MUSE Challenge Week #40

 

 

This week at MUSE the lovely Darnell is the guest designer.  My inspiration for the card is Darnell a person who is kind and thoughtful to all.  I chose a favorite stamp of mine Flower Fields and marked it with SU! writers and spritzed with water.  When dry I stamped the verbiage and heat embossed with clear embossing powder.  Next I matted the image onto Melon Mambo SU! paper.  On the left side of the base cardstock I attached a strip of washi tape, and then attached the design.  I used the colors used by Darnell (a great combination) and attached the "pearl" which was significant in her story.

Stamps - Stampendous "Flower Fields", verbiage SU! (set unknown)
Paper - SU! Whisper White, Melon Mambo
Ink - SU! Writers Melon Mambo, Pretty in Pink, Strawberry Slush, Pistachio Pudding, Old Olive
Other - Versafine, embossing powder, washi tape, pearl

 

 



 

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CASOLOGY Week 66: PUMPKIN

Well this week the cue word for CASology is pumpkin.  Didn't I do that last week?  In yesterday's mail I received my weekly stamp from Unity (what a sucker for stamps) and I thought this verbiage was lovely.  Earlier in the week while at lunch with a friend a man approached me and gave me a very sweet compliment.  When I mentioned this to son #1 he suggested I "play it forward."  And that is what I will do with this card.  I will send it to my granddaughter (16) who has been so helpful to me with my blog despite the fact we live 400 miles away from one another.  I feel so blessed and grateful that she is my granddaughter - she is a lovely young woman.

Onward.  The image was inked and heat embossed and then I colored with copics.  Dang have I said that before?  I die cut with the cute Lil Inkers rectangle and then matted with a piece of green paper.  I embossed with Swiss Dots and then mounted the cute bear with pumpkin image using mounting tape.

Honestly I was not going to make a card this week.  Right now I should be packing for a train trip to the Grand Canyon but decided I wanted to make a card for Ashley.  Hope I see some fall foliage because I have not seen any yet.  And I just got a phone asking if we could babysit the grandsons (ages 4 and 7) for son #2 who lives closeby.  Sure.  What more could one ask for in life grandkids and cardmaking. 

Paper - Neenah, SU! Green Galore
Copics - E07, 25, 27, 37, YR12, 14, 16, 18, G24, 28, Y17, BG10
Stamps - Sweet 'n Sassy "Rhubarb's Autumn Joys," Unity "Leafing Grateful"
Embossing Folder - Cuttlebug Swiss Dots
Die Cut - Lil Inker Triangle

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CASology Week 65: CRISP

For this week's CASology the cue word is "crisp."  My first thoughts were lettuce or a clean white shirt.  Well I have neither stamp so I thoughts crisp should mean the look of the card such as clean and simple.  My take of crisp then is this one layer card and after scoring I then die cut the center of the panel and then embossed with an embossing folder.  The stamp image was centered in the middle of the aperature with ink and heat embossed.  Using an aqua brush and SU! markers I colored the pumpkin and flowers and applied a pearl pen into the center of the yellow flowers.  Thinking of You verbiage was stamped beneath the image and out of sight of the closed card.

Stamp - Unity Pumpkin Blossoms, SU! (verbiage, set unknown)
Die Cut - Nestabilities Circle
Embossing Folder - Cuttlebug Divine Swirl
Markers - SU! Daffodil Delight, Perfect Plum, Pistachio Pudding, Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive, Melon Mambo, Ruby Red, Crisp Cantaloupe
Other - Versafine Ink, Viva Pearl Pen (Cream)

CASology: Week 64: Harvest

This card is for CASology's theme of "harvest."  I selected this stamp set from Our Craft Lounge and chose several of the components.  On watercolor paper I first stamped the corn and did this by coloring with SU! markers and then spritzing with water and letting this dry completely.  Next I separately stamped the two baskets and the corn and heat embossed them.  The coloring was done with markers and an aqua brush.  I rub the marker on an acrylic block and pick the color up with the brush.  This image was die cut and then embossed within the die cut (too much work).  I mounted this piece onto another piece of watercolor paper.  Separately I stamped and embossed the verbiage, from a different stamp set, cut it, scored it and punched a hole and attached with jute twine.

Thoughts:  In the last few weeks I have made many cards in the fall/harvest theme and this is my favorite.  I consider myself a copic gal but I so enjoy using the watercolor techniques and keep trying different methods.  Heat embossing an image makes for controlled coloring.  Since I was a young girl I have loved to color and thus the name of my blog.  The spelling of colour was used to show my English birthplace and little did I know when I chose the spelling would I encounter so many Canadians and Brits - guess the joke is on me.  I was born in England to an English mother and an American father (during WWII) but because of my father's citizenship I am an American.

Stamps: Our Craft Lounge (no longer in business) "Bountiful Harvest",  Sweet 'n Sassy "Rhubarb's Autumn Joys" (verbiage)
Markers:  SU! Daffodil Delight, Pumpkin Pie, Ruby Red, Pistachio Pudding, Old Olive, Crumb Cake, Close to Cocoa
Other:  Nestabilities Classic Square die cut, Versafine, watercolor paper, jute twine, embossing powder, Scor-pal
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Less is More Sketch #10

This card was made for Less is More Sketch 10.  The wind catcher image was stamped with Versafine and heat embossed onto watercolor paper and then die cut.  Using an aqua painter, blender pen and SU! markers I applied the colors.  The stars and the circle were colored with At You Spica pens.  When the image was completely dry I applied Pacific Point writer pen onto an acrylic block and wet the ink then with the brush applied this color around the entire image.  Mounting tape was used to attach the circle image.  The verbiage was also heat embossed and cut out with a SU! punch.

Stamp - Unity "Dream Capture"
Nestabilities - Circle Die
SU! Writers - Daffodil Delight, Pumpkin Pie, Tempting Turquoise, Pacific Point, Strawberry Slush, Pistachio Pudding, Real Red, Garden Green, Rich Razzleberry
Other -  At You Spica Silver and Gold, Versafine, embossing powder, punch, mounting tape