As You Rest & Heal

I recently purchased this SSS "Stylized Tulips" die and wasn't sure how I wanted to use it at first. Blended Distress Inks on this  background panel seemed to be the right home for these tulips. Wanting to add a special touch, I used Gina K Design Petite Flourish background stamp on the tulips and some Antique Linen distress ink so the card stock wasn't completely white. I used a Spellbinders Candlewick rectangle die for the design around the panel and a sentitment from SSS "Healing Hugs" stamp set (one of my favorites.) This is for a special person who just got out of the hospital. Entering it in the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge "Anything Goes"  and Monday Challenge "Beautiful Botanicals." (a trick to keep all of the little pieces together as you work with them = use Press & Seal, invented by Jennifer McGuire's husband!)

closer view

Believe

This card project uses the water color stamps from Art Impression. They are so much fun because you can pick and choose whichever stamps you want to create whatever picture you want. The Bonnie Krebs's videos are very easy to follow. Here is her latest video - Bonnie Krebs AI video. And Sandy Allnock has two classes on how to use these stamps. I have taken both of her courses although I have not completed the second course on making AI scenes. Find Sandy's classes HERE. I want to add this project to the Art Impressions Simple Challenge this week. Plus, it fits into the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge "Anything Goes" and Monday Challenge "Beautiful Botanicals."

Offering Sympathy

Summer is slipping away and as much as I love the colors of fall for card projects, I can't resist coloring flowers! This card features a Penny Black stamp, sentiment from Altenew with a stencil background from Mint Owl Studios, together for a Sympathy card. I always need them and a few friends of mine always order sympathy cards from me, too. This image on water color paper was colored with Zig Real Brush Markers  I am entering this card in the Penny Black Saturday Challenge for August and Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Beautiful Botanicals.

Smile

I absolutely LOVE layering stencils and have been looking for new ones lately. Although you can mask areas of a stencil to make it perform like a layering set, some companies are producing these sets more and more. This stencil set is from Pretty Pink Posh "Layered Leaves & Flowers." I used Distress Inks for the background (stencils.) Then I searched through my sets to find a matching flower = Stampin'Up's Flower Patch and matching die "Flower Flair Framlets" to create several flowers to layer on top for more dimension. The "Smile" sentiment is from Technique Tuesday. This is for Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Beautiful Botanicals.

Gnome One Like You

Made this cute card for a friend a few days ago and thought I might as well add it to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge "Oh So Cute." These cute stamp images are from Purple Onion  and Open Studio, colored with copic markers. This is a 4-bar size card, so it's smaller than the standard A- 2 size.

Season's Greetings

This holiday card is for the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge "Oh So Cute!" Plus I am trying to get ahead on my holiday cards with Jenn Shurkus's "Get Cracking on Christmas Challenge. Check out her gorgeous card for this month by following the link. This card project uses an older stamp from Sunny Studio called "Snow Kissed" and the die scene from Sugar Pea Designs. Added in a few evergreen boughs and created this cute scene of the Penguin skating on a sheet of glitter paper! I also decorated an envelope to match.

Super Hero

I had sent a bunch of thank you cards to the staff at my local nursing homes and assisted living facilities a while back, but I found one lonely left over medical worker hiding on my desk. I decided not to let her go to waste. These images were offered for free from My Favorite Things, which was a wonderful gift for the crafting world. I decided to follow the sketch for this week. You will find the entries here - MFT Wednesday Sketch 503.