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Friday, December 15, 2017

New Challenge with Dies R US!

Hello sweet friends!

Welcome to our new mid-month challenge at Dies R US! Our challenge today is "white on white". So anything you want to create, any theme, any style... just use a monochromatic/tone on tone color scheme, using of course, White.

So here is the project that I created for today's challenge.

I created a nice little holiday card to wish the recipient a "Happy Christmas" and paired it along with a cute little pillow box for something small, like cash, a gift card, jewelry or some chocolates.
I used all Georgia Pacific cardstock. For the card, I created an A2 side folding card base and scored a few lines on the front for interest. I wanted to keep this a simple one layer card. I used the Sue Wilson Designs-Finishing Touches- Maidenhair Fern Dies and cut them out six times. I covered them up using my Spectrum Noir clear sparkle pen to give them a bit of a wintry sparkle. I arranged them on the front of the card to create a winter wreath. Then I cut out a cute banner from a MCT die and stamped the "Happy Christmas" sentiment inside. I popped this banner up and added to the middle of the wreath and to finish off the card and give it a little extra something, I added in a little bit of stickles for "Berries". Love how beautiful the wreath turned out, just from using ferns!!! Just another way to look at your dies and think of ways to use them outside of their intended purpose!

For the gift- I cut out this adorable pillow box using the pillow box die from Lawn Fawn. I ran the box through an Anna Griffin "poinsettia & holly" embossing folder before assembling the box. I then took my clear sparkle pen again and highlighted over the "raised" areas to give the box that same wintry sparkle. Next, I cut out the word "JOY" from using the Lawn Fawn- Scripty Joy Die. I ran the word through my "swiss dots" embossing folder to give the letters a bit of interest and added a bit of clear sparkle to it as well. I knew I wanted this word to stand out and not blend completely into the box, so I took the Sue Wilson Designs-California Collection-Tag Die and cut out the beautiful tag. I added the word "joy" to the center of this tag and popped it up onto the box. I used that same stickles from the card to just add a dot in each corner for that little extra something. I really love how this all turned out. It all came together beautifully and I will be putting some jewelry inside the box and giving it to my beautiful daughter, along with the card. I want to take this opportunity to wish each of you, a very Happy Holiday and a Happy & Healthy new year ahead!

And that completes my card and pillow box! All of the dies that I used are highlighted in the links above and can be found in the Dies R Us store HERE.

Well that is all I have for you today my friends. I appreciate you for taking time out of your day to visit me and see what I am up to. Please don't forget to stop by the Dies R US challenge blog to see what the rest of my design team sisters have created for you today. And make sure to link up your own project too! And for more inspiration, check out the Dies R US Inspiration blog . You will find yourself browsing for awhile. There are so many gorgeous projects that will surely inspire you! Thanks again for stopping by!

Until next time, Enjoy life's blessings~
Happy Holidays & Happy New Year!

Wednesday, November 1, 2017

Challenge #84 with Dies R Us!

Hello sweet friends!

Welcome to our newest challenge at Dies R US! Our challenge today is to create anything Fall themed. You could use fall colors, fall activities or fall favorites! So anything you want to create, any style... just show us your fall projects!

So here is the card that I created for today's challenge.

Sorry for the poor lighting.
It was very hard to get a good shot.

So is this not the cutest little snow globe???!!!! I absolutely love how this card turned out! I used the Sue Wilson Designs- Festive Collection- Snow Globe Dies for my card base. I just cut the base out twice and scored one of them to create the closure. I took my distress oxide inks in peeled paint, fossilized amber & spiced marmalade and covered the top layer of the globe to bring in those rich fall colors. On a piece of white cardstock, I stamped the leaves, pumpkin, scarecrow, cornstalks and crow in black momento ink. I got these images by pulling the Lawn Fawn- Happy Harvest Stamps out. I colored in my images using my zig clean color real markers in fall tones, except for the leaves and then cut them out using the Lawn Fawn- Happy Harvest Die s. For the leaves, I inked up the same three color distress inks and added in fired brick and then I cut them out last.

