Just Us Girls challenge #848 - Die Week - Acorns

Hello everyone and welcome back to my blog. I am here to share my card for this week's Just Us Girls challenge and this week is Die Week and has Lisa given us the theme of 'Acorns'.  Something a little different but I'm sure we all have at least one acorn die lurking in our stash so come over and join in the fun with us. I cannot wait to see all your gorgeous creations. Our guest this month is Jane so please pop over and show her some love.

I did have a small acorn die in my stash but when I saw this large acorn shaker die I HAD to get it (it would have been rude not too right?).  I used shades of cream and brown and embossed my background for a bit of texture and dimension.  I think it turned out super cute and I hope you like it too. 

Here is my card:

A closer look at my shaker:

Plus I decorated the inside:

I began by cutting a cream panel 4" x 5 1/4" and used the falling leaves embossing folder to add some texture.  I die cut the acorn from a few different brown, kraft and cream card and also cut multiples of the inner portion so that I could stack them instead of using foam tape for my shaker window.  I ink blended around all the parts of the acorn as well as the cream embossed panel.  I also traced around the acorn die and cut a 'backer' for my acorn so that I could added foam squares behind it later.  At this point I decided to add a brown mat layer so cut the embossed panel down to 3 7/8" x 5 1/8" and adhered them together with liquid glue.  I assembled the acorn, using a mix of liquid glue and foam squares, and used seed beads and gold sequins for my shaker filling.  I die cut two leaves from cream card and ink blended over them using green, brown, red and orange inks for an autumn feel.  I added one with liquid glue (which is now almost hidden under the sentiment lol!) and the green one with foam squares.  I tied some twine around the stem of the acorn and made a bow. The acorn was added to the background with foam squares.  I stamped the sentiment onto the cream card and used a flag tail banner to cut it out.  I added that to the top of the acorn so that it would look like it was tied on with the twine.  I finished off with some gold sequins.  I adhered the panel onto the card using liquid glue (I went with a light brown card base for a change as I thought white might have looked too stark).  For the inside I cut another cream panel and brown mat layer, I embossed a thin strip of the cream card with the falling leaves folder and added that to the bottom of the panel with liquid glue.  I added one leaf to the bottom right corner and stamped the sentiment in the centre using brown ink.  The panel was then adhered to my card base using double sided tape.  

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

AAA Colourful challenge - colour board #33

A Cut Above challenge - ATG with a die cut

Can You Handle The Pressure challenge - use an EF optional numbers

Cardz 4 Galz challenge - autumn florals/foliage

Cupcake Inspirations challenge - fall

Die Cut Divas challenge - interactive card (shaker)

Double D challenge - textures

Dragonfly Dreams challenge - embossing wet or dry

If You Give A Crafter A Cookie challenge - we are grateful (inspired by the acorns)

Little Red Wagon challenge - ATG

The Four Seasons challenge - ATG fall season

The Paper Funday challenge - ATG optional twist autumn or Christmas

The Sisterhood of Crafters challenge - fall

I can't wait to see all your acorn die cuts this week and look forward to seeing your entries in the linky. Please pop over to the challenge blog and leave some love for the rest of the design team.

I appreciate you stopping by.

Love and hugs,

card supplies:

Pretty Pink Posh - acorn shaker die

Gina K Designs - falling leaves embossing folder

Gina K Designs - harvest silhouettes stamp (for sentiments)

Gina K Designs - ink pads - warm cocoa and dark chocolate

Spellbinders - harvest magic die set (for leaf die) - on sale!

Spellbinders - gold smooth discs color essential sequins

MFT - blueprints 27 die set (for flag tail banner die)

Limetree Craft - warm mushroom 220gsm card 

seed beads, twine, cream and brown card from my stash

I now have an Affiliate Link for the Gina K Designs store. If you are considering making a purchase I would appreciate you using my links as it will earn me a small commission at no extra cost to you. 

Thank you x

Krafty Chicks challenge #845 - Birthday

Hello again friends. I'm back with my card for the new challenge over at Krafty Chicks challenge and this week is Week 1, our theme is 'birthday' and our hostess is Leanne. We always need birthday cards, gift packaging and decorations so I'm sure you will find this week a breeze! We hope you will come over and join in the fun with us.

