To make this card, I pulled out an old MFT stamp set called Sushi Date and chose these few stamps from the set. This was intended to be a one layer card, but I made a small mistake in stamping so used the lantern die to cover it up. Everything else was stamped and coloured using inks and pencils. I stamped everything through a circle template and added some brushed background the same way.

Its a very simple card and the only embellishment I added was the tiny bow holding the lantern. I’m quite happy with the end result and it works nicely for the JUG’s current challenge. As well, I have a male friend who is married to a Japanese and loves Japanese food, so I think this will be his birthday card which is coming up soon.

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Cocktails are the theme for the challenge this session and I chose a Penny Black stamp set called Love and Happiness for the focal image on this card. Who doesn’t like a glass of champagne or a mimosa? And these little bears just make it sweeter. The sentiment stamp comes from a Joy Clair set and the PP is from StampinUp.

I stamped the image onto some watercolour CS so I could colour it with my watercolour pencils. When it was dry I fussy cut it, including the negative spaces between the rungs of the ladder. I decided on a mini slimline base so the card measures 6″ by 3 1/2″. After adding the image to the card base I added some Trinity Stamps bubbles and some crystal glaze to the glasses.

This card can be a wedding card, a birthday or an anniversary so it is quite versatile to have in my stash. Thanks for stopping by and your comments are always appreciated.

The stamp set I’ve used here is from StampinUp and is one I’ve had for a short time. I think I purchased it during the pandemic. Although I have used it, I don’t use it often so it was time to pull it out. I have some precut and pre embossed panels so I decided to use one for the background and I jazzed it up a little with a gold sparkle pen from Spectrum Noir. I used a scrap piece for the look of a sky and dry embossed it with some rays from a Taylored Expression’s folder. The kite was stamped and coloured then fussy cut and I did the same with the tail. Added a bit of glitter with Sakura pens and popped it up as you see. I also fussy cut the sentiment and softened the printing with a silver pen before adding Nuvo Crystal drops and also to the kite. Even with all the embossing it still manages to be CAS and I’m quite happy with how it turned out.

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Although I have a few gnome stamps none are specific to Christmas so I improvised. The gnome with the green hat originally held a garden spade which I cut off and replaced with the tree. The other gnome is more generic so I left him as is. I used an MFT stitched circle die to create the apertures and backed it with some gold plaid PP. This was added using foam tape so the front panel is slightly lifted. Gnomes were stamped cut and coloured before popping into the circles. Stamp sets are from MFT, SSS, Woodware and Gina K. I fussy cut the tree and the gifts and all are coloured with Inktense pencils and a Sakura glitter pen. I also used some snowflake stamps from the Gina K set to stamp faint snowflakes on the white panel. The plaid is slightly stronger in the background than I realized initially so I decided not to add any embellishments to this card.

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Anyone who knows me, would be sure that this challenge was one I would enter just because of the colours. I am a sucker for any shade of purple. I have this new 3D folder that is unbranded and I’ve been playing with it recently. This panel was already embossed and all I needed to do was add the colour. I chose several purple shades of inks and a light green. With a water brush I added colour to the raised sections and when it was dry I brushed shaded lilac to the background. Then using a brush and purple Perfect pearl powder over the flowers I got deeper colour and some shimmer.

Before gluing the slightly cut down panel to the green background I added some purple ribbon from which I hung the Hampton Art sentiment. I did add some Nuvo Chrystal to the gel pen coloured word for more definition.

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The mood board at JUG’s, features gardens and pastel colours and I remembered this old wooden block stamp that I thought would be perfect for it. Stamp is by Stampendous and is called Cottage Path, so I titled my post the same. The idea also fits the Paper Dragonfly challenge too.

The sentiment and dragonfly are from a Catherine Pooler set that are perfect for this garden card. I fussy cut both as the sentiment is quite big.

I am so used to using my Misti and clear stamps that it took 2 tries to get a good image. I used Hickory Smoke so I wouldn’t have harsh lines and added a bit of clear embossing so I could watercolour it. All coloured with watercolour pencils keeping it very soft looking. Perhaps I should have used Hickory Smoke for the sentiment so it would be softer, but it is too late to change it now.

