Gina K’s January Monthly Mix Challenge

Gina K’s January Monthly Mix Challenge is to “Put your red dress on” and use red as the dominant color and make a celebratory card. I was struggling with using red and not have it feel like a Christmas card. I ended up pulling out my Inspiring Poppies stamp set to make a set of three birthday cards. I love how the sentiment from Gina K’s Wealth of Wishes worked perfectly with the poppy image. I wanted them to feel different even though I was using the same Gina K stamp sets. I’m going in the order that I crafted them and you can see that they get more toward the clean and simple look after coloring so many poppies. Supplies used in the card are noted in the photo caption. Hope your 2021 is starting off with some time to craft!

The card was made by stamping the poppy image from Gina K’s Inspiring Poppies stamp set multiple times across the card front and coloring them with Copics. I then stamped the birthday sentiment from Gina K’s Wealth of Wishes stamp set on the card base and heat embossed it with firecracker red embossing powder. I added a strip of red foil cardstock along the bottom of the card front before attaching it with dimensional foam tape to the card base. The last step was to color the poppies with a layer of clear Wink of Stella.

The card was made by stamping the poppy image from Gina K’s Inspiring Poppies stamp set multiple times across the bottom of the card base and coloring them with Luminance colored pencils. I then cut the plain white card front at an angle and stamped the birthday sentiment from Gina K’s Wealth of Wishes stamp set across the angled portion. I added a strip of black cardstock along the angled card front before attaching it with dimensional foam tape to the card base. The last step was to color the poppies with a layer of clear Wink of Stella and adding gems for some sparkle.

I stamped a single image of the poppies from Gina K’s Inspiring Poppies stamp set on the card base and colored them with Copics. I stamped the birthday sentiment from Gina K’s Wealth of Wishes stamp set on white cardstock and created a sentiment strip attached it to the card base with dimensional foam tape. The last step was to color the poppies with a layer of clear Wink of Stella and adding gems for some sparkle.

Simon Says Monday Challenge – Frame It and Wednesday Challenge – Anything Goes

I got a set of Caran D’ache Pablo colored pencils for my birthday and spent some of this week coloring.  I’ve already posted them to instagram but like to post the card details here.  I made both cards for Simon Says Monday and Wednesday challenges, Frame It and Anything Goes, respectively.  Card supplies are listed below each card.

Supplies:

• Cardstock:  White (Neenah); Bright Buttercup (Papertrey)
• Stamps:  Kind Soul (WPlus9)
• Dies: All Prettied Up Die (Mama Elephant)
• Ink:  Shadow Gray Archival (Ranger); Onyx Black (Versafine)
• Accessories:  Pablo colored pencils (Caran D’ache)

Supplies:

• Cardstock:  White (Neenah); Red Riding Hood (Stampin Up)
• Stamps:  Monster Hugs (Concord & 9th Simon Says Stamptember)
• Dies: Femme Frames die  (Mama Elephant)
• Ink:  Onyx Black (Versafine)
• Accessories:  Pablo colored pencils (Caran D’ache)

Supplies:

• Cardstock:  Real Red (Stampin Up); Rustic Cream (Papertrey)
• Stamps:  Simple Valentine (Papertrey)
• Ink:  Real Red (Stampin Up)
• Accessories:  Pearls (Recollections); black marker