Shine Bright

 I have been struggling to get into Christmas cards this year... but seemed to break through my block by creating a bunch of bold rainbow themed Christmas projects today!  I was inspired by the Shine Bright stamp set from Pigment Craft Co., and knew that I had the Lawn Fawn Really Rainbow Christmas paper pack from a few years ago...

I used Festive Berries, Wild Honey, Mowed Lawn, Broken China and Shaded Lilac Distress Oxide inks, applied directly to my stamps with sponge dawbers and the help of my Misti.  I got an assembly line going and created panels for four cards.

I loved the look so much, that I die cut six tags with the Ai tag die, and stamped the same design.  My Glossy Accents was a little thick, but if I can get it flowing again, I may add it to the lights.

Before assembling my cards, I cut tag bases out of the coloured paper, and used the Snowflake and Quirky Owl Ephemera packs from Simply Stated Design (they're Canadian!) to put together four smaller tags.  I used my Lawn Fawn Tiny Christmas Tags for a small accent, and stamped them with holiday sayings.

Ten tags and four cards created today!  My stash is building...  *You can find Lawn Fawn, Distress Inks and Simply Stated Design products at the Papercrafter's Workshop

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Lots of Love Pumpkin card

My third card with the September Betterpress Society plate "Raining Pumpkins" from Spellbinders was designed as I went along.

I started by inking up the plate with Antique Linen ink, and Vintage Photo around the edges.  After pressing, I used the coordinating stencils to colour in the pumpkins with Dried Marigold, Antique Linen and Mowed Lawn.  I wasn't all that thrilled with the result, I thought the center area didn't have enough contrast.  While searching for something else, I came across this oval vellum diecut, and thought that it just might work on this card.

I die cut the Lots of Love sentiment from Pinkfresh Studio in brushed gold cardstock from the Spellbinders Treasured Gold cardstock pack, and mounted it on Chocolate cardstock  I was able to hide my adhesive behind the words, and attached the vellum to my panel.  A few gold pearls finished it off - I'm very happy with the end result!

You can get a subscription to the Betterpress Society through the Papercrafter's Workshop.

Raining Pumpkins

The September Betterpress Society plate from Spellbinders was called "Raining Pumpkins", and was this fun, full coverage plate of (you guessed it!) pumpkins, that are raining or floating.  I used it as a chance to create some fun ink blended backgrounds, so created two versions using the same colours:

For the first card, I used Distress Oxide inks (Ground Espresso/Aged Mahogany/Antique Linen/Crushed Olive/Peeled Paint) on a piece of Bisque Cotton Card, blending from the upper left corner, to the bottom right.  Then I spattered the panel with water to create the fun oxidization effect, and also spattered with some Ground Espresso ink.  The plate was inked up with Ground Espresso and pressed.

For the second card, I did the same blend, but this time did my ink blending on the press plate itself, then pressed it onto a piece of regular cream cardstock.  This left the pumpkins uncoloured, and created a lovely, colourful background.  The ink comes out a little more vibrant on the cardstock.  I used the coordinating stencil to ink in the stems using some Peeled Paint ink.

Both cards were mounted onto card bases, and a sentiment from the You Are Everything set of Press plates was added, and I die cut the same shapes out of glitter cardstock and mounted it behind them.  A few brown jewels added some extra glimmer.

You can get a subscription to the Betterpress Society through the Papercrafter's Workshop.

Blue & Gold Pigment Craft Co.

I picked up a few more Pigment Craft Co. stamp sets this summer, and have pulled out a few of them to put together a couple of cards today.  This is Modern Poinsettia, Winter Sprig and Festive Floral.

Shout out to Michelle Ferguson for the colour inspiration/design idea.  She does some beautiful work with the Pigment Craft Co. products.

Sentiments are the It's Your Day Betterpress set from Spellbinders, pressed on their Treasured Gold brushed cardstock.

Layered Leaf Sunset

I made another silhouette style card using the August Betterpress Society plates "Layered Leaf Prints".  This time I did a landscape orientation, and used a Bisque Cotton Card panel to do my ink blend.

