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!

I Am the Guest Designer @ Color Hues Challenge #25

Hello Crafters! Today I have the honor and privilege to be the Guest Designer on the Color Hues Blog! They always have wonderful challenges and pick a winner at the end of the Challenge BUT....since this is Color Hues One Year Anniversary they will be celebrating by picking TWO winners instead of one!

How exciting is that! 

I love butterflies so I knew that I wanted to create them in these two colors with my Pinkfresh Studio Butterflies Stamp, Layering Stencils and Die and create a slimline card.

I made my background layer first by cutting a panel of Gina K Designs white cardstock with a slimline die for the top of my card. After that I die cut a lot of the PFS Leafy Branch Die also in white and glued them down over my white layer to make my own background paper. I then die cut this panel at the top right side and the bottom left side with the PFS Stitched Scallop Circle Die. I let the die hang over the sides of the card a bit before I starting cutting. I die cut a couple more of the circle dies and adhered them under the die cuts from the background layer to give them some dimension. I then dusted them very lightly with my yellow & orange blending brushes (without putting anymore ink on them) to give them a little color. I glued them back onto the background layer along the center part of the circle.

Next I made my Butterflies. These are some the easiest butterflies to put together! For this set there are five different stencils to create these butterflies. For each stencil just pick a color and start blending. I picked Lemon Drop, Sweet Mango, Tangerine Twist, Peach Bellini and Charcoal Brown from Gina K Designs. I also used Peach Fuzz, Marigold and Apricot from Pinkfresh Studio. I actually made two sets of the butterflies — one a tiny bit lighter than the other.

After all of Butterflies were stenciled, I placed them in my MISTI and stamped them in either Chocolate Brown or Kraft. I then re-stamped them again in VersaMark and heat embossed them with GKD Clear Embossing powder. I placed a lot of pop dots under the wings of the butterflies to make them look like they were fluttering in the air! There are two sets of stenciled butterflies and a layer of the same butterfly die cut in vellum so each has three total layers!

For the die cut sentiment I took a small piece of white cardstock and with my blending brushes I inked up the bottom half of the paper with yellow (Wild Dandelion) ink and the top part with orange (Sweet Mango) ink and blended the two colors together towards the middle. Once it was dry I die cut the word "Grateful" out of it and then die cut the sentiment two more times and adhered all three layers together for more dimension. I stamped the words "For You" on a piece of Sweet Mango cardstock and cut it out with a die cut banner. The sentiment die, cardstock and ink are all from Gina K Designs.

The last thing that I did was adhere the top layer to a piece of Sweet Mango cardstock that was die cut from a scalloped slimline die set from Gina Marie Designs and then adhered everything onto a Wild Dandelion card base. I also added jewels on the butterflies backs with Clear Jewels from Katscappiness and yellow & orange jewels from Queen & Company.

I truly hope that you have enjoyed my card today. I feel so honored to share it with you all.

Please feel to play along with this Yellow and Orange Challenge over at Color Hues!

Thank you for visiting my blog today! 

And until next time, Happy Crafting!

Winner of the Color Hues Challenge!!!

 I am so thrilled!!! I am the winner of the Color Hues Challenge - #23 Yellow & Pink! It is an honor that my card was chosen among so many beautiful cards that were submitted to the challenge. I have been asked to be a Guest Designer on the Color Hues Challenge Blog next month. This is very exciting and I am eager to share my card for the new challenge!

Here is my card that was chosen:

Make sure to look for my post at the beginning of September for my Guest Designer spot on the Color Hues Challenge Blog! Thanks for visiting and until next time, Happy Crafting!

Color Hues Yellow & Pink Challenge #23 and Honey Bee Stamps Coneflower

Hello Crafters! I've decided to take on a few card challenges and the first one is over at Color Hues. Their challenge is to use Yellow & Pink as the focal color.

As soon as I saw this challenge I knew immediately that I wanted to create something with my new Coneflower dies from Honey Bee Stamps! I love this set and it's so hard to not want to grab it each time that I want to make a card. Here is my card!

I die cut the flower from Gina K Designs heavyweight white cardstock and blended GKD Wild Dandelion, Sweet Corn, Prickly Pear, Dusty Rose and Passionate Pink inks onto the six different layers of the flower and adhered them together. I popped the petals up using pop dots. 

I used a stencil from A Colorful Life Designs and two of the yellow inks to make my own background for the card. I cut three large and three small frame dies from PinkFresh Studio and adhered them together for a little dimension and placed them on my background panel and used pop dots to adhere the coneflower in the middle. The sentiment is a stamp and die also from PinkFresh Studio that I heat embossed in gold. Gold just seemed to compliment the GKD Kraft cardstock that I cut my frames from. To finish it off, I added some yellow & pink gems from Queen & Co.

This is my first time playing along with the color challenge at Color Hues and I can't wait for their next challenge! 

I'll be posting more cards that I made for challenges this weekend so until next time, Happy Crafting!