Poinsettia Cut-Out

 Hello!

I've been a bit absent, but still popping in when I can.  It's fun to see all your pretties.  But today, I have a quick post, so I can get this into a challenge (or two) before it's too late (if I'm not already)!

A quick and easy card but inspired by Fusion - Kitchen (actually the layout - or at least I hope you see it!), Christmas Kickstart #67 - Poinsettias & Posies (poinsettia), and Peace On Earth #26 (gorgeous reds, light pinks and a touch of shine).

  

Supplies:

   SSS - Simple Poinsettia cut-out

   SB - GOM 10.22 (sentiment)

   Nuvo drops (not very good at these, someone needs to help!)

That's it for me today, thanks for the visit and sweet messages.

Hugs,

TK

Sunflower 2.0

Hello!

I'm back today with another sunflower, and this will go to a couple of challenges -- Fusion - Front Porch and TCH49 - Yellow & Brown.  I made this card first, and it's really subtle in color, especially compared to my last card!

I used the brick wall, a flower and the layout from Fusion, and the colors from The Color Hues.  I sponged DIs on the brick wall, to make it stand out a bit.  The sunflower was water colored with DIs, and the tag was hot foiled with copper foil and popped up on foam.  Here's a peek at the shine ~

That's it for me today!

 

Supplies:

   HB - Sweet Sunflower stamp, Autumn Afternoon dp

   Szx - Bricked e/f, Labels 18 dies

   

Thank you for the visit!

Hugs,

TK

So Happy for You!

Hello, hello!  

I have another card for another co-worker, so this will be used soon.  I'll be sharing this card at Fusion - Relaxed Living, using both the sketch and the photo and NBUS #16.  From the photo, I drew inspiration from the colors and patterns, but while my pattern isn't the same, I think it'll do  :o)

Aren't these colors dreamy?  How could I pass this up?  First I placed my stencil to get the correct placement, then I heat embossed the flowers in Silver Pearl (thanks, Bonnie!).  Next I masked the flowers, did a bit of ink blending over the stencil and finally water colored with my Ziggs.  I'm not sure you can see the unique shine from the ep, but here's a close-up...

The sentiment was stamped in the matching blue ink on a die that I ended up cutting down even further to get a good size proportion.  

Well that's it for me today!  Thank you for the visit and sweet words!  I'm still not receiving my comment e-mails, so unfortunately I'm stuck being unable to respond but just know I would if I could!  If you happen to have another way I can make this work, please let me know  :o)

   

Supplies:

   AGW - Multiplying Rectangle stencil (my NBUS)

   Alt - Rennie Roses

   MCS - Ornate Labels (NLIB)

   GKW - Scripty Sayings

Hugs and thanks!

TK

A Hustle for Hugs

Hello, Friends!  I'm hustling in to make a challenge so I'll move a bit quickly but please don't consider me rude.  I'll be sending this card over to CTS374 and Fusion - Beach.  For CTS, I moved the image to the opposite side, and for Fusion, I rolled it on the sketch on its side so I could use the larger die cut plus utilizing the photo as well.  And since I used a couple of snippets for the strips, I'll send this over to Snippets Playground #379 since Di popped in and gave me an invite (thanks!).

Take a look!

OK this is a really girly card but it says what I wanted to say... I wanted certain colors for the strips so I used the DOX for ink blending some snippets before die cutting strips and blended a bit around the heart.  The Hugs die is 4 layers deep, while the small heart is two but popped up on foam tape.  I'm not sure how I managed it but I'm determined to use up my "scraps", so everything here except the card base is scraps - yay!!!   Here's a close-up ~

      

Thank you so much for stopping by and saying hi!

Hugs,

TK

Prayers 2.0

Good morning!

I wanted to use the same sentiment as a couple of posts ago but get a different look and then I saw my inspiration at Fusion for a field full of flowers.  While the poppy is a great flower for "remembrance", I wanted to use a background that was more muted and calming, since it will be another Sympathy card (yep, I need another one folks...).  As you can see, I used the photo only, not the sketch ~

I used an NBUS stamp set (NBUS #13), white embossed images onto water color paper then did some basic coloring.  To highlight the twig in the lower center and the dandelion seeding, I water colored around the basic image.  I cut an almost full vellum sheet, embossed the sentiment and hid my tape under the major portions of the sentiment to attach it to the card.

Here's a close-up of that shine !

Supplies:

   Alt - Freeform Greenery (NBUS)

   PTI - Big Hugs, Beautiful Blessings

   MFT - Sending Prayers

This card will be sent to two challenges:

   

Thanks for spending a moment of your day with me!