I used Distress Oxide inks: Faded Jeans, Wild Honey and Spiced Marmalade to create a sort-of soft, moody sunset.  I used the three leaf plates from the main set, and the two from the monthly add-on set, all pressed with Betterpress Black ink.

There are four really wonderful sentiments included this month, so I added the little Thinking of You to the top corner.  I think this would make a great sympathy card, but could still work as a birthday card maybe with a little bling added.

You can get a Betterpress Society subscription by contacting the Papercrafter's Workshop.

Hello.

I am using a new-to-me set from Pigment Craft Co. that I recently purchased.  This is the Spring Floral stamp set along with the Dashing Sentiments.  The base is an Altenew piercing plate.  I don't own the matching dies, so yes - this was a lot of fussy cutting!

I have been using a lot of navy in my projects over the past while!  It still seems to be something I gravitate to - even on my fall projects.  I used Distress Oxide inks for my stamping, and then added some shading with Copic markers.

A few of the flowers were mounted partially/totally with 3D foam adhesive, and a few brown jewels were sprinkled around.  The Hello sentiment was doubled up before being adhered to my base.

More Betterpress Peacocks!

 I have two more cards using the Betterpress Society's May press plate: Peacock.

This card was pressed onto a Spellbinders Pebble Cotton Card panel.  For both of my cards I used four Distress Oxide inks, that I blended directly on the plate: Blueprint Sketch, Mermaid Lagoon, Peacock Feathers and Twisted Citron.

My sentiments were pressed with Betterpress Black ink.

This card was pressed onto a Bisque (off-white) cotton card panel, and ink blended in the same fashion as my previous card.  A few irridescent gems finished it off.

After my photos were taken, I trimmed off 1/8" around the panel, and mounted it on a dark blue cardstock panel, as I liked the contrast of the first card.

You can sign up for a Betterpress Society membership by contacting the Papercrafter's Workshop.

Jumbo Berry

My Strawberry obsession continues!  This is the Jumbo Berry set from Pigment Craft Company... and I just adore the scale of this.  When I create, I like to make multiples once all my supplies are out, so I've got four A2 sized cards, all with just slight variations.

 I used the sentiment from Latte Heart Elements, which I think is really cute.  I had a few of the white die cut flowers leftover from my previous berry cards, so I tucked them in on a couple of the cards.

I am playing along with this week's Color Throwdown challenge!  I haven't played in a long time, and when I spotted this week's challenge, knowing I was about to create strawberry cards - it was meant to be.

Berry Patch

 I recently bought several new (to me!) sets from Pigment Craft Company... and really wanted to use this one.  This is Berry Patch, along with Berry Sentiments.  Stamped with Distress Oxide inks, and a few Spellbinders flowers to finish it off.

Dragonfly

 A very different card from me today!  Both in colour and style.  I haven't used either of these products in a while - both are from The Greetery.  I used several Distress Oxide inks to colour the Leaves All Around stencil set, and then stencilled and die cut out the Jumbo Curiosity Dragonfly die set.

The dragonfly's body was die cut from some dark silver glitter cardstock, that was also set behind a Verve shaped die that was cut in gingham paper.  A square of pink paper was added on top, with a sentiment from Pinkfresh Studio stamped in black.

Both the gingham shape and the dragonfly are adhered down with 3D foam adhesive for a little extra dimension, and I added tiny sparkles to all of the grape clusters.  All of the card edges were darkened with a little Speckled Egg ink.

Final Oopsie Daisy

Here is the project that I showed a test run for a few days ago...  I have a nephew getting married soon, and he and his new wife are very supportive of my cardmaking hobby - so I've made them a set of 10 thank you cards, just because.

I worked the kinks out with my practise card, making sure that the layout worked, and then I adjusted my colour combo.  I used about 10 different Distress Oxide inks, on all my different pieces, and did the flower centers with Copic markers.

Stamp sets are all from The Greetery: Oopsie Daisy, Petite Eucalyptus and Seed Catalogue Background.  The Fit to be Tied die is from them also.  The sentiment is an old CTMH set.

I distressed the edges of the card front so that they're a little curled and frayed, which I thought suited the look.  I debated on adding a little blind, but didn't end up going there.