It’s the Flower Challenge’s 3rd Birthday and this month’s challenge is CAS. It’s a favorite style of mine, so I wanted to get in another entry before the challenge ends tomorrow. 

I haven’t tired of Altenew’s “Weekend Doodles” set so here’s another variation:

The floral image was stamped on Bristol cardstock and watercolored with Altenew Tropical Fiesta markers. After die cutting it, I added it to Fresh Snow linen cardstock that I had used Papertrey Ink’s “Pierced Rectanges” to create a frame. 

The sentiment is from an older Papertrey Ink set called “Birthday Style.” After adding the white panel to a Hawaiian Shores card, I added a few Rainstones as embellishment. 

There’s lots of white space, which qualifies it for Clean and Simple.

It’s been awhile since I posted two days in a row! But I have a card for the current challenge at Time Out which is “Encouraging.”

I often need these cards, and I love the little wreath from Altenew’s “Weekend Doodles.”

I colored the wreath in fall colors and die cut it, adding it with some dimensional tape to a card of Fresh Snow Linen after adding a strip of patterned paper from the “Winter Woods” collection–all Papertrey Ink.

Another Clean and Simple card added to the stash!

Typically, I’d wait until Halloween to share this year’s cards, but the Simon Says Wednesday challenge is Halloween and I know for a fact, none of my grandchildren read my blog!

Luckily this year, I get to hand deliver cards to all five of them—though not on the same day. First off, for Hannah. All the supplies are from Papertrey Ink with the exception of the sentiment which is a sticker from Michael’s.

The only embellishment was to glitter the stars and the witch’s boots with the Nuvo Clear Glitter pen which doesn’t show in the photograph.

All the rest of the cards are very similar. I used the “Caught in the Web” die, “To Die For Sentiments: Halloween” and “Ghosts and Ghoulies” from Ink to Paper. Caleb’s (below) didn’t get any glitter, but it does have a fuzzy spider with black eyes and eight legs. 

The rest all feature glitter in one form or another. This one has a glittery purple card base and the letters of the sentiment were covered with glitter.

This time it’s the web that’s die cut from silver glitter paper.

There’s a fifth card with a black glittery web, but somehow I don’t have a photo of it, and it’s already in a sealed envelope.  Here, however, are the goodie bags for the little girls. Caleb and Hannah’s are already packed for our trip to Wisconsin.

Here’s hoping the weather cooperates for all the little trick & treaters!

It’s been a week since I posted. I have lots to share, but haven’t had the energy to get blog posts organized. But I did pull out a favorite wood block stamp for the current Addicted to CAS challenge: Plaid.

It’s one of my favorite stamps to paper piece, and typically works as a get well or encouragement card for either guys or women. This plaid from my stash seems more feminine that many I have. The stamp itself is a Memory Box stamp, and the sentiment comes from an old Papertrey Ink set, “Chair-ished.” I added a bit of colored pencil under the chair to ground it. The card is a premade one from Paper Source. Fortunately, I don’t have anyone right this minute in need of a get well card, but it’s good to have one on hand.

After many beautiful sunny days (quite unusual for Rochester!) today is gray and rainy. It’s a good day to edit photos (I’m almost done with our trip photos) and write blog posts. 

Pink Fresh Studio has become one of my favorite stamp companies. They hosted two challenges yesterday for World Cardmaking Day. I managed to finish a card for the first challenge: favorite technique.

One of my favorite techniques is to color images, and I’m also a fan of watercolor backgrounds which I don’t do often enough. I combined both with this stamp set from Pink Fresh: “Aviary.” I love the whimsical images in this set.

After watercoloring the background on Tim Holtz watercolor paper, I die cut it with a Spellbinders rectangle die and stamped the sentiment (also from “Aviary.”) 

The individual images were also watercolored and die cut with the accompanying dies. Before I adhered the background to the Soft Stone card, I dry embossed a slightly larger Spellbinders rectangle to create a subtle frame. 

The final step was to arrange the three images. I used a bit of dimensional tape under the cute bird. 

We’re off after church to the Finger Lakes with a friend for lunch and to pick up our fall order of wine from Boundary Breaks. Hoping it doesn’t rain.

It’s World Cardmaking Day, and I’ve had a bit of time to create a couple of cards. I’m hoping I’ll have time to finish at least one more that needs to get in the mail later today. But for now here’s a card for the current challenge at The Flower Challenge: Clean and Simple. Right up my alley.

In August, I was lucky enough to attend an Altenew Open House in Syracuse. We had the opportunity to play with the September release, so the image from the now released “Flower Garden” was stamped on a piece of white cardstock then. All it needed was a bit of coloring and a sentiment (also from Altenew).

I added the front panel to a card made from Papertrey Ink’s “Lilac Grace,” and called it done. It’s almost a one layer card!

I don’t often do partial coloring, but I really like it here, and think I’ll do more of it in the future.

The second card is also for a challenge: Inspired By: A Truckload of Fall. 

As soon as I saw the image, I knew I’d play along this week. I had the perfect stamp set and it had been awhile since I pulled it out: “Little Pickup” by Honeybee Stamps. 

After coloring the image with Copics, I die cut the piece with a “Stitched Rectangle,” and then die cut a slightly larger “Stitched Rectangle” from a piece of patterned paper by Sunny Studio. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink’s “Scene It: Celebrations” set. All was then adhered to a kraft card. Not quite sure which guy will get this card this fall. If it was a bit more CAS I could enter it in another current challenge for masculine cards. I didn’t think of that while I was creating it!