It's time again for a new Word Art Wednesday challenge. Faith, peace, grace and hope are some key words in this scripture from Romans 5: 1&2. For the full devotional, go to the website and be ready to be inspired!
It's time again for a new Word Art Wednesday challenge. Faith, peace, grace and hope are some key words in this scripture from Romans 5: 1&2. For the full devotional, go to the website and be ready to be inspired!
The Paper Players challenge has a sketch for us this week. I was recently cleaning out some craft drawers and files and came across some black patterned papers. I knew I wanted to add some daisies in white and omitted the sentiment for now which means I can add one depending on the occasion. All the florals were die cut first, then color blending with dye inks was completed.
Hi crafty friends! These weeks roll around so quickly and it's already time for a new Color Throwdown challenge! Our colors are yellow, pink and green and brought to you by Lynn. This hibiscus background stamp was a freebie I chose as a winning entry into a Word Art Wednesday challenge. I embossed it in gold then colored with Tombow markers.
There's a retro theme happening at the current Seize the Birthday challenge. A typewriter is certainly a retro item for me! I recall getting a manual typewriter for Christmas as a young girl and I was so thrilled with that gift! It gave me the skills to type faster than anyone in my high school typing class - haha! Guess I'm really dating myself! This card also uses the sketch at the Sunday Stamps challenge.
I love this stamp/die set from Sugar Pea Designs! I have a granddaughter with some mad writing skills and she enjoys creating "books" in her spare time. She has a birthday coming up next month and I'm thinking this will be her card. I already had the hot foiled background (white matte foil on Soft Stone paper from Papertrey Ink - hot foil plate also from PTI) in my leftover pile.
I'm playing along with the current Sketch Saturday challenge with another card made from the Chocolate Flower kit from Altenew. I'm loving the deep texture that the 3D embossing folder adds plus the colors are a favorite for me. I was inspired by Little League baseball uniforms of all things! My husband and I enjoy watching these tournament games and I am often crafting as I have the TV on in the background. When trying to decide on colors, I saw the aqua and yellow uniforms and knew that was my choice! 😂
It's Wednesday and that means there's a new Color Throwdown challenge happening! We have some great colors yet again - light blue, cream and kraft - brought to us by Lori. I recently acquired a couple of holiday postal collage stencil sets from Waffle Flower Crafts and knew right away these colors would work with the snow men!
I love how quickly these stencils create a fun base. The slimline dual-edged sponge daubers are also wonderful to use with smaller scale stenciling!
The {Pin}spirational Challenge for August is to use die cuts! I use them on nearly all my cards so this was an easy challenge to go with. I recently bought the Chocolate Flowers Kit from Altenew and wow...so many great things in this kit! I love that you first can stencil a large panel of florals and then you have the option to use just the background stencils OR you can use the large die cut that coordinates with these images and cuts out all the flowers and leaves in one swipe! This was my first try with this kit. It also includes some sentiment stamps.
Welcome friends! It's Tuesday and a bit overcast, so am hoping for some more rain. I don't know why I've been gravitating to older Reverse Confetti dies and stamps lately. I loved Jen's company and was so disappointed when it closed. When I saw that the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge was to use alcohol inks, I pulled this panel from my leftover stash. It already had the falling hearts cover die adhered to it, so all I did was layer it onto a black and a green panel and add a sentiment.
The Paper Players challenge is asking us to create a CAS design with a fruit theme. One of my favorite summertime dies is the watermelon slices set from My Favorite Things. I smooshed a variety of distress inks onto my glass mat then "picked up" the colors using Ranger water color paper. The "bite" die is such a fun detail!
After creating a couple of teacher cards, I can't forget about the bus drivers. Today, I'm keeping them in mind with the School Days stamp/die set from Reverse Confetti. I colored with Copics and paired the images up with some old patterned paper by Recollections.
I finally used this basket die from The Greetery after buying it a couple months ago. I wanted to fill it with lilacs in different shades of purple and this fit the new Just Add Ink challenge where we are to concentrate on shading and shadowing. This adds so much more depth to your images and die cuts!