I grabbed some Uniko supplies for this week's card and made a fairly simple card.  A bit of stamping and die cutting and voila my card was done.  I think it's really pretty and I hope you like it too. 

Here is my card:

A closer look at the details:

Plus I decorated the inside:

I began by cutting a white panel 4" x 5 1/4".  Initially I was going to stamp directly onto this panel using a light grey ink but changed my mind and cut a smaller panel of kraft card and did some tone on tone stamping using versamark ink instead.  I liked the look of the white border so I adhered the kraft panel to the white panel using liquid glue. I stamped the flowers in pink, blue and yellow and the leaves in green and used the coordinating dies to cut them out.  I added the leaves onto the background using liquid glue and added the flowers with foam squares.  I stamped the sentiment onto some kraft card using black ink and used my trimmer to cut it down.  I adhered the sentiment below the flowers using foam squares.  I finished off with a few black pearls before adding the panel onto my card base using double sided tape.  For the inside I cut another white panel and using a strip of the kraft card I stamped the flower background as before.  I adhered the strip to the bottom of the panel using liquid glue.  I stamped and die cut another flower and leaf and added that in the bottom right corner using liquid glue.  I stamped the sentiment in the centre and added the panel onto my card base using double sided tape. 

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Beautiful Blossoms challenge - anything floral goes with optional mood board

Little Red Wagon challenge - ATG

Triple B challenge - birds, blooms and butterflies

I hope you will be able to join us for our 'birthday' challenge and I cannot wait to see your creations in our linky. Please leave some love for my fellow chicks - Leanne, Diane and Lori. 

Thank you so much for stopping by; I appreciate your lovely comments. I'll be back later with my card for the Just Us Girls challenge so please pop back and check it out if you can.   

Love and hugs,

card supplies:

Uniko - flower power #5 clear stamp (for pink/yellow flower & dotty leaf)

Uniko - flower power #6 clear stamp (for blue flower)

Uniko - flower power #1 clear stamp (for solid leaf)

Uniko - designer dies flower power #1-6

Uniko - everyday sentiments & everyday love sentiments clear stamps

Uniko - wonderful day clear stamp (for inside sentiment) - retired

Gina K Designs - ink pads - dusty rose, wild dandelion, sweet corn, blue sky, grass green

Gina K Designs - black, gold & silver metallic pearl mix

Limetree Craft - 280gsm silky smooth white card (not available but other options are here and here)

Limetree Craft - 300gsm smooth white card (for card base)

Versafine Clair - nocturne ink pad

I now have Affiliate Links for the Gina K Designs store. If you are considering making a purchase I would appreciate you using my links as it will earn me a small commission at no extra cost to you. 

Thank you x

AAA Birthday challenge #91 - Nov 26

As it's the first of the month it means we have a brand new challenge over at AAA Birthday challenge. This month's theme is 'small & dainty' and I'm excited to see what everyone creates this month. 

I bought the Lawn Fawn set in Simon Says Stamp's Stamptember release and thought they would be perfect for this month's challenge.  The images are so super cute and I made a very clean and simple card so that they would be the stars of the show!  I hope you like it.

Here is my card:

A closer look at the images:

Plus I decorated the inside:

I began by cutting a white panel 4" x 5 1/4" and using a splat stencil and brown ink created a grounding spot for my images (plus I thought it looked a bit like mud for the moles to sit in lol!). I stamped the images onto alcohol marker friendly card, coloured them with Promarkers and added some white gel pen highlights.  I used the coordinating dies to cut them out.  I stamped the speech bubble and sentiment in black ink and used the die to cut this out too.  I added thin foam squares behind the moles and speech bubble and added them over the splat.  The panel was adhered to the card base using double sided tape.  For the inside I cut another white panel and stencilled the splat in the bottom right corner.  I stamped, coloured 2 more images and 1 more speech bubble and die cut them out.  I added them over the splat with liquid glue.  The panel was then adhered to the card base using double sided tape.  A very quick and easy CAS card but I think it would make anyone smile. 

