Fairy Magic

Hello Crafting Friends,

I am calling this flash back Friday as I went searching into my blog drafts and found this card has been sitting there since 2020.

It is my first attempt at using a gelli plate, to create the background with inks. Once dry I stamped the images.

Gina K - Framescapes - Enchanted Forest

Gelli Plate

Distress Oxide inks

Half Hexagon pop up box card

This is my interpretation of the of the Half Hexagon pop up box card. There are many online tutorials for this design. I watched a few before making this in a 5 x7 portrait style. I have used the Gina K - Master Layout 4 for the heart element. The hearts are heavy, so I added a strip of acetate behind for extra support. On the back I created a panel where you can sign the card.

 Supplies

Gina K - master layout 4, you are enough stamp set

Karen Burniston - Charm heart

Festive gold

A bit of festive gold for this Christmas card. I have used the Holiday Tapestry stamp set by Gina K. Heat embossed the image onto teal card stock using Egyptian gold embossing powder. I then layered the panel onto foil card stock, then adding it to the base card. Just a bit of ribbon for the embellishment.
 

Birthday flowers

A couple of birthday cards for my stash of cards. Delightful daisies look great is pink or yellow.

 

Podium Platform

This is the card I made after being inspired with a Sam Calcott - mixed up craft tutorial.

I have used the same measurements as Sam has used in her tutorial.

These are the sizes you will need to pre-cut

Card size 11 x 5, score at 1, 23/4, 33/4, 51/2, 71/4, 81/4, 10

1piece 61/2 x 5 score at 31/4

1 piece 4 x 63/4

For Black Mat layer 2 pieces 33/4 x 51/2

2 pieces 3/12 x 51/4

black mat 2 pieces 43/4 x 3

2 pieces 41/2 x 23/4

black mat 2 pieces x 11/2 x 43/4

2 pieces x 11/4 x 41/2

black mat 2 pieces 3/4 x 43/4

black mat 2 pieces 11/4 x 43/4

1 x 41/2

Just follow along with the tutorial for assembling.

I didn't have any of the stamps that were used in the tutorial, so I used Gina K - Timeless poppies and the Cuttlebug houndstooth embossing folder. I also some nuvo drops for embellishments.

 Thanks for looking and have a great day.

Dragonfly Keeper

 I made this for a card challenge. - double stencil. I started with the snowflake stencil and applied the ink through the stencil, while the stencil was still attached to the card, I placed another stencil on top and used a darker ink for this step. I then trimmed the card to size. Then I stamped the Fairy with black ink and highlighted the lamp and flicked gold ink all over the image. I wanted to add the verse since the background was so pretty so I stamped it onto vellum so you can still see the image underneath.

Supplies:

Gina K - snowflake Mandala stencil

Kaisercraft - spotty stencil

Lavinia stamps - Dragonfly Keepers, snowfalls

Distress ink - tumbled glass, weathered wood

Nuvo - midas touch

Stencil and ink.

 This is a quick and easy card to make when you need one in a hurry.

I started with the background blending ink through a stencil. I then heat embossed the floral image and then added some nuvo drops around the flower. 

Supplies

Gina K - you are loved stamp set.

Altenew stencil - liquid marble

distress ink - salty ocean, milled lavender

 nuvo drops - black

Thanks for looking today.

Happy Mothers Day Card

  

This is the card that I made recently for Mother's Day. I started with stenciling the card base in Distress oxide inks for a soft background. I stamped the Daisies, coloured them with copic pens, the fussy cut them out. I attached them to the card base with foam tape and add Nuvo drops for embellishments and added the die cut sentiment.

Thanks for looking today.

 Supplies:
Stamps - Gina K delightful Daisies

Die- Karen Burniston - Mother's Day 

Stencil - anko 

Distress Oxide inks - scattered straw, ripe persimmon

Coffee a gift from heaven

It is challenge time with my friends on CCEE Stampers challenge blog. 

Today is National Coffee Day!

Make a card using any coffee theme. Coffee images, coffee dyed paper, etc.  

I have used Gina K master layout 4 die set for my card today. I have paired it with Darcie's milk and cookies stamp set.

Don't forget to check out the CCEE Stampers blog to see the rest of the creations the CCEE Stampers have created this week. You can also see more details of their creations on their individual blogs.

Liz Williams

Lois Bak

Lynn McAuley

Frances Byrne

Kelly Santi

Maryann Einam- You are here

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Delightful Daisies

 Hi Crafting friends, 

Today on the CCEE Stampers Blog, the challenge is to use some sort of rolling on your card.

Today is National Foam Roller Day so show us your cards using any rolled technique!  There are many possibilities, like paper rolling, brayers, marbles - have fun with this!

