The Cuttlebug Spot- Spring is in the Air

Hello it is time for another The Cuttlebug Spot challenge. The theme this time is Spring is in the air.

When I see daffodils for the first time each year I know that Spring is close so I knew I wanted to use them on my card. I love yellow and green together and it makes for a great color combo with the daffodils. I also used this week sketch from Card Positioning Systems.  Make sure to head over to The Cuttlebug Spot to see the gorgeous creations from my team mates.  I hope you can play along.  Thank you for stopping by. 
 
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Card details

Stamps: Sending Sunshine, Spring has Sprung-Gina K Designs

Paper: Basic Grey Origins, GKD Pure Luxury

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, dandelion

Copics: Y11, Y13, Y15, YG93, YG95

Other: Nestabilities, cuttlebug, brads

Sending you Sunshine

Hello and Happy Memorial weekend to all in the US.  I have a super short post for you this morning as my DH is taking me out to breakfast ans is waiting ever so patiently on me to get this posted. A few weeks back O bought some sticky back canvas ATC's and couldn't wait to try coloring with copics on it.  It didn't come out as well as I had hoped, the copisc tend to bleed.  After coloring the daffodils I was stumped on how tomake it into a card.  So this image has been sitting on my craft table just waiting to be made into to something.  For some reason in the photo I noticed that the pearls don't look straight, I assure you that they are.  I managed to work in four challenges into this card which I have listed below.   One of the challenges is a shabby chic card, well this is not my style and I really struggle with it.  I am not so sure that this is very close at all, but it is what it is.  I hope you have a  fabulous weekend.  Thank you for stopping by.

Challenges

1. StampTV: Shabby Chic
2. SplitCoast Stampers: Inspiration Here what I used for my inspiration
3. Card Positioning Systems- Sketch
4. StampSomething- Something Sentimental

Card Details

Stamps: Sending Sunshine Gina K Designs

Paper: pure luxury, basic grey urban prairie

Ink: memento tuxedo black

Other: doily, pearls,  ribbon twine

A fun new challenge

About a month ago a new challenge blog started called Desert Islands Crafts Challenge.  It sounded fun to me so I gave it a try.  The challenges are based on an itinerary of ten items.  For you project you need to use at least three of the items on the itinerary.  Well, I was the lucky winner of the first challenge.  What did I win you ask?  I get to pick the itinerary for a future challenge.  This happens to be my week.  Here are my ten itinerary items.

1.   Make it Square
2.   Inspired by Nature
3.   Handmade flower
4.   Hand colored image
5.   2 or more patterned papers
6.   Pearls
7.   Twine
8.   No sentiment on the front
9.   Distressing
10. Birthday Theme

Here is the card I made

I was able to work in seven items on the itinerary. Make it square, inspired by nature, hand colored image, two or more patterned papers, pearls, twine (mine is bakers twine), and no sentiment on the front. I hope you are intrigued by this new challenge and want to give it a try. 


I am also entering this card in the the following challneges

1. StampTV- color, creme de menthe, lemon drop, red hot
2. Crazy 4 Challenges- Use Flowers
3. One Stop Craft Challenge- Spring Flowers
4. Stamp Something- Flowers
5. Creative Inspirations- In the garden

Thank you for stopping by.




Card Details
Stamps:Sending you Sunshine, A Beautiful Life Gina K Designs
Paper: creme de menthe, lemon drop, red hot -GKD, Basic Grey Origins
Ink: memento tuxedo black
Other: pearls, bakers twine, button

Happy Wednesday!!!!  First off I have to say that you all have made some of the most beautiful projects for last weeks challenge.  Thank you to all who played along, I am so glad you liked that wonderful bright room and were able to find inspiration in it.

For this week I took to the outdoors with a beautiful photo from a Bed and Breakfast.

Here is  the site that I found this beauty it is a registry for Bed and Breakfast Inns called Pamela Lanier's Bed and Breakfast Inns.

I was so inspired by this photo that I made two cards to share with you.  For the first one I made a more complicated card with a scene.  I was inspired by the path with the mossy ground and fallen leaves/flowers.

Stamps: The Journey, Sending You Sunshine, Enjoy The Sunshine
Paper: Pure Luxury Heavy weight Ivory, Fresh Asparagus
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Summer Sun, new Sprout, Bamboo Leaves, copics


Next I made a much more simple card and used the red/pink flowers in the photo for my inspiration.

Stamps: Enjoy The Sunshine
Paper: Pure Luxury Heavy Weight White, Lipstick Red, Basic Grey Nook And Pantry
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, copics

I look forward to seeing how this photo inspires you.

Here is a link to the gallery stvinspirebt3

Please upload your creation to the STV gallery, using the tag STVINSPIREBT3. You do not need to use Gina K Designs stamps to participate,
although

we'd love it if you did! In fact, if you use Gina K Stamps in your

entry, that your name will be added to the prize drawing TWICE! Please

be sure to create a new project for the challenge versus linking

up something you've created before.  You have until next Tuesday June 22, at 8pm CST, to upload your sample. One winner will be drawn at

random to win a Gina K stamp set valued at $24.95 or less!

In order to be included in the

random drawing for a free GKD stamp set, please create a new card (or

project) for each challenge that you participate in. Using one card for

multiple challenges is not permitted.  Please read the challenge specifications

carefully as only those that follow the challenge closely will be put

into the drawing for the prize.

