using up gelli prints

Needed a masculine 25th birthday card (for DS's friend). Enter my gelli print stash. And a cover plate die. I revisited a design I really like.

Neat and Tangled Inlaid Squares die

Klartext Herzlichen Gluckwünsch stamp

STAMPlorations Numbers Plate die

Kelly Purkey Follow Your Heart die

gelli print, vellum, silver embossing powder

I love these geometric patterns. And I love them paired with artsy, fartsy gelli prints. What do you think? And you can't beat silver embossing powder for masculining up a card.

I'm hooking up at:
Papercraft Challenges - Heat or Dry Embossing

Always Fun Challenges - Card for a Friend

SSS Wednesday - Love is in the air (card #2)

simon says stamp classic bicycle - girly version

Have you checked out Simon Says Stamp Good Vibes release?

I've got two cards made with one of the fun dies from this release - Classic Bicycle. Today's are fun and feminine fantasy bikes. Wouldn't you have loved a watercolor bike as a kid? Heck, even today!

Simon Says Stamp Classic Bicycle die

Kelly Purkey Follow your Heart die

Hero Arts Party Time stamp

distress inks

Studio Calico PP

To create my fantasy bike I first pulled out a watercolored-with-leftover-Easter-egg-dye piece (I used the lower left panel in the photo on that blog post!) and die cut the bike from it. Then I decided to perch a fun-loving poodle on it and fill up the white space with a giant sentiment, cut from the same watercolored piece. Basta.

For the next card I die cut the bike from Neenah CS and Copic colored it with a fantasy pattern in pink, purple and yellow. Right down to those thingies on the spokes... What were they called?

Simon Says Stamp Classic Bicycle die

Simon Says Stamp Tilted Banners stamp and die

Spellbinders Wreath die

Copics

white embossing powder

 As if it wasn't already girly enough - how about that debossed heart BG on the white panel ;)

Thanks for visiting. Come back tomorrow for my rainbow versions ...
And be sure to check out the Simon Says Stamp blog for the release blog hop today.

I'm playing at:
The Paper Girls - Bicycles
Cuttlebug Mania - Summer is Magic
Die Cuttin Divas - Embossing - Heat or Dry
Happy Little Stampers - June AG with Dies

twofer card challenge - hearts

It's taken a while, but I've got an entry for this month's Twofer Card Challenge. This month we're to use hearts. Ready for my twofer?

STAMPlorations Clustered Hearts die

Kelly Purkey Ampersand die

Honey Bee Grunge Alphabet stamp

We R Memory Keepers Gemstone embossing folder

Heidi Swapp gold spray ink

See the cluster of hearts? Pretty normal that they make an appearance on a wedding card, right? Even if they're not only die cut, but also embossed. So here's my second make.

STAMPlorations Clustered Hearts die

STAMPlorations Layered Snowman stamp

STAMPlorations Party Time stamp

Memory Box Branch die

It's a birthday card with a whole slew of chickies sending wishes. Recognize their faces - yep those are carrol noses actually, from Layered Snowman. To tell you the truth, this card was already made for the March CUTplorations challenge (which is on a temporary winter break) where this was going to be the challenge graphic ;) Probably makes more sense now, eh?!?

How nice that the Twofer girls chose hearts for their theme this month!

Oops - still have to learn that I need a shot of both cards in one photo. Improvising here...

I'm also playing at:

AAA Cards - Only Die Cuts

ATSAM - #279 CAS

Happy Little Stampers CAS - Hearts

Memory Box - Hearts (2nd card)

Cards in Envy - Give it some Heart

Watercooler Wednesday - All About Occasions

Die Cut Divas - Love is in the Air

kaleidoscope 3 and 4

I've been playing more with this Simon Says Stamp "kaleidoscope" BG (did you see this card and this card?) and finally pulled out some colored pencils to color it!

Kaleidoscope

If you own this stamp, you probably never have to buy another coloring book. No kidding. SO many ways to color it. I'd cut a stamped panel in half, thinking I'd try a couple coloring variations. I grabbed a new, cheap colored pencil set I picked up at Aldi and set out without a plan. Well, OK, my plan was to use rainbow colors.