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

AAA Cards challenge - sketch

AAA Colourful challenge - colour board #33

Alphabet challenge - n is for nocturnal animals (mole; I wasn't sure but it's on your Wikipedia list!)

Critter Crazy challenge - ATG with a featured critter

Girlz and the Art of Letters challenge - letter M (for mole)

Little Red Wagon challenge - s is for stencil

The Design Team have created amazing cards as always so please pop over to the blog and check them out and perhaps leave them some love on their personal blogs.

I hope you will be able to join in with the challenge this month but don't forget it has to be birthday themed. I can't wait to see your creations in the linky.

Love and hugs,

card supplies:

SSS/Lawn Fawn - a mole lot of cake stamp & die set - Stamptember exclusive

Promarkers

Clearly Besotted - splat stencil - retired but they have a similar one here 

Gina K Designs - warm cocoa ink pad

Sakura - white no. 10 gelly roll pen

Limetree Craft - 280gsm silky smooth white card (not available but other options are here and here)

Limetree Craft - 300gsm smooth white card (for card base)

Versafine Clair - nocturne ink pad

Memento - tuxedo black ink pad

Heffy Doodle - alcohol marker friendly card - store now closed

I now have an Affiliate Link for the Gina K Designs store. If you are considering making a purchase I would appreciate you using my links as it will earn me a small commission at no extra cost to you. 

Thank you x

Just Us Girls challenge - 847 - CASE a DT Member Week

Hello again friends! I'm back to share my DT card for the Just Us Girls challenge and as it's a five week month this week it's 'CASE a DT Member Week'. You just have to use one of the DT creations (doesn't have to be mine) as your inspiration and create something of your own. In case you're not sure 'CASE' means to 'copy and share everything' or alternatively 'copy and selectively edit' which basically means use the parts of the design you like and maybe change up the colours or use the colours and change the focal image; you get it. I'm sure there will be lots of entries for this one.

For my card I used a 3D embossing folder that's been sitting in my stash for a little while and wanted to show some love.  I did something different for a change and once I had embossed the panel I coloured the design using my ink pads and some very small detail blending brushes.  I think it turned out soft and pretty and I hope you like it too. 

Here is my card:

A closer look at the details:

Plus I decorated the inside:

I began by cutting a white panel 4" x 5 1/4" and ran it through my die cutting machine with the pretty 3D embossing folder.  I used some soft, pastel ink pad colours and lightly blended all over the design.  The dark purple I chose was a little too bold in retrospect but it was too late by this point; I wasn't going to start again!  I thought I would add a little shimmer as it was quite a simple card but went a little heavy handed with my perfect pearls mix (but it looks super shimmery in real life).  Once the panel was dry I cut it down to 3 7/8" x 5 1/8' and layered it onto a purple mat layer using liquid glue.  I stamped the sentiment using the dark purple ink pad onto white card and used the coordinating die to cut it out (I also cut 3 more from white card to layer up).  I adhered the sentiment onto the background using liquid glue.  I finished off with some clear quartz sequins and added the panel onto my card base using double sided tape.  For the inside I cut another white panel and did some partial embossing on the lower part of the panel.  I again coloured it with my ink pads and added some perfect pearls.  I cut a purple mat layer and adhered them together with liquid glue.  I stamped the sentiment in purple and adhered the panel to my card base using double sided tape.  

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Addicted to Stamps & More challenge - any occasion 

Allsorts challenge - feminine

Beautiful Blossoms challenge - anything floral goes optional mood board

Can You Handle The Pressure challenge - use an EF optional twist numbers

Seize the Birthday challenge - geometrics or word die/s or ATG

Such a great challenge and I cannot wait to see what you create. Please pop over to the challenge blog and leave some love for the rest of the design team.

I appreciate you stopping by.

