Summer & Winter

Lots of new or barely used products listed in my sale pages, so why not take a look.

I loved all the projects made with the SSS Bouquet of Roses stencil when it was released, so "had" to get it!  I used ink daubers with DOs picked raspberry, abandoned coral & lucky clover.

The sentiment from SSS Thoughtful Messages was stamped in Versafine Clair Morning Mist--a nice shade of gray.  I covered the sentiment with purple tape & splattered with watered down ink from a black Zig.  I debossed a frame using my score board & mounted the panel to gray cardstock using fun foam.  Finished off with Wedding Dress Pico Embellisher dots.  I'm entering SSS Flickr Challenge 127 & Time Out.

One year at summer camp when I was a kid, I got my cabinmates to use "Christmas in July" for our cabin's theme.  So you see, my love of Christmas began long ago.  Here's my entry for Christmas Kickstart, CHNC 445, Retro Rubber, Stamplorations Theme & Sketch and Stamplorations Never-Ending Anything Goes.
One of Jo's inspiration cards used the same Stamplorations image from Coffee for all Seasons which I got in 2017.

She inspired me to use red, but I went the simple route of emboss resist.  I used gold detail powder & festive berries Distress Ink going darker to lighter from the bottom right to the top left corner.  Using DI made it easy to remove the red from the whip cream with a sparkle pen & to color the cinnamon stick with a tea dye DI marker.

I used festive berries to stamp the HA sentiment from the 2011 Merriest Christmas Wishes set--still a favorite.  Instead of real splatters this time, I used a PRS splatter image & Delicata Golden Glitz ink. The focal point was attached to a kraft square with foam tape & I decided against embellishments.
Edited to Add:  Thanks to Suzanne I'm also entering Double Trouble.

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Papertrey Ink October Blog Hop Challenge

The leaves are really starting to fall, so yesterday hubby raked & I picked up the piles.  Not my favorite chore, to put it mildly, but it is nice to see the place looking all neat & tidy.  My reward was to make a card last night for the PTI Blog Hop--surprise, surprise!  It's interesting what a different look you get with the same colors depending on whether you use inks or colored cardstock.  I decided to use cardstock this time for a Fall friendship card.  The inspiration photo has somewhat muted colors, but I used brighter versions along with pumpkin images. 

I love my old pumpkin embossing folder used with Orange Zest cardstock.  I sponged with Canyon clay ink for shading--hard to see in the photo.  The mat was made from Dark Chocolate cardstock, but before I attached it I cut out the word (Counting My Blessings) from the center of the panel twice.  Usually I don't think to do that, but I try to make my PTI cardstock stretch as far as possible.  As you can see, the brown word die cut was used for a shadow.  The top layer was die cut from Summer Sunrise (a nod to the gourds in the wagon), brushed with WOS & covered in Nuvo Glaze. 

I had scraps of Olive Twist & Spring Moss that were big enough for the leaf from Meadow Greens & a sentiment strip from Counting My Blessings.  Both were stamped in Olive Twist & I used a gold gel pen for the leaf vein dots.  Finished off with a few gold sequins.  I have plenty of new products waiting to be used, but this card is made from well-loved old favorites.  See why I have so much trouble purging?  I love it all--haha!  I'm also entering Crafter's Castle, Fusion (just the photo), Retro Rubber (leaf & sentiment over 3 yrs old) & Time Out.


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