Fussy cut poinsettia wreath

Another DTGD card here, this one for DTGD10BevMom, DTGD10kmahany and DTGD10rsalamon.
I am also entering this for the CPS sketch 177
I stamped this beautiful Northwoods poinsettia wreath in Always Artichoke SU classic and coloured with my Copic markers.  I cut oy the whole image and popped up on foam for some dimension.  For the border, I used a MS punch and layered a length of lace over it.  The sentiment is a SU one that I haver had for a while.

I won't be making too many of these cards because I can't lie...this one took a while to colour and cut :0)
Thanks for taking a look,
Chriss

A DTGD trio

Good morning, it's Friday :)
Another DTGD card for three of the challenges,DTGD10joanervin, DTGD10AmberDawn and DTGD10leighobrien
I am using another Lockhart stamp, this pretty peony bouquet.  I stamped the image in Memento London Fog and coloured/shaded with Copic markers.  The ivory panel that the image is layered onto is textured
with a PaperTrey Ink plate and then edged with soft orange.  I added some shabby seam binding that went with the image colours and the background paper.  The fancy oval brad is from MM and has an ornate texture to it.  The dp is from a Matstack called Once upon a time from DCWV...pretty selections in this collection.
I have tried a few times and different angles to get a better pic, but have not been successful...
I hope to be back later with another card,
Thanks for taking a peek!
Chriss

a DTGD plethera

Hi there!  Hope you are all well and enjoying the sights from CHA..oh I wish I was there ;)
I have a card that I made and can mark off a few more DTGD challenges.  The card is for 
DTGD10tayloredexpressions, DTGD10melmel, DTGD10debdeb, DTGD10cindy_haffner DTGD10flowergal36 and a Flourish challenge, FTTC77 to use a pin.  In my case I have used a teeny clothes pin with a ladybug attached to it.  I have been hoarding these for 3 years now...so time to let a few of them fly ;)
I used this great sketch as the foundation to my card and then wanted a black/cream/red theme, so I stamped this little Lockhart geranium stamp and coloured with Copic markers.  The black and cream paper is another hoarded sheet of BG LilyKate.  The red patterned pieces are from DCWV Summer Dream Matstack.  The tag is a MS punch and the sentiment is from the PaperTrey Ink set Tea for Two Additions.
Thanks so, so much for looking!
Chriss

Smiling at the seashore

Good morning everyone!  I feel like I have been missing in action, but trying to get some challenges done.  I am working on some DTGD challenges and hope to post all of those this week, but for today, I have a card that covers two challenges, the City Crafter Challenge Blog #14(a sketch) and the Moxie Fab World (a graphics card, a real challenge for me because I don't think I do graphics, very seldom)

I started with this PTI paper from the Green Boutique and used some Inkadinkado seashore stamps that have graphics in them!  I really wanted to use these cool seashell toothpicks that I found at Anthropology a couple of weeks ago on sale (love the sale section) and I wrapped them with a narrow Japanese masking tape that I had.  The sketch from CityCrafters was perfect for these small stamps that I stamped in Memento Tux. black and coloured with my Copic markers.  I cut them out and layered them over a plain white square of cs and sandwiched the toothpicks in the center.  The sentiment is an old "Special Hostess/demonstrator" set from SU that I got when I was a demo several years ago.

That is it for my foray into the graphic design world...I know, don't quit my day job!

Have a great Sunday!

Thanks for taking a peek!

Chriss

DTGD~Rooster Thank You

Another DTGD card, this one is for 2 challenges DTGD10DeborahLynneS and DTGD10StamperSharon.  I am having fun with these challenges!  Thank You SCS "Dirty Gals"  I look forward to this event each year!

The image is a newly acquired Lockhart rooster and when I saw it, I knew I wanted to use this to paper piece with.  I reached for my CosmoCricket Garden Variety 6X6 paper pad and a few scraps of CC Early Bird.  I love how his little eye was stamped on the edge of a flower pint and the eyeball is the flower center.  I used a couple of the oversized rectangles from Spellbinders for the panels and edged some of them with my "sketch" side of a Copic marker.  The rooster's comb and dangly bit(don't know the official name of this) was also coloured with a Copic.  I stamped the Thank You in Memnto Tux. black with a PTI stamp from this year's anniversary set and punched it out with a SU small oval punch.  The little flowers were also punched with the trio flower SU punch and I added rhinestones to the centers.  The flourish is a Sizzlets "Scribbles" die and I added rhinestones to it also.

So that is it for this  card, hope I get to make another today before I leave for work this afternoon!  Have a great day, and thanks for peeking in!

Chriss

Pumpkin Bouquet

Hello there!  I have been itching to do some of the DTGD challenges and finally, here is my first for this year's round of fun for the DTGD challenge week.  If you are a Fan Club member, you know what I am talking about and if you are not yet a member...what are you waiting for?  Splitcoast has this super exciting challenge week every year!  Check it out...you won't be disappointed!

This card is for the DTGDcraftycaro challenge.  It is also for the CPS176 sketch challenge.