Love and hugs,

card supplies:

Gina K Designs - floral burst 3D embossing folder

Gina K Designs - graceful greetings stamp & die set (for outside sentiment)

Gina K Designs - birthday cheer mini stamp (for inside sentiment)

Gina K Designs - ink pads - blue sky, lovely lavender, medium lilac, lemon drop, innocent pink, dusty rose

Gina K Designs - clear quartz solid sequins 

Limetree Craft - 280gsm silky smooth white card (not available but other options are here and here)

Limetree Craft - 300gsm smooth white card (for card base)

Ranger Perfect Pearls - perfect pearl colour

purple card from my stash

I now have an Affiliate Link for the Gina K Designs store. If you are considering making a purchase I would appreciate you using my links as it will earn me a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you x

Krafty Chicks challenge #844 - ATG with a twist

Good morning lovely friends; I hope your week is going well so far. I'm sharing my card for the new challenge over at Krafty Chicks challenge and this week we are on Week 5; and as it's an extra week this month we have an anything goes theme and Lori is our hostess. However we are mixing it up this year and adding an optional twist and the twist this time is 'coffee' so we would love to see all your coffee inspired creations.  Such a fun twist and we hope you will come over and join in the fun with us.

I recently picked up this stamp & die set and it was perfect for this theme.  I also needed a card for a friend's birthday so it worked out for that too.  I made my card 5" x 7" as it was for a special friend and used a new to me stencil too.  I think it turned out super cute and I hope you like it too. 

Here is my card:

A closer look at the image:

Plus I decorated the inside:

I began by cutting a white panel 5" x 7" and used the coffee bean stencil and a warm cocoa ink pad to create my background.  I cut the panel down using the stitched rectangle from master layouts 08 and the plain rectangle die to cut a black mat layer and adhered them both together using liquid glue.  I stamped the image onto alcohol marker friendly card, coloured it with my Promarkers and added some white highlights.  I used the coordinating die to cut it out.  I cut a circle from vellum and added the image onto it using foam squares.  I then added the circle onto the background using liquid glue. I stamped the two sentiments onto white card using black ink and die cut them out with stitched fishtail banner dies; I also blended the warm cocoa ink over both of them so that they would match the background.  I added both sentiments with liquid glue.  I finished off with a few pearls and adhered the panel onto my card base using double sided tape.  For the inside I cut another white panel and black panel as before and adhered them together using liquid glue.  I used a scrap piece of white card and using the coffee bean stencil and the warm cocoa ink.  I die cut it using the stitched rectangle and added it to the bottom of the white panel.  I stamped the sentiment in the centre using black ink and adhered the panel to my card base using double sided tape. 

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Addicted to Stamps & More challenge - any occasion

Allsorts challenge - feminine

First Cup challenge - ATG with a hot or cold beverage

Little Red Wagon challenge - s is for stencil

Seize the Birthday challenge - geometric or word die/s (I've not used the topping this time)

I hope you will be able to join us for our 'ATG with a optional twist of coffee' challenge and I cannot wait to see your creations in our linky. Please leave some love for my fellow chicks - Leanne, Diane and Lori.

Thank you so much for stopping by; I appreciate your lovely comments. I'll be back later with my DT card for the Just Us Girls challenge.

Love and hugs,

card supplies:

MFT - latte love stamp & die set

MFT - everything wonderful clear stamp (for birthday sentiment)

Promarkers

Time for Tea Designs - coffee beans stencil - store now closed

Waffle Flower - nesting circles die

Stampin' Up! - card stock vellum - no longer available

Gina K Designs - master layouts 08 die set

Gina K Designs - master layouts 05 die set (for banner dies)

Gina K Designs - warm cocoa ink pad

LOTV - verses A5 polymer stamp set - no longer available

Limetree Craft - 280gsm silky smooth white card (not available but other options are here and here)

Limetree Craft - 220gsm black card

Versafine Clair - nocturne ink pad

Memento - tuxedo black ink pad

Sakura - white no. 10 gelly roll pen

Heffy Doodle - alcohol marker friendly card - store now closed

Little Things From Lucy's Cards - seashells crystal collection - store now closed

I have Affiliate Links for the Gina K Designs store. If you are considering making a purchase I would appreciate you using my links as it will earn me a small commission at no extra cost to you. 

Thank you x