Labor Day Weekend Crafting

Hello.  Long time, no craft.  My nest is empty again, and I had some time to play with some of the new goodies I have been buying but not using.  I'll be brief.  First up is a featuring two shades of turquoise distress inks (salvaged patina & peacock feathers) blended with the Dahlia stencils from Altenew.  I sprayed the entire card front with Avery Elle Clear Shimmer spray, which is super shimmery IRL, but not captured by the photo.  The die cut hello is also from Altenew, and I layered it up for some dimension.  I am entering this card at The Flower Challenge #60: Turquoise.

I used the same stencil and shimmer spray for my next card, but used a slightly different portion of the stencil.  Blending distress scattered straw and spiced marmalade also gives this card a different look from the one above.  I am entering this card at Color Hues #25: Yellow & Orange and Addicted to Stamps and More #413: Birthday.

Here are both cards together, and I am entering the pair of cards at Addicted to CAS #205: Nature (flowers), WWC323: Feminine, Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Glimmer & Sparkle, and Use Your Stuff #430: Anything Goes.

Now it is time to bring on the white space!  I used this really pretty new to me Altenew Sparkle stamp for the focal point and sentiment for this card.  I am entering this card at Less is More #451: Sparkle (sentiment, WOS on the flowers & rhinestones provide my sparkle), Just Us Girls #600: 6 of Anything (6 rhinestones), AAA Cards #198: Up to One Third, Rainbow Challenge #33: Purely Plum, and Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Stamp It!.

Last in the line up, but dear to my heart is this adorable dog reading a book at the beach.  This reminds me of my dog, although Sherlock does not know how to read (yet).  I used Hero Arts Lounging Pups stamps and just a touch of masking.  I am entering this card at Stay Crafty with Hero #26: Rainbow,  Shopping Our Stash #453:  Summer Lovin', and Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Stamp It!.

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Pride

 

Hello and happy Sunday.  June is Pride month, and I decided to focus my crafting on rainbows, including some color schemes that have special meaning in the LGBTQ+ community.  First up is this rainbow colored book case using a cling stamp from Hero Arts called Book Stacks and a sentiment from Literary Quotes.  I am entering this card at Stay Crafty With Hero #24: For the Guys, Rainbow Challenge #30: Radically Rainbow, and Use Your Stuff #424: Rainbows.

Next up is a traditionally colored rainbow using dies from Mama Elephant Offset Rainbow.  I colored each of the rainbow stripes with Copic markers, and I am entering this card at the same rainbow challenges above.  I am also entering this card as well as several others on this post to Happy Little Stampers Anything Goes with Dies.

These next two cards both use die cuts from Lil Inkers Clouds & Rainbow, and I am entering both of them at AAA Cards #192: One Corner.  I am also entering this first card at The Paper Players #545--these are some of my favorite colors to use together.

This next card is inspired by those rainbow challenges as well as the sketch at Inspired by #178.

And, while I had those stamps out, I made this rainbow card.  

Last up are two cards inspired by the challenge at Just Us Girls #588: No Stamping, and this first card follows the sketch at Freshly Made Sketches #489.

With die cut sentiments, it is actually pretty easy to make a card without stamping.  These cards were so easy to make because I used Mama Elephant Quick Stripes dies, which allowed me to quickly die cut lots of stripes without having to worry about making them all the same size.

Both of these cards use the colors representing the transgender community.

Both of these cards use the colors representing the lesbian community.

And, here are all my rainbows together. 

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My Crafty Week

    

Hello and happy Sunday.  I have a big post today, as I am getting back to normal crafting, and did not want to take a pause to write up a blog post.  Here goes...

First up is a pair of slimline cards that I made using some new stamps and stencils from Pink Fresh called Miss Your Smile.  I was playing around with whether to stamp first, then stencil, or the reverse.  The colors were inspired by Color Throwdown #645.  I am also entering these cards at The Flower Challenge #57: Clean and Simple and Addicted to Stamps and More #406: Make Your Mark.

This card is my favorite of the two.  I stenciled the flowers and leaves first, then stamped the outline images in Versafine Black.  This entire image is one stamp, and the card is basically one layer.  The stencil made it so quick to color--I feel like it would have taken ages to color and to arrange these flowers if they were individual stamps.  This card was remarkably quick and easy to make.  I added a sentiment die cut from Altenew Hello and Hugs.

This is what it looks like when I stamped before stenciling.  The colors are so much less bright.  I'm not sure why, as I used the same inks.  Perhaps the black ink spread a little bit.  I did have to restamp the black outline after stenciling, as it had gotten very faint.  Anyway, just to mix things up a little bit, I flipped the image upside down from the first card, and reversed the way the sentiment die cuts were layered.

Next up is a birthday card, using some old favorite supplies from PTI.  I was inspired by the Ink to Paper challenge at The Great Cover Up to create a card using shapes to ground an intricate background.  I used die cuts from Beautiful Berries: Spring and the Quatrefoil impression plate.  A die cut circle grounds my images.  I followed the sketch at Inspired by #177, the colors from CAS Colours and Sketches #422, and am also entering this card at The Flower Challenge #57: Clean and Simple.

Next up is this super CAS card, inspired by the sketch at Freshly Made Sketches #488, the colors from Color Hue #19: Blue & Brown, (and a challenge at Ink to Paper that ended before I could link to it).  It is difficult to see in this photo, but I used a musical impression plate on this card front.

Next up is a trio of summer-themed masculine cards using the Waterfall Heroscape stamps, with a bit of an assist from the Beach Heroscape stamps.  I started by stamping the 4 layering stamps that create the hills, waterfall, and water onto three different card fronts using different color combinations.  Then, I finished each card differently.  I will be entering all three of these cards at the following challenges:  Stay Crafty with Hero #23: Fun in the Sun, Addicted to CAS #199: Beach, Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Masculine, The Paper Players #544: Signs of Summer, The Male Room #151: Dads & Grandads, WWC317: Masculine, and Cupcake Inspirations #520.

This is the simplest of the trio.  Just some leaping fish, a paddleboarder and an outrigger canoe under a bright and warm sun.

I got a little more ambitious with this next card by masking off the bottom of the card and creating a gradient sky.  Night time is coming to our beach paradise, and the parasailers are out in force.  I even added a surfer to the mix.  

This last card is either sunrise or sunset.  I can't decide.  Either way, everyone is having fun in the water.

Last up is a pair of masculine cards where I wanted to use my new Altenew Angled Mosaic 3D Embossing Folder and my new Simon Says Stamp Paper Hugs die.  These cards are so simple and I think they will be perfect to send to the males in my life.  I am entering them into just the masculine challenges above.

I used patterned paper for this first card, and I like how the blues are kind of watery and inconsistent.

This card has a white card front, and the texture and shadows almost make it look like the paper is colored.

That's it for me this week.  

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