Merry & Bright

This card did not go well as planned.  I was using the ornament die cut from a Sizzix Framelits stamp & die set.  After die cutting the ornament on paper making a template, I inked inside the negative die cut with Blueprint Sketch & Chipped Sapphire distress inks.  I made some stripes & star shapes on the ornaments with a silver gel pen. Then I stamped the  Merry & Bright sentiment from the set with Versamark ink & heat embossed it with silver embossing powder.  I framed the panel with a matching blue card stock.  Then I glued that panel onto a silver card stock panel. That's where the problem came in.  I put glue on the back of that silver card panel & when I placed it on the final blue card base every place where I had glue on the back show through, and it doesn't even look silver in the picture...more like gold!!Oh Well...not everything turns out like you planned!!

Challenge Entered:

Winnie & Walter WCMD Coordinating Die Coloring

Jesus is the Reason

This card just like the previous one was made using the negative of a die cut as a stencil to ink inside. The star die I used to make my negative die cut was from the Our Daily Bread's Snowflake Stars die & stamp set. I inked the negative star space with Mustard Seed distress ink.  Then I made tiny little dots all around the inside of the star with a gold jelly roll pen.  Next I stamped the manger scene from a Hero Arts stamp set over the star with Versafine Black Onyx ink.  The sentiment is from the same stamp set using that same black ink. 

Challenge Entered:

Winnie & Walter WCMD Coordinating Die Coloring

Blessed Holiday Season

Christmas cards are probably the ones I make most next to birthday cards. This one, though it is very clean & simple was made for a challenge where you had to use the die from a stamp & die set, make a template basically by cutting the design out of paper, and use the negative space with ink.  The tree die used from from & stamp & die set from Stampendous.  I used Peeled Paint distress ink on the tree, and then added teeny red light strands on the tree with glitter gel pen.  Everyone of those strands is red in real life, but I swear in the picture some of them look gold!  The sentiment is from a Christmas stamp set by Hero Arts.  I then added the whole panel to a red card base.  I think it turned out pretty cool!

Challenge Entered:

Winnie & Walter WCMD Coordinating Die Coloring

Happy Birthday

You have to figure this crazy card will bring a smile to some child's face!  This is the Funny Farm Crew stamp set from Your Next Stamp.  I stamped all the critters on white card stock, colored them with Promarkers, and cut them all out by hand.  The hill was made by cutting some green card stock with a curved stitched die, and after heat embossing the sentiments (from the same stamp set) onto it, I adhered it to a blue card base.  After figuring out how I wanted to place them, I attached each one of them on the hill with foam tape. 

Challenge Entered:

Winnie & Walker WCMD Lucy 7 Limit

 1 die cut, 1 stamp set, 2 layers, 3 colors-blue,green, pink

Why Fit In

I bought this fun sentiment from a booth at Stampaway, and I have no idea who the maker is...it was a single stamp in a clearance bin.  The cute flamingos are from a Technique Tuesday set called Floyd & Frannie Flamingo. I colored them with Promarkers & cut them out with the coordinating die.  I adhered the four pink ones onto some fun patterned paper, then popped the green one up with foam tape. 

Challenge Entered:

Winnie & Walter WCMD Lucky 7 

Limit 2 Colors, 2 layers, 2 stamp sets, 1 patterned paper