Hugs,

TK

Easter Blessings

A quick post for a whole lotta Easter cards!  Howdy, glad you could stop by and I apologize for my rush but days aren't hashing out as I had hoped and time is slipping by.  SO!  I'm going to post several cards for you to peruse so I get them in the mail before it's too late.

The first two speak for themselves -- heat embossing, Zigg water coloring -- each matted a bit different ~

While similar, the matte layout for this one came from CTS #366, with a little artistic license to change it up just a tad by staggering the layers in a southeasterly direction ~

This next one also uses the same sketch.  I heat embossed the sentiment on vellum, then laid it over a heat embossed Easter lily blossom.  Hindsight (don't we all have it), I wish that I had put both on the vellum layer to show a bit more of the Brusho splatters but allow the lily to shine too ~

And speaking of those splatters, don't they remind you of the polka dots on the gnomes over at Fusion - Gnomes?  Gotta love the polka dots, but I love my Brusho splatters too  :o)

Last, but not least, here's a shimmery one ~

Usually our problem is that you can't capture the shimmer.  Here... well the shimmer almost reduces my sentiment and image which are in a stark perfect black.  IRL it doesn't not take away from the sentiment so much, but I do love that shimmer!

    

Supplies:

   PPP, PS and RC - Easter Blessings (yes, all 3)!

   W+9 - He Is Risen

Thank you all SO MUCH for stopping by!  I hope to catch up soon and get a little rhythm back.

Hugs,

TK

Twofer? Or Threefer?

Good day!  Yes, I'm posting in the day!  I took a couple days off to hunker down and stay in my craft room, so thought I'd get this post done.  I'll be joining Twofer #25 - Spring Animals and Fusion - Nature.

   

Here's my Twofer:

And individually...

The common element being the flop-eared bunny, it was used for a New Baby card and a Love card.  The first features the little guy in paper-pieced pajamas and secondly used as the random stamping, cut to frame the two love-buns.  Both cards have some Copic coloring and stamping.  And my Threefer?  Well it's actually similar but will be sent to Fusion, for my second entry there, using the sketch.

This little gal is also paper-pieced from the same pack from old SSS monthly card kit.

Supplies:

   ME - Honey Bunny

Card 1 ~

   PPP Easter Blessings

   MFT Beautiful Baby

Card 2 ~

   MFT - Blueprints 27 (tag)

   PTI - Mat Stack 1 (window cut)

Thank you for spending a few precious moments with me!  Stay safe, stay protected, I'll be praying for everyone!

Hugs,

TK

Alleluia

Popping in to zip off a card to another challenge, so please don't think me rude and not wanting to stop and talk!  I'd love to do that, and I will as soon as I get around to your blogs!  These two cards were made with the sketch other at Fusion - Nature, I opted to not use the photo unless you use it quite loosely!

So I have leaves - lol - does that count?!  Well I'll go for the sketch anyway, here's card #1 ~

Quite CAS, I stamped the image, Copic colored, fussy cut, added the strip of gold sparkle paper, stamped the sentiment and popped up the image on foam.  After making this one, I had second idea and went for it, ink blending sun rays behind the image and scoring to ground the image instead of the gold panel ~

Do you have a favorite?

Supplies:

   (Both cards)  PPP Easter Blessing (NBUS)

                         RC Easter Blessing (sentiment - NBUS)

   Card #2 - MFT Sun Rays

Hope your week is an awesome one!

TK

CAS MixUp - December, Fusion - It's Christmas, AND Merry Monday #226

Another card to share, one that is winging its way to the recipient, and hopefully there!  I sponged a background, die cut the snowbank and applied a glitter using double-sided adhesive paper, then die cut and colored the other elements.  After everything was together, I added the sentiment.  Here she be!

This fits nicely into two challenges, so they be headed to:

   CAS Mix-Up (Dec.) - Stamping, sponging, diecuts, Copic coloring and glitter

   Fusion (It's Christmas) -I used both the sketch (which I flipped on the short side), and the photo (the sparkle on the pillow, and white).   Pooh! I missed it -- been caught up in jury duty and when I get home it's too late!!!

     

ETA: Bobby encouraged me to join in at Merry Monday #226 - Winter Fun since I missed out on Fusion!  Thanks for the invite, Bobby!

