A CAS birthday card, in olive and blue hues

 

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I have a new CAS card to share with you, inspired by some challenges.

The colors are from CAS Colours & Sketches:

It doesn't show well on the photo, but the diagonal stripes are from a shimmery olive cardstock.

For the sketch I was inspired by the sketch at Try a Sketch on Tuesday:

And also by a local FB group sketch challenge.

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A birthday card with a green butterfly

For today, I have a rather dramatic birthday card to share.

Th florish stamp is an oldie one from Blue Fern Studios. I think I have it for more than 10 years, and I haven't used it for ages. I stamped it in VersaFine onyx black ink.

The flower is MFT Brilliant Butterflies stamps and dies set. I stamped it in distress oxide inks - rustic wilderness and twisted citron, and again onyx black ink. 

I also stamped some dots in twisted citron ink, and added two glittery enamel dots in dark green.

I double matted the stamped panel with black cardstock and with a white cardstock, which I inked with the distress oxide rustic wildeerness (and so I did for the horizontal stripe at the bottom.

The sentiment was stamped on a citron cardstock with Pinkfresh evergreen ink.

Challenges:

Color Throwdown - white, black, dark green, yellow green:

Freshly Made Sketches - a sketch:

Seize The Birthday - anything goes, without the topping:

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I {heart} you with a tag - cas card

 A cas card, with color combo that was a little challenging for me, but I really like how it turned out.

I had this journaling card for ages, from a 12x12 journaling page, in pink-purple colors. These colors are far away from my comfort zone.

As soon as I saw the challene at Inspire. Create challenge blog, with a not so usual color combo, I new this journaling card is perfect for the challenge!

The sentiment on the card says in Hebrew: "I {heart} you".

I die cut a stitched scalloped tag from a textured yellow cardstock. I trimmed the journaling card to fit and adhered it on the tag. I added some punched flowers in matching colors, and added glitter enamel dots in the center of the flowers.

I matted with pale blue cardstock and adhered to the basis.

Challenges:

Inspire. Create challenge - color combo:

SimonSays Stamps Monday challenge - Tag it!

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Thanks for being you - a thanks card

 

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Another Thanks card, with fall collrs.

I used distress oxide inks (festive berries, mustard seed and brushed corduroy) for the slplashes and the hollow leaves. 

The splashes are SU and the sentiments are Duddlebug. The leaves dies are unbranded. 

For the final touch, I added some glittery dots in coordinate colors.

The white panel was mounted with thin foam tapes on the kraft basis.

Challenges:

Color Throwdown #768: yellow gold, brown, red kraft:

Four Seasons - Fall:

Just Us Girls - Thanks:

Inspiration Station - photo inspiration:

I was drawn to the rich fall colors and the foliage.

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A vase full of orange blooms - a thank you card

 

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I made the Cut Above

at The Paper Players

Today's card was inspired by some challenges:

First, the November challenge at PinkFresh Studio, with multi colors inspiration and lots of leaves, and the theme of 'Thanks':

I used PinkFresh Studio 'Floral Vase' stencils and dies set.

The vase was colored with some distress oxide inks in shades of light blue (speckled egg; tumbled glass; salty ocean). The leaves were also colored with distress oxide inks (shabby shutters; peeled paint). The floral bouquet was colored with PinkFresh ink cubes (clementine; persimmon).

After ink blending through the stencils, I die cut the vase and the bouquet with the coordinate dies, and adhered to the card base, where the bouquet was adhered using some foam dots.

The sentiment is from another PinkFresh Studio set, 'Seamless Starburst Circles'.

For the final touch, I added some clear dots on the vase, and some green glittery dots.

The other challenges are also about thanks and gratitude:

The Paper Players:

Time Out:

Simply Clean & Simple

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A Thank You card with seamless starburst circles

 

Since the terrible massacre that took place in south Israel on Oct. 7th, I had a creavite block. I just couldn't. Now, as the war is still going on, and the kidnapped children, women, men and elderly are still held by Hamas/ISIS, I'm trying slowly to find some comfort in crafting.

The current challenge at The Color Throwdown was a great way to help me getting over this creative block. So I'm very thankful for CTD's ladies for the inspiration.

The bright and cheerful colors inspired me to make a happy and cheerful 'Thank You' card. I was also inspired by the shape of the pillows in the inspiration photo.

I used Pinkfresh Studio Seamless Starburst Circles stamps and stencil set, with some distress oxide inks (kitsch flamingo, mustard seed, bundled sage and rusty hinge).

I also stamped and stenciled another circle, die cut the circle and backed it with more layers of circles, and then adhered it on top, for some dimension. On top of this circle I adhered a glittery enamel dot in rust hues.

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Flowers for an all occasion card

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at Happy Little Stampers

 

An all occasion card, made with dies only. No stamping, inking or masking this time. I only added some glittery enamel dots to the center  of the flowers.

The sentiment says, in Hebrew: Mazal Tov, and it's an all occasion blessing, so can by used for birthday, anniversary, wedding, etc.

For the flowery frame and the background I used Graphic 45  pp from 'Portrait of a Lady' collection.

For the sentiment and it's matting I used some white and kraft scraps.

Challenges:

Color Hues #61- peach and kraft:

TimeOut #235 - photo inspiration:

My inspiration was the wreath hanging on the window, with it's kraft/brown, peach and white colors, plus the script letters.

Happy Little Stamper - anything goes with dies:

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A Plantyful flowerpot for a birthday card

Here's my take on the current color challenge at Color Throwdown #737, where Lory asked for pink, rust and green:

I die cut a macrame hanger from a pink cs, a pot from a rust cs and used some pre cut foliage that I once made from scraps, in different shades of green.  I aranged the foliage in layers, some showing out of the hanger, to give some dimention.

I mounted the whole arrangement on foam tapes and added a glittery rust enamel dot.

A sentiment stamped on the same rust cs, matted with dark green cs.

The white panel was matted with rust cs and adhered to the white basis.

It also goes of the 'Layer it up' challenge at AAA Birthday Cards:

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A birthday card in coral, dark green and silver

 

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 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 floating heart with an inlaid flower - with love card

A winner at 

Global Project Design

Another card in my journey of reducing the scraps...

This time I made a floating element, a colorful heart shape, with an inlaid black flower.

It's a very lovely technique, and quite simple, but you do need to run the acetate sheet many times throw the die cutting machine.

I added some glittery orange enamel dots, and a die cut sentiment in black.

I followed the sketch from Global Project Design #370:

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A butterfly card, in some earth tones - CTD meets FMS

 

The colors suggested by Wanda at The Color Throwdown # 720 were very appealing to me - kraft, copper, sage green and black:

I used these colors for a non-traditional butterly stamping (MFT 'More Brilliant Butterflies' stamp set), I used Lawn Fawn pizza crtust and sage leaf, and I must say - I really love how it came out!

For the desgin, I followed the sketch from Freshtly Made Sketches #563, given by Jen B:

I loved how the circle is cut by the frame and not full.

I die cut a doily from a black cardstock, and topped it with some circular die cut in kraft. I adhered it to the white panel, with some of the doily going out of the edge, and cut the excess. 

On top of it I adhered the stamped butterfly with foam tape and added a glittery copper enamel dot in the middle.

I think that the cut doily and the off the edge butterfly gives the card a bit of an interest, don't you think?

I stamped the sentiment (Mazal Tov in Hebrew) in sage, and added some more glittery copper enamel dots.

The white panel was double matted with matching colors cardstocks and adhered to the white basis.

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A monochromatic blue birthday card

 

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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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