Sunshine & Love

 One more card this weekend, this one with flowers of course, is for Gina K August Monthly Mix Challenge, White Space. I used the "Layered Daisies & Dies" from the Sunshine and Love kit which was at least a year ago. I loved this particular layering set and used it on cards before. This time I used several shades of Gina K yellow and gold ink, and embossed the centers of the daisies with white. I left the space around the flowers empty because of the challenge. Normally I would use a stencil or background stamp to create a background. I hardly ever leave white space... not sure why, but I like how it looks and will try to leave some white space more often. I am also entering this card in the MFT Day 5 Summer School - White Space.

Perk Up

 Day 5 for My Favorite Things Summer School - White Space led to this card with Pure Innocence "Steeped in Love" stamp set. This concludes the 5 days of Summer School for this year's MFT.

I'm So Grateful - Ombre'

 Was a busy weekend in the craft room. Here's a card for My Favorite Things Day 4 of Summer School - Ombre'. I used Snow Cone, Blue Raspberry, and Tropical Teal with the "Thanks Very Much" stamp.

Christmas in August

Here is the card project I put together after Bonnie Krebs challenged us to make a Christmas in August scene with Art Impression stamps and Tombow Markers. Bonnie does a live video every first and third Wednesday of the month and has quite a following of water colorists. I REALLY love doing these little scenes. You can see Bonnie's lesson here https://www.facebook.com/ArtImpressionsRubberStamps/videos/682275602359655/

Happy "Tranquil" Birthday

A crafty friend recently suggested that I check out the Penny Black Saturday Challenge which is a month long challenge using Penny Black stamps. I DO have quite a few of these stamps, but it's been years since I entered any cards in their challenges. I am going to try to broaden my entries into the "challenge world." Here's the first card I will enter into PBSC for August - Anything Goes or Make the Sentiment the Focus with a "Tranquil Buds." And since it's a Birthday card, I can also place it on the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge "Happy Birthday."

Happy Birthday

Spent time in the craft room organizing some products which I hadn't put away, and realized I had a flower stamp which I never used. Sounds crazy, but this has probably happened to other crafters at some point or another. I combined several challenges to create this fairly simple birthday card using "Flower Silhouettes" and the "Splotchy Dots" background stamp.

Entering this in My Favorite Thing Color Challenge #146, MFT Summer School Day 3 - Symmetry, and Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge "Happy Birthday."

Happy Birthday Bear

Here is a birthday card which I made twice. The first one was for my grandson Chase who had the nickname of "Chasie-bear" when he was younger, and the second one was for a friend who wanted a similar card for her niece because she loved it so much! I used the Altenew Diamond Builder Stencil for the bottom portion of the card. The top portion is Hero Arts Wish Big Peek A Book stamp. Kobi Bearing Gifts from Studio Katia is the focal picture. The balloon is from Sunny Studio. Putting this card on the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge "Happy Birthday."