Yellow and Orange

Today I am popping in to share a card quickly. When I saw the current challenge over at Colour Hues #139 is asking for yellow and orange, I knew I had just the thing for it.

I have to admit that it is a while since I made this card, but it hasn't been shared yet. In fact I only ever share a minority of the cards that I make. Not sure why, except that time always runs out for me, and I am  not good at making things for specific challenges, so I wait until I have something that fits. Anyway these stencils were a gift from a lovely blogging friend over in the States. They are by Stamping Up and I am happy that the current colours hues challenge has reminded me that I have them, as they really are rather cool. This is the thank you card that I sent to my generous friend as I knew that yellow is one of her favourite colours.

The thanks die is by Alex Syberia Designs and the 'so much' is from Yana's special sentiments hot foil set by Spellbinders.

Os course, as many of you will know, I will often make more than one. This time my second offering is a vibrant pink. I even hotfoiled the so much in pink! I hope you like them.

As these stencils were NBUS I am sharing this one over at NBUS #89

I know that I haven't posted much recently, but you might just see me again in a day or 2. We will see.

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July Card Chain Challenge Reveal

Today is 2nd of the month so time for the Card Chain Challenge big reveal. This month 26 card makers took part and I sent my card to Kathy in the UK.

I used the colour option (sort of) the theme of friendship and the technique of ink blending

I started by blending Catherine Pooler ink in it's a girl (pink) and glitz (gold). Once I was happy with it I chose this stencil by crafters workshop, which is one of my favourites and hasn't been used for a long time. I used a slightly darker pink called part dress over the stencil and then cut the hello and friend (dies by Tonic Studios) from my panel. I wasn't sure how I was going to raise the letters but in the end I decided on some craft foam. I haven't used it on my cards for ages because it isn't recyclable, but I still have some stock so thought it was worth using. I cut the words from some grey foam and mounted the panel on it too. After I had finished the card, I realised that I needn't have used it under the panel too as it made my card a bit thick, which meant a more expensive stamp, but at least it wasn't going abroad this month. In this country letters cost more to post if they are more than 5mm thick. This is a major reason why I keep most of my cards quite flat.

I spritzed the panel with some silver shimmer spray to add some interest, inked the edges with the darker pink and added 3 little gems. The cardbase is adorable scorable coated card, but it is kraft coloured. Not that you can see much of it.

I was very lucky to receive this gorgeous card from Gail in Canada. I love it. Thanks Gail.

If you would like to take part in the next card chain challenge, you have until 6th to sign up here

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Sending all the happy

Today I have an eclipse cas card to share. When I saw that Loll had brought back the CAS Mix Up challenge, I was determined to join in.

I needed a card for a 17yr girl who has her birthday in August, so I decided to make the number 17 the eclipse element.

I have used the stamp set called flower field stamps by Christina Werner with Concord & 9th. This is a large 6x8 inch stamp, so not appropriate for a CAS card. I therefore used a circle die to cut a section after I had coloured it with the matching stencils. I used my nesting circle dies to cut a mat gold frame and small number dies also by Concord & 9th to cut out the numbers from the image. I stacked them 3 times. The flower centres and little bee (from a different stamp set) were coloured with sparkle pens.

I hope you can see the eclipse OK. I took the photo above at an angle to try and show it better, but I am not sure it has made much difference, you can, however, see the shine from the gold card and sparkle pens.

The sentiment is from the same set. In retrospect I wish I had stamped it directly on the card front, but as I have the matching dies I used them. I wanted to add a little bit of bling so included a few teeny tiny gems around the sentiment and the numbers. I hope I haven't ruined its CAS credentials.

Thanks to Carol of Inkyfingers for giving me the inspiration for using this stamp.

I am sharing this at:

CAS Mix Up July Challenge - eclipse

Seize The Birthday #330 - One or more numbers. The sentiment inside the card reads 'on your 17th birthday'

We Love Stamping July Challenge - Summertime

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Lots of Embossing

Hello

I have recently been enjoying making cards with my 3d embossing folders and when I saw Leslie from running with scissors use vellum covered card in an embossing folder, I just had to have a go. I thought it looked really good. You cover a piece of coloured card with vellum using double sided tape and then emboss it and look what happens....

Here I used yellow card and ordinary vellum and embossed the piece using a folder by Honey Bee Stamps called Sandie's Garden. I trimmed the panel to fit a 7x5 inch card and mounted it onto a dark green coated cardbase. The sentiment dies are Yana's layered script sentiments by Spellbinders. I covered a piece of the yellow card with sticky tape before cutting the sentiment so that it has a shine.

I didn't want to cover up that wonderful embossing so I finished the card off with 3 yellow enamel dots.

I am sharing this at:

Girlz Creative - Challenge 25 yellow and/or green

As you see it challenge - 376 embossed. Today my favourite embossing folder is Sandie's Garden by Spellbinders.

Can you handle the pressure - 6/2026 Anything embossing goes

Of course I didn't just make one card.....

This one uses Spellbinders beautiful blooms folder and a little hello sentiments by Lisa Horton for Spellbinders.

This one uses Spellbinders flower frenzy folder and birthday wishes Betterpress sentiments. The flower is a stamp and stencil by Alex Syberia for PinkFresh. The vellum this time is pearlescent by Lawn Fawn. It is more opaque, so the underlying kraft card doesn't show through in the same way, but it does have a lovely shine,

I made this one for my eldest granddaughters 14th birthday, which is later this month. Slightly over the top, but sometimes that's a good thing. The daisy die is from a set by Sizzix, the vase with heart flowers in it is called a jar full of hearts by PinkFresh. The sentiment is from the same set as used on the card above.

Another reason why I am enjoying embossing folders at the moment is they make doing the insert and the envelope really quick and easy, as long as you get the folder the right way round that is!

This is such a great technique, I hope you give it a go and thanks Leslie for bringing it to my attention. 

I would love to know if you have a favourite.

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June Card Chain Challenge Reveal

Today is 2nd of the month so time for the Card Chain Challenge big reveal. This month 25 card makers took part and I sent my card to Linda in MN USA.

Here is my card:

From all the options this month I used the colours, black, white and your choice, the theme of friendship and the technique of embossing.

I decided to use my favourite embossing folder from Spellbinders and the background inking technique. I wanted a good ink coverage so I used my Catherine Pooler midnight ink. This ink is really black, which is great, but it also has a tendency to stain everything it touches. Thankfully it did clean off my embossing folder OK. I am pleased to say that it worked well and gave a really good coverage on the background.

I decided to use gold as my third colour and simply cut these heart flowers from matt gold card and adhered them behind the gold foiled sentiment, which is also Spellbinders. I didn't want to cover up the embossing too much. I wasn't that happy with this one when I first made it, but it has grown on me. I am pleased to say that it reached its destination in good time and Linda seemed to be happy with it. I do love the effect of the embossing though, it is my current favourite technique.

I was very lucky to receive this gorgeous card from Greta in Oregon. It's stunning, I love the glitter paste. Thanks Greta.

If you would like to take part in the next card chain challenge, you have until 6th to sign up here

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