Next, I took a piece of white cardstock and inked up some walnut stain and vintage photo distress oxide inks and blended them together well. Then I took the Precious Marieke-Milk Churn & Barrel Dies and cut them out of it. I knew I wanted the pumpkin from the stamp set to sit on top of that barrel. I then took some more of the fossilized amber and spiced marmalade inks and blended them well on some white cardstock and then took the Sue Wilson Designes-Configurations-Trellis Edger Die and cut that out. Once all my images and pieces were colored and cut out, I spritzed some water on them and then blotted them to dry. Now it was time to assemble! I wanted the leaves to look like they were falling and being swept up by the wind... and I knew that I wanted the Sue Wilson Designes-Configurations-Trellis Edger Die to go behind the scarecrow. So I placed that down first and then started to build up the leaves and my little scene. The crow and the barrel are popped up on foam tape. I added in some white gel pen hightlights and added some little lined patches & stripes on the hat and overalls. I also added sparkle with the Spectrum Noir Clear sparkle pen to the scarecrow's hat and to the pumpkin. To finish off the card, I added the "warmest wishes" sentiment that I cut out using the Sue Wilson Designs-Festive Collection- Warmest Wishes Die. For some reason the leaves all look the same color and they aren't. They are in beautiful fall colors and I'm upset that for some reason, my camera wouldn't capture the colors and that the lighting was off. I tried for nearly 20 minutes to get lighting. Trust me, this is such a beautiful card in all of the fall colors.

And that completes my card! All of the dies that I used are highlighted in the links above and can be found in the Dies R Us store HERE.

Until next time, Enjoy life's blessings~

Friday, September 15, 2017

New Mid- Month Challenge with Dies R Us!

Hello sweet friends!

Welcome to our new mid-month challenge at Dies R US! Our challenge today is "Fancy Corners". So anything you want to create, any theme, any style... just show us those fancy corner styles.

So here are the cards that I created for today's challenge.

I made two cards because I am getting in the habit of creating 2 each time I sit down to create. That way I build up my stash and I get more done in the limited amount of time I have to create. :)

My cards were made with all Stampin' Up paper and cardstock. I wanted to keep the cards fairly simple so these came together very quickly. I used the Sue Wilson Designs- Heraldic Square Dies to use as my main focal image and for the fancy corners. This die set comes with 3 dies and you can use them altogether or separately. For the portrait style card, I cut the largest die out of white and cut out the smallest die out of the floral background paper. That smallest die doesn't have any cut lines, it cuts into the paper but doesn't cut it out. So I used the middle die with it so that I could get it to cut out. I cut the middle die piece off so have just the smallest die inlay piece left. I hand cut a frame from the middle die piece so that I could have a nice Navy frame around that center piece. I took my white gel pen and colored in some of the shapes, took my black copic multi-liner and did some inside doodling too. For this card, I also cut out the Lawn Fawn- Thinking About You Border Die and cut it apart to fit under my main focal point. Again, I did a little bit of doodling along the sides and hand drew a heart for the "dot" above the "I". To finish off the first card, I added some liquid pearls in "Buttercup" and added my clear spectrum noir sparkle pen to the sentiment and the outside frame. :)

For my second card, I wanted to make a landscape card similar to the first one that I made. This time, I cut out the largest & middle dies from the Sue Wilson Designs- Heraldic Square Dies in Night Of Navy cardstock and the smallest inlay piece in the same floral background paper. On this card, I used the three dies together the way they come packaged up. Love the look! Again, I used my white gel pen to color in some of the shape pieces and did a little doodling on the outside frame. I love the beautiful fancy corners the largest die creates! I took the clear spectrum noir sparkle pen and brushed it all over the entire top of the main focal image for super shine! Then I cut out the Lawn Fawn- Happy Birthday Border Die in white to go across the center. Love the white sentiment because it pops against that navy! I took my copic multi-liner and again, added in a few doodles over the sentiment letters this time. Love that doodled look! Added in some perfect pearls and it's done! Both card centers are popped up with foam tape, two thicknesses high.

