I love coloring of any kind. So today I have sponging color to share. It takes longer, and for me doesn’t always end up what I intended. I still enjoy doing it.
This stamp is from the Everything Essential stamp set. (It comes also as a bundle with a tag punch.) The stamp set contains stamps for the next few holidays. And they are all “tag size” , and super cute!! It’s a great versatile set. I already had this die cut piece on my desk, so opted to use it. The die cut layer is from Painted Labels.
I used sponges to color the tag with Crushed Curry and Smoky Slate Inks. I used the Crushed Curry for that eerie glow of the moon look. The image is stamped with Blackberry Bliss Ink.
The DSP is from the Magic In This Night Designer Series paper. I really dislike spiders!!!! But I loved the piece of paper. 🙂 It is layered over Smoky Slate card stock and then Blackberry Bliss card stock as the base.
The perfect finishing touch for this little 4X4 card is the ribbon. It is the Metallic Mesh Ribbon. It is gorgeous!! It is about 2″ wide but extremely easy to work with. It is very soft, so it gathers very well. And it makes beautiful bows!
We will have to wait and see what form Halloween and Trick or Treating takes in this crazy year we have going on. In the meantime, Thank You for stopping by today. I very much appreciate it. All of the supplies I used are at the bottom of the post below the month’s Host Code
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As I have said previously, the Peony is my favorite flower. That said, I have another card using the Prized Peony stamp set and the Peony Garden Designer Series Paper. Both of these are just simple and pretty.
The flower is stamped using Smoky Slate Ink and colored with the Dark Petal Pink Stampin’ Blend. I just went over the darker areas of the flower and left the rest white. The center is colored using the Dark So Saffron Stampin’ Blend.
The dark layer of the card is Basic Gray card stock. This is one color that I do not use very often. I just forget about it and it is a great neutral. It pairs beautifully with the Petal Pink card stock. The DSP on the lever and behind the flower are also shades of gray, so it blends there as well.
Thank you for stopping by today! I really appreciate it and hope you will return tomorrow. There are quite a few layers and pieces to this card, and although it is quite simple to put together, it does take a bit of time to cut the pieces. I am working on a video and will have that for you soon.
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Today’s card is one I made for a swap with some of my Stampin’ Up! fellow demonstrators. We couldn’t do a weekend together due to covid, so did a swap to at least have a bit of sharing.
The stamp set is the Don’t Stop Believin’ set. I adore all of the stamps in this set. It also has the large Santa stamp that I have used previously. I think we all can relate to the tangled lights and tinsel!!
For the background I wanted to use the Tis The Season Designer Series Paper. It went best with the colors I invisioned for the elf. The downside is that it is 6X6 paper. I love 6X6 paper, but it limits your usage when doing multiples. To solve this problem, I cut strips from some of the ones I felt best went together and layered them on some Whisper White. Then all I had to do was flip it over and cut off the excess. I love this technique of paper piecing. It’s by far the easiest one for me.
I stamped the elf with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink and colored him with a variety of Stampin’ Blends. The sentiment is stamped in the Memento Ink as well. I just realized that I took this photo before I decided it needed a bit more bling! To achieve that bit of bling, I added a green from the Holiday Rhinestones just to the left of the sentiment. I only added the one and it was perfect.
Thank you for stopping by today. I greatly appreciate you checking my cards and I love to read your comments. I found on Friday that anyone reaching out to me from my blog using the Contact Me button, was going to spam! If you were one of those people, I am SO SORRY!!!! It is fixed now, and hopefully will never be repeated!
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I am sure you were thinking “what in the world” to my title for today! I had the Pampered Pets set out to color an image for a friend to determine the best brown for a dog card. When I went to play today, I decided to use that dog I had colored. My crazy mind went back to our chocolate lab that passed a few years ago. He was always good for craziness!! And the card was born.
The idea behind this layout, is that our dog was allowed to lick the cat plates once they were finished. However, there is always one in a crowd! One of the girls would always sit there acting like she was still eating if he made a move to her plate! Even though she was finished and had cleaned the plate. She just loved to aggravate the dog 🙂 So that is what I see in this kitty by the food bowl. LOL!!!
