Poppystamps Challenge Pretty Papers

 

This month’s Poppystamps Challenge is use pretty papers. I chose this plaid from my stash. I used the large Thanks sentiment, die cutting it 2x in black, once in plaid for dimension and the outline in black. 

I diecut the Whittle Scottie from black cardstock and tied a bit of bakery twine around his neck. 

Memory Box Challenge: Miss You

I just love this Memory Box Emboss and Cut, called Domed Window, I purchased it at Simon Says Stamp. It embosses the window frame and die cuts the wondow panes in one pass. That way you can insert anything you want into the diecuts like I did. 

I first took a piece of cardstock (about the size of the window) and blended some Distress Oxide inks onto it. Colors used were: Villainous Potion, Prize Ribbon, Broken China, Saltwater Taffy and Ripe Persimmon. I stamped the trees in black ink, splattered a bit of white acrylic and lightly smeared a bit of white pigment ink to look like a starry night. I then diecut the window panes.

I ran a piece of gray cardstock through with the Domed Window and it embossed the window frame onto the paper and diecut the panes again. I wanted the frame to be white, so I embossed a piece of white cardstock and fussy cut the frame out and glued it over the gray frame. 

I then inserted the window panes into the window. I just love this image. It reminds me of looking out the window seeing the sunset and missing someone very dear.

This is for the Memory Box Challenge, Miss You/Thinking of You for the month of March 2022.

Thank you for looking. I can also be found on Instagram @susanbcards

Altenew Peruvian Lily

 

I love a challenge, this month's Altewnew Inspiration Challenge has an unusual color combination for me.

I used the beautiful Peruvian Lily layering dies. I had some cardstock in yellow, white and gray but needed to color some for the leaves using Distress Crushed Olive and water. For the background and a layer of the flower I used Distress Shaded Lilac.

I took the Shaded Lilac ink pad and just swiped it across the paper, then misted it with water and moved it with a paintbrush. After dry, I dipped it in more ink for the splatters. It looked like water horizontally, vertically it looked too much like the inspiration photo, it should be inspiration not an exact copy! I wondered what it would look like embossed, so I used the Angled Mosaic folder and ran it through the Big Shot. Wow! I loved it, just the right amount of color variation and the embossing added so much texture. I'll have to remember to do this again.

To finish the card I diecut the Fancy Thanks sentiment , splattered the card with a bit of acrylic paint, attached a few waterdrops and mounted it on a card.

This lily is so beautiful but Altenew makes so many beautiful flower dies and stamps. And of course, they make some of my favorite embossing folders.

Here is a link to their challenge this month: 

https://blog.altenew.com/white-on-white-embossing-card-project/

Thank you for looking! I can be found on Instagram @susanbcards

Momenta Lemons and Blossoms

I made these 3 cards using the Momenta Lemon die set.

Here are the dies included in this set. You can see the solid dies emboss texture and diecuts the shapes.

I used watercolor paper because it has a similar bumpy texture as a real lemon. I sprayed the paper with Squeezed Lemonade Distress Spray Stain and Mustard Seed Distress Oxide Spray and misted it with water to get a variation of color and some water spots.

I cut the leaves from paper colored with Mowed Lawn and Twisted Citron Distress inks. There is a layering leaf die to give the leaves some dimension, a nice touch.

I used a stylus and a foam pad to give some shape and dimension to all the blossoms, the buds and leaves.

I attached all the leaves, buds and blossoms with glue. I only added glue to part of the diecuts, for example, on the blossoms only the center of the flowers, letting the petals pop up. On the lemons I used some foam to the back.

I used the Momenta printed cardstock for the backgrounds on the cards with lemons. The pad has 48 sheets of paper that looks inked, some have gold metallic accents. I usually ink my own backgrounds but this made it easy and just as beautiful. I added a few gemstones to the cards.

For my last card the flowers and leaves look beautiful on their own. I took the slimline die with the embossing plate included with my machine, I used the die to emboss the cardstock. It left a raised impression but didn't cut the paper. I then placed the die back onto the cardstock (easy to line up since it's raised.) I used low tack tape to keep it in place and partially die cut the embossed panel, first on one end, then turned it to partially die cut the other end. 

To partially diecut, you place everything down on the machine as for regular diecutting but  the top plate is only placed where you want to cut. As you can see above, the blue top plate is only placed over the bottom of the paper so when it is run through this is where it will  cut. I turned this around and repeated it on the other end. 

I attached the leaves and flowers just as I had done on the first 2 cards.

The lemons make me think of Spring!

I can be found on Instagram, Facebook and Pinterest as Susanbcards

Thanks!
Susan

 

Funkie Junkie Boutique Blog Guest Designer!

 

I am very honored to be a Guest Designer on the Funkie Junkie Boutique Blog! I was a January Challenge Winner for "Out With the Old, In With the New". Their challenges are great fun and a randomly selected entrant gets a $25 gift certificate to the Funkie Junkie Boutique, while the winner of the challenge is invited to be a Guest Designer. 

Today I'm sharing a home decor piece that started out as a card but continued to grow until it fit on the back of a Tim Holtz Vignette Box.

I took some Distress Mixed Media Heavystock and sprayed it with Distress Stains in Rusty Hinge, Antique Linen, Vintage Photo, Gathered Twigs and a bit of Ground Espresso.

This is the new Tim Holtz/Sizzix Woodgrain die, I think it's so cool, I wanted to use it on this project. I imagined a wooden planter, filled with flowers and leaves.

I made 3 of the panels, 2 for the horizontal planks, 1 cut to make the side planks and glued it together.

I cut another piece of Distress Heavy stock to 6"x11" and Sprayed it with Distress and Distress Oxides and then randomly stamped some script and florals in Hickory Smoke for some interest and texture.

I always have inked paper on hand, I throw them into a shoebox. I grabbed a bunch of colors I thought would look good for the flowers. I even had some of the new Distress ink in Saltwater Taffy (the flowers on the left). The dies are all Tim Holtz/Sizzix. After diecutting I used a shaping tool to give the flowers dimension. I think this makes a huge difference. The dragonfly, ladybug and the Impresslit butterfly were in my stash, ready to go. I've made it my New Year's resolution to use up all those extras!

That's it! I hope you like it. Please visit the Funkie Junkie Boutique Blog, there's some great inspiration from the talented Design Team and enter the challenge!

Thank you to the Design Team for inviting me as a Guest! And thank you for looking at my project. It was such fun to make.

I'm also on Instagram @susanbcards where I post several times a week.