Played with my Spellbinders' Pins & Needles Jar dies and strips of designer paper from Dear Lizzy by American Crafts.
Todays' card was created using Fresh Picked Anemones by Spellbinders which were a gift to me from my sweet niece, Anita! The sentiment is an old but favorite one from Our Daily Bread.
Today I am packing up and putting away Dancin' Hoppy Bunnies Everywhere, Spellbinders' Large Die of the Month for February 2025. I sure have had fun creating cards for the grands with this delightful set!
These are the cards I am sending to family and friends this year made with dies from Spellbinders, Sizzix, and Impression Obsession. The sentiments are a hodgepodge of stamps and stencils I pulled from my collection.
Autumn is my favorite season. I am lucky enough to have several friends and relatives with autumn birthdays so I am sharing a couple of the cards I made for them this year.
Both of these cards were made with dies from Spellbinders and a sentiment die from Impression Obsession.
I am so glad that autumn is upon us! It is my favorite season. Today I am sharing a quick and easy design featuring designer paper from Simple Stories. The ephemera is a new package I picked up on sale at Hobby Lobby by the Paper Studio. The chipboard sentiment is by Tim Holtz.
The corners were rounded on the main DP panel and the ephemera, DP, and sentiment had their edges sponged with VersaFine Clair Pinecone.
I created this fun Halloween design for today's Splitcoaststampers' Sketch Challenge #1027. No stamps or ink here. I used papers from Graphic 445/s Midnight Tales collection and cat dies from Impression Obsession.
Today's card was created using Sketch 1026 from Splitcoaststampers. It was created with some of my hoarded Graphic 45 papers from the Ocean Blue Collection. The beach babe is a die from Spellbinders but I used two circle punches to create a smaller hat so as not to cover the sentiment. The sweet little sand dollars were created with a very old, but treasured die from Cuttlebug.
I sure had a lot of fun with these new layered stencil roses and leaves I purchased from The Ton! One of the things I love the most about them is that there are 7 different and separated roses on this stencil and one die which cuts them all out in one fell swoop! How neat is that!!
I used this rose and designer paper from the Paper Studio to create today's card.
I have entered this card in the following challenges this week:
Sketch Challenge 1023 at Splitcoaststampers
A Cut Above - August Challenge - Anything Goes with a Die Cut
Creative Moments - Challenge #261 - Patterned Paper
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Challenge #235 - Anything Goes
Today's card is my final Kitchen Sink Stamps sponsored design as a design team member since the store will be closing shop at midnight PST on Wednesday, July 31. I have had the remarkable pleasure of working with Maria and her amazing art almost from the beginning of Kitchen Sink Stamps. My first purchase from her was the classic Heart & Roses. Although KSS is closing, you will still see her beautiful images showing up in my work from time to time. Her realistic, layered images are themselves timeless. They will therefore never go out of style and will always be among my favorites. Thank you, Maria for the beauty and joy you have brought into my life with your exquisite talent.
Thank you to each of you who have followed by work here as well as at Splitcoaststampers and left such sweet comments. What a blessing you have been to my life.
I chosen to create with the Graceful Swan today since it is still in stock in the store. I know many people shy away from white images so I am including the color recipe I used to create the swan today. My main advice to you when trying to stamp a layered white image is to ALWAYS leave off Layer 1. Start stamping with Layer 2 in the palest gray you have and go up from there.
Layer 1 - omit this layer
Layer 2 - Limestone stamped off once
Layer 3 - Limestone
Layer 4 - Silver Stone
Layer 5 - Silver Lining
Layer 6 - Industrial Diamond
Layer 7 - Jet Black
Kitchen Sink Stamps Used:
Isle of Big Bay Lake - sold out
Cattails - sold out
Shoreline Rocks - sold out
Greetings from the Woods - sold out
This card has been entered in the following challenges this week:
Dragonfly Dreams - July Challenge - Christmas in July
Rudolph Days Challenge - July Challenge
Daring Cardmakers - Christmas in July
Simply Create Too - Christmas in July
For additional designs featuring Kitchen Sink Stamps, please visit:
Kitchensinkstamps' Weblog by Maria Colosimo,
I checked this morning and found that there are still several Teddy Bear Wishes and two Things 4 Ducky & Teddy still available in the Kitchen Sink Stamps store as the closing date (July 31) draws near. I decided to use these two sets in today's KSS sponsored Christmas card design. I used a few birch tree trunks and a sentiment from Christmas Poinsettia. If you have an electric cutting machine, don't neglect to add the SVG cut files to your order. My bear was stamped on the SVG cut file designed for Teddy Bear Wishes.
I have entered this holiday card in the following challenges this week:
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends Challenge Blog - Challenge #234 - Anything Goes
Peace on Earth Christmas Challenge - Challenge #68 - Anything Christmas
Alphabet Challenge Blog - H is for Holidays - Christmas in July
Crafty Catz - Challenge #676 - Anything Goes - Make It Cute
Cut It Up! - Challenge #308 - Christmas in July
For additional designs featuring Kitchen Sink Stamps, please visit:
Kitchensinkstamps' Weblog by Maria Colosimo,
