Rainbow Card Set

I have wanted to make up this set of cards from this stamp set for ages. To keep it simple I picked one colour for each Bible verse and coloured with Prismacolour pencils. 

To make the frames pop, I mounted them on white card embossed with the very subtle 3D embossing folder from Stampin' Up.

 

My entry to ...

... The Card Concept : Hello Spring

... Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge : Flower Power

... Addicted to Stamps : Anything Goes

... Just Us Girls : Photo Week

Book Lover Birthday

Our book club has been going for 21 years and I keep a lookout for book related stamps.  The Hero Arts Bookcase stamp pairs up beautifully with their Pee-a-Boo die. So much fun.

I coloured with Copics.  Here's the front having being diecut.

But I thought that a birthday needs a message.  I couldn't stick a message over it as it would prevent a window from being opened.  So I decided that I needed something that could be opened.

I diecut the Lawn Fawn Happy Birthday and coloured with Delicata gold.  I mounted it on an embossed vellum. I found a lot of people don't like tying bows, so I decided to use the string tie system that just needs to be looped.

When was the last time you used a brad?!

Good to be using up the stash!

Here I've unlooped the gold string ...

With the windows open ... 

I'm delighted to see the Matryoshka dolls (also known as Babushka dolls, stacking dolls, nesting dolls, Russian tea dolls, or Russian dolls) as 2 of our members have just been to Russia!

My entry to ... 

... A Blog Named Hero : Birthday Challenge

... Addicted to Stamps and More : Make Your Mark

Happy Birthday

I have a few friends who have Birthdays in December so here's one of my cards.

Love this colour combination. 

The embossing powder I used for the butterfly is Gold Pearl - which I did on vellum.

My entry to ...

... The Paper Players : Color Challenge

... Virginia Show and Share : December

Winter Flowers

Are you ready for a new challenge?

CASology starts a new one today! The cue word is FOG.

This certainly was a challenge for me.  But then the brain fog eased and I remembered that Simon Says Stamp has FOG cardstock.  Then I thought of vellum ... it has a foggy look, doesn't it?!

So here's my card. I coloured parts of the leaves and petals with Copics.

I wonder where this challenge will take you?

You have 3 weeks to enter this challenge ... the deadline is Monday November 4th at 9:00am CDT.

Come drift on over and check on the creations of the design team and be inspired. Looking forward to seeing your take on the cue word.

Deidre Payne

Jacquie Southas 

Janet Ribet (you are here)

Jen Wills 

Joyce Mehrberg

Karen Haman

Melissa Chipperfield

Milka Gubo

Nancy Barnett Elrick

Sue Symens

Guest Designer : 

Sponsor : Stamplorations

I will also enter this to ...

... Simon Says Stamps Wednesday Challenge : Christmas

Congratulations

I loved the soft delicate feel to Leah's card but I didn't have her stamps.  Worked with what I have in my stash.

A close-up of the embossed background.  Love the subtle look.

My entry to ...

... The Flower Challenge : CAS

... Perfectly CAS : Flowers

Time to Celebrate

Bold, blues & greens, a vellum tag and there you go!

My entry for ...

... Just Us Girls Challenge : Celebrate

... Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge : Stamp on It

Time Out Challenge : Guest Designer

I'm so happy to be the guest designer for Time Out Challenge #94 : Home Sweet Home this week! And it's so appropriate for an island girl. I have lots of sea & beach related stamps.

I went for a pretty literal interpretation of the photo for my card.

The sponsors for this challenge are STAMPlorations and the winner will get a $10 gift voucher to use in their amazing store.

If you want to see my full studio, you can see THIS blog post.

More Vellum

To play in the Just Us Girls Vellum Challenge, I did more of Jennifer McGuire's rainbow effect on vellum.

Rainbow Vellum

This is my take on Jennifer's lesson at Clear and Sheer OCC.

I will enter this to ...

... Addicted to Stamps and More : Make your Mark Challenge

Silhouette Card Scramble

It was my turn to host the Hero Arts Flickr Group card scramble today. If I had been more organised, I would have given you the heads up so you could join in. Sorry about that. Hopefully, you'll join in the next one in two weeks time.

I have recently spent a week at a game reserve in South Africa. I so loved being in nature, seeing the animals free in their natural habitat, having close encounters of the elephant kind, seeing my first leopard in the wild, the incredible space and peace and sky.

Thinking of "African Sky", I searched for some inspiring photos on Pinterest and chose these two. The first is available from Fine Art America.

The theme I set was to make a SILHOUETTE CARD using Hero Arts stamps, stencils or dies.

For my first card I used a stencil made from a die, and sponged and stamped before removing the mask.

For the second, I used Jennifer McGuire's technique of smooching ink directly from pad to vellum and then rubbing it with a tissue to blend. The branch is a die cut.

The third card I made while everyone was making theirs. I used a piece of vellum left over from the first card. Decided I wanted some more layers so used a text stamp under it. I hand drew the black lines.