A Card for "Project Decaying"

Hi everyone,

I'd like to share with you a card I made for Project Decaying.

My dear friend, Rie Moore, is going to release her prerecorded program "Decaying" for piano and violin on January 9, 2022. Prior to that, she launched a project to create a space for thinking about the theme of the program: finding beauty in what is decaying.

Here's my card for the project:

I wanted to express the fleeing beauty of these decaying roses against the timeless elegance of stone. Both will ultimately fade away, but each provides beauty in its own life span.

This card is pretty different from my usual style, but I hope to capture the theme of her program - beauty in decaying.  

Thanks for visiting me today!

Paper: Basic White, Lost Lagoon (Stampin' Up!)
Ink: Distress Oxide Ink (Weathered Wood, Rustic Wilderness, Walnut Stain - Ranger)
Other: Dies (Single Stitch Line Rectangles Frames - My Favorite Things), Embossing Folder (Old World Paper - Stampin' Up!), Free Photo (Pastel Rose Decay), Connect Glue (Gina K)

CAS Christmas November Challenge - sweet winter wishes

Hi everyone,

This is the last challenge of the year for CAS Christmas Challenge, and the challenge for this month is:

Here's my card.

[How I made the card]

1. Die-cut the front panel with a frame from white cardstock.

2. Stamped the penguins and the ice floes on the front panel and masked them. 

3. Stenciled very lightly over the stamped (and masked) images.

4. Stamped another set of penguins and ice floes and die-cut them.

5. Pencil colored the penguins, the ice floes, and added Aqua Shimmer & Crystal Glaze to them.

6. Heat-embossed the sentiment with glitter embossing powder.

7. Popped up the die-cut penguins and ice floes on the front panel.

8. Glued the entire front panel onto the card base.

Please check out the challenge site for inspiring sample cards made by our Designers, and join this fun challenge! You have until November 24th to link up your card here.

Stamp: Frosty Friends (Hello Bluebird) Snow Globe Sentiments (My Favorite Things)
Paper: Basic White, Bashful Blue (Stampin' Up!)
Ink: Versafine (Onix Black - Tsukineko), VersaMark (Tsukineko), Distress Oxide Ink (Tumbled Glass - Ranger)
Other: Dies (Frosty Friends - Hello Bluebird, Lacy Scallop Frame - Reverse Confetti), Stencil (Jazz Dance - Simon Says Stamp), Embossing Glitter (Totally Teal - Wow!), Color Pencils (Prismacolor), Aqua Shimmer (Glitter Gloss - Nuvo), Crystal Glaze (Altenew), Connect Glue (Gina K)

CAS Christmas November Challenge - merry christmas

Hi everyone,

Welcome to our new challenge at CAS Christmas!
This month's challenge, hosted by our talented Designer, Barb, is perfect for helping you make last-minute Christmas cards. She chose Christmas Critters as the theme.
We have Valerie (Le Scrap de Vava) as Guest Designer. Welcome, Valerie!

Here's my card:

[How I made the card]

1. Stamped and die-cut the bear and the Santa hat. 

2. Colored the hat with a marker and tucked it under bear's arms.

3. Foiled the sweater borders and the sentiment on white card base. Die-cut the sentiment.

4. Glued the foiled front panel onto the red card base.

5. Popped up the bear and the sentiment with foam squares.

Isn't the prism foil beautiful?🌟🌟🌟

Please check out the challenge site for inspiring sample cards made by our Designers, and Valerie. Come and join this fun challenge!

Stamp: All Inside, Bear Ware 2 (Ellen Hutson) 
Paper: Basic White, Real Red (Stampin' Up!)
Ink: Versafine (Onix Black - Tsukineko), Marker (Real Red - Stampin' Up!)
Other: Dies (All Inside, Bear Ware 2 - Ellen Hutson), Glimmer Plate (Christmas Sweater Boarders, Yana's Christmas Sentiments - Spellbinders), Glimmer Foil (Prism, Turquoise - Spellbinders), Thin 3D Foam Squares (Scrapbook Adhesives), Connect Glue (Gina K)

CAS Christmas October Challenge - merry

Hi everyone,

This is a reminder for CAS Christmas Challenge, and our host, Marcia, picked Gray and Red for the theme of this month.

