Playing in the Garden

Anyone who knows me is laughing right now.  My extremely brown thumbs prevent me from doing much in a garden other than enjoying the beauty of it – if it belongs to someone else. Club Scrap must not have known that little fact because they still sent me my “Garden Shed” kit this month. I did have fun playing with this kit to make a set of eight cards (or two sets of 4…I haven’t decided yet) for the monthly Blog Hop and Linky Party.

I dug out my Assembly Line Cardmaking Idea Deck (Vol. 2) and a bunch of other fun supplies and spent some time playing. 

For the first four cards, I used the cutting formula from the Ace of Clubs card:

For the other four I used the cutting formula from the Ace of Diamonds card:

To keep this post short, I won’t bore you with the details, but I will tell you that all of the paper and the ribbon came from my Garden Shed Lite kit. Other supplies I used are:

**stencil from Club Scrap “Dahlia” and “Twin Tags”.

**stamps from Club Scrap “Dahlia” , “Weathered Florals”, “National Parks”, “Navigation” “Peacock”, “Transformations” and “Blossom”.

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**Earth, Topaz and Spruce Club Scrap ink, and Distress Embossing ink.

**Forest Green Glimmer Mist (no longer available), Cornflower Blue Mica Spray and Golden Sleigh Bells Starburst Spray from Lindy’s Stamp Gang.

**Dreamweaver Pearlescent Embossing Paste (mixed with the Topaz and Spruce inks)

**Mustard and Butter Zing  embossing powder, Clear Gina K Designs Fine Detail embossing powder and Midnight Teal Lindy’s Stamp Gang embossing powder.

**Ocean Soul and Gold Lame Smooch Ink.

**Lucky Clover Distress Marker.

**”studs” from Simplicity (found at JoAnn, altered with Copic marker #YR23), bee and dragon fly brads and gems are from my stash.

DISCLAIMER - no living plants of any kind were harmed in any way during the making of these cards.

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Losing my marbles…not!

At first I wasn’t going to participate in this week’s Gina K. Stamp TV Challenge “Let’s Play with Marbles”. I had tried that technique a few years ago, and didn’t have any success with it. However, when I watch Gina’s video, I saw that she did it a slightly different way, so I thought I would try it again. I am so glad I did! Now I am a fan of the marble technique. I combined that with this week’s Mojo Monday sketch, #465 and came up with this:

Here are the supplies i used and some more details:

**paper is from Gina K. Designs (base) and Club Scrap.

**The marble technique was done using Evergreen Bough and Squeezed Lemonade Distress re-inkers.

**The focal image is stamped onto a scrap piece of cardstock that is colored with Squeezed Lemonade Distress Stain. The flower is from Gina K. Designs “Autumn Wishes” stamp set, stamped with Distress Embossing ink, and embossed with Zing’s Metallic Purple EP (flower), Lindy’s Stamp Gang’s Scotch Broom Yellow EP (center of flower) and Ranger’s Topiary Antiquities EP.

**The sentiment stamp is from Crafter’s Companion. It was stamped with Distress Embossing ink, and embossed with Zing’s Metallic Purple embossing powder.

**I used Evergreen Bough Distress Ink to distress the edges of the papers.

**The ribbon is from Club Scrap’s “Papillion” kit.

**The sentiment circle was cut out using Spellbinders dies.

**The “gems” are from my stash.

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Celebrate Getting Older

I used the Mojo Monday sketch #464:

to make a birthday card for a friend of mine. After rotating the sketch, I came up with this:

I used up several “art orphans” and some paper scraps to pull this card together, but don't remember what or how the techniques were done. Here are the supplies I used:

**paper is from Gina K. Designs (base), Club Scrap, and I’m not sure where the scraps of glitter paper are from (but I altered the color using Copic Marker Y35).

**I used a background stamp from Technique Junkies on the middle layer.

**For the focal image I mixed Dreamweaver Embossing Paste mixed with a little Marshmallow Glimmer Mist (which doesn't seem to be available anymore) and spread it through a plumeria stencil from Rubber Stamp Plantation (onto an art orphan piece).  As I worked the paste through the stencil, it picked up color from the background giving it a golden yellow look.

**The ribbon is from the “BandanaRama” Club Scrap kit.

**The sentiment stamp is from the “National Parks” Club Scrap Kit. (On the inside it says “Life is better when you are laughing.”). It was stamped with Candied Apple Distress ink, and embossed with Gina K. Designs clear embossing powder.

**The “gem” in the middle of the flower is from my stash.

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It’s snowing?!?

I live in Hawaii, so you can rest assured that it is not snowing here, especially in early September! But, this week’s challenge over on Gina K’s Stamp TV is to make a Christmas card with snow on it. Here is what I came up with:

The focal image background is a new (to me) technique that I learned from Julie Ebersol on this video. I used Lagoon, Ocean and Orchid Club Scrap Re-Inkers. The tree, from the Gina K. Designs “Cheers Mini Stamp Set” (which doesn’t seem to be available anymore), is stamped with Distress Embossing Ink, embossed with Ranger’s Sticky EP and covered with silver leaf from ArtMinds (found at Michaels). The small snowflakes are (I believe) from Gina K. also (but I don’t remember which set) stamped with In The Navy Gina K. Designs ink.

Other supplies I used:

**paper is from Gina K. Designs (base), Ranger Specialty Stamping Paper (focal image), and Club Scrap (everything else).

**background snowflakes are from  Gina K. Designs “Christmas Joy” set, stamped with Distress Embossing ink, embossed with Silver Moon Turquoise EP from Lindy’s Stamp Gang.

**sentiment stamp is from Gina K. Designs "Season's Greetings" set, stamped with In The Navy Gina K. ink.

**the twine came from Club Scrap with my “Serenity” kit.

I wish snow for all of you who want it, but I’m looking forward to my “green” Christmas!

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