Easter Basket

This Easter basket was made using a tutorial on Splitcoaststampers here.
The basket (bucket) is made using 3 pillow boxes and is fairly easy to make.

Stamps: Honeycomb Happiness, Wackly Wishes
Inks: Soft Suede, Black Memento, Markers(Daffodil Delight, So Saffron, Pumpkin Pie)
Papers: Soft Suede, Old Olive, Daffodil Delight, Delightful Dijon, So Saffron, Chocolate Chip, Whisper White, Wildflower Fields DSP
Accessories: Pillow Box die (retired), large brads, Circle framelits, Scallop circle die (retired) Fun Flower die (retired), Label Framelits, rhinestones, retired ribbon, dimensionals, rhinestones.

Three Pumpkins - Pals Paper Arts #268

I was tidying up my craft area (yes amazing isn't it?) and came across this stamp set that I thought would be perfect for the sketch challenge with Pals Paper Arts  Since I am in dire need of some Halloween cards, the find was timely.  Maybe I should tidy up more often.

 

• This is a 5 by 5" square card.  The base cardstock is Pumpkin Pie, layered with Whisper White and then Pumpkin Pie DSP (retired)
• The image of the 3 pumpkins (non SU) was stamped with Memento ink onto Whisper White cardstock and coloured with copic markers.  I love colouring, and can sit and do that activity all day long.
• This image panel was matted with Pumpkin Pie and then Wild Wasabi cardstock.  I rounded the corners of all these layers and then adhered them to the DSP towards the top of the card.
• The sentiment is from "Wacky Wishes" (retired)

 SU Supplies Used:

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Embossed Sea Horses - Chellenge 208 LNS

This week the challenge is to use heat embossing on a card or project.  Heat embossing is one of the techniques I like to do best as it always has that wow factor.  I don't think I ever get tired of watching the embossing powder change to a metallic sheen, in waves, right in front of my eyes.

In this another masculine card, I used heat embossing in various ways: on the image itself, for the scalloped border, in the center of a brad, as edging around the sentiment, and the sentiment itself. The image is from the By the Tide stamp set.  I now have 4 different masculine cards made using this set.

1. Image:  It was embossed with pewter embossing powder onto Whisper White card stock, punched out with the 1 3/4 by 7/8" oval punch and matted with a chocolate chip scallop oval punchie. This was attached to the Marina Mist panel with dimensionals.
2.  Scallop border: The Versa mark pad was used to put Versa mark on a large area of Whisper White card stock.  Pewter embossing powder was applied and heated with the embossing tool.  When cooled the edge was punched with the scallop border punch.
3.  Build your own brad: There was enough embossed paper left over after #2 that I punched a 1/2" circle and placed it inside the build a brad.
4.  Sentiment: The sentiment was stamped with Versa Mark onto Whisper White and embossed with Pewter embossing powder.  The decorative label punch was used to punch the sentiment.  A versa mark pen was used to apply Versa mark to the edges of the punchie and embossed.

The background of the card was made by lightly stamping the image of the seaweed in Always Artichoke ink and the fish in basic gray ink. The Square lattice embossing folder was used to emboss the background layer. Then I   The I  lightly sponged the edges and entire surface with Marina Mist ink.
Stamp: By the Tide, Wacky Wishes
Ink: Versa Mark, Basic Gray, Always Artichoke, Marina Mist
Papers: Chocolate Chip, Whisper White, Marina Mist
Accessories: Scallop border punch, Decorative label punch, Scallop oval punch, 1 3/4 by 7/8" oval punch, 1/8" Marina Mist taffeta ribbon, Build a Brad, Square lattice folder, dimensionals, Hand held hold punch.

Secret Garden Happy Birthday - Unscripted Sketches 195

The temperatures were a bit milder today.  At least you could go outside without your skin tingling and your toes freezing!  I stayed inside though as I was feeling under the weather.
A friend stopped by to see me and we started talking about making backgrounds for cards, and that inspired me to make the background for the card challenge with Unscripted Sketches here
To make the card, I turned the sketch on its side.
Here is the card:

 

The background was made by applying watercolor wonder crayons onto watercolor paper.  The colors chosen were random as was the method of application.  When the paper was covered with color, it was spritzed with water and the colours allowed to run together.  Because I was impatient, I dried the paper with the embossing tool.  Then I selected a part of the paper that best blended with the colors of the flowers I had colored and embossed it with the honeycomb folder.

For some reason I didn't want to make circles for this sketch, so I chose to do flowers.

Flowers:  All the flowers were embossed with Early Espresso embossing powder onto Whisper White card stock.

Flower 1 (blue) : Two flowers were stamped with versa mark & embossed.  They were then colored with watercolor crayons and an aqua painter in 2 shades of blue. One of the flowers was die cut using the secret garden framelit. The middle of the second flower was cut out and attached to the die cut flower with dimensionals. It was attached to the background using tombo glue.

Flower 2 (yellow/orange) Three flowers were stamped with versa mark ink and embossed.  The outer layer was colored with Daffodil delight crayon and an aqua painter; the second painted Pumpkin pie; the inner layer Tangerine Tango. One flower was die cut using the framelit; the second and third layers were hand cut, each layer being attached to each other with dimensionals. It was attached above the blue flower with tombo glue.

Flower 3 (Rich Razzelberry/melon mambo) Only 1 flower was stamped, colored and die cut with the framelit. It was attached partially on top of the yellow/orange and blue flower and on top of the leaves.

The leaves were die cut using Old Olive card stock.  After die cutting the edges were sponged with Always Artichoke ink.

Stamps:  Secret Garden, Wacky Wishes

Inks: Versa Mark, Pacific Point, Watercolor crayons (Brights Collection) for the background and the flowers, Always Artichoke

Papers: Old Olive, Whisper White, Watercolor paper

Accessories: Secret Garden framelit, Aqua Painter, Decorative Label punch, Large rhinestones, Dazzling details, Honeycomb folder, Small rhinestones, dimensionals