Here's my card with red foiled baubles:

[How I made the card]

1. Spread a thin layer of Transfer Gel over a piece of red cardstock.

2. Put a piece of foil sheet over the paper and ran it through the laminator.

3. Punched out 5 circles from the foiled sheet.

4. Die-cut 5 bauble caps and letters "MERRY".

5. Glued the caps and the letters onto the foiled circles.

6. Debossed the snowflakes on a piece of white panel, and glued it over a gray panel.

7. Popped up M, R, and Y with foam tape, and glued E and R onto the debossed panel.

8. Connected the baubles with silver thread.

9. Glued the entire panel to the card base.

Please check out the challenge blog for the wonderful sample cards made by our Designers! The link is open until October 24th.

I hope to see you in the gallery!

Paper: Basic White, Smoky Slate, Real Red (Stampin' Up!)
Accessories: Dies (Stitched Ornaments - Lawn Fawn, Pinpoint Snowflake Plate - Memory Box, Captions Alphabet - My Favorite Things), 3/4" Circle Punch (Stampin' Up), Deco Foil Transfer Gel (iCraft), Deco Foil (Wild Cherry - iCraft), Laminator, Silver Metallic Thread (Stampin' Up!), Thin 3D Foam Squares (Scrapbook Adhesives), Connect Glue (Gina K)

CAS Christmas October Challenge - season's greetings

Hi everyone,

It's time for another new challenge at CAS Christmas!

Our talented Designer, Marcia (Marcia's Stampin' Pad), wants you to make a clean and simple card using Gray and Red. 

We're so happy to have Darnell (djkardkreations) as Guest Designer this month! Welcome, Darnell!

Here's my card:

[How I made the card]

1. Hot foiled the frame on a white front panel.

2. Stamped the trees on the front panel, using masking and zig-colored them in gray.

3. Hot foiled the sentiment on the front panel.

4. Stamped the heart tree on a piece of velum, pencil-colored the tree from the back, fussy-cut the image, and glued it onto the gray trees.

5. Added some red glitter dots for a little shine.

6. Adhered the front panel to the card base.

Check out the challenge site for more inspiration, and join this fun color challenge! You have until October 24th. 

Stamp: Festive Trees (Simon Says Stamp)
Paper: Basic White (Stampin' Up!), Translucent Vellum (My Favorite Things)
Ink: Smoky Slate, Real Red (Stampin' Up!), Zig Real Brush Markers (Cool Gray 1, Pale Gray), 
Other: Glimmer Plate (Essential Glimmer Rectangles, Yana's Christmas Sentiments - Spellbinders), Glimmer Hot Foil (Gold - Spellbinders), Prismacolor, Stickles (Christmas Red - Rangers), Connect Glue (Gina K)

CAS Christmas September Challenge - merry christmas

Hi everyone,

We're already halfway through September. Have you started preparing your Christmas cards?

I'm here with a reminder card for the CAS Christmas September Challenge. The challenge for this month is ...

And here's my card:

[How I made the card]

1. Glued plaid paper to cardstock and die-cut holly leaves and berries. Added Crystal Glaze to the berries for shine.

2. Dry embossed a piece of green cardstock and die-cut a holly leaf from it.

3. Hot foiled the frame and the sentiment on the card front.

4. Adhered the holly leaves and berries to the front.

You have until September 24th. Looking forward to seeing your card in the gallery!

Paper: Basic White, Bermuda Bay (Stampin' Up!), Petite Paper Pack (Perfectly Plaid Christmas - Lawn Fawn)
Other: Dies (Modern Christmas - Ellen Hutson), Glimmer Plate (Essential Duo Lines Rectangles, Yana's Christmas Sentiments - Spellbinders), Glimmer Hot Foil (Matte Gold - Spellbinders), Embossing Folder (Grid - Spellbinders), Crystal Glaze (Nuvo), Thin 3D Foam Squares (Scrapbook Adhesive), Connect Glue (Gina K)

Playing Cards with Michele

Hi everyone,

I'm so happy to be Playing Cards with Friends today, especially with my dear friend, Michele from I Card Everyone.