Products - 

   Stamps:  MFT Toasty Greetings (& dies); MCS Joy To The World (sentiment)

   Die:  PTI In The Meadow (NBUS)

   Ink:  Memento Black, Altenew Sea Glass, HA Silver

   Misc:  Copics, ultrafine glitter, Neenah 80#

Hope everyone is staying safe, warm, and enjoying their holiday time abundantly!  See you around, and thanks for spending a bit of your day with me!

Hugs,

TK

Fusion - Soft & Subtle

Hello, hello! Long time no see?  Well I seem to work "in spurts", I have a few cards but I'll keep it to one for this post!  This one went to my step-mom, and it's in her hands so it's all clear...  

I'll enter this over at Fusion.  I got my inspiration from this, it's quite pretty, I used both the sketch and the photo.

Products -

   Stamps:  PTI Fresh Floral Wrap Ups (and dies), PTI Healing Sentiments

   Ink:  HA Green Hill, Fresh Peach, Cup O Joe; PTI Classic Kraft

   Paper:  PTI Classic Kraft, The Paper Co Light Green vellum

Well, that's it for me today, thanks for taking a bit of your day to visit!  Have a great Friday, and an awesomely crafty weekend!

Hugs,

TK

Fusion 10/6/16 -- Happy Birthday, Daughter #1!

I'm actually pretty excited how this all came together!  Sometimes (ok, a lot) I have great "plans" and then I muff it up, it doesn't look the same on paper as it did in my head or SoMeThInG happens!!!  I know it happens to everyone, but I think a little more to me since I'm relatively new to all this...

Well Daughter #1's Birthday was actually yesterday but since she was out of town with her hubby, we'll be celebrating today.  Goodness!  She's the big 3-0!!  That doesn't make me old, right?  Well, before I keep you too long, I'll let you take peek...

I stamped the image and colored with Copics, added a few white gel accents, masked and ink blended through a stencil for the sun, cut the base and main image layers with stitched detail and mounted to the cs.  Glossy accents were applied to noses, eyes, balloons plus a few random ones to imitate the balloons.  A close-up of the details...

This was a fun card to make!  It will be sent to Fusion Card Challenge.  I was inspired by the layout, although it's totally in a scene instead of different cuts.  I couldn't make the chairs in the photo fit the stamp, go figure!

Products - 

   Stamps:  Penny Black Hedgehog Balloon Madness, front sentiment is SSS Sending/Wishing

   Stencil:  MFT Sun Ray (NBUS)

   Die:  Lil Inkers Stitched Rectangles

   Paper:  Bristol smooth, PTI Blueberry Sky, Neenah cardbase

   Ink:  Memento black, Ranger Mustard Seed and Scattered Straw

   Copics:  C1, 3, 5; E31, 93; R20, 24, 27, 29; Yppp, 11, 15, 17; YG03; G24, 28;B21, 24, 28

Thanks for stopping by, and hopefully see you soon!

Hugs,

TK

SSS Wednesday Challenge, Fusion and Stamplorations April

I wanted to pop in and post a card I made that just happened to fit a couple challenges currently.  I first saw the Fusion challenge sketch, and this card just "popped" into my head -- that NEVER happens!  It did end up morphing a bit but I like it in the end.

I started with a scrap of Ranger embossed white cs that I've had in my scrap bin for some time.  From this, I added the white embossed flower , then colored using my Peerless watercolors and die cut it out adding a layer of foam underneath.  I then die cut the layered dragonfly, and made it a bit dimensional with foam tape and balled up glue dots.  Then I stamped and embossed the sentiment, and embossed it with silver ep.  Then looking at it, I decided it needed a bit more to the plain white (I know, some of you are hating me for this) but it just looked to plain.  So I splattered some of the peerless carefully avoiding what I had already done.  Here's a close up...

This will go to my mom for her Birthday, which is right after Mother's Day!

Challenges:

   SSS Wednesday - Anthing Goes, plus Ranger

   Fusion - Sketch & Theme

   Stamplorations - April: Stamps & Splatters theme

 

Supplies:
CS:  Neenah 80#, Strathmore 140#, PTI Hawaiian Shoes, TPC Translucent Silver vellum
Ink:  Versamark, HA Silver Shadow
EP:  Ranger Holographic and Cleark, HA Silver
Stamps: Clearly Besotted - Mini Floral Collage, PTI - My Mother, My Friend
Dies:  Clearly Besotted - Dragonfly Collection, PTI Mat Stack 1
Peerless Watercolors, Copic Y17

Thanks for stopping by, and I hope everyone has a WONDERFUL weekend! I know I hope to enjoy mine!

TK