Hot Colors

Today I pulled out some Impression Obsession stamps and dies to create a Blackeyed Susan design in hot colors. So of course I am entering this in the Impression Obsession Challenge-Hot Colors. I hope you like it.

My focal panel was made by taking a piece of white card stock and then sponging on the colors of yellow, peach, orange and red and then sort of blending them all together by going over the whole panel with the yellow again. The next step was to take the panel and place it in my Misti and then I stamped over it with the Black Eyed Susan Cover a Card stamp with black ink. I stamped that cover a card stamp several times so that I ended up with a good solid design.

Then it was just a matter of layering it to a panel of yellow and a coral card stock base. Inside I added another panel of yellow so that I can stamp or write a message. The sentiment was stamped onto a yellow banner and placed ion the center of the card.

Products used:
Impression Obsession Cover a Card Blackeyed Susans CC236
Impression Obsession Life Stuff Sentiments CL491
Impression Obsession Pinked Stitched Sentiment Banner DIE14-U

Other Supplies:
Gina K. Designs inks and card stock
Crafter Companion Glue Pen
Dauber Sponges

Thanks for stopping by. It was a fun card to do as I love these bright hot sizzlin' colors. I hope you did too. Have a great weekend.

God bless,
Verna

A Bit of Sparkle Christmas

I made another Christmas card using snippets of leftovers and actually I am quite happy with it. It turned out better then I had anticipated.

I used little leftovers and combined them all together to make my design. So I won't be listing any product lines used. I took some sequins and made them look like baubles hanging from the pine branch and with a negative  die cut piece of silver glitter paper these additions gave my card the sparkle I was looking for.

I am entering this in the following:
Rudolph Days Challenge
Mod Squad Challenge

Thanks for the visit. I will be busy as last evening the hubby brought in a 2-gallon pail of green beans so freezing them is on the agenda for today. I hope your day goes well and thanks for taking the time to leave comments. I love them.

God bless,
Verna

Twofer Card Challenge #18-Garden

Well, I don't really do much for a flower garden as the only flowers I have are the ones that come back year after year. We do however make a vegetable garden but alas I have no vegetable stamps, dies or stencils so we shall go with a flower garden design for Darnell's Twofer Challenge this month. For these cards I used a stencil for my background designs.

The stencil used for both of the cards is the Stamplorations Artplorations Bold Florals. I just changed the colors for each card.

The thank you card also has some Washi tape from Stampin' Up! placed on it. And, the sentiment is a sticker from Stamplorations. I also added a few black sequins to it.

The sympathy one is a more clean and simple design with just the stenciled flowers and then the wonderful sentiment from the Sparkle N Sprinkle Memory in Our Heart stamp set. Due to the retirement of the owner Sparkle N Sprinkle is no longer in business. And, I know I will be missing their line.

Well, I am squeezing this in at the last moment more or less as the challenge closes in a couple days. It was a fun project and I enjoyed using the stencil and my Life Changing Blending Brushes to create these. The ink for the sentiment on the sympathy card is from Gina K. Designs.

Take care and see you next time I pop in. Thanks for visiting.

God bless,
Verna

Christmas In July~Christmas Theme

Christmas in July is the theme for the Mod Squad Challenge this time. And, I had made up some compressed sponge and ink refill backgrounds one other day on some glossy photo paper so I picked one of those and added a few elements I found laying around in my stash and created this Christmas card using Stamplorations stamps.

The stamps used for this card are from the Stamplorations Christmas Reindeer set. I happened to have an oval already cut out in green card stock using the Gina K. Designs large oval die. And, to that oval I stamped the sentiment and a few snowflakes which were also from that stamp set. The reindeer from the set I had done before and it was in my snippets box so I simply added that to the oval. He was colored in with Prismacolor pencils and Gamsol. The last thing added to the design was some blue rhinestones on the snowflakes and one small red one on the reindeer's nose.

Since today is Sunday I decided to make a card. I am still needing lots of Christmas cards so this was a good challenge to join in with.

I am also entering this in the Stamplorations Never Ending Anything Goes Challenge.

Have a great day and I so appreciate your visits to my blog.

God bless,
Verna

Birthday Card

I did not want to bring out a lot of supplies to make a card but with some little die cuts and silhouette cuts that friends gave me I was able to make a birthday card. The only thing I have any information on is the cake which was cut out from the Cake Edition Paper Route pattern paper by Concord & 9th as that was some I had on hand from my own purchases.

Big thanks to Laurie Schmidt and Patti Kehl for the supplies for making this card. They are coming in very handy. And, I hope this will qualify for the Double D's Birthday Challenge.

I wish all of you a wonderful weekend. Thanks for stopping in and for all the wonderful comments you leave me.

God bless,
Verna

Angel

I got a new die in the mail today so had to play just a little bit and make a CAS card design. I had some gold paper on hand from my stash and used that to cut the image out and then placed it onto a card base of dark green. Then I added a white sheet inside so that I could write or stamp a sentiment. I am entering this in the Impression Obsession Challenge-Things That Fly!

Products used:
Impression Obsession DIE470-YY  Angel Background
Card Stock-Gina K. Designs
Gold Paper-Crafters Companion

Thanks so much for the visit and lovely comments you always leave. Have a great rest of the week.

God bless,
Verna

Sponges

Hi Everyone,
I don't see the original sponges that were used for the rainbow technique but I wonder if these sponges would not work too. I found them with a search engine and they are from Marcos.

https://www.marcopaper.com/products.php?product=Sofft-Art-Sponge-Angle-Slice-%252d%252d-Flat

Any compressed sponge should work and you use the water based inks to make the designs on glossy card stock. Ink pad refills that are water based should work well.

I am posting this as many wanted to try making those backgrounds again.  And you can see videos on how to do the various designs with the sponges. A search engine will reveal a lot of them. Hope you can find a way to do it.

God bless,
Verna