Michele is not only talented and creative, she has a great sense of humor. You don't know how many times her funny card sentiments (all original, by the way) have made me laugh and brightened my day. What I most admire about her is that, as her blog title shows, she always makes me feel that she's showing her cards to me personally, even though she has tons and tons of friends even just in the card-making community.

I'm honored and grateful for this invitation to play cards with you, Michele!

Here are the parameters for today's play:

• Coloring - It's National Coloring Day today!
• Altenew image

And here's my card:

I took an online watercoloring course, Floral Faves, by Heather Telford in July.

One of the lessons was No-line Watercoloring, and I tried it. This is not exactly no-line watercoloring 😁, but I really enjoyed learning it. 

The stamp set I used is one of my all time Altenew favorites, Beautiful Day. The background was ink smooshed with acetate.

Some day I hope to visit Michele in Michigan and to play cards in person!

Let's go and check what she made for today!

Stamp: Beautiful Day (Altenew)
Paper: Watercolor Paper (Artistico Extra White - Fabriano, 140 lbs), Early Espresso (Stampin' Up!)
Ink: Distress Ink (Dried Marigold, Spiced Marmalade, Carved Pumpkin, Crushed Olive, Peeled Paint, Pumice Stone, Ground Espresso - Ranger)

Other: Dies (Beautiful Day - Altenew), Thin 3D Foam Squares (Scrapbook Adhesives), Connect Glue (Gina K)

CAS Christmas September Challenge - merry christmas

Hi everyone,

It's September, and there're only 3 more months in the 2021 calendar. Time flies, doesn't it?

Colleen is our host for the CAS Christmas Challenge this month, and she chose "Plaid" as the theme. Our special Guest Designer is Melanie (Cards by Melanie). Welcome, Melanie!

Here's my card:

[How I made the card]

1. Die-cut the deer twice from white cardstock, and once from red plaid paper. Stacked and glued (*1) the white die-cuts, and inlaid the red die-cut.

2. Die-cut the sentiment twice from white cardstock and glued (*1) the pieces together.

3. Die-cut the stars.

4. Die-cut the panel from green plaid paper.

5. Glued the die-cut images and sentiment onto the panel.

6. Adhered the whole panel to the front white card panel, and debossed the stitched lines above and below the green plaid panel.

7. Glued the front panel onto the card base.

(*1) The deer outline and the sentiment are thin and small, so I actually used a thin double-sided adhesive sheet instead of liquid glue.

Check out our challenge site for more inspiration. I hope to see you in the gallery! You have until September 24th.

Paper: Basic White (Stampin' Up!), Petite Paper Pack (Perfectly Plaid Christmas - Lawn Fawn)

Other: Dies (Abstract Holiday Frames, Holiday Words On & Line - Simon Says Stamp, Homespun Stitch Lines - My Favorite Things), Stick it, Connect Glue (Gina K)

CAS Christmas August Challenge - merry christmas

Hi everyone,

It's time for a reminder for CAS Christmas Challenge! 

Here's my card:

[How I made the card]

1. Die-cut the decorations and the pine bows from watercolor paper.

2. Watercolored the die-cuts.

3. Glued glitter paper to the back of the decorations.

4. Die-cut the window from the front pane and heat-embossed the sentiment (*1).

5. Inked light blue with a blending brush on the card base and glued the pine bows and decorations on the base.

6. Drew strings with a white gel pen.

7. Popped up the front panel on the card base with foam tape.

(*1) Stamped the sentiment with Distress Oxide Ink and heat-embossed it with clear glitter embossing powder to give the sentiment sparkle. 

I hope you'll check out our challenge blog for more inspiration, and share your card with us here. Our challenge link closes on August 24th.

