Birthday Collage

 

I fell in love with these distress colors on a card I saw on Pinterest, so I pulled them out and made a masculine birthday card. I smooshed Speckled Egg, Evergreen Bough, and Vintage Photo distress inks on the background then splattered with Ground Espresso. I stamped the tag using the Autumn Collage Tag set by Creative Worship Stamps and used the sentiment stamp from Texture Tiles 1 to the leaves before coloring. The sentiment is from the Spring Collage Tag set. I tore a small rectangular piece of kraft paper then sponged the edges with Vintage Photo ink and ran it through a crimper tool. The butterfly was die cut then stenciled - part of the Jumbo Curiosity series from The Greetery. I'm entering this into the Seize the Birthday challenge - Anything Goes.    

 

STAMPS: Autumn Collage Tag, Spring Collage Tag, Texture Tiles 1 (Creative Worship Stamps). 

INK: Speckled Egg, Evergreen Bough, Vintage Photo, Ground Espresso distress (Ranger).

PAPER: Watercolor (Ranger); Stampers Select White, Classic Kraft, Dark Chocolate (Papertrey Ink). 

DIES: Tag & More (Creative Worship Stamps); Skinny Frames: Diagonal Border (Papertrey Ink); Stitched Rectangle STAX Die-Namics (My Favorite Things); Jumbo Curiosity: Butterfly (The Greetery). 

OTHER: Sheer aqua ribbon, Jute twine. 

 Thanks for stopping by!  ~Wanda

Just Us Girls

 

Hello friends! It's stencil week over on the Just Us Girls challenge blog and I was eager to try out a new layering stencil set just released by Papertrey Ink. (note: I missed the deadline to link this up!) 😔 I am also entering this card into the Four Seasons Challenge where the theme is fall.   

 

It has the perfect blank area to add a sentiment. I'm putting this away for October when it's Pastor Appreciation month. 

 

STAMPS: This is Big Sentiments: You (Papertrey Ink).

INK: Bright Buttercup, Summer Sunrise, Honey Nut, Cocoa Bean, Orange Zest, Canyon Clay, Terracotta Tile, New Leaf, Simply Chartreuse, Coastal Blue, Hawaiian Shores (PTI); Versafine Clair Nocturne.

PAPER: Stampers Select White (PTI). 

DIES: This is Big Sentiments: You (PTI); Blueprints 27 (My Favorite Things).

OTHER: Moonshine sequins (PTI). 

That's a wrap for today! Thanks for stopping by.  ~Wanda
 

Word Art Wednesday 9/2

 

Hello and welcome to another Word Art Wednesday challenge! This week, Karen has chosen Isaiah 26:3. Our sponsor is Lawn Fawn who will be giving away a $25 gift card to some lucky participant!   

I stenciled the background then used a twig wreath die to frame the verse. I added die cut corner leaves to balance it all out. 
 

STAMPS: None.

INK: Pale Peony, Berry Sorbet, Limeade Ice, New Leaf, Simply Chartreuse (Papertrey Ink); Versafine Clair Nocturne.

PAPER: Stampers Select White, True Black (PTI).

DIES: Psalm Reflections: October, Border Bling: Twigs (PTI); Stitched Rectangle STAX Die-Namics (My Favorite Things).

OTHER: In The Meadow stencil collection (PTI). 

Hope to see you in the WAW gallery!  ~Wanda 

 

Tic Tac Toe Challenge

These baby cards are a CASE from previous cards I created using these dies. This time I'm entering them into the Tic Tac Toe Challenge #300 where I focused on the far left column of letters/numbers, sentiment and diecuts. 

I started with the eyelet lace frame die and cut once with white then once with the patterned paper for each card.  The sentiment was layered with white over a color paper.

INK: Bright Butterfly, Summer Sunrise, New Leaf, Ocean Tides, Amethyst Allure (Papertrey Ink).

PAPER: Stampers Select White (PTI); Blue, Pink, Lavender, Yellow, Green from my scrap bin.

DIES: Sweet Baby Bib, Larger Than Life: Baby, Border Bling: Scalloped Frame (PTI).

 

Freshly Made Sketches

 

Michele Ferguson has a great new layout for the Freshly Made Sketches challenge. It was hard to keep it clean and simple but I started with a leftover stenciled background from another project.I used the smallest stitched pocket die and the frame from the Picture This stamp set for the two tilted "squares". The flower was clear embossed then colored with Copics (it was fussy cut from the summer tag stamp set).

STAMPS:  Picture This, Spring Collage Tag, Summer Collage Tag, Texture Tiles 3, Texture Tiles 1 (Creative Worship Stamps).

INK: Cracked Pistachio, Tattered Rose, Saltwater Taffy distress; Versafine Clair Nocturne.

PAPER: Stampers Select White, True Black (Papertrey Ink); X-Press It Blending Card.

DIES: Picture This, Tag & More, Foliage Silhouettes, Polaroid, Film Strip; Stitched Pockets (Creative Worship Stamps); Blueprints 27 (My Favorite Things).

OTHER: Lovely Lace stencil, Copics. 

 

 Thanks so much for stopping by!  ~Wanda

Summer's Last Hurrah

 

I had a lot of fun creating this collage card for the theme of "Summer's Last Hurrah" challenge at Creative Worship Stamps! I'm also entering this into the Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge with the theme of using layers. I stenciled the background then color blended and collage stamped the largest of the Stitched Pocket dies. I tucked in some greenery and a couple of film strip dies. I don't know what took me so long to use these florals from the Patient Echinacea stamp set. I clear embossed them over a black pigment ink then colored with Copics.

 

STAMPS: Patient Echinacea, Autumn Collage Tag, Foliage Silhouettes, Entomology Elements, Vintage Snippets (Creative Worship Stamps).

INK: Cracked Pistachio, Peacock Feathers, Brushed Corduroy, Vintage Photo distress inks; Limeade Ice, New Leaf, Harvest Gold, Bright Buttercup, Summer Sunrise (Papertrey Ink); Versafine Clair Nocturne.

PAPER: Stampers Select White, True Black (PTI).

DIES: Patient Echinacea, Foliage Silhouettes, Entomology Elements, Film Strips, Stitched Pockets (CWS); Sentiment Suite Basics (The Greetery).

OTHER: Lovely Lace stencil (CWS); Gold gems; Clear embossing powder. 

 

 Thanks so much for stopping by!  ~Wanda

Sunflower Birthday

 

I am playing along with Freshly Made Sketches and with Just Us Girls challenges where it's mood board week. I'm needing a birthday card soon, so thought I could make it work with the sunflower dies from Papertrey Ink. The "stripe" was stenciled using Honey Nut and Dark Chocolate inks.

 

I die cut the florals from Bristol Smooth Paper then color blended using brushes and splattered with gold paint after everything dried. The gold foiled script was in my leftover pile.

STAMPS: Birthday Tag Kit, It's A Sign: Birthday Sentiments (Papertrey Ink). 

INK: Bright Buttercup, Summer Sunrise, Limeade Ice, New Leaf, Simply Chartreuse, Honey Nut, Cocoa Bean, Dark Chocolate (PTI).

PAPER: Bristol Smooth Surface; Stampers Select White, Spring Moss (PTI).

DIES: Into the Blooms: Sunflowers, Love to Layer: Scalloped Diamonds, Reflections: July (PTI).

OTHER: Gold foil; Gold paint (Gansai Tambi); Elegant Script hot foil plate (PTI). 

 

  

Thanks for stopping by!  ~Wanda