Easter's Coming!

Happy weekend everyone! I watched Craft Roulette Episode #312 last night and completed my card during the show. If you watch the replay, you can see it pop onto the screen towards the end of the crafting time. Prize drawings and announcements follow that segment.

Supplies: Paper - Neenah Classic Crest Solar White;

Spellbinders cardstock; Momenta Gemstones patterned

Stamps w/dies - Pink and Main 18 Carrot Friendship (dies)

Dies - AJVD Slimline Rectangle Window & Words Cover Plate;

Poppystamps Fresh Happy Easter;

Gina K. Designs Spring Forest 

Other - foam tape; Copic Markers

Host Mary Gunn had Von Marie (‪@vonmariedesign‬) as her guest. Von Marie is a Craft Roulette member & was making her 1st appearance as a guest - she did great! She is on the Design Team for Not2Shabby, a company unfamiliar to me. Of course I checked them out - they have cute papers with coordinating ephemera, among other products.

The wheel gave us nice and easy parameters.

• Project - Slimline Card: I formed a standard slimline from Neenah. 
• Colors - Insects: I used butterfly colors - white/blue/green/orange/yellow/purple. 
• Element - April: Easter is in April this year, so made an Easter card. 
• Random - In the Corner: I put a die cut in the upper left window. 

I recently ordered a Pink and Main Easter set and it was sitting on the table begging to be used. I thought the bunnies were so adorable and the set has sweet chick images too!

Stamped & die cut the basket & bunnies, then colored using Copics. Die cut a slimline panel with three windows & backed it with purple textured paper, then added to a slimline card. Popped the bunnies and basket in their windows with foam tape. Die cut the sentiment words and shadow, then assembled and added to the middle window. Finished things off with a die cut sun. I added some more details with a white gel pen after the show. 

I will add this card to Darnell's March NBUS Challenge #84 since the stamps were newly used here. I will also join in at We Love Stamping using the Anything Goes option (or the wildlife option, I guess, since bunnies can be wild!); this is my second entry. I'm also sharing at the Stamping Sensations March Challenge Spring or Anything Goes - my second entry there too. Finally, I link up at the current Double D Challenge where they have a beautiful mood board with Easter items!

Thanks for stopping by and have a crafty day!!

Craft Roulette Fun

Hi everyone - hope you're having a great week!! Yes, I watched Craft Roulette 237 LIVE Friday night but couldn't get a card done during the show. I needed different supplies than I had available at the satellite studio. Made this card when I got home yesterday; it's nice to be a member and have extra time to upload a project!

Supplies: Paper - Hero Arts Passion Flower & glitter cardstock;

Poptone Black; Neenah white; scraps of orange

Stamps - Hero Arts Frightful & Owl-oween (both retired)

Stamps w/dies - Hero Arts Halloween Trimmings Stamp & Cut (retired)

Dies - Poppystamps Corner Shoppe Pop Up Easel Set

Other - Copic Markers; Honey Bee Spooktacular gems;

computer generated boo-tique label

Host Mary Gunn FUNN had Sharon Luska (My Crafty Greetings YouTube)as her guest. Sharon's focus is on hints to make crafting easier so check her out! She also does guest videos for Scrappy Tails. 

The wheel was a bit challenging, in my opinion:

Here's how I employed the parameters:

• Project - Pop Up Card: I used a pop up easel card die set to create my card base.
• Colors - Trick or Treat: I used typical Halloween colors - Black/Orange/Purple.
• Element - Boutique: The pop up set I used is a shoppe; I turned it into a boo-tique.
• Random - Jewelry: I added gems to the boo-tique's door.

Simple die cutting, stamping & fussy cutting. Colored the pumpkin and shaded the ghost with Copic markers. Fiddly to assemble but I did ok. Here's a popped up view:

You can see a previous card with the shoppe die set HERE. I showed a side view on the previous card so I didn't bother here...  I'm adding my card to the current Double D Challenge to include a pumpkin.

That's it for today. Thanks for stopping by!

Spring Reflections Thank You

Happy Wednesday all - I'm here today with another thank you card. I still owe a couple people thanks for birthday gifts so got busy using an amazing Spellbinders set.

Supplies: Paper - Park Lane A2 cards (beige & gold);

Paper Studio & Momenta watercolor prints; 

BoBunny Boulevard 6x6"; Michael's brand royal blue

Dies - Spellbinders Spring Reflection (DOML-Feb23)

Other - Park Lane gems; foam tape

Several blogging friends have been linking up to the current Double D Challenge using patterned paper and I decided to play along - it's been a while! 

