Watercooler Wednesday Challenge 129 - Libby's All About Christmas Challenge

Libby is hosting our Challenge this week!

It is All About Christmas.

I give around 100 or more Christmas cards each year, it helps if I start making them early so this is a perfect challenge to help me get some done.

I love the stamp set Star of Light! I wish the photo really showed how beautiful this card turned out.

I used Night of Navy Cardstock for the base with a layer of Whisper White Cardstock. I sponged a piece of Glossy White Cardstock with Dapper Denim, Night of Navy and Elegant Eggplant inks, after buffing and heat setting the inks I heat embossed the swirl and greeting with White Embossing Powder. I cut a piece of White Glimmer Paper with the Starlight Thinlits popping it up with thin strips of Dimensionals.

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Watercooler Wednesday Challenge 128 - Heidi's Masculine "Anything Goes" Challenge

Heidi is hosting this weeks challenge, I love when we have a masculine, they are a little harder to do and we always seem to need cards for many different occasions. I left the sentiment off the front and then I will be able to add one to the inside when I have occasion to need a masculine card.

This is a fast and simple card and will be available in this week stamp classes. 

The base is Thick Very Vanilla Cardstock and the ovals are Early Espresso and Very Vanilla. I love the DSP it is one from Wood Textures DSP Stack, I love this stack of paper the colors in the woods are so rich!

The image is from Heartland Stamp Set stamped in Early Espresso Ink.

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Watercooler Wednesday Challenge 127 - Judy's All About Birthdays Challenge

I CASEd card from our quarterly demonstrator magazine with a little tweaking for this card,

The Stamp set I used is Blooms & Wishes. I used Thick Whisper White Cardstock for the base layered with a piece of Peekaboo Peach Cardstock I stamped on the new Glossy White Cardstock, The colors seem a little more vibrant when stamped on Glossy.

Inks I used were Peekaboo Peach, Berry Burst, Melon Mambo, Marnia Mist, Fresh Fig, Lemon Lime Twist and Wild Wasabi, lots of color!

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Eastern Beauty

Another card with Eastern Beauty and Eastern Medallions Thinlits.

The card base is Thick Whisper White Card Stock cut 11" x 4.25" folded in half.  The medallion was cut into the base with the Eastern Medallion Thinlits. Medallions were also cut from Gold Foil and Tranquil Tide Card Stock and layered on top of each other. The center is a 1/2" circle of Berry Burst Card Stock. The ink used are Berry Burst and Tranquil Tide. On the inside back panel is a Circle cut from Berry Burst CS with Layering Circle Framelits.

So Many Shell

I love sea shells! I started collecting them as a 3 year old living in Samoa. My collection includes shells from there, California and Florida. 

The card stock is Thick Whisper White and Whisper White, the corners were rounded with the Envelope Punch Board. The top layer is popped up with Dimensionals. The shells are from the set So Many Shells  some are fussy cut and popped up with Dimensionals. The sand is from Touches of Texture. Inks used are Flirty Flamingo, Calypso Coral, Cajun Craze, So Saffron(stamped off once), Sahara Sand, and Pear Pizzazz. I love the Greeting in the So Many Shells set, I love how they have both sayings for the front and for the inside.  

Watercooler Wednesday Challenge 126 - Fiona's Feminine "Anything Goes" Challenge

Fiona is hosting this weeks challenge!

This is the card I made first but wasn't happy with it! I'm not sure why I made it landscape because when I tipped it to portrait, much better!

My card base is Lemon Lime Twist Cardstock with a layer of Whisper White ran through the Big Shot in the Layered Leaves Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder. I used the Beautiful Bouquet Bundle for this card. The sentiment and flowers are from the Beautiful Bouquet stamp set, cut with the Bouquet Bunch Framelits.

Cardstock used is Lemon Lime Twist, Berry Burst, Whisper White, Very Vanilla and Garden Green. The inks are Berry Burst, Fresh Fig, Marina Mist, Pink Pirouette and Crushed Curry.

I used the Stitched Shapes Framelits and the Layering Circle Framelits as well.

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Happy 4th of July!

Heartland

I really like the stamp set Heartland, I love the country images.

The card stock used is Thick Very Vanilla, Pool Party, and Shimmery White.  I stamped the barn image in the upper left corner of the Shimmery White CS with Basic Gray Ink. I love using Basic Gray for watercoloring so much I don't even pull black out any more. The tractor was stamped on a scrap piece of Shimmery White. I used Watercolor Pencils and a Blender Pen to color the images. The tractor was cut out with Layering Circle Framelits and popped up with Dimensionals. 

Birthday Blooms

Last week when I stamped and watercolored the Graceful Garden rose, I started this card.

I had to stop before I started with the white, when I came back to it the next day I decided I liked it as is. A customer saw this and asked for it to be added to the card buffet, so I did ;).

The card stock is Soft Suede and Whisper White. The image and greeting are both from Birthday Blooms and are stamped in Soft Suede ink. The watercoloring is done with Soft Suede ink.

Watercooler Wednesday Challenge 125 - Kath's Christmas Challenge

It was my turn to host a challenge and I chose a Christmas Challenge with an added twist,  non-traditional Christmas colors.

The colors I used are Basic Black, Basic Gray, Whisper White, Melon Mambo and Lemon Lime Twist, almost traditional but still non-traditional.
I used all retired stamps for my card.

I stamped the poinsettia on Whisper White Cardstock with Basic Gray ink on a scrap of Whisper White I stamped the image twice and colored the image with Melon Mambo and Lemon Lime Twist. I fussy cut them out, cutting only the center petals from the second flower and popping it up on the first with Dimensionals. I stamped the sentiment on another scrap with Lemon Lime Twist and cut it out with a banner Framelit, I sponged the edge of the banner lightly with Melon Mambo.

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Graceful Garden

The card on page 163 of the annual catalog, using Floral Statements, was the inspiration for this card. 

The card stock used is Soft Suede and Whisper White. The rose was stamped with Soft Suede ink and watercolored with Soft Suede and White ink (yes I forgot there is a white watercolor pencil, next time...). I rounded the corner using the Envelope Punch Board.  I will experiment so more white white watercoloring and see I come up with, this might show up in an upcoming Card Buffet.

This Little Piggy

This Little Piggy was one that was on the to of my list for my first order from the new catalog.

Stacking pigs is a fun way to use the set. This card will be one of the choices you can make in card buffets over the next two weeks.

Card stock used is Blushing Bride, Early Espresso and Thick Whisper White. The image is stamped on the Whisper White with Basic Gray ink and colored with Watercolor Pencils.

Watercooler Wednesday Challenge 124 - Fiona's Masculine Anything Goes Challenge

Fiona hosted this week's challenge.

Masculine cards make me stretch myself.  I've had the stamp set Country Livin' since it came and I'm finally using it.  I thought the boot image would be great with the Faux Leather technique.

I heated tan fun foam with my heat gun until it started shrinking and was shiny, I pressed the stamp,  inked with Early Espresso ink, into the hot fun foam. It leaves a debossed image in the fun foam. I cut the fun foam and a piece of Dapper Denim cardstock with the largest circle Stitched Shapes Framelits(the fun foam shrinks that much). 

The card base is Thick Whisper White and the layer is Pool Party sponged with Dapper Denim ink.

I used a thinlit from Eastern Medallions Thinlits and a Circle from Layering Circle Framelits to cut the Silver Foil and the same circle to cut Dapper Denim cardstock. I used a 1" strip of Wood Textures DSP as well as a coil of string I had on hand.

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