Stamp: Snow Globe Sentiments (My Favorite Things)
Paper: Watercolor Paper (Arches - Cold Press 140 lbs), Basic White, Chocolate Chip (Stampin' Up!), Glitter Paper (Recollections)
Ink: Distress Ink (Rustic Wilderness, Pine, Needles, Crushed Olive, Brushed Corduroy - Ranger), Distress Oxide Ink (Rustic Wilderness, Tumbled Glass - Ranger)
Paint: Gansai Tambi (Silver - Kuretake)
Other: Dies (Take a Bough - Concord & 9th, Christmas Icons - Impression Obsession, Hemstitch Squares - Spellbinders), Masking Paper (Masking Magic - Gina K), Embossing Powder (Clear Sparkle - Wow!), Foam Tape (3M), Connect Glue (Gina K), Gelly Roll (White, 10 mm - Sakura)

CAS Christmas August Challenge - merry christmas

Hi everyone,

Welcome to the start of the CAS Christmas August Challenge!

Cathy (Cathy's Card Spot) is our host this month, and she chose "Decorations" as the theme. We are happy to have Lucie (LucieG Cards) as Guest Designer for this month. Welcome, Lucie!

Here's my card:

[How I made the card]

1. Made a piece of metallic tissue paper. Loll made and shared with us a wonderful tutorial video, so I watched it.

2. Foiled the silver sentiment frame on a piece of white cardstock.

3. Die-cut a bauble (window) in the foiled front panel.

4. Attached a piece of acetate to the window, and glued the metallic tissue paper to the back of the front panel.

5. Die-cut the hanger from silver foil paper and glued it on to the bauble.

6. Added a rhinestone to the hanger.

The link on the challenge site is open until August 24th. I hope you play along with us and add a Christmas card to your stash.

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Paper: Basic White (Stampin' Up!), Foil Mirror Paper (Silver - Recollections), Acetate Sheet (Grafix), Tissue Paper
Ink: Distress Ink (Blueprint Sketch, Wilted Violet, Mermaid Lagoon - Ranger), VersaMark (Tsukineko)
Other: Dies (Stitched Ornaments - Lawn Fawn), Glimmer Plate (Christmas Essential Glimmer Rectangles - Spellbinders), Glimmer Hot Foil (Silver - Spellbinders), Embossing Powder (Wow! - Metallic Silver Sparkle), Adhesive Rhinestone (Pink - Recollections), Connect Glue (Gina K)

CAS Christmas July Challenge - merry christmas

Hi everyone,

It's already time for a reminder post for our CAS Christmas Challenge!

The challenge for this month is:

Here's my card:

[How I made the card]

1. Stenciled the poinsettias with Distress Inks on a piece of white cardstock.

2. Stamped the script with Distress Oxide Ink over the stenciled image.

3. Stenciled the poinsettias again with VersaMark and clear heat-embossed the image.

4. Trimmed the poinsettia cardstock to a size a little bigger than the window frame, and added Stickles to the center of the flowers.

5. Die-cut the window frame three times from white cardstock and glued the pieces together.

6. Adhered the poinsettia piece to the back of the window frame.

7. Dry embossed a piece of white cardstock and glued it onto the card base.

8. Glued the entire window frame onto the front panel.

You still have until July 24th to play along. Come and join us here!

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Thank you!

Stamp: Old Letter (Simon Says Stamp)

Paper: Basic White (Stampin' Up!)
Ink: Distress Ink (Candied Apple, Barn Door, Lucky Clover, Peeled Paint - Ranger), Distress Oxide Ink (Vintage Photo - Ranger), VersaMark (Tsukineko)

Other: Stencil (Mini Layering Stencil Set 19 - Tim Holtz), Dies (Holiday Frames - Simon Says Stamp) Embossing Powder (Clear - Hero Arts), 3D Embossing Folder (Old World Paper - Stampin' Up!), Stickles (Champagne - Ranger), Connect Glue (Gina K)

CAS Christmas July Challenge - happy holidays

Hi everyone,

Half of the year has passed and there're only a few more months till Christmas cards are mailed off. If your Christmas card stash is still low, it's a great time to start building it up now. 😊

Our wonderful designer, Linda (Lin's Craft Corner) is hosting the CAS Christmas July Challenge, and she chose Poinsettia as the theme. We're happy to have Sandra (Sandma's Handmade Cards) as our Guest Designer this month.

