Birthday Wishes

I made this for the monthly challenge at Gina K Designs.  The June challenge is to make a background.  I decided to break out my alcohol inks and make this background for a birthday card. I also used the ink to color Clear Dew Drops,  sentiment stamps are from Lace Flowers and the stitched layer was cut using Master Layouts 2 all from Gina K Designs.

Enjoy,

Brenda

Hello

Hello,  

Today I have a card I made using Gina K Designs stencil bundle Bold Flowers.  This a bit out of my comfort zone for colors.  I normally don't make blue flowers, but I am loving how this came out.  I used snowfall stencil for the background. 

Challenges:

Gina K Designs Monthly Mix Challenge- Make a floral stencil (or other stencil) background 

Simon Says Stamps Wednesday Challenge- Anything Goes

Thank you for stopping by,

Brenda

Sweet Friend

Hello,

Today I have a card I made for Make a Card Challenge.  They have a sketch challenge this week and it was helpful to get me back in my room to play.  I used Ruffled Flowers and Bold Flowers stencil bundles from Gina K Designs.  I was also inspired by the background technique Gina demonstrated in a video recently.  Such a fun way to make a quick background.  

Thank you for stopping by,

Brenda  

Happy Easter

Hello and happy Spring.  I am in California and we are starting to see the signs of Spring everything is starting to bloom.  Unfortunately we very much need more rain.  At any rate I am enjoying the sun while hoping for some more rain before the heat cranks on.  

Today I have an Easter card I made for this months challenge at Gina K Designs.  The challenge this month is to create a masked blended sunrise.  This is my take on it.  I started with masking off a 1/4 inch boarder and blended from the bottom. Lucky Clover, Applemint, Lemon Drop, Sweet Mango, and Coral Reef.  After removing the tape I stamped the daffodils and sentiment from Easter Blessings.  I finished up with cutting my layers with Master Layouts 1.  All products are from Gina K Designs.

Thank you for stopping by and be safe,

Brenda

Hello,

I wanted to try making a one layer card that still had the look of a layered card. The top panel is inset into the bottom layer which is the negative form the die cut. It still needed a back though for support.

I used Gina K Designs Flower Child, A Little Love bundle, and master layouts 3 and 4.

Thank you for stopping by and stay safe,

Brenda

Love

Yes it is me again.  This is my last post for today.  I made this card for Gina K Designs Love is in the Air challenge.  I used the A Little Love bundle and master layouts 3 and 4 to make this card.  

Thank you for stopping and by and stay safe,

Brenda

Hello

Hi me again.  This is another one a I made for Simon Says Stamps challenge of favorite technique.  I used A Little Love bundle and Hello die from Gina K Designs along with master layouts 3 die set.  

Thank you for stopping by,

Brenda

Love

Hello and Happy Saturday!!  I have a card I made for the Love is in the Air at Gina K Designs.  This card was made with A Little Love bundle from Gina K Designs.  I also used Master Layouts 3 and 4.  I am enjoying this bundle so much.  I will also be entering this into Simon Says Stamps challenge to use your favorite technique.  For me that would be ink blending.  Ink blending is so much fun with stencils.

Thank you for stopping by,

Brenda

On My Mind

I played a little today and whipped up this card using Gina K Designs Better Together stamp set and some ink blending.  I love this color combo, it is so peaceful.  I also used Master Layouts 2 and 4.  These dies sets are the bomb and make layering card panels so easy.

 

Stay safe and thank you for stopping by,

Brenda

Valentine's Gift Bag

Happy Valentine's Day everyone!  I hope all is well with you.  I have a couple of gift bags I made for my son and DIL.  They love extra dark chocolate (as do I)  so I wanted to give them a little treat for tomorrow.  I made these bags and filled them with their favorite chocolates.  

I used the bag gift bag folding board from We Are Memory Makers for the bag it self.  The heart and love dies are cut using Gina K Designs Master Layouts 4  The stamped heart is also Gina K Designs from A Little Love set.  A few weeks ago Gina did a video using smalls strips of paper to make the background in a die cut image and she mentioned you could also use washi tape.  Well I am embarrassed to admit I have a bit more than a small amount of washi tape that I almost never use.  Today was the time to pull it out.  I really enjoyed using it this way.  

I will be entering this into the Monthly challenge at Gina K Designs, Love is in the Air.   

I hope you all have a wonderful and special day.

Stay safe my friends and thank you for stopping by,

Brenda

Fall Birthday

Hello,  Today I have a card I made for a masculine birthday.  As that is it for a fall birthday I wanted to use more fall type colors.  I was a little stumped for an idea so I went way back in my SpiltCoast Stampers gallery and found a card I made for a female using Unity stamps and cased myself.  I had fun doing this and I think I will visit my stamping past more often when needing a little creative boost.  It is also a neat way to improve on a style or technique from the past.  I used two stamps sets from Gina K Designs The Best Flowers for the sentiment and Autumn Silhouettes for the leaves.  This color combo is one of my favorites.  As I was using them I realized they are have food names, hmm maybe there is a connection with my love of food.  The colors are cherry red, honey mustard and chocolate brown.  The card stock and inks are also Gina K Designs.  I also used the middle sized tag die from the latest kit from Gina.  The card base and tag are ivory which is also a favorite of mine for fall cards.

Thank you for stopping by,

Brenda

Christmas Tag

My first card using the new Sparkle and Shine kit from Gina K Designs.  This is a huge kit and has so many wonder stamps and dies.  This is for Gina K Designs monthly challenge to use a tag on a card and a color challenge of red and white.  The card stock is cherry red that I ink blended chocolate brown to give depth.  This is a trick I picked up from Mindy Eggen.  She has a great video Here.  I need to practice, but really love the look.  

Thank you for stopping by,

Brenda