This stamp is amazing. Reminds me of those autostereogram books that were out years back - you stared at/through some mess of dots and suddenly you'd see some 3D image. I stared at it for a bit and picked a grouping of 6 elements (I saw a flower) and set about coloring them ROYGBV. When that was complete I colored the open spaces gray and added some gold glitter gel pen highlights. This resulted.

See the gold glitter gel pen highlights? The sentiment, BTW, is Kelly Purkey Follow Your Heart. Old.

Cuz I think it's so interesting to "search" this pattern for mini patterns, here are a couple my eye found. I've tried to point to the pattern.

A bunch of bells pointing upwards and meeting in the middle.

Could be bells, or I chose to see flower petals, opening up to reveal a gem in the middle.

Hexagons. One after the other.

Fun stuff, eh? Well then I decided I wanted to color and leave more white space. So this next card happened. Can you tell which "element" I chose to start coloring first? Hint: I started with yellow, orange, red, pink. But then I grabbed blues. Yeah whatever.

If you look closely (if your eye will stay still enough) you can see three triangular areas colored with red tones. And with a yellow center.

After coloring those - BTW, you do have to concentrate when coloring this way! Glad I used colored pencil cuz mistakes could be erased! - I colored some of the remaining elements and ended up with some upside down white triangular areas too.

And here too I added a little bit of gold gel pen for sparkly interest. This sentiment is from Hero Arts Type.

Hope you enjoyed. Have a great week.

I'm playing at:
Simon Says Stamp flickr challenge #81 - Anything Goes
Addicted to CAS - #121

Addicted to Stamps and More - #262

you've got this (Curtain Call, KIS)

Happy first anniversary to Curtain Call! Do you play over there? They always have the most beautiful inspiration photos and great design work from the team. And this time the theme is Anything Goes AND  there are lots of prizes to celebrate. I'm in :)

How can you not love all that white space? (How can you not love all that storage space? I'll keep dreamin') I picked up on the touches of pink and made a card of encouragement.

Stamped trees onto panel of CS using Distress Inks spritzed with water.  Stamped sentiments. Die cut ampersand from cereal box and used it to dry emboss the panel. Highlighted ampersand with Wink of Stella for a bit of glimmer. Punched a hole and threaded the ribbon. Made a pocket of vellum by stitching it to the card. Even added a bit of PP to the inside a la Kelly G.

I'm also joining the fun at Keep it Simple #44 where it's about bows!

We've got wonderful (read: hot) summer weather at the moment. Out to enjoy it. Happy weekend all.

Supplies for you've got this:

Paper:  CS Bringmann, vellum, PP Pink Petticoat

Stamps: CASual Fridays

Ink : Distress, Versafine

Tools: corner rounder, sewing machine, die Kelly Purkey

Other: ribbon

STAMPlorations sketch #12

Sharing a card with you for the latest sketch challenge over at STAMPlorations which was actually a submission call reject which just happens to fit the bill for sketch #12.  Love it when that happens ;)

Presenting the sketch...

And my shimmery, glimmery card...

The submission call category was Art Deco.  I used some other stamps for the peacock feathers and glam BG (stamped with Perfect Medium and then covered with Perfect Pearls like here), but the font of the sentiments in VIGNETTE: Art Deco Border Builders is the perfect font for Art Deco style creations, don't you agree?

I heat embossed the sentiment in gold onto some tiny black die cuts and attached them as well as one cut from turquoise shimmer CS with a brad and some twirly metallic thread wisps. Kinda see the sketch if you mirror image it?

Check out what our guest designer, Debbie created, as well as the STAMPlorations DT.  Show us what you've come up with.  As always, there are prizes up for grabs!  Sketch Challenge #12 ends on May 30.

Appreciate your visit.

Supplies for hello you

Paper:  CS Bringmann, shimmer CS DCWV

Stamps: BG Impression Obsession, feather Kelly Purkey, sentiment STAMPlorations

Ink : Perfect Medium, Versamark

Tools: paintbrush, Christmas tree die SSS

Other: Perfect Pearls, brad Basic Grey, thread