Here's my card:

[How I made the card]

1. Foiled the gold frame on the red front panel.

2. Die-cut poinsettias from gold foil cardstock, and glued them onto the front panel.

3. Added white Nuvo Crystal Drops to the center of the flowers.

4. White heat-embossed the sentiment on the front panel.

5. Glued the entire front panel onto the card base, and trimmed the poinsettia petals at the edge of the card.

Please check out the challenge blog for more inspiration, and play along with us! The challenge is open until July 24th.

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Thank you!

Stamp: Snow Globe Sentiments (My Favorite Stripes)
Paper: Real Red (Stampin' Up!), Gold Foil Cardstock (Altenew)
Ink: VersaMark

Other: Dies (Poinsettia Parade - Simon Says Stamp), Glimmer Plate (Essential Duo Lines Rectangles - Spellbinders), Glimmer Hot Foil (Matte Gold - Spellbinders), Embossing Powder (White - Hero Arts), Nuvo Crystal Drops (Gloss White), Connect Glue (Gina K)

CAS Christmas June Challenge - be merry

Hi everyone,

It's time for a reminder post for CAS Christmas. This month's challenge theme is:

Here's my card:

[How I made the card]

1. Stamped 6 snowmen with Versafine Onix ink and clear heat-embossed them.

2. Stamped the sentiment in red pigment ink and clear heat-embossed it.

3. Made masks for the snowmen, and sponged light blue over the sentiment and the masked images.

4. Peeled the masks and colored the snowmen with Zig markers.

5. Die-cut the panel using the frame die.

6. Glued the front panel onto the light blue card base.

For inspiration, there are cute and fun snowman sample cards on the challenge blog, and many more in the gallery!

Add a snowman card or two to your Christmas card stash, and share the card with us! The link is open until June 24th!

Stamp: Little Snowman Agenda (Mama Elephant), Snow Globe Sentiments (My Favorite Stripes)
Paper: Basic White, Bashful Blue (Stampin' Up!)
Ink: Tumbled Glass (Distress Oxide Ink - Ranger), Memento Luxe (Love Letter - Tsukineko), Amalgam Ink (Gina K), VersaMark (Tsukineko), Zig Clean Color Real Brush Marker (Kuretake)

Other: Dies (Lacy Scallop Frame - Reverse Confetti), Masking Magic (Gina K), Embossing Powder (Clear - Hero Arts), Connect Glue (Gina K)

CAS Christmas June Challenge - merry christmas

Hi everyone,

I'm hosting this month's challenge at CAS Christmas and my prompt is Snowman. 

We are so happy to have Steph (My Paper Corner) as Guest Designer. Welcome, Steph!

In case you don't have any snowman stamps or dies, I made a card without using  a stamp or die today. I hope this will inspire you to play along with us, with or without snowman supplies. 😊

Here's my card:

[How I made the card]

1. Foiled the sentiment frame on a piece of white card stock.

2. Cut out a carrot from orange felt and a heart from blue felt.

3. Attached enamel dot eyes, and glued the carrot and the heart to the framed panel.

4. Adhered the front panel to the card base.

Check out the challenge blog for wonderful clean and simple Snowman cards from the Design Team and our Guest Designer, Steph. I'd love to see you in the gallery!

The challenge is open until June 24th.

Paper: Basic White (Stampin' Up!)

Others: Glimmer Plate (Christmas Essential Glimmer Rectangles - Spellbinders), Glimmer Hot Foil (Gold - Spellbinders), Enamel dots (Black - Recollections), Felt (Orange Zest - My Favorite Things, Robin's Egg - Taylored Expressions), Connect Glue (Gina K)