For my card I used a brayer to roll ink onto a gel press plate, I first rolled Kitsch Flamingo onto the gel plate layered on the stencil and added picked Raspberry, I then pressed the card onto the ink. I then heat embossed the sentiment. I stamped the Daisies and fussy cut them out, I attached them to the card with foam tape. Then adding some black gems stones.

Don't forget to check out the CCEE Stampers blog to see the rest of the creations the CCEE Stampers have created this week. You can also see more details of their creations on their individual blogs.

Liz Williams

Lois Bak

Lynn McAuley

Frances Byrne

Kelly Santi

Maryann Einam- You are here

Thanks for stopping by....

Circle pop-up

Hi Crafting Friends,

Today I am sharing another Christmas card this one was made with Karen Burniston's Circle charm pop up die.

 

The sentiment is heat embossed in gold before die cutting.

Thanks for looking.....

Sunshine Poppies

Today is the challenge C4C595 on the Crazy 4 Challenges blog.

Just like Slimline Cards, Mini Slimline Cards are also becoming very popular, for our challenge this week create a Mini Slimline card. Typically Mini Slim Line Cards are either 3 1/2 inches x 6 inches or 3 inches x 6 inches.

I have made this mini slime line card using the Gina K designs stamp - timeless Poppies. I have coloured it in with copic pens and added pearls for embellishments.

Don't forget to check out the rest of the “Crazies” cards over on the Crazy 4 Challenges blog and also their individual blogs for more details.

Frances Byrne

Rebecca Endie

Amy Ottmers 

Karen Ostergard

Maryann Einam- You are here

Nicky Foden

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Black Magic using pencils

Hi Crafting Friends,

This is my card for the challenge on CCEE Stampers blog.

Apparently the 30th March is Pencil Day … For the challenge this week, feature pencils, colored pencils, crayons etc on your card creations. Either use this medium to color your image, or feature an image of pencils, crayons etc.

I don't use pencils too often but I recently watched a Gina K tutorial on Black Magic Technique with colored pencils. It looked like so much fun I thought I would give it a try.

I recently purchased the Holiday Tapestry stamp set, I thought the leaf flourish would be suitable for this technique. I was really happy with the results.

Firstly I stamped the image with moonlight white ink and once dried I added the colour pencils over the ink, because the ink was pearlescent it gave the image a nice glow.

I then added the dots with a white gel pen.

I created the owl using a die, after die cutting I placed it onto white card with double sided tape on it and then covered the whole are with microfine glitter. I the coloured the owl with copic markers.

Inside I placed a simple pop up sentiment.

Supplies: Gina K - Holiday Tapestry, Derwert -artists pencils, brillance ink - moonlight white, Karen Burniston - Katherine Label pop-up - Anita Frames pop-up (retired) Occasions stamp set (retired) owl die, microfine glitter, white gel pen, copic markers.

Don't forget to check out the CCEE Stampers blog to see the rest of the creations the CCEE Stampers have created this week. You can also see more details of their creations on their individual blogs.

Liz Williams

Lois Bak

Lynn McAuley

Frances Byrne

Kelly Santi

Manal Habib

Maryann Einam- You are here

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Summer

Hi Crafty Friends

Welcome to today's card made for the CCEE Stampers design team challenge CCEE2103

 Time for a Good Belly Laugh National Belly Laugh Day is coming up this Sunday! We all need a good laugh these days so create a card that will have us all laughing out loud. Bonus points if you make me spew my coffee on the computer screen when I see your card!!

My card was made to highlight the sentiment. I created the background using distress oxide inks, Squeezed Lemonade, Wild Honey, Scattered Straw, Dried Marigold, Abandoned Coral, Crackling Fire. I made a stencil using a circle die and clear acetate for the sun image. Once all the background was dried I added the trees and birds from Gina K Framescape tropical skies stamp set.

I then stamped the sentiment from Verses Rubber Stamp Company in black ink on vellum, carefully heat setting it. I then assembled all the layers.

Don't forget to check out the CCEE Stampers blog to see the rest of the creations the CCEE Stampers have created this week. You can also see more details of their creations on their individual blogs.

Anne Harmon

Liz Williams

Lois Bak

Lynn McAuley

Frances Byrne

Kelly Santi

Manal Habib

Hazel Estibeiro

Maryann Einam- You are here

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2020 C4C Sketches

Welcome to the last Crazy4Challeneges challenge of the year, the team will have a well earned break before coming back in the first week in January 2021.

I have used the C4C544 sketch for my card today. I have made a slimline card and used the Gina K glitter gel in brilliant blue with the Snowflake Mandala stencil for the background. I stamped the lawn fawn penguins, after colouring them I die cut them with the oval dies and added the snowflakes made from glitter paper. I layered the card using slimeline dies from Karen Burniston and Pinkfresh studio they fit perfectly together.

Don't forget to check out the rest of the “Crazies” cards over on the Crazy 4 Challenges blog and also their individual blogs for more details.