Sending You Sunshine

I finally had time to stamp last night and today.  I have to say that I really needed some creative time after a hard week at work.  Dang it was good to get inky again.  So for my card today I combined a couple of challenges as I like to do.  The first one is for Card Positioning Systems sketch #170.  The second one is for Linda's Blast from the Past challenge on StampTV to use colored pencils and OMS.  Finally the last challenge is for Stamp Something's Happy Something's.  It was nice to get my colored pencils out again and use them, since I started getting Copics I have neglected my pencils.  Card details below.  I will be back later today or tomorrow with another card.  Thank you for stopping by.

Card Details

Stamps: Sending Sunshine- Gina K Designs

Paper: pure luxury grass green, wild dandelion, DP fro StampTV kit Enjoy the Sunshine

Ink: memento tuxedo black

Other: primsa pencils, oms, brads, scallop border punch

Just Us Girls DT Try Out

They are having a Design Team call for Just Us Girls and this is my entry.  The challenge is to make an item using a template and a card using the sketch they provided.  I used Sending Sunshine from Gina K Designs for my card and Slip Cover box template from My Time Made Easy. I have all of the supplies used listed below.

For the images on both the card and the box I started by stamping the daffodils and coloring them with copics.  Then I masked them and using post it notes I masked off for the horizon and sponged the sky and then flipped the post its and sponged the ground.  The foliage was added last by inking with bamboo leaves and stamping off two times before stamping on my image panel.  The butterflies were added last and inked with danube blue and stamped off twice before stamping on the image panel.

The template for the slider box can be found here at My Time Made Easy.  Wow if you have never tried one of these templates you should.  The download is very fast and easy, plus they are very reasonable priced.  The box was fast and easy to put together.  All I did was add the stamped panel and some ribbon with a button accent. Thank you for stopping by.

I am also entering this card and box into a few challenges. First for Clearly i Stamp to create a project using flowers.  The second challenge is for Gina's inspiration challenge on StampTV.  Finally for the Speedy the Cats Friends challenge #2 over on  Mark's Finest Papers, to use a corner punch on your card.


Card/Box Details

Stamps: Sending Sunshine, Eclectic Summer-Gina K

Paper: Pure luxury white, fresh aspargus, lemon drop

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, summer sky, cantaloupe, danube blue, bamboo leaves

Copics: Y000, Y13, Y15, YG03, YG63

Other: nestablities, cuttlebug, ribbon, floss, button, brads, crop-a-dile corner chomper

May Flowers

I made my first card for VSN on SplitCoast Stampers!!  Theresa is hosting a challenge called May Flowers, to pop up you flower.  Easy enough, except you have to make your card in 45 minutes or less.  For me that can be a problem, I often take hours to make a card.  This time though I did some planning before I started and wow it helped I finished just in time and managed to squeeze one other challenge in.  By starting with the sketch challenge from CPS (cps163) I was about it really speed it up.  I will be doing more of these challenges what a fun way to get and get a card done.
 Here is a close up of the popped up flowers.

I would like to thank everyone for the well wishes.  My allergies are starting to ease up which is helping me to feel better.  Thank you so much for stopping by.

Card Details

Stamps: Sending you Sunshine- Gina K Designs

Paper: lemon drop, fresh asparagus, Basic Grey Origins

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, cantaloupe, copics

Copics:Y11, Y13, Y15, YG63, YG67

Other: ribbon

Sending you Sunshine

So I have another card that fits several challenges (which I have listed below).  I had a lot of fun making this card and I love how Spring like it is.  It is late and my allergies are in full swing so I am not feeling the best, so I am keeping this very short.  I hope all is well with everyone.  Thank you for stopping by.

1. Just Us Girls: Color Challenge -, pink, green, lavender with an option of yellow
2. Res-Q Challenge: to use pastels and an image that makes you smile with an option foo some bling
3. The Creative Cottage Challenge: Things with Wings
4. KL Stampin n' Scrappin: Bling it On
5. One Stop Craft Challenge: Things with Wings
6. Our Creative Corner: Butterflies
7. Pile It On: Spring plus at least one other challenge
8. SCS: TLC269: Paper Piercing
9. Stamp Something: Layers

Card Details

Stamps: Special Delivery, Spring Has Sprung, Sending Sunshine-Gina K Designs

Paper: certainly celery, basic gray, Basic Grey Sugar Rush

Ink: memento tuxedo black, new sprout, copics

Copics: BV00, RV21, RV25, V17, Y11, Y15, Y17

Other: ribbon, pearls, decorative straight pins, button, embroidery floss

Bambi Inspired

Second post today for my Are You My Mother post scroll down.

As a stated in my last post Gina has a challenge on StampTV  for a guest spot for the next stamp release.  This is my second card for the challenge.  The challenge is to use a stamp set from the last release and a favorite childhood book as inspiration. For this card I was inspired by the Disney Classic Bambi.  I used Theresa's latest set Sending Sunshine. 

I used this photo for my inspiration.

 

Card Details

Stamps: Sending Sunshine Gina K Designs

Paper: fresh asparagus, lemon drop, black onyx, Basic Grey Koshi

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, summer sky, new sprout, copics

Copics: BV00. BV11, C5, E31, E33, E35, E57, V17, YG41, YG63, YG67

Other: MS butterfly punch

Happy Spring

I made this for last weeks color challenge on StampTV to use green purple and white.  I just got my stamps from the last release from Gina K Designs.  This set  is called Sending Sunshine illustrated by Theresa Momber.  This tree reminds me of the tree that was in from of my Great Grandmothers house when I was growing up.  It makes me want to sit under it and drink some lemonade.  Thank you for stopping by.

Card Details

Stamps: Sending Sunshine Gina K Designs

Paper: fresh asparagus, lovely  lavender

Ink: memento tuxedo black, dandelion, copics

Copics:BV11, E31, E35, E37, G24, V17, YG67

Other: cuttlebug, nestabilities, paper piercer