An Anything Goes Monday!

Happy Monday friends! I'm playing today with Darnell's (djkardkreations) IDEAS program where on the 4th Monday of the month Anything Goes!! You can see her beautiful inspiration HERE. I'd been working on another card using some PFS washi so decided to finish it this morning:

Supplies: Paper - Recollections A2 card; scraps;

Neenah Solar White; Spellbinders Betterpress Porcelain;

Washi - Pinkfresh Studio English Garden

Dies - Pinkfresh Studio English Garden &

Folk Edge Rectangles 

Press Plate w/Die - Spellbinders You are Everything Sentiments

Embossing Folder - Tim Holtz Cobblestone 3D

I mentioned back in July that I'd found the PFS English Garden still available at my local store and finally dove in (see a card with the stamps & stencils HERE). It's retired at PFS but I see Frantic Stamper still has the stamps & dies HERE. 

I'd added the washi to a piece of Neenah & cut a bunch of pieces & made a birthday card which I'll share next. The floral clusters above were leftovers. If desired, you can see a card HERE made with some English Garden washi pieces that Lisa (My Paper Tales) sent me last year; she enabled me!

The washi pieces were sitting atop a piece of cardstock I'd embossed with the TH Cobblestone folder. I wanted to cut it down with the Folk Edge die which flattened the 3D texture but I didn't really care. I could've re-embossed it but I was too lazy! You can see the 3D texture on the next card.

This card went to my sister Tami who has a bday this week. The die cut birthday and the printed HAPPY were in my sentiments box - brand unknown.

I'm entering card one in the August Pinkfresh Studio Challenge to use washi. You don't have to use the colors in their photo; that's one option.

That's it for today - thanks for visiting!! Hope you have a crafty Monday & if interested, check out our Die Cut Diva August Challenge where our theme is embossing!

Holiday Elements - Washi and Stenciled

Hi everyone - I hope your week is going well. I was inspired by friend Greta's beautiful card to plan something for the August Pinkfresh Studio Challenge. It's been a few years since I played over there - how time flies!!

I don't have a huge collection of PFS in my stash but had picked up the English Garden washi/stamp/stencil/die collection locally. I haven't shared the washi version on my blog yet (stenciled one HERE) but I made it in July so didn't want to send it to the challenge. Decided instead to order something from PFS & found their Holiday Elements collection on sale - yay! They didn't have the die in stock but I found one at Frantic Stamper. Just received my orders in the mail this week so gave Holiday Elements first play. Here's the washi version:

Supplies: Paper - Park Lane gold A2 card; Paper Studio Holiday;

Michael's pink; Neenah Solar White; Betterpress Porcelain

Dies - Pinkfresh Studio Holiday Elements 

(out of stock at PFS but found HERE at Frantic Stamper)

& Folk Edge Rectangles (retired)

Hot Foil Plate with Die - Spellbinders All You Need Sentiments

I rolled the washi out onto a piece of Neenah, then die cut. Also die cut the shapes from another piece and layered for stability & dimension. Next I die cut two layers of the folk art set and adhered to an A2 card. Arranged the elements and adhered. Could not for the life of me find my foiled PFS holiday sentiments so added a Betterpressed one (made with a hot foil plate). LOL - the only item from the die cut selection that I didn't use was the mistletoe sprig!

Here's the stenciled version which I decided to make since it's Stencil Week #741at Just Us Girls:

Additional supplies: PFS Holiday Elements Stamps & Coordinating Stencils

And here's a process photo with all inks - I'm on the 6th and final step here:

I didn't do any additional shading, just stamped and stenciled, then die cut. This time I just used one of the Folk Edge layer dies on a piece of canvas patterned paper. While I love the gold & shimmer of the washi, I really enjoy stenciling this set! Looking at it, it could use some shading so I may add some later... Since this set is new, I'll also add my card to Darnell's August NBUS Challenge #65.

That's it for today. Thanks for stopping by &, as usual, happy crafting!!