Frances Byrne

Rebecca Endie

Kathleen Adams

Amy Ottmers 

Karen Ostergard

Tracey Farr

Maryann Einam- You are here

Nicky Foden

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Distress snowflakes

 Hi  Crafting Friends, this is my card for the Crazy4Challenges theme challenge A Blue Christmas.

A Blue Christmas … take inspiration from the song that Elvis used to sing and create a Christmas card which includes the color blue in it. Don’t celebrate Christmas … just make a card that includes blue.

To make my card I started with Gina K Snowflake Mandala Stencil and distress oxide inks tumbled glass, speckled egg and chipped sapphire and heat set it. I then sponged the edges with Hickory smoke distress ink and again heat set it.

I then used the concord & 9th snowflakes turnabout stamp set and white heat embossed it. For some dimension I added four layers of the Ultimate crafts - On Blitzen die. I also added the Karen Burniston Merry Christmas sentiment die.

Don't forget to check out the rest of the “Crazies” cards over on the Crazy 4 Challenges blog and also their individual blogs for more details.

Frances Byrne

Rebecca Endie

Kathleen Adams

Amy Ottmers 

Karen Ostergard

Tracey Farr

Maryann Einam- You are here

Nicky Foden

Thanks for stopping by today....

Your'e Invited

Hi Everyone 

It is my turn as hostess on CCEE Stampers blog. This week my challenge is to make a card or Invitation featuring a floral arrangement.

I have two weddings this year and invitations and flowers were on my mind when I chose this challenge.

For the background I have used Gina K  Glitz glitter gel with the painty stripes stencil from Uniquely Creative. The flowers are from the Uniquely Creative Flawed and Fabulous stamp set. I had to search for a sentiment set and found in my supplies this Taylored Expressions Big Bold Birthday set 5 sentiment set which fit in perfect for this theme.

Don't forget to check out the CCEE Stampers blog to see the rest of the creations the CCEE Stampers have created this week. You can also see more details of their creations on their individual blogs.

Anne Harmon

Liz Williams

Lois Bak

Lynn McAuley

Frances Byrne

Vicky Gould

Kelly Santi

Maryann Einam- You are here

Thanks for stopping by....

A Beautiful Mother's day

This week on CCEE Stampers blog our challenge is make a card for a Mother.

Mother's Day is this coming Sunday in many parts of the world including the USA, Canada and Australia. Create a card suitable for a mother, it doesn't have to be a Mother's Day card.

For my card I have used the stamp set from Gina K - A Beautiful Life.

I stamped the image onto designer paper and again onto white card stock. I then coloured the flowers and fussy cut them out and mounted them onto the card using foam tape for dimension.

Don't forget to check out the CCEE Stampers blog to see the rest of the creations the CCEE Stampers have created this week. You can also see more details of their creations on their individual blogs.

Anne Harmon

Joanne Grzelak

Liz Williams

Lois Bak

Lynn McAuley

Frances Byrne

Vicky Gould

Kelly Santi

Maryann Einam- You are here

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It is a good day

Welcome

My card today was made for the Crazy4Challenges theme.

Back to metallics for the end of the month. Use foiling on your project. If you don't do you own foil, look for foiled patterned  or mirror papers pr embellishments like chipboard or stickers in your stash.

I am working a building my supplies of wedding themed cards. I went looking for some foil designer paper and found a page of sentiments that would fit well with the rocking rectangle die from Karen Burniston. I then created the front of the card using dies.

This card has a lot of foil as every page has foil as well as embellishments.Here is a closer look at the foiled sentiment panels.

Don't forget to check out the rest of the “Crazies” cards over on the Crazy 4 Challenges blog and also their individual blogs for more details.

Frances Byrne

Joanne Grzelak

Karen Aicken

Raquel Mason

Rebecca Endie

Kathleen Adams

Amy Ottmers 

Karen Ostergard

Tracey Farr

Maryann Einam- You are here

April Guest Designer - Cindy Lawrence

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Layered spotlighting Wetlands

Hello there, it is time for another challenge with the CCEE Stampers team.

July 12 has been declared National Simplicity Day in honor of Henry David Thoreau who was a devoted advocate of living a life of simplicity. So on this lazy day of summer it's time to simplify. My challenge to you is to create a clean and simple one layer card!

I saw this technique some time ago and put it on my to do list. It is called Layered spotlighting, using a single piece of card, some stamps, a die and some sponging and a piece of art is created.

Take a look at Theresa Momber's utube video here.

Don't forget to check out the CCEE Stampers blog to see the rest of the creations the CCEE Stampers have created this week. You can also see more details of their creations on their individual blogs.

Anne Harmon
Joanne Grzelak
Liz Williams
Lois Bak
Lynn McAuley
Frances Byrne
Vicky Gould
Kelly Santi

Maryann Einam- You are here

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