Ellen's Essentials meets MFT Friend

Playing along with Ellen's Mix it up Challenge this morning...

I sponged distress inks onto a bristol card front using Squeezed Lemonade, Spiced Marmalade, Picked Raspberry and Dusty Concord and then die cut the MFT Friend and cut off the attached top portion.  I then used the same colours and applied direct to strips of W/C card, let dry and then used Ellen's Essentials Wild Garden dies to cut the floral parts.  They are arranged onto the sponged panel and as backdrop to the Friend die.  The sentiment is from an older and I think now retired MFT stamp set called IB-Spring.

That's all for today...

Thanks for dropping by :)

Chriss

Hello Friend

Hello again!  This is a second post for me today.  Another friend, the talented and card perfectionist extraordinaire, Anita of My Papercraft World is also on a design team and this would be for Time Out challenges.  

This challenge #22 had an element in it that was on my wavelength today.  Still feeling groovy from my previous post this morning, my eye spied the gorgeous floral pillow and I happened to have a colourful page of Basic Grey "Lime Rickey" out on a shelf...

All of the DT cards are lovely as are the cards submitted so far.  So many great elements in this photo to take a cue from and I wanted to also include the red hello and wood element.  As it happens, I have accentuated another heart and I am considering this to be my "Second Cup" for the MUSE challenge #100.  

No song title this time.

Thanks for stopping in and taking a peek!

Hugs-Chriss

Muse #100

Time Out #22

Hi there! Hope your weekend is off to a fabulous start, mine is with this card that I made for the Moxie Fab World challenge "Cure for the Winter Blues Challenge in the Moxie Fab World ".  Not a colour pallette that I use often...if ever, but I wanted to play along and I was inspired by this little piece of fabric that I had on my desk.  The fabric was a little bag that I got with an Anthropologie purchase a while back when I joined a shopper club (of some sorts) and the tracker card was presented to me in the fabric bag.  I cut it into two and used one of the halves for today's card.  I stitched it onto a punched frame of sorts and layered onto a curry yellow layer and then backed it all onto the teal blue linen texture card front.  The challenge is to use navy and the two main flowers on the fabric panel are a true navy.  I used a SU punch on the canvas flowers, stamped the letters in navy ink, edged them in PTI Ocean Tides and placed foam behind each flower for some dimension.  The canvas shape at the bottom of the card was made with one of my Nestability label dies and I stamped a SU sentiment in black ink.  I added the K and Co. bird and some feathers from my stash of feathers.
I hope your winter weather is being kind to you today, the weather here in Austin is sunny!
Thanks for stopping by,
Chriss  

A friendly hello

Hello everyone.  Friday-yay!
I made another card for the Moxie Fab World die cutting challenge and this one also qualifies for the City Crafter "Back to Black" challenge to incorporate a black  silhouette (I stamped my fern frond directly onto the patterned paper).
For the die cutting part, I started with this long Cuttlebug tag die.  I cut out one in black and one other in the patterned paper and trimmed it down a slight 1/8th" all around, then sewed together with black thread.  I sewed the edges of the front panel directly to the card and then stamped the silhouette.
I used an alphabet die also from Cuttlebug and cut out the letters on some chipboard coasters and then cut out the letters again with various patterned papers.  I adhered them to the chipboard with glue and then to the tag.  I used this big button that I had in my stash (BoBunny I think)and threaded it with some silk floss.  The silk floss was quite slippery and I didn't think that the knot would hold, so I placed a dab of glue on top of the knot and sprinkled with MS black glitter.  the tag was placed onto dimensional foam and I placed it over another die cut I made using my Spellbinders eyelet square die and I stamped a PTI bold hello onto the top portion, positioning it so that the bottom part of the white cut die shape would peek out of the bottom.
That's it for now...
thanks for taking a peek,
Chriss

Friendly Miss Ladybug

A simply friendly card today, just because and poppies are a Springtime thing, so I am entering this for the SCS challenge! 

 I am feeling a little under the weather...what I thought were chigger bites turn out to be shingles.  Not the end of the world, just a touch uncomfortable and to be truthful, a little painful, but it's a beautiful day here today, 84 and sunny so I will keep calm and carry on, as that poster says.  

The patterned paper is a K and Co from a couple of years ago, still one of my favourites.  I love seeing this cream and black with a pop of colour and I chose to use red for the poppies.  I need to make a card like this with blue poppies for a friend that loves everything blue ;

  The poppy stamp is a new one that I bought at Ellen Hutson's, from the  Magenta Company.  I just stamped right onto the PTI kraft cs, coloured with a Copic marker, added some black Atyou Spica pen to the centers and layered onto this black cs frame that I made with a MS punch around set.  I removed the little ladybug from a tiny clothes peg and glued her onto the black and cream paper that I had placed on the oval frame back.  The oval frame is from Maya...love the little embellishments that they offer.  The cream and black alpha stickers are Cosmo Cricket.

Hope your week is going well and thanks for taking a peek,

Chriss

Moxie Fab World Jewel Tones color challenge for Card Makers Week

Sugar Cookie, Sunshine, Pansy, and Blue Calypso

Another Moxie Fab colour challenge, the Jewel Tones and a MoJo Monday sketch!
First of all, let me tell you that I had a difficult time capturing this card.  All of the Sugar Cookie texture is just not showing up.  I tried to shoot this in a couple of areas in the house and also took it outside.  It may have been too late in the day.  I will try to get a better photo tomorrow in the morning and I may replace it, but for now, here are the details.
I am using the Mojo Monday #175 sketch and Verve Great Friend stamp set .  I could not find Blue Calypso at Archiver's last week, so I picked up Mysterious Teal.  It looks quite dark on the screen, oh dear.  I really did enjoy making this card with the great Bazzill textures, so lovely and easy to sew into.  The Verve sentiment looks beautiful in PTI Black against this Bazzill Sugar Cookie, a real classic look.  I added some stitching to the panels and hand cut the  Sunshine and pansy coloured Verve flowers that I had stamped onto the card stock.  
Another card done, I am on a mini roll ;)
Thanks for looking,
Chriss

Dear Friend CT100!

It's the Color Throwdown's 100th!!!

This is what I came up with using THE big challenge colours.  
There is quite the party going on over at the CT blog, trust me and go check it out for yourself!  Lots of wonderful prizes, waiting to be won.
Onto my little card...the card base is Baja Breeze and I used this wonderful dp from the Cosmo Cricket Early Bird line as it has BB and Certainly Celery in this cute pattern.  I then created a center panel with BB and gave it a tiny pierced scallop border with an EK border punch.  I stitched that onto the center of the card and added this great SU sentiment and cut out with a Spellbinders Label One die, edged it in BB and popped it onto foam.  I had these great glazed Heidi Grace pieces, a button bird and a cute bird tile sitting on the window ledge that I thought would work quite well with this colour theme, so I cut out two flowers in Certainly Celery with a PTI flower die and edged these in BB.  I added the HG bird to one of the flowers and a button from my stash.  Both of these "buttons" are threaded with a length of narrow pink silk ribbon that I bought at a brand new needlework shop...today!

Here is a close up of the bird tile and the red blind pull.  That's all the red I could manage...


I have to tell you, these colours really made me work and think, but I like the way it turned out :)
Thanks for taking a peek...now go and check out this wonderful Color Throwdown Bash!


Happy 100th Color Throwdown gals!
Thanks for taking a peek,
Chriss