I stamped my image in Memento Tux. black ink and coloured with Copic markers.  Cut this out and popped up on some foam bits and layered onto a Label One die, cut from a SU 6 X 6 paper pad.  I also added MS Brownstone glitter to the daisy centers.

The card front is a nice textured warm brown from a DCWV paper pad and the two front panels are fromKaiser's Peachy Keen pad.  I stitched these into place.  I made a center border with a MS modern garland punch to layer over the card front and under the focal image.  I added some fall colored rhinestones on either side of the pumkin bouquet.  The stamp is a new image that I bought from DRS designs.  Here is a close-up of the sparkly centers, unfortunately, the lighting was not the same, so a very poor interpretation of the colours...

Thanks for looking!

Chriss

Sshh...snowdrops for cyclamen!

Hi there everyone!  Hope you are having a great Friday so far...
I had some time to play a little today and made a card for a couple of challenges.  The challenges are for the Shabby Tea Room and the Flourishes July Christmas challenge. 
I started off with this beautiful paper from GCD Studios called Yorkshire Pudding (love the traditional colours in this) and I thought it would lend itself to the Shabby Tea Room theme nicely because of the tea stained sandy/brown background.
I am using a Flourishes sentiment from the Christmas Wreath set #68 and the flowers (these are probably snowdrops, judging from the slender leaves, but let's pretend that they are Christmas cyclamen!)from another set "Mixed Greetings" which can be seen here.
I stamped the "cyclamen" image onto some PTI vintage cream cs in SU Always Artichoke and colored with Copic markers.  The basket is stamped in Close to Cocoa and also filled in with Copic markers.
I used a classic Spellbinder Nestability circle to cut and emboss and layered it onto another Nestability Blossom shape with foam.  The sentiment is stamped and cut out with a smaller blossom die.
I made a couple of paper borders with a MS border punch and added a top layer of lace to this.  I punched out a couple of fern branches and placed this little felt and fabric birdie that I just bought this morning from a fun store ;)
Thanks for taking a peek and hope your weekend gets off to a great start!
Chriss

You are the Domestic Goddess...

Hello all, hope you all had a great weekend!

I was playing around this morning and was able to get a card done that qualifies for 2 challenges!  The 2 challenges are TESC120, this sketch and the Play Date Cafe "Provencal" inspiration, challenge #37.  I chose to focus on the warm yellows and blue and I thought that this Graphic 45 "Domestic Goddess" was a good fit, from the Provencal looking tiles on the square panels to the ladies on the tag.  They look European to me circa 1930's.
Following Taylor's sketch, I made the squares and stitched them to the stripes horizontal panel from the same line.  I am starting to enjoy stitching on cards more now...I know it is not a new thing for so many of you, but I am just really getting comfortable with it.  I embellished the DG tag with some stitching, lace and silk ribbon and also used an old pair old decorative scissors to fancy up the edges and sponged on some T!m Holtz tea distress.  I added a partial spray of pearls on the tea pot and added a sentiment from a stamp that I found at HL.  That's it, pretty easy!
Thanks for taking a peek!
chriss

Violets and Tea

Happy Friday everyone!  I have been playing at different challenges all week and having so much fun.  Hope you have had a productive and happy week too!

Here is the card that I made for the Shabby Tea Room challenge, to "Make an Impression"!
I started off with this new tea stamp that I have from DRS Designs.  I think it quite elegant, but I wanted to create with an unexpected colour palette and these papers from DCWV "Summer Dream" were just the trick...I think ;)  I used a CB embossing folder called Ironworks for the main panel and layered under it another patterned sheet from the same matstack.  I also used a CB die for the two corners to carry out the ironworks design theme.  The tea cup image was stamped onto a white card stock and another aqua/teal pattern from the same little matstack.  I cut out the patterned teacup and coloured the white cs one, flowers only and then cut them out to adhere onto the teacup with foam.  I added a little teaspoon and teabag charm that I have had in my stash for probably close to 10 years!  The little tag is a MS punched one and I stamped Teatime with a PTI stamp and then added some more of this narrow silk ribbon that I purchased locally a couple of days ago.  So, that's it for now...thanks so much for looking!
Chriss

Hot summer reds (and yellow)

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Hello again!  Hope you are having a good summery week and enjoying some sunshine.  It has been raining here in Austin and quite a bit cooler than normal for these parts, but our lakes and trees are singing!
I was able to play again today and make a card for the City Crafter Challenge blog and this weeks theme is to make a "Some like it Hot" summery red card.  This is their 12th challenge!
I also saw that Julia S. has asked us to use yellow in our cards for the Ways To Use It SCS weekly Thursday challenge.  My card is for both of the challenges (hope that's ok), so here goes... My inspiration is from this Sassafrass Lass Marmalade dp.  The pattern looks like rays of sunshine radiating from the red doily in the top left corner.  I layered this dp with a bright and rich yellow cs from the Paper Studio and then a sheet from Cosmo Cricket's Garden Variety.  I had this great Adirondack chair embellishment from Jolies and gave it a somewhat aged patina using 3 Copic markers, pearl white, warm gray#2 and cream.  I really like the colour and aging that the markers created.  The geranium stamp is a Lockhart that I bought from Ellen Hutson (my little Lockharts are growing into a large family)  When we have a "normal" summer here in Austin, geraniums are about the only thing that is easy to keep alive!
I coloured it with various Copics and cut out quickly, not my regular fussy cutting.  That is it!
Here is the geranium and chair finish close up.  I think this would be a great card to send to a friend that you are missing and I am thinking of writing inside  "sittin' here missin' you"
Thanks so much for looking,
cheers, Chriss

Dear Friend CT100!

