color Throwdown

One of the Princesses

at Freshly Made Sketches

A card I made, using the stained glass on vellum technique.

After heat embossing the butterflies with a white ep, I colored them with pink and orange inks and adhered it to a white cs panel, matted with a green cs. The main  white cs panel was also matted, this time with a pink cs, and adhered to a white cs basis.

I heat embossed the sentiment with white ep on the same green cs as the matting, and adhered it to the center panel.

I used the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches #532:

For the colors, I followed the beautiful color palette from Color Throwdown #689 - using pink,orange and green:

It also goes for the 'Spring' challenge at Time Out #212:

And the 'Signs of Spring' challenge at Seize the Birthday #236:

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Just for You- a CAS mixed media card

ShowCased at Less Is More

September 2021

It has been a long time since I went on mixed media crafting, and dived into the world of CAS, but it appears one can combing these two :)

So here's my CAS mixed media card:

I used some Lindy's products (listed below), wattering them and then I used a plastic bag to spread the colors on a watercolor paper. I also flicked some gold spray above.

I die cut 3 stitched hexagons from the colored paper. I die cut a leaf and heat embossed it with Lindy's ep. I love the shimmer look of it!

I assambeled the elements, following the sketch, stmpped a sentiment in an orange ink and my card is done!

Lindy's products I used:

sprays: Grab a Guy Gold, Yellow Rose of Texas

shakers: Autumn Maple Crimson, Antique Gold, Octoberfest Orange

ep: Oakleaf Olive

It goes for September challeng:

More challenge:

Less is More - hexagons:

Freshly Made Sketches #503:

Just Us Girls #602:

Perfectly CAS #19:

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Winter sun - CSI case file no. 343

I've been MIA for very long time, due to some health issues, but was able to make this layout for CSI Case File no. 343:

 

I used all 5 colors from the scheme. For my evidence I used: woodgrain background, winter-themed embellishments, snowflakes, lacing, string, wood, trees, hearts, tringles, chevrons and grid design (the blue paper for the matting has a gentle grid pattern).

I documented a boat sailing in Nantes, two years ago. It was freezing on the boat, but the winter sun poped here and there, and warmed us a little.

Here're some close-ups on the details:

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Capture the Moment

One of the TOP 3 at Challenge YOUrself

Case file no. 328 at CSI has a wonderful beach/ lake side theme:

It was just perfect for our sailing photo, taken last year at Lake Como in Italy.

I used all 5 colors and from the evidence I took: stripes, grid pattern, beach elements, camera, circular elements, anchor and fringe.

I followed Laura Whitaker's sketch for Sketches In Thyme no. 431:

I'm an old fan of Laura's sketches!

Another challenge this layout goes for, is the August challenge at Challenge YOUrself - I'm on vacation:

I was also inspired by the marine inspiration photo at Creative Embellishments:

I was inspired by the blue and green colors of the water and used scalloped pattern under my photo.
The background was made in smooching technique, using Lindy's sprays: Tibetan Poppy Teal and Aloha Avocado.
I used some CE products - camera chipboard (heat embossed with Lindy's Orange Creamsicle ep),

fishnet background stamp and the chipboard title (heat embossed with Lindy's Spring Leaf Chartreuse ep and Guten Tag Teal ep, and then colored here and there with Lindy's Tibetan Poppy Teal shimmer spray).

To make the steering wheel and the anchor I die cut eace shape several times from a watercolor paper and glued together, so I got kind of chipboards.

The steering wheel was covered with pp with life buoy pattern (the same as I coverd the half circles).

The anchor was painted with Finnabair's Rich Copper Metallique Wax. I glued Finnabair's mini art stones, and colored the anchor again with Lindy's Tibetan Poppy Teal spray. After it was dried, I wraped it with a wax cord. I really love the aged look it got!

Some Robbin's Nest transparent drops added to the water drops look.

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