Masculine For You

Welcome!

Today's post comes from the heart, as all our cards do, but without any challenges.  Well, at least I'm unaware of any due to this being written nearly 2 weeks prior to post!  If I find any when the time comes, I'll be sure to update it... well hopefully.

A card for my dad, turning 89 this year!

Strictly masculine, straight cuts with a bit of embossing and hot foiling.  Hindsight, I wish I would've left the top blue horizontal stripe plain and embossed the top diamond.  As it is, I did such a great job (haha!) of lining up the two layers, that it almost looks like one.  The colors -- kraft, darker blue than it appears, and a lucious flecked cream (from Jaydee, left over packaging that I absolutely could NOT waste).  Due to the muted but masculine color palette, I didn't want gold foiling to look yellow, so I opted to use a satin gold for the embossing.

Simple but effective, eh?

(Yep, I can go there, Dad's from Canada)

I found a similar card on Pinterest, but I could not track down the original, except that it's for sale on Etsy for nearly $8!  Unfortunately, no credit will be given.

Supplies:

   Darice - Argyle e/f (so old, look at this card!)

   Splb - More Sentiments gp

   MFT - BP 27 (my tried and true sentiment cutter!)

Hugs,

TK

Merry Christmas x 2

I'm officially on a roll!  Yay me, getting those Christmas stash cards and keeping on top of the usuals... well, almost!  I have to carve away some time for an Anniversary zooming in!

Today's cards will be visiting a few challenges, but I wanted to say that I've been incredibly fortunate lately.  First, a Runner-Up at Color Hues #136, then I was drawn at the NBUS Mutual Appreciation post to win a GC from Stampin Bella, plus I won a prize at Unity Show n Tell -- so there's at least two more cards to come - lol!  But since I won at Color Hues, and I fell in love with the new challenge colors of Navy & Teal, here's my first card today ~

Stamped in triplicate, colored with Copics (sorry this is the darkest blue I have), inked blending in a sky, framed up, WoS added and glossy to the eyes and buttons.  Then, a close-up to show all that shine & shimmer ~

I kinda love this NBUS sweet guy!  Thanks, Karen, for the great colors and welcome, Rachel!

 

And since I had this sweet guy was already on my desk,  I decided to make another card and join in on Darnell's IDEAs Calendar, where it's Ink week (as if that first one didn't work also - lol) ~

Stamped, colored and winked, he was then fussy-cut.  I then made a forest behind him, matching the dark green cs base, inked in another sky and WoS added for grounding him.  I'm not sure where the sentiment tag cut came from, I found it randomly in my scraps and thought it would be a nice contrast.  Another close-up of the winked shimmer ~

CAS but oh so fun!

Supplies:

   Card #1 - UN Frost Kissed Gratitude (NBUS); PFS Essential Mini SL Frames; Splb Merry Messages bpp

   Card #2 - UN Frost Kissed Gratitude, Simple Holiday sentiments

That's it for me!  Off to pick the garden, then off to visit Mom!

Have a great, fire-free, safe week!  And thanks for the visit.

Hugs,

TK

Farewell to MFT WSC

 Though MFT Card Challenges are going away again, I wanted to make one last card!  With nowhere to post the card (MFT WSC #13), it would obviously be posted here.  I fell it love with the card made by Deborah and I decided to straight out CASE it!  That being said, I still love hers WAY more!

 Since I had no MFT Christmas papers, this green stripey paper was from their Sweet Celebrations pack, and the closest I could come up with.  A borrowed background pp was used from a "freebie" pack, but all other things are MFT.  Here's her card ~

The colors, the sweet images, the pretty papers -- oh my!

Supplies:

   MFT - Winter Songbird & dies, Elegant Rectangle Stax, Blueprints 27, Tasty Greetings sentiment

   Other - HB Christmas freebie papers

That's it for this sweet card, and one more for the stash!  Yay!

Hugs,

TK

Daisies for the Wishes

 Welcome, Friends!

Anybody out there scorching as much as me?  Ha!  A hundred degree temps and plenty of wildfire smoke throughout WA, OR and ID have us wishing for Fall!  I pray that anyone else in the same situation has air-conditioned comfort and breathing relief, along with safety soon.

One would think that today's card came together pretty quickly, but that isn't how my brain works!  Quite a few indecisions along the way make these take way longer than the ordinary person, but I just do what I'm told...

Stamped and colored with a light Copic gray for the center and depth on the "folds", plus Wink of Stella for shine, then masked so I could ink blend the rest of the panel.  It was then cut with an old large rotary cutter that came with an additional scoring wheel and a wavy wheel, which was used.  A secondary, complimentary panel was added and everything placed on a square 5.5" card.  Hindsight, I was given the thought that if I had made this 4.25" square I could mail it in a standard envelope - doh!  Lesson learned, but it is winging it's way to the Birthday girl now.

My close-up was supposed to show the glimmer in the center but it did not...  This is much prettier IRL.

An NBUS stamp (sorry, this had to stay hidden until after your early close), a sketch (sorry, another one missed) and so I came up with sending this to Darnell's IDEAs calendar for Anything Goes and Triple B for the patriotic colors and blooms.

 

 

Supplies:

   UN - Daisy, Defined stamp (NBUS)

Thanks for the visit!  I hope your day is amazing.

Hugs,

TK

Across The Miles

 Winter Greetings!

Oh!  Not yet?  It must be these Christmas cards I've been making - lol.

I started with an idea of using a snowman, an unused stamp, colored it with Copics, added some new patterned paper and ta-da!  Ok, maybe not quite that easy.  The image, pp and base card were all die cut with a dome die, then adhered together.  I love the look of the card, but decided to add glossy accents to the heart, plus stabilize the top "hinge" a bit more by adding pp to the inside.

This card will go to Peace On Earth #116, because I took the antiqued colors from the top two photos, and CAS Christmas challenge!

 

After putting all my stuff away and photographing my card, I decided that I wanted a second card using mostly the same products.  So here's the second card ~

This card uses the same image, a different die, other new pp and a different sentiment.  The heart was glossied on this card too.  This card will visit NBUS #88 - Mutual Appreciation and IDEAs Calendar for Anything Goes this week!

 

Ugh!  I missed NBUS, as I ready it ended tomorrow!!!

Supplies:

   Card #1 - UN Across The Miles stamp and Holiday Encore pp (both NBUS); WF Nested Dome dies and MFT Blueprints 27

   Card #2 - UN Across The Miles; MFT Elegant Stax dies, TE In & Out Christmas sentiment and CB Welcome Winter pp

Hump Day!  We're over the hump and the day is nearing done, I hope your week goes well.

Hugs,

TK