It's the Color Throwdown's 100th!!!

This is what I came up with using THE big challenge colours.  
There is quite the party going on over at the CT blog, trust me and go check it out for yourself!  Lots of wonderful prizes, waiting to be won.
Onto my little card...the card base is Baja Breeze and I used this wonderful dp from the Cosmo Cricket Early Bird line as it has BB and Certainly Celery in this cute pattern.  I then created a center panel with BB and gave it a tiny pierced scallop border with an EK border punch.  I stitched that onto the center of the card and added this great SU sentiment and cut out with a Spellbinders Label One die, edged it in BB and popped it onto foam.  I had these great glazed Heidi Grace pieces, a button bird and a cute bird tile sitting on the window ledge that I thought would work quite well with this colour theme, so I cut out two flowers in Certainly Celery with a PTI flower die and edged these in BB.  I added the HG bird to one of the flowers and a button from my stash.  Both of these "buttons" are threaded with a length of narrow pink silk ribbon that I bought at a brand new needlework shop...today!

Here is a close up of the bird tile and the red blind pull.  That's all the red I could manage...


I have to tell you, these colours really made me work and think, but I like the way it turned out :)
Thanks for taking a peek...now go and check out this wonderful Color Throwdown Bash!


Happy 100th Color Throwdown gals!
Thanks for taking a peek,
Chriss

Mojo146 Only...

Hello everyone!  I had some time to play today and really wanted to make a card for Julee's Mojo sketch this week, #146.
I started off with two patterned papers from the Lemonade pack and I embossed the mostly solid blue sheet with a CB folder and adhered it to my Baja Blue card front.  I created a narrow panel from the floral dp and used a MS border punch on either side.  Over that I made the three narrow panels from the same card stock and embossed them too.  The sentiment is from the very special Verve set "Believe". I love this sentiment and love the fonts that Julee used to create them with.












The sentiment was cut out with a petite oval Nestability and I cut out a larger one in the floral dp.
The beautiful flower is a Verve Plain Jane and I always refer to this flower as my elegant flower.  I stamped it with PTI Aqua Mist and then coloured in with a Copic.  I also coloured a scrap piece of the ivory cs in the yellow Copic and punched out a tiny circle to place my rhinestone on.
Here is a close up of the sentiment...so special!
Thanks for taking a peek!


Chriss


      ~seeds in my cup~
stamps        Verve Believe, elegant flower
paper          BG Lemonade, PTI vintage ivory
ink             Memento Tux. black, PTI Aqua Mist
access.        MS hydrangea border punch & leaf branch, Woodhaven rhinestones, Spellbinders petite ovals, CB Exotic flowers ef

An early TGIF

I saw a challenge over on the CCEE blog that was calling for me to use this stamp...

It is a sketch challenge that requires using a beverage, so this is what I came up with!

I love this little mousie (House Mouse) image and paired her up with some Basic Grey Lemonade papers.

She was stamped in Memento Tux. black onto PTI white and coloured with Copic markers. I also edged the oval in pink.

I used a PTI metal texture plate on the card front and over that layered the BG patterned paper. The solid pink strip was created with a MS border punch. I used small sparkly white stickers for the tgif and placed them on individual dahlia shapes (the smallest in the Nestability group) and popped up on foam and placed them on the upper left hand of the oval image. The bottom right hand of the oval was dressed up with some yellow paper flowers. That's

my Monday easy card. Thanks for

taking a peek!

Cheers!

Chriss

CCCB11 Shades of Green

The theme for this week's City Crafter Challenge 11 is to use shades of green.

Here is my try...

I made a very simple card using this pretty textured green and ivory patterned card stock from JoAnn's called Mint Green Porcelain (no brand name on the back?)for the card front and parts of a couple of the flowers and the sentiment label.

The flower punches are Martha Stewart and I layered the two different sizes...easy!

I made a border of laces and ruched ribbon that I had in my stash and sewed the top edge of the border with the sewing machine.

I had sewn the perimeter of the two card stock fronts together with the old sewing machine previous.

The SU! sentiment was stamped and cut out as was the teeny Inkadinkado bird cage. I added some tiny green rhinestones that I cut apart from a fancy rhinestone cluster and added these to the birdcage.

I popped the flowers, sentiment and birdcage on foam and placed on the card front.

That's pretty much it! I love how it turned out!

Great challenge!

Have a great Friday. It's raining here in Austin and will be raining for the whole weekend they are saying...

I am sure there will be some sort of break in the weather to do some grilling. Hope it is warm and sunny for you to celebrate the holiday weekend!

Thanks for taking a peek!

Chriss