Happy Summer

Supplies: 

Stamps: Lawn Fawn Happy Summer

Paper: Gina K White, SU Basic Black, and Gingham from Stash

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Accessories: Copic Markers, May Arts Twine

Hello Stampers!   I'm here to share a card I made for the Clean and Simple Challenge: Watermelon, over at Splitcoaststampers.  I started this card with the layers.  I knew I wanted some gingham, but I wasn't sure if I wanted red or black gingham.  So after cutting out many pieces of gingham paper, I decided to go with the red gingham and adding black by matting the gingham.  After I got that figured out, I cut out a white square and matted it with black.  I stamped the watermelon, ants, and sentiment and then colored in the watermelon with copics.  I added some twine at the top of the focal image to finish this card front.  For the inside I kept it pretty simple, added some gingham paper matted in black, and then stamped my watermelon and ants again.  

That's all for now!!  Thanks so much for stopping by!!

Terri

Sunny Hello

Supplies:

Stamps: Stampin' Up Circle Sayings

Paper: Gina K White and Stampin' Up Azure Afternoon

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black and Stampin' Up Azure Afternoon and Daffodil Delight

Accessories: Gina K Sunshine Stencil, Waffle Flower Additional Circles Die, EK Success 2 1/4 inch circle punch, Spellbinders Layered Mix and Match Sentiments, Copic Markers, Pickett Fence Blending Brush

Hello Stampers!  I'm back to share a card that I made for the Clean and Simple Challenge over at Splitcoaststampers: Fun in the Sun.  For my card I started by stenciling the sun rays onto a 4x4 piece of white card stock.  Then I stamped, punched out, and colored the focal image and matted it with some azure afternoon card stock.  I adhered this blue layer to the sunrays, and then I popped up the focal image onto the blue circle.  For the sentiment I die cut it and adhered it to the card front.  For the inside I simply stamped a sentiment.

That's all for now.  I'm headed up north on Saturday so I won't be posting.  See you all in about a week!

Terri

Happy Summer!

Supplies: Stamps: Lawn Fawn: Happy Summer Paper: Gina K heavy base weight white Ink: Memento tuxedo black Accessories: gingham ribbon from my stash, copic markers

Hello Stampers!  Welcome to my new follower!  So happy to have you!!  The Ways to Use It challenge on Splitcoast Stampers has a theme of fruit.  I chose to use a watermelon slice on my card.  I started by stamping the ants and watermelon.  I decided to pop up the watermelon after I colored it in with Copic markers.  Then I worked on the ribbon so I knew where to stamp the sentiment.  I used my Misti to help me line up the sentiment.  I love the Misti, it has been a game changer when it comes to making cards!  To complete the card I popped up the focal panel onto the card base to add some dimension.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Terri

 

Happy Summer!

Supplies: Stamps: Gina K sentiment Paper: GKD white, su red, yellow, and green, scrap of grey, sandpaper Ink: versamagic purple hydrangea, su cherry cobbler edging on sand pail, pear pizzazz for edging on umbrella, memento dandelion for edging on shovel  Accessories: cuttlekids diecuts, 1/2 inch circle punch, small star a sizzix sizzlit

Guess what?!  I made it to the final round for the CAS summer design team.  For this round we had an inspiration picture:

When I saw the picture I had no idea what I was going to do.  I knew I wanted to stay with the "Beach Party" theme.  So I was paging through my binder (I have stamped, die cut, and punched all of my supplies in an embarrassingly huge binder) I saw the set of beachy Cuttlekids die cuts and the wheels started turning.  Since the image was a set of "sand toys" I thought sandcastles, sand, and sand toys!  That's when I decided to dig around for some sandpaper!  I love the texture it adds to the card (just like the texure rollers add texture to the sand).  The bowl in the image has a raised star in it, so I added a raised star on the sand pail.  And I used the colors of the sand toys on my sand toys, and a splash of purple for the sentiment.  I kept the base white because I really like the contrast with the bright colors, just like in the picture.

Now the hard part is to wait.  Entries are due Tuesday and the reveal is Thursday night. 

Wahoo, It's Summer Vacation!

Supplies: Stamps: Stampendous Ink: memento tuxedo black, versamark Paper: light and medium aqua and white Accessories: ek success border punch, 1/4 inch white grosgrain ribbon, detail white embossing powder, su scallop circle punch, 1 3/8 inch circle punch, dimensionals



It is my official first day of summer vacation!  Let the cardmaking, gardening, and lounging (thanks to my husband for buying me a couple anti-gravity lounge chairs for my birthday) begin!  So for my first card of the season I made a card for the CAS design team for the summer session.  I missed the challenges last time, but was able to receive a guest designer spot for the week of May 30th.  The theme of the challenges is beach and we also had to pop up an image or part of an image.  I popped up the scalloped circle to add dimension to this card.  I also used the Fall to Layout sketch of the week for the layout of this card.    Thanks for stopping by!

Summer Time!

Here is my second card for the Clean and Simple Design Team Challenge. The theme for the challenge was summer. The weather here has certainly felt like summer, yesterday my thermometer reached 100 degrees! That is just a little to hot for my comfort level! So when the temps get back to the 80's I would love to be enjoying the sunshine in a comfortable lounge chair, and that is the theme to my card. The stamps are by Stampendous, and I relied on my stamp-a-ma-jig for the alignment of this card!!! I think I use that tool more than any other! Love it! I colored the lounge chairs with copic markers in summery colors, and outlined the images using a long rectangle nestability using a fine point pen. Then I remembered I had this sun die cut by Sizzix, and thought that would be a fun accent to this card. And all of these details were added to the wonderful Gina K designs pure luxury 120 lb white cardstock, love this paper!! That's all for now... enjoy the sunshine!! :)

Double Challenge

Well, I wasn't sure if I was going to complete this card in time, but I did! This card actually works for two challenges. The first is the April Challenge #1 for GKD, and the second is the sketch challenge for Stamp TV. I started by coloring my image with copic markers. Then I stamp my sentiment and traced the center of the nestabilities tag, and then cut it out and adhered it to the nestabilities tag. I attached it to the card using ribbon. I added the ticket corner punch and brads to decorate the corners of the card. I also added the flower to decorate the "corner" of the focal image. The paper for this card is by K and Company, I love the wave pattern on this paper!

That's all for now. Have a super week!