And that completes my cards! All of the dies that I used are highlighted in the links above and can be found in the Dies R Us store HERE.

Until next time, Enjoy life's blessings~

Wednesday, March 15, 2017

Dies R Us Challenge #69- Borders and/or Edges~

Hello sweet friends!

Welcome to a new challenge at Dies R US and I sure hope that you are ready to get creative with us! Our new mid-month challenge is to use borders and or edges on your projects! So here is what I created today!

I decided to create another Easter card as I am running low on them. I cut down some bristol smooth paper and taped it down to a piece of cardboard using masking tape around the edges. I took out my zig clean color brush markers in a few shades of blue to create my background. I just layed some color down at the top of the paper and with my watercolor brush, allowed for the water and brush to do the work. I just LOVE the way these markers work with this bristol paper! The blending is effortlessly. I took my heat tool to it and once it dried, I took some Dr. Martin's white india ink, mixed it with a little water and made white splatters on the background. I let that dry naturally.

Once it was completely dry, I removed the masking tape from the edges to have a very clean white edged border. So I took my copic fine marker and created some doodles around the edge of the watercolor piece, inside the white frame. Love how this looks. Now since our actual challenge is to use borders or edges, I decided to take more of the bristol paper and die cut a beautiful border using the Sue Wilson- Californian Collection-Corner, Border, Tag (Border die). I only used the border from this set and I ended up cutting it in half. I adhered one half of it to the bottom of my panel and the other half, I trimmed off most of it and left just the scallops and adhered it to the top part of my panel. I wanted to give it a different look but it is the same exact border piece. I then adhered this entire panel to a standard A2 sized white card base. Next I cut out that beautiful cross die using Spellbinders- Crosses 2. To the cross, I added little doodle lines tracing the embossed portion that was already there using the same fine tip marker. I think this really gives the card a completed look. The "Easter" word die is from Simon Says Stamp. I added a few clear sequins to finish off this card and added some clear spectrum sparkle pen to the cross and the word die. In real life this card is so pretty! I hope you like it!

The dies that I used for this project that are highlighted above in the links, can be found in the Dies R Us store HERE

I would like to add this card in the following challenges:
Everybody Art Challenge #398
Lemon Shortbread #37
TTCRD
Artistic Inspiration #174
Cards In Envy
Crafting from the Heart #150
Great Impressions-Spring
Addicted to CAS #106
Imagine That-March linkup

Until next time, Enjoy life's blessings~

Friday, April 15, 2016

Dies R Us Challenge #47~"Black & White"

****UPDATE****
Unfortunately, I had to remove the Mr. Linky at the bottom. I was informed that us designers cannot put the linky on our personal blogs. So should you want to join this challenge, Please click the links in my post! I hope you do participate, it's a fun one!

Hello sweet friends!

Welcome to a new challenge at Dies R US and I sure hope that your day is going well. This is my very first design team challenge so I'm excited to share with you what I created! So with that being said, here it is!

The theme for this challenge is "Black & White" with the option to use an additional pop of color. I chose to use that extra pop of color and decided on a very beautiful cream color. I used the Sue Wilson Finishing Touches Blushing Rose Dies, and the Sue Wilson Finishing Touches Curled Vines Dies which can be found in the Dies R Us store HERE , as the focal for my card. This card was made for my mother for Mother's Day. The solid cardstock is from American Crafts and the patterned paper is from Me & My Big Ideas. The card is a standard A2 size. I did emboss my white layers with an Anna Griffin folder and the stamp set used is from the "Say it from the heart" stamp set by 3 Twenty Crafts.