Hoosier Cabinet Thinking of You Card

 Hello Crafters! I decided to make another rust and yellow Fall card. I've had the Honey Bee Stamps Hoosier Cabinet Die Set for a while but this is the first time I'm using it. I'm in love with this set and 5x7 cards are becoming my favorite size to make. 

I wanted to create a background for the cabinet that looked like old-fashioned wallpaper and a wood floor. The wallpaper was created using Honey Bee Stamps Damask Background Stencil (something else from my stash that's gone unused until now) and Gina K Designs Sweet Corn & Lemon Drop inks. To create the floor, I inked up a wood grain embossing folder from Crafter's Companion with GKD Faded Brick ink, placed a panel of white cardstock in it then ran it through my Platinum 6. Then I took a narrow strip of white cardstock and embossed lines on it with my score board and adhered it between the wallpaper and wood floor.

After die cutting the cabinet with Faded Brick cardstock, I ran it through the same embossing folder to give it that woodgrain look. The rest of the cabinet pieces (doors & drawers) were also die cut with Faded Brick cardstock. To create the panel behind the doors and the shelf I used the Honey Bee Stamps stencil Baking Spirits Bright and inked it with GKD Warm Cocoa ink and then inked Sweet Corn ink on top of that. 

All of the little details (dishes, pot holders, mixer, trim, etc) were die cut using Sweet Corn, Kraft & Faded Brick cardstock. The cookie jar behind the lower right door was die cut using vellum on top of the Sweet Corn star shaped 'cookies'.

I used GKD Ruffled Blooms Poly-Glaze and die for the sentiment. It was foiled with 14 Carat Gold foil and my Fuse Foiling System. It's really hard to get a good photo of the shine of the foiled sentiment.

For the inside of my card I cut a panel of white cardstock with a Waffle Flower scalloped die and inked the edges with Sweet Corn ink. I had extra die cut pieces from the Hoosier Cabinet set and adhered them to a strip of Faded Brick cardstock then adhered that to the scalloped panel.

 I am also adding this card to The Color Hues Challenge #119 - Rust & Yellow.

Thank you for visiting! Until next time, Happy Crafting!

An Autumn Thinking of You Card

 Hello Crafters! I'm back with an Autumn themed Thinking of You card. 

All of the flowers were inked and die cut with two Pinkfresh Studio sets - Fresh Florals and Floral Frenzy stencil and die sets - and dies from Gina K Designs - Autumn Leaves, Botanical Duo & Foliage Fillers. (The Floral Frenzy was part of a PFS Create & Connect cardmaking event that I took in August and it may be an exclusive set). After inking all of my florals and leaves with GKD Faded Brick, Sweet Corn & Wild Dandelion inks I die cut everything out and layered them in an offset circle on top of a panel of Spellbinders Beeswax cardstock that I ran through my die cutting machine with Honey Bee Stamps Waves Pierced A2 Cover Plate. 

The sentiment is from Thoughtful Flowers Poly-Glaze & Die set that I foiled in 14 Carat Gold foil with my Fuse Foiling System, all from Gina K Designs. I adhered the finished panel to a top folding card base of GKD Faded Brick cardstock and added gold metallic pearls from PFS to finish it off.

I even finished the card on the inside with another panel of the Beeswax cardstock and some extra die cut leaves. And while I was at it, I added a die cut leaf that I also inked up.

I'm adding this card to the Rust and Yellow Card Challenge at The Color Hues Challenge Blog #119

Thanks for stopping by! Until next time, Happy Crafting!

Full Moon Silhouette Birthday Card

Hello Crafters! I can't believe that I've neglected my poor blog for such a long time but sometimes life just gets in the way. We went on an Alaska cruise which was incredibly beautiful and now it's something that we can check off of our bucket list and another state visited leaving just 7 more to go! Plus our "little" girl got married earlier this year which took up a lot of time planning during the last couple of years but it was so much fun! It was such a joyful wedding and she was such a gorgeous bride! Now I have a little more time to craft. It has taken me some time to get organized again and get my mojo back after a long hiatus but I had to start somewhere. And what better way than to finally use some of the crafting supplies that I've been buying, um collecting, all of these past months. 

The first set I pulled out was Harvest of Happiness from Gina K. Designs. I needed a birthday card for my son but I have some trouble creating masculine cards. So I 'CASED' a card created by Gina K herself! This is a 5x7 card.

I used the moon stamp in Harvest of Happiness and the largest part of the GKD Masked Circle Stencil to create a moon using GKD Sweet Corn & Pinkfresh Studio Bay Leaf ink colors. Then using the smaller part of the circle stencil over the moon, I ink blended GKD Turquoise Sea, Bubblegum Pink, Peach Bellini, Wild Lilac, Blue Denim, In The Navy, PFS Sapphire & Stargazer ink colors to create the night sky over GKD Blue Denim cardstock. I used VersaFine Clair Nocturne ink to stamp the silhouette branches twice over the moon and the silhouette background image from the GKD Friendly Silhouettes stamp set at the bottom of the card. To add the "stars", I splattered white gauche paint mixed with a little water with a paint brush over the entire card. After drying I die cut the panel and a piece of white cardstock with GKD Master Layout #8 and layered the two then adhered those onto a side folded 5x7 card base. The 'Happy Birthday' sentiment strip is from Mixed Messages Sentiment Sheet from GKD which I adhered to my card with dimensional foam tape.

I'm really trying to do a better job of making the inside of my cards as nice as the outside so I stamped a sentiment from the GKD Birthday Greetings stamp set and also stamped the same silhouette branches from the front of the card also on the inside.

Well that's all for today. I'll be back soon to share more cards that I've made recently. 

Until next time, Happy Crafting!