Part of the Spellbinders set was used on a non-traditional Valentine I shared on Feb 21st. Today I used the same patterned paper for the background but the lattice and oval are cut from different papers. And this time I used the floral swags and one of the sentiment dies from the set. Lots of little pieces but fun to sit in front of the television and assemble (watching Let's Make a Deal this afternoon - lol). The set comes with bitty dots for the centers of the bitty flowers but I just popped some gems on there - saves time!!

Today's photo is a lot brighter than on the 21st's post since I used my Shot Box. Sometimes I like the photos I get with it and other times I do better with natural light - depends on the day and the materials used, I guess...

Thanks for visiting and I hope you'll stop back tomorrow for a couple last non-traditional Valentines for our February Die Cut Divas Challenge!

Patterned Paper Challenge

Pocket full of Posies!

Hey friends - This is my second post of the day. If you're looking for the June Card Chain Challenge reveal, go HERE.... 

I'm doing Kathy's (The Daily Marker) 30 Day Coloring Challenge - woo hoo!! Sharing a card I finished last night with my Day 1 coloring:

Supplies: Paper - DCWV green A2 card; BoBunny Bold & Bright Double Dots

Lawn Fawn Watercolor Wishes & Spring Perfectly Plaid;

Neenah Classic Crest Solar White 110lb & blue cardstock

Stamps - Pink & Main Pocket of Sunshine (with coordinating dies);

Cornish Heritage Farms Denim Backgrounder (retired)

Dies - My Favorite Things various retired Blueprints

Other - Copic Markers; Hero Arts inks, foam tape

I'm sending the card to a clumsy, oh I mean dear, friend who broke her leg recently. Here's a look at the colored items which I shared in Day 1's Facebook album yesterday:

List of Copics used:

Blues - B0000, BG0000, B93, & B66

Greens - G12, G20, YG41 (oops Y07 too, forgot it in the photo)

Beiges - E30, E50 & E93

Yellows/Oranges - Y13, Y19, YR07, YR09, YR12, YR21, & YR61

Pinks/Reds - R00, R21, R22, R24, R56, RV02, RV06, RV13, & RV23

Let me tell you about the pocket first. Stamped it onto a white diecut using Hero Arts Intense Black Ink - perfect for Copic coloring. Then I colored it with 2 shades of blue (B93 & B66) then blended with B0000. Gotta say, that dang B66 blobbed in the corner so I had to blend it out, then fussy cut the pocket (it had such a pristine border to begin with!!). Next I stamped the denim background with HA Cornflower ink, giving it that beautiful jeans texture. I found some ancient HA blue nail head stickers to be my rivets, covering up the stamped ones. I darked them up with B66 - no blobbing this time!! Then I cut a new pristine white outline and layered it behind the denim so you'd never know I messed it up!!!

Next I colored the sweet quartet of flowers. Like Kathy shows, I pluck colors I like usually in threes but sometimes just two. She also shows how to get the glow on your foliage with E50 - love that tip and I used it here! Added nooks & crannies with the black markers, plus a few dots. Popped the flowers coming out of the pocket and added to the card with foam tape. Added a sentiment, stamped and hand cut - done!

As Kathy says, coloring is very therapeutic and you only need to find 10 minutes a day to color. No need for a marathon. I probably spent about 45 minutes coloring these two, mostly on the flowers, but you could do it quicker if necessary.

And here's a quick look at today's coloring, shared in Day 2's Facebook album:

I used Tim Holtz watercolor paper and the same Yasutomo watercolors I used on this card. Just got the pretty tulip stamp by Hero Arts at JoAnn; they didn't have the dies in store but I have them on order from Hero Arts. Will just hold this piece until they arrive or maybe use without the dies.... Anyway, I stamped and clear embossed (sorry Kathy) Old Paper Distress Ink. Why? I'm going to try the iron-off resist technique Jennifer McGuire re-visited here. I did it years ago and think it'll be fun to try again!

I'm entering today's card at the current 30 Day Coloring link up and also to the current Double D Challenge where the theme is stitching. My friend Cat (Cat Luvs Paper) suggested adding yesterday's card to the latter but she didn't realize I had created it on 6/30, even though I blogged it after the new Double D challenge was posted. No worries, I'll do more of those stitched cards before the challenge ends. Also adding to Darnell's NBUS challenge 16 since, can you believe it?!, in over 2 years I've never used that adorable pocket stamp set before now. Thanks for stopping by and thanks to Kathy and to all the Ds for the great challenges!!