I truly adore the Playful Pets Suite of products. But the paper is almost the tops. I know I can pair the animals with other paper, but I just adore these patterns. They are just perfect images in my opinion.
You cannot see the sentiment layer as clearly as I had hoped. But it is punched using the Rectangle Postage Punch. The sentiment itself is from the Ghoulish Goodies stamp set. Good To The Last Bite fit the image in my mind perfectly!
The finishing touch is the heart above the sentiment. It is from the Dog Builder Punch. I finished it off with a small Pearl for some bling.
Thank you for stopping by today! I really appreciate it. And I would love to hear from you to see if you agree with my animal humor! I have added the measurements below, and have all of the products listed at the bottom of the page.
Measurements:
base of Basic Black is 4 1/4 X 11, folded in half
Real Red layer is 4 1/8 X 5 3/8
DSP large layer is 4 X 5 1/4
Dog layer is 2 3/8 X 2 1/4 and 2 1/2 X 2 3/8
Cat layer is 2 7/8 X 1 3/8 and 3 X 1 1/2
layer behind sentiment is 1 1/2 X 2 1/8
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Today’s card is a perfect layout to use leftover strips of designer paper. You can alter everything easily to coordinate for a specific occasion. My version today is a Winter or Christmas card. Although the colors are not your traditional Christmas colors by any means.
The jolly polar bear is from the Warm & Toasty stamp set. It is full of cute winter images. The DSP is the Play With Pattern Designer Series Paper 6×6 stack. I love all of the colors in the package. I chose the Night of Navy and Calypso Coral for my pairing.
The bear is stamped using Memento Tuxedo Black Ink and colored using Stamin’ Blends. There really is not much to color. I did highlight the edges of the bear with the Light Pool Party Stampin’ Blend to show the “cold”. It does not show up very much in the photo.
The sentiment is from the Host Rewards stamp set A Merry Hello. It is an adorable stamp set that was high on my must have list when the Mini Catalog debuted. I love the look of stamping on DSP. I just forget to do that sometimes.
I have all of the measurements listed just below so you can give your scraps pieces a new look. Thank you for visiting today! I really appreciate you stopping by and love to hear from you. I very much appreciate your comments. Although I had some glitches on Wednesday’s blog hop with comments. They all went to spam! Yikes!! Hopefully that is all corrected now.
Measurements :
Calypso Coral base card is 8 1/2 X 5 1/2, folded in half
Night of Navy layer is 4 1/8 X 5 3/8
Center Calypso Coral layer is 3 1/8 X 2 7/8
Center bear layer is 3 X 2 3/4
left side strip of DSP is 1 1/4 X 5 3/8
bottom sentiment DSP is 3/4 X 4
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I hope you enjoyed yesterday’s InKing Royalty Blog Hop! I added a little Note that I had a bonus project to share with you today. Using the negatives from the die cut leaves, I created three note cards that are perfect little Thinking Of You type cards. I am making more than three, but these are the three designs.
This one is die cut with Just Jade card stock and the stamping is in Just Jade as well. The plaid is the Plaid Tidings Designer Series Paper. (I used different sheets of the Plaid Tidings for all of the cards.) I also added a Misty Moonlight In Color Enamel Dot to coordinate with the Misty Moonlight in the DSP. There is Just Jade in the DSP also, it just doesn’t show much in the photo.
For this card, I backed the Bumblee card stock with Basic Black to match the Black in the Plaid Tidings DSP. The sentiment is in Memento Tuxedo Black. I also added a Bumblee In Color Enamel Dot. The black and white baker’s twine is from the Playful Pets Trim Combo. It worked perfectly here.
This is the final one. I think this piece of the plaid worked best with the Cinnamon Cider card stock. Due to the length of the stem of this leaf, it needed a touch of something. It received a bow made of Linen Thread . The Bumblebee In Color Enamel Dot seems the best match for the sentiment due to the lighter tones in the plaid. The sentiment is stamped in Cinnamon Cider.
I hope I inspired you to make use of the negatives left from these gorgeous leaves. It is hard for me to choose which I like best, the leaf or the negative! Please let me know your thoughts. I love to hear from you. And please know that even though my responses do not show in the post, I respond by email to every comment. I feel that is a more personal touch.
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