Ida 1.0

 Welcome!

I'm sure you weren't expecting another post from me BUT...

I had a meet-up with Ida on September 4th.  She graciously gifted me with a few images she'd stamped and so I'm here to share them with you ~

First up is a fall bouquet, sweet as can be, but I tried to follow Ida's lead and use pencils and gamsol... with limited success.  While I did okay with the larger images, I found it difficult (even with a smaller stub) to blend in small areas thus I went outside the lines quite a bit - oy!  I was able to clean it up a bit with a white pen, but I'm only mildly happy with my end result...

Oops!  Somewhere I lost this image's information!

Next up, we have a very sweet image with a handsome pumpkin and a sweet bird singing with all his might!  I colored the front image with Copics, and attempted to place it on my fall, pencil-colored background but knew I'd have to put a little solid color between.  So I cut a small label and popped up the pumpkin image overtop, keeping the label to minimum so I didn't cover up too much.  A sentiment was stamped and cut into an angled label and mounted with foam tape.  Hmmm, the more I look at this photo, the more I see how washed out it looks!  The bg is much more colorful and a wider variety of tones than you see here.  I might have to fire the PS artist!

Unity:  Kit of Month (Sept); BG of Month (Aug)

MFT - Elegant Stax label

MCS (oob) - sentiment

Last but not least, I colored the sweet girl image, cut her wonky, and mounted it over a piece of paper I received as a sweet gift (in a very large box) from Carol Hintermeier -- thanks again!  The sentiment, a pre-printed label was added.

Unity:  Kit of Month (Aug)

HB:  Sweet On You dp

SSS:  Sentiment Strip

Three's a crowd, right?  I had one more image, but you'll have to wait on that one!

Thanks for the visit; and thanks, Ida, for the afternoon of fun with you and your granddaughter!

Hugs,

TK

Last but not Least

Welcome back for another episode of #pfcreateandconnect!

Class #2 was all about arches and boy did we use them, the first two designs are Carissa Wiley's ~

This arch was pressed, colored with stencils and then cut apart.  Separately, we used white ink to stamp on vellum, then heat set it before cutting it to place behind the arch.  Prior to attaching it to the base, we ink blended ombre on the base, so it would all show through the vellum.  While I didn't capture the white inking well, you get the idea!

This card is a tri-fold, using a white arch piece sandwiched between two panels as the third fold.  Here, arch stencils were used as a backdrop to the foiled/colored/die cut floral arch.  I lovc unique folds!

This card is designed as a Make & Take by Lea Lawson -- love the ombre rainbow inking!  The inking was done after foiling with the outline layer of the plate.

This card also used the arch outline press plate, and basic inking to creating a pretty arch.  The scalloped oval die was backed with vellum, which made a beautiful place for the sentiment!  This card was designed by Emily Midgett.

I HAD A BLAST!

Supplies:

   PFS - Floral Arch frame plate/stencil/die; Oval Blossom die; ephemera foiled sentiments; gems & drops

That's it for me!  Thanks for sticking with me and mustering enough will power to stick it out!  I hope you are all staying cool, I know we've actually dropped below 100 in the last couple of days with promise of the temps going back up again - oy!

I think my next focus will be Christmas, one so I can try to decrease my deficit, but also to trick my brain into thinking I'm staying cool...

Hugs,

TK

Happy Halloween?

Greetings!

So I ask, is Happy Halloween an oxymoron?  Depends on who you ask, I guess.  However, happy is a must if you ever want to see me around Halloween.  We've never really celebrated it with our kids, but it sure doesn't bother me that others do.  However I must say that me making Halloween cards is definitely something that I'm not used to.  It all started when someone (I wonder who?) enabled me to buy an adorable stamp set, then it took flight from there.  Wanna see?

This one is a true Halloween card though I'm unsure which direction it'll swoosh off to.  My second card is a bit of a mixture of holidays, like Halloween and Thanksgiving.  I changed directions in what I was doing, and so this morphed into a card to send to my grandson -- a thankful heart to have him in our lives! 

They recently moved across the state and Grandpa and I aren't fairing so well...  this card whisked its way out the door to him.  As for these images?  Just you wait and see... there's more to come!

I'll send a card to NBUS #55 since I just got this stamp set, and Inspired by Boo and yes, I'm barely sliding in!!!

 

Supplies:

   WF - Boo Combo stamps/dies (NBUS)

   MFT - Blueprints 27

   MCS (oob) - Happy Thanksgiving sentiment on card #2

And while you're all snuggly in your comfy pajamas, think of me sitting outside in the mid 30's, huddled around a propane fire, sipping hot cocoa, watching a movie on a big screen and handing out candy to the kiddos!  Enjoy!

Hugs,

TK