JUGS #748 Word Week -- LEAVES

 

 It's Word Week over at Just Us Girls Challenge #748 and the word is LEAVES.

 

 

 

I love leaves and own a ton of leaf dies in every shape and size. It's my dream to see

fall foliage anywhere--brilliant reds and oranges, please. I seem to be missing the mark as

we've traveled to see them many times with no luck.

I have seen ginkgo leaves in Japan and I love their fan shape and that no two are the same.

Here's my card featuring ginkgo leaves in bright colors because I've rediscovered my 

Zig Kuretake markers.

I started out with green and yellow pens, and grabbed pinks and purples just for fun.

I rather like how they looked--pretty much like umbrellas. After spattering them with 

white paint, they were adhered to a tree ring embossed card and I made sure to 

stamp the sentiment before embossing it.

A little far fetched, I know, but wouldn't it be awesome to see leaves in those colors?

Thanks, always, for stopping by!

Freshly Made Sketches #657

 

I've returned from Japan and slowly getting back into craft mode. I left with a small 

cold and came back with an unwanted souvenir--a very bad cough.  

 

I decided to get my feet wet with Freshly Made Sketches #657 and came up with this.

 

I had some stenciled panels and chose one and embossed it with a folder. I also 

embossed a plain white panel then cut them per the sketch and joined them on a

card base.

I chose a sentiment that would fill up a tag and gold embossed it. After adhering 

the tag to the card, I found some rayon ribbon that I dyed many moons ago

and fashioned a bow as best as I could and adhered it to the tag.

Off to link this up, thanks for stopping by!

JUGS #746 -- Anything Goes STENCILS

 

I'm leaving on an overseas trip in a few days and wanted to post a card so it won't be 

too quiet around here. Luckily, while swooning over Michele's gorgeous card 

I learned about Just Us Girls Challenge #746 using STENCILS.

 

Pinkfresh Studio's Built on Dreams may be my all time fave stencil because it's easy 

to layer and the dies make the cutest little shaped card if you choose to make one.

I love this stencil so much that I bought several as "backups" because some parts

of the stencil are delicate and I was worried it might tear. I chose Concord & 9th

inks and finished off with some iridescent sequins and a sentiment that came

with the stamp set.

 

 The design is versatile and depending on the colors you choose, can be used for

almost any occasion.

 Ok, I'd better link this up. Thanks for stopping by!

 

 

Freshly Made Sketches #655

 

Freshly Made Sketches #655 is a simple one by Jen B. with so many possibilities.

 

 

I was thinking of flipping the sketch but I'm running short on time so I went with Jen's 

sketch as is. 

 

A bunch of mushrooms were cut and colored and adhered to an embossed wall. I stamped the

punny sentiment before embossing and drew in some grass to ground them.

The mushrooms and sentiment are by Paper Smooches, and although Kim has closed

 her online shop, I continue to use her products whenever I can. Because I love them!

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

 

Inspired By Challenge #302

 

It's been a while since I've joined an Inspired By challenge and when I saw the

graphic for IB302, I was in.

 

 

I LOVE leaves and anything fall, so I searched for Altenew's funky leaves and

put together this card in record time.

 

 

 Three leaves were cut and colored in autumnal colors and I stamped the

sentiment before running the panel through an embossing folder. I adhered

the leaves to a "clothesline" and called it done.

Off to link this up. Thanks for stopping by!

Freshly Made Sketches #654

I'm entering Freshly Made Sketches #654 after seeing some gnomes pop up

and remembered how much I loved them. And their shape mimicked the sketch.

 

Here's my card and I substituted a tree because two gnomes were rather squishy.

 

 

I assembled the Large Gnome with patterned paper and searched high and low for

a tree that I was happy with. Twig and Stump's tree fit the bill and I assembled

both on the embossed background. A strip of gray card stock was run through

the embossing folder and matched up with the background. A simple "joy"

finished off the card.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Long Time No See

  

Well, I totally missed Time Out Challenges #271 deadline by a day but thought I'd 

share this anyway because I like how it turned out. Once again, patterned paper

was my friend.

 

 

I was inspired by Allison Frazier (@allifrazier on Instagram) and how she played with 

postage stamp supplies and patterned paper to create some quick and easy cards. 

I found a pad of paper on Amazon with large floral images and created postage 

stamps with Spellbinders Nested Postage Label Dies.

All postage marks were made with Waffle Flower Crafts Oversized Postage Stamp Set.

I chose the CZ Design sentiment because it fit perfectly in the space and white

embossed it so it would stand out against the dark background.

To give the panel some dimension, I cut out another butterfly and flower and popped 

them up. A second postage panel was cut and adhered in the back to create a hinge. 

I'm a little late with the postage trend but I know that I'll be making more cards 

using patterned paper because it's fast and fun. Thanks for stopping by!

Freshly Made Sketches #653

 

I couldn't pass on Freshly Made Sketches #653 with Kim's fun sketch.

 

 

And here's my take on it. I have several large sentiments but thought I could 

chalk up a holiday card for my stash.

After embossing a panel with some falling snow, I built the Spellbinders sentiment

 on a tree shape with hot pink letters. A gold star and sub sentiment finished off

the card. I thought about adding baubles on the tree but decided it had enough bling

so it went without.

Thanks for stopping by!

Freshly Made Sketches #652

 

I'm joining Freshly Made Sketches #652 with a simplified take on the sketch. I wanted

to use Concord & 9th's new Mushroom Medley--yes, another mushroom die set that

just had to join the others.

 

Here's Linda's versatile sketch.

 

 

And here's my mushroomy card in portrait format. Can you see the sketch?

 

 I took advantage of the mushroom cap's roundness and adhered a few with some

greenery on a wood plank embossed card base. The two part sentiment is an oldie 

from Simon Says Stamp and one of my faves because of the different fonts.

 

The card was finished off with some Creamsicle enamel dots. 

Off to link up my card, thanks for stopping by!

Freshly Made Sketches #650

 

Freshly Made Sketches #650 is as simple as a sketch can get and sometimes 

that can be a challenge in itself. Here's the sketch, courtesy of Judy.

At first glance I thought "sky, land, sea" but felt a skosh lazy so I turned to some

new patterned papers that arrived this week. Brutus Monroe has some beautiful

papers and I chose the Cherry Blossom pad for my card.

 

I cut one sheet into thirds with the middle panel being slightly bigger. I adhered

them to a top folding card and stamped the sentiment from CZ Designs. A few

luminescent sequins finished the card.

If I had more time I would have stamped a background, then cut it up per

the sketch. But time constraints and laziness overruled and I can link this up

to this month's Simon Says Stamp Flickr Challenge, too.

Thanks, always, for stopping by!