Can You Handle the Pressure - Birthday/Anniversary

Dear Ones~  

There's a new challenge over at Can You Handle the Pressure.   For this challenge blog you MUST use an EMBOSSING FOLDER on your project.  Heat embossing (with embossing powder) is permitted but only IN ADDITION to your embossing folder design.  Each new challenge will have a 'TWIST' which is optional ... your choice to use or not.

The OPTIONAL TWIST for today's challenge is:

BIRTHDAY/ANNIVERSARY

Here's my card:

I needed a masculine birthday card, and I had an idea to emboss a piece of dark card stock with a background stamp in gold. I absolutely LOVE the way this turned out and will be doing it more. The cattail die is so useful for masculine cards, I use it often. Here I embossed a navy panel with a fern embossing folder and placed it behind the cattail die cut to make it stand out. The embossing hardly shows in the photo, but the texture is amazing IRL. I used some ultra shiny metallic gold card stock for the "moon" to make it more interesting.

 

The Ingredients:

 GKD In the Navy Card Stock

GKD Gold Card Stock 

Stash Gold Mirror Card Stock 

Memory Box Graceful Cattails Die

SU Fern Embossing Folder 

SSS Big Greetings 1 Stamp for Greeting 

Trinity Stamps Mat Gold Baubles 

 

 

 

 

 So head on over to the Can You Handle the Pressure Blog and play along, and don't forget to check out all the beautiful cards the other designers have created while you are there. I can't wait to see all your wonderful designs!!

 Until next time dear reader, I hope you "can handle the pressure"!

Here's celebrating your CREATIVE MUSE.

judy 

Double D - FOR THE KIDDOS

Dear Ones~

The new challenge over at Double D is "FOR THE KIDDOS". What a fun one this will be, I can't wait to see what you come up with. Here is the Mood Board for our inspiration:

 

 

Here's my card: 

Isn't this just the cutest? I used one of my all-time favorite GKD background stamps - Inspiration Mosaic, by Melanie Muenchinger. It's the perfect stamp for paper piecing, which I did here with various patterned papers. The silly monsters are from a retired stamp set by Stampin' Up. I love all the bright colors, and bright dots too.

 

The Ingredients: 

GKD White and Black Card Stock

GKD Inspiration Mosaic Background Stamp

SU Monster Maniacs Stamp Set

Alcohol Markers

Sunny Studio Preppy Prints Patterned Paper

Scrapbook.Com Pops of Color Liquid Dots

 

 

 

 

 

 

 If you head on over to the  Double D Challenge Blog and play along, you could win this sweet Creative Expressions Music Mini Stencil.  Also, don't forget to check out all the beautiful cards the other designers have created.

 

 

 

So, until next time dear readers, ASPIRE to be INSPIRED. 

Here's celebrating your CREATIVE MUSE!!

 

~judy  

Can You Handle the Pressure - IN THE SKY

 Dear Ones~  

There's a new challenge over at Can You Handle the Pressure.   For this challenge blog you MUST use an EMBOSSING FOLDER on your project.  Heat embossing (with embossing powder) is permitted but only IN ADDITION to your embossing folder design.  Each new challenge will have a 'TWIST' which is optional ... your choice to use or not.

The OPTIONAL TWIST for today's challenge is:

IN THE SKY

This is my card:

I have to confess that I don't know the name of this balloon set or the background embossing folder. I found them both in my stash from back in the day when I didn't know enough to keep the packaging. That was before I was on design teams. Who knew I would need to know stuff like the name of the company? The balloons are a stamp and die set. I stamped them with Simon Hurley inks and I think they came out pretty good. The addition of the silver baubles is a nice final touch. I embossed the light blue card stock with the cloud embossing folder and then ran white pigment ink over it to make the image pop.

 

The Ingredients:

Recollections Blue Card Stock

SU Soft Sky Card Stock

Recollections Holographic Card Stock

Stash Balloon Stamp and Die Set

Stash Cloud Embossing Folder 

Simon Hurley High Tide & Clear Skies Ink

 

 

 

 

So head on over to the Can You Handle the Pressure Blog and play along, and don't forget to check out all the beautiful cards the other designers have created while you are there. I can't wait to see all your wonderful designs!!

 Until next time dear reader, I hope you "can handle the pressure"!

Here's celebrating your CREATIVE MUSE.

judy

A Cut Above - JULY

  

 

Dear Ones~

It's a new month, and time for a new challenge over at  A Cut Above Challenge Blog. 

 

Challenges are on a monthly basis and posted on the first Monday of the month at 12:00 AM (Eastern Time) and ending on the 28th of each month 8:00 PM (Eastern Time) with the winner posted on the 30th of that month. The theme is always anything goes with a die cut. However once in awhile we will throw in a theme for you, or just do anything goes. Entirely up to you. This time it's just anything goes.

Limit of 3 entries per challenge with each being a different project.

Any project is welcome but MUST HAVE AT LEAST ONE DIE CUT defined by using a die cut machine, not a purchased pre-fabricated die cut. Winner is chosen by random draw, and will receive a $5 gift card to A Cherry On Top Online Store along with a dated badge to display on their craft site.

 

Here is my card:

One of my favorite techniques is inlay, and this Gina K Designs mini slimline cover plate die is perfect for it. I chose a couple of shades of pink and a green, and cut them out with the die. Before I removed the pieces from the die, I covered it with Press and Seal, and the pieces all stayed in place. It's very relaxing to put the "puzzle" pieces together.

 

 

 

The Ingredients:

 GKD White Card Stock

Recollections Rose Petal Card Stock

SU Mint Macaron Card Stock 

Stash Patterned Paper

GKD Rose Mini Slimline Cover Plate

GKD Elegant Thoughts Stamp & Companion Die for Greeting 

 

 

 

 

 I hope you will jump in and MAKE THE CUT, I can't wait to see what you come up with. Head on over to the A CUT ABOVE BLOG to see what it's all about. And if you play along, you could win a $5 gift card to A Cherry On Top.

 

Until next time, dear reader, aspire to be inspired.

Here's celebrating your Creative Muse. 

~judy 

 

Double D - FLOWER POTS

 Dear Ones~

Welcome to summer, it's a HOT one here in Northern Michigan right now. There's a new challenge up over at Double D, and this time it's FLOWER POTS. This is the Mood Board provided for our inspiration:

Here is my sample:

I had a lot of fun with this one. And I think the Enamel Accent dots really pack a punch. Those flowers are from the Greetery Curio Autumn Findings, one of my favorite die sets. The pot is from a Simon Hurley die set, and I used some vellum behind for a soft look.

The Ingredients:

 SU Soft Succulent Card Stock

The Greetery Curio Autumn Findings Die Set

Paper Studio Textile Floral Patterned Paper

GKD elegant Thoughts Stamp & Companion Die for Greeting

 SSS Ultra Find Rose Gold Embossing Powder for Greeting 

Simon Hurley Ceramic Vases Die Set 

Spellbinders Picot Circles Die with Vellum

Ranger White Enamel Accents

 

 If you head on over to the  Double D Challenge Blog and play along, you could win this beautiful Spellbinders embossing folder.  Also, don't forget to check out all the beautiful cards the other designers have created.

So, until next time dear readers, ASPIRE to be INSPIRED. 

Here's celebrating your CREATIVE MUSE!!

 

~judY