Colouring Challenge

Just popping by to let you know that Kathy is having another colouring challenge starting February 1. See http://www.thedailymarker.com/ for all the details.

Blue card

I made this card for the StampTV Release Party Challenge - Singing the Blues.

It is a fairly quick and easy card. I stamped the butterfly and sentiment from the Gina K. Designs Birthday Blessings stamp set in Stampin' Up! Baja Breeze ink onto a piece of Gina K. Designs layering weight white cardstock. I sponged the edges with the same ink. I layered a piece of patterned paper from the Gina K. Designs Delicate Essentials pack and placed a piece of Gina K. Designs Ocean Mist 3/8" ribbon over the join. I placed the whole layer on a card base of Gina K. Designs Ocean Mist.

Love always

Today I have a Valentine's card that I am entering in the StampTV MIUM challenge - Handmade Embellishment and the Mod Squad challenge - Love is in the Air.

I started with a piece of red cardstock, stamped all over with Versamark and embossed with clear embossing powder. I then stamped the heart and the sentiment on a piece of white cardstock, embossed them in red and sponged the edges of the cardstock.

I matted the red layer with white, which I sponged with red on the edges. I then attached this to a red card base. 

I popped up the white layer and added my handmade embellishment, three quilled hearts. 

I used the following products:

Gina K. Designs stamp sets: Square Pegs, Fabulous Frame

Ink: Versamark, ColorBox Scarlet

Embossing powder: Recollections Clear, Ruby

Cardstock, foam squares and quilling paper from my stash 

Friend card

This week's challenge at StampTV MIUM is a color challenge. We have to use orange, blue and green. I am also entering this in the Mod Squad challenge - Friendship. 

I stamped, coloured, layered and added ribbon and buttons using the following products:

Gina K Designs:
   Stamps - Plant Trio
   Patterned Paper - Delicate Essentials
   Ink - Green Grass
   Ribbon - Ocean Mist 5/8 inch
   Buttons - orange and green from a prize pack
   Cardstock - Green Grass, Base weight white and Layering weight white
VersaFine light black (smokey gray) ink
Spectrum Noir markers - GB9, CT3, OR2, OR3,CR1, CR10, GT1, GT2, CG2, CG3, LG2, LG3,
   LG5, JG1.
foam squares

Just Because card

Today I have a card that I made for three challenges: Mod Squad Challenge Blog - Ombre Technique;  StampTV MIUM - Just Because!; and StampTV Kit Addicts - Brick Wall.

I started with a piece of ivory cardstock and sponged 4 colours of brown to create the ombre effect. Then I scored the brick wall pattern and went over the score lines with a white pen to make them stand out slightly.

I  inked the flowers and leaves and stamped them. I coloured in the smaller flowers with a marker. I got a PixScan for Christmas so I tried it out and cut out the images with my Cameo. I realized after I had the card finished that I should have cut out the middle of the images! 

I didn't have a 'just because' type of sentiment, so I wrote the sentiment with my Silhouette sketch pen and trimmed it to a rectangle. I matted the sentiment, attached a piece of ribbon and attached the sentiment. I matted the brick layer and attached the whole thing to an ivory card base.

I used the following products:

Gina K. Designs stamps: Love and Prayers; Birthday Blessings

Ink: Stampin' Up! Crumb Cake; Memento Rich Cocoa; ColorBox Chalk Chestnut Roan, ColorBox                   Pigment Brown, Orange and Green

Markers: Staedtler Fineliner: Orange, Yellow; Silhouette sketch pen: White, Brown

ribbon and cardstock from my stash

For You card

Today I have a card that I am entering in two challenges: StampTV weekly challenge-Emboss is Boss and Mod Squad Challenge-One Die Cut. My card has embossing and die cuts.

I decided to do a gate fold card with a die cut shape for the center piece. The side panels are embossed and then I went over the raised parts with an ink pad to highlight them. I added a piece of ribbon at the bottom of each panel before attaching them. The sentiment was taken from a longer sentiment and punched out. I sponged the two pink layers with the same purple ink that I used to stamp the sentiment and highlight the embossing.

I used the following products:

Gina K. Designs A Gift for You stamp duo

Sizzix Stampin' Up! dies: Bigz Lattice;  Framelets Window frame Collection

WeR Memory Keepers embossing folder
ColorBox Pigment ink: Purple
Martha Stewart 1" punch
cardstock and ribbon from my stash

Polka dot card

The challenge this week on StampTV is to use polka dots. I decided to make my first shaker card! I am also entering this in the Mod Squad Challenge - Anything Goes.

I stamped my image and coloured it with Spectrum Noir markers. I used a piece of packaging to contain my shaker material and covered the card with the patterned paper that I trimmed with a piece of ribbon. I cut the oval for my sentiment and matted it with a scalloped oval die cut that I coloured with a matching marker. 

I used the following products:

Gina K. Designs Cold Snap patterned paper; Birthday Blessings stamp set

Spectrum Noir White cardstock

Memento Tuxedo Black ink

Spectrum Noir markers: PP6, BP4, BP6
Creative Memories Oval Cutting system
Spellbinders Nestibilities Big Scalloped Ovals die
ribbon and shaker material from my stash

Winter Birthday card

I needed a card for my niece's birthday so I thought I would incorporate a few challenges in it. I am entering Friday Funday Challenge at the StampTV Kit Addicts Group - Cutaway, Anything Goes Mod Squad Challenge, Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Winter Wonderland and Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Make it Sparkle.

For the cutaway challenge, you stamp on the outside, cut out around the edge of your stamping and then line up your stamps on the inside. I started with a piece of blue cardstock, stamped my images with Versamark and embossed. I drew a straight line between the snowflakes, carefully cut around the snowflakes and along the line between the snowflakes and erased any line still showing. I then stamped and embossed the snowflakes on the inside of the front. I lined the inside of the back of the card with a piece of white cardstock and stamped a few snowflakes on the edge to be visible when the card is closed. I stamped the sentiment and the card was finished.

For this project I used:
Gina K Designs Snow Frame stamp set, Happy Birthday to You stamp set
Versamark watermark ink
ColorBox Blue pigment ink
Memento Tuxedo Black ink
Recollections embossing powder Glitz and Snow
blue and white cardstock from my stash

Quick Tag

Our challenge this week on StampTV was to make a quick and easy tag or thank you card. Quick and easy fit my schedule perfectly.

I started with some Gina K white cardstock, used the Stampin' Up! tag top punch and then used Versamark ink to stamp the tree and sentiment, both from Sentimental Holiday stamp set. I embossed the tree with Stampendous Country Meadow embossing powder and the sentiment with Recollections Ruby embossing powder. I sponged the edges with ColorBox Cranberry ink and threaded a ribbon through the hole.

5 Colour Card

This is a card for the latest release challenge at StampTV. The challenge is to have at least 5 colours on our card. Here is my submission:

I used my homemade stamp positioning tool to stamp the flower border in 5 different colours. I added score lines above and below the borders and at the bottom the same distance from the top. Then I stamped the sentiment in between the scored lines.

I used the following products:
Gina K Designs stamp sets: Love You More, Especially For You.
Gina K Designs ink: Prickly Pear, Grass Green.
Stampin' Up! ink: Cherry Cobbler, Pacific Point, Elegant Eggplant.
Memento ink: Tuxedo Black.
Scoring Tool
Homemade stamp positioning tool.