Navy & Lime Birthday Card

Hello Crafters! Today's card uses just two colors - Navy & Lime Green for the Color Hues Challenge and their 2nd birthday celebration. 

I used Altenew's Vintage Lace stencil and embossing folder set. This is such a fun set to use and I have been using it a lot lately. So when I saw this navy and lime challenge I knew that I wanted to create a card with it again. 

After embossing my Gina K Designs Ivory cardstock with the embossing folder, I used the stencils to add color to the embossed flower with only two ink colors - Gina K's Blue Denim and Key Lime. I started inking with a very light hand and as I changed stencils I put more and more ink color on my blending brush to achieve a gradient of color from light to dark with both the Blue Denim and Key Lime inks. 

I cut the embossed and stenciled cardstock to 5 1/2" x 3 3/4" then adhered it to a slightly wider piece of Key Lime cardstock. These layers were adhered to a piece of Blue Denim cardstock and then to an A2 card base.  Since Color Hues is celebrating their birthday I added a 'Birthday' die cut to the front of the card. I cut the Gina K word die three times and glued them together to create some dimension and adhered that to the shadow that I die cut out in vellum. I stamped the word 'Blessings' from a brand new Gina K stamp set called Doodled Autumn in Blue Denim ink onto a strip of Key Lime cardstock and glued it right under the birthday die cut. 

I added a few Soft Ivory pearls from Little Things/Lucy's Card to the front of my card. 

I had fun working on this card for the challenge. I will also be linking my card to the Color Hues sister challenge, Seize the Birthday.

Thank you for visiting and until next time, Happy Crafting!

Color Hues Challenge #47 - Gina K. Designs Daisies Forever

 Hello Crafters! I'm finally back to crafting and decided to jump right in and join a challenge at Color Hues! The challenge colors are Chocolate & Mint so I created this card.

I started by hot foiling a piece of Hammermill cardstock with some Spellbinders hot foil and Simon Says Stamp Intricate Floral Background Hot Foil Plate on my Spellbinders Glimmer Hot Foil machine. I'm pretty new to hot foiling and even though there's a small learning curve, I love foiling everything now with my Glimmer machine. After cutting my foiled cardstock with a Waffle Flower A2 die, I ink blended the edges with Gina K Designs Applemint ink. I then layered it on a piece of GKD cardstock in Dark Chocolate and placed all of these on a top folding card base made with GKD Heavyweight white cardstock.

I used my new Gina K Designs Daisies Forever Layering Stencil Bundle to create the daisies in mint shades using GKD Applemint, Pinkfresh Studio Fresh Pear & Catherine Pooler In the Park inks for the petals and GKD Warm Cocoa, Dark Chocolate & Charcoal Brown inks for the flower centers. After die cutting the flowers out I added a little detail with a Gelly Roll white gel pen and a little Wink of Stella. 

I layered the flowers onto the front of my card with foam adhesive and placed leaves that I die cut using two different dies from Gina K Designs - Foliage Fillers and Botanical Duo - cut from Applemint cardstock. The sentiment is hot foiled with Spellbinders Sentiments Hot Foil Plate Set & Espresso Beam foil and I die cut it with Lawn Fawn's Everyday Sentiment Banners die. I finished my card off with some Queen & Company jewels. 

It's hard to see the glimmer of the foil in the photos but hot foiling adds beautiful and amazing detail!

 I am so hooked! 😁

Here's the link to the Color Hues Chocolate and Mint Challenge.

Thank you for visiting and until next time, Happy Crafting!