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This challenge intrigued me enough that I put my thinking cap on until I came up with this idea. I thought doing a rainbow effect with actual torn strips would be a bit different and then that the idea of adding them behind a negative opening would also work. I actually like the look and it worked better than I thought it would.

After going through my scraps, picking out those that would give a rainbow effect, I tore them roughly. Using a Hero Arts infinity heart die I cut the heart shape out of the same CS as the card front and lay the aperture over the now glued scraps. Although it isn’t showing in the photo, there is a slight shimmer to both the CS and the rainbow bits. Once it was added to the card front I thought about the sentiment, which in retrospect I should have decided on prior to gluing the focal image down. Fortunately the focal image wasn’t so dimensional that I couldn’t add the sentiment underneath.

It took me a while to find the right sentiment but in the end I chose this one from Hampton Arts as it seemed the best one. I added some tiny pops of color around the frame for added interest without detracting from the CAS look. I’m quite happy with how this one turned out, which is always a bonus to my mind. Thanks for taking a look.

With purple in any shade being a favourite colour, it was a given that I would enter into this challenge. Recently I had been playing with a new unbranded 3D folder and I already had this card front embossed just waiting for me to decide what I wanted to do with it. I decided to colour the raised areas using purple inks and a pretty green. When I was happy with the amount of colour I let it dry and then added some shaded lilac to the background just to take away the bright white. With some purple Perfect Pearl powder I went over the flowers and the result was that the inks darkened and shimmered, as you can see on the photo. I really liked the result.

In my stash I found a piece of ribbon in a shade of purple and added it to the panel before I glued it to the green background. I wasn’t too sure about a sentiment, but in the end decided on the word Hi which I coloured with a Sakura gel pen and added Nuvo Chrystal on top for some shine and dimension. I let the word hang off the ribbon so it wouldn’t hide the flowers. The entire panel was then added to the card front. I thought about adding some other embellishments, but decided against it as the flowers are strong enough to stand on their own.

I have to say I’m quite pleased with this card. As this card works for the challenge at CYHTP as well as Color Hues, I’m adding it to both sites. Thanks for stopping by and have a great day.

Managed a twofer with this card as it fits both Krafty Chicks and Make my Monday.

I used up some scraps that were already die cut such as the oval and the gold frame. Initially I inked the oval very lightly so I could then create the village. This was done using an unbranded Christmas die set I’ve just acquired as a gift from a friend. It has many tiny dies and I chose just a few for my card. I did use the snow drift dies to make the hillside for the houses and trees and because I only glued the snow bank at the bottom I could easily tuck in the houses where I wanted to. My little snowman at the bottom looks as if he has black spots but he was cut using a small scrap of gold dotted PP. I thought it would stand out more using something that wasn’t totally white but on the photo it looks a bit odd. The houses were cut using an inked piece I made ages ago and I backed them with some gold CS so the windows have a glow. Trees were done with a scrap of PP. Once I had the pieces attached I added the oval to the background PP. Sentiment is from an older Kaiser set. Hubby thought this was an interesting card. Personally I don’t dislike it, but am slightly underwhelmed about it. It is kind of hard to work on an oval in my opinion and to me none of this looks straight. I guess with the houses on a slope it doesn’t matter too much.

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It took me ages to decide on what to do for this challenge and several ideas didn’t pan out at all. Not really in the right frame of mind for this particular one I guess. Anyway I eventually settled on using up some of my daffodil PP and added two pieces to the gold foil background. I had the die cut circle from other projects so using the daffodil daydream set from StampinUP I stamped the smaller of the two daffodil stamps along with a partial butterfly. I coloured in the flower and butterfly with Oxide inks and then messed up the center of the flower. After some colourful language I decided to re-stamp the flower, colour it and fussy cut it so I could add it over the top of the other one. I actually like it better so the error was, in a way, a good thing to do. To give the circle a bit of pizzazz I added some scalloped PP behind it that coordinates with the other PP. Once it was added to the card front I finished it with a few Pops of Color dots and a nice sentiment (from Hampton Art).

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